The following day when Petambiang returned to tell Droop that the work had been completed and he now expected his pay, Droop did not agree but decided to consider the work finished as long as they returned his tools. Again he was warned that the Gayos would attack his estate and murder him that night. Droop only prepared his weapons and, not trust- ing his subordinates with his four guns, kept them in the house.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 1176