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WHITE MAN By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN Author of “Home ” "Through Stained Glass/ 9 "John Bogardus, (Copyright. Wt, by Robbs-Merrill Co ) Etc. (lmo« »nd Inirtnirtlon. mcfcrni rimI •mi(<»rvd to fei wo«t.“ i* aM oi I 0» a TlK (bryo tb#lr Hr«.u nmny With oo further w«frr li*»y% Moru'wi'iiy'* aUmiftant ‘tht'ir rarlou* pfopoffb* ■ • Weakaets HOW CURED ANDREA 18 8AVED B ITE MAN'S CLEVER MARKSMANSHIP. Andrea Pellor, handsome daughter of Lord Pellor, impecunious aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle-aged diamond mine owner. She disconsolately wanders from her hotel in South Africa, and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach. Jmpulsiwely, of course -Intaginlng that the trip will be merely a pleasant excursiqn, 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 her 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 companion. 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 pleading* to be restored to her friends. She goes on a day’s hunting trip with. White Man and thoroughly enjoys the exciting experience. Andrea, worrying over her deplorable lack of change of clothing, is surprised and delighted when a trunk, loaded with everything in the way of clothing dear to the feminine heart, is dropped st-her doorway by stalwart natives and she is told by White Man that they are hers. White Man by a skillful shot saves her from the attack of a sable bull and she is fast becoming reconciled to her fate after eight days in the craal. CHAPTER Vl^—Continuad. "Certainly,** he answered, absorbed la his topic. “Karhanfed where there*s another daughter available; where there isn't, money la refunded by order of the courts. But what 1 was drlelnc at Is that In spite of the contention mentioned a bore, wherever n woman la concerned a Mack can * never get It out of his head that she can he replaced at the regular market price. Now yoa*ee got the kernel id i his whole attitude toward woaaeu" "Bo If It hod been yon they amutdaT have laughed and yelled." "In this mao, yen." ho sold "They meat certainly would hers use they * ho direct rwspenelhUMy that • Ihftify mnrhsi the rale T Trryw tm ■ 1 mi« that bus no enmpttsmn Anyone mu Wufea a woman If ho Neta tiho M nod gat sway wWh the IdeuiWnl ehoie her hoahaud paid fee has " ~Y an aaosn in ho o gmwf odndete of the anttwe usvtoi eysaeaa * mid Andma qntstty "f ami* sasueeed If swaga “true not *4 • •mrmr * get in our more nasty bit of cleverness before—before I died I** “Oh, no," protested M’sungo. "Go essy, now. Why, Marguerite has done that dozens of times. He knows ex artly how to slice off hta rider. And J*e%iil«**, Ik always stops." "Rot what If he hadn't—what If be h^dT* continued Andrea hotly. "Oh. yon know what I mean. What If he had killed aser* "Rat ho houldaX" Insisted the man weakly. "He wouldn't think af It." Andrea ponndvil the ham af her sad dle. Tint—what —If — he—had f* M'vuagO suddenly whirled, thereby wind ng the gnWaeent neck e( Mar gnmie nrwnnd his waist. He caught AnArvu by hath arms and Band -'i was with thg Muse <j4 wwm ~ Tha am hiva Br said, shaking hso lightly, ""your g pec •anal etcuauf I WsBL TB give M In gon I hurt so much ns o hate af yuur f d have anal ban and fesu my ad Isft uuod unh yun m bury ns tho naam upnam" huakvd and hezhed away BThea fee rums ta % In hm sat face • *e» thcea kmks af mnehnag If h pleading in the tone of her voice made him turn boldly to the personal, after all, and however much we may Jeer at It, the ultimate measure of sincerity. T will,” he said. Tf ever I’m bent on plundering the heart of a woman, I’ll travel the highroad of surrender In the company ol ravage and love. 1*41 give and still give