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Hassim took the ring and inclined his head. "It's time for us to be moving," said Lingard. He felt a slight tug at his sleeve. He looked back and caught Immada in the act of pressing her forehead to the grey flannel. "Don't, child!" he said, softly. The sun rose above the faint blue line of the Shore of Refuge. The hesitation was over.
After that he said nothing more till Lingard murmured, "And the lady Immada?" Jaffir collected all his strength. "She hoped no more," he uttered, distinctly. "The order came to her while she mourned, veiled, apart. I didn't even see her face." Lingard swayed over the dying man so heavily that Wasub, standing near by, hastened to catch him by the shoulder.
Hassim's loyalty was unshaken, but now it led him on not in the bright light of hopes but in the deepened shadow of doubt. He wanted to obtain information for his friend who was so powerful and who perhaps would know how to be constant. When followed by Immada he approached the camp again this time openly their appearance did not excite much surprise.
He became aware very soon that the attempt to pursue him had been given up, but he had taken the forest path and had kept up his pace because he had left his Rajah and the lady Immada beset by enemies on the edge of the forest, as good as captives to a party of Tengga's men. Belarab's hesitation had proved too much even for Hassim's hereditary patience in such matters.
No Illanun prau had passed down that coast for years. Immada wanted me to give the arms he was asking for. The girl is beside herself with fear of something happening that would put a stopper on the Wajo expedition. She has set her mind on getting her country back. Hassim is very reserved but he is very anxious, too.
A great stillness had laid its hand over the earth, the sky, and the men; upon the immobility of landscape and people. Hassim and Immada, standing out clearly by the side of the chief, raised their arms in a last salutation; and the distant gesture appeared sad, futile, lost in space, like a sign of distress made by castaways in the vain hope of an impossible help.
It also forced her to alter her usual gait and move with quick, short steps very much like Immada. "I am robbing the girl of her clothes," she had thought to herself, "besides other things." She knew by this time that a girl of such high rank would never dream of wearing anything that had been worn by somebody else. At the slight noise of Mrs.
Lingard without waiting a moment cried: "What news, O Rajah?" Hassim's eyes made the round of the schooner's decks. He had left his gun in the boat and advanced empty handed, with a tranquil assurance as if bearing a welcome offering in the faint smile of his lips. Immada, half hidden behind his shoulder, followed lightly, her elbows pressed close to her side.
And hunger, too, and thirst, and unhappiness; things you have only heard about. She has been as near death as I am to you and what is all that to any of you here?" "That child!" she said in slow wonder. Immada turned upon Mrs.
They had two attendants with them, Hassim's own men, men of Wajo; and so the lady Immada, when she had a mind to, could be carried, after the manner of the great ladies of Wajo who need not put foot to the ground unless they like.
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