Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 20 December 1889 — Page 6

ALLAN QDATERMA1N.

A Record of Remarkable Adventures and Discoveries.

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.

SYNOPSIS

'AH«n Qnatcrmain cltahui under the restraint itf civilization, ami in tlm death of his son Harry

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loi.oly and li*con?tl,Ue without kith or kin concludes to make lUiother trip into Africa. Uo had heitr.l vaguely of a distant part ©f Africa heing -o pled with a stran^o white race, and he proposed ifposHible discover the truth or falsity of the report. He broached the subject to his old friends anil asHomutc adventurers in Kukuanaland—Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good,—who, themselves weaned of their situation, caxorly join in the expedition. Thereupon the party embark for their uew field of adventure. They soon reached Lain it, and with the aid of the consul completearranseiuen ts with a party ot Nakai Askai to transport their

ooJh.

This party was loth to make the trfp. but was luduced to do so by the demands aud threutH Umslopogaas, a deposed Zulu chife.whomQuatermain had known in other adventures. Ten days ifter leaving Lainu the party fonml themselves on he Tana river. At tJhara thev had a quarrel with the headsman of the bearers, who wanted to extort sxtra payment. As tlie result he threatened to set :he Alasai on them. The party embarked 011 tlio rivsr in canoes. Atmjiht they deemed it unsafe to cainp shore, and therefore anchored in midstream. At late hour, yuatermain, beina awake, felt the boat nove Soon a hand wan thrust in the canoe, and jiieot the Wakwali was stabbed to the heart. He attered a piercing veil anil Qiiatermain, niMspins m-ilopo«aas's battle-ax, struck a terrtllic blow at '.lie hand and severed it from the arm. the hand fallrig into ihfl boat. »rk objects were then seen moving toward the shore, and it became known that the Masai had conspired to murder them as they blept. The w:iruni!{ was 111 time, and tlieii live* weiesaved. The party iwnined it* travels.and,after many hours jI" arduous labor, thi'V reached the mission slationI'hev received a hearty welcome. The station was lo. Mt-'d on an eminence overlooking the river,and was surrounded bv a hi£:li stone wall, with aditchon the outer si le tilled with water. There were a sili con and many beautiful cultivated tlowerr, ltlnn ihe enclosure." The liussi 11 consisted nf Mi Maidv•11/ie, his wife, little daughter, Flossie, a Kreneli :00k, Aljitionse, and several natives. Were yuateijiHin received further information of the unUnowii •vliito race thev were seeking. It i.« feared the Masai ill attack tlie travelers here. Flossiu detci iimies to btain for tjuateriuain a specimen of the "Coy* lilv. jne of the largest and most beautiful Jlowers known. Mplionsc tells the. story of his life—of the heron: lood of his grandfather ivrnoli doe.^ not com ae lino lis veins of Ins love tor his Annette Drawn for :ons«riptioii,he hunts for glory on the bloody battlejeld 8-ititied whiln ill barracks Places his Annette ander protection ot lus coumii. iteis orduieil to Ton. juiti. J)o-s not want to lift ripped open. Desert*. J'lies to his Annette. Kinds himself supplanted by 11s coukiii .strikes and kills his cousin. Flees. Now liuds hnnselr in Atric.a. Flossie wmi two or hree attendants, goes after a UoaIilj. 1'arty at liission in great distress over her failure to rei urn. While sitting on the veianda. after dark, a human lead falls at the foi-4 of Quatermam. proves to 'je the head ot tine of Klosme's attendants. A heiald loon after knocks for admittance. Announces the capture of Flossie bv a party of two hundred and afty inasai and demands, as the price for her release iho lives

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the travelers, yr.atcrmain utters to give

lii! life for Flossie's, but. Mackenzie and party will lot permit it. 'i liev ask :nr tunc, until day break, consider the important matter, it is 1 eluct.aiith rrantud. .A note sun-,'ptitiou.-iy received in Flossie's basket, demand that the e.vchauge on not made, and lays that :i s!\o can tind no wav of rescue, she will 1 hoot herself. I nslopogaia proinis to tear the nasai dog limb from limb. They prepare and nit. 1

The reader will tie enatiled bv this nupsis to eu.0y tJiu roinurlcablii storv tluu follow.•:

CHAPTEli VII.

