The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-09-07

actly as l had seen it in the vision.
There burnt TIC fire, there We're tie rUI"
wooden y:.~...,',. enc OF them still haIi
full OF tnu ,....,.r y:hich had seen the
baboon bring. l felt awed as 1 looked,
and marveled at the power welded by n
savage who could not even read and
write.
Now I could see Stella clearly. Her
face was scratched and haggard with
fear and weeping, her clothes Wero al
most torn off her, ard her beautiful hair
was loose and tangled. sent for water,
and We spcinkled her face. Then
forced a little OF the brandy which we
distilled from peaches at the kraals be-
tween her lips, and she opened hereycs'
and throwing her arms about ne ctung
to me as little Tota had done, scbbinG:
THANK God! thank Cod
After awhile sho grew quieter, and
made her and Tota eat q little food from
the store that we had brought With Us.
7. too, ate. and was thankful, for with
tie exception of the 1nealie cobs l had
tasted nothing for nearly fouc-and-
twenty hours. Then she washed her
face and hands, and tidied her rags OF
dress as we'll as she was able. AS she
did so, by degrees I drew her story from
her.
It seemed that on the previous after
noon, being wearicd with packing, she
went out to visit her fathers grave,
taking Tota with her, and was followed
there hyt.A.o TWO dogs. She wished to
Law some flowers OF tho grave and take
farewell OF the d.. it coTe-ed, for, as
we had expected to trek early on the
morrow, she did not know il she would
find a later opportunity: They passed
up the garden, and, gathering some
flowers from the orange trees and else
where, went CT to tho little grave
ward. Here she laid than CT the grave
as we had found them, ard then, Sit
ting down, fell iI+o c Gaep ':::a SD
reverie, such .g the occasion: T-cIld nat
urally induce. While Sic set thus,
Tota, who was lively child and acti"e
as a kitten, stragca away !:.cac::55
Stella observing i. With her l"c:-::;: TO
dogs, who had also grown tired oS =
action; q while passed, and suddenly,
she heard tho dogs barking zur:ocslJ
about hundred and fifty yards away.
Then she heard Tota Scream, aHi. tho
dogs also yelling with fca- and pain.
she rose and ran IS swiftly as she could
toward the spot whence the sound
came. Presently sAo was there. Be-
fore her II the glade, holding the
Screaming To,a Il her e".22@, "2s .
figure in which, Notwithstanding tno
rouch disguise of bahoon skins ard CO..
oring matter. she had 70 difficulty IN
recornizirc Tend7ii!-a, and al about
her were numbers Ct haocc2s, rolling
over ard over in t;iT:o hiGcous heaps, CT
which the cencers were Tie t"'o H2to2t-
unate dogs NV IL process G being
rent to fragments.
"Ee1drika, S;c7:2 cried, ''iE:2cc: does
this mean? What a:2 YOU doing; VIZ
Tota and those 5-:'to::'
The woman her: &c: - locked Up
Then she saw to: Sic w2s I'D; mad
ness stared iron. -: cyes. !:A2 dropped
The child. whi::. :.>,..::.:2:l;- few to
Stella for protection. s."!:@ ilas.2ca it.,
onlv 70 be ncrsc:: c;;.&yci - Eci'ari?;a.
She st.3rrled G:.rc"!y. t2t Il vas OF 20
use-:ia Eabya:.-G'aa hid tbs strength
of tcr. She lifted h:r and Tota as
though they Hc"o nothing, and ran CT
with them, fo?lo;Sir::; tho bod oi the
stream in order to avoid leaving a
spoer. Only the tabcci!; Who came
J with her, minusSthe one 1aagdogs had
kept pacc wish tA1n cE th@ '&;.:l.
Stella said 1ha3 the night which
followed w:5 nero ike hi3coGs night
mare than reality. SAo was never
able to tell nc al t;1aJ occurred in t.
She had q vague recollection CT being
borne over rocks and along kloofs,
while around her echoed TIE horrible
grunts and clicks OF tho h.5oons. She
spoke to Hcndri!;a m English and
katir, imploring hc2 to let them 60;
but the woman, if may call her so,
seemed in her madness to have entirely
forgotten these tongues. When Stella
spoke she would ks; her ard stroke her
hair, but she did not seem 10 understand
what It was Sic s,;i1. On the othol
hand, shc could, and did: talk to the
baboons, that seemed TO obey her in
| plicitly. Moreover. she would not allow
| them to touch either stella or the child
in her arms. GAce one Of them
, tried to do so, and she seized a dead
stick and struck it 50 heavily On the
| head that it. fell senscless. Thrice
Stella made an attempt to escape, for
sometimes even Hendrika's giant
strength wancd and she had to set them
down. But on each occasion she caught
them, and it was in these struggles that
Stclla's clothes were SO torn. 1T length
before daylight they reached the cliff,
and with the first break OF light the as
cent began. i!cndriss Dragged them up
the first stages, bat when they camc to
the prccipitous place she tied the strips
of hide, OF which she had a supply wound
round her waist, beneath S:cllaS arms.
Steep as the place ":}s, tic balloons as
ccnded it easily enough spriEging from
knob OF rock to the tlan!l Of the tree
that grew on the edge CT the crevasse.
Herdrika followed them, holding the
crd Of the hide in h"r teeth. one of the
balloons hanging Gov7l from the tree to
assist her ascent. It was while she was
ascending that Stella hcrhou;ht her Of
letting fall her haadiscr@hicf in the
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