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dark figures rose in the oaSSava near
our tent. They rose and gasped, then
| suddenly they sank back into dark
ness.
To this day believe that il was this
peal of laughter that defeated the Ba-
| kOngo.
What baffied these Rakongo, what
overawed them was this: Here was a
handful of people who had been openly
| told that they would be killed; there
were many hundred warriors who
would see to 1t that any resistance
| should be absolutely useless. And
what did they do? The two pale
| strangers went into their tents and
| slept! The Bambala sat round their
| fire. smoked calmly and listened to
Storiesi
And there was this little child, who
ought to be hiding somewhere and cry.
| ing out for his mother-there was this
tiny fellow laughing, laughing aloud
at an hour when even growH-ups, In
| the perfect security Of their village,
keep quiet lest they might provoke
| some ghost or maIevolent spirit Of
darkness.
| This was not natural: these people,
acting so unnaturally. must be super
natural themselves, or possessed of
unCanny powers which it might he
| fatal to provoke. Who would dare to
/ go against them?
Thus Buya beat the BakonGo.
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sBUYA'S AWFUL LANGUAGE
OVERAWED THEM"

hS his own request, intrusted TO his
care, he was a man; but the day we
went home and left him under good
care on the shore, when he was sob
bling bitterly, stretching his brown
arms longingly after us and kicking
away viciously all the precious treas
ures which we had given him on
parting, he shrieked, II don't want
these, I want you"' he was a little
child again.
But it Is no good talking about him
As n child, one wakes sentimental.
Buya had been intrusted to me by his
father, a MuyanZi chief, who had
asked me to take him with me so
that his son might see the world.
AS ] knew we would run some risks
refused at first, but the chief being
an old friend insisted, and / had to
give in. l never had to regret it.
He had never been outside his vii
fage, and was quite primitive; he had
not yet acquired the habit of wearing
garments, but our old boy Sam, a
gentleman of about Is, having lent
him an old pair of brooches, he longed
to have some of his very own. So
he came to me and explained that he
found 1t humiliating to wear dirty
trousers belonging to his friend and
yet his situation demanded that his
nakedness should be covered.
If you were to give me some cloth.
= big piece, I might make myself a
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However, had no right to drag these
people into danger against their WILL
so told the men to come In an hour
when I would pay them their due;
they were free to go. After an hour
they came back; the goods were ready
for payment; the spokesman asked me,
IF we go home will you still proceed
to the Bakongo?" I answered in the
affirmative.
Then, please put these goods back
because we shall go with you; II you
want to have your throat cut, we shall
at any rate share your fate" And as
they had come, so they strolled leisure
ly back to their quarters. While the
journey lasted they never complained,
they never tired, they never failed US.
have to thank the chief OF Insashi;
he put us into communication with
the Bakongo, arranged our passage
across the River Loange and gave US
such a good character that we started
under the best possible auspices. At
the Loange, the Bakongo came With
one boat, in which I passed the first
to the other side; took absolutely no
arms with me, to demonstrate my
peaceful intentions.
WHERE had landed the forest
w came down to the waters edge.
There l sat on one OF my boxes and
waited for something to happen. Some
thing did happen. An ant, one of
those charming little creatures which
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ner, went there to live and to attend
him until he was well and could dance
again.
All of this Senior Delmas learned.
OF the girl he learned that, after a
while, she had fallen in love with a
Riviera spender, one of the mysterious
foreign men who have plenty of
women. There was a parting with
Jean. the Apache, who merely shrug-
ged his shoulders and found himself.
X 4 X
IT was not long before word was
i carried to Jean himself that the de-
tective from Spain had been making
inquiries. In fact, Senior Delmas saw
that the warning was delivered to him.
The police have their spies and their
agents in the very deepest of the
underworld. AS Senior Delmas expect
ed, after he had put a number of two
and-twoS together and made a conse-
quent number of fours, Jean Matteau
came to his hotel room one morning
and asked that he be allowed to enter.
In the way that remains an
apaches, no matter how far from the
apache haunts he ma ystray, Jean
Matteau asked the detective the direct
question::
why do yo uask about me, senior?
am come to tell you whatever you
wish 10 know, so that you may not
be at further trouble"
"Only what you know of the Staying
of Senior Bartolomeo, in Toledo, by
his young wife, your former dancing
partner" Senior Delmas returned.
