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Updated: June 2, 2025
He heard him talk with the head watchman sometimes quite close to him in the darkness then moving off, coming back, wondering, and, as the time passed, growing uneasy. "He did not fall into the river? say, thou blind watcher!" Ali was growling in a bullying tone, to the other man. "He told me to fetch Mahmat, and when I came back swiftly I found him not in the house.
Babalatchi had taken the broken anklet off the man's leg, and now held it in his hand as he moved by the side of the bearers, while Mahmat lingered behind timidly, in the hopes of the promised reward. "Lay him there," said Babalatchi to Almayer's men, pointing to a pile of drying planks in front of the verandah. "Lay him there.
Mahmat moved from house to house and from group to group, always ready to repeat his tale: how he saw the body caught by the sarong in a forked log; how Mrs. Almayer coming, one of the first, at his cries, recognised it, even before he had it hauled on shore; how Babalatchi ordered him to bring it out of the water.
He looked at the watch. Half-past eight. Ali waited stolidly. "Go to the settlement," said Almayer, "and tell Mahmat Banjer to come and speak to me to-night." Ali went off muttering. He did not like his errand.
We left directly, paying no attention to her cries. We are only poor men and had but a small reward for our trouble! That's what Mahmat said. Never varied. You ask him yourself. He's the man you hired the boats from, for your journey up the river." "The most rapacious thief I ever met!" exclaimed the traveller, thickly. "Ah! He is a respectable man.
Why, even my little property I could not have left them. The Dutch authorities would never have allowed an Englishman to settle there. It was not sold then. My man Mahmat, you know, was looking after it for me. Later on I let it go for a tenth of its value to a Dutch half-caste. But never mind. It was nothing to me then. Yes; I went away from him. I caught the return mail-boat.
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