TiE STORY OF LAMIA. A POSTHUMOUS SKETCH NEVER BEFORE UBLISHED BY GEORGE ®*AND. Deep in the heart of an African jungle I was the prisoner of a wound- Hoo, With natives 1 hunting I'he was sultry, aud, wearying of the sport el party of was hippopotami. a day I wandered away by myself, 1 bad but one round of ammunition left, and that was in my rifle. Oop, on I walked, was mile from my attendants. Then He path and so0n A met the lion. pgthwise &Cross my be £1 vised my rifle, without CIV d, plant the ad under and tried the Ig ul creature's t il mus ed ballet =t g IN | veut abling, but aggravating. Far her my atter Away {« firing at me them, to guide and shot at t n that | my rifle when 1 supposed that it was had lost my Alas! My in making an enemy of the lion. Becor gecond = way. Pe wder | had used last bit of alarmed at no fro were scatte ring ug hearing mm me, my attendents I could hear them at they bad completely surrounded me. Then they began closing in. 1 judged by their shooting that they would meet not far the where I was the prisoner of the Joy though I had been a soldier firing here and there, until last from tree. lion for ten years, musketry bad never made such sweet music for me before. Nearer approached, and I became more and more hopeful. vearer they Then they met, less than a fourth of They kad missed me. I could hear their voices plainly, though I could not distinguish their words, They were greatly excited, #0 was [, a mile away. Some peculiarity of the climate had weakened my throat, my had, a few days, degenerated into a and once deep, full voice within squeak. Though I could bear them so plainly I knew perfectly well that my voice would not reach their ears unless their was an e gle. My might ag itire silence in the jun 1 was that the make only men rain erate and an d me. } es. i other efl rt being themsels if I called. silent ey might hear me 4 sound 801 id strained my sitive throat too much and had burst. ed a blood vessel, My throat filled with blood so fast not that I was strangling. 1 could b enthe., It was just the same wheth. er my eyes were or closed-- t iere was only blackness before [ could nothing. There were strange sounds in my ears, and sharp My weakening open Je. see pains in my head, hands were loosening their hold upon the tree, Then I lived a bun b limb I was on and dred lives in the brie from th lowe falling » lodging ioterval down 10 the tre Lif pa d 1 fore me and : ected that it w My whole J ex uld end in the lion” ’ intervals | then Li WEL. | : in my it jaw's. ilis feild breath was nostrils and it sickened me while revived me, The blood was still streaming from my mouth and, when I could see again, something awaited my eyes which, for the first time in my life, made me tremble. and scarcely lion. His he was my Directly under me, two yards away, sat the awful mouth was open and apping the blood as it ran from hroat. He a™ He tasted human blood before and [ knew was man-eater ! bad ny fate in case [ fell from the tree. y the lurid ligh® of a furnace, and they seemed to have His eyes blazed lik deprived me of the power of motion, I could not stir, The e, and were going further away acks were still beating the { jungl 16 every lustant, hewved with a deep aod sigh. The the relaxed muscles in my [involuntary tightened enou blocd throat, and, strangely the ruptured vein. The ped. The pectancy that it would start again and lion licked his chops in the ex. | continue to gratify Lis sinister thirst, thrill aril An inexplicible of hope wen {throug i 'h my attendants : | had passed beyond hearing ' Ol & wont ul unensiiy ‘he pain in his shoalder was while he was drinking my it had returned now and so hs | rage. i The I's | of his ¢l He convulsive movement was a aws and his mane ing nmoning all my strength nto the WAS rising was about sprit Sur leaped and half climbed i above m » just as the li self forward. Baffled again, and furious with the cost him, be made the juogle ring with his roaring. If my men would only bear him, guess the truth and come to my res cue! In two more hours night would come, and then my black attendants would give up the search. I looked down at the lion and won- dered whether he or I would stand huuger the longest. What was it I saw moving deliber- ately through the jungle? Was ita human being or some monster even more ferocious than the lion? It was coming toward me, was heavily draped in gauzy black As it came nearer the outlines and it the form she man, “Stop ! : I { { lion, a man-eater, at the foot “There of this shouted. tree |” My former voice had recovered all of strength ! clear that roundness and out 80 loud and rang startled me, ! | | | The woman made no answer but still moved forward, At the ¢ ed bis head and de rat und of my v I the airas if ds-~T} wy adva snu fFee wd my wor ugh that 1e bre ber gaurzy The: hores sapphirine they from a soft starry radiance t and varied constantly, blue, o a mali cious, snake-like glitter, she came in sight, and her eves were could get without elimbing up. “Who, and what are you?” “and why are you in such a place as this?” “I am Lamia,” she said. Her voice was clear as a flute and | it seemed to ring peaking, like a piece of steel. | am the first “God was wise and made me an, all love. shine, which ’ like hair. my He Creator—and I to bask in the joys of the life which our Creator gave us. I got only cold words in answer to my wanted alweys to worship our love, and frowns for all my kissse, So we were sundered, God let made, us part, Eve came to Adam, to solace him and please his conceit, of his own he was | Fall of have bone and flesh. How wise Then my haste, I fled to Kblis, Came vengeance, and we warred against the race of Adam ever gince A woman best can cast a wor I plucked the frag which Eblis gave to Eve. man down, [ planned the arts by which he won her but a woman she fell, 80 the cusrs to fresh pain which his unsuc cessful jump | of | wed me that it was a wo- | is . | She was watching me the moment | gtill fixed upon me when she paused | under the tree and as near me as she | I asked after she ceased | ' she m hated me Eve when | the rth 8 flame-sword the one: Adam, flesh, Hig from Paradise the angel’ perfect, and gh was my glee drove them, “Their s¢ fr compl | | BOU IR in movement | | work he But answe - arts, gh, closed | and I was alrs LWin« So Lamia l “(jo ui, {inhabits and io it I thrught | lunatic, “You “why wl { death patural night.” Bure enough-—it was Christmas Eve, the I was more moved all along by music of her voiee than by her strange narration. She was moving slowly away once more, “Tell make her speak again, to “is there noth- me,” 1 said, determined Can your awful of ing which hate assuage and end your course vens eance !’ “Yes!” The word sounded o 15 the hiss of molten iron when it meets water. “Yes! When I m A fam’s race wh A man wil soul and peace will come to my | Lamia will find rest ‘Ha! Hal” { mpared wit ing of the wound Woman was ad fiendish, hellish laugh. he ny men, noise in the jungle was made They had | last. How glad 1 was to see those dusky, Soon the | were chattering like apes, telling me by 1 wand me at grinoiog Africans! how persistently they had searched | for me. There was a pool of blood under | the tree where the lion had lain, there was a trail of blood leading to the sluggish river. We followed it, the weakened brute, and killed him, That | glad, had supernal and in G wl, found Was reality ! I was me that Lamia My faith in the shaken fort I entered much It convinced wil h Leen me, n | yoars, was restored again. the jungle a skeptit; I left it a bx lever, Rix weeks In I was oul of | but 1 did until the middle ber. Three days later | at Rouen, home of my family. My father had died sence get ] ul not nek Frunce Lhe 11 next Decem- WHY ONCE more my birth pla ¢ and the during my ab= and my two sisters were living with our widowed mother. As even the merest recolle {wha She was | I caused | fall upon the twain made | ful than I do the Africa, d Lo th had occurs me in the FAVE Me ghiy | forebore { jUUE ningil to fore Christmas, | the woman I ever FW, met in the street most Her lily fairness, e brautiia Comp € 10n | was 1) | flu xcept a dain y Her eye hair hi clive d her Wining sh on each ep biae, her nt Hnory Wills went the rough my left hand. M : else stood sti he the accident, ters SCreams | and looked-——everybody but the woman whose coming She instantly stripped off her neck, t in shreds und uj Loess of BCR re it » my mangle 8 BUTE “Monsieur n she n. u go said, and let sume rest.” “Noone could be mors I declared, She bowed low and “Mosis I fear tunate #1 ar is vi ry it was | accident “Oh, no: it My {00 much Again strangely il Was mv own ness, eves were wands that there wa in them. WI I could not tell In a month we When we stood were married before the altar was being and and the marriage service resd her agitation was startling unaccoumtable, One moment her hand was ice and | the next moment fire, and the altera- | tions were as swift as lightning. But for her veil others must seen how strangely she was moved. | My mother started back as she have touched her new daughter's hand. “You are Wi; child,” “No,” wife, so well and happy before in my life’ she exclaimed. cried my “] was never The year which followed was bliss itself. I never had dreamed that any iid be so 1 nsely happy is Sonz an! sunshine filled every caused | d hand with | hl bour, There was never u moment of puin, { Christmas Eve | sat up until after Cae again, and I | never before heard woman sing as she It lke the you a somed soul aller years « 1 ie foight, kang then, seemed Lo me tof if weary dark- ] | passionate, j s outhurs ran- 0 Do not with you Stay at hi 4, or ay al home to-day. £0 I cannot go B to church. ’ | and [ beg not to be left alone.” i "Certainly —u8 you wish We bad not been an hour since our marriage. Why Ty should there be a first tia Toward evenjvg she seemed nd trembled, “Are Mori] I asked, a i? sume i my swught on eart LO hate; you taught it to love ned the doors ve and aven at the same time. Lamias’ ended when she became your wife. This night I die, bat my issafe and I enter Paradise. Look at ! the clock. 1 you will form nig only bold Lamia's lifeless her soul will be Heaven, near the gates awaiting | § | your's I clasped her more « Slogel?. | vain. Momentar could weaken The clock gone, struck A year passed since then a year of sadness and solitude. mas night once more, and the } of Dour « { midnight pproaches. bo tells me | am } shad w crept togeth- minaret, 1 cbserved some signe of haste among a few of It Ramadan, the dirtier Arabs, of probably hurrying home to remove ning and they were some of the snperfluous filth, as enjoin ed, before the evening prayer. On th, Mooski there was no change, Ifany. thing, the rattle of the vehicles and the cries of street venders become louder and more discordant, The sun was just on the horizon when his lofty balcony, it and and leaned over on every if that Wi side as if to assure h the prep. arations for p After | observations AVR erly made mving completed hin appares i i 3 Y ff Li rom Lu at JO na toe pose of ais head that he was trying 10 tay ‘om We! | ed on more rapidly | bis voice Lo the highest | the hollow of his two pale sou} In an hour it will be mid- | i y Poi P | Bde i ablowt staf of It is Christ. | Something was the begin. seemed "e | Hox Wu A Hennox the muezzin made his appearance on | : ‘ | sucesso! Commercis! Oailoge walked all around | emer. But no sound reached the street, and no one seemed conscious of his movements, thing, The carriages whirl- The water ven- {der shifted bis swollen pig skin to u easier position and tinkled his brass cups till they sounded like village chimes. 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