"A joyous pair," said Hamilton enviously. "Lord, if I was only a boy again!"
Sanders shook his head.
"You don't echo that wish?" said Pat.
"I wasn't thinking about that—I was thinking of the boy. I dislike this M'fusi business, and I can't think why the Government sent him. They are a pretty bad lot—their territory is at the back of the Akasava, and the Chief of the M'fusi is a rascal."
"But he says that he has been sent to reform them," said the girl.
Sanders smiled.
"It is not a job I should care to undertake—and yet——"
He knitted his forehead.
"And yet——?"
"I could reform them—Bones could reform them. But if they were reformed it would break Bonaventura, for he holds his job subject to their infamy."