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Tripping through the April breeze to a kirtle blue, Brighter blossom mellow bees Ne'er in Summer woo. From her little scarlet mouth Rills of song are gliding, Ballads of the balmy South Ia her memory biding. She is winsome, shfe is shy, C?&d in sweet appares ; Like the song of Lorelei Floats her dainty carol. Round about her wayward hair Tricky fairies hover, Trapping sunbeams unaware ; Who could choose but love her? Vp and down her velvet cheek Dimples share her blushes Wilt she listen if ? speak When ber carol hushes7 Be my fate or drear or bright, Soon, ah ! soon F ll know it ; If I mftv not be her knight,-. jStill Til be her poet! -y. O. Times-Democrat. fcr ARIDER r?AGGAHP, rCOSTCTUED.1 CHAPTER X JOHN TTAR AX ESCAPE. On the following Monday John, taking .Jantje to drive Mm, departed in a rough Scotch cart, to -which were harnessed two of the best horses at Mooif ontein, to shoot buck at Haas^Coetzee's. - He reached.the place at about S:S0 o'clock, and concluded, from the fact of the presence of sereral carts and horses, that, he was not tbs only guest Indeed, the first person that he saw as the cart pulled up was his late ene? my, Frank Muller. . uKek (look), .baas," said Jantje, "there is Baas Frank talking to a Basutu!" - John was, as may be imagined, not best pleased at this meeting. He had always dis? liked tile TT?P7>, and since Muller's conduct on the previous Friday, and Jantje's story of the dark deed of blood in which he had been the principal actor, he positively loathed the sight of him. He got out of the cart, and was go? ing to walk round to the back of the house in order to avoid him, when Muller, to all ap? pearance, suddenly became aware of his pres? ence and advanced to meet bim with the ut? most cordiality. . "How do you do, captain?" he said, holding out his hand, which John just touched. - "So you have come to shoot buck with Om Coet? zee; going to show us TransvaaJers how to do it, eh? There, captain, dont look as stiff as a rifle barrel. I know what you are thinking of; that little business at-Wakkerstroom on Friday, is it not? Well, now, I tell you what it is, I was in the wrong, and I ain't afraid to say so as between man and mau. I had had a glass, that"was the fact, and did not quite know what I was about. W e have got to live as neighbors here, so let us forget all about it and be brothers again. I never bear malice, . not L It is not the Lord's will that we should bear malice. Hit on* from the shoulder, I say, and then forget all about it. If it hadn't been for that little monkey," he added ^ jerk? ing his thumb in the direction of Jantje, who was holdingthehorses' heads, "it would never have happened, and it is not nice that two Christians should quarrel about such as he." Muller jerked out his long, speech in a suc? cession of sentences, something as a school boy repeats a hardly learned lesson, fidgeting his feet and letting his eyes travel about the ground as he did so; and it was evident to John, who stood quite still and listened to it in icy silence, that it was by no means an ex? temporary one. It had too clearly been com? posed for the occasion. **I do not wish to .quarrel with anybody, Meinheer Muller," he answered at length. UI never do quarrel unless it is forced on me. and then," he fcdded, grimly, "I do my best to make it unpleasant for my enemy. Thc other day you attacked first my servant and tben myself. I am glad that you now see that this was an improper thing to do, and, .so far as I am concerned, there is an end of the matter," and he turned to enter the house. Muller accompanied him as far as where Jantje was standing at thc horses' heads. Here be stopped, and, putting his hand in his pocket, took out a two shilling piece and threw it to the Hottentot, calling to him to catch it Jantje was holding the horses with one hand In the other he held his stick-a long walking kerrie that he always carried, tba same on which he had shown Bessie the .notches. In order to catch the piece of money he dropped the stick, and Muller's quick eye catching sight of the notches beneath the knob, he stooped down, picked it *up, and examined it. "Whit do these mean, boy?" he asked, pointing to the line of big and little notches, some of which had evidently been cut years ago. Jantje touched his hat, spat upon the "Scotchman," as the natives of that part of Africa call a two shilling piece, and pocketed it. before he answered. The fact that the giver had murdered all his near relations did jiot make the gift less desirable in his. eyes. Hottentot moral sense is not very elevated. "No, baas," he. said, with a curious grin, "that is how I reckon. If anybody beats Jantje, Jantje cuts a notch upon the stick, and every night before he goes to sleep he looks at lt, and says: 'One day you will strike that man twice who struck you once, and so on, baas. Look what a line of them there are, baas. One day I will pay them all back again, Saas Frank." In another minute old Hans Coetzee came, and announced that it was time to bo moving. Accordingly the whole party got into their carts or on to their shooting horses, as the case might be, and started. Frank Muller was, John noticed, mounted as usual on his fine black horse. After driving for moro thau half an hour along an indefinite kind of wagon track, the leading cart, in which was old Hans Coetzee himself, a Malay driver and a colored Cape boy, turned to the left across tho open veldt, and the others followed in turn. Th:* went on for some time, till at last they reached ti? crest of a rise that com? manded a large sweep of open couutry, and here Hans halted and held up his hand, whereon the others halted, too. On looking out over the vast plain before him, John dis? covered the reason. About half a mile be? neath them was a great herd of blesbuck, feeding, 30) or more of them, and beyond them again another herd of some sixty or seventy much larger and wilder looking ani? mals, with white tails, which John at once recognized as vilderbeeste Nearer to them again, dotted about here and there on the plain, were a couple of dozen or so of grace? ful yellow springbuck. Then a council of war was held, which re? sulted in the men on horseback-among whom was Frank Muller-being dispatched to circumvent the herds and drive them toward the carts, that took up their stations at various points toward which the buck were likely to make. Then came a pause of a quarter of an hour or sor till, suddenly, from the far ridge of the opposite slope, John saw a couple of puffs of white smoke float np into the air, and one of j the vilderbeeste below roll over on his back, I kicking and plunging furiously. Thereon tho whole herd of buck turned and came thunder? ing toward them, stretched in a long line across the wide veldt; the springbuck first, then the blesbuck, looking, owing to their peculiar way of holding their long heads down as they galloped, for all the world like a herd of great bearded goats. Behind and mixed up with them were the vilderbeeste, who twisted and turned, and jumped into the air as though they had gone clean off then heads and were next second going clean on them. It is very difficult, owing to his ex? traordinary method of progression, tc? dis? tinguish one part of a galloping vilderbeeste from another; now it is his horns, now his tail, and now bis hovfs that present them? selves to the watcher's bewildered vision^ a*;.