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Ithe torn fragments of tlie dogas aiid at the marks; j b f v i o -lencS, and I heard them shearing to t-ach other thai whetlieH the S-ar lived or died ; . j . would iht re.i f.ii f : thev hail externa- ,inated every baboon on Bahyirw's peak. II echoed the oath; and, as 6b$ljj be seen, we kept it. V'' p ; ' ;' ; We started ' on -aloitg- the s lowing, tlie spiMii' of, the babbitts as we best could. Fait the stieam le ami the Ivtrdi i-fcK.v banksj Still we wandered on. All wandered throujrh the lonely nic leys, startling the silence into a jtjiousand echoes with oiir cries. But nfj answer came to thein. ;- In vain our eveslsearclied i i the sides of precipices; formed! (of water : i. n :i...sil iine upon another; in vain we searched? through endless dells and fern clad; i crannies. There was nothing to be fouiM. j How could we expect 'to find two human being hidden away in the Irleesses of this vast stretch of mountaEijii ground, which, no man yet bad ever' Jfjully- ex jilored? Thev were lost, and ' n a.11 hu man probability lost for ever.ij To and fro ,vtj wandered hjielessly, till at lastlawn: found us fOpjipore and weary nearly at the spot when ve had started. ; We sat -lown waitiud for the sun to rise, and the. men aj:e of ; such food as they had brought with itfljiem, and sent to the kraals for more. , j j - I sat upon a stone with ki Dreaking heart. 1 cannot describe myj feelings. Let the reader put- himself irmy xosi tion and perhaps he may get ;nne idea of them. Near1 nie was ojll Iridaba-, :zimbi, who sat staring strafilt before him as thoughj, he were loidMng into space, and taking note of whaijwent on there. An idea struck me. j (This man had some occult power. Sei4fal times during bur adventures he hiM sied, and hi every case his I f ijqophecies had proved true;. He; it was jvifko, when we escaped from the Zulu lllnpi had tolil me to sU'er north, becauSi should find the place of a there we ite! man who lived under the .shadow. !o a great Perhaps at any jteak Uiat was full of baboonsi lie could help, in this extremit rate it was worth trying. -. . ' j "Indatia-zimin, - 1 said, y! say that you can" seudt youn spirit tliii' ugh the doors of space a" J see what jw4 cannot : see. At the least I know thaltl you can do strange things. Can yoi me now? If you can, and will hot help Save her, I will eive you half the cattlja that we have here." : .: jj "I never said anything of Macumazahn," he answered; - ! the sort, "I do Neither things; I do not talk .about thent do I seek reward for what i o like a ell that common witcn doctor, it is you have asked; me to use nlKt wisdom, Macumazahn, for I should not n'ave used it again without being asked? no, not even for the sake of the Star ahdj Jourself , whom 1 love, for; if so my spirit yvould have been angry ,i . In the other ijniatters I had a part, for my life was concerned as -well as yours; but in this matter I have no part, and therefore I might not use my wisdom unless you thought well to call upon my spirit. However jit would have been nO good to ask me lief ore, for I have only just found the herb I want and he produced a- handful of; jleaves of a plant that was unfamiliar tj me. It had prickly leaves, 'shaped vjery much like those of the common English nettle, "Now, Macumazahn," he I iwent on "bid the men leave us aloneJ and then follow me presently to the little glade down there by the water." 1 I did so. When I reached tlie glade I found Indaba-zimbt kindling aismall fire under the shadow of a tree by t le edge of ihe water; . - ; "Sit there, Macumazahn," he said, pointing to a stone near the fire, "and dc hot be surprised Or frightened at any thing' you see. If -jou move or call out we shall learh. nothing." .-" ; I sat down and .watched. When the fire was alight and burning brightly, the old fellow stripped himself stark naked, and, going to the foot of the pool, dipped himself in the water. Then he came back shivering w ith the cold, and, lean ing, over the little fire, thrust leaves of the plant I have mentioned into Ids mouth and begaittojchew them, mutter ing as he che wed. ;; Most of the remaining leaves he threw onto the fire. A dense smoke rose from them, but he held his j head in this smoke and drew it down into his lungs till I saw that he was exhibiting every sign of suffocation. The veins in his throat and chest swelled, he gasped loudly, and his eyes, from which tears were streaming, seenied as