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Wallace Edgar. Bones

PROLOGUE. SANDERS—C.M.G

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CHAPTER I. HAMILTON OF THE HOUSSAS

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CHAPTER II. THE DISCIPLINARIANS

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CHAPTER III. THE LOST N'BOSINI

CHAPTER IV. THE FETISH STICK

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CHAPTER V. A FRONTIER AND A CODE

CHAPTER VI. THE SOUL OF THE NATIVE WOMAN

CHAPTER VII. THE STRANGER WHO WALKED BY NIGHT

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CHAPTER VIII. A RIGHT OF WAY

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CHAPTER IX. THE GREEN CROCODILE

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CHAPTER X. HENRY HAMILTON BONES

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CHAPTER XI. BONES AT M'FA

CHAPTER XII. THE MAN WHO DID NOT SLEEP

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You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with the disappearance of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Blowter, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

We know (though this is not in the Blue Books) that Bosambo called together all his petty chiefs and his headmen, from one end of the country to the other, and assembled them squatting expectantly at the foot of the little hillock, where sat Bosambo in his robes of office (unauthorized but no less magnificent), their upturned faces charged with pride and confidence, eloquent of the hold this sometime Liberian convict had upon the wayward and fearful folk of the Ochori.

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"Everybody lied," he said briefly. "I can do no less than send the man to the Village. I could have hung him on clear evidence, but the lady seemed to have been rather unpopular and the murderer quite a person to be commended in the eyes of the public. The devil of it is," he said as he sank into his big chair with a sigh, "that had I hanged him it would not have been necessary to write three foolscap sheets of report. I dislike these domestic murderers intensely—give me a ravaging brigand with the hands of all people against him."

"You'll have one if you don't touch wood," said Hamilton seriously.

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