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.' / I- <• r * White Man By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN - Author of “Home,” ‘Through Stained Glass,” “John Bogardus,” Etc. (Copyright, 1919, by Bobba-Merrlll p, =5* ANDREA IS FAST BECOMING RECONCIDm> TO HER FATE. Andrea Pellor, handsome daughter of Lord Pellor, impecunious aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle-aired diamond mine owner. She disconsolately wanders from her hotel in South Africa.‘and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course imagining that the trip will be merely a pleasant excursion, she begs to be taken for a flight, although she does not know him. He somewhat unwillingly agrees, and they start. When she realizes her unknown aviator is not going back Andrea in desperation tries to choke him with one of her stockings. He thwarts hpr and they sail on into the very heart of Africa. Landing in an Immense craal, Andrea finds the natives all bow in worship to her mysterious compahien. She is given a slave boy, “Bathtub/’ and the White Man sets about building a hut for her. White Man continues deaf to Andrea’s pleadings to be restored to her friends. She goes on a day's hunting trip with White Man and thoroughly enjoys the exciting experience. :X “Yes,” he continued calmly. “It was pretty bad. She married a cub of a naval officer and is traipsing around the world on the chance of hitting the right port and lunching with him once.' CHAPTER V.—Continued. He was dressed as she was, tit for tat, except for the big black bow and the very short skirt; and, like her, his hands were thrust, boy fashion, in the i Andrea’s hand went to her breast aide pockets of his open khaki Jacket. 1 aid stayed there as though to imprison As she came close their eyes met and her fluttering .heart. “White Man,” smiled. “I didn't pn| on the leggings,” she said, “please don’t do that to me I again—ever. You see. I’ve always been silly about things that get hurt.” “Forgive me,* he said. "I was thoughtless.* “Careless, perhaps; thoughtless, •ever. * said Andrea, smiling once mere. ”Wefl.“ she went on. clasping her hands and throwing her head back. "I*® for your sister. The womea that could make ap that trunk la a genius." “She would be." remarked the maa ' enigmatically. • Andrea paused la her thoughts; then came aide awake and ieeha^ at.him •arruwty. “White Man didn’t a momma amir up that trunk f" "Tin theve are few muwssu ttvtag (hut (uuAA Think it out Thai trues 0 ft Sleew —With 1 I use MsHSe kg vans and a gat She “That’s so,” agreed M’sungo prompt ly, “but friendship has limits.” They were necessarily walking in single file on the narrow path and Andrea was behind him. She looked quizzically at his back and wished she* could see his face instead. But her attention was soon drawn to other things. They had come to the fringe of the forest. Spaced from two to three hundred yards apart and set well out from, the shadow of the trees were mysterious piles of something or other that shon'e straw-gold under the morn ing sun. At the first of the heaps M’sungo stopped. “This,” he said, kicking at the silky coils, “is the greatest sub stitute for hemp and sisal that the world has yet produced. The war has made It worth—well, not quite its weight In gold, unless you measure It by sheer profits on the cost of pro duction. It Is nothing but the bark of the temba trees which make up t*** bulk of ill the forests in this rru«on. prtgmred by hand on a process of my own." Andrea looked at the endless piles I of fiber. Iona and tons of It, strelrj* Ing away like the pouts In a prairie feacu. "And you aay this la a secret T” •he ask ed incredulously. Hu smiled. "It la so far." he an* I aw vied. "Hut If you knew nil the facts I ran wouldn't find If so wonderful In | the first place Ihiu spot la rut off oo I nearly nil sides by wsvertese wilder* inesa, In thf only direct**** ttjpt isn't “e. drad y< I be Fa are Th Is vtrafgfif finwu the rtvse. slid aoaa that la four ban- ha* never been pacified by ! ft , Jso *h! ■sued tl .