'Sfc ' S' V-, X' " i-f'V TBOB LAKOASTfill DAILY INTELLIGENCER, & TUBDAY, O' FEBRUARY 1,-tm.' t , "Wrt.,,'.,L-ir v2WV'4H-',J,J"'' -Pi?-"..,-'V'.i''--r'j, viw,i'5i,rw:-t;v- c-.??, Hf ffi' rr- ?. & vt Es& St U 5a' i ESF, &v K y r m, ti ir& !S-t V V m PATffiMARi S WffK VL$-' ' " !'. V ' JjV f ... . -r 4nWe'Cmst Qearfle, V. C," "Jfr. ft WW," HA uu nm ", ,' : v. CHAPTER Vt WAS net slew te take ladeba-rim' bi'a faint About a hundred and fifty yard te the left of the laager wet a little dell where I bad bid den my horse, to gether with one belonging te the Beers, and my addle and bridle. Thither we went, I carrying the weening Teta in aey anna. Te ear joy we found the home safe, for the Zulus had net seen -Jaean. New, of course, they were out .'lytteaas of locomotion, for the oxen had been eent away, and even had thny been there we could net have found time te lnspen them. I laid Teta down, caught my horse, undid his knee halter and saddled up. Ail was doing se a thought struck me, and I told Indaba-zinibi te run te the laager and see if he could find my double barreled gun and some powder and het, for I had only my elephant "reer" and a few charges of powder and ball with me. He went, and while he was away, peer little Teta came te herself and began te cry, till she saw my face. "Ah, I have had such a bad dream," she said, In Dutch j "I dreamed that the black Kaffirs were going te kill me. Where is my papa?" I winced at the question. "Your papa has gene en a journey, dear," I said, "and left me te leek after you. We "ahall find him one day. Yeu don't mind going with Heer Allan, de you?" "Me," she said, a little doubtfully, and began te cry again. Presently she re membered that she was thirsty, nnd asked for water. lied her te the river and she drank. 'JVhy is my hand red, Beer Allan?" she asked, pointing te the ameer of Bombyane's bleed stained fingers. At that moment I felt very glad that I had killed Bembyane. "It is only paint, dear," I said; "see, we will wash it and your face." As I was doing this, Indaba-zimbl re tamed. The guns were all gonej he aid the Zulus had taken them and the powder. But he had found some things 'and brought them in a sack. There was thick blanket, about twenty pounds weight of biltong or sun dried meat, a fewdouble handfulsef ship's biscuits, two water bottles, a tin pannikin, some matches and sundries. "And new, Macumazahn," he said, "we had best be going, for tbose Vmtet was are coming back. I saw one of them en the brew of the rise." That was enough for me. I lifted little Teta en te the bow of my saddle, climbed into it and rode off, holding her in front of me, Indaba-rlmbi slipped a rein into the mouth of the best of the Boer horses, threw the sack of sundries en te its back and mounted also, holding the elephant gun in his hand. We went eight or nine Inndred yards in silence till we were inite out of range of sight from the wag ons, which 'were in a hollow. Then I pulled up, with such a feeling of thank fulness in my heart as cannot be told in words; for new I knew that, mounted as we were, these black demons could never catcb us. But where wove we te steer for? I put the question te Inda.ba-r.imbl, asking him if he thought that we hed better try and fellow the oxen that we had sent away with the Kafllrs and wo men en the preceding night lie shook his head. "The Dmtetwas will go after the oxen presently," he answered, "and we have teen enough of tlietu." . "Quite enough," I answered with en thusiasm; "I never want te sen another; but where are we te go? Here we are with ene gun and a little girl in the vast and lonely veldt Which way shall we tarn?" "Our faces were towards the north be bo be fere we met the Zulus," answered Indaba zimbl? "let us still keep them towards the nertlt. Ride en, Macumnr.-ihn; to night when we off-saddle I will leek into the matter." following the ceurse of the river. Frem the nature of the ground we could only go slowly, but before sunset I hed the satisfaction of knowing that there must be at least twenty-five miles between us and theso accursed Zulus. Little Teta slept most of the way, the motion of the horse was cesy, and she was worn out At last the Buiiset came, and we off saddled in a dell by the river. There was net much te cat, but I soaked some biscuit in water Ter Teta, nnd Indaba timbi and I made a Ecanty meal elf bil tong. When we had dene I took off Teta's frock, wrapped her up in the blanket near the flre we had made and lit a pipe. I sat there by the side of the orphaned child, and from my heart shanked Providence, for saving her life and mine from the slaughter of that day. What a horrible, experience it ltad beenl It seemed like a nightmare te leek back upon. And yet it was sebr fact, one among theso many tragedies which dotted the paths of the emigrant Beers with the bones of men, women and children. These horrors are almost forgotten new; people living in Natal, for instance, con scarcely realize- that some forty years age COO white people, snany of them women and children, were thus massacred by the iinpis at Dingaan. But it was se, and the name of the district, Weencu, or the Place of Weeping, will commemorate them for ever. Then I fell te reflecting en the ex traordinary adroitness old Indaba-zlinbl bad shown in saving my life. It ap peared that he himself had lived among the Umtetwa Zulu3 in his earlier man hood, and was a noted rain doctor and ; r mrm, hi n a u uua'u iuiu uuutur uuu 4v witch finder. But when TChaka, Din 'v 5;"' ' brother, ordered a general mas&a- r" aasaasa ftM 4 Via wfnl flmleiw li l.n.l fin. I aI of the witch finders he had Bed south m aad te saved his Ufa. When he heard. therefore, that the regiment was an Um tetwa regiment, which, leaving their wives and children, had broken an ay from Zululand te escape the cruelties of Dingaan, he, under pretense of spying en them, took the bold ceurse of going straight up te the chief, Sususa, and ad dressing him as his brother, which he was. The chief knew him nt once, and eedid theseldiers. fei his fame was still great among them. Then he told him . f.9c 01,u "uu siery nueut my uewg .