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lest her your affections should become en-
tangled. He felt sure that they would never
be entrapped in any direction whatsoever
without her full consent
Then he ceased to think about the matter
at all. Indeed, the mere idea of such a thing
involved q supposition which would only
have been acceptable to a conceited man
namely, that there was possibility of the
young lady's falling in love with him. What
right had he to suppose anything of the sort7
1t was an impertinence. That there was an
other sort Of possibility-namely, OF his be-
coming more attached to her than was alto
gether desirable-did, however, occur to him
once or twice. But he shrugged his should
ers and put it by. After all, It was his look
out, and he did not much care. 1t would do
her no harm at the worst. But very soon all
these shadoBy forebodings of dawning
trouble vanished quite. They were lost in
the broad, sweet lights of friendship. By
and by. when friendships day was done,
they might arise again, called by other
names and wearing sterner face.
1t was ridiculous-of course it was ridicu-
lous; he was not going to iall in love like
boy at his time OF lite; all he felt was grati-
tude and interest-all she felt was amuse-
ment in his society. As for the intimacy
felt rather than e1pressed-the intimacy
that could already almost enable the one to
divine the others thought, that could shape
her mood to his and his to hers, that could
cause the same thing of beauty to be q COM
mon Joy, and discover unity of mind in
opinions the most opposite-why, it was
only natural between people who had to-
gether passed peril terrible to think Of
So they took the goods the gods provided,
and drifted softly on-whither they did not
stop to inquire.
One day, however, little incident hap
pened that ought to have opened the eyes Of
both. They had arranged, or rather there
was a tacit understanding, that they should
go out together in the afternoon. Geoffrey
was to take his gun and Beatrice a book,
but 1t CHANGED that, just before dinner, az
she walked back from the village, where she
had gone to buy some thread to mend Efie's
clothes, Beatrice came face to face with Mr..
Davies. It was their first meeting without
witnesses since the Sunday of which the
events have been described, and, naturally.
therefore, rather an awkward one. Owen
stopped short 20 that she could not pass
him with q bow, and then turned and
walked beside her. After a remark or two
about the weather, the springs of converse
tion ran dry.
''You remember that you are coming up
to the castle this afternoon?" he said al
length.
4O thc Cosblci suo duSWereu- NO, !
have heard nothing of it."
'Did not your sister tell you she made an
engagement for herself and you week or
more ago. You are to bring the little girl;
she wants to see the view from the top Of
the tower.
Then Beatrice remembered. Elizabeth
had told her, and she had thought it best
to accept the situation. The whole thing
had gone out of her mind.
"oh, I beg your pardoni do remember
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| Cyprian sea. her hali-dried hair hanging in
| heavy masses down her back. Then after
| breakfast they would take Effie down to
the beach, and her "AunIie," as the child
learned to call Beatrice. would teach her
lessons and poetry till she was tired, and
ran away to paddle in the sea or look for
prawns among the rocks.
Meanwhile the child's father and Beatrice
would talk-not about religion-they spoke
no more on that subiect-nor about Owen
Davies, but of everything else on earth.
Beatrice was a merry woman when she was
happy, and they never lacked subjects Of
conversation, for their minds were very
much In tune. In book-learning Beatrice
had the advantage of Geoffrey. for she had
not only read enormously, she also remem-
bered what she read and could apply it.
Her critical faculty, too, was very keen.
He, on the other hand, had more knowledge
of the world. and in his rich days had tray-
eIed a good deal. and SO it came to pass that
each could ALWAYS find something to tell the
other. Never tor one second were thew dull,
not even when they sat for an hour or so in
silence. for it was the silence Of complete
companionship.
So the long morning would wear away all
too quickly. and they would 90 in to dinner,
to be or eeted with a cold smile by Eliza
beth and heartily enough by the old gentle
man, who never thought of anything out
side of his own circle of affairs. After DIM
ner it was the same story. Either thew went
walking to look for ferns and flowers, or
perhaps Geoffrey took his gun and hid be-
hind the rocks for curlew, sending Beatrice,
who knew the coast by heart. a mile round
or more to some headland in order to put
them on the wing. Then she would come
back, springing toward him from rock to
rock, and crouch down beneath a
peighboring seayeed-coyered boulder. and
they would talk together in whispers or
perhaps they would not talk at all. for fear
lest they should frighten the fighting birds.
