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"We are coming," several voices answered from some children immediately behind him. It was Max, Hans and Simi, and then Stoffi and Rudi behind them, but they were all. Kurt halted. "Where is the whole troup?" asked Kurt. "Let us wait till they catch up. We must all stay together up there." But none followed. All the answer Kurt got to his question was the screaching of an owl.
Putting down my pipe on the mat beside me, I told old Kaibnka that I desired to talk to them. There was a dead silence at once. "Kaibuka," I said, "hath the dead white man been taken to his wife?" He looked stolidly at me for an instant, and then answered with an air of intense surprise. "Dead white man! What dead white man, Simi? I know of none. We saw no dead white man!"
The angry light in her eyes died out, and she placed her cheek to mine. "Simi, I care more for thee than for any one in the world, save Lucia, and Lucia hath all my heart and all my love. And she so loves thee, Simi she so loves thee that it is her heart's desire to be thy wife.... Come, dear friend, let us return and forget all but that Lucia awaits."
"That is not true, Simi," she replied quietly, "Yet when I spoke to her of our voyage, her heart's wishes came to her lips, and I knew that she would ask to come with thee, even as I know that thou wilt not leave her here to die." I could make no answer for the time. What was coming over me, that I could listen to such a suggestion with patience?
And I should be as equally mad to even entertain the idea of taking her with me in a small boat on a voyage of more than a thousand miles." "Nay, she is not mad, Simi. And she hath set her heart on this. It would be cruel to leave her to die." "And to take her away would be still more cruel," I cried.
He spoke in such curious, whispered tones, and kept his keen hawk-like face so close to mine that I saw he was in deadly earnest. "Promise me, Simi. Promise me to rest in thy house and wait for Niâbon." "As you will, I shall wait." I walked slowly back to my house and took a stiff glass of grog to steady my nerves, which were beginning to feel a little upset.
Dost think she will fail to question me if others whom she may ask remain silent?" "She will ask thee no questions concerning him. His death hath taken away from her a terror by day and bad dreams at night that for two years hath wrung her heart and weakened her body, which is but frail. Have pity on her, Simi, and say nothing to her when thou seest her of her dead husband.
I had just struck a match to take another look at the glass, when suddenly the boat began to tremble violently, and then gave such a sudden jerk at her cable that I fell forward on my face. "Mafuie! Mafuie!" "Oh, Simi, look, look! The sea, the sea! We perish!" May God spare me from ever seeing such another sight!
She pressed her hands to her bosom, and then turned her face, with her eyes still closed, to mine. "I do not know, Simi. I cannot see beyond as I can do sometimes; for I am tired, and many other things are in my mind. But yet I can see one man of the three whom thou dost so often think." "Tell me, then," and I knelt beside the girl and looked upwards to her face "tell me of one man of the three.
She smiled and seated herself on a mat beside my couch, then rising suddenly she placed her hand on mine, and said as she looked into my eyes "Why do you speak Englis* to me, Simi? Who has been tell you I understan' Englis'?" "No one, Niâbon. I did not know you could speak English or even understand it. Who taught you?"
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