The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-03-22

Lifting the knife on high, for a moment
she held 1t glittering in the moonlight,
then plunged it into her own breast and
fell headlong to the ground.
sprang over the wall and ran to her.
She was not yet dead. Presently she
opened her eyes, and saw that the mad
ness had gone out of them.
s'Macumazahn,' she said, speaking in
English and in thick, difficult voice.
like one who half forgot and half rernem-
bered, stMacumazahn, remember now.
have been mad. Is she really dead.
Macumazahn?"
eyes, said, she is dead, "and vow
killed her"
81 killed her!' the dying woman
faltered, 'sand T loved her. Yes, yes-l
know now. I became brute again and
dragged her to the brutes, and now once
more am a woman, and she is dead
and killed her-because loved her so
killed her who saved me from the
brutes. I am not dead yet, Macuma
zahn. Take me and torture me to death,
slowly, very slowly 1t was jealousy y.
you that drove me mad, and I have
killed her, and now she never can for
give me-"
ASK forgiveness from above" / said,
for Hendrika had been Christian, and
me. 49,
81 ask no forgiveness" she said.
"May God torture me forever, because1
killed her; may become brute for
ever till she comes to find me and for
give me! only want her forgiveness.
And wailing in an anguish Of the hear&
so stre ng that her bodily suffering
seemed to be forgotten, Hendrika, tho
Baboon-woman, died.
went back to the kraals, and, wax
ing Indaba-zimbi, told him what had
happened, asking him to send some
one to watch the body, as proposed to
give it burial. But next morning ii
was gone, and found that the natives,
hearing Of tho event, had taken the
corpse and thrown it to the vultures
with every mark of hate. Such, then,
was the end of Hendrika.
A week after Hendricks death l left
Babyan kraals. The place was hateful
to me now, it was a haunted place.
sent for old Indaba-zimbi and told him
that was going. He answered that IT
was we'll. 1.-THE place has served your
turn he said; there you have won that
Joy which it was fated you should win,
and have suffered those things which it
was fated you should suffer. Yes, and
though you know it not now, the Joy and
the suffering, like the sunshine and
storm, are the same thing, and will rest
at last in the same heaven, the heaven
from which they came. Now 60, Ma
cumazahn."
/ I asked him II he was coming with
me.
"No," he answered, stour paths lie
apart henceforth, Macnmazahn. We met
together for certain ends. Those ends
are fulfilled. Now each one goes his
own way. You have still many
years before you, Macumazahn;myyea years
are few. When we shake hands here it
will be for the last time. Perhaps we
may meet again, but it will not be in
this world. Henceforth we have each OF
us friend the less"
Heavy words I said.
..True words" he answered.
Well, have little heart to write Of
the rest of it. went. leaving Indaba-
zimbi in charge Of the place, and maxi
ing him a present Of such cattle and
goods as I did not want. N a. A, #,5E 4.
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