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Show I THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAn was now much slower. It was not that am! quivering, as iieat waves quiver the spoor was harder to follow In steadily In the air arising from fact. It was much easier, for through parched soli. the Jungle of stunted sapling no man Not forty' paces from where Andrea could pass safe where an elephant bugged her protecting trunk and hud plowed a way but that now eery twenty In itdvunce of M'sungo. Indication of the game's progress had the domes of two trees topped the The boy grinned. even inii'i of the saplings about them MMing touched the edge of the to be read, studied and accurately Here began the exerelse of that Into the shadows beneath these trees M'culo?" mighty spoor with his toe. "Stitlorka !" luurmuml the tracker, finished science which M'sungo hail he was peering with an Intensity that and rolled his eyes up Into the trees. placed so hlgh.j'gh Ing due eredit to communicated Itself to Andrea. She He says Its a whopper, whispered those forerunners who had marked its too stared desperately as though by an effort she might send light Into M'sungo, und promptly went into no- stages with their lifes Mood, , darkness with her gaze. The state of a parted lne, or a tton. lie took ofT his Jacket and Jer-- j rolled up his sleeves and tightened masiuated leaf, bore some message Presently she was rewarded ; Jhree hi Mt. The traeker stripp'd to his upon the true reading of which hung shadows within the shadow slowly breech elout and took from one of the the deiuate halnme of suceess or fail(widened a tdemlcr-hafleSenegal. ure. Slower and slower fell the pace The three old hunters laid aside the ami in measured proportion silence i illev they had been carrying and the was born and seemed to grow and uubearers quietly picked them ill. spread and throb till it hung m the M'sungo turned to Andrea, '(lot on :dr like some stilling all permeating the donkey," he ordered. When she mist. Beneath It the heart beat with vvas mounted her eves were on a level an Irregular rat tat tat and breath with his own. Usten," he mid. lame in hurried gimps. In spite of the "You'll rule now, heeuii'o when we men before her, Andrea felt alone, ANDREA WITNESSES AN EXCITING ELEPHANT HUNT. strike the bush joti cant. Please vis- a I', ft on a sea of unseen but hovering Andrea Pellor. handsome daughter of Lord Pellor, impecunious aristocrat, ion lid ills' from now until the A ill I1' r,N. She looked over her shoulder. la doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle-agediamond nOn owner. h.!v Bathtub was in sight behind her, nobody is going to speak to you and She disconsolately wanders from her hotel in South Africa, and d, scot era an if ou should a out loud word say you tnse. one foot in air, waiting for her aviator about to tly from the beai h Impulsively, or coutse imagining that the might g t si ini (ms of spear In the to tat e her next jtep before he placed trip will be merely a pleasant excursion, she begs to ba taken for a night, although she does not know him He somewhat unwillingly aerees, and they excitement of the moment." his Biot. His naked ody, exposed to start When she realizes her unknow-- aviator is not going hack Andrea in Go ahead; I won't speak," said Anhe merciless sun. streamed with desperation tries to choke him with one of her stockings, lie thwarts her and drea, and pressed her lips together. sweat. they sail on Into the very heart of Africa. landing in an Immense craal. finds the natives all bow in worship to her mysterious "When you begin to get hot, conWhile Andrea's shoulders ached from Man continues deaf to Andreas pleadings to be restored tocompanion her friends. She tinued off what ho'ding her arms before her face to take M'sungo, "just on a goes days hunting trip with White Man and thorough'y enjoys the excit-l- n you don't want and drop it. We peo- ward off the Interminably experience. White Man by a skillful shot saves her from the attack of a encroaching, sable bull and she is fast becoming reconciled to her fate after eight days in, ple ahead ean't lose anything if we vines and branches that seemed to opthe craal. On another expedition the donkey on which Andrea is mounted try. The boys used to pick up my pose the way, but invariably parted at riina away with her and she Is for a moment made ridiculous. White Man exdead matches until I stopped them. her touch. Her tongue vvus purchctl, plains the African method of wife purchase, obolo." She Is horrified. When you come to the bush, shed your all her clothing laid hands on her every :X skirt, get off Marguerite and leave motion with n clammy grip and her CHAPTER VII, Continued, that Msungos Impatience seemed to him. Walk lightly and hang on till body quivered on the fine edge of ex you drop. If you last long enough, haust ion. hut she hung on, her eyes be dying down, and said so. see me take the Mg gun. Thats above dark shadows you'll The river was a treacherous-lookinOh, he explained, theres no great casting agonized the beginning of the end and when It glances at M'sungo. If only he would stream, deep, sluggish, bordered for hurry. We arent after antelope, you happens you are to do just oue thing. reai h for the big gun! if only be the most part by banks. know. Three out of every five Look around you. Somewhere near would reully stop for even a fleeting Where Its shores were broken into shot are killed at the noon hour see a big tree