The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-05
THE PROFESSORS BUTTERFLY.

| not relations, were travelling 70 fOTt
| Eliza beth TO stay with friends in that
never quite made clear. Horace found
| them refined. Well-bred. charming wom-
| en-, having many things in common with
him; and the trio in a day or two's time
/ got on swlmmingly together.
BY the time the line was reached, the
/ vision Of Rose Vanning, with her fair,
| wavy brown hair, good gray eyes, fresh
| complexion, and open. yet slightly re-
/ strained manner, was forever before
/ the mental ken of Horace MaybOld.
! Here, indeed. he told himself, was the
! typical English girl he had so often set
I before his mind; fresh, tallish, full of
/ health, alert vigorous In mind and body,
! yet a thorough and a perfect woman.
/ on many warm tropical evening. as
/ they sat together on deck, while the big
| ship drove her way through the oil-like
] ocean. sending shoals of fiying-fish scud-
] ding to right and left of her, the two
/ chatted together, and day by day their
| intimacy quickened 1t was clear TO
/ Horace. and it began, too, to dawn upon
/ Mrs. Stacer, that Rose Nanntng found
a more than ordinary pleasure IN his
| presence BY the time they were within
/ a day of Cape Town, Horace had more
/ than half made up his mind. He had
| gently opened the trenches with Mrs
Stacer. who had met him almost half
. way, and had obtained permission TO call
| upon them in London-at house north
| Of Hyde park, where they were living.
| At present, they knew so little Of him
! and his people, that he felt 1t would be
unfair to push matters further. But he
had mentioned Mrs. Stacer's invitation
! to Rose Vanning.
"I hope Miss Vanning." he said, you
! won't quite nave forgotten me when L
/ come to see you-let me see-about next
! May. It's a very long way of, isn't it?
I And people and things change so in these
ff0an "a ~ a
/ the girl as he spoke; what he saw reas-
| sured him a good deal
IF you haven't forgotten us. Mr. May
bod" she said. pretty flush rising as
/ she spoke, I'm quite sure we shall re
member and be glad to see you. We've
I had such good times together. ana l hope
/ you'll come and see us soon. We shall
I be home IN April at latest. and we shall
have. no doubt heaps of adventures to
compare"
At Cape Town, Horace, after many in
/ quiries. had half settled upon a journey
/ along the Orange river He had more
( than one reason for this. Perhaps Rose
Warnings Influence had sharpened his
moral sense! who knows? At any rate,
! he had begun to think it was playing 1t
I rather low down upon the professor TO
! follow him up and preach his preserves
] He could do the Orange river this sea-
son, and wait another year for the
'Achraea Parchellf'; by that time, the
/ old gentleman would probably have had
/ his fill. and would not mind imparting
I the secret, if properly approached. Ana
! so the Orange river was decided upon,
! and in three or four days he was TO start
Upon the following evening, however,
/ something happened TO alter these plans.
/ Half an hour before dinner, as ne was
sitting on the pleasant stOep (veranda)
1 of the International hotel, enjoying 4
1 cigarette 4 man whose face he seemed
! to know came up TO him and instantly
/ claimed acquaintance. You remember
Z me, surely, Maybold?" he said. Il was
! at Marlborough with youth me same
form for three terms"
/ OSTourse Horace remembered him; and
thew sat a dinner together and had a
! long yarn far into the night.
The Upsh1t of this meeting was that
nothing would satisfy John Marley
Johnny" ne was always called-but
+ Horace should go round by sea with
him TO Port Elizabeth. and stop a few
weeks at his farm, some little way up
: the country from that place. When he
! was tired of that. he could go on by rail
I 10 CradOcS, and complete his program
! on the Orange river.
IF you want butterflies, my boy" said
Johnny in his hearty way. you shall
! have lots at my place-tons of them
after rains; and Wen have some rat
Ting good shooting as we'll. You can
always run about after bugs you know
So next day but one, Horace, little
/ loath. was hauled by his friend down 20
the docks again, and thence round to
Port Elizabeth by steamer. From Port
Elizabeth they proceeded, partly by rail,
partly by Cape cart and horses. in a
nortAeasterly direction, until at length.
after the best part of days journey
B through some wild and most beautiful
! scenery, they drove up late in the even
/ ing to long, low, comfortable farm
/ house. shaded by a big veranda, where
/ they were met and welcomed BY Marley 5
: wife and three sturdy children. After al
I lowing his friend a days rest to unpack
his kit and get out his gunnery and col
{ Letting boxes, Johnny plunged him into
a vortex Of sport and hard work. A
fortnight had vanished ere Horace could
cry off. He had enjoyed it all immense
+ ly; but he really must get on with the
! butterflies. especially If he meant to go
I north to the Orange river.
! Marley pretended To grumble a little
i at his friends desertiOn of Understanding
\ for MISUNDERSTANDING; but he quickly
/ placed at his disposal a sharp HottentOt
/ boy, Jacobus by name who knew every
I nook and corner of that vast country
I side. and barring little laziness, natural
/ to HOttentot blood, proved a perfect
| treasure to the entOmOlOgist. The weather
/ was perfection. Some fine showers had
K into life, and the flowers We're everywhere
/ ablaze The bush was In its glory.
Amid all this regeneration Of nature
/ butterflies and insects We're extremely
/ abundant. Horace had great time Of
! f. and day after day added largely to his
collection One morning. fitting about
here and there, he noticed a butterfly
+ that seemed new to him. He quickly
had specimen within his net and To
] his intense satisfaction, found It, as he
/ had suspected, new species. It be-
+ longed to the genus "Eurema'-which
I contains but few SpecieS-and sornewhat
! resem bled ''Eurena schoeneia'' CTrimen)
/ a handsome darx-brOwn and yellow but
| terf1y, with tailed hind wings. But
/ Horace's new capture was widely differ
ent in this respect; the whole of the un-
7 der surface of the wings was suffused
with a strong roseate pink, which min
/ gled here and there with the brown,
sometimes darker, sometimes lighter in
its hue.
Here was a thrilling discovery-a dis
coveTy which, as Horace laughingly said
TO himself, would make old ParchelI "sit
up" at their societys meeting next
spring. Horace captured eight more
/ specimen5-the butterfly was not too
plentiful-and then made for home in an
ecstasy Of delight
A few days after this memorable event
he set off with Jacobus for farm house
thirty miles away, to the owner of which
an English Afrikander-Marley had
given him an Introduction. AS they
passed near the kloof where the new
butterfly had been discovered, which lay
about halfway, Horace off-saddled for
an hour, and picked up half-a-dozen
These he placed with the utmost care in
his collecting AT mon f6ev SaddIad