The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-11

know all that's In his old bag without
looking. I've seen other sorcerers'
bags. There'll be q lot Of trash like
lizards tails and bats wings. and
frogs feet. and thcre'll be queer
shaped stones he has picked up and
bits Of carved wood and dried leaves
and plants. and there's sure TO be
some quartz crystals-thate great
magic with them-and there'n very
likely DO q dagger made OF human
bone, and q native fork or two. and
u betei chewing outfit-poker worked
gourd. with a boar tooth stopper.
nuts. nice little spatula with carved
head. That's about all"
There could DO nothing Of more
interest In the world" declared the
Marquis. "Ethnologically. you can
see. without doubt. the connection
between tho witches OF Macbeth
Cut It out. Mark" I said. you
ought = now by this time that this
corn. hut Il you don't feel you can
lay your golden head on your little
pillow tonight without seeing the
curio shop I'll work II all right. IL
only means q handful or two OF salt
As said before, hate spending
my salt whom I haven't got to. but
l opened a tin. took q good handful
and offered II to Mo. pointing at the
same time to his bag and to our eyes
Tho FIRE was low In tho marea, but
II cast up a deep red glow toward
the roof. giving light enough to see
the contents OF the wonderful bag
as Mo tumbled them out on tho floor
beside us. The salt had been too
much for him; he accepted It eagerly
and was eating II like sugar. smearing
his paint all to bits. and nearly chok
ing himself as he sucked II down.
These inland natives hardly ever see
salt and they are as keen for II as
an alligator for ffuA. once they get
u chance OF little.
Everything that was in the has
the Marquis handled, weighed, even
smelled. l could tell him about mos
OF tho things. / did not know the
Kata Kata country. but quite lot o,
the charms were familiar enough,
This stone. ! said. was meant Ia
make the yam crops grow. This one
was used for charming down rain
This carved monstrosity. like a pig
that was half a beetle. probably was
"a charm for making war.
All tho time he was handling and
eNclaiming over tho trash In the bal
| kept a lookout on the sorcerers
face. There was something did not
like in the air: the fact that ! coulc
not define II made It mono the less
real. 1t had to do, maybe. with the
wooden demeanor Of Moor with the
disappearance OF all the other mon
from the marea-or with a certain
strange pitiful whimpering that had
been going on under the house for
quite a good whils-a dog. perhaps;
perhaps not.
Mos face grew suddenly dark: he
made a snatch Mt something that the
Marquis was examining and hid !,
away-where. l could not sec.
1t was tr1hing object. only a piece
cut out Of one Of the plated red and
yellow belts that nearly every one In
the village wore, men, women and
older children. The Marquis had
been handling II rather closely. tc
examine the pattern. A smile crep
over the sorcerers face when II was
gone-a cunning. ugly smile. worse
than the stony inexpressiveness tina
had gone before. saw he was ben
on making US forget that scrap o
plated stun. He pulled out a lot o
other things from the bag-fosSils
bcaks, bats wings. Jumps of quarts
crystal that giitterei In the moon
and began showing them or.