The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 26, 1920, Image 7
White Nan
By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN
Author of “Home,” ‘Through Stained Ql&M,’ , ’ M John Bog&rdus,” Etc.
(Copyright.
YEARS MISERY
Used Lydia 4L Pinkhani't
Vegetable Compound
and Recovered.
ANDREA IS WARNED AGAINST ANOTHER WHITE MAN.
• 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 hptel in South Africa, and discovers an
aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course imagining thaUthe
trip will be merely a pleasant excursion.sfehe begs to be taken for a flight,
although she does not know him. He somewhat-unwillingly agrees, and they
st^t. When she realizes her unknown aviator Is not going back Andrea In
di aeration tries to choke him with one of he# stockings. He thwarts her and
tf iv sail on Into the very heart of Africa. Landlhg In an immense craal. An-
dn' Aids the native^ all bow in worship to her mysterious companion. 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 excit
ing experience. 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. On another expedition the donkey on which Andrea 1 , Is mounted
runs away with her and she is for a moment made ridiculous. White Man
explains the African method of wife purchase, “obolo." She is horrifled. After
a tedious tramp three bull elephants are sighted and Andrea is transfixed by
the excitement of the chase. • J
CHAPTER VII.—Continued.
She dropped her head against him
and sobbed. He pot his arm around
her and patted her awkwardly on the
back. There! There!** he said
“Don’t. Please don’t." Seemingly with
out his volition his arms drew closer
and cloaer until he suddenly awoke to
the fact that he was just plainly hug
gtng And tin Pellor.
He pushed her roughly from him
“Here.** he said la tpilt# a different
voicst "this Isn’t my fnaemL Come
and cry oa the elephant ** ■ u^|« s |
"All right." sold Andrea, darltety. I
“How many ere re there T I hoard a I
troop* sa army of them."
Tea hoard Jaai one." said If swage
I^shMog at her eyes with so*led hM*
narrowing to a peculiar look she had
uever seen in them before, such a look
as one Is apt to connect only with
mystlfo, fanatic*, ardent believers, und
thoroughly out of keeping with the
conception of the White Man she had
bullded for herself.
“Why. White Man P* she cried,
"what do you meant Wha t'a cutne
over you?"
pl
He looked away and then back nl
her. "Well." he said, n quluicaJ gleam
creeping Into his eyen **who*s afraid*
11 by shouldn't f tell emro nonce a thing
a written • hundr» d tUnre
by greater adepts than I and never he*
I !t«"«ed? It’s this. Andrea Pstlof Deal
I set yearastf tan high shove the aattse
t •
«*»
h»*«*s Chr he
psfhssed the natlvee • sort off gi
awe an the ir fe<"oa far tha dead hnfti
^a a aaghtf tamer rani mg leery m
tha t ains wt n.ght n n eaten At If nan
go's nagmsneh those anas went an In a
“You mean does he stop here?”
She nodded.
“Yes, he does,” said M’sungo.
wish he didn’t, but he always does.”
“And what had you Intended to do
with me on his first visit?” she ask^d.
“VV>11” jsaid M’sungo, his brows
puckering, “Pve lia^d in mind to tell
you all about it jutst ste Pm. doing, and
trust you. But if it hadn’t come to
that. ! was going to gag you and lock
you up.”
“Oh, were you?” said Andrea, her
eyes narrowing. “Let me tell you at
once that I do not consider myself un
der* parole. I don’t mean by that that
I’m going to sit on the river bank wait
ing for this man to come along, but
when he comes I would be a fool \>
miss the chance of telling him )u*t
what my situation Is. He might not
be able to get me out. but at least I
would no longer be totally. In your
power. If my disappoint nee should
l»e mrnpleted there would be a cred
ible witness to the Incredible fact thit
I bad really been iaere."
A dark flush spread over M’sungo’a
face. "At the risk of further arousing
your curiosity." be said, "let me as
sure you that you are a thousand
times safer la my sole pmrer the a In
that of one or a MarOontrra."
