[A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookA Footnote to History CHAPTER VIII--AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII 4/42
Even had the German demands been moderate, de Coetlogon could not have forgotten the night of the _taumualua_, nor how Mataafa had relinquished, at his request, the attack upon the German quarter.
Blacklock, with his driver of a captain at his elbow, was not likely to lag behind.
And Mataafa having communicated Knappe's letter, the example of the Germans was on all hands exactly followed; the consuls hastened on board their respective war-ships, and these began to get up steam.
About midnight, in a pouring rain, Pelly communicated to Fritze his intention to follow him and protect British interests; and Knappe replied that he would come on board the _Lizard_ and see de Coetlogon personally.
It was deep in the small hours, and de Coetlogon had been long asleep, when he was wakened to receive his colleague; but he started up with an old soldier's readiness.
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