And Geoffrey would first search the heavens
for curlew or duck, and, seeing none, would
let his eyes fall upon the pure beauty of
Beatrice's face, showing so clearly against
the tender sky, and wonder what she was
thinking about; till, suddenly feeling his
gaze, she would turn with smile as sweet
as the first rosy blush of dawn upon the wa
ters. and ask him what he was thinking
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And so the happy day would pass and
bedtime come, and with it unbidden
dreams.
Geofrey thought no i'll of this, as. Of
course, he ought to have thought. He was
not the raYening lion of fiction-so rarely, il
ever, to be met with in real life-going
about seeking whom he might devour. He
had absolutely no designs on Beatrice's
affections, any more than she had on his,
and he had forgotten that first fell pres
cience Of evil to come. Once or twice, it is
true, qualms of doubt did cross his mind ia
the earlier days of their intimacy. But he
put them by as absurd. He was no believer
in the tender helplessness of fullgrown
women, his experience having been that
they are amply capable-and, for the most
part, more than capable of looking after
themselves. 1t seemed to him a thing ri
diculous that such a person as Beatrice, who
was competent to form opinions and judg-
ment upon all the important questions Of
life, should be treated as a child, and that
he should remove himself from Bryngelly
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construction at Kinchasa station, on the
pool. and only awaiting the very loads 1
was bringing up to be launched on the un-
per Congo and begin her journeyings
through the untraveled regions of the in
terror In search of ivory for the Sanford ex-
ploring expedition, of which was q mem
Der.
Toward the middle of April reached the
village of Lutete, only 60 miles from NV
destination on Stanley Pool, and here the
news that H. NJ. Stanley, at the head of
great expedition for the relief of Emin
Pasha, consisting of eight white officers 500
Zanzibaris, and Tippo Tib, the renowned
Arab slave trader from Stanley Falls, was
on his way up country close behind me,
caused me to use every exertion to hasten
my march, so that I might be able to cross
the Nkissi river, which falls into the Congo
some Is miles beyond Lutete, before Stanley
and his expedition should arrive on its
banks; for l knew Stanley's journey was of
far greater Importance than mine, and that
he would require all the canoes on the
Nkissi to convey his caravan across, during
which time l should be compelled to stand
aside with q band of 100 semi-starying
men.
NATIVES FEARED THE zANzIBARIs.
Owing to the advent of SO many Zanzi-
barns the natives along the line of route
were deserting their villages and fleeing
into the bush, fearing the plundering pro-
pensities generally attributed to the Zanzi-
baris when on the march, so that found
great difficulty in feeding my men as STAN
ley's column drew nearer. At Nzungi
market place, about 10 miles from Nkissi l
was overtaken by Mr.. Jephson, one OF Stan
ley's officers, who, preceding the main
column, was charged with putting the port
able boat together so that everything might
be ready for the passage OF the Nkissi when
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Stanley himself should arrive on its banks
Jephson hurried off at 8 a. NJ. next morn
ing in pitch dark, we having learned in the
night that the expedition had arrived at :
spot only an hours march behind us, where
Stanley had halted for the night.
followed Jephson at 4:30. and at A. NJ.
We had crossed the Lunzadi river by frail
bridge of felled trees, just sufficiently strong
TO bear the weight of the loads and men to.
gether, and were toilfully climbing I'D the
steep hill on the far side when looking back
I saw only half a mile behind US, across the
valley Of the Lunzadi, long stream o.
people pouring down the hill toward the
river, at their head white man on a white
donkey, followed by two or three white-robed
figures, which l judged to be Tippo Tib and
his suite, and behind these long files of Zan-
zibsris and natives
knew it was Stanley at the head of his
column, and that he would soon be upon Us
at the rate We were progressing.