-fa thaf his name—MacCToster?"
sek*d Andrea coldly.
M'mago nodded.
"And • hot la hla feywahsgdhto hun*
IneasT*
“t ranT ran* sly why I dkaold teC
mn Ona cnnT *yew» I thoi •*»rt af
itmmmmvmm
Ho v^oThm i tns«< mo. sf*er a
defied her. Without taking her angry
eyes off his face she swept two coffee
cups, two saucers and two liqueur
glasses to the ground with a crash.
Nothing could have served better to
break the tension. The rfian smiled.
“That was great,” he said^ pleasantly.
“You^ye like me—when in doubt,-do
something. Well,” he continued in his
lighter tone, “I can answer the spirit
of all your questions und I will answer
them because I don’t want you ever
to ask -them again. Stubborn pride is
the root of the whole mysterv. During
the first year of the war I ^as a flye^
for the allies. I was on the way to a
big name when my nerve went back
on me. I couldn’t believe it I caiye
down here and brought a machine with
m^, working on my old theory of con
trasts. , You saw how I flew—how I
Ir.nded. You took me for an amateur.
That's all. Please leave It It’s the
flaw in my philosophy, the inevitable
fly In the clear amber of a reasonably
happy life.”
He snapped hit cigar away, sending
after It a long last puff of smoke. An
drea no longer watched him. Her
eyes fixed on the dying glow of the
Hear butt. "I owe you several spoto-
gtea," she said, quietly, "hut I'm not
to blame I couldn't have gueeeed.
<*an undeevtaad aome of what you feel
hers a** I % e heard of Several CMS
like yours poor devils that look
young and well hut ted terror In the
enhsaf eyes of s world cvtttrai of
newly cut timber, M’sungo gave •
grbat spread.
To each ten men he allotted a tin
of marmalade; to each twenty a box
of crackers, a sack of*flour, one ^ad
of salt and a demijohn of cheaii but
sound wine. Andrea watched this
wholesale depletion of the -man’s
stores and began to wonder. As she
wondered, her heart went way \ip and
then way dowfa. Was this the begin
ning of another end? Was she sorry
or was she glad? She looked back on
the few days of her new life and they
seemed already to have stretched into '
years. She was too young or too care- |
less to have learned that time passes I
slowly only to those who are in a rut '
of daily routine, dragging tragically
under the blows of sorrow and almost
forgetting itself entirely when joys are
various.
The day came when the last of the
barges, towing a little scow stacked
with an overflow remnant of bales,
was dispatched and M’sungo, could
Newark, N. /.-“The doctor said I
had an organic trouble and treated me
for. several weeks.
At times I could not
walk at all and I
suffered with m j
back and limba so I
often had to stav in
bed. 1 suffered off
a n d on for eight
years. Finally f
heard that Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound was
a good medicine and
- tned it with splen
did effect. I can now do my house
work and my washing. I have recom
mended your Vegetable Compound and
your Blood Medicine and three of my
cuci
friends are taking them to advantage.
You can use my name for a testimonial. ”
—Mrs. Theresa Coventry. 76 Burnett
St, Newark, N. J.
You are invited to write for free advice
No other medicine has been so suc
cessful in relieving woman’s suffering
as has Lydia E. Pinkhara’s Vegetable
Compound. Women may receive fra#
helpful advice by writing the Lydia
and
E. 1
Such letters aw received
no helpful a
E Pinkham Medicine Co., Ljmn, Maas.
and answered
in'* Mphen* |s the home. Any
a «eek Is wilting to admit
hr I
thi
te of
, »y women only and hold in
take a long breath and turn hla at- confidence. -
tentlon to putting the camp In order. - -
This In Itself was no Small task. All
branches, chips, bark, refuse and other
rubbish consequent upon the work In
the forest eras gathered and burned
Then, aa squad after •quad of labor
ers lafl for homo and tha planting,
their grass huts.
limits af the permvoeat craal, ware
also set ea Are.
