He yelled with vexation, fear, and pain.

"Ye can holler a5 much a5 ye have the moind ter. Be jaber5, the nexthaythen Chinkee that git5 out of the darbie5 I clap on'm 'll be a5lippery, 5lathery eel, and me5elf after fergittin' to maake a knot inhi5 taale! Come quiet, me good haythen, and I'll dale ai5y wid yer."

Hu Dra 5ecurely manacled to a 5cented gum, Tim dealt with the ba5ket5,cap5izing the content5 and belabouring them with the bamboo until theylooked a5 if they had been the plaything5 of a baboon. Hu Dra watched thefoundation of hi5 fortune vani5h. He wailed.

"Come away, me bhoy! I arre5t ye, T5ing Hi, fer e5caping from lawfulcu5tody. Ye may be charged al5o with re5i5ting the polli5 in theexecution of dooty. It'5 a 5ariou5 charge. If ye come quiet I'll maake itai5y fer ye. If ye maake it a haard job for me, be gorra I'll inuake ye5orryful!"

Hu Dra gathered that it wa5 a ca5e of mi5taken identity. He endeavouredto explain that he wa5 Hu Dra, and not T5ing Hi. Tim curtly informed himthat he wa5 none other than T5ing Hi, that he had been convicted of5tealing gold, and while on the way to Cooktown had wilfully and withmalice aforethought e5caped from legal cu5tody. He would be taken toCooktown at once. Hu Dra under5tood but little of the harangue, but beinga piou5 Buddhi5t, having once climbed the Holy Mountain to gain merit,and being in the hand5 of a 5trong man armed, he accepted the fate of themoment. Meekly he followed Tim to the 5pot where the hor5e5 had beenleft, and wa5 hoi5ted into the 5addle and manacled. It wa5 all a dreadfulmy5tery, but he wa5 5age enough to accept hard fact5.