though they were going to start f rom his head. Pres ently he 3 fell Over 6n his side, and lay senseless. I was terribly alarmed, ane" my first Impulse was to run to his assist ance, but fortunately. I remembered his caution and sat quiet. . . Indaba-zimbi lay on the ground like a person quite dead, ' pis limbs had all the titter relaxation of death. But as I Watched I saw them: begin to stiffen, ex actly as though rigor mortis had set in. Then, to my- astonishment, I perceived them oncp more , relax, and this time there appeared upon his chest the stain .of tlecom position- jit spread and spread; in three'minutes thijfman, to all appear ance, was a livid corpse. I sat amazed watjehing this uncanny sight, and wondering if any further nat 11 r.- 1 nrocess was about to be enacted. Perhaps Indaba-zimbi was going to fall t 1nst before mv eves. " As I watched I ohserved that the discoloration was be t-iniimsr to fade. :First it vanished from the extremities,' then from the larger limbs, and lastly from, the trunk. Then ui : y v m, fol Iiio spoor, )int little, iight wo Sonlit val- In turn came the third stage of i relaoca-' tion, tlie second stage of' stiffness or rigor, and the first stage of after-death collapse. rWhenall these hail7 rapidly succeeded each other, Indaba-zimbi quietly woke ' I was too astonished to speak; I simply : looked at him with my mouth open. y : "Well, Macumazahn," he saidj putting i -his liead on one side like a bird and nod ding his white lock in a comical fashion, "it is -all right; I hal o seen her."j "Seen who?" I said. . 1 ' "The Star, your wife, and the little maid. They are much frightened, but unharmed. The babyan-frau watches them. She is mad; but the baboons obey her and do not hurt them. The Star was sleeping from Weariness, so I whispered in her ear "and told her not to be fright ened, for you would soon rescue her, and that- meanwhile she must seem to be pKased to have Hendrika near her." 'You whispered in her ear?' I said. 'Uow could you whisper in beriearV" Rah! Macumazahu. How j could I - t see: to die and go rotten before your cy You don't know, do you? Well, i wt.M tell you one thing. I had to die ta ivis- the doors of space, as you chll them. I haJ to draw .ll tlie healthy strength and life from ru-y body in order to gather power to speak with the Star. It was a dangerous business, Macumazahn, for if I had let things go a little further they must have stopped so, and there Would haye been an end ol Indaba-zimtn. Ah, you white men, you-Jiiow so much that you think you know everything. But you Uont! iou are always staring at baboons, of which at least a dozen lay the clouds and can't see the things that dead or dying in the passage. For a mo lie at your feet. ' You hardly believe me ment they hesitated, then thev came on now, do you, JNlacumazahn." VV ell, 1 will show vou. Have you anything on you that the Star has touched or worn." I thought for a moment, and said tha 1 naa a iock oi ner nair in my pocKet- 1 1 1 ll !'! book. He told me to giye it to! him. I did so. Going to the fire he lit the lock of hair in the flame, and let itj burn to ashes,, which he caught in his left hand. These ashes he mixed up in a piste with the juice of one of the leaves of the plant I have spoken of. - ; j "Now, Macumazahn. shut tout eyes, he said. , . i ! I did SO. and he rubbed his paste on my evehds. At hrst it burnt rue, then my head swam stramrely. Presentlv this ef fect passed off, and my brain jvas per fectly clear again, but ,1 could I not feel the ground with my feet. Indaba-zimbi led me to the side of the stream.) Beneath us was a pool of beautifully clear water. "Look into the pml, Macutnazalin," said Indaba-ziuibi, and his voice sounded hollow and far away in my ears. I looked. The water grew Idark: it cleared, and in it 'was a picture. I saw a ctive with a fire burning- in it. Against the wall of the cave rested Stella. Her dress was torn almost off her, she looked dreadfully pale and weary, and her eye lids were red as though with jweeping. But she slept, and I could almiost think that 'I saw her. lips shape my name in her sleep. Close to her, her head upon Stella's breast, was little Tota; fehe had a skin thrown over her to keep out the night cold. The child was awake, and appeared to be moaning with fear. By the fire, and in - such a position that the light fell full upon her face and en rared in cooking something irk a rough pot shaped from wood, sat, the baboon woman, Hendrika. ..She