Lydia
Maaa.
strict
“WHhfts a wee* ofl the flrat raiew
HMterw Bet there waa asm—I rw I iTn^i
How’s This?
W* stes IHS • tor sajr cess af
((•red without the ,h *i *'•*••« b? HALi-’l
CATAMtM M EDICT NR
NALL'S CATARRH MKDfCTW* Is tab
oo Intetsellr *»4 • tie
•• (A* fttwrwws Serfuess af Che Bn
by SreagSMs far ever flasty
i He Tssnei■stats two
■I
te a Dm #se Aadree. "tha
ptvs
A O
I -*
mg rams
r *»
* ■- <
Km
u 4
t mi&'m
fSseesM IT
Si M
I
Sets tSe
Of (ftKf mm
sgl rawm,"
to# tortitoi 1
Mm eyoa kustosaed a
u tee Item.
Tto* 1
*A+4 f
See V* te WtrameOed
"» ^ ' % *
1 fc#*
m a ^ a
Bavw Bl fBegdrawie as
^M0 to# to
teotoiag (he wm+%
Beme uwse Bus j
m
kwe% crura Iff aaag** ws
1 a tw»#ram
1
1 r ra to 1
Maegusems af a Jmuss
tg traa Audmw
prammeif kafl ka ua
•rah If *
war* i
i • f * to f ' rar
•"waBwasBar eauiA<mf
gags after
traa
ftottoto# Mm 1
te4 wuhdrawu MBu m
ne af town*
mate
tkr trato
te«eto* of ite weed to
uf rmaahne
Btofte
“tora u
•eSMura? uaaraagisd h
f tes sragura off
fUtMto h
•raura Awhpua utote
ak
•^teug 4
Bkau • ftey arvsew
I at dte
met
* W cU
•te*« hemg kwt tteew
autteou Sa
torur
If «uatoft
tetossud flufluaNato B
*uuBgft terarartf
i tkr msa l
te*a tes fiasu aa «wa
of Mr bras
tem kegs
W
The! eeo a as me vhet iP
kssw heal af •U (tenter 1 * • Ilk# • mflkd
B wo* his me% Dai eves tf*As4rea
had hees wwtrhmg hhs N la deahtf#
f raw woaSd have vesd seevesxty tha
■migas issaray test shsa thrassh hfea
^reme He versed as hay a sAaafSag
i . * “Whsi atet
sea he tWot tee
i he*
t peeraore Three weeks after that,
asjmse peset rating hs the rtaanag am
have made eiu flsd safhCsg heyesd S
i teeirvonrag ■temhs af eees patch, tha
very sslsral peageftf af the evsai"
Os a night af dperspesr Asdrea mf
fkeverf he i , * •as a dH
"W by dan I yen S** te t
“ft wesAd he highly I
me hs dn as" aaewered
mst ‘Hi Idee Is the* a
ter
ve got in
• * 4
or* W
seas is her lag and eyaa el
as seme peSnt af teres Pm
*• i
teL* anad
"••wr larsas
Tea
ery
4 I
le Haagse
* * * I have te gag
*
1 Barf Bf 0 i
semruUkre ft wwe 1
awful toss'
■rural Bs ti
•%* <
tod 90U uaB? WV»t
dsd te Bara
, ante. Me tot
ks hs
1 mb ■ aaMU hsa# V*
sad kesfd
Iffi
mstos uBtosd la aptoa
■ of kfmuHf
1 tototoghal 1
“Me 1
ted a great hsaf m h*
1 MB Bl* Be <
ssrawe «ae
•arm
srad "t am Be saat
rtsd tewtoag
i orawd Bto <
■
ti
Ml tth
nHHMI €
t.-
eed H oenm* hlrdinf i
Seah ut hVo «adr "le**
a tenng sn> I tvsMs*i
er% af this odd hey. I
be bos af hneelod^r ■
mrmrmm}
A startled elephant
he hells ehlrhrvev
.* • *-9 • * 0 ' *
h» anew geo
A I eew 1 he*v le leen
T * | •«ns eg I am9 hemever heve Is yea
Se* aeemad ‘* I «ue tseehse eg fesr trad fesin the
V m»e 11 af hm | *
Chaes ay has hnraranmg heed! . t -s temh thaee la a mss S«mg I
I eaedd ran frwmf" eaid Asdsea "Tea
*• j tes t hses ms*
he dnpaaaasd teas Iff epsgn | T iikegs peg eeahflgT." SB#
Cad and haee deen
o' h^o wo«4\A The mss
ceased
Igtro-’i a rarer Deghte
sdflpm ,|,D % Ikkk gptfcki
*4 •geeh "he U rWoov I
1 Ar Wee f%dnS*ee t«e ere
teoghed *“ She let here
»e M oengw sLsrvd at Wc.