* I now again they all seem to he mixed up to I gether. Oa came the great herd, making the ground shake beneath their footfall; and after them galloped the mounted Boers, every now and again jumping- from their horses to fire a shot into the line of game, which gen? erally resulted ia some poor animal being left sprawling on the ground, wherein the sports? men would remount and continue the chase. Presently the buck wem within range of some of the guns in the carts and a regular fusillade began. About twenty blesbuck tamed and came past John, within forty yards of him. Springing to the ground, he fired both barrels of his "express" at them as they tyre past-alas and alas! without touch? ing them. The first bullet Sirixck under their bellies, the second must have shaved their backs. Reloading rapidly, he fired again at about 200 yards' range, and this time one fell to his second barrel. But he knew that it was a chance shot; he had fired at tho ?asfc buck, and he had killed one ten paces in front of him. The fact of the matter is that this sort of shooting is exceedingly difficult till one j knows how to do it. Jumping into the cart again, and leaving the dead blesbuck to look after itself for the present-net a very safe thing to do in a country where there are sa many vultures John, or rather d ant je, put the horses into a gallop* and away they went at full tear. Every few minutes or so they would pull up whenever the game was within range, and John would spring from the cart and let drive, and then jump in and follow on again. This went on for nearly an hour, in which time he had fired twenty-seven cartridges and killed three blesbuck and wounded a v?der beeste, which t?ey proceeded to chase. But the vildcrbeeste was struck in the rump,- and a buck so wounded will go a long way, and go very fast also, and some miles had been got over before he began to rest, only'starting' on again as they drew near. At last, on crossing the crest of a little rise, John saw what at first he took to be his vilderbeesto dead. A second look, however, showed him that, although it was a dead vilderbeeste, it most undoubtedly was not tho one that he had wounded, for that was standing, its head hanging down, about 320 yards beyond the other animal, which had, no doubt, fallen to somebody else's rifle, or else been wounded farther back and come here to die. Kow the vilderbeeste lay within 100 yards of them, and Jantje pointed out to John that his best plan would be to get out of the cart and creep on his hands and knees up to tho dead animal, from the cover of which he could get a good shot at his own wounded bull. According^, Jantje having withdrawn with the cart and horses out of sight under the shelter of the rise, John crouched upon his hands and knees and proceeded to carry out his stalk. He got on all right till he got quite close to the dead cow, and was just con? gratulating himself on the prospect of an ex? cellent shot at the wounded bull, when sud? denly something struck the ground violently jost beneath'Hs-stomach, throwing up a cloud cf earth and dust He stopped amazed, and as he did so heard the report of a rifle somewhat to his right Scarcely/had he realized this when there was a sudden com? motion in his bair, and the soft black felt hat that ho was wearing started from his head, apparently of its own accord, and, after twirling round twice or thrice in the air, fell gently to the earth, and as it did so the sound of a second report reached his ears. It was now evident that somebody was firing at him; SO?TEEODY WAS FIBING AT HEM. so, jumping up from bis crouching position, he tossed his arms into the air and sprang and shouted in a way that left no mistake as to his whereabouts. In another minute he saw a man on horseback, cantering easily toward him, in whom he had little difficulty in recognizing as Frank Muller. He went and picked up his hat; there was a bullethole right through it Then, full of ^rath> he ad? vanced to meet Frank Muller. "What the-did you mean by firing at mef he asked. "Aliemachter, Carle!'' (Almighty, my dear fellow) was the cool answer, "I thought that you were a vilderbeeste calf. I galloped the cow and killed her, and she had a calf with her, and when I got the catridges out of my rifle-for ono stuck and took me some time and the new ones in, I looked up, and there, as I thought, was the calf. So I get my rifle on and let drive, first with one Larrel and then with the other, and when I saw you jump up like that and shout, and that I bad been firing at a man, 1 nearly fainted. Thank tho Almighty ! did not hit yon." John listened coldly. "I suppose that I am bound to believe you, Meinheer Muller," he. said. "But I have been told that you have the most wonderful sight of any man ia these parts, which makes it odd that at 300 yards you should mistake a man upon his hands and knees for a vilderbeeste calf." "Does the captain think, then, that I wished to murder him; especiallyT'? he added, "after I took his hand this morning?" "I dont know what I think," answered John, looking straight into Muller's eyes, which foll before his own. "All I know is that your curious mistake very nearly cost mo my life. Look here!'' and he took a lock of his brown hair out of the crown of his per? forated hat and showed it to the other. "Ay, it was very close. Lvt us thank Ged that you escaped." "it could not well have boen closer, mcin heer. I hope that, both for your own sake and for the sake of the people who go out shooting with you, you will not make such a mistake again. Good morning." The hand-ome Boer, or Anglo-Boer, sat on his horse stroking his beautiful beard