♦if i § Uu m nave and are I *d at the feast laftord ftg tfee • rw % ft. *T mh aa I dsern you rust. Yeu m things I hi k m way ma ““t * a t ■hk la ■■flfeen aaff suing E M dhyty ll maa aa I ag hash ha muya and fosse «# chlldfoaod Me I dealt vM haraslf «d Ma hi year* between. “Turn were right." said the man •mfeey>e for the brash and when amm ffmNsea are bad" Her fore kit nith plea*am "TauTi let me pa late the brush T* Wever nlahr." fete answered patchty "Tfeut yen may go with am afewarver nee yeu wrTvrtT! TWT'y'PffYh®* Ymnw Msl' Bumrbuw It seems imprrtlnmt haw." "DouT lease am." said the man tightly and then his face fell. "Don't nutkr me feel old." “Old r cried Andrea. “Who could be old tonight I Why, White Man. we’re —we’re kids.” He laughed In his sudden relief. “So we ire. So we shall be.” “Excuse me.” said Andres solemnly. “Did I hear you laugh?” At that he laughed again, not up roariously, but as though his slow smile had become vocal for the occa sion. Andrea nodded in a pleased way as ff she were congratulating herself on guessing aright; It was a laugh. When the liqueurs and the coffee came she started chasing a pellet of bread sround an empty plate with a straight, small finger. “You fix one,” she said, “and we’ll have a race.” The man watched her Indulgently, but absent-mindedly. Presently he ^ filled two glasses. “My dear Andrea Pellor,” he said gravely, “let us drink to all the hearts in the world tonight that are happy and unafraid.”. She stood up to the toast, and after it they sat in a long silence. It was Andrea that broke it. “You know, White Man, I’m a woman.” “Of course you are,” he said quickly, a wary look coining Into bis eyes. “Yes,” said Andrea. “So of, course, too. I’m curlodsl” He gave the deep sigh of relief of one who finds that the'Ice is quite thick, after all. “Specify, please.” “Well,” said Andrea. “It’s that trank. I’ve parried and puzzled, but I can't make out quite bow that trunk happened.” "And do wonder, 4 said M’snngo- ”It*« simple fwmmmr ftfo amt bee gam* esemM. bv vbmpmvdL -fomY feeC* bo sbd" * Afl ngfo. * ggM Amfivea w mb g pgma Mmmg gf gap Mmabfoe, *1Nn ywg*ve hamwn fegfeg gf wggmm. havemT yogV* • *1 o* *gft£gvv*t« * fig anewe»*A amfek- info "Tv* ams fegfeg M mgmmm* 'FftAft* *" gnM Aaffmg. "Thai** am echee gfefi eT*wh gf g sfoahefoth fimne •mm knew ime ghem •«enem—m yeity •ighf tan mmch.” mat fog® kaemfeap wmn m®* pgAmly “It s aa bat «M belief. Wdgmm n e«evmg| veysge gf Ah9* r l * ? talley* and peeks, I •* s«i-gf gtoem gad t’eniiomte and ocegne ■ i are g p t a war f< md meee * kam *ff be tnld wn i e em Che wgy ggMHffMm * then fffee had igy here lent ty. *yea may Tbei ,KK., M M I* ftr P ' ee* kwi in her nmm\eled bmn. and • wnen wim-tltmM■ 'wtdw-hm"grni«, the' a fend Hell" murmured An il,, MM * ay te op*i "I'm f»*li dreg and stole gwgy. e • e e g e g It was Just as well for Andrea that she bad gone early to bed. for at five o'clock of the next morning a rock was burled at her door that almost burst it in. "Didn't that get her?” yelled M'sun- go's voice from half across the kraal. “No, Master,” answered Bathtub. “Missis sleep plenty bard, same like pickuntn.” She slipped on her bathrobe, opened the door and put out her head. “Were you calling me?” she asked with early morning dignity. “Not exactly,” answered the white man in the same tone. “Breakfast