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ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE By fH. RIDER HAGGARD. Author of "She,* "King Soiomon'a Minea Etc. ggttl. CHAPTER VII. ^ 12 *m~" CODtlBBd With a yell they aprtnf upon the wall, shaking their broad shields, and ?with a yell they bcuuded from it. straight into our astonished foes. > Crash! We were In them noWj and fighting Hie demons. t Crash! from the other aide.' Nala's Impl waa at tta work, and ?till the spears and plumes appeared for a moment against the brown back ground of the mountain, and then sprang down and rushed like a storm upon the foe. The great mob of men turned this ?Way and turned that way, astonished, bewildered, overborne by doubt and terror. * " Meanwhile the alayers stayed not their hands, and on every side spears flashed and the fierce shout of triumph Went up to Heaven. There, too, on the wall stood Malwa, a white garment atreamlng from her shoulders, an assegai In her' hand, her breast heaving, her eyes flashing. Above all the din of battle I could catch the tones of her clear voice as she urged the soldiers on to victory. But victory was not yet. Wambe's soldiers gathered them selves together and bore our men back by the sheer weight of numbers. They began to give, then once mOre they, rallied, and the fight hung doubt fully. "Slay, you war whelps!" cried Malwa from the wall. "Are you afraid, you women, you Chicken-hearted women? 4 "Strike home or die like dogs! ?'What? you give way! Follow me, children of Nala!" Aud with one wild, long cry, she leaped from the wall as leap* a stricken antelope, and holding the spear poised on high, rushed down Into the thickest of the fray. The warriors aawvher^. and raised such a shout' that it echo&l like thun der against the mountains. They massed together, and following the flutter of her white robe, crashed Into the derse heart of the foe. Down went the Matuku before them ? like trees before a whirlwind. Nothing could stand before such. a rush as that. It was the rush of a torrent bursting Sts banks. All along their line swept the wild, desperate chargc, and there, straight In the forefront of the battle, siill waved the white robe of Malwa. Then they broke, and stricken with utter panic, Wambe's soldiers streamed sway, a scattered crowd of fugitives, while aft?r them thundered the fjot falla of the victors. The fight was over: we had won the day, and for my part I sat down upon a stone and wiped my forehead, thank ing Providence that I had lived to see the end of It. Twenty miuutes later Nala's warriors began to return, panting. "Wambe's soldiers had taken to the bush and the caves," they said; "they had not thought it safe to follow them," adding significantly that many had stopped 011 the way. I wa* utterly dazed, and now that, the flight w a over my energy seemed to have left me. and I did not pay much attention, till presently I was aroused by somebody calling me by name. I looked up and saw that It was the chief, Nala himself, who was bleeding from a flesh wound In his arip. By his side stood Malwa, panting, but unhurt, and wearing the same proud and terrifying air. "They are gone, Macumazahn," snid the chief; "there In little fear from them; their heart is broken. "But where Is Wombe, the chief; and where Is the white man thou earnest to nave?" ( "I know not," I answered. Close to where we stood lay a Matu ku, a young man who had been shot through the fleshy part of the calf. It was a trifling wound, but It pre vented him from running away. "Hay, thou dog." said Nala, stalking up to him and shaking his red spear . In his face ? "say, where is Warnbe? "Hpenk, or I slay thee, "Was he with the solalers?" "Nay, lord, I know not," groaned the terrified man. "He fought not with 11*. "Warnbe has no stomach for fighting. "Perchance he is in his kraal yon der, or in the cave behind the kraal." and he pointed to a small in closure on the hillside about 4(H) yards to the right of where we were. "Lei us go and see," said Nala, sum moning his soldiers. V ClIAPTKIt VIII. VAIWA IR AVKNOED. Tl:e Impl formed up. Alan! nn liour before, It linrl been stronger by n third thnu It wnc now. Then Naln detached two hundred men to eolleet nnd attend to the In jured. and nt my suggestion Issued n stringent order that none of the enemy's wounded, nnd nbove all, no women or children wore to be killed, a* la the Ravage custom among African native*. ?, . On tbe Contrary, they were to be al lowed to aend word to their women that they mlgkt qoiue In to nurne them, and fear nothing, for Nala made war upon Wambe, the tyrant, aad not on tlK Ma take tribe. - ... Then we started with some four hun dred men for the chiefs kraal. Very, soon we were there. 