A SLAUGHTER G1UM AN~i CliKAT. THICN'

Mid

came a pause, and we stood

there In the chilly silent darkness waiting till the moment came to start. It was, perhaps, the most trying time of all—that slow, slow quarter of an hour. The minutes seemed to drag alone with leaden feet, and the quiet, the solemn hush, that brooded over all—big, as it were, with a comingfate, was most oppressive to the spirits. I once remember having to get up before dawn to see a man hanged,

I then went through a very similar set of sensations, only in the present inst i,nee my feelings were animated by that more vivid and personal slement wliieh naturally appertains rather to the person to be operated on ihan to the most sympathetic spectator. The solemn faces of the men. well aware that the short passage of an hour would mean for some, and perhaps all of them, the last great passu go to the unknown or oblivion the bated whispers in which they spoke even Su* Henry's thoughtful examination of his wood-cutter's ax and the iigdety way in which Good sept polishing his eyeglass, all told ihe same nerves stretched pretty nigh DO breaking point. Only Umslopogaas, leaning as usual upon Inkosikaas and taking an occasional pinch of snuff, was to all appearance perfectly aud completely unmoved, nothing could touch his iron nerves.

The moon went down, for a long while she had been getting nearer to the horizon, now she finally sunk and left the world in darkness save for a faint gray tinge in the eastern sky that palely heralded the coming aw n.

Mr. Mackenzie stood, watch in hand, his wife clinging to his arm and striving to stifle her sobs. "Twenty minutes to four," he said, •'it ought to be light enough to attack at twenty minutes past four. Captain Good had better be moving, he will want three or four minutes' start..11

Good gave one final polish to his eyeglass, nodded to us in a jocular sort of way—which could not help feeling it must have cost him something to muster up—and, ever polite, took of his steel-lined can to Mr. Mackenzie and started for his position at the head of the kraal, to reach which he had to make a detour by some paths known to the natives. .Just then one of the boys came in and reported that everybody in the Masai camp, with the exception of the two sentries who were walking tip and down in front of the respective entrances, appeared to be fast asleep. Then tlie rest of us took the road.

First came the guide, then Sir Henry, Umslopogaas, the Wakwali Askari, and Mr. Mackenzie's two mission natives armed with long spears and shields. I followed immediately after with Alphonso and live natives all armed with guns, and Mr. Mackenzie

'Drought

up the roar with the

six remaining natives. The cattle kraal where the Masai were camped Uiy at the foot of the hill on which the house stood, or, roughly speaking, about eight hundred yards from the Mission building. The first live hundred yards of this distance we traversed qme.ly indeed, but at a good pace after that we crept on as silently a.s a leopard, on his prey, gliding like ghosts from bush to bush and stone to stone. When I had gone a little wa.y I chanced to look behind me, and saw the redoubtable Alphonse staggering along with white face and trembling knees, and his rifle, which was at full cook, pointed directly at the small of my back. Having halted and carefully put tho rifle at "safety," we started again, and all went well till we were within one hundred yards or so of the kraal, when his teeth began to chatter in the most aggressive wav.

Here was a dilemma, but fortunately I devised a plan. In the pocket of the coat I had on was a small piece of dirty rag that I had used, some time before to clean a gun with. "Put this in your mouth," I whispered again, giving him the rag "and if I hear another sound you are a dead man." I knew that that would stifle the chatter of his ivories. I must have looked as if I meant what I said, for he instantly obeyed me and continued his journey with an oily corner of rag hanging down his chin.

