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It almost seemed as if he said to himself, as he squared his shoulders, "Come, no giving way to old age!" "Has his health been good?" he asked, rather formally. "I believe so, until quite lately. My brother heard yesterday by telegram that he was at Loango in broken health," replied Jocelyn. Sir John was looking at her keenly his hard blue eyes like steel between the lashless lids.
The Mayombe chief proved friendly, and assisted Dr. The boundary-line is marked by a large gate, like the two openings in the wooden wall denoting the Loango frontier between the Quillu and Luema rivers.
She looked at him with a steady surprise which made him feel a trifle uncomfortable. "Well, you know," he was forced to explain, shuffling the while uneasily in his chair and dropping his whip, "one naturally takes an interest in one's friends' welfare. You and Maurice are the best friends I have in Loango. I often speak to Maurice about it.
The Frenchmen shoot, or at least go out shooting, twice a week, they walk to picnics, learn something of the language, and see something of the country. They had heard a native tradition of Mr. Gorilla's "big brother," but they could give no details. I will conclude this chapter with a notice of what has taken place on the Loango Coast a decade after my departure.
She knew that should Durnovo breathe a word of this in the right quarter that is to say, into the eager journalistic ear there would hardly be a civilised country in the world where Maurice Gordon of Loango could dwell under his own name. She felt that they were all living on a slumbering volcano.
It was distinctly an effort to him to tear the paper. Jocelyn and I are off home for two months' change of air. I have been a bit seedy. I leave this at the Bungalow, and we shall feel hurt if you do not make the house your home whenever you happen to come down to Loango. I have left a similar note for Oscard, in whose expedition to your relief I have all faith. Yours ever,
He was a kind-hearted man, in his way, this Maurice Gordon of Loango; but he could not disguise from himself the simple fact that the death of Victor Durnovo would be a distinct convenience and a most desirable relief. Even the best of us that is to say, the present writer and his reader have these inconvenient little feelings.
Perhaps the old 'un is right; there's no knowin'. The ways o' Providence ARE mysterious onnecessarily mysterious to my thinkin'." And he shook his head at the evening star, as if he was not quite pleased with it. With a feeling of considerable satisfaction, Joseph approached the Bungalow at Loango three days later.
In Loango, according to the Abbe Proyart, the national organ does not admit the roughness of the r, which is changed to l. The "Ibos" of the lower Congo, dwelling on the southern shore between the mouth and the Porto da Lenha, above which they are harmless, these men have ever been dangerous to strangers, and the effect of the slave-trade has been to make them more formidable.
"If it is agreeable to you," he said, "I think it would be wise for me to go down to Loango, and gently intimate to Durnovo that we should be glad of his services." "Certainly." "He cannot be buying quinine all this time, you know. He said he would travel night and day." Oscard nodded gravely. "How will you put it?" he asked.
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