was clothed in. haliobn skins, and her; face bad been rubbed with some dark stain, whicivwas. however, wearing off In! the intervals of her cooking she would turn on Stella her wild eyes, in which glared visible madness!, with an expression of tenderness that amounted to worship. Theti she would stare at the poor child and gnash her teeth as though with hate. Clearly she was. jeal ous of it. Round the entrance arch of the cave peeped and, peered the heads of many baboons. Presently Hendrika made a sign to one of them; apparently she did not speak, or rather grunt, in order . not to wake Stella. The brute hopped forward, and she gav it a sec ond rude wooden pot which was lying by her. It took it and'went. j The last thing that I - saw, as the vision slowly vanished from the , pool, was the dim shadow of the baboon returning with the iot full of water. 1 . Presently everything had gone. I ceased to feel strange. There beneath me was the pool, and at my side stood Indaba-zimbi, smiling. , j "You have seen things," he aid. "I have, 1 answered, and (made no further remark On the matter. What was there to say? "Do you know the path to the cave?" .1. added. He nodded his head. "I did hot follow it all just now, because it; winds, he said. "But I know it. AVe shall want the ropes." j "Then let us be starting; the; men have eaten." - I .Aye went up the valley, following the course, of the stream for about a mile; then Indaba-zimbi made a sujdden turn to the right along another kloof, of which there were countless numbers in the base l,a m-cut Kill On we went through kloof after kloof, Indaba-zimbi, who led us, was never at a loss; he turned, up gulleys $.nd ruck across necks of hills with the certainty of a hound on a hot " scent. At length, after aliout three hoursmarch, we came to a big silent valley on the northern slope of the great peak. Oil one side of this valley was a series of stony koppies, on the other rose a sheet" Wall of rock. We marched along the wall for a dis tance of some tvvo miles. Tfyen suddenly Indaba-zimbi halted. -"There is the place "Tie said, pointing. ,-r,rr in ttin flifF This nnoninir was about forty feet from jthe ground, and ellipse shaped. It cannot have been more than twenty feet high by ten wide, and was partially hidden by ferns and bushes that grew about it .in the surface of the cliff. Keen as my; eyes were, I doubt if I should ever have noticed it, for there were many such cracks and crannies in tlie rocky face of the great mountain. i We drew near and looked carefully at the place. The first thing I noticed was ;hat the rock, which was- not! quite per pendicular, had been worn by the contin ual passage of baboons; the second, that something white was hanging on a bush near the top of the ascent. j It was a "pocket-handkerchief. Now there was no more doubt about the matter. With a beating heart I be gan the ascent. For the first twenty feet it was comparatively easy, for the rock shelved; the next ten feet was very diffi cult, but still possible to an active man, and I achieved it, followed; by lndaba zimbi. But the lart- twelve or fifteen feet could otijly be scaled :by throwing a rope over thd trunk of. & stunted tree,; which grewi at the rbottoni of the opening. This we i accomplished with some trouble); and the rest was easy; A foot or two a.bove my h'ead the handker chief fluttered in the wind. Hanging to the rope, I grasped it. It was my wife's. As I did so I noticel :!- fa.ee of a baboon tiering at me over toe e ,e of the cleft, the lirst baboon n-4H iiid men that morn i'l. The brii.e .ave a bark and van ir ' -rd. Thrusting the handkerchief into my breast. I Set my feet against the cliff and scrambled up as. hard as I could go. I knew that we had no time to lose, for the baboon ; would quickly alarm the others. I gained the cleft. It was a mere arched passage cut by -water, end ing in a gulley, which led to a wide open .space of some sort. I looked through the passage and : saw that the gulley was black with baboons, j On they came by the hundred; I unslung my (elephant run from my shoulders, and waited, calling to the men below to come up with all possible speed. The brutes ftreamed on down the gloomy gulf to wards me, barking,, grunting and show ing their huge teeth. I waited till they were within fifteen ;yards. Then I fired the elephant' guh, j which was loaded with slugs. right into the thick of them. In that narrow . place the report echoed like a cannon shot, but