Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-04-09

happy inallty and bearing towels and
soap led her to the newly constructed
little hut In the yard. He placed the
parnphernalla on n chair set close to
a collapslble canvas tub and from a
n%eighboring %smoldering nre fetched a
big tin Of water.
slot wateri" cried Andrea. "why,
Tn boiling myself. Bring me cold
water"
"Cold water no good" affirmed Bath
tub as he emptied the tin.
"But l wish cold water" said An
drca.
"Cold water plenty no good for
white Missls," reafilrmed Bathtub and
withdrew, carefully closing the door
behind him.
Andrea enjoyed the bath and learned
In ten minutes the soundness of the
tropical rule that IL had taken some
old-tlmer ten years to evolve: The hot
ter the day the hotter the water. Feel
Ing refreshed, almost cool, she started
back to her room, but stopped on the
veranda, her eyes held by sundry things
on the table, n mans soft shirt, freshly
ironed, a roll OF khaki cloth, scissors,
a thlmble and one of those pepper-pot
tins OF assorted needles. She stared
Mt them long and helplessly, her lower
lip trembling; then she went in, put
on her things except her frock and
covered It's lack with her cloak. She
did her hair last OF all, by way OF
change, and just as she finished heard
Bnthtub's call to breakfast.
Neither white man nor black was In
evidence, but even so the day passed
swiftly, so many were the new features
Of the craals changing scene. She
chose q book at random had her ham
mock-chnir dragged into the shade OF
the dining tree and stretched out 10
her first lesson In lazy content. Grad
unlly she grew drowsy with the heat,
but not so sleepy that she failed 70
hear from away Off the far-carryine
report, six times repeated, OF a high
powered rifle.
Bathtub. squatted near by, looked
up with a beatlhc smile. Master" hG
stated.
1t was two hours later when the
incident was repeated In every detail
save that the shots came from still
farther away and about three hour
after, once mor the thing happened
Bathtub rolled his eyes and hugget
himself In ~gormnndizlng anticipation
as ne brenthed the word, Master"
Andrea was vaguely Interested unit
the sequel 10 those eighteen shot
began TO arrive and then she wa
stunned with horror. Amid the shout
OF men and the shrill ulululoolng o
the women they began to come Ia
beast after beast, each trussed to
pole and borne by six, sometimes eight
naked and stralnlng blacks.
First to arrive were Ave sable ante
lope. beautiful even In death, the proul
sweep OF their glorious horns inverted
thick tongues dragging In the dusI
The bearers did not stop within IN
craal. but passed through II, chan
Ing wildly as though they were en-
gaged In a perverted Bacchanalia
pageant OF blood. Women and chi
, dren streamed after them. and eve
? Bathtub looked longlngly In the dlre'
/ ton they had gone.
Scarcely had the %hullabaloo OF thei
passing died into the distance when
new contingent arrived. "M'sungi
M'sungo," the one word she knew
. cropped u from their jabber wit
, the steady recurrence OF a hauntin
r fugue. What they bore we're six wild,
! beeste, male and female, bufoons {
the plains. still pltlfully grotesqu
, their horse-llke tails trailing like d.
, couraged funeral plumoA
/, "Oh. White Man" gasped Andres
; covering her eyes, ooh, M'sungoi"
And then II came again. Jour loat
this time. but every one as big as
a horse. Eight men strained under enc