URGED TO A JoG-TRoT
urged the Zulus up the hill and got them
into a jog-trot, almost, with their heavy
loads, while hastened on with nv camp
equipage and the lighter loads to the Nkissi.
where 1 arrived in about two hours and
found Jephson busily engaged piecing the
portable boat together on the bank of the
btLSdAAs AhC NhAeSl IullS through a gorge
with steep banks of $50 to 500 feet, rising
almost from the waters edge.
All my camp loads, tent, bed, food, etc
were passed over to the opposite shore of the
river, about 15O yards across, in two small
native canoes, and sending nv native car
riers over with them and my two dogs
Paddy "a BULLDOG and Snooks Ga bullster-
rier). 1 returned up the hill to see how the
Zulus were getting on with the cylinders
and hoping they might yet arrive before
Stanley.
Entering the deserted village OF Selo
which crowns the hill overlooking the river
1 found it rapidly filling with Zanzabaris
and Soudanese in long white shirts and blue
uniforms, who, as they arrived in the shelter
of the huts and trees, threw down their loads
or piled their guns and crept away into cor
ners and quiet spots out of the blaze of the
midday sun.
observed a young white man in shirt and
flannel trousers moving about what had been
the chiefs house, and he, catching sight of
me, came forward and, answering my greet
ing, said: "Mr. Stanley is there" pointing
to the hut in the inclosure. Would YOU
like to see hinl?"
VERY much. 1 replied, ''if he isn't too
tired alter his march,"
THE MEETING WITH STANLEY.
Leading the way, he showed me into the
hut, where I found myself face to face with
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Stanley. He was sitting on a box or old
camp chalr-I forget matchmaking a iru-
gal breakfast off a cold roast Congo fowl,
some hard, brown ship biscuit and cup oi
tea without milk. His bronzed features, III
up by pair of bright blue eyes, and set of
| by the white mustache he wears and the
| gray hair which encircles his forehead, pro-
duced very pleasing impression on me as
introduced myself and told him why was
| travelling on the road to the pool. He knew
something of the Sanford expedition and
asked after several of its members with
whom he was personally acquainted-after
| having called to William (his white attend
ant who had shown me in) to bring another
| lineup and some cigars.
| l drank cup of tea and smoked cigar
| which he offered me, while Stanley talked
about mutual acquaintances on the Congo
and laughingly alluded TO the way he had
been besieged by applications to accompany
the expedition on his march up country
from former members of his earlier explora-
! tions on the Congo-now officials of the
Congo Free State.
asked him if he noticed much change or
any improvement in the country since he
had quilted it in 1884.
"Wen,'' he replied, ST don't see much
improvement anywhere. There are more
white men out now, OF course, but it strikes
me they have too many books al headquarters
in Bona, and too much office work and
writing Of dispatches, when men might be
better employed doing something through
the country. There are plenty of bridges to
be built over these small streams which rise
suddenly after a nights rain and hinder
caravans crossing ior two or three DAYS
sometimes. Why, there's the Lunzadi Just
back there. which when 1 left the Congo
had bridge over it, and now this morning
could hardly get my donkeys across by the
log or two remaining"
THE SCARCITY OF FOOD.
told him the natives along the route
were very much AFRAID of his ZanZibaris
and had been runninp away from the vii
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CHAPTER XIV.
DRIFTING.


On the day following their religious dis
cussion an accident happened which re-
suited in Geofrey and Beatrice being more
than ever thrown in the company of each
other. During the previous week two cases
of scarlatina had been reported among the
school children, and now it was found that
the complaint had spread so much that it
was necessary to close the school, This
meant, of course, that Beatrice had all her
time upon her hands. And SO had Geofrey.
1t was his custom to bathe before break
fast, after which he had nothing to do for
the rest of the day. Beatrice with little
Effie also bathed before breakfast from the
ladies' bathing place, a quarter of a mile
off, and sometimes ne would meet her as
she returned, glowing with health and
beauty, like Venus new risen from the
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COSTS 20 CENTS EVERY TIME.