loom- rest. are to bound you If one the we were are after Is traveling, covered shelving slopes these The next moment she found herself with a towering grow th of reeds and well ieer, never see him, for hell ing out of the bush. Go to it, hug It, matted elephant grass. There was a think nothing of ninety miles as a stay with it whatever happens till I crowded Into the halting group In sand-spfront. They stood In the sparse shade here and there and on each days stroll. If hes feeding, and cuH you." A moment later., they were off at, a of u were lying what appealed to be logs thats the probability In this case, big tree, their eyes sweeping the cast up by flood. well come up with him at the heat terrific pace, the trucker In the lead, ground beneath their feet and rising As the expedition reached the crest of the day under a big tree dozing and M'sungo next, then the gunbearers, to meet each other's gaze with swift of the bank, thereby coming Into full lazily fanning himself with his ears. Andrea, and after her the tagging rest. intelligence and swifter understandview of the river, the logs, one by one, The country across the river was a For - hours they kept on with- ing. Here was a great reading, the The White Man Still Stood Tenee but a out a break or Immovable. pause. of suspense, the pregnant elevated themselves a foot into the Contrast to anything Andrea had seen. Andrea watched Msungos long stride, moment final of The was premonition. air through all their length and moved It what M'sungo called mangy; fascinated took form. Once seen, they advanced by its unvarying pendulum three elephants hud come together, In distinction until they stood out to silently, swiftly, horribly into the wa- totally bare In spots and breaking out ter. Andrea caught her breath. She In others Into thoin thickets or oases swing. The gunbearers took shorter u.v. had milled beneath this tree they vision as does the Coal Fit on a starry, w re even now Indubitably bonenth the moonless night. They were three had seen crocodiles in captivity, but of thick brush. Farther upstream was next they had encountered for when never like this, never free to scurry a forest of high straight trees, much clouds, ominous, dusky, thunderous. a feeding elephant walks in a circle on distorted legs, to sink silently Into higher than the tembas, but Inland from one of them rame a Suddenly for no apparent reason it is because rumble that rolled this towering growth suddenly fell to murky depths and lurk. ponderously away his thoughts are entirely fixed on tak"White Man, she whispered, are a low level of bush that cut a gray through the silent world. Andrea, his ing noonday nap promptly. line along the horizon. The band of they as awful as they look? Ignorant of the majesty of the IntesThe was tracker stood broken and here there gray tinal unbelievably commotions of the mightiest of by he Is answered. They are," "It erect, heels off the ground. It was as beasts, Matched a fleeting impression pretty generally accepted that more the black dome of a tree. though by an effort of will he had sus- that somewhere beyond the brazen Msungo followed the direction of nrtives succumb to crocs In Africa an-- n himself In air, so still was he, sky, a storm, was brewing. Andreas That pended eyes. gray long to patch," inlly than any other one cause, so wholly was his body consecrated to not excepting famine and smallpox. It he said, thats elephant bush, but The white man still stood, tense hut the uct of listening, Suddenly his immovable. Gradually Andrea's senses sounds unbelievable until you know Lord knows when well get there." wide nostrils quivered with a visible! gathered to the fact that this was no thj native mind. A man will be taken The wizened men led them upstream fluttering and distended till their out- pause, lie was waiting waiting deat s certain crossing and half an hour and soon they were In the deep shade er rims showed white. A look of liberately or was It as one who stands la er you may see his companions of tfte high forest, but not for long. In ten sensual and Ineffable content spread minutes traversed for It, they leisurely wading the stream the same fatally fascinated and paralyzed on over his face as he drew down Into the The explanation Is that they It was nothing but a tongue, a long threshold of disaster? Her heart his lungs that breath of tainted breeze. was eo.tslder that the victim lost his life screen extending, from elephant bush beatng with a deafening throb. to river. Scarcely had they left Its He smelled the prey; the wind was She was sure the natives about her so.ely by reason pt the cheap brand of i right. medicine he carried. Each one is shelter when the three hunters paused could hear the equal tumult In their Andrea Presently Andrea caught the odor own breasts. convinced that his own bit of stone, and with them M'sungo. forward. and her whole body trembled as from pressed twisted or the wood is real thing Then her eyes, glued to the three rag an overmastering physical contact black The soggy ground was and nothing can dissuade him until the clouds, saw one of the lesser of This smell was unlike all others; the moment when he too is snatched un- with great holes of varying sizes; the raise vast blankets of ears move, mind gave It color and substance. It r an d smallest a foot in circumference, . the der. flap them, starting an audible gust Females and youngcrept through the forest like a dark of wind. A great trunk wound and How