Remember, that if I had missed the third vulture, we should all have been dead by now.

And, if you are wise, keep an eye upon Hernan Pereira." "These things I will do, nephew, especially the last of them; and now we must be getting on.

Stay; come here, Henri Marais; I have a word to say to you.

I understand that this little Englishman, Allan Quatermain, who is worth ten bigger men, loves your daughter, whose life he has saved again and again, and that she loves him.

Why, then, do you not let them marry in a decent fashion ?" "Because before God I have sworn her to another man--to my nephew, Hernan Pereira, whom everyone slanders," answered Marais sulkily.