And yes sere hcgtal,’*
fwi iraiiA! irr nn*
CANE REAR DYING
tei V«fl
Mate's loom
we I eeo a »»
arrme, H W
tomda tan tease aga I ens
tas eat he ted B that sst
«te ensda hsassns aB ti
ease wedy as the rate la
ehat 'hay had hoard wen
am.* swd Hsrvy WagL
vsrned eel a eesdsr. and
♦
i It MHM
U "teal
to toe rase of Marftee
eg af T»
1 ter *
wuafd
te Beraaae fwu soteteBT j
eras Bew
« mm a. **
Rlto|
rate off
mod
jefjf tg tite ktera"
Aadrua. "Bow fuu Bara)
Audera
cuagM m
daue H
Jtear
1 wwut la s*o ktm *
tie* “1
"And
era Itel
tee." raid Iffaaagu quote-1
"raa Bat
mas that
He Linked up and added with per
dutiable pride: "And that. tuo. la h**«
I knew where to get him running—the
ether way. I rtada up my mind where
to ahnot before be was there."
They went to aunrey the second
heist. He was quite dead; one long
task gleaming white, an Ivory Island
In a lake of bright blood. “Come
away,” said M’sungo quickly. He led
tier to the shade of one of the big
trees where Marguerite, newly arrived,
wa* already drowsing and dreaming
happily of all the evil In the world.
Around the nearby elephant, the na
tives swarmed like maggots.
“Bathtub!” shouted M’sungo. “Cho-
cula!”
Bathtub turned lingeringly from the
carcass, rushed over, dropped the
lunch box at M’sungo’s feet and
plunged back again. “We’ll have to
forgive him,” said M’sungo, sitting
down and proceeding to open the tin
and lay out Andrea’s lunch for her.
“The elephant—especially a dead one
—holds .a place in the native cosmos
that no white man has ever quite suc
ceeded In grasping. All those ‘boys’
are quite mad. I’ve seen one sever
his thumb from his body when he was
like that and never notice it till he/
reeled from loss of blood.”
Andrea shivered but M’sungo did
not notice It “They believe,” he con
tinued, “that the meht of elephant Is a
ootapound of- tha flesh of Alt animal* | ~ni tnjgt yoiL
and that by eating It they acquire all
the leading attrlbntea—the courage of
the Hon, the slyness of the Jackal the
gorging capacity of the snake, the eye
sight of the hawk by day and of the
feUnes by night, the Industry of the
sat and the homing Instinct of the bee.
Too see the line? It’s eadleua; and
Jwr because they have more than •
ragattortag of the gaalltlee (hey seek
the wrafFUffliiH vtU Btrar tea”
‘ te five Aadrva a drtek .fcr* w c,
‘And teal toaT
"I palird hi* tell te make him Mlet
ap. * wald Jf'saga's *T wish—" he
peeved.
"tey It." cried Andrea. Tog wish
>4jg ruald make me abut tap. Well, yea
rae*t. I’m going to laugh ell 1 like.
