# The Keepers of the King's Peace

Author: Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932

Genre: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25803

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Keepers+of+the+King%27s+Peace+Wallace&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To Isongo, which stands upon the tributary of that name, came a woman of the Isisi who had lost her husband through a providential tree falling upon him. I say "providential," for it was notorious that he was an evil man, a drinker of beer and a favourite of many bad persons. Also he made magic in the forest, and was reputedly the familiar of Bashunbi the devil brother of M'shimba-M'shamba. He beat his wives, and once had set fire to his house from sheer wickedness. So that when he was borne back to the village on a grass bier and the women of his house decked themselves with green leaves and arm in arm staggered and stamped through the village street in their death dance, there was a sus...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-keepers-of-the-king-s-peace-25803/chapters/8/index.md)