and with each giv ing will grow the heaped mountain of my demands. You see it, don’t you? That’s justifiable plunder.” Andrea’s checks flushed, her eyes were dreamy wrth filw thoughts and old emotions. While the supply of the vast larder and the supervision of the fiber camp formed the major part of M’sungo’s untiring Industry they were by no means the total of his affairs. Watch ing him, Andrea soon learned why he never lunched. He hadn’t the time; too many things pressed to his atten tion. He was a governor on no mean scale and during the midday rest boor he would pass from group to group settling all those disputes which could be determined wit bout recourse to legs! argument. In this manner he sifted to a minimum the cases to coca* before the solmia conclave of chiefs. On the Brst ores Men that Andrea witnessed this tribal ceremony which or carved monthly at n certain stage sf! the meetk She hrgaa by feeling hnffed J ha*, lacking ea eadienrs far her meed. I anon gate tf np far ear ef saarafhl I smnwni r i>t which, in tarn, torvenArced I m ak taiecmf that alamei amssmted In awn. TV Bat Ik gneseten began atth apfem mnmmm K «-■ . JWw w aha appsared caesfMPy gvwsaaed and f«r the Best time Ik her enpecwnra. demand Ik paaryttapa maf A iknfl she • •wad ho«e In amnan heraelf for teeCsw Vam awheai kka nfek Ifysti BHL kha e waited drsoasp 1 *watn ami tVp «wmw eaWf t adee «ks gnmi seams aak fkkewi a taMw and koVad ■ k samp nemcSwe Ta Vt reki nsd #f tarn i%e* <«w af Nine limes out of ten the victim would smile sheepishly and withdraw; in the tenth case there would come a look of sullen ‘ wonder into the culprit’s face, whereupon the white man would promptly call a halt and demand more evidence. Such cases were then al lotted half an hour and even an hour each, and without exception resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner at the bar. Andrea was suddenly aware of M’sungo’s voice Indubitably addressed to her though he kept his eye^ to the front and spoke in a. toneless mono logue as If he were communing with himself. “Behold! PsyAology on the Job," he said. “Watch their faces. Every native that knows his sentence to he just, takes It with an apologetic smile; if he looks sullen, the chances are a hundred to one that he’s inno cent I’ve never gone wrong. They think I'm a wonder. Next T One cipe alone that day waa appar ently Interminable. When at last It was completed M'sungo dropped his eyes for the first time and aat for a 1 long while with bowed head; then he I drew erect, looked the pci sower la the eye and zf* >fce three words, A gray hue crept late the Mack's face aa he I tamed away. "I have sarreadeved h m J ta the Jasitre af his tribe.** marmared M’saaga. Twer drvtl!" And Andrea knew that she had wttaeaaed the pm in aa laevl table aeacsacw ef remnr That tntk a~ I affise dtenee I e«ea ached sad deeaap ed we wight ITwadps waa law ttvsd Is " eWad htnaadf tamwdMsty A*de«a mad WMS bwt thwa weal la bed worn wew fimkap saty zpphl awaee aeee kmaaBy be lapdka flhe akcaaS f mm Aakamza fee mm kac-» adz * weaM zkatlee *hz af dkewe peace af zpeeH ■he ed apMl d am mmi da s t ►ee rm hath wa A ki fip» Ik# •• iff • a * • • a ms' ■a ad c meze tha I awwt "t • at um i nag t** mo "Whet z I Yerwfeae Aff" Tho woakO (kO( fMbi zaozoOWM M Oadrao pO mm4 wogn puriokf 1 H» *zeA fefel YrawAae A*" * ho asM , dny tko wmbI fin ►# W fi sad (zat R Amiiiy *fis ( 1 a# rogi ■MM rthoC 9 •oe hood So feaoo W* 1 ridtf WOO 1 tko rakariza «• So* • ora (i* * ea UBraois, •at hSeoWk sod is hoe 090% oo4ee (ho o ■raw»i •ffbro ood 1 ilfee azao zkoaki ood fea tim iff off hoo | WW af Ihw ttvhea thef pe Taa IVttzIk* aakC Al pwwew "had I tdwzh fv l aoz pmzaps VI fas m 6 • 1 4 TvtSr-m M fw# devi ta * Thkw m mke* tyalaMm