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"I tell you what," cried Bob Roberts, enthusiastically, "we'll whop old Hamet and Rajah Gantang out of their skins, and you shall be sultan instead, or your father first and you afterwards." Ali's eyes flashed as he turned them upon the speaker. "You could be chief banjo, you know," said Bob. "Chief banjo?" said Ali, wonderingly. "No, no; I mean gong Tumongong," cried Bob.
Then Ali's was drawn softly down between the bamboos, and two hands placed it under one of the long, split canes upon which he was lying, held it there, and then pressed it upwards. Ali was puzzled. He dare not speak, neither did the Tumongong below venture so much as to whisper, but kept on forcing his son's hand upwards. There was a faint creak, and then the light came into Ali's puzzled brain.
"That we will." "But are you sure that young Tumongong would be glad to see me too?" "Ali Latee, his name is, and I've got to call him Al already, and he called me Bob. Glad? of course he will. I said you'd come too; and I told such a whopper, Tom." "What did you say?" "I told him you were my dearest friend." "Well, so I am, Bob; only you will get so restive."
"Speaking as the son of the Tumongong, I say yes," replied Ali; "but as one who has imbibed English notions and ideas, I am bound to say that what you did only makes me feel more thoroughly how it is time we had a complete revolution in Parang." "I say," said Bob, "you'll get stuck-up for high treason, young fellow, if you talk about revolution." "No fear," said Ali, laughing quietly.
Then the Tumongong swore an oath that Ali should never come back, and went down on his face before Sultan Hamet; but the sultan drew his kris and pricked him with it in the shoulder, and told him that he should die if he named his son again." "The villain! That brave, noble young fellow, too!" said the doctor, excitedly. "Yes; he was so brave and handsome," cried the Malay.
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