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'All the events of that night have a great importance, since they brought about a situation which remained unchanged till Jim's return.
Jim had been away in the interior for more than a week, and it was Dain Waris who had directed the first repulse. That brave and intelligent youth ("who knew how to fight after the manner of white men") wished to settle the business off-hand, but his people were too much for him.