The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-03
A MONKEY IN LOVE.
UntmeIy End of Simian Who Adored
a Girl


London Black and White: The little
gray monkey sat up on the bough of the
tebbek, handling mcditativcly the slender
chain that limited his freedom. His wise,
blinking eyes looked out toward the dcs-
( ert, and saw the sand clouds dim In tho
distance. Soon, soon undoubtedly the
khamseen would be here, and the last of
the tourists would go. Tho khamseen, q
hot. dust laden wind, blows, so the Copts
say, from their Easter until their Pente-
cost; 1t keeps It's appointment with fai.
accuracy as a rule. =
But. after all, tourists did not concern
the monkey very much. One or two of
them came now and again on visit to
Kakecm Basha, and he had heard them
In heated argument with supertluous
guides in the road beyond the compound.
But he was the hospital monkey; not one
of those that earn their bread and their
masters in front of hotel verandas at a
loss of personal dignity, but the monkey
of a small, but scientiac-and also relig-
ious establishment True, the little hos
pital had not the extent or the equipment
Of the great hospital or Kasr-el-Aini, but
1t was doing good work; it considered the
soul as well as the body of the patient:
the residential monkey at such a place
has position.
And he deserved 1t; he never bit and he
never scratched; he accepted the proffered
nut with solemn c.vility. If he was somc-
what of philosopher that may have been
due to the fact that two or three con-
ilicting religions. all in excellent working
order. We're going on under his very nose
And to the philosophy may be ascribed
his habits of reserve. He did not come
when he was called. unless it was the
soft. cooling voice of the H.tle blind girl
If any other would pet him or play with
him he retired gently up the tree, turned
his back and thought deeply. He was
well aware, too, that If you keep in the
shade and move rapidly the snapshot
photograph Of you will hardly repay de-
velopmcnt. He certainly had the air of
knowing much He would look over a
group of natives as though he diagnosed
which OF the common plaques of Egypt
brought them there. This was tubercuiar
and that would be treated with dose of
thymol that would starue an European
practitioner.
The first day the pretty blind girl had
called him from her seat on the tuft I'M
der the lebbek tree he had come to her
at once. and had seen that 1t was her
eyes which troubled her, but that was not
al. nor was 1t the worst of the trouble.
beneath him. There stretched the hedge
Of hibiscus, glory of scarlet flames. Be
yound there glimmered family In the sun
the creamy white of the oleander. On the
seat below the lebbel tree snored fat
native woman. old and past So. But no.
| where could be seen the pretty blind girl.
And this was now the second day that
k she had not been in the garden-the sec
| ond day that she had never called to
him.
| He may be acquitted of low motives 1t
| is true that she fed him, but their friend
ship dated from the day when she came
b in and she had nothing to give him. She
suotugated the hospital In few hours.
| 1t may have been because she was pref
1 ty, or because her cooling laugh was SO
musical, or because all her ways were
charming, or because 1t was so sad that
she had lost her sight and likely to lose
her life as well. She became a general
pet, and the monkey was her special pet
and she did not come to him empty
handed
I The monkey blinked gravely. He could
| not think what had happened to her The
reader has guessed, of course Inside the
| hospital all was over 1t was the last
chance and 1t had failed. The doctor
went on to other cases where his skill
might be of better service. The hard fea-
| tured English woman, who did the work
| OF three and hated sentimentality. was
| compelled to be angry with herself,
If she was going towel, to be stupid
every time little native girl died Of
what use was she likely to be?
As the evening came rapidly on. the
| monkey madeE up his mind on two points.
Obviously his friend was quite well again.
The doctor had given her back her SIGHT:
/ and she had gone home The second cor
clusion was that the swivel OF his chain
could be negotiated. 1t was dusk when he
\ was found where he had hung himself
The lazy fellow wants to keep out OF
the pOultrY business. he Mnn,t liI.o n