'I am sorry that I can't give you this part of the story, which of course I have mainly from Brown, in Brown's own words. There was in the broken, violent speech of that man, unveiling before me his thoughts with the very hand of Death upon his throat, an undisguised ruthlessness of purpose, a strange vengeful attitude towards his own past, and a blind belief in the righteousness of his will against all mankind, something of that feeling which could induce the leader of a horde8 of wandering cut-throats to call himself proudly the Scourge9 of God. No doubt the natural senseless ferocity which is the basis of such a character was exasperated10 by failure ill-luck, and the recent privations, as well as by the desperate position in which he found himself; but what was most remarkable11 of all was this, that while he planned treacherous12 alliances, had already settled in his own mind the fate of the white man, and intrigued13 in an overbearing, offhand14 manner with Kassim, one could perceive that what he had really desired, almost in spite of himself, was to play havoc15 with that jungle town which had defied him, to see it strewn over with corpses16 and enveloped17 in flames. Listening to his pitiless, panting voice, I could imagine how he must have looked at it from the hillock, peopling it with images of murder and rapine. The part nearest to the creek18 wore an abandoned aspect, though as a matter of fact every house concealed19 a few armed men on the alert. Suddenly beyond the stretch of waste ground, interspersed20 with small patches of low dense21 bush, excavations22, heaps of rubbish, with trodden paths between, a man, solitary23 and looking very small, strolled out into the deserted24 opening of the street between the shut-up, dark, lifeless buildings at the end. Perhaps one of the inhabitants, who had fled to the other bank of the river, coming back for some object of domestic use. Evidently he supposed himself quite safe at that distance from the hill on the other side of the creek. A light stockade25, set up hastily, was just round
the turn of the street, full of his friends. He moved leisurely26. Brown saw him, and instantly called to his side the Yankee deserter, who acted as a sort of second in command. This lanky27, loose-jointed fellow came forward, wooden-faced, trailing his rifle lazily. When he understood what was wanted from him a homicidal and conceited28 smile uncovered his teeth, making two deep folds down his sallow, leathery cheeks. He prided himself on being a dead shot. He dropped on one knee, and taking aim from a steady rest through the unlopped branches of a felled tree, fired, and at once stood up to look. The man, far away, turned his head to the report, made another step forward, seemed to hesitate, and abruptly29 got down on his hands and knees. In the silence that fell upon the sharp crack of the rifle, the dead shot, keeping his eyes fixed30 upon the quarry31, guessed that "this there coon's health would never be a source of anxiety to his friends any more." The man's limbs were seen to move rapidly under his body in an endeavour to run on all-fours. In that empty space arose a multitudinous shout of dismay and surprise. The man sank flat, face down, and moved no more. "That showed them what we could do," said Brown to me. "Struck the fear of sudden death into them. That was what we wanted. They were two hundred to one, and this gave them something to think over for the night. Not one of them had an idea of such a long shot before. That beggar belonging to the Rajah scooted down-hill with his eyes hanging out of his head."
'As he was telling me this he tried with a shaking hand to wipe the thin foam32 on his blue lips. "Two hundred to one. Two hundred to one ..strike terror ..terror, terror, I tell you..." His own eyes were starting out of their sockets33. He fell back, clawing the air with skinny fingers, sat up again, bowed and hairy, glared at me sideways like some man-beast of folk-lore, with open mouth in his miserable34 and awful agony before he got his speech back after that fit. There are sights one never forgets.