Then we crept on again. At last we were within fifty yards of the kraal- Between us and it was an open space of sloping grass with only one mimosa bush and a couple of tussocks of a sort of thistle for cover. We were still hidden in fairly thick bush. It was boginning to grow light. The stars had paled and a kind of sickly gleam played about the east and was reflected on the earth. We could see the outline of the kraal clearly enough and could also make out the faint.glim mcr of the dying embers of the Masai camp-iires. We halted and watched, for the sentry we knew was posted at tiie opening. Presently he appeared, a fine tall fellow, walking idly up and down within five paces of the thornstopped entrance. We had hoped to catch him napping, but it was not to be. lie seemed particularly wide awake. If we could not kill that man, and kill him silently, we were lost. There we crouched and watched him. Presently Umslopogaas, who was a few paces ahead of me, turned and made a sign, and the next second 1 saw him go down on his stomach like a snake, and taking an opportunity when the sentry's head was turned, begin to work his way through the grass without a sound.

The unconscious sentry commenced to hum a little tune, anrl Umslopogaas cret on. He reached the shelter of the mimosa-bush unperceived and there wait ed, Still the sentry walked up and down. Presently he turned and looked over the wall into tho camp. Instantly the human snake who was stalking him glided on ten yards and got behind one of the tussocks of the thistle-like plant, reaching it as the Elmoran turned again. As he turned, his eye fell upon this patch of thistles, and it seamed to strike him that it did not look quite right. Ho advanced a pace toward it, halted, yawned, stooped down, picked up a little pebble, and threw it at it. It hit Umslopogaas upon the head, luckily not upon the armor-shirt. II:.'d it done so tho clink would have betrayed us. Luckily, too, the shirt was browned and not bright steel, which would certainly have been detected. Apparently satisfied that there was nothing wrong, he then gave over his investigations and contented himself with leaning oil his spear and standing gazing idly at the tuft. For at least three minutes did he stand thus, plunged apparently in a gentle reverie, aud there we lay in the last extremity of anxiety, expecting every moment that we should be discovered or that some untoward accident would happen. I could hear Alplionse's teeth going like anything on the oiled rag, and turning my head round made an awful face at him. But I am bound to state that my own heart was at much the same game as the Frenchman's castanets, while the perspiration was pouring from my body, causing the wash-leather-lined shirt to stick to me unpleasantly, and altogether I was in the pitiable state known by school boys as a "blue funk."

At last the ordeal came to an end. The sentry glanced at the east, and appeared to note with satisfaction that his period of duty was coming to an end—as indeed it was, once and for all—for he rubbed his hands* and began to walk again briskly, to warm himself.

The moment his back was turned the long black snake glided on again, and reached tho other thistle tuft, which was within a couple of paces of his return beat.

Back came the sentry and strolled right past the tuft, utterly unconscious of the presence that was crouching behind it. Had he looked down he could scarcely have failed to see, but he did not do so. lie passed, and then his hidden enemy erected himself, and with outstretched hand followed in his tracks.

A moment more, and just as the Elmoran was about to turn, the great Zulu made a spring, and in the growing light wo could see the long lean hands close round the Masai\s throat. Then followed a convulsive twining of the two dark bodies, and in another second I saw the Masai's head bent back, and heard a sharp crack, something like that of a dry twig snapping, and he foil down upon the ground, his limbs moving spasmodically.

Umslopogaas had put out all his iron strength and broken the warrior's neck.

For a moment he knelt upon his victim, still gripping his throat till he was sure that there was nothing more to fear from him, and then he rose and beckoned to us to advance, which we did on all fours, like a colony of huge apes. On reaching the kraal

"If you don't stop that I will kill ana Umslopogaas took their utations you," I whispered, savagely for the one on each side of the thorn fence, idea of having all our lives sacrificed the two spearmen and the Askari lying to a tooth-chattering French cook was down in front of it. I and my men too much for mo. I began to fear that crept on up the right side of the kraal, he would betray us, and heartily which was about fifty paces long. wished we had left him behind. "But, monsieur, I can not help it," he answered "it is the cold."

