Glacier County chief., 1940-04-19
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has only to be firm, to show them
we'll stand no nonsense Very well,
Chi-Chi, If you're too scared, I'll do
it myself. Give me the crowbar :"
As her hand reached for the tool,
lean brown fingers closed upon her
wrist in a clasp of iron, while, with
gay silk scarf from her throat and
tossed it among the offerings on
Nxwalu's altar. Worse, before her
shocked wits could react a steel arm
slid round her waist forcing her to
bow-bow to the abominable juju!
,n How dare yon!" she gasped, think.
to that vile heather thing and
bowling! How dare"
She stopped with a gasp. Not Neils
mild face, but eyes as bright as a bird
of prey's, features thin. dark, aquiline
and filthy were very close to hers,
while strange voice said with genial
For looks like yours, o Lotus among
women, I'd risk kingdom-as in fact
do. It's my habit. Smile sweetly on
the pretty people and their little god,
my Pearl OF Delight-and back out
damn quick!'
There was timber in the sardonic
voice that forced mechanical smile
from her. but as she backed away the
enclosing arm actually squeezed her.
That and a full sight of the man set
her blazing. He was tall, spidery and
horrid with the festooning of amulets,
bones and uncomfortable trinkets
You'll" She exploded. Neil! Neil!"
Teeth flared like white fire in the
saturnine face.
How anger suits your type-if this
were only the moment to enjoy it,"
Then as again she cried Neil" he
hnr itotN ,,,;t
Get her outside sharp! Take her by
the scruff of her pretty neck and
run her away before she starts us all
to the chopping block. Another 10 Sec
ondS of her and not even I can save
you"
The iron power in the command
swept away Neil's anger, even his
weakness before beauty. He had Carol
Lothian out of the hut and across the
sun-baked palaver place before he
realized he was roughnecking a god
dess: was driving their boys to load
the lorries for a quick getaway with
q grimness that simply refused to
listen to Carol. whose blazing. outraged
pride was determined to show the en-
tire black creation that white women
could not be intimidated. In the midst
Of the war Of wills a well known voice
said:
mo need for undignified flight now,
I've made you almost popular with
them"
The spindly stranger was squatting
open a carton of Carol Lothian's spe.
cial cigarets. He had shed his ju-ju
mans regalia, yet still looked far too
raffish, dirty and native for white
tastes. so that Neil Mallock wondered
just how to treat him. DR.. Carol
Lothian had no doubts, she said in
cold fury:
You made them think that Ia
their filthy idol"
you grasped yet that, but for me, those
! most attractive lips would be uttering
! plants of quite different intensity at
this moment? The Mbam'ala are as
skilled as they are lingering over the
pleasures of torture. Listen!'
| He held up his hand: in the thick
still heat they heard sounds from the
! medicine hut that made even DR.. Carol
Lothian shudder and reach for the
pistol at her belt.
/ only a goat" the strange man was
actually enjoying the dramatic reac-
! ton of his gesture
Even that's abominable"
Possibly. But it had to be some
thing. You started a blood-craving
and the Mbam ala are inclined to get
peeved when their pet instincts are
And you played up to their beastly
instincts"
"oh, promptly" he Knocked. You
may be headStrong but you are very
handsome. and I, Savaran, have a
weakness for women as well as war"
"Savaran!" Neil Mallock cried. THE
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