-re (.white spirit, whose presence in the would render it Invincible, and the object of saving my life in the , seMgbter which he knew must ensue, ''agreed te charm me out of the laager i MpesWMver me into their keeping. Hew teeUe worked haa already been told; - It wee a risky one; mill, but for it my would have been done with saany days. ' Se 1 lay and thought with a heart full tsede, aad as I did saw old la- aeee-BRiM anting y tne ere tu going through some mysterious performances wKh'beBee, which ha produced from hk bag; and ashes mixed with water. , I rke te hint and asked what he was ut He replied that he was tracing out the route tlmt we should fellow. I felt inclined te answer "bosh," but but re- ible ini of his? membcring the very rcmarkable stances which he had given prowess In occult matters, I held my tongue, and taking little Teta Inte mj arms, worn out with toil nnd danger and emotion, went te sleep. i I woke just as the dawn was beginning te flame across the sky In sheets of prim prim ruee nnd of geld, or rather it Was little Teta who weke me by kissing me as she lay between sleep and waking, and call ing me "Papa." It wrung my heart te hear her. I get up, washed and dressed the child as best I could, and then we breakfasted as we had supped, en biltong and biscuit Teta asked for milk, but I had none te give her. Then we caught the horses, and I saddled' mine, "Well, Indaba-zimbl," I said, "new what path de your bones point tef "Straight north," he said. "The Jour ney will be hard, hut In four days we shall ceme te the kraal of a whlte man, an Englishman, net a Boer, Ills kraal is in a beautiful place, nnd there Is a great peak behind It where there are many baboons." I looked at him. "This U nil nonsense, Indaba-zlinbl," I said. "Whoever heard of an Englishman building a heuse In these wilds, and hew de you knew any thing about It? 1 think that no had better strike east towards Pert Natal." "As you like, Macumnznhn," he an swered, "but it will take us three months' journey te get te Pei t Natal, If we ever get there, and the child-will die en the read. Say, Macumazahn, have my words ceme true heretofore, or have they net? Did I net tell you net te hunt the ele phants en horseback? Did I net tell you te take ene wagon with you Instead of two, as it is better te lese one than two?" "Yeu told me all these tilings, " I an swered. "And se I tell you new te rkle north, Macumazahn, for thcre you will find great happiuess yes, nnd great rei row. But no man bIieuKI run away from hap piness because of sorrow. An you w ill, as you willl" Again I looked nt him In his dlvlnn dlvlnn tlens I did net believe, but yet 1 came te Mie rnttpJlilenth-thpM"'(Atnnkju7 what he knew te be the truth. It struck me as possible that he might have heard of some white man living like a hermit in the wilds, but preferring te keep up his prophctie character would net say se. I "Very well, Indaba-zimbl," I said; "let us ride n6rth." I Shortly after we started, the river we hed followed hitherto turned off in n westerly direction, be we left it. All that day we rede across rolling uplands, and about an hour before sunset halted at a little stream which ran down from a rnngoef hills in front of us. By this tlme I was heartily tired of the biltong, se taking my elephant rifle for I had nothing else I left Teta with Indaba zimbl, and started te see if I could sheet something. Oddly enough we had secn he game all the day, nor did we sce any en the subsequent days. Fer some mysterious reason they had tempo rarily left the district I crossed the little streamlet in order te enter the belt of thorns which grew upon the hillside beyond, for thcre I hoped te find buck. As I did se I was rather disturbed te bee the spoor of two liens in the soft, sandy edge of n peel. Breathing n hepe that they might net still be in the neighborhood, I went en into the belt of scattered thorns. Fer n long while I hunted about without seeing anything, except ene dlnkcr buck, which bounded off with a crash from the ether slde of a stone without giving me n chance. At length, just as It grew dusk, I spied a Pctle buck, a graceful little creature, scarcely bigger than a large hare, standing en n stone, about forty yards from me. Under ordinary cir cumstances I should never have dreamed of firing at such a thing, especially with an elephant gun, but we were hungry. I Be I sat down with my back against a rock, and aimed steadily at its head. I did this because if I struck it in the body the three-ounce ball would have knocked it te bits. At last I pulled the trigger, the gun went off with the report of a small cannon, and the buck disappeared. I ran te the spot with mere anxiety than I should have felt in an ordinary way ever a koedoo or an eland. Te my delight there the little creature lay the huge bullet had decapitated it. Considering all the circumstances, I de net think I have often made a better shot than this, but if-any-ene doubts, let him try his hand at n rabbit's head fifty yards nway with an elephant gun and nthreo-euueo ball. I I picked up the pctle in triumph nnd returned te the camp. Thcre we skinned him and toasted him ever the tire. He just made u geed meal for us, keeping the hind legs for breakfast I Thcre was no moon that night, and se it chanced that when 1 suddenly remem bered about the Hen spoor, nnd suggested that we had better tie up the horses qtiite clese te us, we could net find them, though we knew that they were grazing within fifty yards. This being se, we could only tnake up the flre and take our chance. Shortly afterwards I went te sleep with little Teta in my arms. Sud denly I was awakened by hearing that peculiarly painful sound, the scream of a herse, quite clese te the fire, which was still burning brightly. Next second thcre came n noise of galloping