rvaay tw laa»s awdrf pm am sf •pawm bet r» MPf a dtp " WR." a* «- • W 1 ea apart r* ** a ■mat dazk gtlh- Koox pwcf the ef He hoz bzow aw allowed by the lit when gam< f tfeOrvOODO final 4 ifefeetL the fatal h «wr ■( j 0 pozolffeg 1 wltvo girt ony , A to Mm Mho aamo womma at | Ur tM km. i OMirrWw. no t by rai**mtrala 1 OH** i •t by tho e ummra low of , a ixi tho *f>e ■••fffe at homo* j M * 11|| Ify him hot in tho etfed H'a dl«ng taps hut si Ood alone that will Jmlge Ms*agony and measorv the price ’ He «tt*f>ped speaking and for a long time they traveled In silence. The sun mss sinking fsst—so fast that It seemed to he dropping by Jerks, like the loose hand of a grandfather's clock. “There is no twilight In the tropica," said M’sungo, “by the deliberate Judg ment of God who knows the capacity of the chart of man and would not have it burst.” “I can feel what you mean," an swered Andrea, “even though you haven’t really said It In words. The heart cnn.diold just so much beauty and no more; and even now, mine Is aching!” “Andrea Pellor,” said M’sungo, “you ia kw moot fh# tlfea em ra wa# 0--4a feng (hot ho ( w o dmpee (might feoSo | limn thin asm* bokth no ooroaS i aff idg dmt* tod oz-vor oi 1 apoizfiy III rawonfeg mm k an hSz hoi afionrati as ol gtHAg Mht i plan* ho* I to thorn w eoerto rar Um ood hill potrh that waa hfeuud« iring tho rs •turn fr**a * ^rdltlntM th at ho oxpifeoi 0 • tsWS m « Mawd pf • Si a wwa zka mtumSm rnmn ia maapmazmz azik If zaams fa pss za Ac! Izzzpkasaf dha aaa a* aa ■ha aammmy zf hm 4 •d fmaa hsa z»*»i i ^ »•* flons. hindered by excited women and children. The camp hummed. Bathtub slapped breakfast on the table and then at ood on one foot, then on the other in Impatience. On the faces of all waa the sama half-siqtle, the same look of suppressed but mighty antici pation. r ( M’sungo ate a few mouthfuls but they seemed to choke him. He pushed back his plate, stuffed his pipe full and lit it. His eyes played over An drea’s face and fired hers with their own brilliance. When he spoke every word thrilled her ns though this won derful morning were surcharged with an emotional current sensitive to every sound and niovement.~~ “Andrea Pellor,” be said with a hap py twinkle of mock solemnity In his glance, “you are about to be initiated Into the mysteries of the major guild of many centuries, the closest corpo ration of sport In the world; In three words, the society of elephant hunters. You will probably witness death and I hope and pray It will be the death of the hunted, but for the comfort of your soft heart let me tell you that to day we go forth not to slaughter but to battle." He turned his eyes from her fuez* and continu'd In • more seribn* * strain: “The hunting of elephant Is » science.’ It Is a crescendo of delicate ly balanced factors that starta from two distant potats and beginning on a cool foundation of mutual reaped paazea apward thnwigh ztagea of Ia trlllgeare against Intelligence, eaottog fog can’Um. perseverance an the heels of endurance, until It mzzts an the high plana af naked courage and so zaps ta Its tragic rlNaax af whlto hot tattle and death." 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Mads tawasd ksza M a pzW waMza ami amh ad impksvtad al ezadv hev ksad aa ihszsak a •sag hasuaif Mfla hAe kaspfad day haa km aB Mam It vaz durtag the return from on** of tht-ee ed h « d« fimtlon of Justifiable plutMler With hla memory raw. as U the whole wt'rld’s, from contact with the long- heralded Superman come to life to ex pose In the flesh the brutalising doc-1 . . .. ^ , trine of “thine is mine If I can take | " It," he found hlroaelf on treacheroua Rush. have the faculty of your sex. You have pinned the butterfly.” She felt a sudden revulsion, a rage