Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-15

Wn3ca soe noe Uncn unholy power. TIE
ouly tsace q humanity left about her
was her affection for me. Evidently her
idea was 10 keep me here with her. to
Keep me away from you, and to carry
out this idea she was capable Of the ex-
ercise Of every artifice and cunning. In
that way she was sane enough, but In
every other way she was mad. More.
over, che had mot forgotten her horrible
Jealousy. Already I saw her glaring at
Tota, and knew that Tie child's muir.
der was only matter Of time. Proba.
bly, within . few hours she would be
killed before my eyes. OF escape, even
Il I had the strength, there was abso-
lutely no chance, and little enough Of
our ever being found. No, we should
b kept there guarded by mad thing,
half apo, half woman, till we perished
miserably. Then thought of you, dear,
and Of all that you must be suffering,
and my heart nearly broke. could
only pray to Gvd that might either be
rescued or die swiftly.
"As prayed, I dropped into a kind Of
doae from utter WEAKNESS, and then
had the strangeet dream. I dreamed
that lndaba-ximbi stood over me nod
ding his white lock. and spoke to me In
Kaiir, telling me not to be frightened,
Tor you would soon be with me, and that
meanwhile must humor Hendrika, pre-
tending to be pleased to have her near
me. The dream was 90 vivid that
actually seemed to see and hear him, as
see and hear him now"
Here looked up and glanced at old
Indaba-zimbi, who was sitting near But
L was not till afterwards that | told
Stella Of how her vision was brought
about.
"At any rate" she went on, "when I
awoke determined to act on my dream
took Hendricks hand and pressed it,
She actually laughed in wild kind of
way with happiness, and laid her head
upon my knee. Then made signs that
WANTED food. and she threw wood on
the fire, which forgot to tell you was
burning in the cave, and began to make
some of the broth that she used to cook
very well, and she did not seem to have
forgotten all about it. At any rate the
broth was not bad, though neither Tota
nor could drink much of it, Fright and
WEAKNESS had taken away our appetites.
"After the meal was done-and pro-
longed 1t as much as possible--l saw
that Hendrika was beginning to get
jealous Of Tota again. She glared at
her and then at the big knife which was
tied round her own body. knew the
knife again; 1t was the one with which
she had tried to murder you. dear At
last she went 30 far as to draw the knife.
was paralyzed with fear, then suddenly
l remembered that when she was our
servant, and used to get out of temper
and sulk, could always calm her BY
singing to her. So | began to sing
hymns Instantly she forgot her ieal-
ousy and put the knife back into its
sheath. She knew the sound of the
singing, and sat listening to it with a
rapt face; the balloons. too. crowded in
at the entrance of the cave to listen.
must have sung for an hour or more, all
the hymns that | could remember. 1t
was SO very strange and dreadful sitting
there singing to mad Hendrika and those
hideous man-like apes that shut their
eyes and nodded their great heads as
o"hS' ~ wac uhC a IioiIiDIe ulSutIldTes
but l believe that the balloons are almost
as human as the Bushmen.
"Well. this went on for a long time
till my voice was getting exhausted.
Then suddenly heard the balloons out
side raise loud noise, as they do when
angry. Then, dear, l heard the boom of
your elephant gun, and | think it was
the sweetest sound that ever came to my
ears. Hendrika heard it, too. She
sprang up, stood for moment, then, to
my horror, swept Tota into her arms and
rushed down the cave. OF course, |
could not stir to follow her, for my feet
were tied. Next instant l heard the
sound of rock being moved and pres
emily the lessening of the light in the
cave told me that was shut in. Now
the sound even of the elephant gun only
reached me very family, and presently
could hear nothing more, straiung my
ears as would.
"At last heard faint shouting that
reached me through the wall of rock. |
answered as loud as l could. You know
the rest; and, oh, my dear husband,
thank God! thank God!' and she fell
weeping into my arms.
CHAPTER XIV,