11/21 I only did so fearing lest you should lose the presents." "You are not so wicked as I thought," he growled. "Get up, then, and do my bidding. You can be back here two hours after dawn." So I got up, thinking all the while whether I should try to spring on him. But I was without arms, and he had the knife; also if, by chance, I prevailed and killed him, it would have been thought that I had murdered him, and I should have tasted the assegai. |