Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-11-28

ana no more; ana even now, mine is
achingw
andrea Pellor," said M'sungo, "you
have the faculty of your sex. You
have pinned the butterfly"
She felt a sudden reyuIsion, rage
at this man, this stranger, who talked
as she imagined ne would fight, with
out gloves. Her eyes narrowed. "By
the way, when Marguerite bolted, just
what was 1t you shouted at me7"
He paused in his stride so suddenly
that the doing donkey butted into him
and almost knocked him over. "Eh?
! Whatfp he asked TO gain time.
"Come on" persisted Andrea. "Just
say II agaln-what you shouted"
"wall," lied Msungo, 81 may not
remember the exact words, but It was
TO the effect that you'd better head
him of or jump Off"
Something like that" said Andrea
incisivey, only shorter. You yelled,
Marry him or jump orr"
II believe you're right" said M'sun-
90, and added, apologetically, you
see, didn't have much time TO think"
'Exactlyr' said Andrea. "Instinc-
lively all you saw was a joke, like
every niger in the line. You didn't !
care what happened to me. might !
have been Drained under that tree /
and you knew it and all you could
think of was that you just had time to
get in one more nasty bit Of cleverness
before-before died I"
"Oh, no." protested Msungo. "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
had?' continued Andrea hotly. "Oh,
you know what l 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
lie. "But-what-if--
Msungo suddenly whirled, thereby
Winding the quiescent neck of Mar
.uerite around his waist He caught
ANDREA by both arms and fixed her
tartled eyes with the blaze of his
wn. "You will have itr' he said, {
baking her lightly, "your d. per-
onal element Well, I'll give II to you i
he'd hurt so much as Il hair OF your
cad I'd have shot him and then my q
elf and left word with you to bury us I
9th In the same grave"
She flushed and looked away. When Il
er eyes came back to his set face Il
here were three kinds of sparkling G
'ickedness in them-tenderness, the II
,rked tongue OF a serpent, and a two p
lged knife. She chose the knife {
"White Man." she said, that would b
ave been adorable at the price-sim- s.
y adorablew Il
n
The weeks that followed were the 81
making of Andrea physically. Each le
" she walked more and felt 1t less. =
rom head TO toes her body was with Al
II blenish and in her eyes, her
Ieeks and In the spring of her light te
ep, sheer health flew It's rejoicing tn
inner Day by day she followed m,
'sungo farther afleld took more of bu
interest in what he was doing be- ba
use she understood it better and
armed TO wait before she sat in judg-
ant on his actions, often surprising, ii
ways swift and assured. She even III
rdened herself to accompanying him II
his hunts for meat for the camp II
I and there was nothing that he did IN
At gave her deeper insight into his
IMPOSITION than this same butcher
He made no secret of his distaste "
the job and never an apology. Hav lIT
a diSagreeable task on his hands IW
faced Il squarely and going out t. IIS
J, laid his plans, held to them with III
swervlng concentration and killed lTl
h dispatch that was blood-cur IH,
ng but admirable. ~
{ was during the return from one "
these expeditions that he expound- Y
his definition Of justlfable plumber tNt,
III his memory raw. as is the whole M'
'ld's, from contact with the long AIl
aided Superman come to life to ex hgIf
G in the flesh the brutalizing doc kVIl
ie or thine is mine IL | can take M
he found himself on treacherous YRS
und and his words picked their Ml
: slowly rs though bent ON avoid TIL
all misunderstanding.
It is the TRUTH" he said thought hll
Y. that the spirit of man advances fINl
2 by plumber and the corollary to IlIIl
is the fact that the plundered WIN
Id Is always the more fruitful, but NN,
objectionable sin as far as peoples MN
concerned Is the failure to define ANN
'ery under arms from productive NM
der, and you can almost say the
e thing of individual relationship.
e glanced at her and something of n,.r
passed TO her with the
go on" she said kindly.
an you believe me-" he continued. ing