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Aontinued from Last. Week.)
C1lAPTIER VI.-On another expedition
the dunthey on which Andrea. In mounted
runs away with her and she is for a
moment made ridiculous. White Man ex.
plains the African method of wife pur.
chase, "obolo."' She Is horrified. After
ward she listens to the report of native
runners that a herd of elephants is in
the district and is invited to the hunt by
White Man. They start down a croco
dile-infested stream for the scene of the
hunt.
CHAPTER VII.
They started out, a skeleton caval
cade. The three wizened ones led thew
wtg and Andrea measured their tim
pnMance by the fuct that they carried
1t'sungo's haltery of ritles, respectful
ly surrendered by the gunhearers as a
filing tribute frotn onlookers to men
who were hunters in their own right.
M'snmgo nodded toward them and
spike to Andrea over his shoulder.
"The old boys are my brolliers in
armis and Ihey cnrry the guns as a
sort. of isigila. When it coinex dowr.
to hu1S)mIs4s they'll sllp them to the
trained harers."
Hehim Andrea celliv 'Marguerlte,
h11*; nd i"ulit before 1ind41 1nthtuh af
i, a' Gi: folmO'. $i ihet g~ii)berr,
a :le tracker wid a single vater
hoI,'y. No hangers-mn were allowedo
e'.-n lo see fthe cortege from (the Veraal.
Over oil- shouldhw hatitub (arried
slng n erneker tin, container oC ill
the food al lofted to the daly.
in e mIilintllIe(.5' mar1ich they came to
ite river ,vhich, in spie of Its prox
imitty r I lie camp, Andrea now saw
for the first thie. Often she had sug.
gtie(l to M'wungo that she wished to
visit it, but on every occasion his lips
hats :et in a traight line aind he had
Invented manifold reasons for keep
ing her from its shores. The iost of
fiaenlous of' these arguments vere
fnakes and crocodiles, but while she
conceded the strength of those two
dtlreirrents she could not escape fron
an intuitive belief that there was
something else-some other and -ank
ing cause In the back of M'aungo's
mnid.
The river was a treacherois-looking
stream, (leep, sluggish, bordered for
the most port by flat-topped banks.
Whiere it.* shores were broken into
she ving slopes these were covered
with a towering growth of reeds and
mdtted elephant grass. There was at
saild-spit here and there and on each
were lying what appeared to be logs
cast up by flood.
As the expedition reached the crest
(If'the bank, thereby coming into full
vie~w of the river, the logs, one by onie,
elevated themselves a foot into tile
ait through all their length anti moved
siently, swiftly, horribly Into the wa
tot Andrea caught her breath. She
hn(i seen crocodiles in captivity, but
n~er like this, never free to scurry
orm distorted legs, to sink silently into
m'srky dlepths aind lurk.
"tWhito Man," she whispered, "are
th as vful as they look?7"
'they are," he answvered!. "It is
preztty gene'rally accepted that more
natives sulccumb to crocs in Africa an
utlly than to arny .other one cause,
n# exceptIig famine and smallpox. It
soiuds unbIelievab~le until you know
tif9 native mind. A manif will be taken
att a cer'tain crossing andl haltfian hour
latdr you may see hIs companions
leisurely wvadlng the stream tile same
phice. The explanaitionl is that they
edsider that the victim lost his life
edely b~y reason of the cheap hirand of
'mpdlclne' hie cairriedi. Each one is
envinced that his own bit of stone,
rat or twistd wood Is the real thing
an0 nothing can dissuade him until the
mdment when he too is snatched un
Hwghastly," said Andrea, "and
"es, it is," said M'sungo, andi add
edi "Sort of knockout to faith, isn't
it? But even crocs have character.
There are certain crossIngs swarming
with them where they are known to
be' friendly and where no one has e er
been attacked."
By the time lie finished speaking the
natives had haled out a widle, clumsy
sebw and M'sungo nodded to Andrea
to.: slide (dowa the slIppery landing
elisto and climb in. She was worried,
as to how Marguerite was to be 6f'nt
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aged when, to her delight, iour blacks
Picked him up bodily and deposited
hin in the center of the leaky craft.
He did not deign to more than half
Propelled Laboriously Up-Stream by
Poles.
open his eyes. Propelled laboriously
up-st reai by poles and then across by
cluny paddles, it took them the best
part of half an hour to make the op
posite landing. Andrea was surprised
that M'sungo's impatience seemed to
be dying down, and said so.
"Oh," he explained, "there's no great
hurry. We aren't after antelope, you
know. Throo out of every five ele
plants shot are killed at the noon hour.
If the one we are after Is traveling,
wO'll r-ever, never see him, for he it
think nothing of ninety miles as a
day's stroll. If he's feeding, and
that's tho probability In this case.
we'll comto up with him at the heat
of the day under a big tree dozing and
lazily fanning himnelf with his eare."
The country across the river was a
contrast. to anything Andrea had seen.
It was what M'sungo called mangy;
totally bare in spots and breakiog out
in others into thorn thickets or oases
or thick brush. Futrther upstream was
a forest of high straight trees, much
higher than the temnbas, but inland
this towering growth suddenliy fell to
a low level of bush that cut a gray
ine along the horizon. The band of
gray wvas broken here andl there by
the black dome of a tree.
M'sungo followed the dirat'ionm of
Andrea's eyes. "T[hat long gra y pat<:h,'
he sakL. "that's elepihant I)1t.h. but
Lord k-.,ws when we'll gel ti.. r.
The wiazned men led iilom *o ream
and soon they were in th-- ' slshade
of thme high forest, but not for long.
In ten minutes they traversed it, for
it was nothing but a tongue, a long
screen extending from elephant bush
to river. Scarcely had they left its
shelter when the three hunters paused
and with them M'eungo. Andrea
pressed forward.
The soggy ground was pock-marked
with great holes of varying sizes; the
smallest a foot in circumference, the
largest, three. "F'emiales and young
sters," murmured M'sungo in explana
tioni, "all trash." lHe stood quite still,
his eyes traveling rapidly over a wide
radius, pausing Suddenly when the
tracker thoughtfully touched1 a grass
binde, with his too or another boy sol
emanly meiasuredl a spoor with his feet
plaed~ one ahead of the other, looked
up Inquiringly and retired in confusion
at thfe kIndly sneer on the faces of the
hunters.
"Why are you waiting?" asked An
Continued on fourth page. thi s cetion.
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