[The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Child CHAPTER XX 21/25
I have none to offer, or if I have I prefer to keep them to myself. Leaving Ragnall and his wife, I staggered off to look for Hans and found him lying senseless near the north wall of the temple.
Evidently he was beyond human help, for Jana seemed to have crushed most of his ribs in his iron trunk.
We carried him to one of the priest's cells and there I watched him till the end, which came at sundown. Before he died he became quite conscious and talked with me a good deal. "Don't grieve about missing Jana, Baas," he said, "for it wasn't you who missed him but some devil that turned your bullets.
You see, Baas, he was bewitched against you white men.
When you look at him closely you will find that the Lord Igeza missed him also" (strange as it may seem, this proved to be the case), "and when you managed to hit the tip of his tusk with the last ball the magic was wearing off him, that's all. But, Baas, those Black Kendah wizards forgot to bewitch him against the little yellow man, of whom they took no account.
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