Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-05-14

lating spectacle of beautiful white
woman.
She was a tall, calm girl, with fea-
! lures that were fine, proud and fair.
She was clad in khaki skirt, short and
top boots that made her both intensely
feminine and workmanlike. Saravan,
who could resist neither a good-looking
woman nor war, expanded before her.
She on her side seemed disappointed
as she took in his marked disreputable-
ness.
Il heard saravan was here" she
began; 80. 80 -.
among Women bloomed amid the Baak-
Como" he said with his best flourish.
Are you saravan?" she asked, grow
ing cooler under his ardor. "YeS-I
believe you are. Yet thought"
you catch me between kingdoms,
always a trying period for the ward
robe.h
you can help these poor people2"
she asked evenly.
Undoubtedly, since I am Saravan,"
he said largely. IF you can prove they
are worth it-what are they to you?"
Nothing" Her steady aloofneSs was
a challenge to him. II am Ann Darri-
ment of Tropic Medicine. I crossed the
border trailing typhus carrier and
came on here because I heard the Baak-
Como were In trouble"
Sickness, eh, not raided cows?"
Neither. The Cola have carried
off Tshipi-Nkwe's favorite wife and the
son he has named heir"
''The Cola of the Plateau?" Sara
vans face was abruptly intent.
you know the bruteS?"
"Assuredly, there is no finer fighting
material in Africa"
'Tt's unthinkable," she cried. "Just
because the Baakgomo are a peaceful |
and law-abiding tribe you can't let these |
Jackals carry off a mere girl and her |
blood boil"
ut SINNERS a little, perhaps, at the
word girl, the gypsy adventurer adj |
mitted. IF she is young then she is |
handsome, as all these Baakgomo /
women are" and as Ann Darricott ex-
claimed in disgust. But not the Co
la, they prefer the feminine nose
broader and the skin blacker. In fact,
wonder why they bothered about her,
cattle being so much more important.
THE Baakgomo had driven their
cattle to safety" Ann Darricott told
him stlffly. They have a system that
gives them warning when the Cola
come down from their Plateau. There
Isn't COW to steal or a man to oppose
Them when they reach the King bona
here. The women were also hidden,
don't bother about them. This time,
however, they had a new leader, a brute
called FL Harami-Ah, YOU know him?"
II know him." a brittle hardness had
come TO the Lucifer face. "a snake that
The worst Of serpents would feel shame
70 mother. He's q black Chicokoka,
driven from his tribe because his evil
Hr.us N141wr
are true sons of perdition A wan
terer through Africa breeding trouble.
nave. even something to repay him
IN that count myself So. FL Harami
S the new Mwenyi-M<IIu of the Co
Ia, you interest me, go on, my dear"
Her clear face chilled at his intimacy,
tut she went on steadily:
-El Harami made the Cola hunt
Put the women and when they were
found he forced them to tell who was
he most important by-by-"
she hesitated, shivering at the mem
ny OF FL Haramis methods as de-
cribed to her by weeping women.
Sarayan's fierce smile flashed.
know. FL Harami is not really one
y natures little gentlemen-so, having
ound the favor1te wife and heir, he
arried them back TO his Plateau to
lolo them for ransom"
You know" she gasped. ~You know
hereu be no ransom
4 know the Baakgomo," he jeered.
"A favortte wife Is only a woman, but
ows are property"
They're tncomprehensible these ma
ives" she cried fiercely. 'Iook-El
farani has promised the death on the
mt hin unless five thousand cattle or
heir money equivalent is sent; first
OF the woman, then II her cleaned
zones don't move Tzhipi. the boy"