Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-24
TIL E IVORY CHILD
BY II. RIDER HAGGARD
Author o, "Moric." king sOomon's Mines, ,,s,,


u,eusous , are so very near akin. | often
WONDER now he and Mameena settled that
question of her right IN Tho ro,ot so,,,,a
F'rnaps shall learn one day-indeed AL
reauy have had hint Of IT, If So. even
III mo oIaae or new and universal Truth
widely "'i u'ier
Hahs was quite right about the Rlacl,
Nenuan' Ihey cleared out. probably I'm
search or food, where to do not know and
! no not care though whether this were n
temporary or permanent move upon their
part remains, and so far as am concerned
Is llkelS TO remain. veiled in obscuritv, They
were great blackguards though extraor
uLnarilS nhe soldiers, and what became of
.'e'h lS matter of complete Indifference
10 me. one thing is certain, however a
very large percentage of them never mi
grated at all, for something more than 2Ono
OF their bodies did our people have 70 burv
IN the pass and about the temple. n purnose
Ior Whlch all the pits and trenches we had
uus came in very useful. Our loss bv tho
way was 5O3 including those who died of
wounds. II was a great fight and evcent
Tor those who pershed in the pitfalls dur
ihs the hrst rush, all virtually hand to hand
Jana we inferred where he fell because we
couid not move him. within a few feet of
the body of his slayer Hans I have aI.
ways regretted that did not take the exac,
ii''oSut eiilcH's OF tnlS brute, / helievo
the record elephant of the world, but I had
no time TO do so and no rule or tame AZ
hand. P' at
only saw him for a minute on tho fol-
lowing morning. just as he was being tuu
pleu INTO huge hole together with the
remains of his master. Simba the King.
FOUND, however, that the sole ,younde nnor
hlm' save some cuts and scratches from,
spears were those inflicted by Hans
namely, the loss of one eve the nuncturs
through the skin over the heart made when
ne shot at him for the second time with the
uttie rIHe Ihtombi. and two neat holes at
the pack OF the mouth through which the
bullets from the elephant gun had driven
upward TO the base of the brain, causing his
death from hemorrhage on that organ
asked the White Kendall to give me his
TWO enormous tusks, unequaled I suppose.
III SIZE ana weight in Africa, although one
was deformed and broken. But thew re-
fused. These 1 presume they wished to
Keep. together with the chains off his
breast and trunk as mementoes of their
victory over the god of their foes At any
rate, they hewed the former out with axes
and removed the latter before tumblng the
carcass in to the grave. From the worn |
down state Of the teeth / concluded that
this beast must have been extraordinarily
Old; how old it is impossible to say
That is all | have to tell of Jana. May
ne rest in peace, which certainly lie will |
anywhere
neighborhood in the region which the old |
boy used TO call that of the fires that do |
not go out" Because of my horrible failure |
in connection with this beast. the very |
memory of which humiliates me to this |
hour. do not like to think of 1t more than |
can help.
For the rest the White Kendall kept faith
with us in every particular. In curious |
and semireligious ceremony. at which |
was not present, Lady Ragnall was absolved |
from her high office of guardian or nurse |
TO god whereof the symbol no longer ex-
listed, though l believe that the priests coll
lected the tiny fragments of ivory, or as
many of them as could be found, and pre-
served them in jar in the sanctuary
After this had been done women stripped
the Nurse of her halowed robes. of the
ancient origin of which. by the way ] be-
lieve that none of them, except perhaps
Harut had any idea, any more than they
knew that the Child represented the Egyp-
tian Horus and his lady Guardian the
moon goddess Isis Then, dressed in some
native garments. she was handed over to
Ragnall and thenceforth treated as a
like ourselves, being al
lowed however, to live with her husband in |
the same house that she had occupied dur
Ing all the period of her strange captivity.
Here they abode together, lost in the mutual |
bliss of this wonderful reunion to which
they had attained through so much bodily
and spiritual darkness and misery, until a
month or so later we started upon our Jour- |
ney across the mountains and the great
desert that lay beyond them.
Only once did find any real opportunity
If private conversation with Lady Ragnali
This happened after her husband had
from the hurts he received in
he battle on an occasion when he was
obliged to separate from her for a day in
)rder to attend TO some matter in the Town
II the Child. | think il had to do with the
'ifles used in the battle, which he had pre-
iented to the White Kendall. So leaving
ne TO look after her. he went. unwllingly
enough, who seemed to hate losing sight of
lis wife even for an hour.
I took her for walk In the wood. TO
hat very point indeed on the lip of the |
,rater whence we had watched her play her
,art as priestess at tho Feast OF the First
ruits After We had stood there n while
We went down among the great cedats
rying TO retrace the last part of our march
through the darkness of that most anxious
light, whereof now for the first time 1
old her all the story.
Growing tired of scrambling among tba |
allen boughs, at length Lady Ragnau
at herself down upon one OF them and |
aid:
."Do you know, Mr.. Quatermain these
re the first words We have really had
lone since that party at Ragnali before
was married, when, as you may have
orgotten, you took me in to dinner"
/ replied that there was nothing recol-
ected much more clearly, which was both
rue and the right thing to say. or so / | ,
imposed. IL
well" she said slowly. you see that J
fter all there was something In those !
ancies Of mine which at the time you