Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-29
THE IVORY CHILD
BY H. RIDER HAGGARD

was IN, master or their fate. IN n scrsn.
IIarut admitted this ;n me. for suddenly he
looked up and said in "a changed voice and
i'm Bantu:
"Nou are good reader Of hearts. -
| llacamaZ1na. almost as Eood a# ! am. Bu,
remember that There is ono Who writes
upon the book of tho hcnrt who IS tn"
Lord or us who do hat read. and that what
lTc writes that VIII hcfall strive as we
may. for i'm His hand is the future
quite So" ! replied coolIy, and that Is
| Why am goinC with YOU to NcnGah Land
and fear You not at all"
$50 il rs and SO let it be-" he answered.
and now, Lords, are you ready to start?
For long Is the road and who knows what
awaits us ere We see It's end?'
Yes" | replied, long is tho road OF life
and who knows what awaits us ere we see
its end and after?'
Three hours ,ator I halted tho splendid
white riding camel uponi which was
mounted and looked back fEam the crest Of
q wave Of the desert. %ThcHe' far behind us
an tho horizon. by tho, help Of my ElaSScs,
! could make out the site of the camp We
had left and even tho tall anthill whence
! had CaZcd i'm the moonlight at our mystic
rious escort which seemed to have sprung
from the desert as though by magic.
This was the manner OF our march: \
milo or SO ahead Of us went n picket of
eight or ten men mounted on the swiftest
beasts dnnh'I'sS ln give warning OF any
DANCER $cNt three or four hundred yards
away. followed a body Of about nifty Ken
dah, travelling in a double line. and behind
these the baggage men. mounted like every
one else and leading behind them strings
Of Camels laden with water, provisions
tents Of skin and all our goods, including
tho fifty rifles and the ammunition that Rag
nall had brought from England, Then came
we three white men and Hans, each of US
riding as swift and fine a camel as Africa
can breed. on our right, at distance of
about half a mile and also on our left
Travelled other bodies uf the Kendah Of the
Same numerical strength as that ahead
,yhtIo the rear was brought up by the re-
n,atndrr Of the company. who drove a mum
her or snare camels
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