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'To the very last moment, till the full day came upon them with a spring, the fires on the west bank blazed bright and clear; and then Brown saw in a knot of coloured figures motionless between the advanced houses a man in European clothes, in a helmet, all white. "That's him; look! look!" Cornelius said excitedly. All Brown's men had sprung up and crowded at his back with lustreless2 eyes. The group of vivid colours and dark faces with the white figure in their midst were observing the knoll3. Brown could see naked arms being raised to shade the eyes and other brown arms pointing. What should he do? He looked around, and the forests that faced him on all sides walled the cock-pit of an unequal contest. He looked once more at his men. A contempt, a weariness, the desire of life, the wish to try for one more chance -- for some other grave -- struggled in his breast. From the outline the figure presented it seemed to him that the white man there, backed up by all the power of the land, was examining his position through binoculars4. Brown jumped up on the log, throwing his arms up, the palms outwards5. The coloured group closed round the white man, and fell back twice before he got clear of them, walking slowly alone. Brown remained standing6 on the log till Jim, appearing and disappearing between the patches of thorny7 scrub, had nearly reached the creek8; then Brown jumped off and went down to meet him on his side.
'They met, I should think, not very far from the place, perhaps on the very spot, where Jim took the second desperate leap of his life -- the leap that landed him into the life of Patusan, into the trust, the love, the confidence of the people. They faced each other across the creek, and with steady eyes tried to understand each other before they opened their lips. Their antagonism9 must have been expressed in their glances; I know that Brown hated Jim at first sight. Whatever hopes he might have had vanished at once. This was not the man he had expected to see. He hated him for this -and in a checked
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malignant
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