and gazing curiously, after John XicTs sturdy English looking figure as he marched toward the cart (for, of course, the wounded vilder? beeste had long ago vanished). "1 wonder," he said to himself aloud, as he turned his horse's head and rode leisurely away, "if tho old volk are right after all, and if there is a God." (Frank Muller was suffi? ciently impregnated with modern ideas to bo a free thinker.) "It almost seems like it," he went on, "else how did it come that the one bullet passed uuder his belly and the other just touched his headwitbout harming him J I aimed carefully enough;, toe, and I could make the shot nineteen times out of twenty and not miss. Bali, a God! 1 snap my fingers at him. - Chance is the only god. Chance blows men about like 1 he dead grass, till death conies ('own J ?ko the veldt fire and burns them up. But there are mon who ride chance as one rides a young colt-a}% who ! turn its headlong rushing and rearing tc their own ends-who let it ?y hither and thither till it is weary, and then canter it along tho road, that leads to triumph. I, Frank Mul? ler, am one of those men. I never fail in the end. I will kill that Englishman. Perhaps I will kill old Silas Croft and tho Hottentot, too. Bah! they do not know what is coming. I kn o xv; I have helped to lay the mine: and unless they bend to my will I shall l>c the ono to fire it I will k:'ll thvm all and I will tako Mooifontein, and then I will marry Bessie. She will fight against it, but that will make it all the sweeter. Sin; loves that rooibaatje; I know it, and I will kiss her over his dead ! iMxry. Ah! there are the carts. I don't soe thc c aptain. Driven home, I suppose, on ac? count of the shock to his nerves. Well, 1 ! I must talk to tho.se- fools. Lord, what fouls j they are with their talk about the 'land1 and the 'verdomde Britische gpu vern ment' They don's know wbat is good for them. Silly j sheep, with Frank Muller for a shepherd I j Ay, and they shall have Frank Muller for ft president one day, and I will nile them, too. Bah! I hate the English: but I am glad thai I am half English for all that, for that i* where I get the brains! But these peoples fools, fools. Well, I shall pipe and they shall dance!" "Baas," said Jantje to John, as they were driving homeward, "Baas Frank shot at you." "How do you know that?" asked John. "I saw him. He was stalking thc wounded bull, and not looking for a calf at all. There was no calf. He was just going to iire at the wounded bull when he turned and saw you, and he knelt down and covered you, and be? fore I could do anything he fired, and then ?when he saw that he had missed 'you lie fired again, and I dont" know how it was he didn't kill you, for ho is a wonderful shot with a rifle-he never misses." "I will have the man tried for attempted murder," said John, bringing the butt end of bis rifle down with a bang on to the bot? tom of the cart. "A villain like that shall not go scot free-.-? Jantje grinned. "It is no use, baas. He would get off, for I am the only witness. A jury won't believe a black man in this country, and they would never punish" a Boer for shooting at an Eng? lishman, ?fo, baas, you should lie up ono day in the veldt where lie is going to pass and shoot him. That is what I would do if I daredV' CHAPTER XI, OX THE BRINK. Jo?m found that thc life of a South Afri? can farmer came well op to his expectations. He bad ample .occupation; indeed, what be? tween ostriches, horses, cattle, sheep and crops',- he was rather over than under occu? pied. Nor was he greatly troubled by the lack of civilized society, for he was a man who ?oad a great deal, and books could be or? dered from Durban and Cape Town, while the weekly mail brought up an ampio supply of papers. .On Sundays he always read the political articles in The Saturday Review aloud to old Silas Croft, who, as he got older, found that the print tried his eyes, and this was an attention that the old gentleman greatly appreciated. He was a well informed man, and had, notwithstanding bis long life spent in a half civilized country, never lost, his hold of affairs .or his interest in the wide and rushing Ufe of tho world in one of whose side eddies he lived apart. This task of reading The Saturday Review aloud had formerly been a part of Bessie's Sunday service, bat her uncle was very glad to effect an ex? change. Bessie's mind was not quite in tuno with the profundities of .that journal, and her attention was apt to wander at the most pointed passages. And thus it came about, what between The Saturday Review and other things, that a very warm and deep at? tachment sprang up betwixt the old man and bis younger partner. John was a very tak? ing man, especially to the old, for whom he was never tired of performing little services. One of bis favorite sayings was that old peo? ple should be "let down easy," abd he acted up to it. Moreover, there was a quiet jollity and a bluff honesty about bim which was un? doubtedly attractive both to men and women. But bis great recommendation was that ho was a well informed, experienced man and a gentleman in a country in which both were rare. Every week the old man got to rely more and more on him, and let things pass more and more into his hands. "I'm getting old, Niel," he said to him one night; 'Tm getting very old; the grass? hopper is becoming a burden to me, and I'll tell you what it is, my boy,-*' laying his hand . affectionately upon Joh ivs shoulder, "I have no son of my own. and you will have to be a j to me, as my dear Bessie has been a j daughter." John looked up hito the kindly, handsome old /ace, crowned with tho fringe of snowy I hair, and at the two keen eyes set deep in it j beneath the overhanging eyebrows, and j thought of his old father who was long since dead; and somehow he was moved and his own eyes filled with tears. "Ay, 3dr. Croft," he said, taking the old man's hand, "that I will to the best of my ability." "Thank you, my boy, thank you. I don't like talking much about fbesc things, but as I said, I am getting old, and the Almighty maj' require my account any doy, and if he does I rely on you to look after these two girls. It is a wild country this, and one never knows what may happen in it from day to day, and j they will want it Sometimes I wish I were ? clear of the place. And now I'm going to bed. I am beginning to feel as though I bad done my doy's work" in tho world. I'm get? ting feeble, John, that ?5 the fact of it." After that he alwa\-s called bim John. Of Jess they bear - but little. She wrote