The Wear mud Tenr of Material Caused by
Stopping a Train.

Stopping Train.
New York Star.
Sitting in the Hoffman House last night,
heard c. c. Rainwater, chief engineer of
the Wabash Railroad, discussing the cues
ton of railroad management. "Did you
ever consider" said he, what is the actual
cost of stopping train? 1 have been in
the railroad business since was a boy, and
the question never seriously occurred to ME
until the other day in a lawsuit at St.
Louis, when the question came up. John
u. Garrett, general manager of the Wabash,
testified on the stand that the cost of stop
ping an ordinary passenger train at a way
station was 20 cents.
being cross-examined, he admitted that a
certain train running between East ST.
Louis and Toledo was paying his company
about 81 per mile, and, being further ques-
toned as 20 the number of stops made on
the road, it was established that if it cost 20
cents for each stop, this paying train. as Mr.
Garrett called it. lost money to the extent of
twice its operating expenses. The decision
of the jury in the case was based on the con-
clusion that it cost about 30 cents in wear
and tear and time to stop an ordinary
passenger train at way station, and I be-
Heve they were about right"
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mission station to complete the preparations

mission station to complete the preparations
| for embarking.
On the Both of April everything was
| ready; the donkcys had, with difficulty,
been got on board the steamship Stanley
and her companion, the Florida; the men,
Zanzibaris, Soudauese and Somaulis were
all in their places on each of the little
steamers of the feet. Steam was kissing
from the tunnels; the captains were only
awaiting the word to let go the ropes, and
one by one, as Stanley issued the orders, the
vessels were cut adrift, and their stern
wheels slowly revolving threw up sheets of
foam and spray behind them as their prows
shot into the currents, and they began their
long journey against the strong waters of
the Congo, up to the distant forests and
swamps that lay around Yambuya.
sTANLEY's BOAT DISABLED.
Cheer after cheer broke from those on
board, white and black alike, as they moved
off from the bank on which we were stand
I ing, doing our best to look smiling and CAV,
as we responded to the farewells which we
feared would prove farewells forever. STAN
ley was the last to leave, accompanied by
Herbert Ward, in the little Baptist steamer
Peace, the only screwboat then on the pool.
On reaching Kinchasa, what was our as
tonishment to find the black crew of the
Peace and many Zanzibaris about the sta
tion, while we could see the little steamer
herself alongside our beach, Hurrying
to our dining room we found Stanley
giving some instructions to the engineer
OF the steamer, and in answer to our:
"Why, Mr.. Stanley, how is this? We
thought you were couple of miles up the
Pool" He replied: $50 we ought to have
been, but just when we got opposite the sta.
ton here in the bad water off the islands
something broke. and the rudder wouldn't
act. We were at the mercy of the stream,
and almost drifted on the rocks of the island
there. I thought we should have to swim
for it, and turned to Ward, saying it was
time to jump, but luckily we escaped the
rocks and were able to get into your beach,
Swinburne, and so here we are until to-mor-
row, 1 fear. The engineers will have to
work all night at repairing the damage"
We did not share Mr.. Stanley's chagrin
at the delay, fer it gave US the pleasure
OF his company that evening to dinner,
Swinburne turning out of his room with a
feeling of thankfulness that he had a room
to offer his old leader and friend. Our little
dinner that night was one of the pleasant
est of my experiences during my five years
in Africa.
SERVING THE REAL CHIEF.
How we'll remember Stanley's bright.
agreeable conversation during the meal how
active our little black servant BOYS were to
attend upon the least, the real-the true
Bula Matadi-none of your spurious imita-
tions, but the genuine being who had
thrashed their chiefs in many a fight and
then "made blood-brothers" with them who
had journeyed in lands far up the great
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bank and urged on his men by words of en-
enlargement, the Florida shot gracefully
into the waters of the Congo, where the
Stanley speedily took her in tow down to
where the expedition loads were being en-
barked at the Baptist mission station.
