"
"You should learn to draw inferences. It is a useful art, especially
in Africa. It suggests to me that, if you are right, the deed was not
done by natives, who would never take the trouble to bury the dead.
Arabs, on the contrary, might do so, especially if there were any
bastard Portuguese among them who called themselves Christians. But
whatever happened must have been a long while ago," and I pointed to a
self-sown hardwood tree growing from the mound which could scarcely
have been less than twenty years old.
We returned to the house to find that our meal was ready. Hassan had
asked us to dine with him, but for obvious reasons I preferred that
Sammy should cook our food and that he should dine with us. He
appeared full of compliments, though I could see hate and suspicion in
his eye, and we fell to on the kid that we had bought from him, for I
did not wish to accept any gifts from this fellow. Our drink was
square-face gin, mixed with water that I sent Hans to fetch with his
own hands from the stream that ran by the house, lest otherwise it
should be drugged.
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