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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX KAYSVILLE, DTAII 'mjr s 3? & v & S By. GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN vv ii f V jf ? 4-- tf- - Ar- - r 4-- 8 8 "SA V Author of Home (Copyright. 1518. by Bobb-Mirrl- Through Stained pleading In the tone of her voice made turn boldly to the personal, after all' and however much we may jeer at It, the ultimate measure of sincerity. I will," he Raid. If ever Im bent on plundering the heart of a woman. Ill travel the highroad of surrender In the company of ravage and love. Ill give and still give and with each giving will grow the heaped mountain of mv demands. You see it, dont you? . Thats justifiable plunder," Andreas cheeks flushed, her eyes were dreamy with new, thoughts and him Andrea Fellor, .handsome daughter of Ixrd Tetlor. lmpeconlou arlutocrat, diamond mine owner. doomed to marry an Illiterate but wealthy middle-age- d She dmconaolalely wander from her hotel In feouth Africa,, and discover an aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course Imagining that the trip will be morely a pleasant excursion, ah begs to be taken for a flight, although she does not know him. He somewhat unwillingly agree, and they not going back Andrea In start When ah realise her unknown aviator H thwart her and one of her with to him choke atoiking.trie desperation In an immense craal, Africa. of Into on Landing heart the sail very they Andrea find the nativea all bow In worahip to her mysterious companion. She la given a slave boy, Bathtub, and th White Man seta about building a hut pleading to be reatored to for her. Whit Man continue deaf to Andrea her friends She goes on a day' hunting trip with White Man and thoroughly enjoy th exciting experience. Andrea, worrying over her deplorable lack 'of change of clothing. Is surprised and delighted when shrunk ."loaded nh" everything In the way of clothing dear to the feminine heart, la dropped at her doorway hy stalwart native and eh la told by Whit Mas that they are here. White Man hy a skillful ahot aavee her from th attack of a sable hull and she le fast becoming reconciled to her fate after eight days In th craal. 1 Continued, Certainly," he answered, absorbed la his topic, Exchanged where another daughter available; where there isnt, money Is refunded by order of the courts. But what 1 was driving at Is that In spite of the contention mentioned above, wherevej a woman is concerned a black can never get it out of his bead that she can be replaced at the regular market price. Now you've got the kernel of his whole attitude toward women." "So If It had been you they wouldnt have laughed and yelled," In this caxe, yea, be said. "They mot certainly would, because they But bad no direct responsibility. where responsibility attaches the rule for non la a life for a life, and It's a rule that has no exceptions. Anyone ran brain a wfttnnn If he feels like It and get away with the Identical obolo her husband pad for her." You seem to be a great admirer of the native social system," said Andrea quletty. 1 am," answered M'suhgo. "For natives, of course. Are you sure youre not a bit tainted with It for yourself? Sure, . he answered promptly. "That's part of the secret of my grip on every country Ive shot over. Im aloof. I've never turned my back on the White Mans God. Circular A Is not for me." Whats Circular A?" He hesitated. Circular A," hwwtld finally, "is the regulation that governs the relations between British officials under the colonial office and the women of the tribes they govern," Tin British, said Andrea, after a pause, and I blush for the necessity." You are prompt, like most of us, said Msungo, to sit In judgment before any force of Bature that youve never felt Poor, devils of clean-bre- d youngsters I Take one that I knew. Three weeks training under his crazy - to lenvei a hundred thousand natives under his sole rule; ne, perhaps two, bearded white faces a year. The long, long days after the sportsman has been swallowed hy the when game becomes just meatl And then, the fatal hour at dusk hhen a passing native girl any girl looks to him like some woman at home ! He marries, not hy canonicals perhaps, hut by the common law of the land, and the people at home' shout crucify him, hut in the end Ita God alone that will judge his agony and measure the price. lie stopped sjieaklng and for a long time they traveled la silence. The sun was sinking fast so fast that It seemed to he dropping by jerks, like the loose hand of a grandfathers clock. "There Is no twilight In the tropics," said Msungo, "by the deliberate judgment of God who knows the capacity of the chart of man and would not -- prede-"cossor- ," jmt-hunte- r, have it burst," T can feel what yon mean," answered Andrea, "even though you havent really said it in words. The heart can hold just so much beauty and no more; and even now, mine is aching P Andrea Fellor," said Msungo, you have the faculty of your sex. You have pinned the butterfly." She felt a sudden revulsion, a rage at this man, this stranger, who talked as she imagined he would fight, without gloves. Her eyes narrowed. By the way, when Marguerite bolted, just what wns It you shouted at me?" He paused In his stride so suddenly that the dozing