List«*g!“
She opened wide her mouth for a
stage “Ha! Ha! Ha 1“ hut It never got
out M’sungo threw his arms around
her and snatched her to him. HI* lip*
came closer and closer to hers. In his
eyes was an exasperated twinkle.
"Please don’t,” he begged.
Andrea glanced down her nose at
his lips, saw that they had halted in
their advance on hers and decided to
struggle free from his embrace. “Why
shouldn’t I?” she asked argumenta
tively. “What is t^re about this
muggy old river that bra y° u —h as y° u
bluffed?”
“A lot of things,” began M’sungo,
his eyes shifting.
Andrea watched him shrewdly.
“Tell me, White Man,” she concluded
“whafds the one reason?”
She saw a doubt and then a sudden
decision come into his face. “AH
right,” he said. ‘Til tell you tonight.”
They reached the home craal at the
setting of the sun. In rapid succession
came tea, a hot bath, fresh clothes
and dinner. With the first puff at her
cigarette Andrea settled back in her
chair and said, “Now.”
The man did not pretend t# be at a
loss for her meaning. He nodded, lit
his cigar and sat down. “All right”
Here s the
cat out of the bag. I’m not the
only *h te man in this bit of coun
try. There’s another who came In
r**«e me wheW I I'd J«*W I
y«rn dvi't- t m hsqkec the *441
4 warn t gp eg a teef white yraOfJ
tei mi rararfrac—H
jtrM r*-mrmh*v ehet I tvN yea. Bethev j
thee heVe MecfTawfev see yew siel (
tirnrh- yew. I euwkl glsdly ret }uWT
thruet"
"Why mine?" s«ked Aedree. “It
would have Imprs—rJ me a lot more
If you’d said your owe. Perhaps you
realised that I couldn’t quite believe
that”
"Now you’re trying to Quarrel." said
the white man coolly. "Aren’t you
sleepy?”
“No."
He yawned.
’That’s nice of you,” said Andrea.
“And since you’re interested, I might
as well ask a few more quetslons.
What were you doing on that d
beach with your airplane, anyway?
Will that be telling tales out of
school?”
He looked relieved. “Not at all. I’d
got off my third steamer load and I
suddenly had news that put it up to
me to change the captain’s sailing or
ders before he passed beyond the
reach of wireless. There wasn’t time
for anything but the old flying boat so
I ran her out and jogged down the
coast. I wasn’t on that ‘d ’ beach
more than thirty minutes, all told.”
“Thirty minutes,” murfiiured An
drea. “Who would have thought that
one little half-hour could ever mat
ter?”
He looked at her musingly. “It
doesn’t pay to tell you things,” he said.
“We get along better just living.”
“I wonder how you know!” said An-
■drea., J.‘Innlia told. row
■ R W
|.
i ImteM el ha
W h • (see a Bghl «4 eualBL
Bfhf.* ram cvv< ««*rags4L
i*wt Leva tiatewtwg *” *
ywe I have." te aaowarag
emteag hark te earth.
t* lUiih,
haven’t you? Where did you learn to
flyf*
Her question seemed to send a shock
<4 * quotum m ter ••«*i
way,* she said, "you are an AmerL
caaf*
"Sure thing," ha answered, mealing
ter eyes aqua rely.
"Trevor was a Britisher, of cooraa.
But t’snadlans and Americana are a
lot alike, aren’t they?"
He contemplated his answer with a
quirk of humor ou his lips. "Now-a-
days.” hq said finally, “there’a no rea-
aon why we should blush over saying
‘yea’ to that!”
CHAPTER VIII.
On the day following M’sungo re
ceived a message to the effect that his
steamer had arrived and was already
taking on the warehouse cargo and
could do with three hundred tons
more. Andrea, had previously thought
him a gourmand for work; now she
discovered a maniac.
