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Updated: May 6, 2025
I haven't seen Willems since nor anybody else for that matter. I have been left alone. I offered sixty dollars to the man who had been wounded, which were accepted. They released Jim-Eng the next day, when the flag had been hauled down. He sent six cases of opium to me for safe keeping but has not left his house. I think he is safe enough now. Everything is very quiet."
Even the baffled Jim-Eng left off troubling his muddled brain with secrets of trade, and relapsed by the aid of his opium pipe into a state of stupefied bliss, letting Babalatchi pursue his way past his house uninvited and seemingly unnoticed.
"And they both smoke," added Ali. "Phew! Opium, you mean?" Ali nodded, and Ford remained thoughtful; then he muttered to himself, "Poor devil! The sooner the better now." In the afternoon he walked up to the house. "What are you doing here?" he asked of Jim-Eng, whom he found strolling about on the verandah.
Ford looked at his face and fled. The skipper was a tolerably firm man himself as those who had sailed with him could testify but Almayer's firmness was altogether too much for his fortitude. Next time the steamer called in Sambir Ali came on board early with a grievance. He complained to Ford that Jim-Eng the Chinaman had invaded Almayer's house, and actually had lived there for the last month.
He will not smoke long," he concluded. "Where is he now?" asked Ford. "Inside. He sleeps," answered Jim-Eng, wearily. Ford glanced in through the doorway.
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