"Of such a thing 1 know nothing"
the apache said. Il have heard of
the death of Senior Bartolomeo;. that
is all. do not believe Amy Agerno
killed him. but that is only my belief
Then 1t was you, Jean Matteau
who killed him!" Senior Delmas ex-
claimed. For you were in Toledo
that day. and you were in the house.
This we know"
"You know that, senor?"
every certainly. And we know that
Senior Gabriel was very cruel to his
wife, after the first week of their love
was passed and he realized that he had
lost the friendship and support of his
relatives. We know that even here
in Marseille, he beat her about the
head and shoulders, and that she still
bears the scars. And that you, Jean
were told Of It by her whom you stop
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the most beautiful man in the world.
1t had been profitable to me in draw
ing audiences to my dancing, but ii
was beginning to get on my nerves.
! knew i was absurd in the eyes OF
the people, and il was hard for them
to take me seriously. And seriously
/ wanted to be taken. Dancing was a
side line. My ambition was painting
and sculpture.
l thought then that I would bear
for while with the odium of being
the most beautiful man in the world,
and then would let it drop, and turn
into simple Paul Swan, painter and
sculptor. 1t did not take me long TO
realize that the stigma of beauty"
would be a serious burden for an
earnest, hard working artist
The most beautiful man in the world
/ remained. Everywhere 1t was flung
into my face. 1t was irremovably at
tached to my name. 1t seemed impos-
sible to forget. The moment some one
named me as Paul Swan. eyes turned
to me, curious and full of Amusement.
Nobody was interested in my paintings
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you are d chief. you don't need to
tell us. But this with
fcensored) now insults your guests.
1t is time you knocked him on the
heaG-he may become dangerous
There never had been any love lost
between the two men, and this ad-
dress Of the child, fortunately for US,
raised the old mans anger, and In
his folly he scolded the younger
chief. When Buya strutted off they
were exchanging compliments, but
none Of them equaled Buya's genius
for invective.
THIS was Buya's day: he was TO
shine in all his glory. AS evening
came, our men gathered round fire.
and we, after d smoke or two, retired
to our tents After "a while / got up
again to see how things were going
on, and when the flame of the men 8
fire fiared up / noticed shadows In the
cassava which surrounded our tents:
pretended not to see them and. TAX
ing cover all the time. approached the
fire of our men.
/ wanted to know what they were
talking about at this moment, when
they might be called any instant. I'M
armed Az they were, to fight for their
lives. They formed circle and lis
tened intently to Sam. our Muluba boy,
who was talking quietly. He was tell
ing folk story of a jackai and a
dwarf antelope. The jackal was about
to cut the antelope's throat and the
antelope begged him to hold the knife
with both hands. so as to make II sure.
The jackal, thinking this reasonable.
agreed.
The moment the jackal had let go
the little antelope to clutch the knife
with the other hand too, the slim little
fellow had slipped out OF his reach,
and shouted:
Uncle Jackal. Uncle Jackal, do
you know which is the best time to kill
Il dwarf antelope"
"Which?"
when you have got him. laughed
the antelope. and ran straight home.
The men again gurgled, but Buya
was 80 amused that, forgetting good
manners. he laughed aloud, and the
merry peal of his young voice rang
out in the silence of the night like sill
yer bells. 1t rang out and raised the
echo in the little wood, and suddenly
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TT is puZzliuE. to say the least.
that in the heart Of q country
OF more than .o0G square
i miles, entirely under European
administration. there should still
be found narrow little strip of
land, so To $50 miles wide as the
crow flies. which has not only resisted
the white conqueror. bur has sue
ceeded in keeping an foreign travellers
without its frontiers. Yet such is
the case in Africa of the country be-
tween the Kasai and Ioange rivers.
The famous missionary. George
Grenfau, with Mai. Sarmeuto and 500
natives, had tried TO cross it and
failed. y military expedition passed
the frontier, but was never seen
again. Capt. Hilton Simpson and l
at length succeeded; hut If there is
any merit in this let 1t BE- given
to those To whom ii is due.
Simpson was splendid. always cool,
always reliable, always fearless. How
ever If any credit IS due FOR the
exploit. TWO people have greater
claim than he, and th"s, are Mayuyu
and Buya.
