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Updated: June 7, 2025
Close by, grim and gaunt, stood the burnt-out marble walls of the Temple. The verandah was still roofed over, and standing on the spot whence I had shot the pistol out of Rodd's hand, I was filled with many memories. I could trace the whole plan of the building and visited that part of it which had been Marnham's room.
But I can't ride even if I took the horse and you ran behind, and the oxen haven't come." "Perhaps you could borrow Miss Marnham's cart in which to run away from her," I suggested sarcastically. "Perhaps, though I believe it would be fatal to my foot to sit up in a cart for the next few days, and the horses seem to have been sent off somewhere.
Also he had a wonderful knowledge of what was passing in the minds of others, and by his arts, as I had experienced only the other day, could summon up apparitions or illusions before their eyes. Further, he was aware of events which had happened at a distance and could send or read dreams, since otherwise how did Nombe know what I had dreamt at Marnham's house?
I sprang up, and saw before me one of our native servants. He was trembling and his face was ashen beneath the black. Moreover he could not speak. All he did was to put his head on one side, like a dead man, and keep on pointing downwards. Then with his mouth open and starting eyes he beckoned to me to follow him. I followed. The man led me to Marnham's room, which I had never entered before.
Sekukuni had been fighting us recently, so that there would be a very brisk market for rifles. This, too, would account for Marnham's apparent knowledge of that Chief's plans. Possibly, however, he had no knowledge and only made a pretence of it to keep us out of the country. Later on I confided the whole story and my suspicions to Anscombe, who was much interested.
Also I showed them both Marnham's letter to me and the will, but the other bit of paper I did not speak of or show. She sat very pale and quiet and listened till I had done. Then she said "I should like to see him." "Perhaps it is as well," I answered. "If you can bear it, come at once, and do you come also, Anscombe." We went to the room, Anscombe and Heda holding each other by the hand.
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