every week, it is true, and rave an accurate account of all that was g^ing on at Pretoria and of her daily doings, but she was one ot those people whose letters tell one absolutely nothing of themselves and of what is passing in their minds. They might as jvell have been headed "Our Pretoria Letter^'as Bessie said, disgustedly-, after reading-threo. sheets in Jess' curious, upright handwriting, "Once you lose sight cf Jess," she "weiitVn, "she might as well be dead for all you learn about her. Not that one learns verv much when she is with one," she added, reflectively. "She is a peculiar woman," said John, thoughtfully. At first bc had missed ber very much, for, peculiar as she undoubtedly was, she bad touched anew string in bim somewhere, of the existence of which be had not till then been himself aware. And what is.more, it had answereil pretty strongly fer seme time ; but now it was slowly vii orating itself into silence again, much as a harp does when the striker takes his fingers from the strings. Had she stayed on another week or so the effect might have been more enduring. But although Jess bad gone away Bessie had not. On the contrary, she was always about him, surrounding him with that tender caro a woman, however involuntarily, can? not prevent her from lavishing on thc man she loves. Her beauty moved about the place like a beam of light about a garden, for she was indeed a lovely woman and as pure and good cs she was lovely. Nor could John long remain in ignorance of her partiality for him. He was not a vain man-very much the reverse, indeed-but neither was he a fool. And it must bo said that, though Bessie never overstepped the bounds of maid? enly reservi?, neither did she take particular pains to hide her preference. Indeed it was too strong to permit of her doing.so. Not that she was animated by thu halt' divine, soul scaring breath of passion, such as ani? mated her sister-which is a very rare thing, and, take it altogether, as undesirable and unsuitable to the ordinary conditions of this prosaic and work a day life as it is rare-but she was tenderly and truly in love after tho ordinary young womanly fashion; indeed, her passion; measured hythe every day stand? ard, would have proved to bc a deep cue. However this was, she was undoubtedly pre? pared to make John Niel a faithful and a loving wife if he chose to ask her to bc comb.?'f-. And as the weeks went 0:1-though? of course, he knew nothing of all tis.:-ir, be? came a very serious question to .John whether he should notask her. It isnot good for man to live alon??, especially in the Transvaal, and it was not possible for him to pass-day by day at tb*; side of so much beauty and so much {?race without thinking that it would ht- well to* draw tba bond of union closer. Indeed, had John been n younger man or liad less ex? perience h? would have. SUCCnmbcvl t ? Ti:? fcchmtatibn much sooner than he di I. But ho was neither very young nor ve?~y inexperi? enced. Ten years or more ag". 1:1 his green :snd gushing youth, ho had. ns kris :...<?:! said, bumed his lingers pre: ty sh-irply~ mid a lively recollection of this incident in his ?-nreer had h^retoiore proved a vrry < fliekmt warjiiiig to him. Also, bo bad got t o that pc* iod of lifo when men think a grc-.it many times before they wild'fr ?vnninit themselves to th-.' deep matrimonial water?. But-, however com? mendably cautions n man oTay i?", bc is always liable tobe thrown int'? temptation sufficiently strong to sweep away his caution and nih ko a mockery of Ids pim IA However strong tho rope, it bas its breaking strain: and in tho same way our power of resistance tb any given course d?pends entirely npon the power of thc temptation to draw us into it. And so it was destined to be with our friend John Niel. It was about a week after his conversation with old Silas Croft that it occurred to John' that Bessie's manner had grown, rather strange Of late, it seemed to bira that she bad avoided bis society instead, of, if hos courting it, at least showing a certain partiality for it. Also, she bad. been looking pole and worried and evinced a tendency to irritation that was quite foreign to her natural sweetness of dis^ position. Now, when a person on whom; ono is accustomed to depend for most of that social intercourse and thoso pleasant little amenities that members of ono sex value from another, suddenly cuts o?? the supply without any apparent rhyme or reason, it is enough to induce a feeling of wonder, not to say of vexation, in thc breast. It never occurred to John that tho reason might be that Bessie was truly fond of him, and perhaps uncon? sciously disappointed that he did not show a wanner interest in her. If, however, we were to examine into^bc facts of the case wo should probably discover that this was the real explanation of the change. Bessie was ? straightforward young woman, whose mind and purposes were as clear as running water. She was vexed with John, though she would probably not have owned it even to herself in so many words, and her manner reflected the condition of her mind. "Bessie,*' said John one lovely day, just as the afternoon was merging into evening "Bessie"-he always called her Bessie now "I am going down to thc black wattle planta? tion by the big mealie patch, I want to seo how those* young trees are doing. If you have done your cooking*-for Bessie had been engaged in making a cake, as young ladies, to their souTs health, often have to do in tho colonies-"I wish you would put on your hat and come with me. I don't believe that you havo been out to-day." "Thank you, Capt; Kiel," answered Bessie, ( looking at him in a bewitching little way she j well knew how to assume, "thank yen, but I I think I had rather not go out walking." Th? was what she said, but her eyes added, "I am offended with you. I want to have nothing to do with yon." . ?Very well," said John; "then I snppose 1 must go alone," and he took up his hat with the air of a martyr. Bessie looked through the open kitchen door at the lights and shadows that chased each other across the swelling bosom of the hill behind the house. "It .certainly is very fine," she said; "aw you going far?" "No, only round the plantation." "There aro so many puff adders down there, and I hate snakes," suggested Bessie, by way of finding another excuse for not coming. "Oh, EH look after the puff adders-come along." "Well," she said at last, "I will come, not because I want to come, but because yon have oyerpersuaded me. I dont know what has come to me," sho added, with