Chapter 39

He lay quietly with closed eyes while she spoke, and when she had finished he lay silent—so silent that she thought he had relapsed into unconsciousness. Then he opened his eyes. “Send a messenger to the Ochori,” he said, “and bid Bosambo the chief come to me.” Bosambo was immensely unpopular amongst all other chiefs and peoples. Bosambo was an alien—being a Krooman who had fled from Liberia owing to the persecutions of the government of that model republic. If you should ask how it came about that the majestic mac…