The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-04-15

latent. Here was soul. she thought
half in fancy, half in earnest, that was
virgin to the world. How wise, how
deeply learned she might be she was
face to face with this primeval norm.
Could she teach this man anything?
He seemed tractable. reverential. def
erential now. knowledge was power.
Would it be power with him? Could
she open those sealed doors of his
mind, what floods would outpour
therefrom, of power. Of passion?
Would she be swept away2 II mat
tered not. She must try. The I'M
pulse seized her to begin now. Fixing
her dark eyes upon him, she pointed
| directly at him with her finger.
Man." she said clearly and en-
phatically.
He was always looking at her He
had scarcely taken his eyes from her
since she had seen him in the tall
grass by the shore, but at her gesture
and word his eyes frightened. There
was that little wrinkling of the bow
again which she had noticed, outward
and visible sign of an inward attempt
at comprehension.
Mani" she said passionately.
Man." she repeated over and over
again.
And then the unexpected happened.
After innumerable cultural attempts.
her unwilling pupil managed to ar
ticulate something that bore dis
tinct resemblance to the clearly cut
monosyllable.
Mani" he said at last.
1t was tremendous step in evolu.
ton, almost too great for any untu.
tored human brain, for at once the
man before her received name and
the idea of name as we'll. In that
instant, on the heaven kissed hill,
he was differentiated from all the rest
of creation forever. His consciousness
hitherto vague, floating, incoherent, in
definite, was localized, given habita-
ton and name. He knew himself
in some way to be.
Mani. he cried, growing more and
more confident with every repetition
and more and more accurate in catch
ing the very intonation with which
she spoke.
Mani" he cried. laying his hand
upon his breast. mani"
He leaped to his feet and stretched
! out his arms. The doors were open
a little way. Ideas were beginning to
edge their way through the crack.
Man! Man! Mani" he cried again
and again, looking eagerly at her.
| She rose in turn and patted him ON
the shoulder encouragingly as she
might dog. And again the touch.
the second touch that she had given
him, affected him strangely. SO
strangely that for moment she felt
the soul within her shrink, but realiz-
ing instantly that her domination over
him was spiritual and immaterial and
that the slightest evidence of timidity
would be translated into universal lam
guage which even the lowest creation
understands and that her dominion
would go on the instant, she mastered
herself and mastered him. Although
she was but woman whom he might
have broken in his hands, she DOM
mated him as the conscious soul ever
dominates the unconscious SOUL
She essayed no more lessons, but
turned and retraced her way to the
shore where she had landed. which
because she had landed there, she
called home. On the way she attempt
ed an experiment. She plucked from
low bush bright colored fruit Of
whose quality and characteristics she
was ignorant and slowly made as II to
convey it to her lips.
Mani" cried the voice behind her.
uttering it's only word.
Il She turned to find her companion
looking fxedly at her and proffering
other fruit which he had quickly gath
cred She handed him that she had
plucked in exchange. He shook his
head, not in negation but rather In
bewilderment and threw it from him.
and then she understood in some way.
that the fruit was not good for food.
How he had OWNED it, she could not
tell. Some compromising instinct,
|, sharpened by use into protecting
quality, had taught him. She lad no
such instinct. She had learned to de-
pend upon reason and observation,
and these failed her in the presence
of this unknown. She was humbled
little in this thought.
| She craved meat and salt, having
been trained to these things, the arti-
, fetal diet and stimuant to which she
had Become accustomed, and her crav-
; ing was the more insistent because she
| had been without them all that time
I in the boat. And yet when she had
eaten the fruit that nature had pro-
| vided in that tropic island. her crav-
, ing was abated and she was satisfied.
) She felt that she could soon grow ao-
customed to such diet if it were nee
{ essary. SO musing she passed on un-
t der the trees and sat down on.the
sand again.
cro BE coNTINUED.) =
Looking Out for Him.
2 Yeast-Looking for some one you
: expected to come back for old.home