"
"Eh, you old scoundrel," he added, turning to the old chief, who sat
gibbering in impotent rage at the foot of the steps. "Now head belong
you bang 'm too. Come on, Miss Lackland, bang 'm just once. It will be
the crowning indignity."
"Ugh, he's too dirty. I'd rather give him a bath. Here, you, Adamu
Adam, give this devil-devil a wash. Soap and water! Fill that wash-tub.
Ornfiri, run and fetch 'm scrub-brush."
The Tahitians, back from their fishing and grinning at the bedlam of the
compound, entered into the joke.
"_Tambo_! _Tambo_!" shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at
so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and
the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body.
Joan, who had gone into the bungalow, tossed down a strip of white
calico, in which old Telepasse was promptly wrapped, and he stood forth,
resplendent and purified, withal he still spat and strangled from the
soap-suds with which Noa Noah had gargled his throat.
The house-boys were directed to fetch handcuffs, and, one by one, the
Lunga runaways were haled down out of their trees and made fast. Sheldon
ironed them in pairs, and ran a steel chain through the links of the
irons. Gogoomy was given a lecture for his mutinous conduct and locked
up for the afternoon.
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