Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-08-13

lack of food-for 80 you found me
last night"
The party now left the hut and went
They found the bodies lying just be-
yond Joan's cage, locked in each 9TH
er's embrace-each in the death grip
They buried them decently, then or
dered the blacks to prepare at once
for the return journey to the coast
While preparations were going for
ward simultaneously for the return
trip and for breakfast for their i'm
mediate sustenance the four white
men asked Joan to tell them with
more particulars just what had caused
the two madmen to kill each other
Pm going to tell you something
first that really may surprise you.
John," Joan said. "The negro. Chacha
--he was not mad at all. He was per-
fectly sane-just as / had often be-
lieved he was. His whole game was
waiting game. He pretended insan-
ity merely in order to remain with
the mad naturalist And his desire to
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truly madman was simply to discover
the hiding place of the old mans gold.
We'll, from what / heard the black
man say to the naturalist on the
morning of their fight, it seems that
the black man had that morning at
last discovered the scientist in the
very act of gloating over his gold. It
was that room in the hut which you,
John, know of-the room In which
slept last night.
1T appears that the negro stole
upon his master unaware, and that the
black man at once tried to secure pos
session of the gold. The white man
must have fought off the negro-driv-
ing him out of the hut. The negro's
spear stood near my cage, where he
had left it the night before, and that's
how he came to run to the cages, while
the white man pursued him. Once in
possession of his spear the black man
turned on his master to give battle.
The white man was armed only with
knife. AS they fought l heard the
negro. painting for breath. saying to
FL Toro:
$50, Senior FL Toro, this is your
last hour. You thought me insane.
Well, I'm not insane. I'm as sane
as you were when l first found you
counting your gold in the coast vii
lage. And now you are about to die
and l am going to get the gold. and
I'm going to take that girl in the cage
for my wife
"Can you imagine, John, my terror
when | heard that negro express his
intentions thus in regard to myself.
There was knife in my cage-a knife
they permitted me to keep for cutting
chunks of meat. determined now to
use that knife on myself If the negro
| won the fight.
| '1n terrible anxiety / watched them
through the bars of my cage. Back
and forth they drove each other, the
negro cursing and the mad scientist
always laughing in demoniacal glee
till finally-oh, horrors! the negro's
spear pierced the back of the madman
seemingly mortal wound The black
rushed to his prostrate adversary tc
stab him again with the spear.
seized my knife, with the resolve tc
plunge it into my heart the moment
the negro gave the madman his death
blow-for death was preferable, as you
will understand, to falling into the
hands of that bestial negro.
Butt hope my Joy is not wicked
| just as the negro stopped to give the
madman a final stab with the spear
the white man sprang up and plunged
his dagger into the black mans heart
Then. each giving a piercing cry o
mortal agony. they fell into each 9th
er's arms, and SO died. lying as yo'
found them-within my sight, too.
81 prayed in thanksgiving, so glat
was to find that, after all. woult
not be obliged to use that knife. Tha