Very awkward customer, Major." "Quite so, Jeekie, I agree with you.

But to come to the point, what is her game with me ?" "Oh! Major," he answered with a grin, "_that_ simple enough.

She tired of black man, want change, mean to marry you according to law, that is when Mungana dies, and he die jolly quick now.

She mustn't kill him, but polish him off all the same, stick him to sleep with those dead uns, till he go like drunk man and see things and drown himself.

Then she marry you.