its .iounl .was quickly swallowed in the volley of pierc- ing humaji sounding groans and screams that followed. The charge of heavy slugs had plowed through the number of the aKain wjtn a hideous clamor. Fortunate- lv bv 'this tiiine hnhtha-zimbi. who also had a c-un. was stamdimr bv mv side, otlv erwjse I should have been. torn to pieces I. -L . . . . . efore 1 cou d reload. He tired both bar- rels into thetn, and again checked tlie rush. But tliey came on again, and not withstanding! the appearance of two na tives with gu;ns. which they let off with more or less success; we should have been overwhelmed by the great and ferocious apes had I nOt by this time succeeded in reloading the; elephant gun When they were right on to ns I fired, wjth even more deadly j effect; than before, for at that distance: every slug told on their long line. The howls and screams of rage ,and fury were now something inconceiv able. One might have thought that we were doing battle with a bott of de mons; indeed in that light for the overhanging arch, of rock made it very dark the gnashing snouts and somber glowing eyes of the apes looked like those of devils as. they are repre sented by monkish fancy. But 'the last shot was too much for them; they with drew, dragging some of their wounded with them, and thus gave us time to get our men up the cliff. In a few minutes all were there, and we advanced down the passage, which presently opened into a rocky gulley with shelving sides. This gulley had a water way at the bottom of it; it was about a hundred yards long, and the slopes on either sidewere topped by precipitous cliffs. I looked at these slopes; they literally swarmed with ba boons, grunting, j barking, screaming. and beating their breasts with their long 2.. . T I 1 , .1 . arms m iury, 1 louseuupine waterway; along it, accompanied by a mob, or, as it were, a guard of baboons, came- Hen drika, her long hair flying, madness writ ten on her face, and in her arms was the senseless form of little Tota. She saw us, and a foam of rage burst from her lins. She screamed aloud. To me the sound was a' mere inarticulate cry, but the baboons clearlv understood it, for they began to roll rocks down on to us!- One bowlder leaped past me and struck down! a Kaffir behind: another fell from the roof! of the arch on to a man's head apd killed him, Indaba-zimbi lifted his gun. to shoot Hendrika: I knocked it up so that the shot went over her, crying that he would kill the child. Then I shouted to the men-to open out and form a libe from side to side of the shelving gulley. Furious at the loss of their two comrades, they "obeyed me, and keeping jn the water way" myself, together with Indaba-zimbi and the other guns, I gave the word to charge. . 1 hen the real battle began. It is' dim- cult to say who fought the more fff.-cely, the natives or the baboons. The Kaffirs charged along the slopes, and as they came, encouraged by the screams of Hendrika, who rushed to and fro hold ing the wretched jToto before her as a shield, the apes bounded at them in furyt Scores were killed by the assegais and many more fell beneath our gun shots, but still they came on. Nor did we go scathless. Occasionally a man would 6lip, or be pulled over in the grip of a oaooon. xnen tne: others would nine themselves upon him like dogs on a rat, and worry hixn ta death: We lost five men in this way, and I myself received & bite through thei fleshy part of the left arm, but fortunately a native near me assegaied the animal before I was pulled uown. i At length, and ;all of a 6udden. the baboons gave upi. A panic seemed to seize them. Notwithstanding the cries of Hendrika they thought no more of hght, but only of escape; some even did not attempt to get away from the asse gais of the Kaffirs:, they simply hid their horrible races m their paws, and, moan ing piteously, waited to be slain. . Hendrika saw that the battle was lost. Dropping the child from her arms, she rushed straight at us, a very picture of horrible insanity, j I lifted my gun, but could not bear td shoot. After all she was but a mad; thing, half ape, half woman, bo I sprang to one side, and she landed full oni Indaba-zimbi, knock ing him down. But she did not stay to do any more. Wailing terribly, she rushed down the gulley and through the I i i i i Z , i . tTTi ZZIZ!? ' ' CHAPTER XHL S9 HE FIGHT Jwas over. H In all we had lost seven men killed, and s e vera! more were ; severely bit ten", while but. few had escaped