hoofs, and befere I CQuld even rise my peer horse appeared in the ring of firelight. As in a flash of lightning, I saw his star ing eyes and wide stretched nostrils, nnd the broken rein with which he had beeu knee haltered flying in the air. Alse I saw something else, for en his back was ' a great dark form with glewiug eyes, and from the form came a growling sound. It was a lien. The herse dashed en. lie galloped right through the fire, for which he had run in his terror, fortunately, however, without treading en us, and vanished into the night. We heard his hoofs for a hundred yards or mere, then there was silence, broken new and again by distant growls. As may be imagined, we did net sleep uny mere that night, but waited anxiously till two hours later the dawn broke. I Aa seen as thcre was sufficient light we rose, and, leaving Teta still asleep, crept cautieubly in the direction in which the herse had vanished. When we had gene fifty yards or se, we made out its remains lying en the veldt, and caught sight of two great cat like forms slinking away In the gray light 1 Te go any further was useless; we knew all about it knew, and we turned te leek for the ether herse. But our cup of mlsfortune was net yet full; it was sowhere te be found. Soen we came upon its spoor, and then we saw what had happened. Terrified by the sight and smell of the liens, it had with a des perate effort also burst the rein with which it had been knee haltered, and galloped far away. Fer new we were left alone in these vast solitudes without a horse te carry us, and with a child w he was net old enough te walk for mere than a little way at a time. I Well, it was no use Riving In, se with a few words we went back te our camp, ptwn I found Teta culttf because she worn te DM aerMtt sMw. mm ate a little feed. Then we prepared te start First we divided such articles aa we must take with us Inte two equal parts, reject ing everything that we ceaM possibly de without Then, by an aftcrtbeaght, we filled our water bottles, though at the time I was rather against doing te, because of the extra weight. But Indaba-zimbl .overruled me in the matter, fortunately for all three of us. -1 settled te leek After Teta for the first march, and gave the elephant gun te Indaba-zlmbL At length all was ready, and we set ent en feet. By the help of occasional lifts ever rough places, Teta managed te walk up the slope en the hillside where I had shot the Petie buck. At length we reached It, and, looking at the country beyond, I gave an exclamation of dismay. Te say that it was desert would be saying tee much; it waa mere like the Barroe in the Cape a vast sandy waste, stud ded here and there with low shrubs and scattered rocks, But it was a great cx cx .panse of desolate land, stretching as for as the eye could reach, and bordered far way by Use of purple hills, In the 'center of which a great solitary peak 'eared high Inte the air. L "Indaba-zimbl," I said, "we can never cress this If we take nix days." "As you will, Macumazahn," he an swered; "but I tell you that thcre" nnd he pointed te the peak "thcre the white man lives. Turn which way you like, but if you turn you will perish." I reflected for a mement. Ourcase was, humanly spcakltfg, almost hopeless. It mattered little which way we went We were nlone, almost without feed, with no means of transport and n child te carry. As well perish in the sandy waste as en the rolling veldt or among the trees of the hillside. Providence nlone could save us, nnd we must trust te providence. "Come en," I said, lifting Teta en te my back, for she was already tired. "All reads lead te rest." Hew nm I te describe the misery of the next four days? Hew ami te tell hew we stumbled en through that awful desert, almost without feed, 'and quite without water, for thcre were no streams, and we saw no springs? We seen found hew the case was, nnd saved almost all the water in our bottles for the child. Te leek back en it is like a nightmare I can scarcely bear te dwell en it. Day nfter day, by turns carrying the child through the heavy sand; night after night lying down in the scrub, chewing the leaves, and licking such dew ns thcre was from the scanty grassl Net a spring, net a peel, net a head of game! It was the third night; we were nearly mad with thirst. Tetu was in a comateso condition. Indaba-zimbl still had a lit teo water in his bottle perhaps a wlno wlne glassful. We moistened her lips nnd our blackened tongues with it. Then we gave the rest te the child. It revived her. She nwoke from her swoon te sink into sleep. Sec, the dawn was breaking. The hills were net mero than eight miles or be nway new, and they were green. Thcre must be water thcre. "Come," I said. Indaba-zimbi lifted Teta Inte the kind of sling that we had made out of the blanket in which te carry her en our backs, nnd we staggered en for an hour through the Band. She weke crying for water, and nlast we had nene te glve her; our tengues were hanging from our lips; we could scarcely speak. We rested awhile, and Teta mercifully swooned away. Then Indaba-zimbl took her. Though he was be thin, the old man's strength was wonderful. Anether hour; the slope, of the great peak could net be mero than two miles nway new. Acoupleof hundred yards off grew a large baobale trce. Could we reach its shade? We had dene half the dlstance when Indaba-zimbl fell from ex haustion. We were new be weak that neither of us could lift the child en te our backs. We each took ene of her hands nnd dragged her along the read. Fifty yards they seemed te be fifty miles. Ah, the trce was reached at last; compared with the heat outside, the shade of its dense feliage seemed like the dusk and cool of n vault I reuiember think ing that it was a geed place te die in. Then I remember no mero. I weke with u feeling ns though the blessed rain were falling en my faceand head. Slowly, and with great difficulty, I opened my eyes, then Bhut them again, having seen a vision. Fern