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Some fines were as low as several shillings; while in the more serious cases, such as thefts of guns and ammunition, the fines were correspondingly heavy. Gogoomy and his five tribesmen were fined three pounds each, and at Gogoomy's guttural command they refused to pay. "S'pose you go along Tulagi," Sheldon warned him, "you catch 'm strong fella whipping and you stop along jail three fella year.
My word, you fright too much." "Me fright?" she demanded, while anger tingled all through her. "Too much fright bang 'm head belong me," Gogoomy said proudly. And then she reached for him across the gate and got him. It was a sweeping, broad-handed slap, so heavy that he staggered sideways and nearly fell.
Bawo my brother. You pay me. Father belong me one big fella chief along Port Adams. You pay me." Joan laughed. "Gogoomy, you just the same as Aroa, one big fool. My word, who pay me for medicine?" She dismissed the matter by passing through the gate and closing it. But Gogoomy pressed up against it and said impudently: "Father belong me one big fella chief. You no bang 'm head belong me.
"You take 'm three fella pound along me," Gogoomy muttered, at the same time scowling his hatred at Sheldon, and transferring half the scowl to Joan and Kwaque. "Me finish along you, you catch 'm big fella trouble, my word. Father belong me big fella chief along Port Adams." "That will do," Sheldon warned him. "You shut mouth belong you."
Where Gogoomy and his followers had emerged from the river, the canoe abruptly stopped, then turned and disappeared into the deeper mangrove gloom. A second and a third canoe came around the bend from below, glided ghostlike to the crossing of the runaways, and vanished in the mangroves. "I hope there won't be any more killing," Joan said, as they turned their horses homeward.
"I am have a smoke. I think about Tahiti, and breadfruit, and jolly good time at Bora Bora. Quick, just like that, ten boy he run out of bush for me. Each boy have long knife. Gogoomy have long knife one hand, and Kwaque's head in other hand. I no stop to catch 'm alive. I shoot like hell. How you catch 'm alive, ten boy, ten long knife, and Kwaque's head?"
Another man she saw, old and shrivelled, with puckered forehead and a puckered face that trembled and worked with animal passion as in the past she had noticed the faces of monkeys tremble and work. "Gogoomy," she said sharply, "you no cut 'm grass, my word, I bang 'm head belong you." His expression became a trifle more disdainful, but he did not answer.
"My word, me no like boy kai- kai me." Three days later Sheldon caught one of the boys, helpless from swamp fever, and unable to fight or run away. On the same day Seelee caught the second boy in similar condition. Gogoomy alone remained at large; and, as the pursuit closed in on him, he conquered his fear of the bushmen and headed straight in for the mountainous backbone of the island.
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