without some tokens whereby he might remem ber what a ba boon's teeth and claws are like. "How many of the" brutes we killed J never knew. because we did not eount, but it was a vast number. I should think that the MM aioek must have been low a be ut Banyan's ' peak for many years afterwards, j From that day to this, however, I iave always avoided isaboons, feeling more afraid of them than any beast that lit es. j The path was clear, and wo rushed for ward up tlie water-course. But first we picked up little Tota. The hild was not in a swoon, as I had thought but par alyzed by terror, so that she 1 :ould scarce ly speak. Otherwise she was unhurt, though it took her many a week to re cover, her nerve; Had she been older, arid had she not remembered Hendrika, I doubt if she would have Recovered it She knew me again, and flung her little arms about my neck, clinging to me sc clBely that I did not dare to give her U any one else to carry lest I tjliould add to her terrors. ' So I went omwith her in my arms. The fears that! pierced my heart may well Ik imagined.; Should 1 find Stella alive or dead? fehould! I find her at all? ; Well, we should soon' know now. We stumbled on Up th? sU hy water-course; notwithstanding ithe weight of Tota, I led the w iv. foi suspense lenl me wings. : Now we were through, and an extraordinary scene layj liefope us. We were in a great natural amphithea tre, only it' was three timesthe size ol any amphitheatre ever shaped by man, and the walls were formed of precipitous cliffs, ranging from one to two hundred feet in height, i For the .. rest, the jspace thus, inclosed was level, studded witlj parK-iiKe trees, brilliant with nowers, . and having a stream running through the center of it that, as I afterwards dis i covered, welled up from the ground at the head of the open space. j We spread ourselves out in a line searching everywhere, for Tota was too overcome to be able to tell us where ; Stella was hidden awav. For nearly half an hour we searched and searched, i scanning the walls of rock for any pos ; siDle-opening to a cave, in vain wt could find none. I applied to old Indaba-.j zimbi. but his foresight was at faulf here. All ho could say was that this was -I the place, and that the "Star" was hidden j somewhere in a cave, but where the cav j was he could not tell. At last we came to the top of the amphitheatre. Then, before us was a wall of rock, of which the lower , parts were here and there clothed in.grasses, lichens and creepers. I walked along ' it, calling at the.top ol my voice. , . -L ' Presently my. heart stood still, for 1 thought I heard a faint answer. I drew hearer to the place from which the sound seemed to come, and again called. Yes. there was an answer in my wife's, voice. It seemed to come from the rock, jl went up to it and searched among the creepers, but still could nna no opening "Move the stone," cried Stella's voice "the cave is shut with a stone." J I took a spear and prodded at the clifl whence the sound came. Suddenly the spear 6ank in through a mass of lichen. I swept the lichen aside, revealing a Ibowlder that had been rolled into the Imouth of an opening in the rock, whicl: it fitted so accurately, that, covered as if Was by the overhanging lichen, it miglil Well have escaped the keenest eye. j We jdragged the bowlder out; it w'as twe !men's. work to do it. Beyond was a harrow, water worn passage, which 1 followed with a beating heart. Pres ently the passage opened into a small Cave, shajied like a pickle bottle, j and coming to a neck at the top end. i We passed through and found ourselves in a second, much larger cave, that I at once recognized as the one of which Indaba zimbi had shown me a vision in the water. Light reached it from above liow I know not and by it I could feee a form half sitting, half lying on some skins at the top end of the cave. .1 rushed to it. It was Stella! Stella bound ivith strips of hide, bruised, torn.! but still Stella, and alive. ! I She saw me, she gave one cry, then as I caught her in my arms she fainted. It was happy indeed that she did not faint before, for had it not been for the sound of her voice 1 do not believe we should ever, have found that cunningly hidden tave, unless, indeed, Indaba-zinibi's mag ic (on which be blessings) had come to our assistance. - j j r We bore her to the open air, laid her pencath the shade of a tree, and cut the bonds loose from her ankles. As we Went I glanced at the cave. It was ex actly