"Where is he to be found?"
"Lord, none know. He comes and goes, like a grey ghost, and he has a fetish more powerful than a thousand ordinary devils. Master, I gave the woman, my wife, that which he gave to me, and she died. How might I know that she would die?"
"Cheg'li," said Sanders shortly to the men at the rope-end, and cheg'li in the dialect of the River means "pull."
"Stop!"
Sanders was in a changeable mood, and a little irritable by reason of the fact that he knew himself to be fickle.
"How came this drug to you? In powder, in liquid, or——"
The man's lips were dry. He could do no more than shake his head helplessly.
"Release him," said Sanders; and Abiboo loosened the noose and unstrapped the man's hands.
"If you have lied to me," said Sanders, "you die at sunset. First let me hear more of this Devil Man, for I am anxious to make his acquaintance."