He said that
it was not right that I should go without guns to die among devils and
leave him and his companions wandering alone in a strange land.
I answered that I was much of the same opinion, but that Dogeetah
insisted upon going and that I had no choice.
"Then let us kill Dogeetah, or at any rate tie him up, so that he can
do no more mischief in his madness," Ganza suggested blandly, whereon
I turned him out.
Lastly Sammy arrived and said:
"Mr. Quatermain, before you plunge into this deep well of foolishness,
I beg that you will consider your responsibilities to God and man, and
especially to us, your household, who are now but lost sheep far from
home, and further, that you will remember that if anything
disagreeable should overtake you, you are indebted to me to the extent
of two months' wages which will probably prove unrecoverable."
I produced a little leather bag from a tin box and counted out to
Sammy the wages due to him, also those for three months in advance.
To my astonishment he began to weep.
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