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Updated: June 22, 2025
After encountering innumerable hardships and dangers those three had at last arrived at their forest stronghold in safety. "So then," remarked Laihova to Ra-Ruth, after the first enthusiastic reception was over, "I have only over-shot them by a few hours after all!" "We were just going to sally forth to look for you and fight if need be," said Voalavo.
"If the Lord wills it so," remarked Laihova, quietly. "How do you know that the Lord wills it so?" demanded a voice fiercely, and a man who had hitherto sat still with his face buried in his hands looked up. It was the stout chief Voalavo, all whose fun of disposition seemed to have been turned to fury. "You all speak as if you were already dead men! Are we not alive?
It is their custom, also, sometimes to make solemn speeches and vows to the crocodiles when about to cross rivers. Voalavo, who was unusually reckless, free-and-easy, and regardless in ordinary affairs, was nevertheless remarkably superstitious.
After prescribing for the Queen and affording her some relief, he gave orders that she should be kept very quiet; that no noise was to be permitted in or near the palace. Then he left her apartments with the Secretary. As they traversed one of the corridors, the latter told Mark that the order had been given for the execution of Ravonino and Voalavo.
But daylight also brought a large party of men from a distant village with a pressing invitation to Voalavo and his men to pay them a visit, and a possibly disinterested offer to assist him in the consumption of the cattle which he had slain; for it chanced that several young men of this village were encamped in the woods that night near the spot where the hunters attacked the cattle.
If so, the prayer was a very brief one, for the guide turned almost immediately to Voalavo and explained that in the circumstances it was absolutely necessary for him and his comrades to depart at once for the capital. The chief, being a sympathetic as well as a hilarious soul, made no objection, but rather urged him to make haste.
Cowed by this speech, for they all knew the Secretary to be a man of position and power in the palace, the soldiers humbly picked up their fallen comrades and retired. The victors immediately ran into the coppice in search of Voalavo, whom they found on his knees, digging up the earth with both hands as if for very life!
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