She came out denouncing, threatening.

The coloured workmen dared not proceed.

My friend persevered coolly; and Madame, finding that the Government official considered himself Obeah-proof, tried to bribe him off, with the foolish cunning of a savage, with a present of--bottled beer.

To the horror of his workmen, he accepted--for the day was hot, as usual--a single bottle; and drank it there and then.

The Negroes looked--like the honest Maltese at St.Paul--'when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly': but nothing happened; and they went on with their work, secure under a leader whom even Madame Phyllis dared not poison.