Chapter 19

“This I will do,” said Sanders easily. “Some day my great ghost will come, and he will bark like a gun, and all the stone will fly upwards and outwards, so that if any man stand on the shore he will be killed. And then the river will go its own way.” B’fundi heard, but did not believe. “Lord,” he said, “in the Akasava they say that soon there will be no law; for this stone has fallen by their magic, so that your little ship, and your soldiers, and your guns that say ‘ha-ha’ cannot go to them. And they will do what …