Come hither, slave, and bend
yourself so, resting your hands upon the ground."
Jeekie obeyed, and actively as a cat the priestess leaped on to his
back, and reaching up opened the mask of a corpse in the second row and
held her lamp before its face.
It was better preserved than the others, so that its features remained
comparatively perfect, and about them hung a tangle of golden hair.
Moreover, a broad battle-axe appeared resting on the shoulder.
"A viking," thought Alan. "I wonder how _he_ came here."
When he had looked the Asika leaped from Jeekie's back to the ground
and waving her arm around her, began to talk so rapidly that Alan could
understand nothing of her words, and asked Jeekie to translate them.
"She say," explained Jeekie between his chattering teeth, "that all
rest these Johnnies very poor crew, natives and that lot except one who
worship false Prophet and cut throat of Asika of that time, because she
infidel and he teach her better; also eat his dinner out of Little Bonsa
and chuck her into water. Very wild man, that Arab, but priests catch
him at last and fill him with hot gold before Little Bonsa because he no
care a damn for ghosts.
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