The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-08

THE BABOoN WOMAN WAS JEALOUS.
tiful daughter from the rest of the world
There found them, living in the midst Of
a garden that was rich with flowers and
fruits, apparently happy and contented.
He welcomed me to his home, and / spent
there few of the most pleasant and de-
lightful weeks of my life.
1.-THE servant in Barriots home was
strange and hideous woman OF uncertain
age, a creature with the most repulsive fea-
lures l ever saw on human being, with
hands and feet that seemed deformed and
looked like claws She always went bare
footed, absolutely refusing to wear shoes.
Her voice was singularly gruff, and she
spoke kind of broken English that it took
me long time to understand When she
became angry, she would utter chattering
scream that reminded me of a monkeys
cry the first time heard it. This creature
was exceedingly shy of me, although she
would look at me from the first with her
beady black eyes as if she longed to fly at
my throat and fasten her clawlike fingers
there Barriot and his daughter called her
Molly.
''This woman fascinated me by her re-
pulsive aspect, and took an unaccounta
BILE interest in her from the time first saw
her. / wondered what race or tribe she
could belong to, and finally became salts
fled that there was mingling of black and
white blood in her veins. / longed to Ques-
ton the hermit concerning Molly, but he
was man who resented inquisitiveness, as
Iquickly discovered, and so | refrained.
'Molly was devoted to Enthe Barriot,
to whom she was ever gentle and consider
ate Indeed the hideous woman seemed to
love her mistress passipnately, and her
jealousy was Immediately aroused if she
fancied Enithe was paying more attention
to me than she ought. This jealousy be-
came open and violent as the hermit's
daughter and myself grew better acquaint-
ed and were in each others company a
great deal.
''As for Epithe, she was the sweetest,
purest, most innocent girl it has ever been
my fortune to meet. She knew no more of
the great world beyond the limits of her
garden home than her books and her fa-
Their had told her. She would have created
sensation in any Fifth avenue reception
room, but she had quite escaped the con-
tamination that mingling with the world
must bring to the most innocent maiden.
was charmed with her from the very first,
and it was not long before | found myself
completely enamored, but felt it was like
betraying the confidence of my host to win
the affections of this fair child, and should
have departed with the secret of my pas
sion locked fast in my breast, but for AL
varez Barriot himself.
Zone day the hermit took me for walk
far into the forest, and there, seated be.
meath the spreading branches of mighty
tree, we had long talk, He questioned
me about myself, and answered every
question as frankly and truthfully as
could, oven though | was,flled with won.
der by his strange manner. At length
after some minutes of silence, he asked:
"'Dahlgren, do you love Enithep
"The question came with the suddenness
of thunderbolt, but l answered as soon as
could recover from the start it gave me
told him did, but l explained that in
tended going away as soon as possible, that
might keep my love secret. Then cam,
the greatest surprise of all.
"'She loves YOU declared the hermit, his
voice shaking with emotion. She told mt
SO yesterday, but it needed no words from
her to reveal the truth. You shall not tax,
her from me, but if you are willing to mar
ry her and live with her here until | an
dead and gone she shall be yours.
st is needless to say had no hesitation
In agreeing to anything that would Civ,
me Enithe, even though |, too, were forced
to turn hermit. When we had talked i
over long time he suddenly said;
"'You must beware of Molly, for sh,
hates you. She is a baboon woman. Yor
have heard of themS | rescued her from
the great apes and tanned her, although SHE
was like wild animal at first. | am sat
isfied she was stolen from her parents by
the balloons and brought up. Watch her
Dahlgren.'
"That night Enithe and pledged oul
love beneath the stars. As | kissed hel
sweet lips for the first time, heard rus
Ting in the bushes, and the next moment
was knocked fiat and felt great weight OF
my breast. Then two clawlike hand,
clutched my throat, and | saw the hideou'
face of the baboon woman close to my own
Her fiery eyes seemed to burn into my
brain, and her harsh voice shrieked:
"'She minel No have herl Kill, kill
killr
II fought with all my strength, but wa
not able TO fling her off. 1t was wonderful
what power she possessed | heard thu
bones in my neck cracking, and ! could no
breathe. ! was being strangled TO death.
ENTITIES cries brought her father run
ming from the house, rifle in hand. The ba
boon woman saw him coming, and, with
wild, chattering scream, she released he
hold on me and grasped the girl In mo
ment she had flung Enithe over her shout
der and fed into the forest.
"Barriot was nearly crazed when he real
lied what had happened. The creature
carrying my child to the baboonsP b.
screamed we must follow and save her
Come onl
He knew the great cliff Of rocks amonI
the caves Of which the balloons had thei
homes, and we were able to intercept Molly
Seeing she was cut off, the wild womal