The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-12

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"sHE Is DEAD, AND YOU HAVE KILLED
.. HER"
and killed her-because loved her so.
killed her who saved me from the
brutes. 1 am not dead yet, Macuma-
| zahn. Take me and torture me todeath,
slowly, very slowly. 1t was jealousy of
you that drove me mad, and 1 have
| killed her, and now she never can for
give me-"
Ask forgiveness from above" said,
for Hendrika had been Christian, and
the torment of her remorse touched
me.
81 ask no forgiveness" she said.
MAY God torture me forever, because 1
killed her; may 1 become a brute for
ever till she comes to find me and for
give me! 1 only want her forgiveness"
And wailing in an anguish of the heart
so strt ng that her bodily suffering
seemed to be forgotten, Hendrika, the
Baboon-woman, died.
went back to the kraals, and, walk
ing Indaba-zimbi, told him what had
happened, asking him to send some
one to watch the body, as proposed to
give it burial. But next morning it
was gone, and found that the natives,
hearing of the event, had taken the
corpse and thrown it to the vultures
with every mark of hate. Such, then,
was tho end of Hendrika.
A week after Hendricks death 1 left
Babyan kraals. The place was hateful
to me now, it was a haunted place. l
sent for old Indaba-zimbi and told him
that was going. He answered that it
was we'll. 1.-The place has served your
turn" he said; "here you have won that
Joy which it was fated you should win,
and have suffered those things which it
was fated you should suffer. Yes, and
though you know it not now, the Joy and
the suffering, like the sunshine and
storm, are the same thing, and will rest
at last in the same heaven, the heaven
from which they came. Now go, Ma
cumazahn.'
1 asked him If he was coming with
me.
NO" he answered, ''our paths lie
apart henceforth, Macumazahn. We met
together for certain ends. Those ends
are fulfilled. Now each one goes his
own way. You have still many
years before you, Macumazahn; my years
are few. When we shake hands here it
will be for the last time. Perhaps we
may meet again, but it will not be in
this world. Henceforth we have each of
US friend the less"
Heavy words" / said.
True words" he answered.
Well, 1 have little heart to write of
the rest of it. / went, leaving 1ndaba-
zimbi in charge of the place, and max
goods as did not want.
Tota I, of course, took with me. Fort
unately by this time she had almost re-
covered the shock to her nerves. The
baby Harry, as he was afterwards
named, was fine, healthy child, and 1
was lucky in getting a respectable ma
tive woman, whose husband had oeen
killed in the fight with the balloons, to
accompany me as his nurse.
Slowly, and followed for distance by
all the people, 1 trekked away from
Babyan kraals. My route towards
Natal was along the edge of the Bad
Lands, and my first nights outspan was
beneath that very tree where Stella, my
lost wife, hid found US as we lay dying
of thirst.
did not sleep much that night. And
yet was glad that had not died in the
desert about eleven months before. l
felt then, as from year to year have
continued to feel while L wander
through the lonely wilderness of life,
that l had been preserved to an end. /
had won my darling's love, and for lit
tie while we had been happy together.
Our happiness was too perfect to endure.
She is lost to me now, but she is lost to
be found again.
Here on the following morning babe |
to Indaba-zimbi.
Goodbye, Macumazahn," he said,
his white lock at me. Good |
bye for awhile. 1 am not Christian; |
your father could not make me that. |
But he was a wise man, and when he |
said that those who love each other |
shall meet again he did not lie. And !, /
too, am wise man in my way, Macuma-
zahn. And l say it is true that We shall
meet again. All my prophecies to you
have come true, Macumazahn, and this
one shall come true also. / tell You that
you shall return to Babyan kraals and
shall not find me. l tell you that you
shall journey to a further land than
Babyan kraals and shall find me. Fare
well!" and he took pinch of snuff,
turned, and went.
OF my journey down to Natal there is
little to tell met with many advent
Tres, but they were of an everyday kind,
md in the end arrived safely in Port
Durham, which I now visited for the
irst time. Both Tota and my baby boy
'ore the journey we'll And here may
IS well chronicle the destiny of Tota.
Tor year she remained under my
barge. Then she was adopted by
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