space I lay thus, while the rain continued te fall; I eaw new that I must be asleep, or off my head with thirst or fever. If I were net off my head, hew came I te Imagine that a lovely dark eyed girl was bending ever me, sprinkling water en my facel A whlte girl, tee, net n Kaffir woman. Uewever, the dream went en. "Hcndrika," said n veice in English, the Bwcctest veice that I had ever heard; somehow it reminded tne of wind whis pering in the trees nt night "Hen ilrika, I fear he dies; thcre is a flask of brandy in my saddle bag; get it." "Ah! ah I" grunted n harsh veice in answer; "let him die, Miss Stelia. He will bring you bad luck let him die, I say. I felt a movement of air abeve me ns though the woman of my vision turned swiftly, and ence again I opened my eyes. She had risen, this dream woman. New I saw that she was tall and grace ful ns n reed. She was angry, tee; her dark eyes flashed, nnd she telnlcd with her hand at n female who steed befere her, dressed in nondescript kind of clothes, such as might be worn by cither a man or n woman. The woman was young, of whlte bleed, very short, with bowed legs and enormous shoulders. In face she was net bad looking, but the brew receded, the chin and ears were prominent in short, she reminded me of nothing be much ns a very haudsome monkey . She might have beeu the miss ing link. The lady was pointing at her with her hand. "Hew dare yeul" she said. "Are you going te dUobey me again? Have you forgotten what I told you, Babyan (baboon)?" "Ahl ahl" grunted the woman, who seemed literally te curl and shrivel up beneath her anger. "Don't be angry with me, Miss Stella, because I can't bear it. I only said it because it was true. I will fetch the brandy." Then, dream or no dream, I determined te speak. "Net brandy," I gasped in English as well as my swollen tongue would allow; "give me water." Me i "Ah, he lives!" cried the beautiful girl, "and he talks English. See, eir, here is water in jour own bottle; you were quite clese te n spring en the ether side of the tree." I struggled te n sitting position, lifted the bettle te my lips, and drained it. Oh! that drink of cool, puru water! never had I tasted anything be delicious. At the first gulp I felt life flew back into me. But wisely enough she would net let me have much. "Ne morel no mero!" she said, nnd dragged the bettle from me ut most by force. "The child," I said-"Is the child dead?" "I de net knew yet," 6he answered, "We have euly just found you, and I tried te rovive you first." I turned and crept te where Teta lay by the Bide of Indaba-zimbl. It was im possible te say if they were dead or swooning. The lady sprinkled Teta's face with the water, which I watched greedily, for my thirst was still awful, while the woman lletidiika did the same office ter Indaba-atmM. iTtwinUy,teray rest delight, Teta opened her eyes and tried te cry, but could net, peer little thing, because her tengue and lips were se swollen. But the lady get some water into her mouth, and, as in my case, the effect was magicaL We allowed her te drink about a quarter of a pint, and no mero, though she cried bitterly for it Just then old Indaba-zimbi came te with groan. lie opened his eyes, glanced round and took in the situation. "What did I tell you, Macumazahn?" and he seised the bettle and took a long pull at It. Meanwhile I sat with my back against the trunk of the great tree and tried te realise the situation. Leeking te my left I aaw two geed horses ene bare backed and one with a lady's rude saddle en it By the side of the horses were two dogs, of a stout greyhound breed, that sat watching us, aad near the dogs lay a dead Airlle buck, which they bad evidently been coursing. "Hendrika," said the lady presently, "they must net cat meat just yet t Oe and leek up the tree and see if there'! any ripe fruit en it." The woman ran swiftly into the plain and obeyed. Presently bIie returned. "I see some ripe fruit," she said, "but It is high, quite at the top," "Fetch it," said the lady. "Easier said than done," I thought te myself; but I was much mistaken. Sud denly the woman bounded at least three feet Inte the ntr and caught ene of the spreading boughs in her large, flathandi a swing thnt would have filled an acro bat with envy and she was en it "New thcre is an end," I thought, for the next bough was beyond her reach. But again I was mistaken. She steed up en the bough, gripping it with her bare feet, and ence mero sprang at the ene above, caught it and swung herself into it I suppose that the lady saw my leek of astonishment. "De net wonder, sir," she said; "Hendrika is notllkeother peo ple She will net fall." I made no answer, hut watched the progress of this extraordinary person with the most breathless interest. On she went, swinging herself from bough te bough, and running akmg them like n monkey. At last she get te the top and began te swarm along n thin branch tewnrds the ripe fruit AVhcn she was near enough she shook the branch vio lently. Thcre wns n crack a crash it broke. I shut my eyes, expecting te see her crushed en the ground befere inc. "Don't be afraid," said the lady again, laughing gently. "Loek, she is quite safe." Xn another two minutes we were all thrce sucking the pulpy fruit In nn or dinary way we should have found it tasteless enough; as it was I thought it the most delicious thing I had ever tasted. After thrce days spent without feed or water, in the desert, ene is net particular. While we were stilt eating the fruit, the lady of my vision set her companion te work te partially flay the oribe which her dogs had killed, nnd busied herself in making n flre of fallen boughs. As 60en as it burned brightly she took strips of the oribe flesh, toasted them, and gave them te us en leaves. We ate, and new we were nllewed n lit teo mer water. After that she took lit teo Teta te the spring and washed her, which she Badly needed, peer child! Next came our turn te wash, and eh, the joy of it! I came