The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

| ~ tney formed together. and, with a
series of great bounds and running,
now on all four paws, now on two, they
charged on the two friends. Rather
frightened at the consequence of teach
ing a babOon to play ball. Weldon
Jumped on his wheel. and just as he
did so the balloons resorted to their
favorite weapon, and. seizing here and
there rocks of large size, they dis
charged a volley of them after the
fugitives. The stones fell all about
the riders. One struck Mays front
! wheel and almost capsized him, but
they themselves were unhurt- The
road now wound down q hill, which
was too rough and steep for more than
cautious riders; but, urged forward by
the cries of the balloons and the con-
tinued stone-throwing, the friends
dashed down it at full speed.
The brutes are following" yelled
Weldon. as a rock graZed his head.
| and. looking back. May saw that, with
/ incredible swiftness, the pack was
bounding behind, never ceasing their
revengeful cries and. their artillery fire
| OF stones. But the cyclists gained. The
| road turned sharply, and shut them
from the view of the monkeys. and
then they came TO the foot, and to
their disgust saw yet another steep hill
rise in front. Still the yelps of the
balloons sounded in the rear
Put your back into it, old man."
yelled May, and the TWO young men
rushed down the last few yards of hill
with such speed that the velocity
gained carried them well up the ascent.
STOPPING low they worked the pedals
with all their might. but half way up
the wheels began to wiggle, waggle
and they had to jump off
Push on" Weldon cried grimly
showing his wheel ahead. They We're
still. however. far from the ton. when
the raging and vindictive balloons
came chattering to the foot of the hill.
and uttered d sort of triumphant
screech as they sighted the enemy.
The brutes bounded up the hill in pur-
SUIT with great cunning, seeking q shell
ter from retaliation in the trees and
pushes of the roadside. BY leaps and
bounds they gained and soon the stone
throwing recommended. and now both
men were struck mole than once blood
fiowlng from a cut in Weldon's head.
The demons!" he gasped. They're
more like savage men than brute
beasts"
Il wish you'd realized that before
you disturbed Them" his reproachful
comrade grunted.
AT last they were at the top. and a
decllVlty again stretched before them.
Just as the stones came down in a
shower The Vengeful apes seemed to
nave no idea of relinquishing the chase. !
The riders sped down at breaknecl,
speed, and now they thought they were
fairly and safely away The road
twisted and wound. Soon they We're out
OF slsht, and soon after the yelps of
the pack sounded more family
Thank heaven!" cried May. who |
was little in advance That was a
tight hole
ii Know better another time than |
TO NEEDLE with a pack of these mon |
KEYS! Weldon gasped. 'Halloa,"
Ihey were turning corner at full |
speed, the danger behind rendering |
them blind to any in front As Wei. |
don cried out May ran up against an
obstruction. and was pitched far over
the handlebars. good ten feet into
some bushes by the wayside. There
was no possibility for his friend tn
escape ne was scorching directly be-
nind and the descent was steep. He 1
MT on the obstruction and his chum's
Wheel, and, like an arrow sped after
inother: ne also shot through the air
and lighted behind MAY. There hid
zen py the bushes, they lay still and
senseless. anu
Immediately from the other side of
Inc road. where the wood was dense .
brutal black face, with wide yellow
sh eyeballs peeped out. listened for
ihoihelt, tnen ledped to the two life |
ess men and began to rifle their
pockets. 1t was the same Kaffir who [,
the morning had been almost
;aught by May-the man who was
wanted in Cape Town for assault and =,
'obbery. Excited by the sight of the :
gold which May had shown when set I
ling the hotel BILL disappointed in {
ampering with the wheels. he had run ,
With unresting speed by the short cuts
'ver the mountains. until, at this dan /
'erous curve in the road, he had been {
n time to tie grape vine taut across ,
he path with almost fatal results to $
he white men, whose bicycles Law {
mashed in the road I
The kaffir rogue lost no time in 7
earching his late masters pockets. I
ut he had hardly begun to do so when 5
e was arrested in the act by a strange c
umult up the hill. Fearful of cap i
ure he left his prey and ran across
he road to his former hiding place. 7
lie was not half way across when a i
uge old gray sbaboon far in advance I
+ the others, bounded round the bend. a
big rock in its forepaws 1t saw 4