Evening journal., 1899-08-29
tribe again. He gave her also clothes.

purchase money. Then he rode away,
leaving the forsaken woman sittlAg for
lorn on the sand and stones from which
he had taken her two years before.
He did not think he was acting un-
kindly. He had found her poor, and
he left her rich. No doubt, too, he felt
pang at parting. But as soon as he
was gone the women of the tribe fell
on her. She retaliated on them, scofiing
at their dirt and savagery, and refused
to do the old menial Offices. She refused,
too, TO marry any one of the men, who
would have been quite content to take
her for her wealth. Then the men
turned, too. The women began to
teach them 70 regard her as a spy in
the camp, and the inevitable Mullah
quickly let it be known that she was a
hereto fron the faith--whatever that
was in their eyes. AS she was wealthy,
her existence was a shame, danger
and a reproach. II was not long before
she was doomed an outcast, dehled
infdel. Gebellious woman. They came
quickly to the point Of passing sentence
Of death on her; and they came 10 Il the
quicker that the news was brought TO
them that Grierson was married ac-
cording to the English religion TO one
of his own race. What the poor tor
tured girl did or said in her rage is not
known, but IL sealed her fate. 1t also
cast the hatred of the entire tribe on
Grierson. He had debauched one of
their women, and for two years had
cast shame on them.
On a gloomy winter morning. be-
tween dark and dawn, they led her to
the place of execution in the Gorge OF
Shame. No women were near. They
stripped her, and left her standing
naked in the midst Of ring Of cruel
men, pitiless and Needless of her
beauty. The Mullah worked himself
and his hearers into a religious frenzy,
and then, at the height of il, sprung on
her with his keen, heavy saber and cut
her through the spine. She reeled with
a scream and fell on her hands and
knees. He struck her again, and she
fell on her side in a torrent Of blood,
with a strangling cry for mercy. A
shower of big stones crashed en- her,
battering thu shape out of her body
and piling a mount above her. Hardly
had her dying groans ceased when sand
and earth and pebbles completed the
tomb, and eifectually wiped out every
trace of her existence.
The men lounged slowly of to join
the caravan, which was lurching and
struggling away two or three miles
ahead toward their native mountains
And her relations divided between them
her property. But the atonement was
not complete. 1t was needfl that
every trace OF Grierson and his race
should be wiped out. The blood Of IN,
murdered woman was on him, and the
shame Of the tribe. Year by year the
traders passed through Hindustan, anS
sought always Grierson; sought hin
for years; sought him till his hair
which they had known black, was iron
gray; sought him until many year
later two men of the zillah Khel passe'
a native regiment camping on the lin
Of march, while moving in relief, ant
learned that Grierson was in command
They left their servants and comrade
TO journey on with their merchandise
and took to the jungle, following th'
regiment. Grierson was q keen sports
mGn, and they Looked TO seeing hin
alone some day out shooting. At las
their time came.
Two days march from the destine'
cantonment Mrs. Grierson came out Il
meet her husband, and brought he
three little boys with her. She was t
stay in camp that night, and go ahea'
into caAtonment next day, O doubl
march. Grierson took his gun, and sail
he would go and shoot some game 70
her; and he went with only his orderly
All unseen and unsuspected, his tw
, enemies dogged him, until soma tw
T hours later he came 20 a duck-jeel, an
, senf his orderly round TO point a mil
5 away TO drive the duck toward hin
where he crouohed in mud and waite
, behind aNheap Of weeds. AS soon as h
, was alone the two men dashed for hin
Grierson turned at the noise they mad
in splashing through the water. II
recognized, the dress of their tribe.
"What do you want?" he shouted.
: "Vengeancai" they cried, and rushe
! at him with their knives drawn.
For answer he fred both barrels q
them. He knew what they meant, an
in his furry one man took both charges
!. and dropped dying. Grierson clubbe
! his gun. The second man took a smasi
r ing blow on his left arm, but got hon
r with his knife, and Grierson went dow
The man dispatched him and fed, lea
: ing gun and cartridges and his dea
, comrade.
r When the bodies were found thel
was a fierce hue and cry. The story {
Grierson's conduct on the frontier can
. up, and the tribe was overhauled
the politicals. But, of course, nothin
J.. came of It. Poor Mrs. Grierson weI
] home with her little boys, ignorant 4
the cause of her husbands murder, f
J. who could tell her?
She had not been out of India a mont
e when her husbands only brother WI
stabbed IN the Delhi streets by a +
matte.
+ "And ff any of his SONS come ont her