The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-03-05

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"Oh, no." protested M'sungo. "Go
easy, now. Why, Marguerite has done
that dozens Of times. He knows ex-
actly how to slice of his rider. And
besides, he always stops"
But what II he hadn't-what II he
hadY continued Andrea holly. "Oh,
you know what / mean. What IL he
had killed meT
"But he wouldn't" insisted the man
weakly. "He wouldn't think Of it,"
Andrea pounded the horn Of her sad
die. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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 it'll" he said,
shaking her lightly, your D. per-
sonal element! Well, I'll give it to you.
If he'd hurt so much as a 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 md 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 two
edged knife. She chose the knife.
white Man." she said, "that would
have been adorable at the price-sim-
ply adorable!"
The weeks that followed were the
remaking Of Andrea physically. Each
day she walked more and felt It less.
From head to toes her body was with
out blenish and In her eyes, her
cheeks and In the spring Of her light
step, sheer health few its rejoicing
banner. Day by day she followed
M'sungo farther afield, 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 ;nere 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 disagreeable 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 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 plnnder
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 brutalizing doc
trine Of thine Is mine II / can take
It." he found himself on treacherous
ground and his words picked theil
way slowly as though bent on avoid
ing sll Misunderstanding.
"It is the TRUTH" he said thought
fully. "that the spirit Of man advances
only by plumber dnd the corollary t.
that Is the fact Mat the plundered
world Is always the more fruitful, but
| the objectionable sin as far as peoples
are concerned Is the failure to define
robbery under arms from productive
plumber, and you can almost say thu
same thing Of individual relationship
He glanced at her and something o.
his earnestness passed to her with thu
look. "Go on" she said kindly.
"Can you believe me-" he continued
"when tell you that no one was mor'
surprised than the Superman himself
when he assumed flesh after his loni
preparation and awoke to ind himsel
a vandal--a Brankensteinf The theor.
wass perfect -all that was lacking
were the things of the spirit, tn
breath Of life without which any ami
mated creation becomes automaticall,
monster.
"And yet the collective spirit Of maj
advances only by plumber. You cal
see It In my own country. yesterday
in Africa today and It win come In tn,
other Americas tomorrow. The great
est thing ever said by Salisbury, I
rock among men, was thst ruins ar
not evidence Of occupation and tina
packed epigram brings us face to fac
| with danger at the fort q tie roa'
Of freedom
"Oh. White Man. said Andrea, he
brow puckered with internal Effort
please apply it - individuals"
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