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Updated: June 24, 2025
"You will see what U Saw wills that you shall see," he said mockingly. "I am U Saw's humble servant, and can say no more." Jack made no reply. He was sorry he had spoken, but the question had slipped out on the impulse of the moment. All that day they travelled on, and at night they camped in a hollow among the rocks at the foot of a tall cliff.
But on the whole it just caps the affair nicely to find that he won't benefit by it. Now we'll turn our parcel of rubies into cash and set up Jim and Buck with a good banking account apiece." His father nodded absently. Between his fingers he held the piece of shining, delicate silk in which the great ruby had been wrapped. "I see you've brought the scrap of U Saw's girdle with you," said Jack.
Tom glanced up as a sailor looks aloft. "She'll do, Hank," he said. The two then with a dozen half clips of the ax, removed the inequalities of the bark from the saw's path. The long, flexible ribbon of steel began to sing, bending so adaptably to the hands and motions of the men manipulating, that it did not seem possible so mobile an instrument could cut the rough pine.
Me Dain, highly delighted to receive the white man's sign of friendship, shook hands very solemnly with both Buck and Jim, and they formed at once a confraternity of three to hunt up U Saw's quarters, and see where he held the prisoners, whom they now firmly believed to be in his grasp.
But one thing he saw clearly, that U Saw's arm was very long in this country, and that his net for information was spread abroad very widely and very successfully. He looked across at the Strangler, and found the dark bright eyes of the Malay fixed intently upon him.
In the meantime, another piece of work demands U Saw's attention." He waved his hand and the Kachins led Thomas Haydon aside and placed him against the farther wall. There was a shuffle of feet at the door, and three or four natives from the village brought in a man whose hands were bound behind his back.
"Right, quite right," said Me Dain. "U Saw never leave great stone like that at home. Carry it everywhere. U Saw trust no man." By this time the others had grasped the meaning of this conversation. Was the great ruby in U Saw's girdle? All eyes were fixed in breathless excitement on Me Dain.
Another second and U Saw's pony would have trampled the life out of the poor little mite." "Really, he would have done it," breathed Jack incredulously. "Even after cutting in and picking it up, I can hardly believe it." "Oh, he'd have done it, without doubt," said Mr. Haydon drily. "You will find out, Jack, that these people hold human life very cheaply, and human suffering cheaper still."
I am delighted to see you safe and sound in England once more, Mr. Haydon." "And I am very pleased to see you, Mr. Lane," said the famous expert, "and glad to say that I have brought home in safety, after all, that big stone, an account of which I cabled to you." He drew from his pocket the great ruby still wrapped in the fragment cut from U Saw's girdle, and laid it before Mr. Lane.
"The death of their leaders sets them at once free from their allegiance. I've no doubt in the world but that the survivors will hurry back home and plunder U Saw's house." "And how did that little half-caste come off?" asked Jim Dent. "I hope he had something for his trouble." "Say, Jim," cried Buck, "didn't you twig that? It was about the best touch in the show.
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