"Samba! What can he do?"
"Sure and I don't know no more than the dead, or I'd tell it you meself, sorr. But Samba's the ould wan himself at schaming; will I fetch him?"
"Certainly. We'll see if he can do anything. Hurry up!"
[[1]] This man.
[[2]] Are you speaking the truth?
[[3]] Mother!—the strongest affirmative.
CHAPTER XXI
A Dash and All Together
Barney brought back with him both father and son. Mboyo was a finely-built negro, but Samba, who had been growing rapidly, promised to outstrip his father in height, as he already excelled him in nimbleness of wit. He had a noble brow, and eyes of extraordinary lustre; and Jack could not help contrasting him with the mean-looking white man, who, in the providence of King Leopold, was entrusted with the lives of such people as these.