Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-17

Andrea learns how "M'sungo" has saw
ca the natives Of the place from starva-
M'sungo takes Andrea hunting with
MIN. and saves her from the attack Of a
An elephant hunt is arranged. /.
The man warns Andrea against anoth-
er white man, Manchester by name, NV
Ing on the same river.
Andrea falls i'll with a severe fever,
and the man nurses her through it.
that she loves him a little She learns
her brother. and formerly IN aviator in
the British. army who has been COM
PEELED to give up military flying on &C
count OF nervous shock.
McCloster comes to the camp. Trevor
receives him. coldly hoping h hes9will
leave Immediately.
McCloster Carries Andrea of. 4
CHAPTER XXI.
Andrea stopped crying, SAT up
straight and dabbed her eyes witt, her
very dirty fingers. but there was a
strange, set look in her face that
made Manchester doubt her sudden
cure. x.
will you do it," he asked.
Never" said Andrea.
You're queer like all Of them,' he
commented musingly. But somehow
the suggestion stopped you crying"
What on earth Is that?' .-sked
Andrea, her eyes fixed far ahead on
an enormous pale-yellow dome that
looked as if all the haystacks in the
world had been gathered into one.
That" said Manchester, his vast
chest swelling in equally immeasur-
able pride, lis my Gaia, my hut"
matter with my eyes" said Andrea.
What I see isn't possible"
ooh, yes it is" said Manchester.
That's my hut: eighty feet high, one
hundred and twenty feet across and
most a hundred yards dash around"
But how did you build it?" asked
Andrea, absorbed in spite of her mis-
"well, replied Manchester, I'm
modest. I don't mind admitting that
God did the building; l just came
along and put on the roof. Trevor
ever show you mafuta trees?"
Eyes, they are wonderful" said
Andrea, understanding beginning to
dawn in her eyes.
That hut of mine," said MacClos-
roundest. widest mafuta tree in the
world. trimmed a bit and matched
over"
Half an hour later they made 9
landing. Want me to carry you
again." asked Manchester with a leer,
"or-will o Walk"
I'll walk" said Andrea, going
suddenly white with s%ickening recol-
lection.
MacCloster's craal was a master
piece of ingenuity. In its center rose
the supendous GAIA that had aston
ished Andrea ' from a mile away
Around the monster hut was an Inn
passable bona or barrier of thorns
pierced by a single entrance; outside
the bona, in the form of a ring, came
an enormous beaten court which an
braced a large shade-tree, indis-
tpensable as a nucleus for pow-wows
and. mems gossip. Around the beaten
circle were three quickly serrated
rows of huts and their dependent
outhouses. Enclosing the entire hui
man beehive was a stockade of giant
cactus with an arched entrance at
leach point of the compass.
Aside from the repulsive funda-
mental idea Of the enterprise, Mac
lirgly moral. 1t was true that he had
contracted for over a hundred and
eighty wives in strict accordance with
native law but it was equally true
that he allotted this army Of consorts,
without exception, to veritable hus-
bands Of his own choosing. The only
point of divergence from native Gus
tom was that he demanded no pay
ment of obolo from these drones and
as a consequence retained the right Of
disposal Of their female offspring.
This innovation would have struck
at the root Of the Africans conception
lof vested interests had it not beeA for
the giant singers canny astuteness in
facilitating to the drones the purchase
of one wife each in their own right,
thus killing two birds with one stone;
t%o~ Tho -~tSu,4 ~oe1~ ~>.~enHl~, -@~J,e,
but once in his life and hat to the
earn the sum with which t. acquire
the mate who will not only thence
forth support him but eventually
bring him q return of, two or three
fold on his investment.
AS a consequence, Manchester never
Hacked b%oatboys. machilla carriers,
ivory hunters or porters and con-
trolled as well an army of women and
first to the preparation Of food and
wood and water-fetching and then to
the cultivation of the enormous
shambas which produced corn and
millet in great abundance for the
lucky members of the close corpora
tion.>
That there was a subtle poison at
biography was evidenced by the fact
that while there was always a long
waiting list of recruits for the estab-
lishment there was also a tendency on
the part Of many natives to face .4ar-
walton rather than accept the ques-
tionable intrusion Of h white man in
the intimate structure OF their family
life. It was further evidenced by. an
abnormal apathy which seemed to
possess MacCloster's people in direct
proportion to their increasing we'll
fed and lazy sickness.
This, however, was a phenomenon
THAT did not trouble him 10 long as
There was a constant demand in ex-
cess OF the supply Of manageable
girls; on the contrary, while It
puzzled him. he welcomed It as maxi
l6tTict discipline. In all matters that
lafected the internal life OF the
iGtrange camp, he was sole arbiter be-
Iyond any cavilling and o martinez,
Andrea could have taken q reason
ably calm interest in. all the details
that crowded to her attention during
her rapid progress into the heart Of
been for an incident that revivified ali
her fear and repugnance toward the
man and which occurred as they. en-
tered the ring court. Manchester,
lstriding ahead Of her, suddenly paus-
led and his horrible face apparently
achieved the impossible by undergo
ing 4 debaGng transformation.
His eyes had fallen on q group Of
t~carriefs. newly arrived. and the crew
of his freight boat. The negroes were
ssquatitng in O. circle IN guard. wait
ding to- make delivery to their master
OF various cases. Some OF them evi-
Identity contained cloth, cutlery and
knickknAEks dear 10 the native hslrf'
but .0ae. ~ least, braxenly proclatsne0
IN Aseply burnt aencillaS 81 coatoaas