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Updated: May 20, 2025
Hurried footsteps thumped along the hall within, and a weazened, hunch backed lad smiled eagerly in the doorway. "Greeting to thee, José." Willa spoke in soft, liquid Spanish. "I have come to tell thee that we are safe here no longer. We must seek another casa this very day."
A man sat beside the table counting and sorting a large number of bills, the worn appearance of which showed them to have been in active circulation for some time. This man was small, and had a weazened face devoid of hair except for a pair of bushy, iron-gray eyebrows, beneath which his eyes gleamed as cunningly bright as those of a fox.
The kampong might have been any other in the kingdom, and the little old weazened punghulo, who came bowing and smiling forward, might have been at the head of any one of a hundred other kampongs, they were all so much alike.
Down the hill a broken wheel was bounding; while, on the dusty road, four women one tall and angular in a yellow duster, one little and weazened, arrayed in a prim gray traveling suit, a weeping maiden of uncertain age, and a portly dame of ponderous proportions, dressed not in a duster but a very dusty black silk were pulling themselves up.
And one of them was an old, old weazened up Indian of small stature and squalid appearance. "Visitors?" he said, without turning. Bill came up behind him. "A deputation," he said. "An old chief and three young men. They've got a neche with them who talks 'white. And they're not going to quit till they've held a big pow-wow with the white chief, Kars. They've got his name good.
When he had wandered for three days and three nights, all he had was spent, and there was no shelter to be seen but a dark gloomy forest, which stretched before him. Just then he saw a small, weazened old woman, who was trying to lift a bundle of sticks on to her back. "That is too heavy for you, good mother," said the soldier; and he raised and adjusted it for her.
This was a great relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist itself into a grin one morning, when Francois forgot the moccasins and Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and refused to budge without them. Later his feet grew hard to the trail, and the worn-out foot-gear was thrown away.
Then, apparently satisfied with his scrutiny, he addressed a few words to the weazened Arab, and, turning to his people, jabbered away volubly for two or three minutes. When he ceased, half a dozen men started off in different directions, and the interpreter proceeded to communicate the decision to Guy, who, in spite of his calm exterior, was greatly agitated. "Oko Sam say yes," began the Arab.
He seemed a pitiful figure as he dragged himself out of the office so stooped and weazened, and so utterly alone, but when he turned around and came back upon some second thought, his teeth snapped viciously as he snarled: "Here, give it back. I guess I don't want it printed. They don't care for me, anyway."
Rolled head-first into a shallow hole no doubt with jest and laughter it was his booted foot which first came to view, sticking grotesquely up through the loose slide-stuff. It was brief work and grim work that followed, and soon the weazened form, bent and stiffened into something hardly human, lay in the soft pink light on the cañon's floor.
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