Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-07

the beach below. On impulse she goes
t Il = me aee Win atfm you. snf lie sa taxes T her At m sef
word, and when once started refuses to
turn back with her.
After flying for several hours the
village: The airman calmly tells Andrea
she Will have to remain there for some
time.
He has the natives prepare a house for
The White Man refuses to divulge his
name and makes Andrea understand that
ne Will not take her back.
Andrea learns how "M'sungo"' has saw
ton.
M'sungc takes andre hunting with
him. and saves her from the attack Of q
sable bull.
CHAPTER XI-(Continued.)
In the meantime, all those natives
who lacked the royal hallmark were
squatting on their heels III a vast Mass
of serrated and concentric circles of
space whose periphery was determin-
ed by the exact circumference of the
wide-spreading branches Of the tree.
Andrea coughed softly but M'sungo
did not look up-in fact. nobody look
ed up. 1t was exactly as though she
were not. She slipped to the trunk
of the tree and leaned on one hand
placed against it. Somehow it seem-
ed an only friend in an empty world.
The preliminary palaver was a mat
ter of much %leisurely ceremony. gut
tural pronouncements, grunts, pauses.
more m~onologues, repeated grunts;
but, once it was over, M'sungo set
tied back with a sigh and started dis
penslng justice with a breathless rush
that reminded one of the manner in
which he dispatched game.
1t seemed to Andrea that he never
waited to hear more than the state
Immediately pronounce sentence.
Twenty lashes: Next. Thirty lashes;
Next! Twelve lashes; Next" at the
rate of about a case for every two
minutes. Nine times out of ter the
victim would smile %sheepishly and
withdraw; in the tenth case there
would come a look of sullen wonder
into the culprit's face, whereupon the
white man would promptly call a halt
cases were hen allotted half an hour
and eve an hour each, and without
exception resulted in the acquittal Of
the prisoner at the bar.
Andrea was suddenly aware Of
M'sungo's voice individually addressed
to her though he kept his eyes to the
front n spoke in a toneless ION
oioSue DIS II he we're ~colnInunlnE Win
himself. Behold! Psychology on
the job" he said. Watch their faces.
Every native that knows his sentence
to be just. takes it with an apologize
smile; if he looks sullen, the chances
are a hundred to one that he's inno-
cent. I've gone wrong. They
think I'm a wonder. Next"
One case alone that day was APP
parently interminable. When at last
IL xryo~ 4~-o~lA<~l o~~ 4,,,- l.;
eyes for the first time and sat for a
long while with bowed head; then he
drew erect, looked the prisoner in the
eye and spoke three words. A gray
hue crept into the blacks face as he
turned away. II have surrendered
him to the justice of his tribe MUIR
INJURED M'sungo. Poor DEVIL" And
Andrea knew that she had witnessed
the precursor to an inevitable SEN
tence of death. ~
Already she had been leaning for
some time against the tree trunk. not
with her hands alone but with all of
her body that could find any restful
purchase. Now she Strengthened and
feeling unusually meek at continuing
quite unnoticed, picked her way
through the ems and ill-smelling
forget herself and her surroundings in
the pages of a backbone book.
That night M'sungo was too tired to
talk and excused himself-immediately
after dinner. Andrea read until heI
eyes ached and then went to bed won
dering if she were feeling only slight
ed or if existence were actually be-
coming monotonous. She shranh
from the latter admission for she
knew that, once made, it would shat
ter the longest run of sheer peace OF
spirit which she had experienced in
her short but much bored life. She
need not have worried. fWhen she
stepped out early next morning dress
ed for the field in compliance with a
message from M'sungo to put on her
toughest and toughest she was SO ex-
cited that even the memory of her
doubt was blotted from her mind
Something was in the air of the craal
that could be felt rather than heard,
the sort of something that one could
imagine possessing a hive just before
it began to hum.
M'sungo was already sitting under
the dining tree engaged in a diminu-
tive palaver with three wizened
blacks who squatted on the ground
turn in answer to his patient ques.
tioning. around them but at a re.
spectful distance were gathered vari.
Gus members Of the camps pers47 ia
staff. On the faces Of the wizened
three and also on M'sungo's was the
same look of fanatical exaltation, the
look that proclaims any group OF di-
verse men brothers at heart.
What is it," asked Andrea, breath.
less from hurrying.
Elephant" replied M'sungo. He
drew a chair to his side. "sit down.
he said softly as one whose mind is
ha~lf-narcotized and fearful of losing
the dream. Watch and listen fol
these men bring great tidings." He
smiled almost like a boy.
One of the wizened produced a thin
wand, about twenty inches In length
freshly broken at n end. He passed
it to his companions who stared at ii
as though they saw it for the first
instead of the hundredth time, finger
ed it gurgled over it and finally grave
ly handed it to- M'sungo. He Went
through more or less the same process
and returned it to the man who had
first produced it with what was APP
parently a sighting remark.
The mar glanced up with a panied
look on his face, arose, laid, the wand
on h ground, as a and with
laborious fingers began to trace a
mighty oval. M'sungo leaned across
the table and gazed with fascinated
eye; Andrea, watching him, could see
the pulse throbbing at his temples.
He was a new M'sungo. somebody
young, approachable, lovable, an eager
boy.
She leaned close to his shoulder.
PLEASE, White Man." she murmured.
I"please tell me"
Without turning he put one hand
out and grasped her wrist as though
to still her. 1.-THE little man." he ex-
planned, sis drawing the spoor of a
mighty beast. Look at it and learn it
by heart for it will be q photograph
Having completed the circumfer-
ence Of his oval, the native was max
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