"Go now," he said after a while, "and speak with him, telling him that I await him."
"Lord, that I will do," said M'Kovo, "but I cannot go till night because I fear your men will follow me, and my father, seeing them, will put me to death."
Sanders nodded.
That night M'Kovo came to him ready for his journey, and Sanders took from his pocket a round silver box.
"This you shall hang about your neck," he said, "that your father may know you come from me."
M'Kovo hung the round box by a piece of string and walked quickly toward the forest.
Two miles on the forest path he met his cousins and brothers, an apprehensive assembly.
"My stomach is sick with fear," said his elder cousin Tangiri; "for Sandi has an eye that sees through trees."
"You are a fool," snarled M'Kovo; "for Sandi is a bat who sees nothing. What of Hikilari, my father?"
His younger brother extended the point of his spear and M'Kovo saw that it was caked brown with blood.