back te the tree, walking pain fully indeed, but n changed man, Ther eat the beautiful girl, with Teta en hci knees. She was lulling her te Bleep, and held up her finger te me enjoining si lence. At last the child went off into u sound, natural Blumbcr an example that I should have been glad te fellow had it net been for my burning curiosity. Then I speke: "May I ask what your name is?" 1 Bald, "Stella," bhe answered. "Stella what?" I said. "Stella nothing," she answered, iu sotne pique. "Stella is my name; it it short nnd easy te remember, at any rate. My father's name is Themas, and we live up there," and she pointed round the base of the great peak, I looked nt het astonished, "Have you lived thore long?" I asked. "Ever elnce I was secn years old. We came thcre In a wagon. Befere that wocaine from England from Oxford Oxferd Oxford Bhire; I can show you the place en the btg map. It is called Garsinghara." Again I thought I must be dreaming. "De you knew, Mies Stelia," I said, "it la very strange se stiauge that it al most seems as though it could net be true but I also came from Garsingham, in Oxferdshire, many years age." She started up. "Are you an Eng lish gentleman?" she sajd. "Ah, I have always longed te sce an English gentle man. I have never Been nn Englishman slnce we lived here no white pcople at nil, Indeed, except n few wandering Beers. We live among black poeplo and baboons only I have read about them lets of books poetry and novels. But tell me what is your name? Macuma zahn the black man called you, but you must have a whlte name, tee." "My name is Allan Quatermaln," I said. Her face turned quite white, her rosy lips parted, and she looked at me wildly n ith her beautiful dark eyes. "De you knew, it is very strance," Bhe said, "but I have often heard that name. My father has told me hew a little boy called Allen Quatermaln ence saved my llfe by putting out my dress when it was en flre sce (and she pointed te n faint red mark upon her neck), here Is the ecar of the burn." "I remember it," I said. "Yeu were dressed up as Father Christinas. It was I who put out the fire; my wrists were burnt in doing se." Then for n space we sat silent, looking at each ether, while Stella slew ly fanned herself with her w ide felt hat, in w liich soma white ostrich plumes were fixed. "This Is Ged's doings," Miebaid nt last. "Yeu saved my llfe when I was a little child; new I hae saved yours nnd the little girl's. Is she your little daughter?" Bhe added, quickly, "Ne," I said; "I will tell you the tale presently." "Yes," she said, "you shall tell me a9 we go home. It is time te be starting home, it will take us three hours te get there. Hendrika, Hendrika, bring the horses here!" CHAPTER VII. N A MOMENT Hendrika obey ed, leading the horses te the Bide of the tree. "New, Mr. Al lan," enid Stella, "you must rida en my horse, and the old black man must ride en the ether, I will walk, and Hen drika will carry the child. Oh, de net be afraid, she is very btreng, she could carry you or me." Hendrika grunted assent I am sorry that I cannot express her method of speech by any mero polite term. Some times b!ie grunted like a inonkey, some times she clicked like a Bushman, and sometimes she did both together, when the becanie Quite unintelligible, . i expostulated arrangement, saying that weeewd walk, which was a fib. feri de net thhikU could have done mile; feet Stella weeld net listen; she would net eve let wet carry my elephant gun, but took It her self. Se we mounted with some diffi culty, and Hendrika took up the sleep ing Teta in her long, sinewy arms. "See that the 'baboon woman' does net run away into the mountains with the little whlte one," said .Indaba-zlmU tc me In Kaffir, as he climbed en te the horse. Unfortunately, Hendrika nnderstoed his Bpeccli. Her face twisted and grew livid with fury, She put down Teta and literally sprang at Indaba-zimbl aa a monkey springs. But, weary and worn as he was, the old gentleman was tee quick for her. With an exclamation of genuine fright he threw himself from the horse en the further aide, with the somewhat ludicrous result that all in a moment Hendrika was occupying the scat that he had vacated. Just then Stella realized the position. "Come down, yen savage, corns down!" she said, stamping her feet. The extraordinary creature flung her self from the horse and literally grov eled en the ground befere her mistress and burst Inte tears. "Parden, Miss Stella," she clicked and grunted in villainous English, "but he called me a 'babyan freu' (baboon wo man). "Tell your servant that he must net use such words te Hendrika, Mr. Allan," Stella said te me. "If he does," she added, In a whisper, "Hendrika will cer tainly kill him." I explained this te Indaba-zimbl, who. being considerably frightened, deigned te apologize But from that hour then was hate and war between these two. Harmony having been thus restored, we started, the dogs following its. A small strip of desert intervened between us and the slepe of the peak; perhaps It was two miles wide. We crossed it and reached rich gross lands, for here a con siderable stream gathered from the hillsj but it did net flew across the barren lands, it passed te the cast along the feel of the hills. Tills stream we had te past by n ford. Hendrika walked boldly through it, holding Teta in her arms, Stella leapt across from stonetostonl like a roebuck; I thought te myself thai she was the most graceful creature that Iliad ever Been. After this the track passed round a pleasantly weeded shoul der of the peak, which was, I found, known as Babyan Kap, or Babeon Head, Of ceurse we could only go at a feel pace, se our progress was slew. Stclli walked for seme way in silence, then she speke. "Tell me, Mr. Allan," she said, "hew it was that I came te find you dying in the dcsert'i" Se I began and told her all. It took an hour or mere te de be, and she lis tened intently, new and ngaln asking a question. "It is all very