in twenty minutes; bath when you come home.” He turned to give orders to a group of his captains. ~ Andrea was instantly thrilled to the neiv adventure. *She"ctaHed^tO'Bathtub to bring her washstand and water and nibbed one bare foot against the other in impatience until he was out of the way; then* she dressed feverishly and ranout f In ten minutes they had breakfasted; in five more they were off. A long line of blacks preceded them, behind came M’sungo’s gunbearer, water boys, Bath tub, a carrier or two, and an ancient donkey half hidden under an enormous cowboy saddle. “What a funny looking old donkey I” remarked Andrea. “What’s he for?” “For you, when you get tired/* an swered M’sungo. “Really! For me?” sgid Andrea. "What's bis ns me?” M’sirngo threw back his head and laughed softly. "Why,* he said, *T to the | never thought I’d hsvg to ten gay one ben I named him. W* cs’l him Mar levtte. I named hUa after a frlsad lie tmnmd foma her gad pfwogvd si I nghc oggtea IBID ff® foe**S fihs fab I lowed him late (be rhlll gif madm the I great ivaea All bag gaga And#*o com* ami Wffh be® into a wtdo Hegr mg | eforh, •taagitoaoanMy with thetv gr I vtv«A bagaa la rfofi Co the bfeaw* gf I maay a sea Theeamh stl Ns length H I •warmed with bAgefig at wefh; aggga I felting tree*, ganw Mrtppiag the® gf I bath, other* gathering It. and still 1 aihers gtaeklng the kneed wood and 1 11 rgglng up the general feltt® • creed- I Ing to the ®agf approved rale* *f mod- I cm forestry. They natkad *p tl® wide swath of the Hearing slowly, with ®at*y Maps d»(i The parf ot ifstinffo lo ew^n direct of crltlciso. They pa^»n yond the ringing of the sic* into s region pungent with the smell of hurn- was thinking that noontime would never come.., M’sungo was too en grossed with his work to notice''her. She kept on, riding her nerve, until she felt that in another moment she must topple over; then she li^id a quivering hand on his arm. He turned quickly, looked at her face gone white in spite of the heat and cursed himself aloud. He led her through the fringe of the forest to the deep shttde at its open edge, made, her lie down and showed her that a hCimet, right side up on the ground, makes an excellent pillow. “I’m off. Promise you won’t be lonely, for It will be hours before I get back.” Andrea’s lower lip trembled. “Aren’t you coming for lunch ?'* He looked down at her and shook his head. “There may come days of picnics, yonnggter, but they’re a long way off" “P’r^fte come back,” she Insisted. lie met her eyes with s hardened gaze. ’There’s not s woman living.” he said slowly, "that will let a man work when she’s around—if the can help It" --^You’re thinking of people In love.” mid Andres to start an argument and gain time. "Of coarse I was.” mid the man on the instant. “Can’t yog let m* wockT* “Beaot." mid Andrea and railed over <m bee side, one moist hand fee • pil low In ptare of th# hard helmet, fihs did not watch him go, she did not ■*• Jiathtib and snot bet boa arrive with faiJir im mmrmmrwT: • single smell land, for before it bay pewed Mo wag far swray la the lend of Modi When Mm awoke afe® wo* warry. for awake the hot hour* pooood Ml laggard foot. At mfeddsy Mm otoj then Mhe tried la roodL hot by four fen ttm nftoraosm Mm wgg foeporoto for •eonethftmi fen dn> Mm determined m •Jw-t p o®un. end Jnet en ehe woe doomp off a whKfieT came te hev—«**e of (bone 'orafafty omnearod whHpev* that ranch the intended oar and pa aa ta^ thee. 1 Mfemift"* fihe tamed a>g <d "tlnehly! Mm* and the ggeny fea I m pe glow wno o gaagM the spirit, gf tho word Mo rotted her **ii> and fo* feed "t® I® she ®nrmnra® A gnartor of a mdo away a band of mhlo wetw gvwrtnh ond In o ampmnt Mm raw id feed that they wore feeding ! direct :y inward her. TJh r* *he bewotfemd again. *>>b ywa hmattea f* Oaoer and Heoer graned tho herd, eteppmg deinttlf foe® toft to toft gf f»<ddev. Their Mark and white for*® * f * swoop of their grrhftag horaa their brawn bwlmo thot g etened in the ana as thengh they hod hegn gvwrwmdL * their nerv'ins fiKking (y-A.’