The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-30

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bring this to pass, and to bring that
to pass, until at length it comes to pass
that with these living eyes I behold
| Wambe dying the death that he gave
to his child and my child"
"Well said answered.
SAY, well said. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
said, and not easily forgotten. Who
could forget-oh, who could forget?
See where this dead hand rests against
my side? So once it rested when alive.
Aid now, though tits dead, now every
night it creeps from its nest and
I strokes my hair and clasps my fingers
| in it's tiny palm Every night it does
this, fearing lest should forget. oh,
my child-my child! Ten days ago I
held thee TO my breast, and now this
alone remains or theer' And she kissed
the dead hand and shivered, but never
tear did she weep. "See now" she
went on, 1.-THE white mantle prisoner
at Wambes kraal-he was kind to me.
He loved the child that is dead-yes,
he wept when it's father slew it-and
at the risk Of bis own life told Wambe,
my husband ah, yes, my husband
that which be u.s. He, too, it was who
made d plan. He said to me, Go,
Maiwa. after the custom Of they peo-
PIE, go purify myself in the bush
alone, having touched a dead one.
say to Wambe thou goest to purify
myself alone for fifteen days, accord
ing to the custom Of the people. Then
fy to they father. Nala. and stir him
up to war against Wambe for the sake
of the child that is dead
This, then, he said, and his words
seemed good to me, and that same
night ere / left to purify myself came
news that white man hunted in the
country, ana Wambe. being mad with
drink, grew very wrotb, and gave or
ders that an Impi should be gathered
to slay the white man and his people
and seize his goods.
s.Then did the Smiter of IRON CIV
ery) write the message on the green
leaves and bid me seek thee out and
show forth the matter, that thou might
est save thyself by fight. And behold,
this thing have done, Maeumazahp,
the hunter, the Slayer Of Elephants"
"Ah." | said, Il thank thee. And
how many men be there in the Impi Of
Wander
"A hundred men and half hun
dred."
'.And where is the Impi|
"rhere to the north. 1t follows on
thy spoor
II saw it pass yesterday, but my
self / guessed that thou wouldst be
higher to the mountain, and came this
way and found thee.
Tomorrow at the daybreak will
the slayers be here"
VERY possibly" ] thought to my-
self. "But they won't find Macuma-
zahn. l have half a mind TO put some
strychnine into the carcasses of those
elephants for their especial benefit,
though"
knew that they would stop to eat
the elephants, as indeed they did. to
our great gain, but y abandoned the
idea of poisoning them, because was
rather short Of strychnine.
"Or because you did not like to play
the trick, Quatermain." l suggested,
with laugh.
II said because / had not enough
strychnine. 1t would take great deal
of strychnine to effectually poison
three elephants answered the old gen.
tleman testify.
l said nothing further, but ] smiled,
knowing that old Allan could never
have resorted to such an artifice, how
ever severe his strait.
But that was his tFSy; he always
made himself out to lie most unmer-
ciful person.
Well Che went on), at that moment
Gobo came up, and announced that we
were ready to march.
II am glad that you are ready"
said; because if you don't march, and
march quick, you viii never march
again, that is all.
"Wambe has an lmpi out to kill us,
and it will be here presently"
Gobo turned positively green, and his
knees knocked together.
"Ah, what did say?" he exclaimed.
"Fate walks about loose in Wambe's
country
Very good; now all you haye got to
do is to walk little quicker than he
does.
mo, no; you don't leave those eie-
plant tusks behind.
II am not going to part with them,
can tell you"
Gobo said no more, but hastily d.
rected the men TO take up their loads
and then asked which way we were
to run
"Ah," / said to Maiwa, (which
wayg'
There" she answered, pointing to-
ward. the great mountain spur which
lowered up into the sky some forty
miles away, separating the territories
Of Nala and Wambe.
(To be contin Jedl
AsItis Done In France.