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'
In
such
converse
and
in
gloating
over
the
view
of
Patusan
,
which
he
had
determined
in
his
mind
should
become
his
prey
,
Brown
whiled
away
most
of
the
afternoon
,
his
men
,
meantime
,
resting
.
On
that
day
Dain
Waris
's
fleet
of
canoes
stole
one
by
one
under
the
shore
farthest
from
the
creek
,
and
went
down
to
close
the
river
against
his
retreat
.
Of
this
Brown
was
not
aware
,
and
Kassim
,
who
came
up
the
knoll
an
hour
before
sunset
,
took
good
care
not
to
enlighten
him
.
He
wanted
the
white
man
's
ship
to
come
up
the
river
,
and
this
news
,
he
feared
,
would
be
discouraging
.
He
was
very
pressing
with
Brown
to
send
the
"
order
,
"
offering
at
the
same
time
a
trusty
messenger
,
who
for
greater
secrecy
(
as
he
explained
)
would
make
his
way
by
land
to
the
mouth
of
the
river
and
deliver
the
"
order
"
on
board
After
some
reflection
Brown
judged
it
expedient
to
tear
a
page
out
of
his
pocket-book
,
on
which
he
simply
wrote
,
"
We
are
getting
on
.
Big
job
.
Detain
the
man
.
"
The
stolid
youth
selected
by
Kassim
for
that
service
performed
it
faithfully
,
and
was
rewarded
by
being
suddenly
tipped
,
head
first
,
into
the
schooner
's
empty
hold
by
the
ex-beachcomber
and
the
Chinaman
,
who
thereupon
hastened
to
put
on
the
hatches
.
What
became
of
him
afterwards
Brown
did
not
say
.
'
'
Brown
's
object
was
to
gain
time
by
fooling
with
Kassim
's
diplomacy
.
For
doing
a
real
stroke
of
business
he
could
not
help
thinking
the
white
man
was
the
person
to
work
with
.
He
could
not
imagine
such
a
chap
(
who
must
be
confoundedly
clever
after
all
to
get
hold
of
the
natives
like
that
)
refusing
a
help
that
would
do
away
with
the
necessity
for
slow
,
cautious
,
risky
cheating
,
that
imposed
itself
as
the
only
possible
line
of
conduct
for
a
single-handed
man
.
He
,
Brown
,
would
offer
him
the
power
.
No
man
could
hesitate
.
Everything
was
in
coming
to
a
clear
understanding
.
Of
course
they
would
share
.
The
idea
of
there
being
a
fort
--
all
ready
to
his
hand
--
a
real
fort
,
with
artillery
(
he
knew
this
from
Cornelius
)
,
excited
him
.
Let
him
only
once
get
in
and
...
He
would
impose
modest
conditions
.
Not
too
low
,
though
.
The
man
was
no
fool
,
it
seemed
.
They
would
work
like
brothers
till
...
till
the
time
came
for
a
quarrel
and
a
shot
that
would
settle
all
accounts
.
With
grim
impatience
of
plunder
he
wished
himself
to
be
talking
with
the
man
now
.
The
land
already
seemed
to
be
his
to
tear
to
pieces
,
squeeze
,
and
throw
away
.
Meantime
Kassim
had
to
be
fooled
for
the
sake
of
food
first
--
and
for
a
second
string
.
But
the
principal
thing
was
to
get
something
to
eat
from
day
to
day
.
Besides
,
he
was
not
averse
to
begin
fighting
on
that
Rajah
's
account
,
and
teach
a
lesson
to
those
people
who
had
received
him
with
shots
.
The
lust
of
battle
was
upon
him
.
'
I
am
sorry
that
I
ca
n't
give
you
this
part
of
the
story
,
which
of
course
I
have
mainly
from
Brown
,
in
Brown
's
own
words
.
