Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-07-23

cuCou DHOhSI tett Juhtiheet N ootlulolluB /
at srom $40, 900 TO el2.eO0 in value.
The Kafiir received Eve sovereigns in !
return for his news, and with them and |
his own earnings be proceeded, after !
the manner of bis kind. to blind himself |
TO the lights of heaven and divers bar
rooms for three days and nights. after
which he went baok with light pouch
and heavy head to do another tive
months spell in the mine. This time
he was the bearer of a message TO has
Pondo ohum to the effect that if on his
coming out he would take the dog to
certain place other than the house of
Loo Chat be would get $500 for it in
place OF the etO0 that his master had
promised BIN. To this tho Pondo, be-
ing easy OF morals and longing greatly
for the possession Of wives and cattle in
his own land, inoontinently consented.
The reason for this leading sstray of
| the untutored savage may be quickly
seen in the fact that 10 per cent on.
| say, e1O. 900 would be 81. 600, and this,
with the amount of the bill, would
/ make 81, $50, which, when Mr.. Low
enfeldt came to think quietly over the
matter, seemed TO be most outrageous
price to pay to yellow skinned heather
even for u double skinned dog, and,
after due deliberation. he decided not to
psFy il, if he could find any means of
evading payment
The shortest and easiest way TO do
this was to procure the arrest and con-
viction of Loo Chat as an l. ID. b. before
the Pondo got out, and to this end he
succeeded IN bribing All Foo with cash
down and the promise of more 90 plant
four traps which he took from his
own safe, in a convenient place in his
masters store But as there is more
honor Of sort among heathens than
among thieves, All Foo give the plot
away In the same hour. showed the trap
stones to Loo Chat, who had been sus-
pectiBg some friendly action Of the sort,
} and, with his consent took them away
, with him for greater safety and his own
( reward.
Very early the next morning the po-
lice. ''aoting on information received, -
raided the store Of Loo Chat, turned ii
mostly into the street, and found moth
ing, its owner meanwhile looking on
Z with a bland resignation that would
q have well become a martyr in n better
Q cause. A good deal Of language was
y
r. which no respectable printers inl
z would convey any adequate expression,
= but it was nothing TO the eloquent Yid
e dish in which Mr.. Augustus Lowenfeldi
J. relieved his feelings when he heard OF
o the barren result of their labors.
The next morning a somewhat un
u wonted scene was enacted outside the
o main gate of the De Beers compound
!, Some 80 or 40 Kaffirs, whose time wa
d up and who had gone through the iina
q formalities preceding dismissal. wer
coming out laughing and singing anC
chattering and jingling their hard earn
% ed money like so many children, an,
e among them, as innocently festive a
a any, was young Bymeby, the Pondo
He was not carrying has dog this time
k He knew that the officials had almost
,, If not entirely, forgotten its existence
and he wisely thought that it would b
D more prudent to let il sneak quietly on
l. among the legs of the crowd than to re
l. call it TO the gatekeeper's memory b.
70 taking it in his arms
d The animal had become quite attach
10 ed to him, and he made sure that b
k would be able to pick it up without an
y difficulty when be had got safe dis
l. tance from the gate. This he could hav
done quite easily if the dog had onl
p been left TO itself But it wasn't
4 No sooner had it passed the Rubioo
q almost unnoticed and shown itself j
4 the road than pecnliar cry, somethin
4 like high tenor ''coo-e-ee. rose shrill
4 into the still air from nowhere in pai
4 ticular The heather dog pricked up il
4 false ears at the familiar but long III
/ heard sound, and the. next instant bC
tween $40, 600 and e12. 900 worth {
4 dog and diamonds was soampering dow
\ the road as fast as four Riry legs coul
carry it.
i Bymeby let out high pitched how
Of rage and horror and started off wit
I great leaping strides in pursuit of th
much longed for wives and cattle an
guns that were literally running ava
with the dog. The rest Joined in til
hue and cry, some for good reasons
their own and some for the mere fun
IN the thing but unfortunately, just
re they were beginning TO gain on the fly
1t ing treasure, a squad of mounted polic'
DIT coming back from their nights duty Q
I'd the Free State border, turned "a cornC
ed out of the Du Toits Pan road at a tr,
u and barred their way.
The dog lodged in among the horse
y, legs and got clear away to the eag'
It, arms Of All Foo, who was waiting fl
Do it in a half ruined tin shanty about IC
&c yards farther down the road. The p'
of lice, always suspicious Of anything Iii
If Kaffir emuete, ordered Bymeby an
he his companions TO stop but the POND
d. and one or two of the others who kne
the worth of the quarry made despe
lg ate effort to get through and continI
tn the chase. with the result that tie
be we're speedily run down, coliared a,
.. marched of to the tronk, where, beiE
nr able to give no satisfactory reasons f
n their anxiety to catch the dog, thu
n were summarily fined shillings ea'
ar and kicked out.
ei Almost at the same moment that TIT
70 regained their liberty an ocourrenc
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