wonderful," she said when I had dene, "very wonderful, in deed. De you knew I went out thit morning with Hendrika and the dogs fei a ride, meaning te get back home bj midday, for my father is ill, and Idonel like te lcave him for long. But just as 1 was going te turn, when we were about where we are new yes, this was th very bush an oribe get up, and the degi chased It I followed them for the gal lop, and when we came te the river, in stead of turning te the left as bucks gen erally de, the oribe swam the stream and took te the bad lands beyond. I followed it, nnd within a hundred yards of thi big tree the dogs killed it Hendrika wanted me te turn back at once, but 1 Bald that we would rest under the shade of the trce, for I knew that there was a spring of water near. Well, we went; and thcre I saw you all lying like dead; but Hendrika, who is very clever in some ways. Bald no and you knew the rest Yes, it is very wonderful." "It is, indeed," I Bald. "New tell me, Miss Stella, who is Hendrika?" She looked round befoie answering te sce that the woman was net near. "Hers is a strange story, Mr. Allan. I will tell you. Yeu must knew that all these mountains and the country beyond are full of baboons. When I was a girl of about 10 I used te wander about a geed deal alene in the hills and volleys, and watch the baboons as they played among the rocks, There was one fami ly of baboons that I watched especially they used te live in a klaaf about a mile from the heuse. The old man baboon was very large, nnd ene of the females had a gray face. But the reason why I watched them se much was because I Baw that they had with them n crcature that looked like n girl, for her skin was quite whlte, and, what was mero, that she was protected from the weather when it happened te be cold by a fur belt of seme sort, which she tied round her threat The old baboons seemed te i especially fend of her, and would Bit with their arms round her neck. "Fer nearly a whele summer I watched this particular white-skinned baboon, till at last my curiosity quite overmas tered me. I noticed that, though she elimlxHl about the cliffs with the ether monkeys, nt a certain hour a little befere sundown they used te put her, with one or two ether much smaller eiiee, into a little cave, while the family went off Bomewhcre te get feed te the mealle fields, I suppose Then I get an idea that I would catch this white baboon and bring It home. But of ceurse I could net de this by myself, se I took a Hottentet a cryeleer man when he was net di unk who lived en the stead, into my ceufldencp. He was called Hen diik, and was very fend of me; but for n long while he w euld net listen te my plan, because he said that the babyans would kill us. At last I bribed him with a knlfe that had four blades, and one afternoon we started, Hendrik carry ing n stout sack made of hlde, with a repe running through It be that the mouth could be draw n tight. "Well, we get te the place, and, hid ing ourselves carefully in the trees at the feet of the kloef, watched the baboons playing about and grunting te each ether, till at length, according te custom, they took the white ene and thrce ether little babies and put them In the cave. Then the old man came out, looked carefully round, called te his family, mid went off w ith them ever the brew of the kloef. New very slowly and cautiously we crept up ever the rocks till we came te the mouth of the cave nnd looked in. All the four little baboons were fast asleep, with their backs toward us, and their arms around each ether's necks, the white ene being in the middle. Nothing could have been better for our plans. Hendrik, w he by this time had quite en tered into the spirit of the thing, crept into the cave like a tmake, and suddenly dropped the mouth of the hide bag ever the head of the white baboon. The peer little thing woke up and gave a violent jump, w Inch caused it te vanish right into the bag. Then Hendrik pulled the string tight, and together we knotted it se that It was iuiK:uille for our captive te escapu. Meanwhile the ether baby baboons had rushed from the cae screaming, and when wu get outside they were nowhere te be seen. "Come en, miss,' raid Hendiik; 'the babyan will toen lie back." He had shouldered the tack, Inside which tha whlte baboon was Licking violently, and screaming like n child. It was dreadful te hear its shrieks, "Weesraminil ewntiiesMee Me kloef and ran for heme as feet as we could manage. When we were near the waterfall, aad within about Mt yard of the garden wall, we heasd voice be hind us, and there, leaping from reek U rock, and running ever the grass, waa the whole family of baboons headed by -the old man. "'Sun, miss, runf gasped Hendrik, and I did like the wind, leaving him far behind.. I dashed Inte the garden, where some Kaffirs were working, crying. The babyans! the banyans! Luckily the men had their sticks and spears by them and ran out Just In tlme te save Hendrik, who was almost overtaken. The baboons made a geed fight for it, however, and M waa net till the old man waa killed with an assegai that they ran away. "Well, there Is a little hut in the kraal at the stead where my father sometimes shuts up natives who have misbehaved. It k very strong, and has a barred win dow. Te this hut Hendrik carried the sack, and, having untied the month, put it down en the fleer, and ran from the place, shutting the deer behind him. In another moment the peer little thing was out and dashing round the atone hut as though it were mad. It sprung at the bars of the window, clung there, aad beat its head against them till the bleed came. Then it fell te the fleer, and sat there crying like a child, and rocking It self backwards and forwards. It was se sad te see it that I began te cry tee. "Just then my father came in and asked what all the fuss was about. 