donkey hutted into him and almost knocked him over, "Eh? What? be asked to gain time. " , -- Come on," persisted Andrea. "Just what you shouted," Well," lied Msungo, I may not remember the exact words, hut It was say It again get in one more nasty bit of cleverness before lief ore I died P "Oh, no," protested M'eungo. "Go easy, now. Why, Marguerite has done that dozens of times. He knows exactly how to slice .off his rider. And besides, he always stops." "But what if he hadnt what If he had?" continued Andrea hotly. Oh, you know what I mean. What If he had killed me?" ."But he wouldnt," insisted the man weakly. "He wouldnt think of It Andrea pounded the horn of her saddle. But what If he had?" Msipngo suddenly whirled, thereby winding the quiescent neck of Marguerite around his waist He caught Andrea by both arms and fixed her Rtartled eyes with the blaze o his own. "You will have It I" be said, pershaking her lightly,' "your d sonal element Welt Ill give It to you. If hed hurt so much as a halr-o- f your head Fd have shot him and then myself and left word with you to bury us both in the same grave." She flushed and looked away. When her eyes came back to his set fnce there were three kinds of sparkling wlckednesa In them tenderness, the d forked tongue of a serpent, and a knife. She chose the knife. White Man," she said, "that would have been adorable at the price simply adorable!" -- - 1 While the supply of the vast larder and the supervision of the fiber camp formed the major part of Msungoa untiring Industry they were by no means the total of his affairs. Watching him, Andrea soon learned why be never lunched. He hadnt the time; too many things pressed to his attention. He was a governor on no mean scale and during the midday rest hour be would pass from group to group settling all those disputes which could be determined without recourse to legal argument In this manner he sifted to a' minimum the cases to come before the solemn conclave of chiefs. On the first occasion that Andrea witnessed this tribal ceremony which occurred monthly at a certain stage of the moon, she began by feeling huffed but, lacking an audience for her tnood, soon gave It up for one of scornful amusement which, in turn, surrendered to an Interest that almost amounted to awe. The day in question began with the curt Information from Msungo, who appeared carefully groomed and, for the flrspjlme In her experience, dressed in punctilious mufti, that she would have to amuse herself for twelve hours without his aid. Mystified. she awaited developments, and they came rapidly. Under the great acacia was placed a table and behind It a camp armchair. To the right and left of this throne of two-edge- The weeks that followed were the remaking of Andre physically. Each Jay she walked more and felt It less. From head to toes her body was without blemish and la her eyes, her cheeks and In the spring of her light step, sheer health flew Its rejoicing banner. Pay hy day she followed Msungo farther afield, took more of, an Interest In what he was doing because she understood It better and learned to wait before she sat In judgment on his actions, often surprising, always swift and assured. She even hardened herself to accompanying him on his hunts for meat fur the camp pot and there waR nothing that he did that gave her a deeper insight into his composition than this same butcheri- ng. He made no Ferret of his distaste for the job and never an apology. Having a disagreeable task on his hands he faced It squarely and going out to kill, laid his plans, held to them with unswerving concentration and killed g with a dispatch that was but admirable. It was during the return from one of these expeditions that he expounded his definition of justifiable plunder. With his memory raw, as Is the whole worlds, from contact with the Superman come to life to exe flesh the brutalizing in the pose of "thine is mine If I can take It, he found himself on treacherous ground aud his words picked their way slowly as though bent on avoiding alhtnlsunderstandlng. It Is the truth, he said thoughtfully, that the spirit of man advances only hy plunder and the corollary to that Is the fact that the plundered world is always the more fruitful, hut the unpardonahle 'Sln jLS far as peoples are concerned is the failure to define robbery under arms from productive plunder, and you can almost say the same thing of Individual relationship. He glanced at her and something of his earnestness passed to her with the Go on. she said kindly. look. Can you believe rue. he continued, when I tell you that no one was more surprised than the Superman himself when he assumed flesh after his long preparation and awoke to find himself a Vandal a Frankenstein? The theory was perfect all that was lacking were the tilings of the spirit, the breath of life without which any animated creation becomesgu toma t i cally a monster. And yet the collective spirit of man advances duly by plunder. You can see It In my own country, yesterday. In Africa today and It will come In the other Americas tomorrow. The d blood-curdlin- long-heralde- d doe-trin- -- to the effect that youd better head him oil nr jump off. "Something like that," said Andrea Incisively, only shorter. You yelled, Marry him or jump off i " Salisbury, a ?I believe