Lampopo kicked a log out of his way and forged ahead after inspecting seven families, noting that they were sleeping peacefully, he tapped his man-pouch in a rhythm, hitting it harder to get the right beat to the melody creeping out of his lips, he did that not for long, behold three naked women from a distance, fell towards him. Their fingers felt his clothes but he shook them off and rebuked, ‘Be gone beautiful women, do your husbands know you wear underpants as garments?’
‘This husband you speak of, we do not have.’ One said and the others laughed at the statement trying him again.
‘You have husbands and waiting for the groom is the life of a woman.’
In so much said, they became ashamed and fled into the fields where they had come from. He was heading to Gordon’s home, a large building before the hills that held the mill in the sixth street, as he walked through the fourth street, he had seen some gamblers beating up a prey, one of them he supposed.
‘What is there to do with him after he is dead, is it not wise to hand him over to law?’
‘And have you…..bring him out, he stole from us and he must die!’ One said arrogantly.
‘Yes! He must die!’ chorused the rest.
‘We must pluck out his eyes, the thief’s eyes and burn his treacherous body to death.’
‘The cops serve justice but you serve violence which is also an offence in law.’
‘Lampopo, how do you have your way in injustice?’
‘You are very wrong. I only have..... https://egbechopublishers..com/2020/09/kingdom-lamp-part-3.html