The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-02

saved me from the babyans? [ am a
woman as she is, and you are man. and
! they say in the kraals that men love
women better than women love women.
But it is lie, though this is true, that if
a woman loves a man she forgets all
other love. Have not seen it? l gather
her flowers beautiful flowers; climb
the rocks where you would never dare to
go to find them; you pluck piece of
orange bloom in the garden and give it
her. What does she do? She takes the
orange bloom, she puts it in her breast
and lets my flowers die. l call to her
! she does not hear me-she is thinking.
! You whisper to some one far away, and
she hears and smiles. She used to kiss
me sometimes; now she kisses that white
brat you brought. because you brought
| it. On, see it all-all: l 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 a
monkey; that servant of yours calls me
| baboon woman. Well, I have lived with
balloons, and they are clever-yes, they
can play tricks and know things you
don't, and | 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 a
pit, and with one more look of malice
she was gone.
stood for a 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. l
foreboded evil at her hands. And vet
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
confess that, both in this instance and in
some others that l 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
lover could be of that of his mistress:
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 NAV
be said to come to its iptensest perfection
IN brutes. Women are more jealous than
men, small hearted men are more zeal
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 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 l came.
''Stella tells me" he went on. .sthat
you two have entered into q marriage
engagement. She tells me also that she
loves you, and that you say that YOU
love her."
Il do indeed, SIR" broke in; 81 love
her truly; if ever woman was loved in
this world 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 |
sometimes think, it affected my brain.
At any rate, 1 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 its
evils did so; found this place, and
here we have lived for many years, hap
PLY enough and perhaps not without
doing good in our generation, but still
In way unnatural to our race and
status. At first | thought that | would
let my daughter grow up in a state of
complete ignorance, that she should be
natures child. But as time went on,
saw the folly and the wickedness of nv
plan. l had no right to degrade her to
the level Of the savages around me, for
If the fruit OF the tree Of knowledge is a
bitter fruit, sui it teaches good from
aTil. So | educated her as well as 1 was
LIE. I'll IN the end / knew that in mind,
IS in body, she was in no way inferior
% her sisters, the children of the civil
c2d world.
She grew I'D and catered into woman
hood, and then it came into my p1Nld
that was doing her bitter wrong, that
l was separating her from her kind and
keeping her in a wilderness where she
could find neither mate nor companion.
But though knew this, L could not yet
make up my mind to return to active
life: had grown to love this place. l
dreaded to return into the world had
abjured. Again and again put my
resolutions aside. Then at the COM
mencement of this year l fell ILL., For
while | waited, hoping that ] might get
better, but at last realized that | should
never get better, that the hand of death
was upon me-"
''Ah, no, father, not thatl" Stella said,
with n cry
Yes, love, that, and it is true Now
you will be able to forget our separation
in the happiness of a new meeting" and
he glanced at me and smiled. "Well