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GUARDIANS OF THE KING'S. PEACE-FROMTM THE EDGAR WALLACE STORY
CHAPTER III
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"Gin and rifles,_naturally,"
**Thai's bad, sir."
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Farimi smiled. "Yes, but I've got juj that'll handle them all right. Listen!"
"Bad! The whole territory's flame. Ho picked up a spoon and began to hammer on a box among the baggage Father O'Leary and ho knows what an imitation of, the roll and rattle he's talking about, too-puts it this battalong t of the lokali, the signal drums that way: Send spoke from village to village up and Sanders! What about it?"
"I'm on leave, sir. And anyhow,tro down the Rivers,
should be too late."
"Sandi-Sandi is dead!" he said, as if interpreting the sounds. "Ther is-no-law-any-moral How's that?"
Five years later, Mr. Commissionera Sanders, a little leaner, a little more sallow, ant once again in his bare office in the Residency. In those five years many things had happened the Ochori under Bosambo had grown rich and fat, men walked softly and the fields peaceably in the Rivers,
old stormy days wore tiled, and seemed forgotten.
one that did not But there was forget
Mofalaba, up there be -King hind his mountains and the narrow pass. He sat, biding his time and nursing his wrath, until chance should give him his opening to head that tenth war-drum of his with the skin of the Ochori chief. In time, he re- all things, might flected sullenly,
now fortune was being kind to it seemed, for Sondi was going him, away. Two years previously Hamil
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give you a plane." "I'm sorry, Sir John; but it wouldn't Sinith looked at him. "Gnd, you're be fair to my finnene. "
Sir John was silent for a minute, genius!" 30
he said solemnly, Genios or not, Farini's plans went stroking his moustache. "I'm'm'm!" into operation. The drums began to he said at last. "Yes-1 Rot
#SandSandi P Bong. take up their is dead! There-in-no-inw-any-more," And again the savage war-lances began anong the tribes.
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Al Headquarters Ferguson stening "Again and again and them--Tibbetts went into the Inisi, "Still the same but they're out of hand and he just again!" he muttered.
got clear after losing a dozen men. thing, Hamilton?
The tall Haussa captain, anxious Ferguson's gone over the mountains
now, nodded.
Sanders Jumped. "What! Into Mofalaba's country? Alone?"
ton's sister; Patricia, had come to to fasandi-Sandi-is-dendi" he read.
the
Rivers on a visit, and the silent Com missioner and fallen victim to her quirt charm. He was on his way for
year's leave now to marry her, Ay are at the Inuting place had steam up ready to take him down to
trast
on the first leg of his journey. Meanwhile he was handing
to his successor, Acting-commis sioner Ferguson, like himself lean and hard-bitten with long service under African suns.
the
over to
"There is-no-law-any-more!"
Ferguson threw himself back in
"The devil--"
hit stopped as a figure stood in the doorway. It was Father O'Leary, ono of the missionaries from up the river, and he was travel-stained and worn with fatigue.
They're fired my church, gentle men," he Bald hurriedly. "They've altine Lae same for the Baptist church at the Isist. My colleagues up yon- to the desk. "That's about the lot, I der are in deadly dangut, and those
two white men are selling liquor and
"Well, there it is!" he said, pointing
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"Ye happened to him?"
"There's no news=
But Mofalaba's city could have given nows of Ferguson. He was strapped to a pont, dead, with Mofalabo's
own spear through bla heart. Farini and Smith, the gun- runners, sat in their hut, Smith more than a little subdued and nervous,
"I'm I'm getting out of this!" he anld, biting his fingers.
Farini swore.
You
confounded
think nodded ruefully. "Yes," firearms openly. You must be quick fool, if the old nian secs us on the
he
Faid. "
it's all right. and strong now, sir, as Mr. Sanders suppose You know how I feel about taking | would been, or blood will flow your place, Sanders-ratten!"
[4] "You needn't
me," Sautter laughed. " was just the same when I came here first. But one gets over it, somehow. Hard work's the recipe, Lord and there's plenty of that, knows-hard work, and seeing it's not
nil wasted. There's the secret. I
think. There's not much to it, real ly." He lit a elgarette. "All the sane, there are one or two things Mofalabs, for instance, and the gin- and-rifles business
"Expecting trouble there?” Fergu-| son queried.
Ferguson sat frowning, and a`mur- mur cams irresistibly from Ilamilton, a bitter, angry murmur.
"Sanders's lifework-destroyed in a week!"
run he'll know we lied about Sanders, and we wouldn't have a chance in a million! Did we kill Ferguson ?"
A warrior stood in the doorwny,
"White men," he said, "Lord King call pull yourself
together," saki Farini, "and come on. It's all right,
They went to where Mofalaba ant,
The Acting Commissioner may or I tell you!" may not have heard him, but he Ferguson's ghastly relics before him.
jumped up."
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"No, king!" said Farini brazenly. "Sandi in dead!"
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Colombo dle turned aside Galle and bait with to one of his grisly counsellora. "Go Himigkong bring me the bait for that trap," bo Howrah- anid, and whispered lengthily in his ear. The man nodded and slipped": away, while Farini and Smith were permitted to withdraw to their hut. Farini was still arrogantly confident, but Smith shivered.
"We'll be lucky to get out of this
(To Be Continued)
he said, "you'll stay The king indicated them with his here as my deputy. I'm going to wire spear-butt.
This man lied, saying that Sandi," he groaned, the Governor, telling him the situa
back. Can Sandi come tion. Tibbetts, you will embark half will come a company and come upstream with nie. You'll stay at the Isisi city- I'm taking ten men and going on to. the old king's country. That's where the trouble's starting
Hamilton interrupted. "You can't do that, sir!"
Wouldn't Sanders have gone?" "I don't know-
"Oh, trouble's a thing you can al- ways expect," said the Commissioner lightly. "It's question of knowing how to dont with it. I'd put up show of force to scare Mofalaba; and as for these gin-and-gun fellows, Farini and Smith, if you can lay hands on them and send them down in irons, you'll be doing more for the I'm Rivers than even putting Mofainba out of commission. They're poison, those lads!"
Polson they were," those two; and na they sat in a canoe coming down- river, their talk betrayed it. A couple of degenerate whites, they were potentially more dangerous than an enemy army corps.
"We'll be
in Mofalaba's country to-morrow," Farini was saying,
"Uh-hul Smith grunted. "Let me get in there, without Sanders to butt in, and I'll build a still big enough to get the whole of Africa
"Well, I do. He'd have gene, and
going." Ferguson, listen to me, please" But
the Assistant-Commissioner eut him short. "Captain Hamilton," he said-1
d-formally, "you have your orders. Obey them, please. Tibbetts, parndo your men!"
Down At the Coast, at Government House, there was a dance in progress.. Sanders, awaiting the liner to tako him to England, was in attendance, when an A.D.C. tapped him on the shoulder, with the meange that the Governor wished to see him at once. He found the white-haired Sir John-in his office, looking at a wire.
Sanders," he rak, "but Farin, a triffe less cocksure, fuger this is fully certainly
"Yes." he said thought named Farini you know a man
like to teach an-runner and so a
"Certainly," air," said Sonders. Sanders's black children' a thing or!
Ter years i two, while he's away billing and ago I caught him and sent him down cooing in London. All the same, here in irons; but he's been back in some of these black children have got Portuguese territory since that." pretty civilised lately"
"Humph" said the Governor. "Ile's
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Sorry
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