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! WHITE MAN By %ieorge Agnew Chamberlain Author of "Home." "Through Stained Glass," "John Dogardue." etc. - Copyright, 1019, The Bobbs-MerrUl Company ontinued from first page, this section. back In front of her, "that are just great round hard bowiders." Her mouth drew dowi at the cor ners, but she would not sudcumh again to feeling sorry for herself. Instead she shielded her eyes once mnore and took stock of the various handiworks of God. The world was good to look upon that morning. It was twirling by in a strange rotative movement that gave it an illusive appearance. It was like a new toy in the way of pan oramns. Things statrte to coie nearer, changed their minds and then swept Into the past, lingering long on a steep horizon as though they hesitated be fore an irrevocable plunge. Andrea found that by holding back her skirt she could look straight down. She did so otT nnd on for half an hour and the things she saw told her much. Forest and plain, forest and plain swept under and away in an endless gentle undulation cut twice by long, walndering silver bands. From high in the air those bands were noting-mere strips of fibbon that a child could step over. But down there? She knew that down be low they were mighty rivers, doubt less teeming with hippos, crocodiles and snakes! The engine missed fire-once, twice, Andrea would scarcely have noticed the fact had it not been for its ex traordinary effect on the man. All his pose dropped from him. He became galvanized into nervous life and did several things rapidly with twitching fingers. The engine missed again, ind he half rose in his sent, craned his neck, turned his face to one side and looked down. In the glimpse she caught she saw that the lines around his mouth had suddenly deepened in credibly. His eyes seemed to fix with a certain relief on a spot, a clearing, liggn* oge n tope. 1 Hed tpped Bh achTnely nds Mdw for a logFreac igvlta. O l bark ahaf he setlds bndre teawlt gledmig hulb it. sweat engiervad tore withp the riepling retret, heamao ag reasnab cueadssfupplad.ng i spite ofhiseatheating Then ighit took( tie groun ahinethe noe hete forcl a ntreekingl hotae across nndko thi and toAvdrent stow lit wlalsg hoftw ofparat. us evt Tohsae he crst Andra freerd; 1 st yntively sctheswu landirms aru te ma'sl agitation. fethe qirpe took thaingro ith n aue. wi o e csirclemantive beame sfo anos santh amt pitilenBt sopl wit win gstburi; ihn he nervd-hsel cylmedo of t eane ut el. he don cse gAndea lorngrdigh reicey and tooke up arhms wroth thealfsneckn She fael thad take aof 'his whggle Iody ays wtrougr an lrgs. phyitaed aut onlyhf sneingt le n in them nerae hviseh climble, out of soe machin n4u hiddp reifAnd loozed at hia ippat hal smielon he fac- e fel hd taki upon him and a deep flush mounted from his neck and swept upward, lighting the tan of his face with a subdued glow. "If that happened to me," thought Andrea, "I'd be as red as a field of popplies." "I-I beg your pardon," stammered the man ind started walking up and down with quick strides. Andrea knew instinctively that lie was warm Ing up muscles that had been sud denly frozen, steadying shaking knees an( linky heart. File turned her eyes from him and gilzed around tQ get her first glimpse of the real Africa. From the very start It left her puzzled. She stood at the far side of a great circular court, beaten hard and swept clean as a floor. Within its bounds were two acac!n trees, thickly fronded, wide-spreading. Around the court, thirty high-peaked huts stood like sen tinels. Behind the huts other but far smaller structures swarmed-chicken houses, strongly withed, granaries-on four stilts, pigeon cotes, a stockaded cattle kraal and a smaller goat fold. But what puzzled her were the Af ricans tiemselves. A flying machine had dropped in their midst and (11 charged two fair If not excepilonal specimens of a white and dominant race, yet the blacks continued thei' various occuritions and disoccul,. tions apparently unperturbed. What ever their occupation they iade no sudden move of variation ; even their tongues kept still. In the shade of one of the vast aci clas there wos a veritable con course of Iuen. Tihey sat for the mIof't part oil their heels smoking white, slow-burning cheroots. Twvo only could he said to bo working. TIhey were very old and sat with their baIcks ngainst the trunk of the tree, their legs stretchd straight out: before tIhem IIand it their sides ieat bundles .f st ripped 1).alm1 lealves. They wer weaving hasiets. The men at leas were not Iongue tied. They seeiied tc be going tirougli some oral ceretiony. First one and tihen another