Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-15
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and become pale. rs any may gueS.
VINO may have Chanced to read the history
OF Mameena, and the turn Of Miss Holme.
to watch me with animated interest.
20 Slayer Of evil men and beasts they
| went on, In their rlCh-voiCed, monotonous
chant, who as our magic tells us Is
| destined TO deliver our land from the ter
IloIe scourge. we greet YOU, we bow before
YOU we acknowledge you as our lord ana
brother. to whom we vow safety among us
ana in the desert, to whom we promise q
| great reward
Again they bowed. once. twice, thrice
then stood silent before me with folded
arms
what on earth are they saying" asked
| Scroopo. ~ could catch few words he
| Knew a little Kitchen Hulu--"but not much
told him briefly while the others list
cned
What does Mameena mcan?' asked Miss
! Holmes. with a horrible acutencss. is II
! a woman's nance
Hearing her. tlarut and Marut bowed as
| though doing reverence to that name.
| am sorry to say that at this point ] grew
! confused. though really there was no reason
| why / should and muttcrcd something
! about native girl who had made trouble
| In her day.
| Miss Holmes and tho other ladies looked
| at me with amused disbelief, and to my
| dismay the venerable Harut turned to MISS
| Holmes and with his inevitable bow SAID
| In broken English:
"Mamccna very beautiful woman, per
! haps more beautiful than you, lady Ma
| mccna love the white lord Macumaaana
| She love him while she live. she love nm
! now she dead
"Shc tell me so again just now You ask
white lord tell you pretty story OF no" "'
kiss her before she kill herself ,,..
Needless to say all this very mlsloaulhE
information was received BY tho audience
with an attention that can but eau rapl'
broken only by n sudden burst OF snisEer-
ing on the part OF Scroope favored nun
with my flerccst frown. Then ! fell upoi,
that venerable villain Harut and oelaDore1
him in Bantu, while the audience Iisteheu
as intently as though they understood
| asked him what he meant by coming
here to asperse my character. ! asked nm
who the deuce he was asked mn INV. NV ''
came to know anything about Mameena.
md finally I told him that soon or Iate
would De even with him, ana pauseu tN-
hausted,
He stood there looking for all the world
like n statue Of the patriarch JoO aS
imagine HIM and when I had done. Iss.,is,,. Tsp'.eo
without moving muscle and in EnEhsn
90 Lord Zliali. Zulu wizard, friend OF
mine, All great wizard friend Just liNe an
elcphaut and all snake. IlNhl i!'"Ne III,
know Mameena. and she tell me story anu @
sord ,nu much love and say she wait lot
ooJ etil intcnser interest evinced by MISS
Holmes and others) "lf you IKE sloW
Won Mamecna fore | GO (Murlhurs itUn tt
Miss Holmes and Miss Manners VI ~
please do!D "But thal Ns,S ~, ~ ~ 90
poss for what one long-ago lady out OF so
many r,,,, ,,d
Thor suddenly he broke into Bantu, ana
,ddad. "a lest is a Jest. Macumaaaha'
though often there Is meaning III ,,i J''ti
and you shall see Man1eena u you VIII
come here to ask you to 40 my pepP'e -"
,.ar,,j,c for which you shall not ack re-
Sel We the White Kendah, the People
70 ,ho enid are at war with the Black
L-orIob our subjects who outnumber us
'rho Blacl Kendah have an eVil spirit Ior
n god. which spirit from the pesth"llS .'S %
I,ysr, in the largest elephant IN al tle
.,rid n heast that none can Kill. but whlch
Nv. ,,ony and bewitches more. While |
that aIephant which Is named Jana lives
w., tho people of the Child, go in ter |
ror for day by day II destroys US we
have learned--hOw Il does not Ih"tte
thar YOU alone can kill that elephant II
'o,, viii come and kill it we Will show you |
~ ,,Iace where all the elephants go to die, |
md you shall take their ivory, many wagon !
loads and grow rich, Soon you are going |
on a tourney that has to do with nower' |
and YOU viii visit peoples named the Mazltu
and the Pongo who live on an lsIahu III " |
iaka Far beyond the Pongo ana across |
tSo desert dwell my people, the kendah, in |
n secret land. When you Wish 10 Visit US
ns you will do, journey to the north OF that
lake where the Pongo dwell anu stay there
on the edge OF the desert shooting till we
come Now mock me II you WIN, puI uo
not forget. for these things shall befall in
thelr season though that time be far III
40 meet no more for a while, still do not
forget When you have need Of gold or OF
ivory that Is gold. then journey TO the horth
Of the lake where the Pongo dwell ana
IT.w ~ and
"And call on the names OF Harut and
NIarut," repeated the younger man, who
appeared to take no interest IN
our talk.
Next, before l could answer, before
could think the thing out indeed, Tor all
this breath from savage and mystical AFRICA
blowing on me suddenly here in an Essex
ira wing room seemed to oyerwhelm me the
neffable Harut proceeded in his English
patter:
"Rich ladies and gentlemen want see
rick by poor old wizard from center Africa
Well we show them, but please member
10 magic, all quite simple trick Teach II
,ou II you pay. Please not look too hard,
10 want you learn how 1t done. What you
ike see? Tree grow out OF nothing, eh?
food! Please lend me that plate-what
'ou call him-china"
Then the performance began: The tree
rev admirably upon the china plate under
4 bits of stick danced together on the said
late, apparently without being touched
At a whistle from Marut second snake
,rawled out Of the pocket of the Mortified
ir Savage, who stood observing these pro-
eedIngs at a respectful distance, erected
tself on its tail upon the plate and took
Ire till it was consumed 10 ashes and so
orth.
The show was very good, but TO tell the
ruth / did not take much notice OF It.
or / had seen simVar things before and I
yas engaged In thoogh.s excited by what
Iarut had said TO me- At length the pair
aused amid the clapping OF the audience,
nd Marut began TO pack up the properties
8 though all were done. Then Harut OBJ
srved casually
'The Lord MacumaZana think this poor
uslness and he right. Very poor business. ,
nv conjurer do better All common trick" I
here his eye fell upon Mr., Savage who
as wrlgglng uneasily In the background.
What matter with that gentleman? Brother I
Iarut 90 see" \
Brother Marut" went and freed Mr. z
ayaEe from two more snakes which seemed s
, have taken possession OF various parts Of i
Is garments, Also, amid shouts OF laughter I
ON a large dead rat which he appeared to J
raw from his well-oiled hair I