Jake got Lucas down from the mule and washed his face and gave him drink. Anna helped Jake carry him inside and Thomas followed mutely. The four of them sat inside the hut. There was no furniture inside, just bare matting. Toad came in to tie their wrists. They sat in the corner of the hut and watched Saw raging outside as he stormed back and forth past the hut. He looked about to kill the opium farmer and his family. There was no food to be had in the place, just rice and a few prawns the farmer had caught that day. The farmer held up the prawns to Saw, who knocked them out of his hands. His wife offered him opium. Saw took the package, wrapped in banana leaf, and opened it. Inside was a sticky brown square of opium. For a few minutes he studied it, smelt it and then he threw it in her face. Saw was incensed. Jake watched him pace. There was no liquor and there was no food. As much as he beat the woman and her husband, they could not produce the pig that he accused them of hiding. Handsome began tormenting the woman.