woul& take the cheroot from his lips anC make a single remark ; then the resl would all grunt in unison and witl a deep-chested expelling of all thi breath in their bodies that gave al most the effect of an explosion. - It annoyed Andrea that her com panion seemed to share the stoic cain of the natives in what to her min ought to .have been an occasion 01 much excitement and chatter. It nevei occurred to her that he was uninove( beciuse he could understand what thi men were saying and was nerel3 bored. At the inonert the wheels of till flying machine had struck the groun the apparently interminable and, t< Andrea, meaningless chant 1had beet Btarted by the native chief, a wizenet figure distinguished in dress from hi companions only by the ebony-blaci ring of polished wax that lie wore lik4 a halo of darkness on his close cropped and grizzled head. The white man threw up his hea ird clapped his hands once. Th chief grunted; silence fell. 41e spa to one side and spoke deliberately "Let us arlse to greet the master." They came forward and stood in i long file. The chief took one step I1 advance, raised his right hand an fastened his gaze on the white man' face. his own seemed to be workin in a sudd~en excitement. "Bai-ye-te I lie roared, and there followed, s quickly that it seemied but another sy) lable of the salutation, a mighty gruti from the depths of thlirty chiesth I uh !"' In a moment the whole scenie undlei went a startling transformation. Th tile br-oke and1( becamie garrulous. Cli OPE ONE NI4 BY ALL O yj ni n GOR t r It 41 dren stopped their 'play and ran to Join in the rabble. . The men dropped their work and crowded into a com pact group from which came suddenly a cry that startled Andrea and Jerked her around to face it as though she had been yanked by a string. The cry was shrill, high, continuous, It was produced by rounding the open mouth and working the tdngue laterally in, a vibration as rapid as that of a serpent's. It was ghastly to watch, Incredible in the rapidity of the ululation, but once heard, unforget able. It lasted much longer than Andrea could have held her breath, let alone used It, and ceased as suddenly as it had begun. "All very interesting," said Andrea turning to her companion, "but why didn't they do it before?" lie looked at her absently. "There is a ceremonial," he said, "a dignity, about the African that is absurd till you've known it for years." "For years?" repeated Andren. "It is this your home?" lie shioolc his head. "No, Africa this sort of thing-is never haomae to a white man. It's a plaice where hie goes to forget his ans. I'vv bee'na using it-whenever life has given me a chance-as a sun hath for tile soul." Andrea stared at him, a puzzled frown on her brow. She wondered why his bluntness did not ofendI i her. wondered If it would ever fall to her lot to hear haimi1 say a senseless thing or laugh aloud. While she still won dered he turned from her and began ealling out meaningless words: "Shil ling ! Five ! Tin hat ! Bathtub! Overcoat !" At each nane, for names they were, a native stepped forward. They were all bright-faced youngsters, fourteen or fifteen years of age, and their garb, maide uIp (if a elennal cloth hound tightly around slm hips an1d falling to the knees, an1d a red fez with tassel in tact, marked thelam as houseboys trust((i plIkinnlislt'5 wlo alone had Ihe ried ht to enter the white man's quarters and were collectively his ree ognized mauthpieces in conveying or ders. , "Ihathtub!" repented the white man. A youngster quickly saluted and steppe(d out of the line, grinning from ear to ear at being distinguished even for a moment above his fellows. With a jerk of his head toward An drea the white man began to talk rap idly. Bathtub's eyes rolled from his face to Andrea's and back agahi. They widened, they narrowed, and, each of the three times the whito 'man said "Kiboco" with a peculiar emphasis, they seemed to wince. Andrea Interrupted, "What does 'Kiboco' mean, please?" "t means a whip of -raw rhino hide," said the man. "An implement that draws blood with a whisper." Andrea went wbite; her eyes blazed. "So you whip your servants?" she said with curled lips. "I have whipped a boy once," an swered the man coolly. "They have never forgotten." Ile turned to her. "This boy, Bathtub, is yours. If he ever falls you I shall thrash him with in an inch of his nine lives." He dis . missed the boy with a nod. Rit htub stepped before his mis L tress, saluted, grinned the broadest, % most friehidly grin Andrea had ever I seen, and without waiting for the 4 smiling answer of her eyes was off like an arrow. 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