Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-04-18
The Strange Story
ALLAN QUATERNA|N'S WIFE.
BY Fl. RIDER HAGGARD.
NEW AFRICAN ROMANCE.


amicably
We'll" he said at length, offering him
pinch of snuff, you can not walk
again"
mo, chief" said the wounded man,
looking at his ankle.
"And tomorrow we must walk far"
went on Sususa.
Yes, chief"
Say, then, will you sit here on the
veldt, or" and he nodded towards the
river.
The man dropped his head on his breast
for minute as though in thought. Pres
emily he lifted it and looked Sususa
straight in the face.
My ankle pains me, my brother" he
said. Il think | viii 90 back to Zulu
land, for there is the only kraal | wish
to see, even if | creep about it like
snake"
at is well, my brother" said the chief.
REST SOFTLY" and having shaken hands
with him, he gave an order to one of the
indunas, and turned away.
Then, men came, and. supporting the
wounded man, helped him down to the
banks Of the stream. Here, at his re-
quest, they tied heavy stone round his
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/ saw the whole sad scene, and the victim
never WINGED.
1t was impossible not to admire the ex-
traorIiuary courage of the man. or TO
avoid being struck with the cold bIooded
cruelty of his brother, the chief And yet
the act was necessary from his point Of
view. The man must either die swiftly,
or be left to perish of starvation, for no
IrrIV
wounded men.
Years of merciIess warfare had so hard
ened these people that they looked on death
as nothing, and were, to do them justice,
as willing to meet il themselves as to in
flict il on others.
When this very Impi had been sent by
the Zulu King Dngaan, it consisted of
some nine thousand men. Now it num-
bered about three, all the rest were dead
They, too, would probably soon be dead.
What did it matter? They lived by war
10 die in blood. 1t was their natural end.
Kill till YOU are killed" That is the
motto of the Zulu soldier 1t has the merit
of simplicity.
Meanwhile the warriors were Iooting the
wagons including my own, having first
thrown all the dead Beers into heap. |
looked at the heap: all Of them were there,
including the two stout fraus Doorthiuos
But missed one BODY. that of the Hans
Borha's daughter, little Tota. A wild
hone came into NV heart that she nfrbt
have escaped: but no. it was not posi-
ble couId only pr,v that she was already
al rest,
Just then the great Zulu. Bombyanc.
who had LEFT my side to indulge in the
conpenial occupation of footing. came ont
of a WAGON r,inv that he had got the
,rrtI. white one ;, Ionl,ed. ne was C,r,.r,-
inc the child Tota. gripping her frocl- in
one Of his huue black hands He st,Iked
un.to where we were and held the child
b,.r,,re thc chief SIS il dead fatLrr,,, ba
said
Now. as | could we'll see, the child was
not dead. but had been hidden away. and
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