Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-02
CHAPTER VII.

There Is no telling when Andrea
would have awaked had it not been
for Bathtub who thundrede on her
door at the s~candalously late hour in
that cline of eight in the morning.
Bath ready, Missis! Bath ready,
Missis!" he was chanting m~onotonous-
ly when she swan up to consciousness
from depths of childlike slumber and
to the realization that she had been
half hearing his cry for at least an
kour. She arose. put on her cloak,
opened the door and rubbed her eyes
at the shock of a MONDAY glare.
The boy grinned from ear to ear.
Bath ready" he exclaimed with a
soap led her to the newly-constructed
little but in the yard. He placed the
paraphernalia on a chair set close to
a collapsible canvas tub and from a
neighboring smoldering fire fetched a
big tin of water.
Hot water!" craid Andrea. why.
I'm boiling myself. Bring me cold
water
Gold water no good" affirmed
Bathtub as ne emptied h tin.
But I wish cold water" SAID An
drea.
"Cold water plenty no good for
white Missis," reaff1rmed Bathtub and
withdrew. carefully closing the door
behind him.
Andrea enjoyed the bath and learn
ed in ten minutes the soundness of
the tropical rule h it had ake
some old-timer ten years to evolve:
The hotter the day the hotter the wa
ter. Feeling refreshed, almost cool,
she started back to her room but
stopped on the veranda, her eyes held
by sundry things on the table. a loans
soft shirt. freshly ironed, a roll OF
khaki cloth, scissors. a thimble anc
one Of those ~pepper-pot tins of as
sorted needles. She stared at them
long and h~elplessly, her lower hI
trembling; then she went in, put or
cred it's lack with her cloak. She die
her hair asst Of all, by way Of change
and just as she finished heard Bath
tubs call to breakfast. :.
Neither white man nor black was tr
! evidence but wen SO the day Passed
swiftly, so many were the new Tea
turs Of the craal's changing scene
She chose a book at random. had ne,
hammock-chair dragged into the
! shade of the dining tree and stretch
ed out to her first lesson in lazy con
tent. Gradually h grew drowsJ
with the heat but not so sleepy tina,
she failed to hear from away off thu
far-carrying report, six times, repeat.
ed, of a high-powered rihe.
Bathtub, squatted near by, looked
up with a beatific smile. Master" he
stated.
It was WI hours later when the in
cident was repeated in every detail
save that the shots came from still
farther away; and about three nours
after, once more the thing happened
only this time Bathtub rolled his eyes
and Rugged himself in gormandizine
anticipation as he breathed for the
third time the word. Master"
Andrea was vaguely interested until
the sequel to those eighteen shots be-
gan to arrive and then she was
stunned with horror. Amid the shouts
of men and the shrill ulululooing OF
the women they began to come In
beast after beast. each trussed to q
pole and borne by six, sometimes
eight, naked and straining blacks.
First to arrive were hve sable an
!telope, beautiful even In death. the
proud sweep Of their glorious horns
Inverted, thick tongues dragging In
the dust. The bearers did not stop
within the craal but passed tn, ugh
1t, chanting wildly AZ though they
were engaged in a perverted bac'
chanalian pageant OF blood. Women
and children streamed after them Ant
even BathtIb looked longingly III thu
direction they had gone.
Scarcely had the huilabAloo Of their
passing died into the distance when
tnew contingent arrived These Nert
y taHEtEtE