Now, Savage, what have you decided?
Remember before you reply that these uncanny fellows declare that if we four go, two of us will never return.

It seems impossible that they can read the future, still, without doubt, they _are_ most uncanny." "Sir," said Savage, "I will take my chance.

Before I left England his lordship made a provision for my old mother and my widowed sister and her children, and I have none other dependent upon me.

Moreover, I won't return alone with those Mazitu to become a barbarian, for how could I find my way back to the coast without anyone to guide me?
So I'll go on and leave the rest to God." "Which is just what we have all got to do," I remarked.

"Well, as that is settled, let us send for Babemba and tell him." This we did accordingly.