'Furthermore, to draw the enemy's fire and locate such parties as might have been hiding in the bushes along the creek, Brown ordered the Solomon Islander to go down to the boat and bring an oar35, as you send a spaniel after a stick into the water. This failed, and the fellow came back without a single shot having been fired at him from anywhere. "There's nobody," opined some of the men. It is "onnatural," remarked the Yankee. Kassim had gone, by that time, very much impressed, pleased too, and also uneasy. Pursuing his tortuous36 policy, he had dispatched a message to Dain Waris warning him to look out for the white men's ship, which, he had had information, was about to come up the river. He minimised its strength and exhorted37 him to oppose its passage. This double-dealing answered his purpose, which was to keep the Bugis forces divided and to weaken them by fighting. On the other hand, he had in the course of that day sent word to the assembled Bugis chiefs in town, assuring them that he was trying to induce the invaders38 to retire; his messages to the fort asked earnestly for powder for the Rajah's men. It was a long time since Tunku Allang had had ammunition39 for the score or so of old muskets40 rusting41 in their arm-racks in the audience-hall. The open intercourse42 between the hill and the palace unsettled all the minds. It was already time for men to take sides, it began to be said. There would soon be much bloodshed, and thereafter great trouble for many people. The social fabric43 of orderly, peaceful life, when every man was sure of to-morrow, the edifice44 raised by Jim's hands, seemed on that evening ready to collapse45 into a ruin reeking46 with blood. The poorer folk were already taking to the bush or flying up the river. A good many of the upper class judged it necessary to go and pay their court to the Rajah. The Rajah's youths jostled them rudely. Old Tunku Allang, almost out of his mind with fear and indecision, either kept a sullen47 silence or abused them viole ntly for daring to come with empty hands: they d
eparted very much frightened; only old Doramin kept his countrymen together and pursued his tactics inflexibly48. Enthroned in a big chair behind the improvised49 stockade, he issued his orders in a deep veiled rumble50, unmoved, like a deaf man, in the flying rumours51.
'Dusk fell, hiding first the body of the dead man, which had been left lying with arms outstretched as if nailed to the ground, and then the revolving52 sphere of the night rolled smoothly53 over Patusan and came to a rest, showering the glitter of countless54 worlds upon the earth. Again, in the exposed part of the town big fires blazed along the only street, revealing from distance to distance upon their glares the falling straight lines of roofs, the fragments of wattled walls jumbled55 in confusion, here and there a whole hut elevated in the glow upon the vertical56 black stripes of a group of high piles and all this line of dwellings57, revealed in patches by the swaying flames, seemed to flicker58 tortuously59 away up-river into the gloom at the heart of the land. A great silence, in which the looms61 of successive fires played without noise, extended into the darkness at the foot of the hill; but the other bank of the river, all dark save for a solitary bonfire at the river-front before the fort, sent out into the air an increasing tremor62 that might have been the stamping of a multitude of feet, the hum of many voices, or the fall of an immensely distant waterfall. It was then, Brown confessed to me, while, turning his back on his men, he sat looking at it all, that notwithstanding his disdain63, his ruthless faith in himself, a feeling came over him that at last he had run his head against a stone wall. Had his boat been afloat at the time, he believed he would have tried to steal away, taking his chances of a long chase down the river and of starvation at sea. It is very doubtful whether he would have succeeded in getting away. However, he didn't try this. For another moment he had a passing thought of trying to rush the town, but he perceived very well that in the end he would find himself in the lighted street, where they would be shot down like dogs from the houses. They were two hundred to one -- he thought, while his men, huddling64 round two heaps of smouldering embers , munched65 the last of the bananas and roasted th
e few yams they owed to Kassim's diplomacy. Cornelius sat amongst them dozing66 sulkily.
'Then one of the whites remembered that some tobacco had been left in the boat, and, encouraged by the impunity67 of the Solomon Islander, said he would go to fetch it. At this all the others shook off their despondency. Brown applied68 to, said, "Go, and be d -- d to you," scornfully. He didn't think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. The man threw a leg over the tree-trunk and disappeared. A moment later he was heard clambering into the boat and then clambering out. "I've got it," he cried. A flash and a report at the very foot of the hill followed. "I am hit," yelled the man. "Look out, look out -- I am hit," and instantly all the rifles went off. The hill squirted fire and noise into the night like a little volcano, and when Brown and the Yankee with curses and cuffs69 stopped the panic-stricken firing, a profound, weary groan70 floated up from the creek, succeeded by a plaint whose heartrending sadness was like some poison turning the blood cold in the veins71. Then a strong voice pronounced several distinct incomprehensible words somewhere beyond the creek. "Let no one fire," shouted Brown. "What does it mean?" . . . "Do you hear on the hill? Do you hear? Do you hear?" repeated the voice three times. Cornelius translated, and then prompted the answer. "Speak," cried Brown, "we hear." Then the voice, declaiming in the sonorous72 inflated73 tone of a herald74, and shifting continually on the edge of the vague waste-land, proclaimed that between the men of the Bugis nation living in Patusan and the white men on the hill and those with them, there would be no faith, no compassion75, no speech, no peace. A bush rustled76; a haphazard77 volley rang out. "Dam' foolishness," muttered the Yankee, vexedly grounding the butt78. Cornelius translated. The wounded man below the hill, after crying out twice, "Take me up! take me up!" went on complaining in moans. While he had kept on the blackened earth of the slope, and afterwards crouching79 in the boat, he had been safe en ough. It seems that in his joy at finding the to
bacco he forgot himself and jumped out on her off-side, as it were. The white boat, lying high and dry, showed him up; the creek was no more than seven yards wide in that place, and there happened to be a man crouching in the bush on the other bank.