One of our few bottles of champagne was
produced, and while we drank the health of
the newly-launched Florida ("Let it be
very little health" urged Mr. Stanley, as
we were filling the glasses) the Zanzibaris,
who had successfully effected it, drew up in
front of the verandah to listen to speech
In Ki-Swahili from Stanley, who assured
them IN forcible terms that if they damaged
the steamer OF his friend Swinburne (the
chief of the Sanford expedition) or STAN pea
heavily on her thin iron decks while travel
ing up to the Aruwimi on her he would
play different tune on their heads with his
stick.
All cheeringly assented to the proposal as
they broke up and FASTENED hack to the
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A WEALTHY SENATOR.
Leland Stanford's Career From Farm
to Political Greatness.
HIS BOYISH BUSINESS VENTURES.
The Nucleus OF His Fortune Chopped Out Of
New York Forest.
FOUNDER OF A GREAT UNIVERSITY
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,

SAN FRANCISCO, February 27.-The fore
most Californian of to-day is the States
senior representative in the national Senate.
While his associates in the greatrailroad en-
terprise with which his name has been for
years connected, have often become the tar
get of public abuse, Leland Stanford has
steadily maintained large share of popu-
larity. And vet this man who was the most
accomplished Governor California ever had;
whose destiny it was to build the first rail-
road through her richest and most beautiful
valleys and over her snow-clad mountains;
who has accumulated by the exercise of his
genius and business foresight, fortune OF
over $50, 900, 900, was, as late as 1860. quiet
and unobtrusive merchant in Sacramento.
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TRANSPLANFING BONES.
The Thigh Bone of One Man Makes Pnrt of
the Humerus OF Another.

The Thigh Bone of One Man Makes Pnrt of
the Humerus OF Another.
Prof. Won Bergman, of Berlin, is said to
have lately conceived and carried out an
operation which must be considered a mar
velous tribute to the progress of modern
surgery. Two patients were brought to him.
one of whom was suffering under an injury
which necessitated amputation of the thigh,
and the other from disease of the humerus
which called for excision of a part of that
bone. The professor proceeded to operate
upon the tlrst OF these patients, and he then
removed the diseased portion of the bone
from the arm of the second one, leaving
necessarily gap. This he actually filed with
portion of the healthy bone from the am
putated leg, and a successful union was
made. The second patient was by this
clever operation endowed with a serviceable
arm, instead of one which would probably
have been useless.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l

The Byng the WEIGH
Ora
p IN IS lap
privilege holding
uennbeIe
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river, where tabled dwarfs with top-heavy
heads dwelt; or who, in his own land, the
distant Mputu, whence the white men came
far across the sea, was the King and father
of them ALL
Dinner over, during our coffee and cigars
Cor we sometimes possess these luxuries
down on Stanley PooD Stanley most graph
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How Jokes Travel.
Someryille Journal.l


1t gives an American humorist queer
sensation to see one of his old-time jests go
ing the rounds credited to the F7iegsnde
Bldetter, or some other OF the German comic
papers, having been translated into German
and then translated back again into the
vernacular. Generally the Jest does not
seem to be improved by foreign travel.
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STANLEY IN AFRICA,
Roger Easements Meeting
With the Explorer.
THEIR RACE TO THE NKlSSI.
An Interview Inside His Tent on the
Banks of the River.
TIE START FOR ARUWIMI SWAMPS
Launching of the Florida in the Waters
of Stanley Pool.
A DINNER TOGETHER AT KINCHASA.
THEIR RACE TO THE NKlSSI,
TIE START FOR ARUWIMIS SWAMPS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. !

n April, 1887, ]
was on my way
through the cata-
ract region of the
lower Congo, leading
a caravan of Zulus
from ATatadi to Stan
ley Pool, with a
party of natives OF
the Ba-Kongo tribe
acting as carriers OF
my personal loads
tent, private boxes,
etc.-altogether num-
bering about 100 per-
sons.
The Zulus (64 IN
number) were en-
ployed carrying two
heavy cylinders of
500 pounds each and
some smaller pieces
of machinery, all
belonging to the
ste a m e r Florida,
then in course of