as I had seen it in the vision. There burnt the fire, there were the rude wooden vessels, one of them ; still j half full of the water which I had seen the baboon bring. I felt awed as I looked, and marveled at the power wielded by a savage who could not even read." and write. Now I could see Stella clearly. Her face was scratched, and haggard with fear and weeping. Her clothes were al most torn off her, and her beautiful hail Was loose and tangled. I sent for water, and we sprinkled her face, Then I forced a little of the brandy which we distilled from peaches at the kraals between her Hps, and she opened her eyes, and t,brow- ing ner arms about me ciung to me as little Tota had done, sobbing, "Thank God!; thank God!" ! j. After a while she grew quieter, and I made her and Tota eat a little food from the store that we had brought with us. I too ate and was thankful, for with the exception of the mealie cobs I had tasted nothing for nearly four-anu-twentyhours. Then she washed her face and hands, and tidied her rags of dress as well as she was able. As she did so, by degrees I drew her story from her. It seemed that on the previous after noon, being wearied with packing, she went out to visit her father's grayei tak ing. Tota with her, and was followed there by the , two dogs. She 'wished to lay some flowers on the grave and take farewell of the dust it covered, for as we had expected to trek early oh the morrow she did not know if Bhe would find a later opportunity. They passed up the garden, and, gathering some flowers from the orange trees and else where, went on to the little graveyard. Here she laid them on the grave as we had found them, and then sitting down, fell, into a deep and sad reverie, such as the occasion would naturally induce, j While she sat thus, Tota, who was a !lively child and active asi a kjtten, strayed away without Stella observing it. With her went the dogs, who bad also grown tired of inaction; a w hile passed, and suddenly she heard the dogs barking furiously about 150 yards away. Then she" heard Tota scream, and the dogs also yelling with fear and pnin. She rose and ra as "swiftly as she could, towards the spot whence the sound cairie. " Presently she , was there. Before her in the glade, holding the screaming Tota in her arms, was a figure in. which, notwithstanding the rough disguise of baboon skins and coloring matter, she had nodifficulty in recogniz ing Hendrika. and all about; her were numbers of baboons, rolling! over and over in two hideous heaps, of which the centers were the two unfortunate dogs now.in ments; process of being rent to f rag- "Hendrika," Stella cried, this mean? What are you Tota and those brutes?" i j The Woman heard her and Then she saw that she was " What does doing with fioked j up. uiad: niad- ness stared from her eyes. ! She dropped the child, which instantly flewj to Stella for protection. Stella clasped it, only to be herself clasped by Hendrika. j She struggled fiercely, but it was of no use the babyan-frau had the strength of ten. She lifted her and Tota as though they were nothing, and ran off with them, following the bed of the stream in order , to avoid leaving a spoor, j Only the : ba boons who came with her, minus the one the dogs had killed, would 'not take to the water, but kept pace with them on the bank. ' j . Stella said that the night which fol lowed was more like a hideous night mare than a reality. She was liever able to tell me all that occurred in it. She had a vague recollection of being borne over, rocks and along kloofs, while around her echoed the horrible grunts And clicks of the baboons. She spoke to Hendrika in English and Kaffir, imploring her to let them go:, but the woman, if I may call her so, seemed : in her madness to have entirely forgotten thesel tongues. When Stella spoke ; she would kiss her and stroke her hair, but she did not seem to understand what it was she said. On the other hand, she could and did talk to the baboons, that seemed to lobey her implicitly. Moreover, she would not al low them to touch j either Stella or the child in her arms. ! Once onej of them tried to do so, and! 6he seized a dead stick and struck it so heavily on: the head that it fell senseless, j Thrice Stella made an attempt toescape for sometimes even Ilendrika's giant strength waned and she had to set them down. But oni each oc casion she' caught them,! and jit was in these struggles that Stella's clothes were so torn: ' j i j j . At