The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-06
PART II.

lney ran Stfalght-lt was thClr only
chance-taking whatever ground came
in the way--a spread Of singing net
ties, an open glade, a clump of grass
out of which a hyena fled snarlinE.
Behind them the chase trailed out and
scattered, with Uya ever at their heels.
Eudena kept the first place, running
light and with her breath easy, for
Ughlomi carried the Fire Stone in his
hand.
1t told on his pace-not at first, but
after a time. His footsteps behind her
suddenly grew remote. Glancing over
her shoulder as they crossed another
open space, Eudena saw that Ugh-lomi
was many yards behind her, and Uya
close upon him, with antler already
raised in the air to strike him down.
Wau and the others were but Just
emerging from the shadow of the
woods.
Seeing Ugh-lomi in peril, Eudena ran
sideways, looking back, threw up her
arms and cried aloud, just as the ant
Ter flew. And young Ugh-lomi, expect
ing this and understanding her cry,
ducked his head, so that the missile
merely struck his scalp lightly, maxi
ing but trivial wound. and flew over
him. He turned forthwith, the quart
zite Fire Stone in both hands, and
hurled it straight at Uya's body as he
ran loose from the throw. Uya
shouted, but could not dodge it. 1t
took him under the ribs, heavy and
fiat, and he reeled and went down
without a cry. Ugh-lomi caught up
the antler-one tine of it was tipped
with is own bloOd-and came running
on again with a red trickle just coming
out of his hair.
Uya rolled over twice, and lay a mo-
ment before he got up, and then he
did not run fast The color of his face
was changed. Wau overlook him, and
then others, and he coughed and la
bored in his breath. But he kept on.
At last the two fugitives gained the
bank of the river, where the stream
ran deep and narrow, and they still
had fifty yards in hand of Wau, the
foremost pursuer the man who made
the shifting stones. He carried one. a
large flint, the shape of an oyster and
double the size, Clipped to a chisel
edge, in either hand.
They sprang down the steep bank
into the stream, rushed through the
water, swan the deep current in two
or three strokes, and came out wading
again, dripping and refreshed to
Chamber up the further bank 1t was
undermined, and with willows growing
thickly therefrom, so that it needed
clambering. And while Eudena was
still among the silvery branches and
Ughlomi still in the water-for the
antler had encumbered him-Wau
came up against the sky on the oppo-
site bank and the shifting stone,
thrown cunningly, took the side of Eu-
dena's knee. She struggled to the top
and fell.
They heard the pursuers shout to one
another, and Ugh-'omi, climbing to her
and moving jerkily to mar Wau's aim,
felt the second shifting stone Craze his
ear, and heard the water splashing be-
low him.
Then 1t was Ugh-lomi, the STRIPPING.
proved himself to have come to mans
estate. For running on he found Eu-
dena fell behind, limping, and at that
he turned, and, crying savagely and
with face terrible with sudden wrath
and trickling blood, ran swiftly past
her back to the bank. And Eudena
kept on, running stoutly still, though
she must needs limp at every step,
and the pain was already sharp.
So that Wau, rising over the edge
and clutching the straight willow
branches, saw Ugh-lomi towering over
him, gigantic against the blue; saw his
whole body swing round and the grin
of his hands upon the antler. The edge
of the antler came sweeping through
the air, and he saw no more. The wa
ter under the osiers whrled and eddied
and went crimson six feet down the
stream. Uya following, stopped knee
nigh across the stream, and the man
who was swimming turned about.
The other men who trailed after
they were none of them very mighty
men Qor Uya was more cunning than
strong, brooking no sturdy rivals)
slackened momentarily at the sight of
Ugh-lomi standing there above the will
lows, bloody and terrible, between
them and the halting girl, with the
huge antler waving in his hand. II
seemed as though he had gone into the