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The two men walked up and down the parade ground whilst Fa'ma, the wife of Ahmet, carried the child to her quarters where he slept. "I'm afraid I've got to separate you from your child," said Hamilton; "there is some curious business going on in the Lombobo, and a stranger who walks by night, of which Ahmet the Spy writes somewhat confusingly." Bones glanced round in some apprehension.
A word from Sanders, a carelessly expressed view, and the Lombobo people would have been swept from existence wiped ruthlessly from the list of nations, but that was not the way of Government, which is patient and patient and patient again till in the end, by sheer heavy weight of patience, it crushes opposition to its wishes.
They called Lamalana the barren woman, the Drinker of Life, but she had at least drunken without ostentation, and if she murdered with her own large hands, or staked men and women from a sheer lust of cruelty, there were none alive to speak against her. Outside the town of Lombobo was a patch of beaten ground where no grass grew, and this place was called "wa boma," the killing ground.
"Lord," said B'limisaka, significantly, "my young men are also fierce." The palaver was dispersing, and the last of the Lombobo councillors were disappearing in the forest, when the Diggers of the Well came through the forbidden territory to the place where Bosambo sat. "We are they of whom you have heard, O my Lord," said the old man, who led them, "also we carry a book for you."
He thrust his hand into the leopard skin as for a weapon, but before he could withdraw it, a man of Lombobo, half in terror, fell upon and threw his arms about M'gani. "Bo'ma!" boomed the woman, and drew back her knife for the stroke.... Bones, from the edge of the clearing, jerked up the rifle he carried and fired. "What man is this?" asked Bones. Bosambo looked at the stranger.
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