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Updated: May 10, 2025
All To'oto'o did was to buy a little cheap notoriety for eleven dollars and a music box." I never saw a man so stung in all my life as Oppenstedt. The eyes seemed to start from his head, and he glared at To'oto'o as though he could have strangled him. Tautala was quite forgotten in the intensity of his indignation toward Rosalie's uncle.
At this, smiling from ear to ear, Tautala held up the music box to public view, and would have set it going had not something fortunately caught in the works. "It's a lie!" gasped Silver Tongue. "It's a lie!"
"Scanlon himself was at the battle," I went on, "and he saw the whole thing and was a witness to Tautala getting the seven dollars, and he made To'oto'o pony up four dollars more as the price of his own secrecy." "Four dollars," ejaculated Scanlon. "That's right, Captain Branscombe. Four dollars!" "So, if you are angry with anybody," I said, "you ought to be angry with Tautala.
Then at a slower pace, so that Tautala might keep up with us, we walked to To'oto'o's house and taxed him with the whole business! At first he made some show of denying it, but what could he say with Scanlon and Tautala in risen witness against him?
It was well we had brought Marquardt with us, for he and his police caught the humor of the thing, and on reaching the bakery formed us up in a great hollow square with one side blank for Silver Tongue, who stood and gazed at us transfixed from the shade of his veranda. Then Seumanutafa, Sasa, Scanlon, Tautala, To'oto'o, and I broke ranks and marched up to him.
You see, he had been hating To'oto'o ferociously for six months, and couldn't switch off at a moment's notice on an absolute stranger like Tautala. Besides, his hatred for To'oto'o had become a kind of monomania with him, and now here I was telling him what a fool he had made of himself, and proving it with two witnesses and a music box. No wonder that he was staggered.
"He didn't murder him," I said. Silver Tongue's jaw fell. He looked at us quite overcome. For a minute he couldn't say a word. "Oh, but he deed!" he said at last. "It was Tautala that killed him," I said, indicating the young man we had brought from Mulinu'u, "and it turns out he sold your relation's head to To'oto'o for seven dollars and a music box."
Sasa and I plumped into a buggy, and with Scanlon on horseback pounding behind us we made all sail for Seumanutafa's. Bidding him follow, we then raced off to Mulinu'u, where, sure enough, we found a young man named Tautala in one of the houses, who brought out the music box and very soon satisfied me as to the truth of what Scanlon had said.
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