Here the forestthinned and the glades were more
frequent. There is something in horoscopes, after all, he panted out, forhe had not
yet recovered his breath. Meanwhile I thank you for telling me many things, some of
which maybe true. Possibly she might be better than Kaneke;at any rate I hoped so.
What of the lion that Iturned aside on that night when you climbed the
pit?
So he went on till at last I cut his drivel short.
That accounts for everything,including your banishment from your home.
He knows whenshe is going to fade, and he fades at
the same time, or earlier. For instance, what I said about theEngoi waiting for a
white man was a lie. You are fooling me with words, but Isuppose that what you mean
is, that we must go on with you. As you have just admitted you did in the
past.
In a minute it was in my hands,with a bagful of
cartridges. Your talk goes round andround, and ends nowhere. To doso, first we must
be wise, and that will not happen to us until weare dead. To doso, first we must be
wise, and that will not happen to us until weare dead. For instance, what I said
about theEngoi waiting for a white man was a lie. The goddess, as I think,when her
office is fulfilled, dies or perhaps is killed. In this world, Lord, we do notserve
ourselves, we serve something else; I cannot tell what it is. As you have just
admitted you did in the past.
I found Kaneke seated ona stone near to the edge of
the tableland. All the circumstances of the business were unnatural. Therefore we
will not go back, although we believe thatwe walk to our deaths, being under a
curse. Nowonder that these uneducated men saw magic at work and were scared.
However, I pulled myself together and spoke to themseverely, ending with an order to
advance. Just then one of thehunters looked back and gasped out:Lord, the elephants
are beginning to run. Oh yes, repeated Hans who, in this extremity seemed to be
movedto a kind of grim humour.
But each of them, when we had passed it, fell in
behind the bigbull and marched after it. Also I had lost my hat, and what is an
Englishmanwithout his hat? Also, next minute there began a generalengagement on a
small scale.