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I put the pistol down." "I did this?" wonderingly. "Why, that must have been the day I had that awful dream." "It was. Hazon came in just after, and we made our plans for the expedition. I remember telling you of it that same afternoon." "Why, then, if this is so, it must have been with some great purpose," she cried, brightening up, a strange, wistful smile illumining her face.
"Well, you seem to have got round them better than we did, Stanninghame," said Hazon, with a glance at the Express rifle and revolver wherewith the other was armed. "We have hardly been allowed so much as a stick." "So? Well, I've been teaching some of them to shoot. That may have had a little to do with it. In fact, I've been laying myself out to make thoroughly the best of the situation."
That mesmeric property to which Hazon had alluded more than once as one of the effects of the interior was upon him too. It seemed as though he had somehow passed into another world, so dulled was all recollection of his former life, all desire to recall it. Yet one memory remained undimmed.
"You speak like a book, Hazon," said Laurence, not wondering that the other should have sized up his own case so exhaustively not wondering, because he was an observer of human nature and a character-reader himself.
In the thickest of the tumult Hazon is here, there, everywhere directing, encouraging, restraining. But for the demon-glow in the black eyes staring from the pale, set face, the man might have been made of marble, so little trace of emotion of any kind does he display. Laurence, too, is wary and self-contained, though getting in here and there a telling shot.
"Don't you swallow all that, Stanninghame," cut in Holmes. "He fought, standing over me fought like any devil, the Ba-gcatya say, although he makes out now it was all playful fun." "Well, for the matter of that, we had to fight," rejoined Hazon tranquilly. "Where have you been all this time, Stanninghame?" "Here, at Imvungayo. And you two?" "Shot if I know.
He had relieved his conscience with indignant, passionate protest, when first his eyes became fairly opened to the real nature of the enterprise; and then had supervened that terrible bout of malarial fever, his tardy recovery from which he owed entirely to the care and nursing of both Hazon and Stanninghame.
I say, Stanninghame, I know you don't mind, but Hazon? I've always stood up for Hazon, and we seem to get on all right? Do put it to Hazon. I could pay my shot, of course." There was a despondency of manner and tone that was extremely foreign to the mercurial Holmes, and this, together with certain signs he had read of late, caused Laurence to look up with a queer half smile.
And Hazon, in his quiet, thorough way, was very busy in fitting out these waggons, loading them with articles suitable for up-country trade, eke with munitions of sport, and, if need be, war. Wherein he was ably assisted by Laurence Stanninghame.
Oh, kind Heavens, am I drunk or dreaming?" "Lindela" means to "wait for" in the sense of "to watch for," hence the full significance of the parting remark. "There, there, Holmes. Do you quite intend to maim a chap for life, or what?" exclaimed Laurence, liberating, with an effort, his hand from the other's wringing grasp. "And Hazon, too? In truth, life is full of surprises. How are you, Hazon?"
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