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"Oh, fool!" said he, justly exasperated, "have I nothing to do I, who have all Sandi's high and splendid business in hand but I must come through the rain because a sick maiden sees visions?" "Bosambo, I am a fool," agreed N'gori, meekly, and again his rescuer returned home.
N'gori, the Chief of the Akasava, having some grievance against the Government over a question of fine for failure to collect according to the law, waited for no more than this intelligence of Sandi's going. His swift loud drums called his people to a dance-of-many-days. A dance-of-many-days spells "spears" and spears spell trouble.
"Keep these men for service against our lord Sandi's return." At Bosinkusu he was delayed by a storm, a mad, whirling brute of a storm that lashed the waters of the river and swept the Zaire broadside on towards the shore.
Now I tell you my mind that Sandi's fetish is dead as Sandi has passed from us, and this is the sign I desire I and my young men. We shall make a killing palaver in the face of the killing stick, and if Sandi lives and has not lied to us, he shall come from the end of the world as he said." He rose up from the ground. There was no doubt now who ruled the Akasava.
At first he spoke slowly, because he found a difficulty in breathing, and then as he found himself, grew more and more lucid and took a larger grasp of the language. "Now," said he, "I come to you, being young in the service of the Government, and unworthy to tread in my lord Sandi's way.
M'gani, with only a cloak of leopard skin about him, twirling two long spears as he walked, was silent till he came to the edge of the city where he was to take farewell of his host. "Tell me this, Bosambo, where are Sandi's spies that I may avoid them?" And Bosambo, without hesitation, told him.
A man stood in the doorway, naked but for the wisp of skirt at his waist. Hamilton got up quickly, for he recognized the chief of Sandi's spies. "O Kelili," said Hamilton in his easy Bomongo tongue, "why do you come and from whence?" "From the island over against the Ochori, Lord," croaked the man, dry-throated.
"Lord," said he softly, "presently you shall say no more, for I will cut your tongue out that you shall be lame of speech ... afterwards I will burn you and the fetish stick, so that you all tumble together." "Be sure you will tumble into hell," said Bones cheerfully, "and that quickly, for you have offended Sandi's Ju-ju, which is powerful and terrible."
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