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You fella make'm Soosie no good." Others gathered round. Several carried weapons nulla-nullas and wooden swords and assumed hostile attitudes. Dan became uncontrollably excited, storming for the production of Soosie, and being met with inconclusive statements and evasions.
It might drive me to the mountain just to save him from me." Dan, good fellow, was discreet. He decided to play the laggard in love, realising that any show of impetuosity might frighten Soosie.
He had studied Soosie, and was sure that she was his superior except in matter of colour. She was far better schooled and had been used to softer life. "What," he asked, "don't you and the Missis and Miss Clare and Fan, and Bob, here, love her? You couldn't help it; and you are not ashamed. You treat her as your own child. It would be no sin for me to take her as my own wife.
Spreading out a handkerchief, I put the awful atom on it gingerly, while the foster-mother reiterated her counsel to "tchuck'm alonga scrub." In the guise of a frail bundle at arm's-length was Soosie conducted to a civilised home. Dismay tempered with pity greeted her. "How horrible! How dirty!" "Is it really a little girl? It looks like a wild animal." "Do let me nurse it."
Scorched flesh and blackened bone had left their smear on the face of the kindest cannibal of them all. On the fire was a foot with charred ankle-bones; in a dilly-bag other fragments, but in Wethera's countenance no consciousness of evil-doing. "Come here!" I shouted. The excited man strode to the spot. "Soosie," I said, in the calmest tones I could command, "has been murdered.
Her voice was that of a well-schooled white girl, and all her perceptions coincided. If the wander lust was to be suppressed for ever, it seemed to me that Soosie must marry, and marry young. While Soosie's demeanour was still the cause of earnest solicitude, a perplexing complication arose. An old man of the camp whence she had been discarded began to do his best to attract her attention.
We were in the midst of a community of excitable and resentful people, who, viewing us, if not with active hostility, at least with surprise and anger, seemed embarrassed by guilty knowledge. None of the customary greetings welcomed us. None offered other than scowls. "Where Soosie?" I demanded in authoritative tones of a boy accustomed to treat my slightest word with respect.
Dan accepted the guardianship. His hut was two miles away and on the far side of the river. He saw little of it for the next few weeks. Duckbill and his friends, as we were well aware, knew of our plans for the defeat of his proposed outrage. If Soosie could be ceremoniously married to the faithful Dan, no black in the neighbourhood would endeavour to molest her.
Sooner or later he would despise me. It might be all right while I was young, but we we blacks get old very soon. Fancy Dan having an old gin in his house; for he won't be living in a one-roomed hut all his life!" "You are spiteful against yourself, and that's not like you, Soosie." "I have my feelings. How else may I restrain them?" she petulantly exclaimed. "He must never think of me.
Told how Soosie had been wooed with gifts, and that her maternal uncle had officiously bestowed her upon the gaunt, ill-favoured king of the camp in accordance with tribal law, which regarded her as a mere chattel at the disposal of the whim and fancy of the nearest relative or at the demand of the most authoritative man, he became concerned and installed himself as Soosie's special guardian.
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