a little stamp and a sudden filling of her blue eyes with tears, "I do not seem to hate any will ol my own left. "When I want to do one thing and you want nie to do another, it is I who have to do what you want; and I tell you J don't like it, Capt. Niel, and I shall be very cross out walking;" and she swept past him, ..on her way to fetch ber hat, in that peculiarly graceful way that angry women can some? times assume, and left him reflecting that I13 never saw a more charming' or taking lady ia Europe or out of it He had bab! a mind to risk it and ask he* to marry hint But then, perhaps, she might refuse him, and that was on idea that he did not quite take to. After our first youth few men altogether relish the idea of putting themselves in a position that gives capricious woman an opportunity of Ci st figuratively jumping on them, and then perhaps holding them up to the seem and obloquy of her friends, relations and other admirers. For, unfortunately, until tho opposite is clearly demonstrated, many men are apt to believe that not a few women are by nature capri? cious, shallow and unreliable; and John Niel, owing, possibly, to that unhappy little expo* rience of his youth, must be reckoned among their misguided ranks. .C?IAPTEPw SIL OVEIt IT. .On leaving the house Bessie and John took their way down the long avenus of blue gums. This avenue was old Silas Crofts particular pride, for although it had only been planted for about twenty years, the trees, which in the divine climate and.virgia soil of the Transvaal grow at thc most ex? traordinary rate, were for tbs most part very lofty, and as thick in thc stem as English oaks of ?50 yea rs', standing. Down this charming avenue John and Bessie walked, and on.reaching its limit turned to the right and followed a little footpath winding in 3nd out of the rocks that built up the plateau on tho hillside on which thc house stood. Presently this led them through the orchard, and then came a bare strip of veldt, a very dangerous spot in a thunderstorm, but a great safeguard to the house and trees round ft, for the iron stone cropped np here, and from the house one might generally see flash after flash striking down on to it and even running and zigzagging about its surface. To the left of tins were some cultivated lands, and in front of them tbs plantation in which John was anxious to inspect some recently planted wattles. "When he had finished looking at tho young trees he returned. On getting to the border of the plantation be paused to look at Bessie, who was eome twenty paces from him, perched sideways on the low sod wal!, and framed, as in the full, rich light of the set? ting sun. Her hat was off, for thc sun had lost its buming force, and the hand that held it hung idly by her. while her eyes were fixed on the horizon flaming with all tho varied glorifs of the African suitset. He gazed at her sweet face and lissome fenn, and some lines that he had read years bevoro floated idly into his mind: The little curls about her head "Were all her crown of roiil. Her delicate arms drooped dywmvard In slender mold, As white veined leaves of lilies Curve and fold Sue moved to measure of music As a swan sails tho stream. He had got as far cs this when she turned and saw Ima, and he gave up thc poetry in thc presence of enc who might well have in? spired it. "What are you looking at?" she sud with a smile: "the sunset?" '*No; I was locking ct TOM." "Then you might have been" bettor employed with the sunset," sho answered, tarling her head quickly. '-'Look at it! Bid you ever seo such a sunset? "We sometimes get the) ?I like that at this time nf thc year, when tho th?ndcre?orrcs aro about. ' V.';>: right; it was glorious. Thc heavy clouds which a couple of hours before Lad been rolling like ceies! ial.hearses across thc azure deeps were now aflame with glory. Som-! of them glowed like huge castles wrapped in fire, ethers with the dull red heat of burning coal John stood and looked at it, and its living, glowing ijeanty seemed to fire his imagina? tion, as ii fixed earth and heaven, in such sort that thc torch of iov^ lit upon his heart like the son!>oams on the mountain tops. Then from th- celestial beauty of the skies he turned to contemplate tho earthly 1 ?eai:ty of the wonjan who sut there before bim, and 1 found that also fair. Whether ir. wa.? the ! contemplation of tho glories of nature-foi j there is always a suspicion cf melancholy in ? beaut i Tu 1 things-or \v hate ver it way, her ; face had a touch of sadness on it that he had j never seen before, and which ccitamry addi U , to its chaira as a shadow adds to thc charm j Of tile light. -Wli.it aro you .thinking of, Bessie?" he i asked. She looked up, and be saw that her li;>s i were quivering a little. "Well, do jon ? know/' she said, ,;l was, oddly enough, | thinking of my mother. lean only just iv- j member" ber, a woman with a thin, sweet ; face. I ifcWicVibcr.one.eveningshe was sitting j in front of a house, just as tho sun was set- ! ting like it is nov.-, and I was playing by her, ? when suddenly sho called inc to ber and kissed me, and the? pointed to tho red clouds ? that wera gathered in tho sky. and said: 'I j wonder if you will ever think of me, dear, ? when I have passed through those golden j gatesf 1 did not understand what she meant ? then, but somehow 1 havo remembered tito '< words, and though she diwl so long ago I Jo j often think of lier;" and two largo tears j rolled down ber face as she spoke. Few. m e;ui bear to ?see asyvect and pretty woman in tears, and. this little incident was j too much for John, whose caution and doubts j all went to1 tho winds together, and Have not j since been heard of. "Bessie/' he said, "don't cry. dear; pleaisc, don :. ! I ean*ft bear to see you cry. " She looked up as though to remonstrate at his words, and then looked down again. "Listen, Bessie," h? went on, awkwardly enough, "I have got something to say to you. I want to ask you ix-if, in short, you will many mc. Wait ? bit, don't say anything yet; you know me pretty well by now. I am no chicken, dear, and I have knocked about the world a good deal, and had one or two love affairs like other people. But, Bessie, I never met such a sweet woman, or, if you. will let me say it, such a lovely woman as you, and if you will have me, dear, I think that I shall bc the luckiest man in South Africa;" and he stopped, not exactly know? ing what else to say, and tbe tin*? had not come for action, i? indeed it was to come at all. "When she first realized the drift of