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Updated: June 18, 2025
But with all them cracks in it he might not hit it, at that. Mother of mine! To think Missus Ryan's li'l' boy should ever git caught stayin' in a hole like this, along o' drunks and skiddin' she-goats and did ye say a Dutchman?" "German. Chap named Schwandorf." "Yeah?" Tim's tone was sinister. "Say, Cap, gimme the room next that guy. And if ye hear anybody yowlin' before mornin' don't git worried.
But before I could make a move to travel on I fell into the hands of that cursed Schwandorf." "Schwandorf!" "Schwandorf. He was in Iquitos. The sailor who hid me must have sold me out to him. Schwandorf told me he was a police officer in Brazilian employ. Said he would take me back to stand trial for murdering Schmidt.
Moreover, McKay and Knowlton, without discussing the matter, had meditated on the unexpected assistance of Schwandorf, the speed with which the crew had been obtained, the promptness of José to accept the first payment offered, and other things. Wherefore it had come about that at no hour of the twenty-four was every eye and ear closed.
Pedro and José shoved the other bodies aside until they uncovered the prone figure of Schwandorf a ghastly form dyed from hair to heels with the blood of the cannibals whom he had led there. To all appearances he was dead. Yet the Brazilian and the Peruvian looked keenly at him, then at each other. "There is a saying, is there not, that the devil takes care of his own?" grinned José.
As soon as I learned it I saw how I could put the illustrious Señor Schwandorf out of action, as you say, and at the same time try to save you. "I sharpened my knife to a razor edge, deserted the German when we reached the right place, shaved with my knife, painted myself with the red and black plant dyes, and came overland to this place, thinking you would be here if still alive.
Ryan, has just left." Schwandorf bowed stiffly from the waist. "It is a pleasure to meet you. White men are all too few here." Seating himself at a place beyond that just vacated by Tim, he continued, "You stay here for a time?" "Not long." They reseated themselves. "We go up the river as soon as we can arrange transportation." The black brows lifted slightly. "It is a dangerous river.
"We're all wasting time. José, let's hear your report. I thought you were going to put Schwandorf out of action for good?" "And I am, Capitan! That is why I now am here. If I had reached him immediately after leaving the Nunes place it would have been done at once. But a man travels slowly when he is alone and has lost much blood, and before I met Schwandorf again I had time to think coolly.
I found myself among savages. How I got there, why I wasn't killed, I don't know. Schwandorf was there awhile. Then he went away with his gang, leaving me very sure of only one thing I was a murderer and would be executed if caught. And well, that's about all, except that the savages seemed rather afraid of me and didn't want me around." There was another silence.
"Sometimes, Capitao, the devil puts into the hands of men a weapon which is turned against himself. So it is now. That Allemao, Schwandorf, never expected you to reach the people you seek, but the plan is good. It would not be good if you followed it exactly as he laid it out, but things have changed; and what you could not do with Peruvian companions, or alone, you perhaps can do with us.
I might be useful to him in catching Rand if Rand was out in the bush, for I have traveled this country alone more than once and am a far better bushman than the German. But whether I got Rand or not, I never should live to demand my part of the money. I know too much about Schwandorf things which I shall not tell now.
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