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Bosambo was evidently un-get-at-able, and the most alarming rumour of all was that which came from Sierra Leone and was to the effect that Bosambo had embarked for England with the expressed intention of seeking an interview with a very high personage indeed.
"Fibini, the fisherman," said the councillor, "for this he says, that having toothache, he sat in the shadow of his hut near the warm fire and saw the Walker pass through the village and with him, lord, one who was like a devil, being big and very ugly." "Go to Fibini," said a justly annoyed Bosambo, "and beat him on the feet till he cries for he is a liar and a spreader of alarm."
He unwound the cloth about his thin middle, and with many fumblings produced a paper which Bosambo read. "From M'ilitani, by Ogibo's village in the Akasava. "To Bosambo may God preserve him! "I give this to the chief of Well diggers that you shall know they are favoured by me, being simple people and very timid.
So matters stood when the Zaire came flashing to the Ochori city and the heart of Bones filled with pleasant anticipation. Who was so competent to inform him on the matter of the souls of native women as Bosambo of the Ochori, already a crony of Bones, and admirable, if for no other reason, because he professed an open reverence for his new master?
"Lord, that I know," said Bosambo, "yet I came because my heart is sad and I have sorrow in my stomach. For did I not say that you had married my aunt?" "Now listen whilst I tell you the full story of my wickedness, and of my aunt who married a white lord " Bones sat down in his chair and laid back his head, listening with closed eyes.
"O Sleepless One," said Bosambo humbly, "though I came in silence yet you heard me, and your bright eyes saw me in the little-light." "Little-light" it was, for the sun had gone down. "Go now, Bosambo," said Bones, "for it is not lawful that you should be here." He looked around for Ahmet, his orderly, but Ahmet was snoring like a pig.
"You die alone, Tibbetti," he said, "though I planned a great death for you, with Bosambo at your side; and in the matter of ju-jus, behold! you shall call for Sandi whilst you have a tongue." He took from the raw-hide sheath that was strapped to the calf of his bare leg, a short N'gombi knife, and drew it along the palm of his hand. "Call now, O Moon-in-the-Eye!" he scoffed.
Three days after Bosambo had returned in triumph to his city, there came a frantic call for succour a rolling, terrified rat-a-plan of sound which the lokali man of the Ochori village read. "Lord," said he, waking Bosambo in the dead of night, "there has come down a signal from the Akasava, who are pressed by their enemies and have no spears."
"Yet," contested Bones, "as it seems to me, Bosambo, mine is very wise, for see how he looks to me when I speak, raising his thumb." Bones made a clucking noise with his mouth, and Henry turned frowningly, regarded his protector with cool indifference, and returned to his scrutiny of the other strange brown animal confronting him. "Now," said Bones that night, "what of the Walker?"
Those loyal little servants of Government, carrier pigeons went fluttering east, south and north, a missionary steamer was hastily requisitioned, and Sanders embarked for the scene of the disappearance. Before he left he telegraphed to every likely coast town for Bosambo.
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