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SANDERS OF THE RIVER TRAVEL SERVICE

A SAGA OF WEST AFRICA WHERE A

MEN STAND · WHITE HANDFUL OF

GUARDIANS OF THE KING'S

WALLACE STORY

PEACE-FROM THE

CHAPTER 1}

EDGAR

Fictionised from the London Films' Production

chose to pretend I work. She shrank prison." : back, wide-eyed and hand to mouth. The king was still devouring Bo

red-rimmed eyes. with the Boнainbo allowed sambo The captain who ted King Mofa- in astonishment. taba's band of slave-raiders found his her to stare her fill for a moment; "This I will do, Sardi," he said slow- path suddenly blocked by a gigantic then he inighed and straie rapidly, "but I have nine war-drums, each of the skin of a little chlof who He stopped, considering away into the trees. black man

Mr. Commissioner Sanders, about noffended me. And I know the skin, him haughtily.

"And whose dog are you?" day's sail away down river, sat with Sands, that will be stretched on the

Hamilton

under the tenth." and Tibbetts demanded.

battered "Touch one servant of the govern Bosanbo folded his arms. "I am awning of the Zaire-the

was his ment," anid Sanders, "le it sn little nu dog," he said, "but the servant stern-wheel steamer that

pigeon, Mofalaba, and your and friend of Lord Sandi-and you only means of Fommunication up and

"A people will have another king. I think. down the forest-bordered stream. shall come with me!"

was standing be. The palever is finished." The captain laughed. "O ko!" he thin man in razs

Now this is fore him-Ahmed, one of his sples. snt with a smeer. strange matter, that you should stop "You took my word to Mofaini drew. mie, for am a explain of the great to come to palaver in the field by

the pass, this site of the mountain neck!" he observed. king

Sanders asked.

Nevertheless," old Bonambo, watching his warriors creeping round on either flank of the raiders, "It is the word of the Lord Sandi that you follow me, you and the men and women, till ho himself comes,"

s

In ominous allence the king with

Lieutenant Tibbetts noked "I like to bronk his after him.

The British taxpayer wouldn't he plensed, Bones," sail Sanders. "It'd only enst him about anillion pounds, Wars are expensive things. And now about these girls. You'd better take ten men and get them over the border, will you?"

Ahmed touched his brow. "Ay, so lord," he said. "He comes.”

anner ?" Sander's "In what mouth twitched, for there was obvi- Cusly more behind Ahmed's reticence. "He is angry?"

up

It

For a long breath the tension held,

But Lien:enant Tibbetts found the and the captain half-turned, as if in The spy smiled thinly. "Yes, lord compliance. Then in flash, hebut he fears you, and therefore I ask no easy one. since one and ali of the ten and one desire only-to wheeled and buried his pear-at-live Bosambo-to inte. The chief had Indeed, King Mofalaba, as seen at rcome the wife of the colourful

threw no renasuring Bosambo. Sanders been eyeing him closely, and the the rendezvous, WILS gleam of his own blade made an sight. Immensely fat, with a heavy. hands in helpless amusement. instantaneous streak of light in the crual face lit with bestial little red-took all his tact and imperiousness get them to agree to return to forest gloon. Mofalaba's captain rimmed eyes, he was borne swaying Hong up his arms and fell dead, and in his litter to where Sanders sat, their villages, except one-Lilongo. Bosambo's men closed in with a rush the impassive Haussas with their She faced up to the Commissioner.

"He has five wiyes in another War on the Rivers has little use for gleaming bayonets behind him. The parley or quarter.

Commissioner looked at him coldly-village, Lilongo." he said. "And they She shook her head. "Nay, lord," and still more coldly at the menacing are old and fierce and will bent you' than and, of called you to she said. "He has no wives, since palaver, but your warriors I did not always be wanted other men's wives, But now he wears that if I marry call. How is this?"

him he will take no one else to his house."

жpeamen.

Bosambo, proudly surveying the field, strode across. Lo where the cap tured slaves crouched among the "King," hushes. Most of them were girls, and their courage and light-heart- edness returned as Basambo grinned| Motalaba was glaring at Bosambo and postured before them. One, s at Sanders's side. "Lord Sandl," he little being with the figure, of a sail thickly, a dog of a little chief Tanagra statuette,, caught his eyej chopped my captain!" and he went over to her.

What asked.

She looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "Lilongo, chief!"

is your name, girl?" he

Sanders nocled unconcernedly. "Your captain heard my words, kiat and laughed. To such mes death comes quickly!"

ALofalaba thought this over for n he said, "Lilongo?" Bosambo spoke half mament. "Lord Sandi." to himself, still considering her sp- taking another tack, "it is our custom preciatively. "That is the sound of to buy wemen--"

a little stream running over stones. "If the father and mother consent," And whence come you, Lilongo?"

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Sanders looked at her. "Oh, well," he said. suppose I can't object. D'you think you can hold him?"

The girl smiled, and Bosambo grinned sheepishly. For once the big man had met his match. Sanders turned away.

"Well, settle it between you" he to think said. "I've other things about just now. Pll give you a writ ing of marriage, Lilongo-and re- Sanders completed the sentence for member, chief: One writing, one wo- She continued to glance at him, him. "Hear me now, Mofalaba; this man!" half-shy, half-impient. "From the is slavery, and such matters I will const, chief- and you know not." not endure in the Rivers."

and if

Bosamba reached out a long arm "I am the greatest king in these And tapped her on the shoulder. lande Mofalaba began, but once "O ko!" he said boisterously. "Now again Sanders cut him short. you and 1, woman, should have many "My king," he said crisply, "is the things to speak together, for I also greatest king upon earth, am from the coast and sailed many little kings or chiefs disobey him, I moons upon a steamer, being captain plow them into the ground. You shall of the ship and giving orders to all take these spears back to your own country, Mofalaba; and as for the blood of your captain, for that I send back your men that are in my fine

men

It was a typically Dosambo piece of bluster, but it wasked, or the girl

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