Chapter 41

But here Bones returned a definite negative. Bosambo’s troops were encamped at a place where the current had scooped out the shore into a little bay, and he had no desire to be caught at any point where he had not a field of fire in three directions. He brought the _Wiggle_ to one of the promontories, moored her with long hawsers, and before he went to bed that night set his guards at certain vital points. “Where is the woman D’mini?” he asked Abiboo, never dreaming that she was not ashore. “Lord, she sits by your …