The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-09-26

affect his whole right side, his arm as
well as his leg.
He had sprung to his feet when first
bitten, and sat on top OF tho stone
while lie applied the ammonia. Now
he nearly fell it, and at length was
Obliged to rest his head against it to
support the pain and giddiness. He
believed himself 10 be dying.
For "a long as an hour he remained
IN semi-comatose condition; but at
| last he revived little, although his
right leg, when he tried to move ii.
felt inert and heavy. His head had
now cleared, and he opened his eyes
and looked around.
Almost the first circumstance that
he noted, consciously, was u low.
scraping noise, accompanied by a
| slight motion in the sparse brush
twenty or thirty yards down the slope.
in the direction from which he had
himself come up the hill.
Raising himself little, he saw that
man, black fellow, undoubtedly a
dervish, was crawling slowly up the
hill. This was quite enough to
stimulate Radmorc's reviviug energies.
He made a strong effort 60 rise. and
succeeded in drawing himself partly
up by his left leg and leaning his back
against the stone.
The black fellow. too, partially
raised himself, aud Ralmore now saw
that 1T was the identical body lie had
seen lying between two stones little
lower down the slope as he came M.
oh 4
now 1t appeared to be coming on, The
queer lines Of Fuzzy Wuzzy' re
Cured 10 Radmorc's mind:
'E's all 'ot sand and ginger when alive
IN es generally Summing whom 'o's
dead.
"And, by Jove, he means me, too"
thought tho young journalist; for he
could now see that the crawling
dervish had his eyes fixed on him,
and that his distorted features wore n
malignant grin.
The Arab was dragging himself
painfully forward, rising ON one ell
bow and then pushing with his left
foot! Although gricyously wounded,
fonotical hatred had nervod him to
crawl after the InSliZi who had passed
him, and try to kill him.
Radmore perceived that the black
chap was holding some sort Of weapon
IN one hand, and made hasty effort
to draw his own revolver; but as yet
his right arm was poworless. He
took tho pistol in his left hand, and
made shift 30 cock it.
The dervish heard, this, or marked
tho movement. He stopped, and
with eyes like those of some fell rep
tiles, watched the Englishmau for
some moments. Radmorc tried to
think of certain Arabic words and
phrases that he had learned, but his
memory failed to recall them. He
raised his hand deprecatingly.
Quit that! Begone!" he said, in
English. Leave me alone, and
will you"
The Basgara showed his white
teeth. Very likely he mistooll this
attempt at Precipitation for defiance.
Suddenly screaming forth q curse, he
got mp on one knee, and with his left
hand on the ground, hobbcd strangely
forward, clutching his weapon in the
other hand
or his purpose RaImore now had
no doubt. He was coming on fast,
too, for man in such plight. The
necessity os sclf-prcscrvation nervcI
the journalist TO shoot.
He thcu put his thumb right across
his kuCcs, aud utilized it as rest for
the revolver in his left hand; and as
the black fellow camo up, he con
trired 60 lodge two shots in his al
ready shattered body, which had the
effect of eypcditinS the departure OF
his rcgolutc spirit to the Moslcm
Paradise.
The weapon with which no had
made this last dying effort against the
Euglishman proved TO be mn old sabre
bayonct Of tho kind captured by the
dcryishcs from Hicks Pasha fifteen
years ago
Either tho excitement from this
rcncontrc or the ammonia SO far neu.
traiilcd the venom of the scorpion
bite that Eajmorc was soon able to
regain his legs and mako his way
back 10 tho English camp ut III
Gcmuaia. Youths Companion.