The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13
CHAPTER VII
THE INNIsIBLE FIRE.


Tn the factories which dot tho West
African scaboard and rivers death Us
such constant visitor that much az
his grimness had faded. At homo, in Eng
land. or America. or Hamburg We
shlver with apprehension whenever our
relative who is out on the West
Coast comes up into the. mind but
the relative himself takes his doses of
fever when they fall due with Ger
tain callous philosophy and on his
emergcnCe shattered and shrunken
from the attack. congratulates himself
on not being a candidate FOR gun
case and a top hat that time. Those
who go up in the bush and are there
engulfed. those who get drowned in
the ever grinding surf. those who 20
out by the thousand and one oppor-
tuniues which the climate and the sur
roundings offer, slip of their human
garb with an easy nonchalance. and
those who are left pronounce some
go on with their quicker interests.
with the native African, death is an
and in the event or a quarrel, one com
petitor will often sit down. cuCdle his
knees. shut his eyes. and there and
then deliberately suspend ms vital
processes. merely to cause temporary
annoyance TO his rival
Now. the above paragraphs arc some
what Of tho nature Of foOtnote ele-
waited to the text. But they are neces-
sarv nj this point in these memoirs TO
explain the Cooiness with which Laura
and Carter viewed the near prospect
OF extinction. Neither of them OF
course
ST never occurred 10 them 70 face death
with anything beyond the usual Coast
II shaii stick Mr.. X for a rise N
screw il We get through this" said
III I hadn't made a promise. said
about your MI Is. that would startie
you, ..,,-t.-. ,,o--r..,,.. an,
I've a good mind TO pick you up and
shake IL out Of YOU. Cad, Here they
come Now. I'u shoot and you get
box Of matches and light those bombs
for White Man's-Trouble 10 throw
"R0mbs, DO YOU mean the cigaret tie
Yes. You'd a big brazing-lamp in
the factory Remember lt2 We'll. you
had And that meant benzoline. ]
guessed. found drum fun Of IT,
with benzoline. It'n burn like winking
in tails sun. and the niggersll never
see the flame. only thing to take care
Of. is not to set light to the factory
NoW do you understand
And dyou savvy. Trouble?"
"Savvy plenty. Oh. Carter. I burn
hot lamp once on steamah. NO can see
flame when sun lib for shine. ! fit
for serve as standby-at-c crane boy
once sar on stcamah."
well. Mr. Engineer. throw straight
AMI don't get hoist by your own petard.
BY the living link We're in for it nov.
UTfWs FOQhlts TOT All you TIE worm
right into the blue of them"
The four-hfty repeater yap-yapped
ttS message. and the man who had
learned TO shoot quick and straight
amDnst the rabbits and grouse OF Up
per Wharfdalc made deadly practice
at this bigger game But two eight
shot Winchestcrs are OF very little
moro value than cat0pults in stopping
the rush Of two hundred lighting black
pagans omcered by Moslemin Hausas
beforehand the fire OF the Portuguese
and tho factory KroObOys had held
them OF. much more by its noise than
its dcadlineSs. The one solitary shooter
who remained. they held in scOrn. he
was firing white powder in the Win
chester, and the smallness Of the noise
and the absence OF smoke encouraged
them. They scorned to shoot at him
with their hintlOcks. They would rush
In and put this man to the matched
and save the girl alive. And there
after. when they rolled the red head
at King KalIee's feet. and made the
girl stand ND before him. many and
enc presents would be given to glad
den them and their women.
So they gave the Okky yell and
sprang out Of the bush into tho open.
and rushed across the clearing
But 10. presently the white man
called out. Behold. I put ju- ia on You
bliShters." and a black man who car