The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-02-13

get in, one more nasty bit of cleverness
before-before l diedp
"0h, 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 hadnt-what If he
had" continued Andrea holly. "Oh,
you know what mean. What If he
had killed mel"
But he wouldn't" insisted the man
weakly. HE wouldn't think of it."
Andrea pounded the horn Of her sad
die. Observation-Disclosures
Msungo suddenly whirled, thereby
winding the qulescent 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 itp he said,
shaking her lightly, "your d. per-
sonal element Well, I'll give 1t to you.
If 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, shat 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 few its rejoicing
banner. Day by day she followed
Msungo 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 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 disagreeable task on his hands
he faced it 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 justifable 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 brutalizing doc
trine of shine is mine II / can take
It." he found himself on treacherous
ground and his words picked their
way slowly as though bent on avoid
ing all misunderstanding.
ut Is the TRUTH" he said thought
fully, ''that the spirit of man advances
only by plumber and the corollary TO
that is the fact that 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 the
same thing of individual relationship"
He glanced at her and something Of
his earnestness passed TO her with the
look. Go on" she said kindly.
"Can you believe me-" he continued.
''when I tell you that no one was more
surprised than the Superman himself
when he assumed flesh after his long
preparation and awoke to find himself
a vandal-a Frankensteini The theory
was perfect-all that was lacking
were the things of the spirit, the
breath Of life without which any ami
mated creation becomes automatically
a monster.
"And yet the collective spirit Of man
advances only by plumber. You can
see 1t In my own country. yesterday.
in Africa today and II win come In the
other Americas tomorrow. The great
est thing ever said by Salisbury. a
rock among men. was that ruins are
not evidence OF occupation and that
packed epIgram brings Us face TO face
with danger at the fork Of the road
Of freedom"
~0h. White Man." said Andrea, her
brow puckered with internal effort.
please apply Il to individuals"
He started 70 nan her to the tradi-
lions OF her sex but something truly