(ve

saw

that the Masai had still further choked this entrance, which was about ten feet wide—no doubt in order to guard against attack—by dragging four or five tops of mimosa trees up to it. So much the better for us, I i*efleeted tho more obstruction there was tho slower would they be able to ^me through. Here we separated Mackenzie and his party creeping up under the shadow ol the waiLto the left, while Sir Henry

When I was two-thirds up I halted, and placed my men at distances of four paces from one another, keeping Alphonse close to me, howevei Then I peeped for the first time over the wall. It was getting fairly light now, and the first thing I saw was the white donkey, exactly opposite to me, and close by it I could make out little Flossie's pale face, sitting as the lali had described, some ten paces from the wall. Round her lay many warriors, sleeping. At distances all over the surface of the kraal were the remains of fires, round each of which slept some five-and-twenty Masai, for the most part gorged with food. Now and then a man would raise himself, yawn, and look at the east, which had now turned primrose, but. none got up. I determined to wait another five minutes, both to allow the light to increase, so that we could make better shooting, and to give Good and his party—of whom I could see or heai nothing—every opportunity to make ready.

The quiet dawn commenced to throw her ever-widening mantle over plain and forest and river—mighty lvenia. wrapped in the silence of eternal snows, looked out across the earth— till presently a beam from the unriscn sun lit upon his heaven-kissing crest and purplefl it like blood the sky above grew blue and. tender as a mother's smile a bird began to pipe liitinorning song, and a little breeze passing through the bush shook down the dewdrops in millions tc refresh the waking world. Everywhere was peace and the happiness of arising strength, everywhere save in the heart of cruel man!

Suddenly, just as I was nerving myself for the signal, having already selected my man on whom I meant to open fire—a great fellow sprawling

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the ground within three feet of little Flossie—Alphonse's teeth began to chatter again like the hoofs of a galloping giraffe, making a great noise in the silence. His rag had dropped out in the agitation of his mind. Instantly a Masai within three paces of us woke, and, sitting up, gazed abom him, looking for tho cause of the sound. Moved beyond myself, I brought the butt-end of my rifle down on to tho pit of the Frenchman's stomach. This stopped his chattering but as he doubled up, he managed to lei off his gun in such a manner that the bullet passed within an inch of in\ head.

There was no need for a signal now. From both sides of the kraal broke out a waving line of fire, in which 1 myself joined, managing with a snap shot to knock over my Masai by Flossie just as he was jumping up. Then from the top of the end of the krati! there rang an awful yell, in which I rejoiced to recognize Good's piercing note rising clear and shrill above the din, and in another second followeu such a scene as I have never seen before nor shall again. With a universal howl of terror and fury the brawny crowd of savages within the kraa! sprung to their feet, many of tliera to fall again beneath our well-directed hail of lead before they had moved a yard. For a moment they stood undo-1 cided. and then hearing the crics and curses that rose unceasingly from the top end of the kraal, and bewilderedby the storm of bullets, they as by one impulse rushed down toward the thornstopped entrance. A9 they went we kept pouring our fire with terrible effect into the thickening mob as fast as we could load. I had emptied my revolver of the ten shots it contained and was just beginning to slip in some more when I bethought me of little Flossie. Looking up, I saw that the white donkey was lying kicking, having been knocked over either by one of our bullets or a Masai sprear-thrust. There was no living Masai near, but the black nurse was on her feet and with a spear cutting the rope that bound Flossie's feet. Next second she ran to the wall of the kraal and began to climb over it, and as she went two Masai flying down the kraal caughtjsight of her and rushed forward to kill her. The first fellow came up just as the little girl, after a desperate effort to climb the wall, fell back into the kraal. Up flashed the great spear, and as it did so a bullet from my rifle found its home in the holder's ribs, and over he went like a shot rabbit. But behind him was the other man, and, alas, I had only that one magazine! Flossie had scrambled to her feet and was facing the second man, who was advancing with raised spear. I turned my head aside and felt si jk as death. I could not bear to see him stab her. Glancing up again, to my surprise I saw the Masai's spear lying oil 'the ground, while the man himself wdTs staggering about with both hands to his head. Suddenly I saw a puff of smoke, proceeding apparently from Flossie, and the man fell down headlong. Then I remembered the Derringer pistol she carried, and saw that she had fired both barrels of it at him, thereby sav ing her life. In another instant shu had made an effort, and assisted by the nurse, who was lying on the top, had scrambled over the wall, and I knew that she was, comparatively spea,king. safe.

