What I said I do not remember, but he said, his white beard bristling with indignation while he threatened Bausi with the handle of the butterfly net: "You dog! You savage, whom I saved from death and called Brother.

What were you doing to these white men who are in truth my brothers, and to their followers?
Were you about to kill them?
Oh! if so, I will forget my vow, I will forget the bond that binds us and----" "Don't, pray don't," said Bausi.

"It is all a horrible mistake; I am not to be blamed at all.

It is that witch-doctor, Imbozwi, whom by the ancient law of the land I must obey in such matters.

He consulted his Spirit and declared that you were dead; also that these white lords were the most wicked of men, slave-traders with spotted hearts, who came hither to spy out the Mazitu people and to destroy them with magic and bullets." "Then he lied," thundered Brother John, "and he knew that he lied." "Yes, yes, it is evident that he lied," answered Bausi.