'He was a Bugis of Tondano only lately come to Patusan, and a relation of the man shot in the afternoon. That famous long shot had indeed appalled80 the beholders. The man in utter security had been struck down, in full view of his friends, dropping with a joke on his lips, and they seemed to see in the act an atrocity81 which had stirred a bitter rage. That relation of his, Si-Lapa by nume, was then with Doramin in the stockade only a few feet away. You who know these chaps must admit that the fellow showed an unusual pluck by volunteering to carry the message, alone, in the dark. Creeping across the open ground, he had deviated82 to the left und found himself opposite the boat. He was startled when Brown's man shouted. He came to a sitting position with his gun to his shoulder, and when the other jumped out, exposing himself, he pulled the trigger and lodged83 three jagged slugs point-blank into the poor wretch's stomach. Then, lying flat on his face, he gave himself up for dead, while a thin hail of lead chopped and swished the bushes close on his right hand; afterwards he delivered his speech shouting, bent84 double, dodging85 all the time in cover. With the last word he leaped sideways, lay close for a while, and afterwards got back to the houses unharmed, having achieved on that night such a renown86 as his children will not willingly allow to die.
'And on the hill the forlorn band let the two little heaps of embers go out under their bowed heads. They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below. He was a strong man and died hard, with moans now loud, now sinking to a strange confidential87 note of pain. Sometimes he shrieked88, and again, after a period of silence, he could be heard muttering deliriously89 a long and unintelligible90 complaint. Never for a moment did he cease.
' "What's the good?" Brown had said unmoved once, seeing the Yankee, who had been swearing under his breath, prepare to go down. "That's so," assented91 the deserter, reluctantly desisting. "There's no encouragement for wounded men here. Only his noise is calculated to make all the others think too much of the hereafter, cap'n." "Water!" cried the wounded mun in an extraordinarily92 clear vigorous voice, and then went off moaning feebly. "Ay, water. Water will do it," muttered the other to himself, resignedly. "Plenty by-and-by. The tide is flowing."
'At last the tide flowed, silencing the plaint and the cries of pain, and the dawn was near when Brown, sitting with his chin in the palm of his hand before Patusan, as one might stare at the unscalable side of a mountain, heard the brief ringing bark of a brass93 6-pounder far away in town somewhere. "What's this?" he asked of Cornelius, who hung about him. Cornelius listened. A muffled94 roaring shout rolled down-river over the town; a big drum began to throb95, and others responded, pulsating96 and droning. Tiny scattered97 lights began to twinkle in the dark half of the town, while the part lighted by the loom60 of fires hummed with a deep and prolonged murmur98. "He has come," said Cornelius. "What? Already? Are you sure?" Brown asked. "Yes! yes! Sure. Listen to the noise." "What are they making that row about?" pursued Brown. "For joy," snorted Cornelius; "he is a very great man, but all the same, he knows no more than a child, and so they make a great noise to please him, because they know no better." "Look here," said Brown, "how is one to get at him?" "He shall come to talk to you," Cornelius declared. "What do you mean? Come down here strolling as it were?" Cornelius nodded vigorously in the dark. "Yes. He will come straight here and talk to you. He is just like a fool. You shall see what a fool he is." Brown was incredulous. "You shall see; you shall see," repeated Cornelius. "He is not afraid -- not afraid of anything. He will come and order you to leave his people alone. Everybody must leave his people alone. He is like a little child. He will come to you straight." Alas99! he knew Jim well -- that "mean little skunk," as Brown called him to me. "Yes, certainly," he pursued with ardour, "and then, captain, you tell that tall man with a gun to shoot him. Just you kill him, and you will frighten everybody so much that you can do anything you like with them afterwards -- get what you like -- go away when you like. Ha! ha! ha! Fine . . ." He almost danced with impatien ce and eagerness; and Brown, looking over his sh
oulder at him, could see, shown up by the pitiless dawn, his men drenched100 with dew, sitting amongst the cold ashes and the litter of the camp, haggard, cowed, and in rags.'
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atrocity
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confidential
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brass
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