>ed taiih heir Incredibly Ml® leg*. r*wohinod ill tho attrtfoMoa of fasetaattap^ M-«oty. vigor, efowngth. motu-n—*nd .lU-d the ryaa gf tho watcher* t* over hand to receive a lighted white cheroot, a communal bit gf property that had come up the line of personal attend ants, six puffs to a “boy.” He never got a puff, for on feeling less weight behind. Marguerite opened his eyes, looked straight back on both sides of his lean body at once, flattened his ears and broke from the path at a dead run. The high cantle of the stock saddle saved Andrea from staying just where she started from. She was a horse woman, born and bred, consequently even while her amazement was at f ts height, she wrapped the reins oa ner arms, drove her toes Into the Vjcket stirrups and straightened her young back into the long, strong and sawing pull of calm desperation, for Mar gueiite was headed straight for th* leafy, low-hanging branches of a vms’ mafuta tree. Yells of delight resounded from every black man la sight with excep tion of poor Bathtub, who bad r*- gaioed hit double hsnd boid only after having been Jerked from bis feet and oow dangled along Ilk# tba proverbial villgge tig ran oa tho trail of g tar- rifled dog. Above the dm c*®* to Aadrog’a vary baay hr*In s Mmpt tfl®t Mood oat Ilka g sodden orren® In a long night mar*, “Marry him or Jump off!" Be foe* Mm could grasp the deadly import gf tfeage word* Mm w** bgngtag like g half- h«H>d used always given and aatiafac' Th* Medical Discovery* have taken at vahou times wheq in need of a tonic and system puri fier, and the ‘Pl« Vlieti’ when in [of a laxative. Them Jare the mildest of aaff ► ev*% used and can be relied , upon for results. Anyone in heed of medfo cine of this kind will find Dr. Pierce’s Plaao» ant Pellets good.”-*-*, W. DAVIS, 004 Glam bt. • SAVED LIFE MempbprjTenn.—“Ever since I WOP quite a young woman I have used Dfo Pierce’s remedies both for myself sad children. I was especially helped by dm 'Favorite Prescription' during tho trying months of expectancy. It not only loam up my system and kept me in perfect ooa dition but’I had comparatively no suffering. Then at the critical time of life I took tba ’Prescription’ again and had none of tba misery that most women endure at tbofe period, but come thru in splendid health. * “I had on# experience with Dr. Pierafo Golden Medical Dieoovety that I on my oldest •hull forget. When my oldest boy years of age he hod such a cold on the I that the doctors said he couldn’t pa bve so I stopped the doctors’ medicine just gave him small doses of the ’Gold** Medical Discovery’ and in a short time bo was perfectly well. He is now forty years of age and baa any other King but has been, and is still. 1 know the ‘Gofedm M< ■ft red kia file. - Tmuet not forest to mmtfoa Dr. as lav 1 have found hai pneumonia nee BOOHL B. it i FOR WOMEN kia gp ** * 4 Bfc *04 ever a g**f ii mm* I bo In the van of the h rd a*e*ped g ' mighty lull, kls tiny bo^fs llttnt high as though be boasted that bis weight was really nothing. Sirs'ght toward the forest sod Andrea he led hit little nrtnjp until presently she could smell the stable odor of their bodies. Her hesrt was besting like a trip hnmtner. j She tried to hold her breath. Her ! bosom rose and Ml In a fluttering j undulation. The bull looked up and saw her. His horns went back and he