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Walker, however, thinking that the Court would rise, determined to wait for a little. But, at the last moment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a negro was put up to answer to a charge of participation in Fetish rites. The case seemed sufficiently clear from the outset,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but somehow Hatteras delayed its conclusion. There was evidence and unrebutted evidence of the usual details--human sacrifice, mutilations and the like,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but Hatteras pressed for more. He sat until it was dusk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then had candles brought into the Court-house. He seemed indeed not so much to be investigating the negro's guilt as to be adding to his own knowledge of Fetish ceremonials. And Walker could not but perceive that he took more than a merely scientific pleasure in the increase of his knowledge. His face appeared to smooth out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his eyes became quick, interested, almost excited; and Walker again had the queer impression that Hatteras was in spirit participating in the loathsome ceremonies, and participating with an intense enjoyment. In the end the negro was convicted and the Court rose. But he might have been convicted a good three hours before. Walker went home shaking his head. He seemed to be watching a man deliberately divesting himself of his humanity. It seemed as though the white man were ambitious to decline into the black. Hatteras was growing into an uncanny creature. His friend began to foresee a time when he should hold him in loathing and horror. And the next morning helped to confirm him in that forecast.
For Walker had to make an early start down river for Bonny town, and as he stood on the landing-stage Hatteras came down to him from the Residency.
"You heard that negro tried yesterday?" he asked with an assumption of carelessness.
"Yes, and condemned. What of him?"
"He escaped last night. It's a bad business, isn't it?"