And did you see how the white man himself ran away at the sight of the body?
Like a deer he ran!" And here Mahmat imitated Almayer's long strides, to the great joy of the beholders.

And for all his trouble he had nothing.

The ring with the green stone Tuan Babalatchi kept.

"Nothing! Nothing!" He spat down at his feet in sign of disgust, and left that group to seek further on a fresh audience.
The news spreading to the furthermost parts of the settlement found out Abdulla in the cool recess of his godown, where he sat overlooking his Arab clerks and the men loading and unloading the up-country canoes.
Reshid, who was busy on the jetty, was summoned into his uncle's presence and found him, as usual, very calm and even cheerful, but very much surprised.

The rumour of the capture or destruction of Dain's brig had reached the Arab's ears three days before from the sea-fishermen and through the dwellers on the lower reaches of the river.