youre Tight, said Msnn-- . rock among men, was that ruins are go, and added, apologetically, "You not evidence of occupation and that see. I didnt have much time to think, packed epigram brings us face to face Instinc- with danger-a-f Exactly P said Andrea. fork of the road tively all you saw was a joke, like of freedom." every nigger in the line. You didn't "Oh, While Man." said Andrea, her care what happened to me. I might brow puckered with Internal have been brained umT that tree please apply It to Individuals." effort, and you knew It and all you. could He started to nail her to the tradithink of was (hat you just had time to tions of her sex lut something trub -- Nine times out of ten the victim would smile sheepishly and withdraw ; la the tenth case there would come a look of sullen wonder Into the culprits face, whereupon the white man would promptly call a halt and demand more Such cases were then alevidence. lotted half an hour and even an hour each, and without exception resulted In the acquittal of the prisoner at the bar. Andrea was suddenly aware of MVungos voice indubitably addressed to her though he kept his eyes to the front and spoke in a toneless monologue as If he were communing with himself. "Behold ! Psychology on the job, he said. "Watch their .faces. Every native that knows his sentence to be just takes It with an apologetic smile; If he looks sullen, the chances are a hundred to one that hes innocent Fve never gone wrong. They think Im a wonder. Next I" One case alone that day was apparently Interminable. When at last It was completed Msungo dropped his eyes for the first time and sat for a long while with bowed head; tlen he drew erect looked the prisoner in the eye and spoke three words. A gray hue crept Into the blacks, face as he turned away. I have surrendered him to the justice of his tribe," murmured And Andrea Msungo. "Poor devil! knew that she had witnessed the precursor to an inevitable sentence of death. That night Msungo was too tired to talk and excused himself immediately after dinner, Andrea read until her ej es ached and then went to bed wondering if she were feeling only slighted or If existence were actually becoming monotonous. She shrank from the latter admission for she knew that, once made. It would shatter the longest run of sheer peace of spirit which she had experlencedjn her short but much bored life. She need not have worried. When she Btepped out early next morning dressed for the field In compliance with a message from Msungo to put on her roughest and toughest she was so excited that even the memory of her doubt was blotted from her mind. Something was In the air of the craal that could be felt rather than heard, the sort of something that one could Imagine possessing a hive just before It began to hum, Msungo, was already sitting under the dining tree engaged In a diminutive palaver with three wizened blacks who Bquatted on the ground squinting up at him and speaking in turn In answer to his patient questioning. Around them but at a respectful distance were gathered various members of the camps personal staff. On the faces of the wizened three and also on -- of MVungos was the same-lo- ok fanatical exaltation, the look that proclaims any group of diverse men brothers at heart. What Is it? asked Andrea, breathless from hurrying. Elephant," replied MVungo, He drew a chair to his side. "Sit down, he said softly as one whose mind is and fearful of losing this dream, Watch and listen, for these men bring great tidings. He smiled almost like a boy. One of the wizened produced a thin wand, about twenty Inches in length, freshly broken at one end. ne passed it to his companions ; who stared at it as though they saw it for the first Instead of the hundredth time, fingered It, gurgled over it and finally gravely handed it to MVungo. He went through more or less the same process and returned It to the man who first produced it with What was apparently a slighting remark. The man glanced up with a pained look on his face, arose, laid the wand on the ground as a measure and with laborious fingers began to trace a snlghty oval. MVungo leaned across table- and gazed with fascinated eye; Andrea, watching him, could see the pulse throbbing at his temples. He w as a new MVungo, somebody young, approachable, lovable, an eager boy. She leaned close to his shoulder. "Flease, While Man, she murmured, "please tell me." Without turning he put one hand out and grasped her wrist as though to still her. "The little man," he explained. is drawing the spoor of a mighty beast Look at it and learn tt by hea t, for It will be a photograph." Having completed the circumference of his oval, the native was making various tracings on Its face, dividing it as with a maze of tracks. When he had apparently finished, back on his heels and gazed critically at his -- kz theres Etc, "" jg VI John Bogardus, Co) lI ANDREA IS SAVED BY WHITE MANS CLEVER MARKSMANSHIP. CHAPTER Glass' Dispensing Justice With a Breathless Rush. " justice stood in a crescent fourteen other seats of varying dignity chairs, petroleum cases, kerosene tins and an inverted bucket for every native king, be he monarch of but one village, has the right to sit In the presence of authority, whatever its grade. The white man took the armchair and immediately, to a horde of natives all men swarmed Into the beaten court of the craal. Those natives who lacked the royal k were squatting on their heels la a vast mass of serrated and concentric circles of which the Innermost left an open space whose periphery was determined by the exact circumference of the branches of the tree. Andrea coughed Softly but Msungo (lid not look up in fact, nobody looked up. It was exactly as though she were not. She slipped to the .trunk of a tree and leaned on one, hand placed against It. Somehow It 'seemed an only friend in tom-tom- s, hall-mar- wide-spreadi- an empty world. ng -- he-san- k The preliminary palaver was a matter of much leisurely ceremony, gut- handiwork.