"What will be my reward if I bring him back to you?" Koyala asked. Her tone was almost flippant.
"You shall have whatever lies in my power as resident to give," Peter Gross promised gravely.
Koyala laughed. There was a strange, jarring note in her voice.
"I accept your offer, Mynheer Resident," she said. "But you should not have added those two words, 'as resident.'"
Rising like a startled pheasant, she glided out of the door and across the plain. Peter Gross stared after her until she had disappeared.
CHAPTER XXVII
A Woman Scorned
It was Inchi who brought the news of Paddy's return. Three days after Koyala's departure the little Dyak lad burst breathlessly upon a colloquy between Peter Gross and Captain Carver and announced excitedly:
"Him, Djath boy, him, orang blanda Djath boy, him come."