squatted, hesitating on the brink of the mighty spring of fright. In his eyes was a gleam unbelievably wicked. Then the crack of a rifle, the thud of a bullet ki flesh, a body hurled into the air by the death-throe and falling in a heap, legs doubled up, neck out stretched, blood gurgling from nos trils and mouth! ^ Andrea buried her face in her lap, trying to blot out the sight from her eyes, and sobbed as though her heart were breaking. She did not hear the wild cry of Bathtub, nor see his crazy gyrations about the prostrate brute, but when the' white man spoke her mind leaped to meet the justification in his words, without which she felt she could never have looked upon his face again. “Stop your crying,” he said sharply. “When a sable bull gets as Close as that, there’s no telling-which way he’s going to go.” •— —, / Dr.T utt’s Liver Pills ACHES AND PAINS QUICKLY TmH In HU Eyoa Was a Gloom Unb« I lov ably Wickod. lag greenwood Along one side, the Mdo away fra® tho fringe of the for- •at. was a Umg Rao of smoke spirals Re waved ai them, jyp org ***■» IJ*I ffMiiyRfil ^iir MW! CHAPTER VI. M’sungo led the march home; tho donkey came next, with his nose glued to M’tungo’s back and with Andrea In the mddle. Clinging to his tall with both hands, more as a drag-anchor than aa deterrent, came Bathtub, and nd him the long rank and file, wno Mill sniffing a little, bat her tear-stained face, like a child *, was already < i<-udi(Mfo- jT think feiargnrr.Le u b raw so a* • though nothing had happened, his tat i still tightly grasped by a now grinning Bathtub. Too ygnlnatet later tho process!*> was under way again lo the orde* (aforementioned with tho variatloc j that the reins of the bridle were knot ted to the beck of M’sungo't belt An dm. too dazed to protest, pondered over this indignity, but w hen she final ly found her voice she decided to ust it for another purpi/se. T think it was horrid of the blacks to yell the way they did,” she re marked with suspicious meekness “Don’t ?ou?” M’sungo seemed relieved. T certain ly do,” he answered promptly. “But you’ll have to accustom yourself to thf fact that obolo is the basic considera tion between the black man and all women in the world.** “What do you mean?” asked An drea, mystified. ’’What’s obolo?” “In this country,” explained M’sun go, ’obolo is th * market pride foi women. The bes native authorities however, contend that obolo is not a purchase price h» t the remuneratiot to the father for the board, trainlns and general keep of his daughter us to the time of hei man-iage, and thej base their argum<nt on ♦fy* fact tha! while women arf property they art not chattel, title being nontransfer able.” “Can damagei goods be eg changed?” InquictA Andrea UH^-* r Sloans I,* rttiita/iif it handy HAS On-ortmilty A little frW-ttd of mlwr hod boon to era “L'arie Turn’s (’abin* with fear tuothrr. At tbr ditinrr tablv that raw- oing her father rvinarkcd that no ho llered he would go oee the rdar tH*t evening, when little Fay mid. “Well, their-'* no tiMe In your going, for Lit tle Eva died this afternoon.”—Kfo change. Th* Frenchman's- Hands. Patience—What nationality la kef Patrice—He’s French. "Has he any accomplishments?” “Sure thing; he’s ambidextrous.* “Really ?” “Sure; he can sw’esr with botfc hantjs!” Andrea hat a thrilling ad venture in tht next instal ment k "'-i n To abort a cold and prevent com plications, take (TO BE CC fTlKUKD > -• »i I« foMTldriWH foiling ® Mo old natter I wad for s saravtag k«®o*tf by k® pa® | Hog o# flow o« tfo- fowl mi - ■** > ear dbm VM pan p®aaa ®ff I jffamT ^ ,3 foaffotsfo to feat go a® ®ffif“ tfoo mm ooa m Ms 1 "tfeill »dk kmoaa fea* focamaak* ra ^ Iff^mpgp, g a fia tffaBdk as a