- tural pronouncements, grunts, pauses, Watch." said MVungo. "Before he more monologues, repeated grunts; gets Up, hell put In some mark, some but, once- It was over, M Vim go settled distinctive feature that distinguishes hatk lth. a sigh. and started dispens- this sptmr from jail others." ing justice with a breathless rush that No sooner had' he than the reminded one of toe manner in which Mack leaned forward spoken and with a sure he dispatched game, touch deepened two of the cracks till It seemed to Andran that hejiever they, formed a. long narrow Y running waited to hour 'more than the state- diagonally half across the oval. That ment of the offense when ue would im- done he turned abruptly from his mediately pronounce sentence.' Twen i rawing, joined his comrades, turned ty lades; next! Thirty lashes; next! Us hack on MVungo and unstoppering Twelve lades; next. at the rate of cartridge case, proceeded t take a ease for vvery two minutes. aocSL al)ut MVungo straightened with a long quivering sigh. "It is well," he said In We win go." The three dialect wizened men nodded their heads many times and grunted. With no further instruction, gunbearers, water boys, ARMISTICE! Constipation, IUadach?, trackers and Marguerites attendant scattered ' to their various preparaColds, Biliousness, tions, hindered by excited women and to "Cascarets children. The camp hummed. Bathtub slapped breakfast on the table and then stood on one foot then on the Bring back peace! Enjoy life yZ. other in impatience. On the faces of system Is filled with liver and bowel aU was the same the same poison which keeps your skin aow look of suppressed but mighty antici- your stomach upset, your head du and aching. Your meals are turning pation. 1 but monthfuls poison gases and acids. You can not MVungo ate a few they seemed to choke him. He pushed feel right. Dont stay bilious or const;, back his plate, stuffed his pipe full oated. Fed splendid always by taking dascarets occasionally. They act with, and lit It His eyes played out their fired and with hers griping or Inconvenience. They face own brilliance. When he spoke every never sicken you like Calomel, Salta word thrilled her as though this won- Oil or nasty, harsh Pills. They cost so derful morning were surcharged with little too Cascareta work while son an emotional current sensitive to sleep. Adv. every sonnd and movement Certainly Not "Andrea Pellor," he said with a hapbecome uttariied to People py twinkle of mock solemnity In his furniture. jf Initiated to are be about glance, you so.? Into the mysteries of the major guild , Quite known families to c Ive (in of many centuries, the closest corpo- old The ration 'of sport in the world yin three sort chair,. abedor that had been handel down words, the society of elephant hunters. generations." You will probably witness death and I "Thats not unusual. hope and pray it will be the death of But you never bear am b inn,, of the hunted, but for the comfort when the old rn..tr ,.fir n entatlons to me tell heart let that soft you your scrapped and replaced by the new day we go forth not to slaughter but .me."- , m w. Birmingham . to battle." He turned his eyes from her face and continued in. a more serious SHE THOUGHT DRESS WOULD LOOK DYED strain; The hunting of elephant is a science. It is a crescendo of delicately balanced factors that starts from But "Diamond Dyea" Turned Her two distant points and beginning on a Faded, Old, Shabby Apparel cool foundation of mutual respect Into New. passes upward through stages of intelligence against intelligence, caution Dont worry about perfect results. for caution, perseverance on the heels Use "Diamond Dyes, to of endurance, until it meets on the give a new, rich, fadelessguaranteed color to any high plane of naked courage and fabric, whether It be wool, silk, limn, sweeps to its tragic climax of 'white-ho- t cotton or mixed goods, dresses, battle and death. blouses, stockings, skirts, clnid.