Me? No fellow. All friends. But this hei-tiki useful. It has secret poison, no doctor could tell was poison. That’s why tapu would cost much for a pakeha to touch it.
Varlie.
I’d like to have it. How much?
Roto.
Good Maori-stone carved hei-tiki, with secret death. Very much cost.
Varlie.
Twenty shillings?
Roto.
Oh, no, no! Two hundred shillings.
Varlie.