his talk Bessie had flushed up to the eyes and then the blood had sunk back to her breast and left ber cs'pale a? a lily. She loved the man, and they were happy words to her, and she was satisfied with them, though perhaps some women might have thought that they left a good deal to be desired. But Bessie was not of an exacting nature. At last she spt&e. "Are you sure," she said, "that you mean all this? I mean sometimes people ray things of a sudden, upon an impulse, and then after? ward they wish that they, never had l>cen said. If that was so it would bo rather awk? ward, supposing I were to say 'yes,' you know." "Of course I am sure," he said, indig? nantly. "Y.usr." went cn Bessie, poking at the sod wali wit!: thc stick she had in her hand, "perhaps in this place you might be putting an exaggerate! value on me. You think I am pretty because yon see nobody but KafSrand Boer women, and it would be the came .with every; liing. I'm not fit to inarry a man like you," il)y went ou, with o sudden burst of distress "I have never seen anything or any? body. I am nothing but au ignorant, half educated f irmer girlr with nothing to recom? mend me,- and no fortune except my looks. Yon ave different to me; you are a man of the world, and if ever you went back to Eng? land I should bft a drag on you, and you would bo .-.shamed of me and my colonial ways. If ic had been Jess now, it would have been different, for she bas more brains in her little finger than I havein my whole body." ' Somehow the mention of Jess jarred upon John's nerves and chilled him like a breath of cold wind on a hot day. Ho wanted to put Jess out ox his mind just now. "My dear Bessie," bc broke in, "why do you suppose such things! I can assure you that if you appeared in a London drawing room you wcuid jiut most of thc women in it into thc shade. Not that there is much chance -zt my frequenting London drawing roo?o again," he added. "Oh. yes, I may be good looking?-1 don't say that I am not; but can't you understand I dont want you to marry mo just because I am a pretty woman, as the Kaffirs marry their wives. If you marry me at all I want you to marry me because you care for me, the real me-not ray eyes and my hair. Oh, I don't know what to answer you! Idon'ii, indeed!" and she began to cry softly. "Bessie, dear Bessie!" said John, who was pretty well l>eside himself by this time, "just tell me honestly-do you care about me? I am not worth much, I know, but if you do, all this just goes for nothing," and he took her hand and drew her toward him, so that she half slipped, half got off the sod wall and stood face to face with him, for she was a tall woman, and they were very nearly cf a height Twice she raiseil lier beautiful eyes to bis to answer aud twice her courage failed her, and then, at last the truth "broke from- her almost with a cry: "Oh, John, I love yo? with all my heart!" And now I think that we may drop a ve? over the rest of these proceedings, for then aro some things that should be sacred, even from the pen of the historian, and t?o first transports of tho love of a pure woman is ono of them. SufHce it to say that they sat there side by side on that sod wai!, and were as happy as people ought to be under such circumstances, till thc glory departed from tho western sky and the world grew cold and pale, till the night came down and hid the mountains, and only the stars and they were left to look out across the dusky distances of thc wilderness of plain Hean while a very different sceDe was being enacted up at thc house, half a mile away. Kot more than ten minutes after John and his lady love had departed on that fateful walk to look at tbe young trees, Frank.Mul ler's stalwart form, mounted on his great black horse, was to be seen leisurely advanc? ing toward the blue gum avenue. Jantje was lurking about between thc stems of .the trees in the peculiar fashion that is characteristic of the Hottentot, and which doubtless is brei into him after tens of centuries of tracking annuals and lading from foes: There he was, slipping from trunk, to trunk and gazing round him as though ho expected each instant to discover the assegai of an ambushed fee ot to hear thc footfall of some savage beast of prey. There was absolutely no reason why he should bo carrying on in this fashion; he was simply indulging his natural instincts where he thought nobody would observe him Life at &oo;fonteln was altogether too tame and civilized for .Iantje s taste, and he abso? lutely needed periodical recreations of this sort. Like a civilized child he long??d for wild beasts and enemies, and if there were none handy ho found a reflected satisfaction in making a pretense of their presence. Presently, however, while they were yet a long way off, his quick ear caught tho sound of thc horse's footfalls, and he straightened himself and listened. Not satisfied with thc results, he laid himself down, put his car to thc ground mid gave a gutterai grunt of sat israclion. jenx, I LOVE Tut* WITH MY WHOLE HE AST. "Baas Frank's black horse;" ho muttered to himself. ''Thc black honk' has a cracked hc-l and ono r>et hits th* ground more softly than thc others. "What is Baas Frank cont? ing here for? After missie (Bessie); I think. Ile would IHJ mad if ho knew that missie went down to the plantation v.-irh Baas Niel just now. People ?TO into plantations to kiss each other (Jant jo was not far out there), and it Mould make Baas Frank road if lie knew that He would strike mo if I told him, or I would tell hito." The horse's hoofs were getting itear by now, so .Iantje slipped as easily and naturally as a snake into a ?hick tuft, of rank grass that grew between the blue gums and waited. Presently tho big horse approached, and the snake like Hottentot, raised lits head Cver so little ami peered out with his bendy black '.yes through the straw like grass stems. Tboy fell on Muller's cvMd face. It was evi? dent that he Was iu a reflective mood-in an an gilly reflective mood. "What is Baas Frank thinking of, i won? der'" said .Iantje to himself as horse and man passed within four feet of him. Then rising, ? he crossed the road, and slipping round by I aback way like a fox from a covert, was ! standing at the stable door with a vacant and j utterly unobservant expression of face some seconds before the btacK horse and its-rider bad reached the house. "I will give them one more chance, just ono more," thought the handsome Boer, or' rather half breed (for it will be remembered that his mother was English), "and if they won't take it,'then let their fate be upo?r their own. heads. To-morrow I go to the. Jbymakaarat Paarde Kraal to take counsel with Paul Kruger and Pretorias, and thc other 'fathers of the land,' as they call them? selves. If I throw in my weight against re? bellion thero will be titf rebellion; if I urge it there will be. and if Oin Silas will hot . giver me Bessie, and Bessie will not marry me, ? will urge it even if it plunge" fbe; whole' country in war from the Cape to Waterberg. Patriotism! Independence! -Taxes!