The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

and women whose blood lies at the
door of those unctuous hypocrites who
made 1t their business to break Major
Meredith because he was an Imperial
Again the reporter put in the word
3D.. .urbancc," but he apparently man
aged to catch the next sentence. aye.
you may yap," the old administrator
went on, and dare say from the snug
looks of some of you you're own sons of
tho men Who did it. and I hope you feel
the weight OF their boodguiltiness
Two hundred thousand lives. gentle
men; and all thrown away to p an,desr
who had never been beyond the shores
Of England If Major Meredith could
have held out against the clamor l
to stand i Beside GIVE GIVE and R s and
done for the 'I Em pres but a as i vas
ed ne hs an ssas and
vainly, tried to help; His wife went
Gaughter 6 Sna 50 she died ru rum
reached me that some trader brought
tn. child t. England and adopted her .
appeared from the record -
farther on. again with .'Distnrbance."
on tse t tab 'si wss s ss
of the discomforts that an adopted
nnd Mno aoes not hff hst9y
feeling of having been bred of parents
that were probably dIscreditable. She
There was village of matched houses
and shade trees. She bad clear recol-
lection of one day playing In the dust
With With the village dogs g. and the other other
q huge spotted beast sprang amongst
them. roared and for moment stood
over her. the white baby. At inter
ever. since. From maturer knowledge
she knew it must have been leopard,
and leopards do not grow beyond Ger.
She could never remember whe-
Their in the dusty village street under.
the heat and the sunshine it had done
damage, or whether the parlah dogs
had frightened ii away.
Try how she would, she could remem-
Der no mother. The women OF the. vii
with another She had no clear recol-
lection of any of them. And.
indeed, there might have been many
journeys, with a pet monkey riding
on the pole; and walls of thick green
bush on either hand that held dangers
She still had n scar just below
the nall on the first finger of her right
hand where the monkey bit her one
day when she teased 1t.
But plainest of all these dim pic
lures OF the memory was one of white
man who at rare intervals came into
the scene and took her on his knee.
He had iron-gray hair and beard which
were shaggy and matted. and he al
ways had pipe, between his lips and
a glittering eyeglass on q black water
ed-silk ribbon for her to play with.
Furthermore. he always brought some
present when he came to see her, and
r. n "a n hn ral
pleased, to the black women with whom
she lived. It was he who hung round
her neck the Aggry bead that she still
OF her jewel case.
She remembered this man with n
vague kindness. But IL Godfrey O'NeiH
pIeteness it must have been Tor some some,
profoundly good reason. Uncle Godfrey
had been. far from squeamish Uncle
friends when everybody Else vot .uit Them
far outside the pale. And therefore.
she had argued the iron gray haired
Something pc peculiarly S' di s uoA'
That he was her father she was en-
tircly sure. Occasionally she had tried
tie more than babe when sho saw
him last. and was no Judge, and that
possibly the iron-gray man was her
fathers friend. But something stronger
than mere human reason always rose
up in arms against such suggestion
Sir Edwards hating lecture had
reused up one recollection in her head
that heretofore had persistently eluded
her. thousand times in those dreams
of Africa and the hot villages. and the
pet monkey with it's red seed necklace,
and all the other old dim scenes, she
had on the tip OF her memory the name
of the iron-gray man with the eyeglass,
and thousand times she had missed
catching 1t by the smallest hair. In a
flash it came back-he was Meredith
Was ia alive Sti1lo She could NOT
tell; but that she would find out now.
For once she adjudged old Godfrey
ONeill to be wrong. She was not go
longer over man who, Whatever his
subsequent career had been, at any rate
was martyr once, and her father