Mayuyu was OF the % Bam-
bala from the i\Wilu who rolun-
teered to follow me on this eNpedi-
ton: ali We're splendid but Mayuyu
was the pest u bli- Il1-ilti ~ ttATO
Is impossible Nayuvu 10y his charm
ing ways and invariably good temper
managed 10 dispose the natives in
our favor even before our arrival.
The BakpnGo would nave starved
us into submission had not Mayuyu
organized an underground way by
which supplies reached us An in
vitation TO n fight met with ready
acceptance-on condition that the
challenger accept an invitation to a
dinner previous to the combat. Let
us talk before we kill each other: we
won't be able to do it after he would
say-and the swashbuckler was ap-
peased by his Establishments.
What Mayuyu achieved by gentle
persuasion was strengthened by
Buya's terrorism. Buya was a child
about years Of age; it is impossible
TO state 1t exactly because kongo ma
tives do not keep count of their
years. With Buya the thing became
complicated: sometimes, or, more cor
rectly speaking, nearly always, he
was 80 grown up.
X X =
TO hear him hurl at the hostile
chief of Kenge a torrent of
sophisticated jungle billingsgate made
it difficult to assimilate him with the
products of our nurseries. or when,
after Il 30-mile march, he refused to
give up the little rifle which had been,
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what was not preposterous there did
not appear preposterous to me at ALL
/ returned to the United States to
begin my career as painter and
sculptor. ! knew that a New York
newspaper had printed a story from
Athens about the young American
there who was all the rage as the
most bautiful man in the world. What
an irresistible newspaper line that
phras Sc made,
l had thought little of that bit OF
publicity. In New York I needed
money to finance me on my painting
career. The most immediate way to
get it was the same as in Athens
dancing. l got q contract with the
atrical concern. They promptly billed
me far and wide as the most beautiful
man in the world. l knew 1t sounded
ridiculous here and protested. They
said it was a necessary part of put
ting my dancing across. My recitals
We're very successful, both at the box
Office and in the way of publicity. l
went ahead with them, and soon near
ly everybody knew about Paul Swan,
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ped, on your way through Toledo, to
! ask of her il she had found happiness.
All this we know, Jean, and because
we know of 1t, we don't think she,
Amy Agerno, killed her husband, but
we think you did. If you say you
| didn't, why, then it is very plain what
we must do. We must take Amy
Agerno, who is a Spanish citizen now,
because of her marriage, back to
| Toledo, and send her out to the Stone
House for the rest of her life-for, of
course, 1t is. not likely we would exc
cute her. Not. at any rate, while we
would still suspect that 1t was not she,
but you, who handled the knife that
| night. How about it, Jean Matteau?"
The dancing apache asked for a
little time to think the thing over, an
hour or two. Take "a, or even
| more" Senior Delmas agreed.
But the next morning Jean return.
ed. Il am ready, senior" he said,
simply. 1T was l who killed him,
and he deserved it. For Amy Agerno
is girl who is good, and who does
| not deserve cruelties.'
J So they took Jean back to Toledo
! end the Bartolomeo family was glad,
I for by his confession he saved a scan
! cal and made things easy for the
police. There was nothing disgrace.
by robber who had broken into his
house at night, as Jean said he had.
But they gave him only four years
in prison, which seemed very odd to
| everybody except to one or two Off
Gals to whom Senior Delmas had con.
fided that Jean Matteau, who had been
In the Bartolomeo house earlier on
the day of the tragedy, had left Toledo
by train before nightfall, and had al
ready reached Madrid by the time
Senior Gabriel was killed
/ But the officials held their counsel,
since Jean confessed. and sent him to
the Stone Prison for four years.
That is why Amy Agerno is the
De ncing Girl Of Toledo. She is dane
ing every one Of the four years away,
dancing and waiting close to the
Stone House on the Barbarosa, where
Toledo goes to see her and to whisper
about the rumor that she knows about
a murder.
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the natives have ingeniously named
way under my puttees and suddenly
bethought itself OF justifying its
name.
Slapping my leggings having pro.
duced no practical result, ! slowly UNI
did my puttee, and. turning my stock.
ing down, wanted to break his bones
between two stones" when all of u sud
den chorus Of Abs came from
the Surrounding thiCket. l quickly
drew the stocking up and then tried
to pierce the underground to make
out who We're the owners OF the aid
miring voices Some vague outlines
indicated human beings. but It took
me some time before | distinguished
first one. then several, women, whose
eyes We're fixed on me.
| made friendly signs inviting them
to approach, but without result. When
| raised my voice and called To them
TO come out there was at first the be-
ginning of a stampede, but one young
lady. Drawer than the rest, stepped
out of a calamuS thlcket and stood
there, her hands crossed over her
breast.
