Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

Blaine thought upon what he should
say, but he felt with tinge of annoy
| ance how difficult thing it was to shape
| even one brief message that would con-
vey his thanks for her kindness and his
| sense of her regard Cor him. The blunt
directness of Pala's message applied to
him as inviting an equally plain reply,
| but his good feeling saved him from
! sending q message which would have
! mortally offended the seif-respscs OF
| Miss Rath
At last, by happy inspiration he drew
cut the photo of his mother and his little
sweetheart.
| :Quics, - said Pala, hurriedly, eve
must not talk longer. The men are
growing angry
Blame with sigh passed over his
treasures, and Pals, as she took them,
| looked upon the two faces snIiOusly.
| "Yah,'' she exclaimed in astonish
| meEt, as she gazed on the brown eyes OF
the little girl, "this is she herself, my
mistress,''
CHAPTER XvII.-A QUARREL.
Capt. Blaine, ~ the startled exclama-
ton of the Zulu girl, tried to recover the
photograph 20 trace the likeness that had
| impressed her, but his wrist was sharply
struck by kerry-ard he was bound
and hurried once again into the hut.
He sat awake that night, trying TO re-
call the face OF Mary Dawson, the little
sweetheart who had been set apart for
his wife by his grim old uncle Nicholson,
| but there was always some feature that
| would not fit in with the perfect face of
! Mary Rath. The two were alike, yet
unlike; sufficiently alike to account for
Pala's mistake, yet TO be dismissed as
! ~f CO
| commonly met with.
As he looked on the simmer of sill
very moonlight sparkling on the dewy
grass, he became aware of two people
| slowly moving to and fro.
| Their voices were low, sibilant and
| musical, and one of them laughed shyly,
as the other bent his head down. With
| & sense of the unfitness of things that
| would strike one at the spectacle of d
| tiger in love, he noticed that one was
the dreaded chief, and that the other
was Pala.
Here, truly, was something astonish-
| ing, and the young officer, who looked
upon the Zulu as man without senti-
ment, thought he had made d discovery
| There he made mistake. The day of
romance for the savage may be brief but
1t is full of warmth.
"Gi-ya-tanda nj" q love thee) said
| Sirayo, bending his proud head to look
| down into the glowing eyes upturned to
| his.
That melodious phrase rang in Blaine's
| ear and soothed him into dreams as full
| of the promise of happiness as though
his couch were not thin mat and his
| pillow curved piece of wood.
"Gi-ya-tanda ni!' The melody IN
soma ruhtle uay lipka6 him nlasar IN
| Mary.
His awaking rudely dspelled these
visions. In fact he was dragged out of
| the hut in such violence that he expected
| the final moment had arrived. A or up
| of Young warriors gestculIted and
| shouted in manner which plainly
| showed that Sirevo was not in the kraal.
! Blaine looked about for Pala, but could
not see her, until following the gaze of a
| love-sick youth by his side, he saw a
| small body OF men, with them the chiefs
| white horse, disappearing in the dis
lance, in the direction of Kopie Alleen.
Pala's mediation with SIrayo had then
been of no avail, and he was to be left
to his fate.
One of the young warriors thrust his
hand violently into Blame s face, and in
his disgust he dashed his bound and
clenohed hands into the Zulu's face,
laying the latter on his back.
The other warriors laughed loudly.
which SO exaggerated the discounted
Zulu that he made Is VICIOUS lunge at
Blaine with his assegai, which would
nave finished the young man g career at
once if ringed kaffir he'd not thrown
his shield across the prisoner body.
tremendous hubbub eDsued. The
and the quarrel spread to the others, the
married men ranging themselves on one
side and the unmarried men on the
other. \ moment the two lines stood
facing; heads up, nostrlls expanded,
shields on the left, and assegais at the
ready, then with shout they rushed to-
gether. Shield struck against shield,
and the long sharp blades flashed In the
sun. The dark mass swayed to and fro.
then the ri1ged men outnumbered,
turned and fled, some to the right aud
some to the left. With yell of victory
the others started i'll pursuit, and Blaine
was left alone, with half dozen dead
and dying men about him.
The suddenness and wild fury of the
fight had left him spellbound, but the
fierce shouts of the pursuing warriors
brought back his faculties, and he felt
that now was his chance or never.
a swift glance around showed that his
only chance of escape lay up the face of
the mountain, and IN a few moments he
was among the boulders at its base.
Crouching down and keeping under
shelter of the rocks aud bushes he strug-
gled up until the steepness of the ascent
bafflei MS movements, hampered as he
was by the rheims about his wrists.
With feverish haste he tore with his
teeth ut the knot, but as this made no
effect, he sawed the rheim against
Jagged edge of the rock, cutting his
skin severely. With his hands free, up
he went, cautiously rs he could, using
feet, hands aud shoulders, the blood
streaming from his hands and the sweat
from his face, until utterely exhausted,
he threw himself on fiat rock ON the
summit.
A wild shout from below made him
peer over the ridge, and he saw that his
escape had been discovered. Warriors
were casting round in circles for his
spoor, and others. persuers aud pursued
i'll the recent fight, their senseless fury
gone, were hurrying back