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Updated: June 13, 2025
I urged that he should either allow me to purchase rations, or else feed them from the palace as Rumanika did; but he always turned a deaf ear, or said that what Sunna his father had introduced it ill became him to subvert; and unless my men helped themselves they would die of starvation. On the present emergency I resolved to call upon the queen.
McLeod was dancing far too often with Sunna, and even the beautiful youth Ian Macrae had only asked her hand once; and Adam was sure that Thora Ragnor had been the suggester of that act of politeness. Girls far inferior to Sunna in every respect had received more attention than his granddaughter.
Sunna shut the door with a kiss and as she took the stairs with hurrying steps, the sunshine came dancing through the long window, and her feet trod on it and it fell all over her. At four o'clock she was ready for her evening's inquest and she found her grandfather waiting for her.
Then Adam rose and left the house and Sunna, having seen that he took the proper turn in the road, called for a cup of tea and having refreshed herself with it, went upstairs to lay out and prepare everything for her toilet. And as she went about this business she continually justified herself: "It is only natural I should have my necklace," she thought.
"A wife does not always adopt her husband's ideas. I had a father, Adam, uncles and cousins and friends. None of them kept Lent. Dost thou expect me to be wiser than all my kindred?" "I do." "Let us cease this talk. It will come to nothing." "Then good-bye." "Be not hard on Sunna. One side only, has been heard." "As kindly as may be, I will do right."
Dost thou know at what hour she will leave?" "At ten o'clock the tide is full." "Then at ten, she will sail." "Likely enough, is that. Our talk is now ended. Let it be, as if it had not been." "I have forgotten it." Vedder laughed, and added: "Go then to thy bed, I am tired." "Not tired of Sunna?" "Well then, yes, of thee I have had enough at present."
This little incident made my fairies bolder, and, sidling up to me one by one, they sat in a knot with me upon the ground; then clasping their heads with their hands, they woh-wohed in admiration of the white man; they never in all their lives saw anything so wonderful; his wife and children must be like him; what would not Sunna have given for such a treat? but it was destined to Mtesa's lot.
And Rahal answered proudly and tenderly: "Thou art surely meaning my son Boris." "Indeed, thou art near to the truth." Then Rahal put her arm round Sunna and kissed her. "Thou hast made me happy," she said, and Sunna made her still more happy, when she took out of the little bag fastened to her belt the daguerreotype and showed her the strong, handsome face of her soldier-sailor boy.
At the point where the Vedder and Ragnor roads crossed each other, two men were standing, talking. They were Ragnor and Vedder, and Ragnor was at once aware of the identity of the couple approaching; but Vedder appeared so unaware, that Ragnor remarked: "I see Sunna, Vedder, coming up the road, and with her is Colonel Max Grant." "But why 'Colonel, Ragnor?"
Sunna said something about Burns in reply, but Vedder heard her not. He was satisfying his vocal impatience by whistling softly and very musically "The Garb of Old Gaul," and Sunna watched and listened a moment, and then in something of a hurry went to her room. A new thought had come to her one which pleased her very much; and she proceeded to dress herself accordingly.
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