All this takes some time to tell, but I do not suppose that it took more than fifteen seconds to enact. I soon got the magazine of the repeater filled again with cartridges, and once more opened fire, not on the seething black mass which was gathering at the end of the kraal, but on fugitives who bethought them to climb the wall. I picked off several of these men, moving down toward the end of the kraal as I did so, and arriving at the corner. or rather the bead of the ovaJL

in time to see and, by means of rifle, to assist in the mighty struggle that took place here.

By this time some some two hundred Masai—allowing that we had up to the present time accounted for fifty —had gathered together in front'ol, tho thorn-stopped entrance, driven! thither by the spears of Good's men, whom they doubtless supposed were a large force instead of being but ten strong. For some reason it never occurred to them to try and rush tht wall, which they could have scrambled over with comparative ease they all made for the fence, which was really a strongly interwoven fortification. With a bound tho first warrior went at it, and even before he touched the ground on the othe other side I saw Sir Hen-1 ry's great ax swing up and fall with awful force upon his feather headpiece, and he sunk into the mi.Idle of the thorns. Then with a yell and a crash they began to break through oomehow, and ever as they came the great ax swung and Inkosi-kaas flashed and they fel dead one by one, each man thus helping to build up a barrier against his fellows. Those who escaped the axes of ihe pair fell at the hands of the Askari and the two Mission Kafirs, and those who passed scatheless from them were brought low by my own and Mackenzie's fire.

Faster and more furious grew the lighting. Single Masai would spring upon the dead bodies of their comrades, and engage one or other of tho axmen ivith their long spears but, thanks chiefly to their mail shirts, the result was always the same. Presently there was a great swing of the ax. a sound of crashing bones, and another dead .vlasai. That is, if tho man was engaged with Sir Henry. If it was Umslopogaas that he fought with the remit indeed would be the same but it would be differently attained. 11 was out rarely that the Zulu used the crashing double-handed stroke on tho :ontrary, he did little more than tap continually at his adversary's lie id, 'locking- at it with the pole-ax end of he ax as a woodpecker pecks at rotten wood. Presently a peck would go home, and his enemy VOuld drop down with a neat little iircular hole in his forehead or skull, exactly similar to that which a cheese••coop makes in a cheese, lie never used the broad blade of the ax except when hard pressed, or when striking it a shield. He told me afterward '"it he did not consider it sportsmanlike. vjrood and his men were quite close by now, and our people had to cease .iring into tho mass for fear of killing -omo of them (as it was. one of them was slain in this way). Mad and desperate with fear, the Masai by a franie effort burst through the thorn fence .md piled-up dead, and, sweeping Curis, Umslopogaas, and the other three uufore them,

broke

iiow

into the open. And

it was that we began to lose men fast. Down went our poor Askari who was armed with the ax, a great spear standing out a foot behind his back rid before long the two spearsmen who :iad stood with him went down, too, lying fighting like tigers and others jf our party shared their fate. For a ,noinent I feared the fight was lost-.-.ertainly it trembled in the balance. I shouted to my men to cast down their riH.es, and to take spears and throw themselves into the melee. They

obeyed, their blood being now thor-

pie followed their example. This move had a momentary good I result, but still the fire hung in the balance. •Our people fought magnificently, hurling themselves upon the dark mass of Elmoran, hewing, thrusting slaying, and being slain. And ever above the din rose Good'» awful yell of encouragement as he plunged, eyeglass and all, to wherever the fight was thickest and ever, with an almost ma-chine-like regularity, the two axes rose and fell, carrying death and disablement at every stroke. But 1 could see that the strain was beginning to lell upon Sir Henry, who was bleeding from several llesh wounds his breath was coming in gasps, and the veins stood out on his forehead like blue and knotted cords. Even Umslopogaas, man of iron that he was, was hard pressed. I noticed that he had given up "vvoodpecking," and was now using the broad blade of Inkosi-kaus, 'browning nis enemy wherever he could hit him, instead of drilling scientific holes in his head. I myself did not go into the melee, but hovered outside like the swift "back" in a football scrimmage, putting a bullet through a Masai whenever I got a chance. 1 was more use so. I fired forty-nine cartridges that morning, and 1 did not miss many shots.

