Mironda's eyes blazed with fury; she had no child.
"The thief has been caught."
"What will be done with him?"
Ah! he had aroused her interest at last. Sikoro smiled pleasantly as he said: "He will, of course, be strangled."
"Will not the Missionaries prevent it?"
"The Missionaries? They do not know and may not know for many days, and anyhow, what could they do?"
"The white man's Government will prevent the killing of people."
"No doubt the white man's Government will do many foolish things, but the Magistrate has not yet come."
"He is coming soon."
"But they strangle Miyobo to-day, now."