at this man, this stranger, who talked as she imagined he would fight, with out gloves. Her eyes narrowed. “By the way, when Marguerite bolted. Just what was it you shouted at me?” He paused in his stride so suddenly that the dozing donkey butted into him and almost knocked him over. “Eh? What?” he asked to gain time. “Come on," persisted Andrea. “Just say It again—what you shouted." “Well,” lied M’sungo, “I msy not remember the exact words, but It was to the effect that you’d better head him off or jump off." "Something like that." said Andrea taetalveij. "only shorter. Yoa yelled. Harry him ar jump off I* * T believe yea ground and his -words picked their way slowly as though bent on avoid ing all misunderstanding. Tt is the truth,” ho*said thought- fblly, “that the spirit of man advances only by plunder, and the cprollary to that Is the fact that the plundered world Is always the more fruitful, but the unpardormble sin as far as peoples are concernel is the failure to define robbery under arms from productive plunder, and you can almost say the same thing of Individual relationship.” He glanced at her and something of his earnestness passed to her with the look.. “Go on,” she said kindly. “Cod you believe me,” he continued, “when I tell you that no one w’as more surprised than the Superman himself when he assumed flesh after hla long preparation and awoke to find himself a Vandal—a Frankenstein? The theory was perfect—all that was lacking were the things of the spirit,'The breath of life without which any ani mated creation becomes automatically a monster. "And yet the collective spirit of man | advances only by plunder. You can j sc* It la my own couafry. yesterday, la Africa today and It will rome la the ' other Americas vet thing tv< great- justice stood In a crescent fourteen other seats of varying dignity—chairs, petroleum cases, kerosene tins and an Inverted bucket—for every native king, be he monarch of but one vil lage, has the right to sit in the pres ence of authority, whatever its grade. The white.man took the armchair and Immediately, to the. rumble of a dozen tom-loms, a horde of natives—all men —swarmed into the beaten court of the craal. *• * Those natives who lacked the royal hall-mark were squatting on their heels in a vast mass-of serrated ami concentric circles of which the inner most left an open space whose peri phery was determined by the exact circumference of the wide-spreading branches of the tree. Andrea coughed softly but M’sungo did not look up—In fact, nobody looked up. It was ex actly as though she were not. She slipped to the trunk of a tree and leaned on one hand placed against It. Somehow It seemel an only friend In aa empty world. The preliminary palaver wax a mat ter of much leisurely ceremony, gut tural pronounrrmeota. grunts pause* more monologues,- repeated grunts; bat. once It wa* over. If’aunga settled * ' aid M'ran- ' rock a r:»M that |» | didn't have JUnctly F* apology Kelly. "Tan a harii with a a tag finance »!th a and Marled d i tthl a dHaana feed Md*ta fed MHNBfl* g in rara naan unsnsaznMaa a ranfowtui dm znfkzna ammdzra • garaemal ztaff on the teeea ad 'he vtaanad dfcezw and alas aa Iff • «na» • ww aha aMaa laak aff fawtmnl eaaliafteak (ha laak (hat pm» ■Mama any gvunp aff dNuvua ama krathasn at heart. "W|dt fee mr aihzd Ankara Wnath fesoa fram haraytag "K2^t*nani." raffled M annge lie drew a chats fea hm aide "hu dewn. ’ Ifei ■« mill hatf-aaraottaed and ten rial of teatnc tho dream, "Watch and IlMoa, fas iheee ntea Mine great (tdiagw" He •mlled alamst like a hoy One of tho wtsrard pe*•dared • thin wand, about twenty Inches in length, freshly broken at «*oe end. He pnzzed tt to bU companions; who stared at It aa though thev saw It for