If I can't bury my ma, as all good son ought to do, I bury him, which next best thing." "Jeekie, Jeekie," said Alan, "exercise a Christian spirit and let bygones be bygones.

If you don't, you will make a quarrel between us and the Ogula, and they will give us up to the Asiki.

Perhaps the man did not eat your mother; I understand that he denies it, and when you remember what she was like, it seems incredible.

At any rate he has a right to a trial, and I will speak to Fahni about it to-morrow." So they were separated, but as it chanced that case never came on, for next morning this Ogula was killed in the fighting together with two of his companions, while the others involved in the charge kept themselves out of sight.

Whether Jeekie's "ma" was or was not eaten by the Ogula no one ever learned for certain.