As I think I have already sai1, one of Urnslopog.ias' .lu mimes wjis the Woo(.j) c.ker.u I could never make one hy he wtis called so until I saw him .11 eti./u with luko i-kua£, when I at once icsogmzo.! the reseinblaitee.— AQ.

[To be continued next week.]

The Victoria compositors are crying out against the Australian editions of the London Illustrated news. Ally Sloper, and Tit Bitts, which, though arranged for Australia are still set up in England. The local printers conteud that these editions should not be allowed to circulate unless the letter press is actually set up on Australian soil.

The Goethehaut at Frankfort-on-the-Main being in danger of injury bj the erection of a factory at the back o.' it, the Society of the Freie Hochstifi purchased the ground for 7o,00( marks, and the Town Council unanimously agreed to make up the sun themselves.

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Ki«K*nt ftnd inupnlflcuDt. lioth ltiklicH'and geuts'sizei wit-* work* ftxi'l of equal valne.O."\C l»EB»OH In each locality ran secure on# rit&IH. llow ia this possible* We answer—we wnnt one pef* eon in each locality, to keep Id

Ul, a coiui'h'te lino ofoar NA.IirLES*

tbtlr homea.aint nhov* to those valuable ami very useful lUOIJJil-JUOJ. These Siimples.RS well us tlio watch,we

Beml frec.nml after JOB

have kept them in for *5 months an«l shown them

to those who may Imve calliM.ttaey Iwcoma your o» propt rty, It is pnMltile to II..ike thin Ki-eat ofl'ir, aeliJIriK the KOI.I) watch aud COJ» BHinpltti rr.-e. aB the hIiow lap!

Ibe sampled lu n"y locality, always results lu a l« se trade for as after nur tmniplc* have hen in a locality for a month or two wn iiiinallv iret from 8*OttO to £«JOOO lu trmle from the •urroiuultnff country. Thin, the most womlerttjl offer^ ever

America. Write

once, and

known,in made i» or.ler thut our samples may placed at where they can he make sure of the chance. tor you to show tluiHaiii|.».~ and vnr reward will ho most satisfactory. A po«ial cardoB which to write ih cnnts hut I cent an-1aftei you know all,if yoo do not c»ru to

Keatler It will he

1:0

I'Any trouble

»samples t« those whoinay call WJ°

Tir

horn#

further, why no harm hi done. Hut if

jjj

•end your at ouo, you can arrnro Hil l, ona of the beat Bultil koM watches In the worM aud our larijo line of COSTI.Y SMUM.I'.S. We pay all express, freight,^eta. Hldre" OliO. SXiKSON CO., Box 81J, FOKTLAM,

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R* 5 *Jo5» that (.old, Uuurli.j

R. Kl Ll/i i-K

|u, Throat-I

rrt-st thiiU ,ttarrh, IU-on-clniist of Asthma. Tliisl Honiody relievos quickly,! •manontly. It! pn vi Mt9 Ivelim\ Nij^iit-Sweatyl

jitTuianontl

m! from Consumption.! 1'ivpurecl ot dm. i\U..Mi:it's| disi'Exsauy, Rtiirlmmtnn, V. V. l.i'fturjoi injury Jiiihwoml. Uuitlo to Health ix'nt t'rea).

.25$

SAVES YOUR 1 IFF..

KreajL

Soli! hj' ?ruirdl»tn

rlwilwrn

To 7ure a naa oonjn

Use "Dr. Kilmer's Cough-Cure (Oon% sumption Oil). It relieves quickly, stops tickling in the throat, Hacking, Catarrh dropping, Decline, Nightsweat and prevents death from cenHiimption. Price 25c. Pamphlet Free. Binghampton, N. Y. Sold, recommended

and

guaranteed by all druggist.