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On their way through an ochreish Goban, or maritime plain, they passed huge hills made by white ants, Gallas graves planted with aloe, and saw in the distance troops of gazelles. They were now in the Isa country, "Traitorous as an Isa" being a Zeila proverb. Though the people were robbers and murderers, Burton, by tact, got on excellently with them, and they good-naturedly offered him wives.
"I shall feel very lonely when you go." "But we shall come to see you again, sir. It has been so good of you to keep us. But Jim Goban will be angry if we do not hurry home. I know how he will rage as it is. The longer we stay the harder it will be for him," and she pointed to David. Scarcely had she finished speaking ere a team was heard driving furiously along the road.
"She was very fond of the old man, so I understand," Ned Purvis remarked. "She certainly was. They were just like father and daughter. But I must say that Miss Sinclair was a regular brick. She took charge of everything at once and seemed to know the right thing to do. But, my, her face was pale, and you should have seen her eyes when she turned them upon Jim Goban." "What did she do that for?"
And it was a daughter she had; but a neighbouring woman had a son at the same time, and they made an exchange to save the life of the Goban's wife. But when the boy began to grow up he had no wit, and the Goban knew by that he was no son of his. That is the reason he wanted a witty wife for him.
The next day they were walking again, and the Goban said again to shorten the road for him, and this time he began to run, and the Goban sent him home again.
I'm going to stand between you and Jim Goban. He's scared to death of me, for I'm the only one who dares give him a tongue-lashing, and I do it whenever it is necessary, which is quite often." "You're a brave girl," and David looked with admiration upon the slight form by his side. "How old are you?" "Fifteen last March. But one's age is nothing. I've done a woman's work ever since I was ten.
It was Sandy Miller who described how he had made the discovery, and then shouted for his companions. "Was the letter lying near?" Andy Forbes asked. "I didn't notice it at first," was the reply, "as I was so overcome by the sight before me. It must have been lying there all the time, for Jim Goban saw it at once." "Where is that letter now?" "Jim has it, I guess.
As to O'Connell, perhaps because his name, like that of Finn and the Goban, is much in the mouths of the people, there is something of the absurd already coming into his legend. The stories of him show more than any others how swiftly myths and traditions already in the air may gather around a memory much loved and much spoken of.
The Goban never told the secret of his building, and when he was on the bed dying they wanted to get it from him, and they went in and said 'Claregalway Castle is after falling in the night. And the Goban said 'How can that be when I put a stone in and a stone out and a stone across. So then they knew the way he built so well."
He recognised old David as the man he had met that night on the road listening to the voice of Break Neck Falls. He knew that he had been sold to Jim Goban for one year, and the transaction had rankled in his soul for days. The girl he did not know, but she seemed to him like a ministering angel watching over the slumber of the sleeping man.
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