Evening journal., 1899-08-10

| lorn on the sand and stones from which
he had taken her two years before.
He did not think he was acting un-
kindly. lie had found her poor, and
he left'her rich. no doubt, too, he felt
q pang at parting. but as soon as be
was gone the women OF the tribe fell
on her. She retaliated on them, scoiiinq
ut their dirt and sayagery. and refused
to do the old mental 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 to regard har as a spy in
the camp, and the inevitable Mullah
! quickly let il be known that she was
hereto from the faith-whatover that
was in their eyes. As she was wealthy,
her existence was a shame. IA danger
and a reproach. IL was not long before
she was doomed an outcast. defilcd
infdel. rebellious woman They came
quickly 10 the point Of passing sentence
OF death on her; and they came TO it the
quicker that the news was brought 20
them that Grierson was married ac-
cording 10 the English religion to one
OF his own race. What the poor tor
turcd girl did or said in her rage is not
known, but IL sealed her fate. II 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 hor to
tIn r,loro - ox.~rfs.,, Il. a.. c.. "a
Shame. No women were near. They
stripped her, and left her standing
naked in the midst of a 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. lie struck her agaia, and she
fell on her side in torrent Of blood,
with a strangHng cry for mercy. a
shower Of big stones crashed on her.
battering the 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 effectually wiped out every
} trace OF her existence.
The men lounged slowly off to Join
the caravan. which was lurching and
struggling away two or three miles
5 ahead toward their native mountains.
And her relations divided between them
her property. But the atonemcnt was
! not complete. 1t was needful that
z every trace Of Grierson and his race
r. should be wiped out. The blood of the
-, murdered woman was on him, and the
e shamQ Of the tribe. Year by year the
= traders passed through Hindustan, ane
G sought always Grierson; sought him
s for years; sought him till his hair
3 which they had known black. was iron
I gray; sought him until many yeari
! later two men of the Zillah Khel passct
o a native regiment camping on the linz
j. OF march, while moving in raiief, anl
o learned that Grierson was in command
D They left their serrants and comrade.
p TO journey on with their merchandise
p and took to the jungle, following the
regiment. Grierson was n keen sports.
- man. and they looked to seeing him
2 alone some day out shooting. AT last
j their time came.
1 Tvs days march from the destined
o cantonment Mrs. Grierson came out tc
q meet her husband, and brought hei
, three little boys with her. She was tc
. stay IN camp that night, and go ahead
: into cantoninent next day, a doubl,
= march. Grierson took his gun, and sale
e he would 60 and shoot some game fol
/ her; and he went with only his orderly
All unseen and unsuspected, his tw,
D. enemies dogged him, until some tw,
T hours later he came TO ducll-ieel, ant
c sent his orderly round to a point a mil,
IS away TO drive the duck toward him
/ where he crouched ia mud aud water
5. behind a heap Of weeds. As soon as hi
{, was alone the two men dashed for him
O Grierson turned at the noise they mad,
d in splashing through the water. Hl
q recognized the dress Of their tribe.
; what do you want?" he shouted.
c ''Vengeancei" they cried, and rushes
1 at him with their knives drawn.
r For answer he fired both barrels a
e them. He knew what they meant, an,
r in his furry one man took both charges
e and dropped dying. Grierson clubbes
d his gun. The second man took a smash
II ing blow on his left arm. but got homl
II with his knife, and Grierson went down
n The man dispatched him and fed, leav
y ing gun and cartridges and his dea,
y, comrade.
s. When the bodies were found ther
IS was a fierce hue and cry. The story o
b Cricrson's conduct on the frontier cam
{, up. and the tribe was overhauled b.
y the politicals. But, of course, nothing
l. came of It. Poor Mrs. Grierson wen
d home with her little boys. ignorant o
" the cause of her husbands murder. 70
D. who could tell her?
e She had not been out of India montl
e when her husbands only brother wa
d stabbed in the Delhi streets by a ia
y matte.
D. "And If any Of his sons come out here
a even 20 years from now. they will die,
ID said Bakshan Khan.
y "Why," said the boy, young Gyiersol
II who was at Sandhurst with me. cam