The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 12, 1920, Image 3
WHITE MAN
By
GEORGE AGNEW
CHAMBERLAIN
Author of “Home ” "Through Stained Glass/ 9 "John Bogardus,
(Copyright. Wt, by Robbs-Merrill Co )
Etc.
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Inirtnirtlon.
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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»
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iff •
a * • •
a ms'
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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 (
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■MM rthoC
9 •oe hood So feaoo
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ridtf WOO 1
tko rakariza
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•at hSeoWk sod
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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."
Hla eyas iVna hack to have frankly
Tike all tha grant avteneen" h^ram |
tinned “it haa nrad the H tea ef vet
mat man far stnauag Manaa aa ihnf .
are who go aaf today af# hacked h|
tha adnkang aarvthre af a aahAo eara
pony Lazdmg hack gply In tha daw
af Mask psazdse and tha fane-have
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mesa eeevted hsgh an *he veaae zd ad
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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
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RHEUMATISM
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Take BHKUM AOTDR to tewvz the <
and drive the poUon tromAOz zyzfezzk.
“roxcoacim os to* nsioi .
ms aaauaATOa os ns ocTfna”
At All Drogglata
Jaa. ftzfly A Sm, Whzlesalz DUtrihater*
YOU CANT GUT OUT TMimir"
hut you can dsaa them off promptly with
ABSORBIne
work the horse ■
tha
hair. 12. Sd per bottle, delnrorod.
Win tell yoa more ff you wnta.
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