He was forced to concentrate with all his will in order to remember which of them could stand ipecacuanha, and which of them were constitutionally unable to retain that powerful drug.

One who lay dead he ordered to be carried out.

He spoke in the sharp, peremptory manner of a man who would take no nonsense, and the well men who obeyed his orders scowled malignantly.

One muttered deep in his chest as he took the corpse by the feet.

The white man exploded in speech and action.