the first la- stead of the hundredth time, fingered It. gurgled over It ami finally gravely handed It to M’sungo. He went through more or less the same process and re turned It to the man who first pro duced It with what was apparently a slighting remark. The man glanced up with a pained look on his face, arose, laid the wnnd on the ground as a measure and with laborious fingers began to trace a mighty oval. M’sungo leaned across the table and gazed with fascinated eye; Andrea, watching him, could see the pulse throbbing at his temples. He was a new M’sungo, somebody young, approachable, lovable, an eager boy. 'She leaned close to his shoulder. “Please, While Man,” she murmured, “please tell me.” Without turning he put one hand, out and grasped her wrist as though to still her. “The little man,” he ex plained, “is drawing the spoor of a mighty beast. Look at it and learn it by hca’t, for It will be a photograph.” Having completed the circumference of his oval, the native was making various tracings on Its face, dividing It aa with a maze of tracks. When he had apparently finished, he sank back on his heels and gazed critically at hla handiwork. “Watch.” aaid M'zungo. “Refora ha gets up. h*I! put la aaaaa mark. HMlortlvo foatare that this apmor fra CMATTBH VIE YWf zmdz 1 Tho t (ferae •of ood Am*rao momzzwod fzmaomMz hp the fori (had (k fiffawaams hactory af vtffcra ty •zwramkzeod by (he hMmu tvWMzao I o ho mora hmzfeVi Iff •*•#• aaz04e •ywA* so Aodr The zM hofo anam ami they aoei of ioe*ym*o TZ V Wh * fpahe 1 lad (ha roratsd m yzra oe a iqzi !■ Azea fea aoza > (heir owa right word tWoz ami tee hsa •kemfedra ms hrarimra fea f Ike fwma ao a em If namea dswa k4>t> theOB tO thl IU-A zewrae I Am nzme tm aff- toy him; tbeo fulfeoweu the gonbeorcfsi a single tracker qod > a etngie oatee hoy. No haogera-oa were .allowed even to see the cortege from the craal. trier one effeoukler Bathtub carried •lung a cracker tin, owtalnor of all the food alllPu I to the day. In ten minutej* march they come ta the river which. In aplto of Ita prox Unity to the camp. Andrea non* saw for the first time. Often yhe had sug gested to M'sungo that she wished tc visit It, but on every occasion hla Ups had set in a straight line and be bad invented manifold reasons for keep Ing her from its shores. The most ef ficucious of these arguments wen snakes and crocodiles, but while sh< conceded the strength of those twe deterrents she could not escape froto an intuitive belief that there wa« something else—some other and rank ing cause in the back of M'sungo’* mind. ' Some thriHs in the next installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Concentration of Mind. The brain of the average person tr too receptive and not positive enough It la swayed by every gust of emotion yields too easily to outside conditions It reproduces too easily the Idlv thoughts of othert, or Its own phan tasiea, and avoids tha effort of con structlve thinking. A complete Chang* la tho mental hah u of such a orrsuo may open tho way fur unlimited futon Mental efflrteory rut Qvldaorq hod v? ill other*.' apaki U» "lotto* « . porkad ■ff k ird and with o two of to (ha (hoy has tsrtg us Iff 1 w v<x-J.: O*, /•- C- . Tfeblwt* BtOO YAGCR*S LINIMENT fez o YAGER S LINIMENT (gQfCIINC THAT COLD OR COUGH? Or Kimg'% Comtipilfd’ Here’s Relief Not that of lea haraMl always loot sod temporary rilu thacB from harsh purpattvaa, but tha for table, gratifying, comm (too of stabbora bowls so lo Dr. Kiag’t New Ufe Took ia act too, they promote fret bile flow, stir up the lazy, thoroughly but gently clennse thedvstem of woMo matter and (ermenting foods, and give ^ keen serf (or hard work and heal th ree real too. 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