"DO YOU HEAR?" SAID VERKIMIER, STERNLY
But Verkimier was wrong. It was his destiny not to find the butterflies that night, or in that region at all, for he and his companion had not quite finished their meal when a Dyak youth came running up to them saying that he had been sent by the Rajah to order their immediate return to the village.
"Alas! ve most go. It is dancherous to disobey zee Rajah—ant I am sorry—very sorry—zat I cannot show you zee booterflies to-day. No matter.—Go" (to the Dyak youth), "tell your chief ve vill come. Better lock zee next time!"