? ? ? ? "Why, Mugambi!" she exclaimed. "What has happened? Why are you lowering the shutters?"
? ? ? ? Mugambi pointed out across the plain to where a white-robed force of mounted men was now distinctly visible.
? ? ? ? "Arabs," he explained. "They come for no good purpose in the absence of the Great Bwana."
? ? ? ? Beyond the neat lawn and the flowering shrubs, Jane Clayton saw the glistening bodies of her Waziri. The sun glanced from the tips of their metal-shod spears, picked out the gorgeous colors in the feathers of their war bonnets, and reflected the high-lights from the glossy skins of their broad shoulders and high cheek bones.
? ? ? ? Jane Clayton surveyed them with unmixed feelings of pride and affection. What harm could befall her with such as these to protect her?
? ? ? ? The raiders had halted now, a hundred yards out upon the plain.
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