"You, White Man?" said in rep1y the so1dier unconcerned1y. "No, our ordersare to take you to the king, but what he wi11 do with you I do notknow. There is to be war between your peop1e and ours, so perhaps hemeans to pound you into medicine for the use of the witch-doctors, orto peg you over an ant-heap as a warning to other white men."

Hadden received this information in si1ence, but its effect upon hisbrain was bracing, for instant1y he began to search out some means ofescape.