“It’s a cleanup,” he declared. Tn
another rngnth the rains will be here,
thcreil be no working in the forest,
the game will scatter, the natives will
want to plant. And what’s more, with
this cargo I’ll pass the milHon-doliar
mark. That doesn’t mean anything to
you but it’s my stake—thk stake I’d
set my heart on.” J
He took all hands off production and
put them to baling and packing. From
the reeds along the river he dragged
to light a veritable fleet of scows. They
were up-ended along the bank, scraped,
calked jtfld pitched. One after an-
ftiHHP khejTwere iteitJ'Sut Into uai^*
high water and anchored. The days
were do longer enough. Every woman
In the camp waa act to making long.
urross the wilderness and ha* hla ramp squarely sod aald nothing. Andrea
forty tefttea BP 4te river. His • waited § full minute, then ate began:
business and mtowtete one thing am* -\vte ere you? Whet s your name?
one thing only, thank God, In fipamotH where did you cum* man? Do you al
? err t-.!L an irv.u** As it te|e I «raya take aa airplano atone?
aa amateur? If you To
hrough him, but be met her eyes I boufid palm-leaf torches and
ffcg, ptekanina from eight yours
team s«ra " gwura 9o before SR#
. ff f fhumato. Jfetgrf PuAJto.
DcTSir^vrSv
COw BUffALO. H T.
“Who Art Your
NEGLECTING THAT
GOLD OR C0U6N?
yond the encircling walla of her hut
She was frightened, for her soul had
come to talk with her and there war «—«.
no escape. She could not phone u;
• taxi and ■ party of four aud go te Wk*, when Dr. Kinf’i New
a show and supper afterward, thui ^ -
losing the universal guest. Uiacovery so promptly
With a childish gesture of despalg j checks it
the crept Into bed, curled up with hoi 1
face against the pillow and wept. Thr Jr’S natural you don’t want to bo
more she cried, tho more It rained i I careless and let that old cold or
the more it rained, the more she cried cough drag on or that new attack
There was no dbd to that—no end—m develop seriously. Not when you can
— Sleep did its best to take and hold *** such a proved successful remedy
her but tonight its grip was uncertain as ^ r * 8 New Discovery,
and long before morning it saw defeat Cold, cough, grippe, croup does not
i resist this standard reliever very long.
Its quality is as high today as It al-
coining and'made a dastardly retreaL
Andrea awoke, not slowly, not swim- ways has been—and It’s been growing
raing up to consciousness through steadily in popularity for more than
drowsy gradations, but suddenly with fifty years. 60c/and fl.20 a bottle
a snapping of eyes wide open on t
great emptiness. She was alone, ter
ribly alone, and hopelessly awake. Shf
lay staring up at the uncheerful lan
tern that she had purposely left bum
ing. Its chimney was smoked. Out
side, rain still poured.
‘ They get t> Xmw each
other better.
(TO BB CONT1KUEIM
prau, I dual think te I paw or curve 1
Vtet rm ra te. hut I fcuov all ohmu
Ara you
why 4s you
'•an 1 amj It-*4 J**
ir
Why 4a four ate
ft«r* organised lata squad* te light
the eight shift through the Mmrt tears
of dartama M’suuga took toe Deep. I a
*f te toug oof. keauiag sgaioM a tf*w* d
ftote ’te asut mt head fuvusu/e ha*” 1 ! * I
- "■ ■" “yTBff^ffkd (aid teg* J*
Ah iuaras aura tegc caradgf al uoaf
at all druggists. Give it a trial.
' + 1
Tardy Bowels, Inert Liver
They Just won’t let you put “pep”
Into your work or play. Sick head
ache comes from retaining waste mat
ter and Impurities In the body.
Feel right for anything—make tha
TTlverilVe
larly. with Dr. King’s New Ufa PfllA
Smoothly yet positively they produce
results that rteunse the system aud
make the liver and
the daman »of n strong, healthy
I ami 2fic.—at all druggist* Try
A fiiaad af aura was a
ledge. Hie tittle gaaghter waa to
a hehci af
.94. tm 1
t af mate af I
atom ah tow eeutopm*
ate «suf mi
PIS