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Updated: June 4, 2025
At the same moment the great mass of blacks surged away panic-stricken from Sheldon's vicinity. The grinning house-boys shouted encouragement and explanation, and the stampede was checked, the new-caught head-hunters huddling closely together and staring dubiously at the fearful monster. "Hello!" Joan called out. "What do you mean by frightening all my boys? Come on up."
The only deplaisir is that which I had already found in a Gaboon factory, the excessive prevalence of petty pilfering. The Moleques or house-boys steal like magpies, even what is utterly useless to them; these young clerks of St.
He panted for air. The faces and naked arms of the house-boys were beaded with sweat. "Marster," one of them ventured, "big fella wind he come, strong fella too much." Sheldon nodded his head but did not look. Much as he had loved Hughie Drummond, his death, and the funeral it entailed, seemed an intolerable burden to add to what he was already sinking under.
While one of the house-boys ran to fetch Sheldon, she had the visitors served with whisky and soda, and sat and talked with them. They seemed awkward and constrained in her presence, and she caught first one and then the other looking at her with secret curiosity.
Sheldon had called vainly to the house-boys, who, at the moment, were dosing the remaining patients in the hospital. He knew he was unable to rise up and go down the path to meet the newcomers, so he lay back in the steamer- chair, and watched for ages while they cared for the boat. The woman stood to one side, her hand resting on the gate.
Beyond this wall, within the circle of some huts where my Kaffirs lived, was an open space with an ant-heap floor where they did their cooking. Here, facing us, sat Mavovo, while in a ring around him were all the hunters who were to accompany us; also Jack, the lame Griqua, and the two house-boys. In front of Mavovo burned a number of little wood fires.
"Jack Hanley was killed at Marovo Lagoon two months ago," Young announced in his mild voice. "The news just came down on the Apostle." "Where is Marovo Lagoon?" Joan asked. "New Georgia, a couple of hundred miles to the westward," Sheldon answered. "Bougainville lies just beyond." "His own house-boys did it," Young went on; "but they were put up to it by the Marovo natives.
Under Sheldon's direction the house-boys and gang-bosses collected the scattered arms and piled them in a heap on the veranda. The modern rifles, stolen from Lunga, Sheldon set aside; the Sniders he smashed into fragments; the pile of spears, clubs, and tomahawks he presented to Joan. "A really unique addition to your collection," he smiled; "picked up right on the battlefield."
Out of her sea-training she was able to appreciate Sheldon's executiveness when she burst in on him with her news. Springing from the steamer-chair in which he had been lounging while waiting for breakfast, he clapped his hands for the house-boys; and, while listening to her, he was buckling on his cartridge-belt and running the mechanism of his automatic pistol.
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