Shall I not believe my eyes sooner than the tongues of women and idle men ?" "They say that the body is being taken to Almayer's compound," said Abdulla.

"If you want to go there you must go before the Dutch arrive here.

Go late.

It should not be said that we have been seen inside that man's enclosure lately." Reshid assented to the truth of this last remark and left his uncle's side.

He leaned against the lintel of the big doorway and looked idly across the courtyard through the open gate on to the main road of the settlement.