Out of the unknown, from the somewhere and something else, too unconditional for him to know any of the conditions, instantly they appeared, full-statured, walking about Meringe Plantation with loin-cloths about their middles and bone bodkins through their noses, and being put to work by _Mister_ Haggin, Derby, and Bob.

That their appearance was coincidental with the arrival of the _Arangi_ was an association that occurred as a matter of course in Jerry's brain.

Further, he did not bother, save that there was a companion association, namely, that their occasional disappearances into the beyond was likewise coincidental with the _Arangi's_ departure.
Jerry did not query these appearances and disappearances.

It never entered his golden-sorrel head to be curious about the affair or to attempt to solve it.

He accepted it in much the way he accepted the wetness of water and the heat of the sun.