Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-02-10

"AH, MISS BxSSlE," HE CALLED OUT In
ENGLISH.
Just then he caught sight Of John Mel and
checked himself.
u havc come to Look for black OF.
branded with heart ah1 W. inside of tho
heart. Do you know il your uncle has seen it
on the place any where"
mo. Meinhcer Muller" replied Bessie,
coldly, -but he Is down there" pointing at q
kraal on tho plain some half mile away, III
you want to, 60 and ask about itn
@Mr. Muller, said hc, by way Of correction,
and with curious contraction Of the brow.
q 'Meinheer' is all very well for the Boers, but
we are all Englishmen now. Well, the OK
can wait With your permission, I'll stop
here TIL 'Oom' Croft Uncle Croft comes
back, and, without further ado, he jumped
of hfs horse and, clipping the reins over it,
head ~ an indication to it to stand still. ad-
vanced toward Beaie with outstretched hand,
As he did 70 the young lady plunged both her
arms up to tho elbows In the bath, and Il
sruck John, who was observing tho whole
scene, that she did this IN order 20 avoid the
necessity Of shaking hands with her ssalwart
vidto.
"Sorry my hands are wet, she MD, giving
him cold little nod. list me- introducs you,
Mr.. with emphasis Frank Nuller-Capt
Nal. who hes come to help my uncle with
the place"
John stretched out bis hand and Muller
shook IT,
@Csptainf" he aid, intsrrogativsly; a ship
captain, supposer
SNo," said John, y captain oe the English
army"
@Oh, rooibaatje Qred Jacket. Wen, I
don't wonder at your taking to farming after
the Zulu war"
Il don't quite understand you" said John;
rather coldly.
@Oh. 10 -of5enDe. captain, NO ofIense I
only meant that you 'rooibaat1e did nos come
very well out Of the war. was there with
Piet Uys, and It was q sight, can tall you.
A Zulu had only to show himself atnight and
one would zee your regiments skreck (stam-
pedel like span Of oxen when they wind .
lion And then they'd fre-ah, they did fire
anyhow, anywhere, but mostly at the
clouds. there was no stopping them; and 20.
yOu re, rnougnr mat you WooIn ma 70 turn
your sword into . ploughshare, - tho Bibla
says-but no odense, I'm sure-no ofIense."
All this while John Mel, being English "a
his backbone, and cherishipg the reputation
Of his profession almost q dearly a. his own
honor, was boiling with inward wrath, which
was oil the hercer because be knew that thers
wassome truth in the Boer's insults. He had
The sense, however, to keep his temper-out-
wardly, at any rite.
u was not in the Zulu war, Mr.. Muller, "
he said, and Just then old Eilas Croft came
riding up, and the conversation dropped.
Mr. Franz Nrllur. okovv,oS 30 .Ss~--~
Tar on into the afternoon. His lost or seemed
to have entirely clipped his memory. There
he sat close to the fair Beside, smoking and
drinking gin and water. and talking with
great volubility in English, sprinkled with
Boer Dutch terms that John Mil did not
understand, and gazing at the young lady in
manner which John somehow found un-
pleasant OF course IL was no affair Of his,
and he bad NO intArest in the matter but for
all that he found the remarkable looking
Dutchman exceedingly disagreeable. At last,
indeed, be could stand It no longer, and hob
bled out for little walk with Jess, who, in
her abrupt way, offered to show him the
garden.
@You don't like that mani" she said to him,
as they slowly went down the dope in front
OF the house.
mo; do your
Il think" replied jess, slowly and with
much emphasis, that he b the most odious
man that ever saw, and the most curious. {"
And then she relapsed into silence. only
broken now and again by an occasional re-
mark about the flowers and trees
Half an hour afterward, when thsy arrived
again at the top Of the slope, Mr.. Muller was
just riding OF down the avenue Of blue
gums. By the veranda stood . Hottentot
named Jantje, who had been holding the
Dutchman's horse He was curious, wizened
up little fellow, dressed In rags, and with
hair Ike the worn tags Of black WOODEN
carpet His age might have been anything
between Is and GO; it was impossible to form
IN opinion on the point {ust now, however,
his yellow monkey face was convulsed with
an expreazion Of intense malignity, and
be was standing there In the nnshine
cursing rapidly and bensath his breath in
Dutch, and shaking his iist after TIE retreat