length before daylight they reached the cliff, and with the first break of light the ascent began. , Hendrika! dragged them up the first stages, but when they came to the precipitous place! she tied the strips of hide, of which she had a supply wound round her waist,, beneath Stella's arms. Steep as the place was the baboons ascended it easily enough, springing from a knob of rock to the trunk of the tree that grew on the edge of the crevasse. Hendrika 1 followed them, holding the end of the hide rein in her teeth, one of the baboons hanging down from the tree to assist her ascent. It was while she was ascending" that Stella bethought her of letting fall her handkerchief in the faint hope that some searcher might see it. ' By this time Hendrika was on a tree, and grunting out orders to the baboons which clustered about,Stella below. Sud denly these seized her and little , Tota, who was in her arms, and lifted her from the ground. Then Hendrika above, aid- ed by other baboons, put out all her great strength and pulled the two of them up the rock. Twice Stella; swung heavily against the cliff. After the second blow she felt her senses going, and was con sumed with terror lest she should drop Tota. But she managed to cling to her, and together they reached the cliff. "From that time," Stella went ori,'"I remember no more till I woke to find myself in a gloomy cave resting on a bed , of skins. My legs were bound, and Hen- i drika sat near me! watching me, while I round the edge of the cave peered the j heads of those horrible baboons. Tota j was still in my arms, and half dead from terror; her moans were pitiful to hear. I spoke to Hendrika, imploring her to re lease us; but either she had lost all under standing of human Ispeech, or she pre tended to have done so. All she would do was to caress me, and even j kiss my j hands and dress with extravagant signs of affection. As she did so, Tota shrunk away closer to me. -I This Hendrika saw and glared so savagely at the child that I feared lest she was going to kill her. I diverted her. attention by making signs thai I wanted water, and this she gave me in a wooden bowl. As you saw, the cave was evidently Hendrika's dwelling place. There are stores of fruit in it and some strips of dried flesh. She gave me some of the fruit and Tota a little, and I made Tota eat some. You can never know what I went through, Allan. I saw now that Hendrika was quite mad, and but little removed from the brutes to which she is akin, and over which she has such unholy power. The only trace of humanity left about her was her affection for me. Evidently her idea was to keep tne here with her, to keep me away from you, and to carry outr.this idea she was capable of the ex ercise of every anifice and cunning. ! In that w-ay she was sane enough, but' in every other way she was mad. More over, she had not forgotten her horrible jealousy. Already I saw her glaring at Tota, and I knew that the child's mur der was only a matter of time. Proba bly within a few hours she would be killed before my eyes. Of escape, eien .if I had the strength, there was abso lutely no chance and little enough! of our ever being found. No, we should be kept there guarded by a' mad thing, half ape, half wbman, till we perished miserably. Then I thought of you, dear, and of all that you must be suffering, and my heart nearly broke. " I could, only pray to God tha I might either be rescued or die swiftly. "As I prayed, I dropped into a kind of doze from utter ! weariness, and then I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that Indaba-zimbi stood over me nod ding his white lock, and spoke to me in Kaffir, telling me not to be frightened, for you would soon be with me, and that meanwhile I must humor Hendrika, pre tending to be pleased to have her near me. The dream was so vivid that I actually seemed to see and hear him. as I see and hear him now.'"' ; . Here I looked up and glanced at old Indaba-zimbi, who was sitting near. But it was not till afterwards that 1 told Stella of how her vision was brought about. ' ! : "At any rate," she went on, "when awoke I determined to act on my dream. I took Hendrika's hand and pressed! UV She actually laughed in a wild kind of way with happiness, and laid her haad upon my knee. Then I made signs taat I wanted food, and &he threw wood on " '; 1 - " the fire. which! I forgot! to tell you wis j burning in the cave, and began to make some of the broth that she used to cook very