1 It was, as I have said, placed against the mountain side, but within the forti fied lines, and did not ouver more than an. acre and a half of ground alto gether. < Outside was a tidy reed fence, within which, neatly arranged In a semi-cir cular One, stood the huts of the chief's principal wives. Malwa, of course, knew every Inch of the kraal, for she bad lived In it and led us straight to the entrance. We peeped through the gateway. .? Not a soul was to be seen. There were the huts, snd there was The. clear, open space, floored with a concrete of lime, on which the sun beat A6T<*ly, but nobody could we see or hear. "The Jackal has gone to earth," said Malwa. "He will be In the cave behind his b?t,". and she pointed with her spear toward another small and semi-circu lar inclosure, over which a large hut was visible, that had the ollfr itself for a background. 1 stared at this fence. By George, it was true!? It was en tirely made of tusks of ivory planted in the ground, with their points bend ing outward. The smallest ones, though none were small, were placed nearest to the cliff on either side, but they graduallv in creased In size till they culminated in two enormous.tusk? In th<* shape of an Inverted V, formed the guteway to the hut I was dumfounded with delight, and Indeed, where Is the .elephant hunter who would not be. if he suddenly saw five or six hundred picked tusks set up in a row, and only waiting for him to take them away? Of course the stuff was what is known as "black" ivcry; that Is, the ex terior of the tusks bad become black frori years or perhaps centuries of ex posure to wind and weather, but I was certain that it was none the worse for that. Forgetting the danger of the pro ceeding. I actually ran, in my excite ment, Tight across the open space and drawing my knife, scratched vigorous ly at one of the great tusks to see how deep the damage was. As I thought, it was nothing; there beneath the black covering gleamed the pure whit? ivory. I could have capered for Joy, for I rear that I am very mercenary at heart, when suddenly I heard the faint echo of a cry for assistance. "Help!" screamed a voice in the Slsutn dialect from somewhere beyond the hut "help! ? they are murdering r.je." I knew the vclce. It was John Every's, Oh! what a selfish brute was I! for the moment that miserable ivory had driven the recollection of him wit of tty head, and now perhaps it was too late. Nala, Malwa, and the soldiers had now ccme up. They, too, bad heard the voice, and interpreted its tone, though they had not caught the word*. "Tills way!" cried Malwa; and we started at n run, passing nrouiul the hut of Wanibe. Behind was the narrow entrance to a cave. We rushed through It, heedless of the danger of an ambush, and tills was what we saw, though very confusedly at first, owing to the gloom. In the centre of the cave, and with elthet end secured to the floor bv strong stakes, wns a huge double ringed lion trap, fringed with sharp and grinning teeth. It was set. and beyond the trap, in deed almost over it, n terrible struggle was In progress. A naked or almost naked white mnn. with n great beard hanging down over his breast, was. In spite of his furious struggles, being slowly forced and dragged toward the trap by nix or eight wOmen, Only one man wns present, n fat, cruel looking mnn. with small eves and a hanging lip. It was tiie chief Wanibe, and ho stood by the trap ready to force the vietir.1 down upnu ir as soon as the women had dragged him Into the nec essary position. At this Instant they caught sight of us and there win a moment's pause; nnd then, before I knew what she was going to do. Malwa lifted the assegai f ? "im ,,eM? and whirled It at Wani be s head. I saw the flash of light speed toward dm and so did he. for lie stepped backward % avoid It-stepped back ward right into the trap. He yelled with pain as the iron teeth of the "Thing 11. at bites" sprang ?p Ike living things and fastened into him. Much a yell I have not often heard. Now, at last, he tasted of the torture Which he had Inflicted upon so manv and though I trust I am a Christian I cannot say tlint I felt sorry for him. Tiie assegni sped on. nnd struck one of the women who had hold of the un fortunate Every, piercing through her arm. ThU made her leave go-an example that the other women quirk l v followed so that Every