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Great shame that such a girl should be handed over to a medical scoundrel like Dr. Rodd. I wonder if she cares for him?" "Just about as much as a canary cares for a tom-cat. I have found that out already." "Really, Quatermain, you are admirable. I never knew anyone who could make a better use of the briefest opportunity."
It may be remembered that in the last pages of his diary, written just before his death, Allan Quatermain makes allusion to his long dead wife, stating that he has written of her fully elsewhere. When his death was known, his papers were handed to myself as his literary executor. Among them I found two manuscripts, of which the following is one. The other is simply a record of events wherein Mr.
"What are you going to do?" I asked. "Demand that those people give me back my wife, whom they have stolen. Don't try to stop me, Quatermain, I mean what I say." "But, but," I stammered, "they never will and we are but three unarmed men." Hans lifted up his little yellow face between us. "Baas," he hissed, "I have a thought.
He told me he was bound for "the almighty mountains of Dry-facts and Realities," which he kindly pointed out to me among the carvings of his walking-stick. He then sighed wearily, very wearily, and scooted. I think he came to no good; but he never came in my way again. And now you know the yarn of the two stuffed lions and the alligator with the eagle in his jaws. Ever yours, ALLAN QUATERMAIN.
When we woke it was to find the sun high in the heavens, and the female attendants, who did not seem to be troubled by any false shame, already standing inside the hut, having been ordered to attend and help us to "make ready." "Make ready, indeed," growled Good; "when one has only a flannel shirt and a pair of boots, that does not take long. I wish you would ask them for my trousers, Quatermain."
'You see, Quatermain, he said, 'I made up my mind to it, this very morning, when we were creeping down those benighted savages. "If we live through this and rescue Flossie alive," I said to myself, "I will go home to England; I have had enough of savages."
Quatermain," went on the former, "I am going to tell you a story, and ask your advice, and perhaps your assistance. The agent who forwarded me your letter told me that I might rely on it implicitly, as you were," he said, "well known and universally respected in Natal, and especially noted for your discretion."
"Quatermain," he answered, "I have come all the way from England, I will not say to kill, but to try to kill buffalo in the Lydenburg district, with you if possible, if not, without you, and thither I am going. If you think it unsafe to accompany me, don't come; I will get on as best I can alone, or with some other skilled person if I can find one."
"That which brings most men to wild places, Mr. Quatermain trouble. If you want to know, I had a misfortune and piled up my ship. There were some lives lost and, rightly or wrongly, I got the sack. Then I started as a trader in a God-forsaken hole named Chinde, one of the Zambesi mouths, you know, and did very well, as we Scotchmen have a way of doing.
Then throwing off our clothes, with the exception of the mail shirts, which we considered it safer to keep on, we flung ourselves down upon the low and luxurious couches, and drew the silk-embroidered coverlids over us. In two minutes I was just dropping off when I was aroused by Good's voice. 'I say, Quatermain, he said, 'did you ever see such eyes? 'Eyes! I said, crossly; 'what eyes?
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