H. Bedford-Jones

Name: The Barren Islands — Chapter 2
Author: H. Bedford-Jones

The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

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“The Barren Islands — Chapter 2”, published in 1924, is a work by H. Bedford-Jones. It explores elements such as Trenchard, Ram Das and Hindu.

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Loafing on the wharf beside a towering pile of fowl-crates, smoking and flinging an occasional order to the men, was the mate Yusuf, now in command.
Trenchard glanced at the bows of the schooner, saw the eyes painted there, Arab style, and paused beside Yusuf, who ignored his presence. Trenchard did not miss the men, some in uniform and some not, who were scattered all along the wharves, keeping an eye on things; they might be watching for escaped criminals such as Berry or Forillon, they might be alert to anything of a suspicious nature. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Trenchard frowned, hesitated. Sight of that gunboat had unsteadied him. This Hindu did not know his name, there was no reason to suspect anything amiss, and yet he had instinctive certainty that somehow he had put his foot into a trap—not here under this roof, but in Soalala.
“Tonight,” he said slowly, “I am going away in a boat; it is arranged for, when darkness falls. There is a white man here whom I am to take away with me. His name is Forillon, and he is in hiding. Have you any news of him?”
Ram Das dissented. “None, sahib. If it is your pleasure, I will inquire. You wish to see him?” ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ A man more impatient, less master of himself, might yet have ruined everything; but not John Trenchard. He turned away, watched the town ahead, listened to the bells clanging below, waited by the open gangway as the little boat banged in at the wharf and lines were flung. Then he was out and ashore with his bag, and beckoning a rickshaw.
“Hotel Paris.”
He rode on through the town—a Hindu and Arab town with its arched windows and doors, its lintels and door-posts elaborately carved in Bombay and brought here for installation, its throngs of stately Arabs and bustling Hindus. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Here a few coral-stone houses testified to the omnipresent Hindu merchants; godowns and cattle sheds crowded the waterfront; dhows were being laden with bullocks and meat; but Trenchard looked up the bay to where, two miles away, a long shape lay rolling and spouting forth a tiny stream of smoke. A gunboat, lying at the six-fathom anchorage—but why? Gunboats seldom came here. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Yusuf turned and gave him an insolent stare. He was tall, a half-naked, pockmarked coast Arab, absolutely fearless and knowing every inch of the Madagascar coasts as few men knew them. These two men, one white, one brown, when at sea were as one man, in whose hands the schooner was invincible.
“South to Maintirano,” said Yusuf, then flung a sharp order at his men, ignoring Trenchard.
“Tuesday night,” said the latter in rapid Swahili, “off Boyanna Bay. Inside the Vigilant Bank, twenty-two hours. I'll show a light. Dangerous.” ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ So they parted, each knowing that the other man, if alive, would keep the rendezvous. The chances were against either; for Grenille, while not a hunted man, was playing a risky game in going after native gold. Trenchard looked back once as the steamer puffed out into the stream and waved his hand; then he faced the northwest and the future, alone. Two days down the Betsiboka would land him at Majunga, the most important harbor of the island, and the odds were even that he would step ashore to face arrest and a firing-squad. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Yusuf is certain to circle out to sea and then come straight in to pick me up, too, so she wont be sighted by the gunboat. All's safe.”
The sun was gone behind the wooded hills across the bay, and Ram Das came in for a moment, to say that he had summoned Forillon. Trenchard nodded. If the Hindu suspected the identity of his visitor, as perhaps he did—since Trenchard was famous up and down the coasts for smuggling goods and men out of French hands—he made no comment. ”

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H. Bedford-Jones, The Barren Islands — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ After all, there were men who trusted him, who held his regard as worth more than ten thousand francs in blood-money—natives, Arabs, Hindus, Chinese, merchants up and down the French and mainland coasts. ”

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