Evening journal., 1899-08-17

I purchase money. Then he rode away,
leaving the forsalSen woman sitt,Ag 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. Sheretaliated on them. scoEing
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 10 regard her MS "a spy in
the camp. and the Inevitable Mullah
ouiclly let it be known that she was
hereto from the faith-Awhntever that
was Ia their eyes. AS she WAS wealthy,
her existence was shame. "a danger
and reProach. IL was not long before
she was doomed an outcast, eefled
infdel. n rcbelieus woman Ihey came
quickly TO the point OF passing sontenoa
Of death on her; and theycame TO il the
quicker THAI the Rews was brought TO
than that Grierson was married ac-
cordirg 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 it sealed her fate. 10 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 q 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 it, 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 q stranghng cry for nercy A
5 shower of big stones crashed on her,
E battering the shape out of her body
and piling a mount above her. Hardly
j. had her dying groans ceased w.hcR sand
and earth and pebbles completed the
I tomb, and effectuany wiped out every
b trace of her existence.
The men lounged slowly of 10 join
Z the caravaR, which was lurching and
d struggling away two or three miles
S ahead toward their native mountains
4 And heRrelatioEs divided between than
d hersproperty. But the atonement wal
a not complete. II was needfVl tha.
e avery trace Of Crierson and his rae,
II should be wiped out. The blood of IA,
r. murdered woman was on him, and thl
e shame of the tribe. Year by year IN.
y traders passed through Hindustan. an,
e sought always Grierson; sought hin
Is for years; sought him till his hair
y which they had known black, was iron
st gray; sought him until many year
ID later two men Of the ZillRh Ehel passes
10 a native regiment camping on the I'm
D. Of march, while nOviag in relief, an
le starnod thQt Grierson was in command
IN They left their servants and comrade
v to journey on with their merchandis,
IN and took to the jungle, following III
regiment. Grierson was a keen sports
4. man, and they looked to seeing hin
q alone some day out shooting. At las
I'd their time came.
81 Two days march from the destinel
cantonment Mrs. Grierson came out Il
ID meet her husband, and brought he
in three little boys with her. She was Il
"a stay in camp that night, and go ahea
Is into cantonment next day, a doubl
IS march. Grierson took his gun, and sal
le he would go and shoot some game 70
Mt her; and he went with only his orderly
All unseen and unsuspected, his tw
u, enemies dogged him. until some tw
er hours later he came to duck-jeel, an
he sent his orderly round to point a mil
IS away to drive the duck toward hin
1t where he crouched in mud and waite
IS, behind heap ofweeds. As soon as h
u, was alone,tbe two men dashed for hin
io Grierson turned at the noise they mad
sd in splashing through the water. Il
ed recognized the dress of their tribe.
s.; 'What do you want?" he shouted
be ''Vengeancel" they cried, and rushe
at at him with their knives drawn.
cr For answer he fired both barrels a
he them. He knew what they meant, an
ie- in his furry one man took both charges
e. and dropped dying. Grierson clubbe
ad his gun. The second man took a smasi
er ing blow on his left arm. but got HON
UT with his knife, and Grierson went dowi
IN The man dispatched him and fed, lea
ay ing gun and cartridges and his dea
~, comrade.
IS When the bodies were found thei
us was a fierce hue and cry. The story {
sh Grierson's conduct on the frontier can
A. up, and the tribe was overhauled /
~ the politicals. But, Of course, nothiu
III. came Of it. Poor Mrs. Grierson wei
I'D home with her little boys, ignorant
It" the cause OF her husbands murder, Il
ia who could tell her?
be She had not been out of India a mont
ne when her husbands only brother W,
ed stabbed in the Delhi streets by +
lly natic.
ID "And if apy Of his sons come out her
even 20 years from now, they will die
nd I rofJ n,1reI,,, Lr1,,.,