1 told him that we had caught a young white baboon, and he was angry, and said that it must be let go. But when he looked at it through the bars of the win dow he nearly fell down with astonish ment. " 'Whyf he said, 'this is net a baboon, it Is a white child that the baboons have stelen and brought upl' "New, Mr, Allan, w hethcr my father Is right or wrong, jeu can judge for yourself. Yeu sce Hendrika we named her that after Hendrik, who caught her she is a woman, net a menkey, and vet she has many of the ways of mon keys, and leeks like one, tee. Yeu saw hew she can climb, for instance, and you hear hew she talks. Alse, she is very savage, and when she is angry or Jealous she seems te go mad, though she s as clever as anybody. I think that she must have been stolen by the baboons when she was quite tiny and nurtured by them, and that is why she is se like them. ' "But te go en. Mv" father said that It was our duty te keep Hendrika at any cost The worst of it was that for three days she would cat nothing, and I thought that she would die, for all the while she sat and wailed. On the third day, however, I went te the bars of the window place and held out a cup of milk and some fruit te her. She looked at it for n long while, then crept up moan mean ing, took the milk from my hand and drank it greedily, and afterwards ate the fruit Frem that time f erw ard alie took feed readily enough, but only If I would feed her. But I must tell you of the dreadful end of Hendrik, Frem the day that we captured Hendrika the whole place began te swaim with ba boons which were evidently employed In watching the kraals. One day Hendrik went out towards the hills alene te gather seme medicine He did net ceme back again, be next day r.carch was made. By a big rock which I can show you they found his scattered and broken bones, the fragments of his assegai nnd four dead baboons. They h.id set upon him and tern him te pieces. "My father waa very much frightened at this, but still he would net let Hen drika go, because he said that she was human, and that It was our duty te re claim her. And se we did te a certain extent, at least After the murder of Hendrik the baboons vanished from the neighborhood, and have only rctui tied quite recently, be nt length we ventured te let Hendi Ika out. By this time she had grown very fend of me; still en the first opportunity s'.ie ran away But In the evening sha returned again,. She had been seeking the balioens, and could net find them. Sheitly aftei wards she began te speak 1 taught her nnd from that time bhe has loved me be that she will net leave me. I think it would kill her if I went away fiein ht-r. She watches me all day, and tit night Bleeps en the fleer of my hut. Once, tee, she saved my life when I was swept down the river In floed: but she is jealous, nnd hates everybody cite. Loek hew she is glaring nt you new hecnu&e I nm talking te yeul" I looked. Iiendiika was tinmplng along with the child in her arms and staring at me In u most sinister fashion out of the corners of her eyes. While I was reflecting en the baboon woman's Btrange 6tery, and thinking that Bhe was nn exceedingly awkward customer, the path took a budden turn. "Loek!" said Stella, "there Is our house. Is it net beautiful?" It was beautiful indeed. Here en the western side of the great jwnk a bay had been formed in the mountain, "which might have measured eight hundred era thousand yaids across by three-quarters of amilein depth. At the back or the indentation the sheer cliff rose te the height of sen oral hundred feet, nnd be hind it nndnbee it the great lUbyan peak towered up towards the heavens. The space of ground, embraced thus In the arms of the mountain, ns it were, was laid out, as though by the cunning hand of man, in three terraces that rose ene abeve the ether Te the right and left of the topmost tcirace weie chasms in the cliff, and from each chasm fell a waterfall, from no great height, indeed, but of considerable olunie. TIicm) two streams flowed nway en either side of the inclesed space, ene toward the north, and the ether, the ceurse of w hlch w e had been following, round the base of the mountain. At each terrace they made a cascade, be that the trtnclcrappreaching had a view of eight wateifalUat ence. Along the edge of the stream te our left were placed Kaflir Uiaals, built In order ly groups with verandas, after the Ba Biitu fashion, and a very large part of the entire space of land was under cultiva tion. All of this I noted at ence, as well as the extraordinary richness and depth of the soil, which for many ages past had been washed down fiem the mountain heights. Then following the line of an excellent wagon read, en which we new found ourselves, that wound up from terrace te terrace, my eye lit upon the crowning wonder of the 6cene. Fer in the center of the topmost platform ei terrace, which may have Inclesed elghl or ten acres of ground, and almost bur rounded by groves of erange trees, gleamed buildings of w hlch I had nevei 6een the like. Tliere were three group! of them, one in the middle and ene en either side, and a little te the rear; but, as I afterwards discovered, the plan ei all was the same. In the center was an edifice constructed like an ordinary Zulu hut that is te Bay, In the shape of a beehive, only it was flve times the size of any hut I ever saw, nnd built of blocks of hewn white marble, fitted to gether with extraordinary knowledge el the principles and properties of arch building, and with se much accuracy and finish that It was often difficult tc find the fronts of the massive blocks. Frem this center hut ran three covered passages, leading te ether buildings el an exactly similar character, only small er, and each, whole block wM inclesed mhwrmtni wa"heut tcur feet It Of MMI Wa mat Inn tar nil tn see all these detatte, bnt the general out Una I aaw at once, and it astonished m considerably. Even old Indntia-zlmW, whom the baboon woman had been un able te move, deigned te show wonder. "Obr be said, "this Is a place of mar vels. Who ever saw kraals built of whit toner Stella