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'
When
he
began
to
speak
,
the
unaccustomed
difficulty
seemed
only
to
fix
his
resolve
more
immovably
.
The
white
men
were
now
waiting
for
his
answer
on
the
hill
.
Their
chief
had
spoken
to
him
in
the
language
of
his
own
people
,
making
clear
many
things
difficult
to
explain
in
any
other
speech
.
They
were
erring
men
whom
suffering
had
made
blind
to
right
and
wrong
.
It
is
true
that
lives
had
been
lost
already
,
but
why
lose
more
?
He
declared
to
his
hearers
,
the
assembled
heads
of
the
people
,
that
their
welfare
was
his
welfare
,
their
losses
his
losses
,
their
mourning
his
mourning
.
He
looked
round
at
the
grave
listening
faces
and
told
them
to
remember
that
they
had
fought
and
worked
side
by
side
.
They
knew
his
courage
...
Here
a
murmur
interrupted
him
...
And
that
he
had
never
deceived
them
.
For
many
years
they
had
dwelt
together
.
He
loved
the
land
and
the
people
living
in
it
with
a
very
great
love
.
He
was
ready
to
answer
with
his
life
for
any
harm
that
should
come
to
them
if
the
white
men
with
beards
were
allowed
to
retire
.
They
were
evil-doers
,
but
their
destiny
had
been
evil
too
.
Had
he
ever
advised
them
ill
?
Had
his
words
ever
brought
suffering
to
the
people
?
he
asked
He
believed
that
it
would
be
best
to
let
these
whites
and
their
followers
go
with
their
lives
.
It
would
be
a
small
gift
.
"
I
whom
you
have
tried
and
found
always
true
ask
you
to
let
them
go
.
"
He
turned
to
Doramin
.
The
old
nakhoda
made
no
movement
.
"
Then
,
"
said
Jim
,
"
call
in
Dain
Waris
,
your
son
,
my
friend
,
for
in
this
business
I
shall
not
lead
.
"'
'
Tamb
'
Itam
behind
his
chair
was
thunderstruck
.
The
declaration
produced
an
immense
sensation
.
"
Let
them
go
because
this
is
best
in
my
knowledge
,
which
has
never
deceived
you
,
"
Jim
insisted
.
There
was
a
silence
.
In
the
darkness
of
the
courtyard
could
be
heard
the
subdued
whispering
,
shuffling
noise
of
many
people
.
Doramin
raised
his
heavy
head
and
said
that
there
was
no
more
reading
of
hearts
than
touching
the
sky
with
the
hand
,
but
--
he
consented
.
The
others
gave
their
opinion
in
turn
.
"
It
is
best
,
"
"
Let
them
go
,
"
and
so
on
.
But
most
of
them
simply
said
that
they
"
believed
Tuan
Jim
.
"
'
In
this
simple
form
of
assent
to
his
will
lies
the
whole
gist
of
the
situation
;
their
creed
,
his
truth
;
and
the
testimony
to
that
faithfulness
which
made
him
in
his
own
eyes
the
equal
of
the
impeccable
men
who
never
fall
out
of
the
ranks
.
Stein
's
words
,
"
Romantic
!
--
Romantic
!
"
seem
to
ring
over
those
distances
that
will
never
give
him
up
now
to
a
world
indifferent
to
his
failings
and
his
virtues
,
and
to
that
ardent
and
clinging
affection
that
refuses
him
the
dole
of
tears
in
the
bewilderment
of
a
great
grief
and
of
eternal
separation
.
From
the
moment
the
sheer
truthfulness
of
his
last
three
years
of
life
carries
the
day
against
the
ignorance
,
the
fear
,
and
the
anger
of
men
,
he
appears
no
longer
to
me
as
I
saw
him
last
--
a
white
speck
catching
all
the
dim
light
left
upon
a
sombre
coast
and
the
darkened
sea
--
but
greater
and
more
pitiful
in
the
loneliness
of
his
soul
,
that
remains
even
for
her
who
loved
him
best
a
cruel
and
insoluble
mystery
.
'
It
is
evident
that
he
did
not
mistrust
Brown
;
there
was
no
reason
to
doubt
the
story
,
whose
truth
seemed
warranted
by
the
rough
frankness
,
by
a
sort
of
virile
sincerity
in
accepting
the
morality
and
the
consequences
of
his
acts
.
But
Jim
did
not
know
the
almost
inconceivable
egotism
of
the
man
which
made
him
,
when
resisted
and
foiled
in
his
will
,
mad
with
the
indignant
and
revengeful
rage
of
a
thwarted
autocrat
.
