Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-06


heard Curtiss say. ue Thought that he
saw contempt, too. for primitive PEG
pie are infinitely more sensitive than
their more sophisticated brothers
"You do not love me. Nat-ulT he
asked Have the strangers turned
you against me2 What one OF them
could have fetched you the head Of
90, the man hunter?
Seer He tapped the two great
tusks that hung from his loin cloth
"Nu slew the mightiest OF the beasts
for Nat-ul-the head is buried in the
cave Of Oo-yet, now that come 10
take you as my mate, ! see fear in
your eyes and something else which
never was there before What is it,
Natul2 Have the strangers stolen
your love from NuT
The man spoke in a tongue so an.
cient that I'm all the world there lived
no man who spoke or knew a word of
it, yet to Victoria Custer it was as In
telligible as her own English. nor did
II seem strange TO her that she an.
swered Nh in his own language.
"My heart tells me that I am yours,
NJ" she said, but my judgment and
my training warn me against the step
that my heart prompts. / love you,
but / could not be happy to wander
half naked through the jungle for the
balance Of my life, and If go with
you now, even for a day. may never
return to my people.
"Nor would you be happy in the life
that ! lead. It would sti1e and kin
you. think see now something Of
the miracle that has overwhelmed ms.
70 you it has been but few days
since you left your Nat-ul to hunt down
the feroclous 90, but I'm reality count
! less ages have rolled by.
by some strange freak Of fate you
have remained unchanged during all
I these ages, until now You step forth
/ from your long sleep an unspoiled cave
man Of the stone age into the midst OF
{ the twentieth century, while doubt
/ less have been born and reborn a thou.
sand times, merging from one incarna-
! ton to another until in this we are
again united.
"IIad you. too. died and been born
ngain during an these weary years no
/ gap Of ages would intervene between
us now, and we should meet again
upon a common footing, as do other
souls. and mate and die to be born
again to a new mating and a new life,
with its inevitable death
"Bul you have defed the laws of life
md death-you have refused to die
ana now that we meet again at last a
hundred thousand years lie between us
an unbridgeabe gulf across which !
may not return and over which you
may not come other than by the same
route which have followed-through
death and d new life thereafter"
Much thar the girl said was beyond
NUS comprehension and the most of il
without the scope Of his primitive Ian
guage, so that she had been forced &C
draw literally upon her twentieth cen
fury English TO iil in the gap.
Yet the man bad caught the idea in
"a vague sort of way; at least that bis
Nat-uI was far removed from him be
-'hNA'N VI a. EANoA IttlfnG VI lAAlN Al4tAN lAtAA
occurred while he slept in tile cave OF
90, and that through his own deatl
alone could he span the gulf between
them and claim her as his mate.
He placed the butt OF his spear upon
the ground, resting the stone tiI
against his heart
Il go, NatuL" be said simply "that
may return again as you would have
me-"
The girl and the man were SO oCcu
pied and engrossed with their owl
tragedy that they did not note the rest
less pacing of Terkuz the wolfhound
or hear the omiuOus growls that rum
Died from his savage throat as he look
td toward the jungle behind them
(To be continued