The Kevin review., 1923-11-08
The Law of the
Breed
BY MORRIS SCHULTZ
%. 1928. Western Newspaper Union,

Wltnln week. wait Tor me,
Lula. shall return without fall
But Lula looked at him with
troubled, questioning gaze. and her
heart misgave her, though she said no
thing.
1t was three months since Darrell,
her white man, had taken her from
her fathers village to preside over
the little native house In which he
lived while working for the company.
During those three months she had
come to love him.
Darrell, riding through the village,
had seen the black-eyed maiden lean
ing forth from a window in the wom-
ems quarters. Next Gay ne had sent
his servant to bargain for her. They
stained her eyes with kohl and her
nails with henna.
"Thou knowest, Moon-fower, he will
send thee back when he is tired Of
thee with dowry, In accordance
with the custom of the white men,"
they had told her.
Lula said little. Her first week
with Darrell was passed In mixture
of love and terror lest she should
displease him
When she found he loved her, she
let herself go. She feared no longer.
She was happy and gay. She climbed
to his knee when he came back in the
evening. She kept the house in spot
less order. He had promised her
some day to take her to his own
country.
"For the girl loved" he said, was
false to me, and is to marry another
shall never love anyone but you,
| Moon-fower"
How happy she wasl But one day,
going through some papers that OAR
rell had left about, she saw photo
graph of the other girl-a beautiful
girl IT, large hat, with hair coiled
all about her face.
She must be beautiful, If Darrell
had loved her SO much.
And a secret jealousy Of her filled
her, though she never dared to breathe
word upon the subject
And now, three months later, Oar
rell was to go away for week. He
was going to the big hotel, he had
told her, to meet his chief, to stay
there for a week and to discuss plans.
Moon-fower was very sad when
Darrell went away. The girl from her
mocked her
"He will never return, Moon
flower" she said.
Moon-fower did not answer. Days
passed. On the fifth day letter came.
written in her own speech, which Oar
rell knew. He enclosed two hundred
and fifty dollars, a princely sum, a
doWry for princess.
II have received much money" he
wrote, "and, as l am afraid Of thieves
in the hotel, l send it to you. Keep
1t till | return"
But not a word of when he would
return. The other girl Knocked louder.
HE will never return, blind Moon
flower" she said. "Thar is for thy
dowry."
was gone. Then, Disgusting herself /
as beggar woman, with bare feet, |
she took the long, long, walk into the
city, to the big hotel beside the water.
And all that day she stood outside |
the door, confident that Darrell would
not know her, waiting patiently to see
who came out and who went in. But
there was no Darrell.
She slept in a home for the poor.
and at dawn next morning she was
at her post again. And, about the
time of breakfast, Darrell came out,
the beautiful girl In the big hat whose
picture she had seen.
Darrell looked for an instant in
into her eyes and did not
know her. Her heart nearly burst
with anguish.
But he looked into the eyes of the
beautiful girl, and she looked into
lis, and then Moon-fower knew.
She fingered near, for she under
stood little Of the English speech,
md she heard the old gentleman say:
1--WE must hurry or we shall miss
he boat, Darrell"
And then she understood Darrell
vas going away to his own country,
With the old man and the girl in
he big hat. She would never see
lin again. And she was glad he was
10 happy.
"Look at that queer little beggar
!" the girl exclaimed as Moon
lower turned away.
Heaps Of them about these hotels
Darrell returned indifferently.
Moon-fower took up the long walk
,ack, but she did not stop at the
louse. She went to the village. The ,
women would not mock her after
hey had seen her two hundred and l
fly dollars.
Curious Flower Wreath.
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