Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-28

ooihcLllnS ike LnaI, SalO Andrea
incisively, "oniy shorter. You yelled.
Marry him or jump off r"
Il believe you're right" said M'sun-
go, and added, alphabetically, "You
see, didn't have much time to think"
Exactly said Andrea. "Instinc-
lively all you saw was a joke, like
every niger in the line. You didn't
care what happened to me. l might
have beeL Drained under that tree
and you knew 1t and all you could
think of was that you just had time to
get in one more nasty bit of cleverness
before-before / died |"
"Oh, no." protested M'sungo. "Go
easy. now. Why, Marguerite has done
that dozens of times. He knows ex-
actly how to slice off his rider. And
besides. he always stops"
But what If he hadn't-what If he
hadT continued Andrea holly. "Oh,
you know what / mean. What If he
had killed me?"
But he wouldn't" insisted the man
weakly. HE wouldn't think of It,"
Andrea pounded the horn of her sad
uAO' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS T.
M'sungo suddenly whirled. thereby
winding the quiescent neck of Mar
guerite around his waist. He caught
Andrea by both arms and fixed her
startled eyes with the blaze of his
own. "You will have itw he said,
shaking her lightly. "your d. per-
sonal element! Well, I'll give it to you.
II he'd hurt so much as hair of your
head I'd have shot him and then my.
self and left word with you to bury us
both in the same grave"
She flushed and looked away, When
her eyes came back to his set face
there were three kinds of sparkling
wickedness In them-tenderness the
forked tongue of serpent, and a two
edged knife. She chose the knife.
white Man." she said. that would
have been adorable at the price-sim-
ply adorablel'
The weeks that followed were the
remaking of Andrea physically. Each
day she walked more and felt 1t less.
From head to toes her body was with
out blemish and In her eyes, her
cheeks and in the spring of her light
step. sheer health flew its rejoicing
banner. Day by day she followed
M'sungo farther af1eld, took more of
an Interest In what he was doing be-
cause she understood 1t better and
learned to wait before she sat in judg-
ment on his actions, often surprising,
always swift and assured. She even
hardened herself to accompanying him
on his hunts for meat for the camp
pot and there was nothing that he did
that gave her deeper insight into his
composition than this same butcher
ing.
He made no secret of his distaste
for the job and never an apology. Hav-
ing disagreeaDle task on his hands
he faced 1t squarely and going out to
Kill, laid his plans, held to them with
answering concentration and killed
with a dispatch that was blood-cur
ding but admirable.
1t was during the return from one
of these expeditions that he expound
ed his definition of justifiable plumber
With his memory raw. as is the whole
worlds, from contact with the long
heralded Superman come to life to ex
pose in the flesh the brutallzing doc
trine of "thine is mine If / can take
It." he found himself on treacherous
ground and his words picked theil
way slowly as though bent ON avoid
ing all misunderstanding.
at is the TRUTH" he said thought
fully. "that the spirit of man advance.
only by plumber and the corollary Il
that is the fact that the pIundereC
world is always the more fruitful. bu
the objectionable sin as far as peoples
are concerned is the failure to defin,
robbery under arms from productiv,
plumber, and you can almost say tn,
same thing of individual relationship.
He glanced at her and something o
his earnestness passed to her with iii,
look. "Go on" she said kindly.