Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-09-30

there seemed nothing to suspect re-
garding him.
II waited long for an occasion to
meet him. 1t finally came in the form
Of partridge which i shot and killed
before the very nose Of the English
man. My dog brought it to me; but
Immediately taking 1t l went and
begged Sir John Roweli to accept the
dead bird, excusing myself for intru-
sion.
"IIe was a tall, powerful man, with
red hair and red beard, very large,
sort of placid, polite Hercules. He
had none of the so-called British
haughtiness, and heartily thanked me
in French for the delicacy. At the
end of q month we had chatted to-
gether five or six times.
"Finally, one evening, as l was
passing by his door, perceived him
astride a chair in the garden, smoking
his pipe. l saluted him and he asked
me in to have q glass of beer. l joined
him.
''IIe received me with the fastidious
courtesy of the English. With great
precaution in the form of a lively IN
terest, l put some questions to him
about his life and his projects. lie
responded without embarrassment, told
me that he had Travelled much, In
Africa, in the Indies, and in America.
He added, laughing:
81 have had many adventures Oh
yes
A Great Hunter.
ST began to talk about hunting, and
he gave me many curious details OF
hunting the hippopotamus, the tiger
the elephant, and even of hunting the
gorilla.
II said: All these animals are very
formidable
"IIe laughed: ooh, no! The worst
animal is man. Then he began tC
laugh, with the hearty laugh of big
contented Englishman. He continued
81 have often hunted man, Also
"He spoke of weapons and asked me
to go into his house to see his guns OF
various makes and kinds.
Ills drawing-room was hung II
black silk embroidered with gold
There were great yellow flowers run
ming over the somber stuff, shining like
fire.
"Tt is Japanese CLOTH he said.
"But in the middle of large panel
. q strange thing attracted my eye. UP
on square of red velvet, a black OBJ
iect was attached. L approached ant
found it was a hand, the hand of
man. Not a skeleton hand, white ant
characteristic, but black, dried hand
with yellow joints and the muscles
bare, and on them traces or old Diood
of blood that seemed like a scale, owe
the bones sharply cut off at about TIT
middle of the forearm, as with a DloV
of q cutlass. About the wrist was al
enormous iron chain, riveted, solderet
to this unclean member, attaching 1t u
the wall by ring sufficiently stroni
to hold an elephant.
81 asked: What is that?
, "The Englishman responded tran
gully:
, cit belonged to my worst enemy
, 1t came from America. 1t was broker
/ with saber, cut off with a sharl
stone. and dried in the sun for elgh
days. Oh, very good for me, tina
vast
81 touched the human relic, whic
| must have belonged to colossus. Th
: fingers were immoderately long an
: attached by enormous tendons tina
held the straps of skin in place. Thl
l dried hand was frightful to see, mas
: ing one think, naturally, OF the yer
t geance of q savage.
r Il said: This man must have Dee
: very strong
4 with gentleness the Englishma
: answered:
"'Oh! yes; but I was stronger tina
e he. l put this chain on him to mol
g him.
! 81 thought he spoke in jest and II
: piled:
A 1.-The chain is useless now that tn
Y hand cannot escape
"Sir John Rowell replied gravely
1 Tt always wishes to escape. The chai
s in necessary
a with a rapid questioning glance,
q asked myself: rs he mad, or Is tina
an unpleasant joke
. "But the face remained impenetr'
:, BILE, tranquil, and friendly. ] spoke