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His name is Karl Schartzmann, a shrewd, rascally German who vanished after the coup d'état!" "What swindle, Monsieur? what coup d'état? Whom do these belong to?" I was really losing patience; and Tommy murmured: "Jack, didn't it strike you that only a German mind could have conceived that revenge on Efaw Kotee?" "It was certainly true to German form," I admitted, without reluctance.
Whatever else Efaw Kotee had been to her, at least he stood in her memory of father; and however irrevocably she may have turned against him, the very fact that she found it necessary to do so was a grievous disappointment. All that had passed. Strangers had come, and in a few days she was being borne to the other half of the world. To her mother! what did she know of a mother?
The old fellow sprang around and stared at him, seeming to have grown hollow and gray. "Oh, nothing," Jess grinned. "Just a little idea I had worth keeping in mind, though. It might be healthy for you to see she can't run off, that's all." Efaw Kotee looked at the captain suspiciously, and said: "I'll guarantee she doesn't run off and your other little ideas aren't pleasant.
And thus it was that the second bullet flashed by us before I sufficiently gathered my wits to act, to realize that some returning member of Efaw Kotee's band had stumbled on our little paradise. I caught Doloria and swung her behind me, at the same time drawing my automatic and sending two quick shots, aimed high, toward the scoundrel who was making ready to try his hand again.
On the southern and western edge of our "island" thus being nearest Efaw Kotee's settlement were a lot of fallen palms; trees that many years ago had been killed by fire and now lay partially rotted.
At three o'clock our cavalcade started across the prairie for Efaw Kotee's settlement. Tommy and Monsieur were keen to see it, and especially was the latter keyed up to ransack the place for proofs and information. Smilax led, keeping away from the graves. Doloria had made no reference to casualties, accepting them as an unfortunate necessity, and only once asked about the old chief's fate.
But I sat late at Efaw Kotee's desk writing a ten-page telegram and a fifty-page letter to my father. Both of these I would despatch from Key West the wire telling him to bring the Mater to Miami where the letter would await them; and I urged them both, as they loved me, to pick up a certain darling of the gods named Nell.
In an adjoining room we laid Efaw Kotee upon his own bed. The sheet that Tommy got out of a press to spread over him was, I noticed, of beautiful linen, and I felt softened toward the uncouth frame which, in this wilderness, had still demanded the refinements of life.
Around the walls were built-in book shelves, mantel high, filled with the volumes Doloria had told me of. The piano was there, not an up-right as we had found on the Orchid, but a handsome grand, bearing one of the best names. A violin case lay upon it, while near by was a music stand. Altogether, these living quarters of Efaw Kotee showed a taste I would have expected.
When dark come, me swim to l'il island and give owl call two times, then stop soft in middle. Long 'go in Injun village that mean: 'panther, come quick, gun, Echochee will hear and 'member. Good. Then we talk and fix all up. First we see if Efaw Kotee put out guard."
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