Ali did not see anything, but he also was aware of the presence of a child in the house.

In his long talks by the evening fires of the settlement he used to tell his intimate friends of Almayer's strange doings.

His master had turned sorcerer in his old age.

Ali said that often when Tuan Putih had retired for the night he could hear him talking to something in his room.

Ali thought that it was a spirit in the shape of a child.