-ennis eyes came back to hers frankly. coats, feathers, draperies, "Like all the great sciences, be con- everything ! tinued. "it has used the lives of valThe Direction Book with each packso that age tells how to diamond iant men for stepping-stone- s dye over any we who go out today are backed by color. sacrifice of a noble comthe To match any material, have denier pany. Looking back. onlyo the days show you "Diamond Dye Color Card- .of black powder and the four-bor- e Adr. rifle we are mere pygmies, but pygmies carried high on the crest of an i Doing Well. ancient tradition. Its because we When mother and her brood started have an accumulation of knowledge to for town the weather was threatening lean upon that Im willing to take you so she did not go unprepared In due with me today if youll promise to sur- time they stepped off the crowded render yourself to me, to do Just ex- train at the South station. actly what I tell you and no more and Have you got all the umbrellas. no less." Johnny?" was her first question. I should say I had, said the hoy. Eyes wide and Intent, cheeks flushed and lips parted, Andrea was too ex- 1 had three when I started and now cited to 'speak. She threw out both Ive got five." Boston Tralcript. hands toward him in a gesture of abandon and with an imploring gravity BREAKS YOUR COLD IN that made her look as though she were JUST A FEW HOURS giving herself into his keeping not for a day but for all time. er half-smil- e, over-Andrea- 's -- i s soim-tim- -- i: Age-11- eou-ring- s age-lon- g Cold Compound instantly r lieves stuffiness and Pape CHAPTER VII. distress They started out, a skeleton cavalcade. The three wizened ones led the Dont stay stuffed-u- p ! Quit bloving imand Andrea and measured their way snuffling ! A dose of Pape's Cold portance by the fact that they carried Compound" taken every two hours three doses are taken usually break MsungoV battery of rifles, respectfully" surrendered by the gunbearers as a up a severe cold and ends all grippe fitting tribute from onlookers to men misery. who were hunters in their own right. The very first dose opens your MVungo nodded toward them and clogged-unostrils and the air passover Andrea his shoulder. ages of the head; stops nose running; spoke to r The old boys are my brothers in relieves the headache, dullness, stiffness. arms and they carry the guns as a ess, sneezing, soreness and Is the sort of insignia. When It comes down "Papes Cold Compound" to business tbeyll slip them to the Quickest, surest relief known and cost It trained bearers. only a few cents at drug stores. nice, Behind Andrea came Marguerite, acts without assistance, tastes his attendant before and Bathtub af- contains no . quinine Insist up ter him ; then followed the gunbearers, Papes 1 Adv. a single tracker and a single water-boy-. No hangers-o- n Acquisition. were allowed What makes you want so much even to see the cortege from the craal. Over one shoulder Bathtub carried money?" asked the amateur philosYou havent any real use for slung a cracker tin, container of all opher. most of It the food allotted to the day. "I dunno," answered Mr. Dustin In ten minutes march they came to I guess mebbe its, the same, the river which, in spite of Its prox- Stax. want that to the camp, Andrea jjtow saw thing years ago made me imity boy for tile first time, Often she had sug- to come home with all the other gested to Msungo that 6he wished to marbles In my pockets." visit It, but on every occasion his Ups had set In a straight Une and he had Kidney invented manifold reasons for keeping her from Its shores. The most efficacious of these arguments were snakes and crocodiles, but while she Itconceded the strength of those two deterrents she could not escape from an Intuitive belief that there was Often Applicants for Insurance something else some other and ranking cause In the back of MVungoV Rejected. on-t- il p fever-Ish- rhousands Have Trouble and Never - Suspect - - mind.' Judging' front report fromtour are constantly in direct the public, there a one preparation Some thrill s in the next ba. been very successful i installment these condition. Th mild nd , influence of Dr. Kilmer SwampBm x highest won realized. It rtand. the (TO BE CONTINUED.) it remarkable record of uccesa. An examining phyiician for 0Be . Concentration of Mind. prominent Lii Insurance Compa . , The brain of the average person is an interview on the ubject, mao reason too receptive and not positive enough. tonishing statement that on It is swayed by every gust of emotion, o many applicant for insurance ia because kidney trouble yields too easily to outside conditions. jected , common to th American people, It reproduces too easily the idle large majority .of those whose 4 . thoughts of others, or Its own phan- tion are declined do not even tasies. and, avoids the effort of con- that they have th disease. It twe structive thinking. A complete change at all drug store in bottles of medium-anlarge. In the mental habits of such a' person However, if you wish first to may open the way for unlimited future , great preparation end ten ceo, development, Mental, efficiency cun Kilmer A Co, Binghamton, N- - 1 nr only he attained when one possesses aaropi bottle. When writing be the powerjof' concentrating the mind mention' thia paper. Adr. , Weak powers of concentration mean . AH Agreed. Inefficient thinking and car ' vacillating acdont I fear your parents tion. Regular daily practice in concennx ? me.. . You father said be would tration., keeping the , mind upon some one subject, some difficult the flovr with me." Ana what did mother sayU problem, will soon give the mind the ti: site was glad to see "Said habit of constructive thinking. Perte sist In this practice and ignore all once evince a willingnes ...Tcottr -Lour'd seeming lack of progress If you would the house cleaning." lorJmtrmiL obtain the fullest results. 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