Evening journal., 1899-07-15

purchase money. Then he rode away,
leaving the forsalcen woman sitt,Ag for
lorn on the sand and stones from which
be had taken her TWO years before.
he lii not think hc was rctipg un-
kindly. He had found her poor, ane
be left her rich No doubt, too, he fec
pang at parting. But as soon as ha
was gone the women of the tribe feli
on her. She retaliated on them. scoAins
at their dirt and savagery, and refused
to do the old mental Offices She refused.
too. to marry any one of the mon, 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 her as a spy in
the camp. and the inevitable Mullah
quickly let Il be known that she was a
hereto from the faith---whatever that
was in their eyes. As she was wealthy,
her existence was a shame, IA danger
and reproach. IL was not long before
she was doomed an outcast, a defled
infdel, rebellious woman. They came
quickly 10 the pointof passing sentence
OF death on her; and they came to 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. IL also
cast the hatred OF the entire tribe on
Grierson. He had debauched one Of
their women, and for two years had
east shame on them.
On a gloomy winter morning, be-
tween dark and dawn, they led her 10
the place of execution in -the Gorve of
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
scream and fell on her hands and
knees, lie struck her agnin. and she
fell on her side in a torrent OF blood.
with a strangling cry for mercy. A
shower OF big stones crashed on her.
battering the shape out Of her body
and piling a mount above her. Har,iiv
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 Iounged slowly of to ioin
the caravan, which was lurching and
struggling away two or three milea
ahead toward their native mountains
And her relations divided between them
her property. But the atonement wa.
not complete. 1t was needful that
every trace of Grierson and his rae,
should be wiped out. The blood OF .f,
murdered woman was on him, and the
shame OF the tribe. Year by year ths
traders passed through Hindustan, az
sought always Grierson; sought hin
for years; sought him till his hair
which they had known black, was iron
gEay; sought him until many Year,
later two men of the Zillah IIhel passet
native. regiment camping on the lin
Of march, while moving fn relief, an,
learned that Grierson was in commnnd
.Fhey lett their servants and estaradel
to jo~rhsy on with their mere handiss
and took 10 the Jungle, following III.
regiment. Grierson was keen sports
man, AID they looked TO seeing hin
alone some day out shooting. At last
their time came.
Two days march from the doetinca
cantonment Mrs. Grierson came out {,
InOet her husband, and brought hei
three little boys with her. She was "a
stay in camp that night, and 20 ahead
into cantonment next day, doubl,
march. Grierson took his gun, and said
he would 60 and shoot some game fol
her; and he went with only his orderly
All unseen and unsuspected, his two
enemies dogged him, until some TIVE
hours later he came TO a duck-jeel, ans
sent his orderly round to q point a mills
away 10 drive the duck toward him
where he crouched in mud and water
behind heap Of weeds. AS soon as b,
was alone the two men dashed for him
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.
'4Vengeancei" they cried. and rushed
at him with their knives drawn.
For answer he fired both barrels al
them. He knew what they meant, anc
in his furry one man took both charges
and dropped dying. GriersoR elubbet
his gun. The second man took smash
ing blow on his left arm, but got HON,
with his knife, and Grierson went down
The man dispatched him and fed. leav
ing gun and cartridges and his dent
comrade.
When the bodies were found ther,
was a fierce hue and cry. The story o
Grierson's conduct on the frontier cam.
up, and the tribe was overhauled b.,
the politicals. But, of course, nothing
came of it. Poor Mrs. Grierson wen
home with her little boys. ignorant o.
the cause of her husbands murder, fol
who could tell her?
She had not been out of India a month
when her husbands only brother wai
stabbed in the Delhi streets by ia
natic.
sand if any Of his sons come out here