fell to the ground, where lay gasping. "Kill the witcheaP* roared Xali, la c voice of thunder, pointing to tbe group of women. "Nay," gasped Every; "spare them. 1 He made them do It." And he pointed to tbe human fiend In' the trap. . | Then Malwa waved her hand to us to fall back, for the moment of her ven geance was come. We did ho, and she strode up to ber lord, uud flinging tbe white nribe from her. stood before him. ber fierce, beau tiful face fixed like stone. "Who am I?" sbe cried, in so terrible a voice that be ceased liia yells. "Am I that woman who was given to thee for wife, and whose cblld tboo slowest? "Or am I the spirit come to see thee die? "What this?" she went on, drawing tbe withered baby hand from tbe pouch at ber side. " "la it the hand of a babe, and bow came that hand to be thus alone? "What cut it off from tbe babe, and where is tbe bafce? "la It a band, or is. it tbe vision of a hand that sball presently tear tliy throat? "Where are thy soldiers. Wainbe? "Do they sleep and eat and go forth to do thy bidding, or are they per chance dead and scattered Ilk" Die win ter flowers?" He groaned and tbe fierco-cycd worn an went on: "Art thou still a chief, Wnuibe, or does another take tby town and (tower? and say, lord, wbat doest tbou there, and what is tbat slave's leglet upon thy kuee? "Is it a dream. Warn be, great lord and chief, or"? and she lifted her clinched hands and shook them lu his face? "hath a woman's vengeance found thee out.' and a woman's wit overmatched tby tyrannous strength? and art thou about to slowly die in torments horrible to think on. O thou accursed murderer of little children?" And with one .wild scream sbe dashed the dead hand of the child straight iuto hi* face, and then fell senseless on the floor. As for the demon lu the trap, he shrunk back as far as its iron bounds would allow, his eyes starting out of his head with pain and terror, and then once more began to yell. Tbe whole scene was more than I could stand. "Nala," I said, "this must not go on. That man is a fiend, but he must not be left to die there. "See thou to it." "Nay," answered Nala. "let him taste of the food wherewith he hath fed so many; leave him till death shall find him." "That will I not," I answered. "Let his end be swift. See tbou te it." "As thou wilt, Macumasahn" an swered the chief, with n shrug of the shoulders. "First let the white man and Maiwa be brought forth." 80 the soldiers came forward and carried Every and the woman into the open air. Aft the former was borne past his tor mentor, the fallen chief, so cowardly was his wicked heart, actually prayed him to intercede for him and save him from a fate which, but for our provi dential appearance, would have been Every'* own. So we went away, and In another moment one of the biggest villains on the earth troubled It no more. Once in the fresh air Every quickly recovered. I looked at him and horror and sor' row pierced me through to see such a sight. His face was the face of a man of sixty, though he was not yet forty, and his poor body was cut to pieces with stripes and scars and other marks of the torments which Wamlie had for years amused himself with Inflicting on him As soon ns he recovered himself a little he struggled on to his knees, burst into a paroxysm of weeping, and, clasping my legs with his emaciated arms, would have actually kissed my feet. "What arc you about, old fellow?" I said, for 1 am not accustomed to that sort of thing, and it made me feel un comfortable. "Oh. Ootl bless you!" he moaned? "Ood bless you! ? "If you only knew what T have gone through! "And to think that you should have conic to help me and at the risk of your own life! "Well, you were always a true friend ?yes. yes. n true friend." "R'?sh!" I answered, testily: "I'm a trader and 1 came after that Ivory," and I pointed lo the stockade of tusks. . "Hid you ever hear of an elephant hunter who would not have risked his Immortal soul for them, and much more, his carcns??" Hut he took nn not'-ce of my ex planatlons and went on Coil-blessing inr> ns hard as ever, till at last I be thought me that n cup of tea might steady his nerves n lilt. I gave I him and was not disnp pointcd in the result, for he brisked up wonderfully. Then I hunted about in Wainbe's hut and found a kaross for him to put oxer his poor bruised shoulders, and he was quite a man again. "Now," 1 said, "why did the late lamented Wainbc want to put yon lu that trap?" ?"Because, ns soon ns they beard that the tight was going ngnlnst them and that Malwn was charging nt the head of Kala's linpl one of the women told' Wambe that she had seen me write something 011 some leaves and glv? llicin to Malwa before she went awaj to purify herself. (To be contlnjed.) 