Why should they not be rid of Jaga and the Christian teacher with his new-fangled notions?
If it could be done in no other way, why should they not move across the border which was close by, into German territory?
The Germans, at any rate, would not bother them about such matters; under their rule they might live as their forefathers had done from the beginning, and have as many wives as they chose without being called all sorts of ugly names.
This was the position when Godfrey arrived.

His coming made a great sensation.

He was reported to be a very big lord indeed, as big, or bigger than the King's governor himself.

Alulu put it about that he had come to make a soldier of every fit man and to enslave the women and the elders to work on the roads or in dragging guns.

The place seethed with secret ferment.
Mr.Tafelett knew something of all this through Jaga, who was genuinely frightened, and communicated it to Godfrey.