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A great square chasm yawned in the very centre of the pathway, the bushes on either side were buried under the earth which the diggers of wells had flung up, and piled one on the other, a writhing, struggling confusion of shining bodies, were Ogibo's soldiers to the number of a hundred, with a silent Ogibo undermost, wholly indifferent to his embarrassing position, for his neck was broken.
He unwound the cloth about his thin middle, and with many fumblings produced a paper which Bosambo read. "From M'ilitani, by Ogibo's village in the Akasava. "To Bosambo may God preserve him! "I give this to the chief of Well diggers that you shall know they are favoured by me, being simple people and very timid.
"Lord! they go back!" gasped his sergeant; and Bones saw to his amazement a little knot of men making their frantic way up the hill. At first he suspected an ambush within an ambush, but it was unlikely; he could never be more at Ogibo's mercy than he had been. Cautiously he felt his way up the hill path, a revolver in each hand. He rounded a sharp corner of the path and saw....
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