-that is what they all cry till they begin to believe it themselves. Bah' those are not the things I would go to-war for; but ambition and re? venge, ah! that is another thing. I would kill them all if they stood hi my way,' all ex? cept Bessie. If war breaks out, who will hold up a hand to help the 'verdomde'Engels-' mann? They would all be-afraid.- And ii is not my fault. Can I help it if I love that woman? I would slaughter every English? man in the Transvaal to gain Bessie-ay! .and every Boer, too, and throw all tho na? tives m f and he laughed aloud and struck the great black horse, making-it plunge and caper gallantly. " Ind then," ho went on,* giving his am? bition wing, "whet? I have got Bessie,' and we have kicked all these Englishmen out of the land, in a very few years I shall rule this, country; and what next? Why, then? Iw?l stir up the Dutch feeling in Natal and in th? old colony, and we will push tho Englishmen back into the sea, make a clean sweep of the ' natives, only keeping enough for servants^ and have a united South Africa, like that poor silly man Burgers used to' prate of, but did not know how to bring about. A united. Dutch South Africa, and Frank Muller to rule it! Well, such things have-been, and may be again. Give me forty years of life and strength and we shall see"-:-f Just then bo reached the veranda of the house, and, dismissing his secret ambitions from his mind, Frank Maller dismounted and entered. In the sitting room ho found Silas Croft reading a newspaper. "Good day, Om Silas," he said, extending his hand. "Good day, Meinheer Frank Muller," re? plied the old man, coldly, for John had told him of the incident at the shooting party which bad so nearly ended fatally, and though he had made no rem ark he bad formed his own conclusions. "What are you reading in The Volkstem,. Om Silas-about the Bezuidenhotft affair?" "No; what was that?" "It was that the voile are rising against you English, that is alL The sheriff seized Be-, zuidenhout's wagon in execution of taxes, and' put it up to sale at Potehefstroom. But the volk kicked the auctioneer off the wagon and hunted bim round the town; and now Gover? nor Lanyon is sending Raaf down with power to sweai-in special constables and enforce the law at Pochefstroom. He might as well try to stop a river by throwing stones; Let me' see, the big meeting at Paarde Kraal was. to have been on tho fifteenth of December, now it is to bo on the eighth, and then we shall see if it will be peace or war." "Peace or war?'' answered the old man,: testily. "That has been the cry for years. How many big meetings have there been since Shepstone annexed the country? Sixy I think. And what has come of it all? Just nothing but talk. And what can come of it? Suppose the Boers did fight, what would tho end of it be? They would be beaten, anda lot of people would be killed, and thatwouldr be the end of it. You don't suppose that England would give into a handful of Boers, do you? What did Gen, Wolseley say the other day at the dinner at Potcbefetrooni? Why, that the country would never be given" up, because no government, Conservative, Liberal or Radical, would dare to do such a thing. And now this new Gladstone govern? ment has telegraphed the same thing, so what is the use cf all the talk avd childishness? Tell me that, Frank Muller.* Muller laughed as ho answered, "Yon are all very simple people, you English; Dont you know that a government is like a woman who cries 'No, no, no,- and kisses yon all the time? If there is noise enough, your British government will cat its words and give Wolseley and Shepstone and Bartle Frere and Lanyon, and ail of them, the lie. This is a bigger business- than you think for, Om Silas. Of course all these meetings and talk are got np. The people are angry because o? the English way of dealing with the natives? and because they have to pay taxes; and they think that, now that you English have paid their debts and smashed ap. SikuJtuni and Cetewayo, they would like to have the land back. They were glad enough for yon to take it at first; now it is another matter. But still that is not much. If they were left to themselves- nothing would come of it except talk, for many of them are very glad that the land should be English. But the men who pull the strings are down in the Cape. . They ; want to drive every Englishman out of South Africa. When Shepstone annexed the Transvaal he turned the scale-against the Dutch element and broke up the plans they have been laying for years to make a big anti-English republic of the whole country. K tho Transvaal remains English there is an end of their hopas-, for only the free state re? mains, and that is hemmed in. That is why they are so angry; and that is why their tools are stirring the people up. They mean to make them fight now, and 1 think that they will succeed. If the Boers win the day they will declare themselves; if not, you will hear nothing of them, and the Boers will bear the brunt of it. They are very cunning people, the Cape 'patriots/but they look well after themselves." Silas Croft looked troubled and inade no answer, and Frank Muller rose and stared oat of the window. [TO BE CO^rStEU.l Who is a Trespasser. ? The owners of lands are often annoy? ed by irresponsible people hunting and fishing on their premises. Section 1,689 of the General Statutes reads as follows : 'If any person shall hunt or range on any lands, whatsoever, with out the consent of the proprietor, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every such offence.' The man who hunts, fishes, or ranges about on lands of an? other, without permission, is a tres? passer. Thirty-five car-loads of beef cattle have been shipped from Anderson this season. This was a business unknown in Anderson before thc advent of the stock law.-Ex. Governor Richardson has moved into the Agricultural building where he will have his office peuding the repairs on the State House. Thc grand jury of Aiken rocoiumend thc establishment of the whipping post for punishing persons found guilty of larceny and other such mean offences. ?