Edgar Wallace

Name: Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa
Author: Edgar Wallace

Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

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“Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa”, published in 1915, is a work by Edgar Wallace. It explores elements such as Bosambo, Sandi and palaver.

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ M'gobo sprang to his feet.
"Lord," he said harshly, "why do you put all men to shame for your sport?"
"This is no sport, M'gobo," answered Bones quickly. "This is a palaver, a killing palaver. Was it a woman who slew B'chumbiri? so that she is not present at this palaver. Lo, then I go to hold council with women!"
M'gobo's face was all distorted like a man stricken with paralysis.
"Tibbetti!" he said, "I slew B'chumbiri—according to custom—and I will answer to Sandi, who is a man, and understands such palavers."
"Think well," said Bones, deathly white, "think well, O man, before you say this." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ Liberties they might take with Bones; but they sat discomforted in palaver before this alien chief, swathed in monkey tails, his shield in one hand, and his bunch of spears in the other.
"All things I know," said Bosambo, when they told him what they had to tell, "and it has come to me that you have spoken lightly of Tibbetti, who is my friend and my master, and is well beloved of Sandi. Also they tell me that you smiled at him. Now I tell you there will come a day when you will not smile, and that day is near at hand." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ For though I do not love you as I love Sandi, who is more clever than you, yet I love you well enough to grieve. And Tibbetti also——"
He paused.
"He is young," said Hamilton, "and not yet grown to himself—now you, Bosambo, shall check men who are insolent to his face, and be to him as a strong right hand."
"On my head and my life," said Bosambo, "yet, lord M'ilitani, I think that his day will find him, for it is written in the Sura of the Djin that all men are born three times, and the day will come when Bonzi will be born again."
He was in his canoe before Hamilton realized what he had said. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ Hamilton nodded again, and stuck out his jaw in troubled meditation.
"I am a sick man," he said, "and I must rest, sending Tibbetti to watch the river, because the crops are good and there is fish for all men, and because the people are prosperous, for, Bosambo, in such times there is much boastfulness, and the tribes are ripe for foolish deeds deserving to appear wonderful in the eyes of woman." ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ All great trees grow slowly, O my lord! and that which springs up in a night dies in a day."
Bones pondered this for a while, then:
"Wake me at dawn," he said. "I go back to M'fa for the last palaver, and if this palaver be a bad one, be sure you shall not see my face again upon the river."
Bones spoke truly, his resignation, written in his sprawling hand, lay enveloped and sealed in his cabin ready for dispatch. He stopped his steamer at a village six miles from M'fa, and sent a party of Houssas to the village with a message. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ Presently B'chumbiri came sweeping round the bend, singing in his poor, cracked voice about a land and a people and treasures ... he turned his canoe at his father's bidding, and came obediently to land....
Overhead the sky was a vivid blue, and the water which moved quickly between the rocky channel of the Lower Isisi caught something of the blue, though the thick green of elephant grass by the water's edge and the overhanging spread of gum trees took away from the clarity of reflection. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ His wide open eyes were fixed upon the uncle of B'chumbiri, and the old man returned the gaze defiantly.
"Am I so terrible?" Bones went on, gently. "Do men fear me when I walk? Or run to their huts at the sound of my puc-a-puc? Do women wring their hands when I pass?" ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones — CHAPTER XI Bones at M'Fa (1915)

“ Hamilton smiled up at him.
"It isn't for Sanders' sake or mine or your own, Bones—but for—well, for the whole crowd of us—white folk. You'll have to do your best, old man."
Bones took the other's hand, snivelled a bit despite his fierce effort of restraint, and went aboard the Zaire.
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"Tell all men," said B'chumbiri, addressing his impassive relatives, "that I go to a great day and to many strange lands." ”

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