Arthur O. Friel

Black White — Chapter X (1923)

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Arthur O. Friel,  Black White — Chapter X (1923)

“ But I had noticed that slight narrowing of the eyes. And, for the first time since he had gone out, I thought of White.
Waiting a minute or two, I then stood up, stretched myself, and slowly walked out. The capitán silently came after me. Outside the door I saw nothing unusual. Neither did I see White. As if only exercising my legs, I lounged along the curving wall until I had gone nearly one-third of the distance around the paragua. Then I saw White—and women. ”
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Arthur O. Friel,  Black White — Chapter X (1923)

“ Such little accidents as this, however, are nothing to the river rovers of the Parimas; so long as a man lives through them he laughs and goes on, knowing that the next time he may split his head on a rock and laugh no more. Soon after this swim of mine we turned from the river into a narrow caño—the river itself now had become so small that it was hardly more than a rocky creek—and, a short distance in, found several dugouts at an opening in the bank, from which rose a well-trodden path. This, the Maquiritares said, was the Caño Uaunana. ”
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Arthur O. Friel,  Black White — Chapter X (1923)

“ We men laughed a little, and White swung toward the Indians inside the hut, who had stopped working and were closely watching their capitán. Now their grave faces relaxed and they resumed work—they were hollowing out a log trough.
“And that’s the way it goes,” said White. “A chap stops on the corner—a shed-corner, this time—to watch some fellows work, and along comes the female of the species and tells him it’s tag-day. And what can the poor boob do? ”
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