There
was
in
the
broken
,
violent
speech
of
that
man
,
unveiling
before
me
his
thoughts
with
the
very
hand
of
Death
upon
his
throat
,
an
undisguised
ruthlessness
of
purpose
,
a
strange
vengeful
attitude
towards
his
own
past
,
and
a
blind
belief
in
the
righteousness
of
his
will
against
all
mankind
,
something
of
that
feeling
which
could
induce
the
leader
of
a
horde
of
wandering
cut-throats
to
call
himself
proudly
the
Scourge
of
God
.
No
doubt
the
natural
senseless
ferocity
which
is
the
basis
of
such
a
character
was
exasperated
by
failure
ill-luck
,
and
the
recent
privations
,
as
well
as
by
the
desperate
position
in
which
he
found
himself
;
but
what
was
most
remarkable
of
all
was
this
,
that
while
he
planned
treacherous
alliances
,
had
already
settled
in
his
own
mind
the
fate
of
the
white
man
,
and
intrigued
in
an
overbearing
,
offhand
manner
with
Kassim
,
one
could
perceive
that
what
he
had
really
desired
,
almost
in
spite
of
himself
,
was
to
play
havoc
with
that
jungle
town
which
had
defied
him
,
to
see
it
strewn
over
with
corpses
and
enveloped
in
flames
.
Listening
to
his
pitiless
,
panting
voice
,
I
could
imagine
how
he
must
have
looked
at
it
from
the
hillock
,
peopling
it
with
images
of
murder
and
rapine
.
The
part
nearest
to
the
creek
wore
an
abandoned
aspect
,
though
as
a
matter
of
fact
every
house
concealed
a
few
armed
men
on
the
alert
.
Suddenly
beyond
the
stretch
of
waste
ground
,
interspersed
with
small
patches
of
low
dense
bush
,
excavations
,
heaps
of
rubbish
,
with
trodden
paths
between
,
a
man
,
solitary
and
looking
very
small
,
strolled
out
into
the
deserted
opening
of
the
street
between
the
shut-up
,
dark
,
lifeless
buildings
at
the
end
.
Perhaps
one
of
the
inhabitants
,
who
had
fled
to
the
other
bank
of
the
river
,
coming
back
for
some
object
of
domestic
use
.
Evidently
he
supposed
himself
quite
safe
at
that
distance
from
the
hill
on
the
other
side
of
the
creek
.
A
light
stockade
,
set
up
hastily
,
was
just
round
the
turn
of
the
street
,
full
of
his
friends
.
He
moved
leisurely
.
Brown
saw
him
,
and
instantly
called
to
his
side
the
Yankee
deserter
,
who
acted
as
a
sort
of
second
in
command
.
This
lanky
,
loose-jointed
fellow
came
forward
,
wooden-faced
,
trailing
his
rifle
lazily
.
When
he
understood
what
was
wanted
from
him
a
homicidal
and
conceited
smile
uncovered
his
teeth
,
making
two
deep
folds
down
his
sallow
,
leathery
cheeks
.
He
prided
himself
on
being
a
dead
shot
.
He
dropped
on
one
knee
,
and
taking
aim
from
a
steady
rest
through
the
unlopped
branches
of
a
felled
tree
,
fired
,
and
at
once
stood
up
to
look
.
The
man
,
far
away
,
turned
his
head
to
the
report
,
made
another
step
forward
,
seemed
to
hesitate
,
and
abruptly
got
down
on
his
hands
and
knees
.
In
the
silence
that
fell
upon
the
sharp
crack
of
the
rifle
,
the
dead
shot
,
keeping
his
eyes
fixed
upon
the
quarry
,
guessed
that
"
this
there
coon
's
health
would
never
be
a
source
of
anxiety
to
his
friends
any
more
.
"
The
man
's
limbs
were
seen
to
move
rapidly
under
his
body
in
an
endeavour
to
run
on
all-fours
.
In
that
empty
space
arose
a
multitudinous
shout
of
dismay
and
surprise
.
The
man
sank
flat
,
face
down
,
and
moved
no
more
.
"
That
showed
them
what
we
could
do
,
"
said
Brown
to
me
.
"
Struck
the
fear
of
sudden
death
into
them
.
That
was
what
we
wanted
.
They
were
two
hundred
to
one
,
and
this
gave
them
something
to
think
over
for
the
night
.
