The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-05-19

Mz4sfuHB 10 lOSb 10 you ana me.
l kissed your lips, and vet
not enough to shake the dew
he'd lids-and missed, with no
ok, with sharp breaths fail
lie our own eyes are wet
ee OF tears, let us forget!
A. james Whitcomb Riley.
GALULA.
was q great chief. The
,led were numerous and war
ssegais were 10000; his tribe
cattle. So the missionary at
Syas glad indeed when he felt
ched Langalula's heart. for
ION. u ""0i0
king goes over, the people
:him.
q said, liam convinced; bap-
ways of white men are incom-
Though the missionary had
ing that very thing for
when Langalula gave in
Conviction alone is not
Oh must wait awhile till |
your life shows forth works
meet for repentance" Langa-
bled. He YVES little accus-
gch contradiction. But he
hard ar5uing with these
White men, who will baptize a
=&5kTET .Gt1Nn axnrxy Ia
Aff. Sohe held his peace, and
he chafed at it waited the mis-
5 pleasure.
nd~by n day the missionary
s to him. ''Langalula," he said con-
scendingly, Il have watched you close
for many weeks now, and | think |
q baptize YOU
Then all my sins will be forgiven"
led Langalula.
All your sins will be forgiven the
nary answered.
Unjust put away my wivesf" Ian
iasked once more.
Il save one" answered lie mission
1t was a point of doctri.1e.
len, l think" Langalula said, Il
%kEor ) week, SO as to make up
which one of them is dearest
said this deceitfully, knowing
S sins were going to be forgiv-
Mstermlning in the interval to
.otnef wife, whom he would
gS1spwn when he put away the
$or there was a young girl COM
fsssck but comely, the daughter
pa, a ~neighboring chief, whom
had seen and whom he wished
lie. And since the last love is
1%for the moment the greatest
&ef cared very little whether he
PIT away all his other wives or
Sif sdn1y lie could keep MaIali. She
d driven out all the rest of them. He
d watched the girl growing up at
namsua's for years and had said to
himself always, whenever Malali is of
narriageabse age see if I do not buy her
and marry her."
In pursuance of this plan, as soon as
We missionary was gone, Langalula rose
lp and took the fighting men of his tribe
with him that there might be no dispute,
and marched into the country of Malali's
II 1dluC1y WllOoC AdIIC, DIS 1 Sdlu, WIS
q Khamsua. When Khamsua heard Lam
galula was on his way to his land with
5000 assegais, not to speak of winchester
rifles, he went out to meet him with a
great retinue.
Khamsua cringed. Langalula said to
him, Il am come to ask for Malali."
The moment Khamsua heard that he
was unspeakably terrified and flung him.
self down on his face and clasped Ian
galulaS knees, for Khamsua was only a
small chief in the country compared with
Langalula.
80 my king" Khamsua said, so lion
of the people, I did not know so great
Amonarch as you had set his eyes on
Vail, and before you asked Montelo's
came and offered oxen on Mon
kbehalf for Malali. and I sold her
to EN- because I was afraid of Mon
ted .and could not have believed so great
"a chief as you had ever looked upon her"
Langslula smiled at that. "Oh, as for
Montelo, 7 he said, 81 can easily take her
from him, and then I can get the mis-
slonary T,marry u.s."
KhanIsda, however, answered like a
fool. "It cannot be. The Christians
are so straight laced. Montelo is aChris-
tian now. He was baptized a week age.
and Malali was married to him in Chris
tan fashion. Even if you were to kill
Montelo and take her to your kraal 1
don't believe the missionary would mar
ry YOU"
Langalula turned to his men. kill
him" he said simply. And they killed
HI with an assegai.
~ pom as that was finished Langalula
seAon into Montelo's country.
be arrived there, Montelo crept
beet him and tried to parley with
But Langulula would not parley