The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-26
BLACK HEART AND
WHITE HEART
A ZULU IDYLL.

| her hands and Sprang upward and out
ward from the platform. The watch
| erS bent their heads forward to look.
/ They saw her rush headlong down the
! face of the fall to strike the water
/ fifty feet below. A few seconds and
for the last time they caught sight of
her white garment glimmering on the
4 surface Of the gloomy pool, then the
shadows and mist-wreathS hid 1t, and
she was gone.
Now, Husband cried the cheerful
1 voice of the captain, ''yonder is your
marriage bed, so be swift to follow a
bride who is ready to lead the way.
! Wow! but you are good people to XIII;
never have I had to do with any who
gave less trouble. YOU and he
/ stopped, for mental agony had done its
work and Nahoon suddenly went mad
before his eyes.
With a roar like that of a lion the
great man cast off those who held him,
and Selling one of them round the
waist and thigh he put out all his ter
rible strength. Lifting him as though
he had been an infant, he hurled him
over the edge of the cliff to find his
death on the rocks of the Pool of Doom.
Then crying:
BLACK Heart! your turn, Black
Heart the traitorl" he rushed at Had
{ den, his eyes rolling and foam flying
from his lips, as he passed striking the
Chief Maputa from his horse with a
backward blow of his hand. III would
it have gone with the white man if
Nahoon had caught him. But he could
not come at him for the soldiers sprang
upon him, and Notwithstanding his
fearful struggles, they pulled him to
the ground, as at certain festivals the
Zulu regiments with their naked hands
pull down a bull in the presence of the
king.
Cast him over before he can work
more mischief" said a voice, but the
captain cried out: NAY, nay, he is
sacred, the fire from heaven has fallen
on his brain, and we may not harm
him, else evil would overtake US all
Bind him hand and foot and bear him
hence tenderly to where he can be
cared for. Surely I thought that these
! evildoers were giving us too little
trouble, and thus it has proved"
/ SO they set themselves to make fast
Nahoon's hands and wrists. using as
much gentleness as they might for
/ among the Zulus a Iunatic is accounted
holy. 1t was no easy task, and it took
/ time
( Hadden glanced around him and saw
his opportunity. On the ground close
beside him lay his rife, where one of
/ the soldiers had placed it, and about a
dozen yards away Maputa S pony was
/ grazing. With a swift movement he
seized the Martini, and five seconds
/ later he was on the back of the pony
/ heading for the Crocodile drift at a
gallop. So quickly, indeed, did he exc
/ cute this mastery retreat that, oc-
4 cupied as they were all in binding Ma
boon, for half a minute or more no one
noticed what had happened. Then Ma
puta CHANGED to see. and waddling
! after him to the top of the rise,
4 screaming:
THE white thief: he has stolen my
! horse and the gun too; the gun that he
promised to give me"
I MADDEN, who by this time was hun
! dred yards away, heard him clearly,
and a rage filed his heart. This man
! had made an open murderer of him;
more, he had been the means of rob-
/ bling him Of the girl for whose sake he
! he'd dipped his hands in these iniqui-
ties. He glanced over his shoulder;
/ Maputa was still running, and alone
/ Yes, there was time; at any rate he
would risk it.
Pulling up the pony with jerk, he
! leapt from its back, slipping his arm
through the rein with an almost stimuli
taneous movement. As it CHANGED, and
/ as he had hoped would be the case,
/ the animal was a trained shooting
horse. and stood still MADDEN planted
his feet firmly on the ground, and
drawing a deep breath. he cooked the
rifle and covered the advancing chief
4 Now Maputa saw his purpose, and
with a yell of terror turned to fly
Hadden waited a second to get the
sight fair onto his broad back, then,
just as the soldiers appeared above
the rise, he pressed the trigger. He was
a noted shot, and in this instance his
skill did not fail him, for before he
heard the bullet strike, Maputa flung
his arms wide and plunged to the
ground dead.
Three seconds more and with a saw
age curse Hadden had remounted the
pony and was riding for his life to-
ward the river, which a While later he
crossed in safety.