1 The inhabitants of the Uuited King dom post 44,000,000 letters, every week. PALMETTO AFFAIRS . ? * ? Occurrences of Interest From AS Over South Carolina * MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Lira Paragraph! Cover ing a Widt Iai|? What Is Goinj Ob la Our State. Tha Water Turned On. . Great Fall", Special. ? The Catawba river was turned into the great dam at. Great Falls, Wednesday, and the water wheels set to running for the first time. Of the 10 turbines six are now in operation, being limbered up and made ready for active service. The process will likely require two weeks time. The machinery equip ment of the Great Falls station con sists of eight 3,000 kilowatt, three phase, 2,200-volt Westinghouse gen erators, direct connected to six hori zontal turbines. The main dam gives a head of 72 feet. The normal de velopment will furnish 02,000 horse powar.' With loading 40,000 elec trical horse power can be furnished. McOleary Confesses to Attempted Assault. Col urn ia, Special. ? Nathan Mc Cleary was lodged in the South Car olina penitentiary Thursday moil ing at 2:30 o'clock, having been brought here from Kaleigh on the Southern train by Special Deputy A. H. Wiggins of Dillon, by order of Gov. Ansel. He will remain here for safekeeping. McCleary wade a con fession to Mr. A. J. Bethca, the gov ernor's private secretary, at the pen itentiary of having attempted the assault upon Miss Pittman, the Marion *ounty school teacher. He talks of implicating other darkies in the crime. New Concerns Chartered. The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Columbia Metal Manufacturing company of this city, having a capital of $5,000. The con cern will engage in general metal and roofing.- work and Charles Hamsley and C. R. Cheshire are the corpora tors. The Bobo Undertaking company of Union was commissioned. The capi tal is .$4,000, and H. P. Brown and others are the petitioners. The Lanes Hotel company will erect a hotel at Lanes on a capital of $4,000. The National Schuetenbund of tho United States was issued a charter. This is a German organization of Charleston and E. H. Janz is the president. Proposed Electric Line. Abbevilee, Special. ? Messrs. Van Etten. Pinkney and Kelsey, repre senting the South Carolina Public Service corporation, met a large nura bcr of business men here in the Com mercial club rooms. These gentlemen made a plain and forceful talk about the electric road they propose build ing throughout South Carolin. All of thone present at the meeting cx prest?sd themselves as highly pleased at Hie prospects of getting this road, and Abbeville will undoubtedly do her oart when the time comes to sub scribe to the stock. Due West and Antreville both had representatives here and both towns will make an effort to secure the load. Labor Agents Arrested. Aiken, SpeciaL. ? Robert Pearson and Will Dens, negroes, were arrosted 011 Saturday for violating the labor laws. It is alleged that Dcas and Person came from Tennessee and were engaged in inducing farm bads to leave and go to work for W. J. Oliver & Co. A number of farmers have complained recently that their bands have left suddenly of late, and it was a mystery as to the cause of their leaving, and upon an investiga tion being made it wqr found that these two negroes had been here for about ten days and had induced quite a number of farm bands to leave the farm and it is supposed that they went to Tennessee. Delegates Appointed The following special order haS been issued by (Jen. J. C. Body, ad jutant general: "The following of ficers are hereby appointed delegate* to represent the State of South Car olina in the National Guard associa tion, which meets in Columbia on March 2<">th and 20th: Oen J. C. Boyd, Brig. (Jen. Wilic .Tones, Col. Henry C. Sehachte, Col. Henrv T. Thompson, Col. W. W. Lewis, Maj. E. M. Blythc, ('apt. T. T. Hyde. By order of the government and com mander-in-chief." State Pension Board. Columbia, Special. ? The state pen sion board met last week and went over the rolls as tiled by the county boards. It will take several days to finish up the work, especially that C relating to the artificial limb . The board consists of W. H. Har din of Chester, B. M. I^ebby of (Thar--, leston snd D. K. Tlenniken and W. W. Weston of Columbia, PLEASED WITH MEETING Mean*. Heyward and Wateon Hat* I a