National Republican., 1888-02-12
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The story of "She."

She was the Queen of the Hidden Land of the
Amhaggar, an exclusive warike race of swarthy
c'Innibals, whose territory was confined within
the crater of an extinct volcano, located in an un-
explored section of the interior of Africa. The
outer sides of this mountain were too precptous
to be sealed by even wild animals. The Hidden
Land was therefore only accessible by secret
underground route, familiar to but few of the
race and totally unknown to the foreign world.
Between the mountain and the sea there existed
n deadly swamp that reeked with a poisonous at
mOsphere, and was infested with repulsive and
yenomous reptiles. The knowledge of the path
through this vast bed of rank mud was limited to
the few who possessed the secret of the under
ground road to tie crater.
She was marveous woman of surprising
beauty, who had attained the incredible age of
twenty-five hundred years mt the time of her APP
pallng death During her maidenhood she dis
covered the Fountain of Life, flaming bath that
possessed the great vital force of Nature. In this
living yapor she had bathed and the result was
her perennial beauty and well-nigh eternal life.
But this endowment she ultimately lost by i'm
prudently attempting the bath again. so as to en-
courage her newly.found lover, Leo, to undertake
| the spiritual ablutiOn, and thereby secure him
self endless youth and power. Instead of adding
to her charms, or further perpetuating her days,
| the mysterious fire almost Instantly shrivelled
up her ecstatic form, obliterated her remarkable
| lDvc!ineS and reduced her to the hideous con-
| ditiOn of mummy.
Leo Vincey, her last adorcd, was the sxty.sixth
lineal descendant of kaikrates, former lover
whom she had slain in the year 330, b. c., because
| he would not return her passion. 1t was Lcos
extraordinary resemblance to the murdered Kali
| kfNtcs tlat led She 10 belleVe that Leo was but
Kallikrates born over again. She sought to atone
| for the death she had visited upon Kallikrates
centuries ago by claiming Leo for her spouse and
| endoayoring to confer upon him, through the
| Living Bath, that almost immortality that she
herself had acquired by the same means But
this ambition ended fatally to her, already
| narrated.
s-lIorace Holly had been Leo's guardian since
the atter's fifth year. The boys mother had been
dead three years when his father, after sntrusting
| him to Iolly's care, took his own life by poison
| The suicide hequeathed to Holly strong iron box
| that was not to be opened until Leo had attained
| was duly opened. The contents disclosed n Gu,
rious ancient parchment bearing the record OF
| sundry futile eNortions on the part of LeOs an
cestOTS, one after the other to seek ont the woman
She, and slay her for staying Kallikratcs the
original source of the family. But IL was first cs
| sentH to learn the secret of She's indefinite life
1t was now Leo's turn to take up the avengnp
sword of the family name, That generation after
! generation had either hOpclessly welded or else
| had irrcsolutely handled or indiiercntly neg
| lected
Forthwith Leo accepted the hallowed challenge
that had come to him from ages back, and pur
suaded his guardian to accompany him They
| accordingly sailed from England to the African
| coast, and then continued their journey in an
! Arabian DhOw, the deck of which forms the first
! scene of the play The Dhow was wrecked and
its little crew and passengers were by q singular
! coincidence cast ashore ON the very headland
! bearing the huge face of negro, referred 10 ON
prisoners by II body of Amhaggar and conveyed
! inland acrO's the Fatal swamp to the Hidden
| Land within the crater. After the succession of
adventures shown in the early part of the play
they were conducted before She II was In thc
| course of this Judgment that She recognized I'm
! Leo the kallikrates whose life she had so zeal,
ously sacrificed over 1000 years ago. Here fol-
lows the love episode between She and Leo and
the final incident of her fatal bath spoken of in
! the foregoing,
The curtain falls on the death of She.