well, andj- she did Inot swni to have forgotten all about it, j At any rate the broth was notlbad, though neither Tota nor I could drink much of it.! Fright and weariness had: taken away bur appetites. "After the meal was done and i pro longed it as biuch as possible -1 saw that Hendrika was beginning ! tp get jealous of Tota again.! She glared at her and then at the big knife which was tied round her own bo6y: I knew the knife again; it was the one with which Bhe had tried ito murder you, dear. -At last she went so far as to draw the knife. I was paralyzed with fear, then suddenly I remembered that whfn she was our servant, and used to get out of tlmper and sulk, I could always calm ler by j Kintrincr to . Iidr . Or, I I Kn-ov, 1 hymnsi Instantly she forgot her! jeal- ousj aiiu (iuu nie juiue uacK lnio its sheath. She knew the sound of the 6inging. and sat listening to it withla rapt face; thei baboons, too, crowded in at the entrance of the clave to listen, j I must have sung for an hour or more, ill the hymns tlijat I couldi remeinbe. lt was so very strange and'dreadful sitting there singing to mad Heiidrika and those hideous man-like apes (that shut the!ir eyes and nodded their great head as I sang, i It wasilike a horrible nightmarie; but I (believe that the baboons are almost as human as the Bushmenl, I "Well, thisjwent on for a' long-time till niy voice was getting exhausted. Then jBuddenty I heard the? "baboon oitt- sme raise a ioiiu noise, as they do when angry). Thendear,I heard the boom of 1 . your elephant gun, andj I think; it was ! the sweetest sound that ever came to my i ears. tiendraka heard it, too. f She sprang up, stood for a moment, then, to my hOrrpr, swept Tota into her arin8 and rushed down the cave.j Of courjse,! I could; not stirjto follow her, for myr feet were jtied. Next instant: I heart! the sound of a rojk being moved, andjpres . entlyjthe lessening of the light iii the cave told mej that I wa 6hut in.! ; N 6w the sound even of the elephant gun! only reached me very faintly, ;and presently I could hear nothing more, strain inr my -, ears as I woutd. ' j -j -j j il l I "At last 1 Heard a faint shouting that reached me through the wall of rock, j I answered as lioud as I could. You know the rest; and, oh, my idear husband, thank God! hank God I" and she "fell weeping into jmy arms, j ! ! I ,i b be continued next weekT) Astonisliing: the Cossacks: A newspaper correspondent, David Ker, traveling in central Asia, came one evening upon a Cossack camp.! Fires were blazing, . round them stretched the men, resting after a hard day's march. ! The traveler had been long on the road, and with his white Russian forage cap and travel-strained much like the clothing lookejdcsO Cossacks themselves that ;he entered the camp quitef iin- noticed, 'then he sat down on ja stone and tiok out a colored mapof the country, knowing well that; the strange sigut would bring the men about him immediately. f i "So it pnoved. I suddenly be- cime aware sof a gaunt j sallow , gray mustached ige so criss-crossed as to look like a peering - over j my with; saber gears .; -i railway map shoulder Then another and anoth er came edgine in, till I was com pletely' surrounded bvi wild figures and grim'-faices. "Whaf'c that ti.tnro ,ather ? VI 11 Urn V Of I.L1WU I(VUH1 V. We can't miake it out. ' 'It's not a picture at all, broth ers it's a plan that shows me the very way by which you have come here from holy Russia and all the places you have. passed through.' "Then,, seeming not to notice the looks of unjbehef and the meaning grins wiUi which my hearers received what thev considerdd to be a most outrageous llie, I went on: " 'Up - here at Orenburg you passed thejUral River, and then marched eastward to Orsk, where you!crosse4 the frontier and turned to the southeast.' "j 'So we did, comrades,' shouted halfj a dozen voices at once, speaks the jtruth so we did.' ' . - hi. -ne i ' 'Then vou passed Fort Kara I j , s Butak, crossed the Kara : Kou'm de; seri , and halted here and . here and here' naming and describing the various posts. ' i"The Cjssac!;s listed open-mouth to! the iamuliar names, and the exf ci ted clamor was followed by a si lence of utter amazement. Then one said; I ; 'Father, can vou show us the very place where we are now ?' ' 'To be sure I can, my lad. See tftat black spot is the village yonder ; there's the river twisting and wind ing, and here is your camp.' 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