Satisfactory Interview With the Preaident and Secretary Bonaparte. The special Washington correspon dent of the Columbia State sendB his paper the following account of the conference between ex-Governor Heyward and Commissioner Watson ahd President Roosevelt and Secre tary Bonaparte, which will be of special interest to all South Caro linians: Ex-Gov. Heyward, president of the Southern Immigration society, aud Commissioner E. J. Watson held a long conference with the president and Attorney General Bonaparte as to the meaning of the immigration laws. A widespread misunderstand ing of the attorney general's recent opinion upon the status of the Witte kind immigrants was primarily the occasion for this inference. Thii misunderstanding arose out of a num ber or papers on the day the opinion was forwarded to the president, stat ing that hereafter under the new law all a state could do towards indue ing immigration was to "advertise." No such statement was made by the attorney general. In fact, he made no interpretation 'of the new law whatever, except to s*ay that under it the circumstances surrounding the ad mission of the Wittekind immigrants would exclude them. He did not un dertake to say in that opinion what a state might or might not do towards inducing immigration. All of this the attorney general explained to ex *f>\. Heyward and Commissioner a (son. Will Sail For Bremen. As a result of the conference Col. Watson has gone on his way to New York and will leave there for Bremen to induce more immigrants to come in on the North German Lloyd vessel, which will leave Bremen on or about April 13 H. Gadsen, vice president of the chamber of commerce of Char leston, go<?s with Col. Watson to as sist in arranging for a permanent line lrom Bremen to Charleston. . Discussing the matter just before leaving, Col. Watson said: "Gov. Heyward, last Friday, wired J resident Roosevelt asking that everything in regard to this impor tant matter be held in abeyauce until be and I could confer with him. President Roosevelt wired an ap pointment. At this conference the entire matter from beginning to end was gone over carefully and Attor ney General Bonaparte explained thoroughly the. exact meaning of his opinion. ? On the other hand Gov. Heyward and myself explained to the president tful Mr. Bonaparte the ex act situation in regard to the estab lishment of the steamship service We explained every detail of our method of operation and told the president we did not wish to do one solitary thing or take one solitary step that was not absolutely within the United States law. "I discussed with both the presi dent and Mr. Bonaparte at some length the economic question involv ed in opening the South Atlantic ter ritory to direct service and to some extent went into the effect of this un derstanding upon what is rapidly be coming the national immigration problem at the great ports of entry. In that the president seemed to be very deeply interested. As to tl.o result of this conference, all I am at liberty to say is lhat it> has been thoroughly satisfactory and that in the near future, no doubt, the appli cation of Attorney General Bonn part s Opinion to the practical opera tion of the plan that we have set in operation will be made public in a ? 7Z ,?"w "t' manner b> lties at Washington. I f ? do not feel that the movement for immigration in the South will be affected or retarded in anv way and I am sure that the labor interests will ?n-M u '"jured in anv way, ence "i ? b?1ncfite(I- The confer ence determined me to proceed dur ? (hc n,Rht to New York and to sail at once for Bremen on the Kron pnnz William II." Charleston Man Shot to Death. Charleston, Special. ? Joseph I). River*, of 318 Meeting street was shot, in ihc l'are nn<l instantly killed in West street by W. S. SchifThauer, an electrician in the employ of Swift & Co. SchifThaner was arrested soon after the shooting, driving through West street to Arehdale in a car riage, and lodged at the police sta tion. At the coroner's inquest in the undertaking rooms of J. Hcnrv Stuhi the verdict of the jury was that Joseph D. Hi vers came to his death by a pistol shot in the fnce, inflicted from a weapon in the hands of W. S., BchiffhaMi, Souvenir Programmes. Spartanburg, Special. ? The city council Monday afternoon voted an appropriation of $500 for souvenir programmes of tho coming music festival. The programmes will con tain r.o advertising matter ex- ( copt of the advantages of the city of < Spartanburg, gnd a large number will ' be scattered over this