- mm? ll m -WM Attorney General Garland had a Ward time of it rn his earlier manhood. After his admission to thc bar he hiing out his shingle at Washington, Arkansas, but the clients all passed his door and entered the office of an older lawyer, i One day be astonished his office asso? ciate by blindfolding himself, stepping . up to a map of the State and viciously thrusting his pencil into the map, wrth i the words : 'I am going to move where my pencil strides. If it's a towD, I'll j practice law ; if it's country, I'll farm j it ; if it's a river, I'll go to steamboat- j i ing ' Tho pencil struck Little Kock, j. and there he went; 1 Our State Contempor?nea. A Remarkable Operation^ . Flort?ce Time?; :, ; On Tuesday, Brs^ Kollock, Kiog? Miller ??d Evans "performed* a r?m#f1?y able surgical Operationen Mt?S5j^i Smith of our town. Ste hasbeen sore-' ly afflicted for months, atid the removal, of the tumor promises rfo give -ker back her health. Before begin Ding, the lope^,. ration, at the request of the physicians, Rev. J. Thos* Pate lead iv prayer*: After prayer the work was'?uccesBfu?ljf^ done. Such devout action on thV:pari> of the physicians rr worthy of tber-Mgb*'' es^ com mentation. P?lmalo Pod. The notorious W. J. Wlripperf who' was daring the. radical cegime^ elec??? circuit judge has beeny daringthe past', Week, arrested in Beaufort, op a charge of officiai misconduct, c?rr?pli'??'in office, fraud, oppressen in offitcey prefer* red by one Thomar C. Scott, of bw^wab cojor, who claims that Whipper- bas.'; officially and individually defrauded - bim. Ile tried to get oat by habeas- t corpus, but: Judge % ?i?nch refuse? ?fr petition. Abbeville Medium. . , The contract for grading fhe Ocor gia, Carolina and Northern railway be? tween Chester and Monroe, .N.\C.,ha*; ' beet* let ont to Wright Bros^ Tfie? ; have already commenced work at .tbe; Catawba river, working in the ?^eetf?rf of Chester ^ Jhej have one hradred-^ carts and several hundred hands*enY? ployed. It is said that work is also* ' progressing beyond tie North Cfarolm*. line. -~ Efyefield Advertiser. ' . The South Carolina Baptist *?ottv?D-l tion will meet this year in the town, of Sumter. Next to Edgefield and Sreeo ville, Sumter is the strongest Bapfist" stronghold in the State; Winnsboro Newt, f The idea seems to prevail iff certain : quarters that the salaries of tire public school teachers may be reduced fff J.'l about one-half withbat destroying "tl?;' efficiency of the service. We fail to seo1 *: the force of such reasoning. Thc high- \ est salaries now paid to public school teachers, to state th? |ffop*oirit?n in tlrt; ' very mildest manner, is not a whit more than they ought to receive for their ser? vices. If Newberry County wanta to prolong its school term by redyeing the salary of its teacbers-to len or fifteen ' dollars per month, let H do so, bot ire M hope that tbe trustees of the public schools in Fairfield will e^ntintf? to ^ve - the teachers something. like value re eel ved for their services. The idea that a first class school teacher cst Iff hired even in this country for fifteen' - dollars per month is unadulterated non- -_ sense. When salaries are cut down, in any county to this starvation point/ the | teachers, after the manner of the Ar?b?t; - will 'fold their teats and sirentry steal S away.' . ' ? rr ' v-~ ' .. Camden Journal; r . ? We Were told recently that ?bout tetf days ago a colored woman ra Camden gave birth to a healthy child, and for / some days after its birth tbe child con? tinued healthy, improving each day ? About this time a visitor came in and, \ looking at the child, ?? she .said that its head was not shaped riglrV and tbat.ii | ought to be pressed into shape, algfjf " was customary to. do when a bead was not properly shaped. She stooped down' and.did press the head into^a different? shape. The child never nursed fronii* that time, bot lingered for a few day?* and died. i";' " There is no doubt in Che1 mind of tfcir physician but that the act of the visitor caused the death of the child. Tinder the circumstances, an investigation might do good in that if she did cause its death, a just puoTshment inflicted apon her would save' Other children from such a terribie fate. ?- * i' ' Marion Star. * . That fearful malady, the Birmm'gJ ham 'fever' struck Marion a few day* since with all of its severity. Ttie\t?e? tims of tbs disease on this occasion/ were two of OUT most worthy represen? tatives of adventurous 'Young ?mCr ica.* They had concocted a scheme' to fill their pockets out of their father's* tills and obtain money hf ?nv . other means fair or unfair which might pre? sent themselves. The 'Kids' were to have skipped on Sunday night bat by not being sufficiently watchf?T-their plans were discovered on Thursday night. One of the youngsters was caught io the act of hiding his pocked book, which on being examined, was found to contain 0I9.O?). He denied the ownership of the money, saying that it was the property of a younger boy, and this boy, on being asked abon? the matter, unearthed the fact that's plan had been forcred to proceed to thc .Magic City' and try their fortune* there. Tbe other boy had ?19.65 in cash on his person. Five boys were in the secret bat only two were to go im? > mediately. This scheme is nothing more or less than the natural outgrowth of the il? licit reading of 'dime novels1 and such trash as the boys of this age take sehool hours as well as leisure time to peruse'. What a pity that the 'darlings* were1 - not allowed to go a short distance any? way and find themselves at night wita5 no covering but the bread *bkfe canopy of heaven' for a time. They wottld have discovered shortly that all the ex? periences of 'Deadwood Dick,''Bowie Knife Ben.' 'Rosebud Rob/ 'Sierra Sam' and others more or less celebrated,* were uot altogether stern realities. Mr. J. 0. Strong, of Cedar $w??p' . captured a strange bird on his plac? a few days ago. He was attracted to it by a fight going on between it and bia dogs, lt was about the size of a larg? goose, with a neck and beak like * % duck, and its plumage"of a light blue. Us iegs were long and projected straight out from the rear of its body, and its fe?t were webbed. Its legs and feet seemed to be very little use to it on the ground, as its locomotion was by jump? ing, ?t fought furiously and had to-bo killed before it was captured. Mr. Strong says it screamed like a dying child. It was very fat and weighed 12 pounds.- WUliamshurg Record^ " ;