Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26

"And had better not inquire, Lady Rag
NALL since in this world most changes are
for the worse"
'I agree and shall not inquire. Now I
have spoken to you like this because i
felt that I must do so. Also | want to
thank you for all you have done for me
and George. Probably we shall not talk
in such a way again: as I am situated,
the opportunity will be lacking, even II
the wish is present. So once more I thank
you from my heart Until we meet again
I mean really meet-good-by," and she held
her right hand to me in such a fashion
that knew she meant me to kiss it.
This did very reverently and we walked
back to the temple almost in silence.
That month of rest, or rather the last
three weeks Of it. since for the first few
days after the battle was quite PROSTATE,
I occupied in various ways. among others
in a journey with Harut TO Simba Town.
This we made after our spies had assured
us that the Black Kendall were really gone
somewhere to the southwest, In which direc-
tion fertile and unoccupied lands were said
to exist about three hundred miles away 1t
was with very strange feelings that re-
traced our road and looked once more upon
| that wind-bent tree still scored with the
marks of Jana's tusk, In the boughs OF
| which Hans and I had taken refuge from
| the monsters fury. Crossing the river quite
| low now, ! travelled up the slope down which
| we had raced for our very lives and came
TO the melancholy lake and the cemetery of
| dead elephants.
| Hare all was unchanged. There was the
| little mount worn by his feet, on which
| lana was wont to stand. There were the
| rocks where I had tried to hide and near
| to them some crushed human bones which /
| knew TO be those of the unfortunate Marut.
| These we buried with due reverence on the
| snot where he had fallen, i meanwhile
l hpn mt
being Inferred at their side as but for
| Hans would have been the case-if they
| were ever inferred at all All about lay
the skeletons of dead elephants and from
| among these we collected as much or the
hest ivory as we could carry, namely about
| 1tty camel loads. OF course, there was
| much more but a great deal OF the stun
| had been exposed for so long to sun and
| weather that 1t was almost worthless
Having sent this ivory back to the Town
of the Child, which was being rebuilt after
a fashion, we went on to Simoa Towr
through the forest, dispatcnins pickets
ahead of us to search and make sure tha'
n was empty. Empty 1t was indeed {; never
did I see such a place of desoiation'
The Black Kendall had left 1t just al
II stood. except for a pile of corpses which
law around and over the altar IN the mar
ket place, where the three camel men wer
sacrificed TO Jana, doubtless those Oh wouno
|
retfeat, The doors Of the houses stood open
many domestic articles, such as great Jar
resembling that which had been set owe
the head of the dead man whom we wer'
commanded to restore to life, and othe
furniture lay about because they could no
he CARVED away So did a great quantity o
sneara and various weapons OF war, who's
: owners. being killed, would never want then
again. Except a few starved dogs and jack
, ais no living creature remained In the town
To was in its own Way as waste and eve'
, moro Impressive than the graveyard OF ele
phants by the lonely lake.
The curse of the Child worked we'll
said Harut TO me grimly. First, the storm
the hunger; then the battle, ana now TN
| misery OF flight and ruin"
at seems So" I answered. Yet tina
. course. like others, came back to roost, fo
n lana is dead and his people fed, wher
|. | are the Child and many of its peopieY VINE
r | will YOU, do without your god, HarutF
: .Repent us of our sins and wait TIL IN
Heavens send us another as doubtless the
will i'm their own season." ne replied ver
Q sadly. -
wonder whether they ever did and,
a so. what form that new divinity put ON.
= slept. or rather did not sleep, that nigl
q IN the Same guest house In which Mari
y and l had been imprisoned during o.
q dreadful DAYS Of fear. reconefFuctiae