Not
one
of
them
had
an
idea
of
such
a
long
shot
before
.
That
beggar
belonging
to
the
Rajah
scooted
down-hill
with
his
eyes
hanging
out
of
his
head
.
"
'
As
he
was
telling
me
this
he
tried
with
a
shaking
hand
to
wipe
the
thin
foam
on
his
blue
lips
.
"
Two
hundred
to
one
.
Two
hundred
to
one
.
.
strike
terror
.
.
terror
,
terror
,
I
tell
you
...
"
His
own
eyes
were
starting
out
of
their
sockets
.
He
fell
back
,
clawing
the
air
with
skinny
fingers
,
sat
up
again
,
bowed
and
hairy
,
glared
at
me
sideways
like
some
man-beast
of
folk-lore
,
with
open
mouth
in
his
miserable
and
awful
agony
before
he
got
his
speech
back
after
that
fit
.
There
are
sights
one
never
forgets
.
'
Furthermore
,
to
draw
the
enemy
's
fire
and
locate
such
parties
as
might
have
been
hiding
in
the
bushes
along
the
creek
,
Brown
ordered
the
Solomon
Islander
to
go
down
to
the
boat
and
bring
an
oar
,
as
you
send
a
spaniel
after
a
stick
into
the
water
.
This
failed
,
and
the
fellow
came
back
without
a
single
shot
having
been
fired
at
him
from
anywhere
.
"
There
's
nobody
,
"
opined
some
of
the
men
.
It
is
"
unnatural
,
"
remarked
the
Yankee
.
Kassim
had
gone
,
by
that
time
,
very
much
impressed
,
pleased
too
,
and
also
uneasy
.
Pursuing
his
tortuous
policy
,
he
had
dispatched
a
message
to
Dain
Waris
warning
him
to
look
out
for
the
white
men
's
ship
,
which
,
he
had
had
information
,
was
about
to
come
up
the
river
.
He
minimised
its
strength
and
exhorted
him
to
oppose
its
passage
.
This
double-dealing
answered
his
purpose
,
which
was
to
keep
the
Bugis
forces
divided
and
to
weaken
them
by
fighting
.
On
the
other
hand
,
he
had
in
the
course
of
that
day
sent
word
to
the
assembled
Bugis
chiefs
in
town
,
assuring
them
that
he
was
trying
to
induce
the
invaders
to
retire
;
his
messages
to
the
fort
asked
earnestly
for
powder
for
the
Rajah
's
men
.
It
was
a
long
time
since
Tunku
Allang
had
had
ammunition
for
the
score
or
so
of
old
muskets
rusting
in
their
arm-racks
in
the
audience-hall
.
The
open
intercourse
between
the
hill
and
the
palace
unsettled
all
the
minds
.
It
was
already
time
for
men
to
take
sides
,
it
began
to
be
said
.
There
would
soon
be
much
bloodshed
,
and
thereafter
great
trouble
for
many
people
.
The
social
fabric
of
orderly
,
peaceful
life
,
when
every
man
was
sure
of
to-morrow
,
the
edifice
raised
by
Jim
's
hands
,
seemed
on
that
evening
ready
to
collapse
into
a
ruin
reeking
with
blood
.
The
poorer
folk
were
already
taking
to
the
bush
or
flying
up
the
river
.
A
good
many
of
the
upper
class
judged
it
necessary
to
go
and
pay
their
court
to
the
Rajah
.
The
Rajah
's
youths
jostled
them
rudely
.
Old
Tunku
Allang
,
almost
out
of
his
mind
with
fear
and
indecision
,
either
kept
a
sullen
silence
or
abused
them
violently
for
daring
to
come
with
empty
hands
:
they
departed
very
much
frightened
;
only
old
Doramin
kept
his
countrymen
together
and
pursued
his
tactics
inflexibly
.
Enthroned
in
a
big
chair
behind
the
improvised
stockade
,
he
issued
his
orders
in
a
deep
veiled
rumble
,
unmoved
,
like
a
deaf
man
,
in
the
flying
rumours
.