But
if
Jim
did
not
mistrust
Brown
,
he
was
evidently
anxious
that
some
misunderstanding
should
not
occur
,
ending
perhaps
in
collision
and
bloodshed
.
It
was
for
this
reason
that
directly
the
Malay
chiefs
had
gone
he
asked
Jewel
to
get
him
something
to
eat
,
as
he
was
going
out
of
the
fort
to
take
command
in
the
town
.
On
her
remonstrating
against
this
on
the
score
of
his
fatigue
,
he
said
that
something
might
happen
for
which
he
would
never
forgive
himself
.
"
I
am
responsible
for
every
life
in
the
land
,
"
he
said
.
He
was
moody
at
first
;
she
served
him
with
her
own
hands
,
taking
the
plates
and
dishes
(
of
the
dinner-service
presented
him
by
Stein
)
from
Tamb
'
Itam
.
He
brightened
up
after
a
while
;
told
her
she
would
be
again
in
command
of
the
fort
for
another
night
.
"
There
's
no
sleep
for
us
,
old
girl
,
"
he
said
,
"
while
our
people
are
in
danger
.
"
Later
on
he
said
jokingly
that
she
was
the
best
man
of
them
all
.
"
If
you
and
Dain
Waris
had
done
what
you
wanted
,
not
one
of
these
poor
devils
would
be
alive
to-day
.
"
"
Are
they
very
bad
?
"
she
asked
,
leaning
over
his
chair
.
"
Men
act
badly
sometimes
without
being
much
worse
than
others
,
"
he
said
after
some
hesitation
.
'
Tamb
'
Itam
followed
his
master
to
the
landing-stage
outside
the
fort
.
The
night
was
clear
but
without
a
moon
,
and
the
middle
of
the
river
was
dark
,
while
the
water
under
each
bank
reflected
the
light
of
many
fires
"
as
on
a
night
of
Ramadan
,
"
Tamb
'
Itam
said
.
War-boats
drifted
silently
in
the
dark
lane
or
,
anchored
,
floated
motionless
with
a
loud
ripple
.
That
night
there
was
much
paddling
in
a
canoe
and
walking
at
his
master
's
heels
for
Tamb
'
Itam
:
up
and
down
the
street
they
tramped
,
where
the
fires
were
burning
,
inland
on
the
outskirts
of
the
town
where
small
parties
of
men
kept
guard
in
the
fields
.
Tuan
Jim
gave
his
orders
and
was
obeyed
.
Last
of
all
they
went
to
the
Rajah
's
stockade
,
which
a
detachment
of
Jim
's
people
manned
on
that
night
.
The
old
Rajah
had
fled
early
in
the
morning
with
most
of
his
women
to
a
small
house
he
had
near
a
jungle
village
on
a
tributary
stream
.
Kassim
,
left
behind
,
had
attended
the
council
with
his
air
of
diligent
activity
to
explain
away
the
diplomacy
of
the
day
before
.
He
was
considerably
cold-shouldered
,
but
managed
to
preserve
his
smiling
,
quiet
alertness
,
and
professed
himself
highly
delighted
when
Jim
told
him
sternly
that
he
proposed
to
occupy
the
stockade
on
that
night
with
his
own
men
.
After
the
council
broke
up
he
was
heard
outside
accosting
this
and
that
deputing
chief
,
and
speaking
in
a
loud
,
gratified
tone
of
the
Rajah
's
property
being
protected
in
the
Rajah
's
absence
.
'
About
ten
or
so
Jim
's
men
marched
in
.
The
stockade
commanded
the
mouth
of
the
creek
,
and
Jim
meant
to
remain
there
till
Brown
had
passed
below
.
A
small
fire
was
lit
on
the
flat
,
grassy
point
outside
the
wall
of
stakes
,
and
Tamb
'
Itam
placed
a
little
folding-stool
for
his
master
.
Jim
told
him
to
try
and
sleep
.
Tamb
'
Itam
got
a
mat
and
lay
down
a
little
way
off
;
but
he
could
not
sleep
,
though
he
knew
he
had
to
go
on
an
important
journey
before
the
night
was
out
.
His
master
walked
to
and
fro
before
the
fire
with
bowed
head
and
with
his
hands
behind
his
back
.
His
face
was
sad
.
Whenever
his
master
approached
him
Tamb
'
Itam
pretended
to
sleep
,
not
wishing
his
master
to
know
he
had
been
watched
.
At
last
his
master
stood
still
,
looking
down
on
him
as
he
lay
,
and
said
softly
,
"
It
is
time
.
"