watched our faces with an ex pression of Intense amusement, but said nothing. "Djd yenr father build these kraals?" I gasped at length. "My father! no, of course net," sh answered. "Hew would it have been possible for ene whlte man te de se, e te have made this read? tie found thesn as you sce." "Who built them, then?" I Mid again. "I de net knew. My father thinks that they are very ancient, for the peo ple who live here new de net knew bow te layone stone upon another, and these huts are se wonderfully constructed that, though they must have Bleed for ages, net a stone of them had fallen. But I can show you the quarry when the marble was cut; it Is close by, and behind it is the entrance te nn ancient mine, which" my father thinks "was a silver mine. Perhaps the people whe worked the mine built the marble huts. The world is old, and no doubt plenty of peeple have lived In it and been for gotten." Then we rede en in silence. I have seen many beautiful sights in Africa, nnd In such matters, ns In ethers, corn pat (sons are odious nnd worthless, but 1 de net think that I ever saw a lovelier scene. It was no one thing It was the combination of the mighty peak looking forth en te the everlasting plains, tha treat cliffs, the waterfall Hint an-rlrlut 4n" rainbow hues, the rivers gfrallhg the cuiuvaiea umas, tne geia specked green of the erange trees, the flashing domes of the marble huts, and a thou sand ether things. Then ever all brooded thepeace of evening, and the Infinite glory of the sunset that filled heaven with changing hues of splendor, that wrapped the mountain and cliffs in cloaks of purple and of geld, and lay upon the quiet face of the water like the smile of a god. Perhaps, also, the contrast and the memory of theso three awful days and nights in the hopeless desert enhanced the charm, and perhaps the beauty of the girl who walked beside me completed it Fer of this I am sure, that of all sweet and lovely things that I looked en then, she was the sweetest and the love liest Ah, it did net take me long te find my fate. Hew long will it be before I find her once again? Continued next Saturday. MAGGIOLI WON THC MATCH. SumrtliliiR .bnul ilm I'luwin In the lie cent Clilcagu lllltlaiil 'lixiiiiiiinriit. Ill tlui billiard match nlik-li took place in Chlaige recently between Fr.ink ?IajRiell and William Ifntley, the lu.tvr cam-' out bto bte bto end best. T lie nntcli wns for rx u Ale, MO points up, at 14 inch b tile linn. reiirU-en Inch bilk line is new tlie favorite frarae with expel ts for all public contests, and it is one that tilings eutnl) the beauties of Ilia Came. While it pi events Ilia monotony of long runs ainajvsed by nursing e.i the rail, it Is by no means nn i inflictive ns cushion cm i inns mid mlinlts of gi cat freedom of exe cution nn the part of Iho plajt-r. In ttialght liilliaids, of ceurre, there Is a great deal of pretty BUoetliiR, but as befere mentioned the gsme Rrens til e-ieiiie the moment a player lands the bal's en the rail. In balk line bill lards, u hen the balls get en the rail hi any of the&pnces fanned by the iutcrtoctien of the balk lines, the 'plajer must KPiidoneof tlie object balls out of tlie fcoenhlj second het or take Ills scat. N'ur.Iug en the balk line, fourteen Inches unny rreni Iho rail, is one of tlie prettiest and most ilinieultftuturi-s of this Rume mid one in nbicli 8t liefer aud Slosseu excel. MAdlitOLI. nATLEV. Of the tne players in the recent match game, MagRieli lias linil by far the most ex perienca lie has been playing in public for about twenty years, ami iu that time has taken part in numlierless matches and tour naments. Peiv plaj ers of bis class nre better kuenn in billiard elides. He is of French descent. He first attracted attention as a billiard player in 1873-75 by his playing with the Sillier brothers, Allwit ilea, Abrahams nnd ether New Orleans expel ts. Mnggieli is u geed player and has a graceful, eiy meth od of execution. William Hatley was born nt Seneca Falls, N. Y tenty-cl(;lit yenrs n;;e. His record ns a billiard plaer is mainly confined te Chi cago. His (list public uppearance was in a room keepers' teui imnieiit iu lSSri. In this he tied for first money ith Gallagher and Matthews. The play elT i esulted in another tie, and the players then divided the prize. He entered the St. Leuis teuruamcut of 1837, in u hlch Jehn Thatcher u en first prize, but but being in peer form was nllencd te with draw without playing, nnd wns refunded his entrance money. He played in several ether tournaments during 1887 and 1853. Hatley is a very strong but Irregular player. At his best rata of play, und keeping it up steadily, be would worry any expert outside of Schaef or and Slossen. rropetetl rrrtbvlrrlau Revision. nrv. iiERnirE jonvseK ntr jens hill. UCY. DB. H'VIIEIUOX. KEY. J. II. BURROWS. Nothing has recently caused greater interest1 in the religious world than the discussion of proposed revision of the Westminster Confession by the Presby terians. This is net the place te go into the merits of se profound a question, but readers may be interested in the por traits given of eminent Presbyterian di viuea who have takeu decided grounds upon the matter. A Great Light Dawns Upen Temmy. Temmy Pa, old Miss Yellow by hat just been here nnd brought j en a Christ mas present another pair of slippers. That's the fourth pair yeu've gotten. Why de people always give prcacheu slippers and nothing else, pa? The Hecter Because preachers' sent nre said te be w orse than theso of anybody else, Temmy. Puck. A newspajier expert, wbese front name is "Mcfee," never beglus a game of billiards of any consequence without first giving the hoodoo a necker by a two hours' meditation en aa elephant's tuk.-Nw Yerk Telegram, 11 - : ' vi .t-St,. : f (V ""i - Zhri'irrpffT"r-r-r ? -; " r-Mp-r ' ; -t '-Kt t,W"y-- .i , . AsUv-L'iajd&JSafe-i J.. t . - f&J&Dh&AkW&tti&Lt,&sts sattfcsav-9-Sjpr TJJ i f r " t"- .
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