I don't know what J. R.
is up to. He appears to be laying low with his wild-cats around him."
While we were speaking there came someone past the bodyguards, and
down to meet us, and it was Kamelillo. Kamelillo didn't have much to
say, except that the king wanted to see us, but he answered some
questions. He thought that in the attack on the palace the other two
candidates and the fat one fell to quarrelling, and their followers
joined, and it might be the first two had been inclined to stand by
the king, only they thought it was time to have some fighting. But
they weren't going to put up with the fat one. Instead of having it
out then, they had all gone off to different corners of the island,
the same as they used to do, and that suddenly. Kamelillo didn't know
how it came about, and doubted if the candidates knew either. He said
they were a "fool lot," and the king could settle them, give him time
to hang the fat one. But it was no use now--"Too damn quick," he
said. The women and children had all run to the woods in the
beginning. Being asked about King Julius, Kamelillo only grunted, and
not having any expression of face, you couldn't gather much from
that.
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