Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-20


be drunk. even there in the quiet place SO
J told them all that had told your rev.
erend father and very great deal more,
for they seemed never TO be tired OF listen
ing And once, when | mentioned that some.
times. while pretending to be asleep, l
had heard you praying aloud at night Tor
the Miss Marie who died for you, and for
another who had been your wife whose
name did not remember but who had also
died. they both cried n little Iaas'
"rhcir tears shonc like crystals and smelt
like that stuff in q little glass tube when
llarut said that he brought from some far
land when he put drop or two ON your
handkerchief, after you were FAINT from
the pain i'm your leg at the house Nonder
or perhaps IL was the flowers that smelt
for whore tho tears fcll there sprang up
white lilies shaped Ike two babes hanus
held together In lsaycr.
"Baas the white one who was called
star asked me Of your son, the young
Baas Harry. and / told her that when last
| had seen him he was strong and well
and would make "a bigger man than you
wcrc, whercat she = ghcd and shook her
head. Then the Mssic Marie said, Tell
the Haas, Hans that 1 also have child
which nc will see one day. but II IS not
a SON
after this they too, said something
about Love. hUt what II was ! cannot re-
to YOU II is beginning 60 slip away from
wc fast as a swallow slNmmlng the water.
rheir last words, however I do remember.
They were: Say TO the Baas that we who
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our voices calling 20 him across the night
! That's what they said, Baas. Then they
10 show that thov had been standing there.
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| , cirrlct Of blue beads. and from her hair
/ there rose one cranes feather tail as a
/ waII,ing-stick. and I'm her hand she held
a little smear 80 flowers sprang beneath
! her feet when she walked toward me and
/ the sound of "A roval salute which rolled
! among the mountains like the roar Of
! thunder and her owes flashed like summer
| lightning"
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$50 ! gave her the Bayete, though who
! she might he ! dld not Know since dld
| not think 1t wlso to stay TO ask her II II
| were hers OF right, although ! should have
| liked to do SO. Then she said The Old
! Man on the plain yonder and those two
pale White ones have talked TO you OF
| their love FOR your MASTER the Lord
Nlacuma2ana. ! tell YOU, little Yellow Dog
that they do not know what love can be
| There rs more love for him in my eyes
alone than thN have in all that make.
them fair. Say to the Lord Macumazana
that, as | know well, he goes down to bat
tie and that the Lady Mameena will b,
with him in the battle as, though he saw
her not, she has been with him in othel
battles. and will be with him tin the RyeI
| Of Time has run over the edge Of the worlC
and is lost beyond the sun
oTo, hin, ron,cr,ber +hIs ,vbar Inn.
rusb,s ON and death "a yer, near 70 hin
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-, tno Eools or ,our master and NAV you
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,nts ,,at ,rbon tho old Man and the vvbit
CO, ,oid ,.o,, mar Toyo 10 rho secret bIoo
- ti,o ,o,ida which ,,al,es the,, IN ho tbo
iia ,ot 1io rovo roicrs and + NIar,eo,a
am its priestess and the heart of Macuma
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