One by one other women appeared
they got nearer and nearer. and
dared not move for fear of frighten
ing them away. AT last one girl
younger than the rest, pointed to my
leg. / at once graSped the possibilities
of the situation. l turned one of my
sleeves up. AS my hands face and
| neck were burnt coppery brown and
tropical anenda gives every one a
very fair skin, my arm naturally
seemed a very wonderful sight TO
these people who had never seen a
ci Oh rl a1 nd
insisted on seeing my chest to make
sure l was white all over. One lady
passed her finger over my arm and
was duly astonished that the paint did
not come off.
| The elders of the village and the
chief came to have a conference. and
| all went we'll while l explained to
| them that we were neither traders
| missionaries nor officials, and that all
| we wanted was a little hunting on our
way TO the Kasai. When. however, /
mentioned that I should like to take
some presents to their great chief
Coma N Vula, the disposition of the
men suddenly changed; some rose and
went away, others looked angry.
had touched upon a subject which
obviously aroused their hostility. ]
thought it wise to break up the con-
ference and return to my tent.
X y
MEANWHILE Mayuyu had some
A'A how managed to make friends,
and Buya was holding forth to an ad-
mir1ng crowd. They understood but
few words of what he said, but what
words failed to express gestures help
ed to make clear. I was glad to hear
on his authority that Simpson and
used to shoot our daily elephant be-
fore breakfast and that the buffaloes
that had fallen before our rifles were
greater in number than the blades of
grass between the Loange and the
Kasai.
1t filed me with pride to be pro
| claimed the greatest chief of Europe
and all other countries, but when he
| began to explain that the only way
| to my heart was through him, and
| that any one who wanted to obtain
anything from me could do no better
| than bride my confidential adviser
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who was no other than Master Buya,
I was lightning to get a little
nervous.
went to the fire near which l
heard his voice. but when i saw the
little beggar sitting there with a big
pot Of palm wine In front of him
sucking away at the chiefs pipe, l
was treasured. Who would take such
a child seriously?
The village had gone to rest; the
last drunkard had been led home by
his friends, when the flap Of my
tent opened quietly and Mayuyu ap-
peared. He explained to me he had
learned that we had had to wait for
our passage across the Loange be-
cause the permission Of the great
chief. whose name was Coma N'Vula
(the Drum of Rain-Thunder), had
to be obtained; that the great man had
granted 1t reluctantly. but had at the
same time given strict orders that on
no account were we to be allowed to
come to his village. and any attempt
Of ours to do SO was to be resisted by
force. He told me that the natives
simply trembled at Coma N'Vula' s
name, and that the best thing for me
would be never to mention it.
OUR plan was to proceed by slow
~ stages toward the Kasai, SO as
to see as much as possible of the
people; on our way we were going to
attempt to visit the great Coma
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one The old man retorted by telling
him that in this place, at any rate,
he was chief.
Buya rolled with laughter. did
you say chief? Ha. ha! har' Turning
to the natives surrounding them, Look
at that. A chief. That old thing you
have to feed on pap, chief, Ha. ha.
ha," Then, in a sort of confidential
tone. he said to his audience: "My
father keeps chiefs like this in a pen
and fattens them for feast days. But
l wouldn't eat that" Buya spat out,
called SanGa and walked off
And the Bakongo? With their
hands before their open mouths they
marveled and. being plucky people
themselves, liked the boy for his
cheek.
But Buya did one better. The
younger chief was just coming along,
so he walked up to him and said:
Chief, this old slave of YOUR. fpoint-
ing at his antagonisD is getting off
his head. He claims TO be the chief,
Ha, ha! hai Now you, one can see
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''Seasickless'' Ships.

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found of UNIQUE value
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some money and finished my studies
in a better way than hoped.
All of this seemed marvellous good
fortune to me, but nothing grotesque.
The praise of beauty in a man did not
appear to me as innately ludicrous.
OF course, it was far removed from
the Indiana farm on which had been
reared, but ! had simply fallen com
pletely into the mood Of Athens, and
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Public land reserved as valuable
for water power purposes and held
for disposal in the United States now
totals 4.762. S44sacres.