Beads he must have, or I was "his enemy." A selection of the best opal beads was immediately given him.

I rose from the stone upon which I was sitting and declared that we must start immediately.

"Don't be in a hurry," he replied; "you have plenty of time; but you have not given me that watch you promised me."...

This was my only watch that he had begged for, and had been refused, every day during my stay at M'rooli.

So pertinacious a beggar I had never seen.