The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-30

she hears and smiles. She used to kiss
me sometimes; now she kisses that white
brat you brought, because you brought
it. Oh, see it all-all; | have seen it
from the first; you are stealing her from
us, stealing her to yourself, and those
who loved her before you came are for
gotten. BE careful, Macumazahn, be
careful, lest l am revenged upon you.
You, you hate me; you think me half
monkey; that servant Of yours calls me
baboon woman. WE'LL have lived with
balloons, and they are clever-yes, they
can play tricks and know things you
don't, and l am cleverer than they, for
have learnt the wisdom of white people
also, and | say to you, walk softly,
Macumazahn, or you will fall into
pitt, and with one more look of malice
she was gone.
l stood for moment rejecting. ]
was afraid Of this strange creature who
seemed to combine the cunning of the
great apes that had reared her with the
passion and skill of human kind.
foreboded evil at her hands. And yet
there was something almost touching in
the fierceness of her jealousy. 1t is gen
orally supposed that this passion only
exists in strength when the object loved
is Of another sex from the lover, but I
confess that, both in this instance and in
some others that | have met with, this
has not been my experience have
known men, and especially uncivilized
men, who were as jealous Of the affec-
ton Of their friend or master as any
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and who has not seen cases of the same
thing where parents and their children
were concerned? But the lower one gets
in the scale of humanity the more read
lily this passion thrives; indeed, it may
be said to come to it's intensest perfection
in brutes. Women are more Jealous than
men, small hearted men are more jeal-
GUS than those Of larger mind and wider
sympathy, and animals are the most
jealous of all. Now Hendrika was in
some ways not far removed from animal,
which may perhaps account for the fe-
rOcity of her jealousy of her mistress
affection.
Shaking off my presentiments of evil,
| entered the center hut. Mr.. Carson
was resting on the sofa, and by him
knelt Stella holding his hand, and her
head resting on his breast. l saw at
once that she had been telling him of
what had come about between us; nor
| was l sorry, for it is a task that would
be son-in-law is generally glad to do by
deputy
"Come here, Allan Quatermain," he
said, almost sternly, and my heart gave
jump, for l feared lest he might be
about to require me to go about my
business. But | came.
"Stella tells me" he went on, that
you two have entered into a marriage
engagement. She tells me also that she
loves you, and that you say that you
love her."
II do indeed, SIR" broke in; 81 love
her truly; if ever woman was loved in
this world l love her"
81 thank heaven for it," said the old
man. Listen, my children. Many
years ago great shame and sorrow fell
upon me, SO great sorrow that, as l
sometimes think, it affected my brain.
At any rate, l determined to do what
! most men would have considered the act
of mailman, to go far away into the
wilderness with my only child, there to
live remote from civilization and it's
evils did so; found this place, and
here we have lived for many years, hap