and other \| TO ENFORCE GOOB LAW Fraud in Transfers t? End* Taxes Will Be Punifked. The recent session of the general assembly passed an important aet af feeling the records made on audi tor* ' books in the transfer of proper ty. It has been ofteu charged, by auditors who attempt to enforce , thu law that prices paid for property an* not correctly set out in the deeds or on the books, the object being to de ceive the county board of equaliza tion when assessments were made. The law, however, makeu the courts refuse to endorse auch action iu the following language: "Be it enacted ' by the general assembly of the state of South Caro lina: "Sectioh 1. That all contracts that are entered into^jwith intent to evade payment of taxes or in fraud of the tax laws of this state, be, and are hereby, declared ogaiust publie policy. "Sec. 2. That no court in thi.? state shall lend its aid in the enforce ment of such contract whether the same has heretofore been entered into or may hereafter be entered into. "Sec. 3. That the courts of thu state shall not lend their'aid to en force any contract entered into as j? substitute for or having as its eon* sideration a previous contract here inbefore declared against public pol icy." Hereafter the law is going to J be rigidly enforced. PLANT NEARLY COMPLETED. Will Be Conveyed on the Only Tower Line in The United States ? Work of Many Months. (Jreat Falds, Special. ? The watct wus turned through the gates by the Southern Power Company at the ( i real Catawba falls at 9 a. m., and the water reached the dam about 2 |?. m. The power company commenced on the job in-'August, 1905. ft took eight months to finish the dam ak Mnutain Island, and one year on the concrete wall at the power house. Th? record was broken in putting in th? concrete on this dam. The dam at the power house is 10 feet wide ai the top and 80 feet wide at the base. It is 50 feet high. -It is 050 feet loupe from hill tojiill. There are 100, <HM* cubic yards of masonry in both of the walls,- In the. power liouso there are two direct current generators and eight r.ilcrnating current generators and there will be 40,000 horse power developed at this point. The com pany will be ready to deliver the power to its customers inside of tw?? weeks. The power will be conveyed on the only tovfcv line in the United State*. Dr. D, B. Johnson Honored. Rock Hill, Special. ? Dr. 1). K Johnson, president of Winthrop col lege has just returned from the meet ing of the National Kducutional as sociation at Chicago. Whilo there nn organization was affected of repre sentatives of normal schools of the United States which will work tf? secure favorable legislation for girls* institution, both national and state. Or. Johnson had the honor to be chosen president of this orgatiiiiatioH Ile was also elected as chairman of the committee from the National Kd ucntu>nul association, which will at tend the meeting of the National Li brary association at Ashcville, N. (*., in May. t Tire in Cheraw. Cheraw, Special. ? Monday morn ing between .'I and 4 o'clock the lious*? of Mr. Ed Stubbs on High street m a? destroyed by fire. Owing to the prompt help of the neighbor* all of t lie furniture was saved. The 1o*k is partially covered by insurance. It is not known how the lire originated. | Baptist PapeTr. Merged. (Jreenville, Special. The Haptu<f Courier, of this city, ha* purchased The Baptist Press, which ha* Iktii published at Union by Kev. L. M Kicc and Rev. V. I. Masters. Th?? Inst issue of The l'rejfr will appear Wednesday, after which the pafier will be consolidated with The Cour ier, which i- published in this city by Keys and Thomas. Alfred Youn^ Killed. Kaslev. Special. ? Alfred Yiuiii^ was k i I 1<mI here Saturday ni^ht on the Southern railway just In-low the sta tion. It is thought that he was try ing to jump nfT of No. !l(l which passes through at /? : 10 a. tn. Me. worked for the Southern at S|XMscM*r? Nf. C? and usually enrne home <?r? Satnnlay night by goi'ig to Hei?ec? on and eoming hack on .'1(1. If i* supposed he thought the train u?* at the crossing but it was about 2."* yards from it. His neck was broken by being thrown against a rroKs tie. Barn and Contents Burned. Union, Special. ? A barn belonging to Mr. J. K. Minter on the draliam pla#e in Cross Keys township mos. burned to the 'ground Sunday nw/*?i ? inj*. Mr. Minter'lost a good den! nf forage, and there were some eliieL ens, pigs and a calf burned. Tt?f? origin of the Are is supposed to liav? been from Tats that .had in wine way gotlen of matches.