ghastly, said Andrea, and largest, three. an ominous warning to all frail unwound, rose In murmured cloud, sters, Msungo explanahowpitiful. lazily to Incredible to get out of the way. She heights, reached a limb and tore It creatures all He trash. stood quite still, Yes, It is, said Msungo, and add- tion, felt suddenly cold and glanced over with a scream of rending fibers from ed: Sort of knockout to faith. Isn't his eyes traveling rapidly over a wide notion the her shoulder with a It? But even crocs have character. radius, pausing suddenly when the parent tree. The beast turned of retreat ; then her eyes fell on slightly to avoid the avalanche of There are certain crossings swarming tracker thoughtfully touched a grass Msungo and she forgot all else in an boughs. Instantly the white mans with them where they are known to blade with his toe or another boy sola measured with his feet emnly absorption that was above fear. spoor arms swept Into motion. He leveled be friendly and where no one has ever , lie had become filled with an es- the big gun at an upward slant upon placed one ahead of the other, looked been attacked. sence of youth, as though years of life ihe still Immovable central cloud and and retired In confusion By the time be finished speaking the up Inquiringly at sneer on the faces of the had rushed from past and future to fill fired. the kindly natives had haled out a wide, clumsy to overflowing the cup of this one All the silence In the world was rent cow and Msungo nodded to Andrea hunters. transcendent moment. Ills face was asunder by that shot. With a rending Why are yon waiting?" asked Anto slide down the slippery landing tense, but alight and his ordinarily crash as of a thousand gatllng guns, chute and climb In. She was worried drea impatiently. eyes had attained to an unfathom- one, two, twenty elephants swept M'sungo flashed a look at her. gray as to how Marguerite was to be manHe Smelled the Prey. able blue that seemed to deny meas- through the sea of saplings and away. not he Were "Waiting?" whispered. to her four blacks aged when, delight, man to ure the depth of his emotion. Uls It was as though an angry god had here, Every waiting. according steps. They walked pivoting on the picked him up bodily and deposited to Is his were drawn' In the crooked snatched up the forest like a sheet and saw You thin reading. lips lights. him in the center of the leaky craft ball of the foot ; Just before each step, He did not deign to more than half that cheeky gunbearer measure a their heels Jerked inward sharply for line of a fixed smile a smile that ripped It apart. In the terrific whirl- on the verge of an Infinite wjnd of sound gone mad, the second spoor and then withdraw with a hang- - the thrust back. She leaned forward ; dog look. He thought he had spotted Marguerite had his eyes wide open, solemnity. When he moved be gave ?Jai of the rifle was quite lost to the a male bulL He has made himself jje seemed to be breathing softly, as an Indefinite impression of disem- ear. ridiculoos for a year. Tonight youll though he. too, were bent on playing bodied action as If spirit alone passed Msungo turned find automatically hear the camp telling the Joke on him the game. on, leaving flesh behind. Like a black seized his supporting gun. His eyes over and over again. But the tracker Quite suddenly they came out of the monitor the tracker went before him. swept the back trail, looking for Antouches a blade of grass bent one way forest Into a broken mangy space. The Andrea was suddenly aware that drea. She was gone. Bathtub he with his toe and presently youll see heat and glare was terrific. Here and Msungo carried the big gun. Its dead roared. him with a twig broken in the oppo- there were scraggy groups of thorn, weight of eleven pounds lay in his The boy ran to him, hla face work site direction. There he goes now. apparently burnt up by the sun, but In hands lightly as though It also were ing with every emotion known to the He looks as If be were j reality very much alive. To one side, sustained by a spiritual force. She had black breast Joy; trlnmph,'greed. doesnt he? an enormous acacia cast Its grateful not seen him take It and there was cupidity and fear. The last was preblot of shade. The tracker, musing something ghostly in the mere fact of dominant and with reason, for Msungo Andrea nodded. , Well, be Isn't, continued M sungo. at lasfi looked straight up,' transfixed his possession of it. Her mind was In dropped hls'gunr sh ot ou I bolh'ha ndsr a turmoil; she knew that upon the to the black's throat and lifted him By .now he has read the whole story. in an eloquent pose. Andrea followed his gaze. At an taking over of the big gun had hung strangling Into the air. He knows how many females made Damn you, this mess of a trail and how many Incredible height she saw a branch, some vital Instruction to herself but in he growled, wheres your missis? The boys eyeballs young. He knows when they came freshly broken. Her reason battled that primal moment of suspense, mem- Where Is she? and when they went. He could fill in with incredulity; It told her that .only ory was an agonizing blan and noth- protruded farther and farther from their stay with a dozen Incidents, each one thing could have reached the ing' more. She followed blindly In the his contorted face. one complete In Itself, such as where branch and snapped it the cautiously pausing footsteps of the Here I am, panted Andrea. a youngster slipped, fell, squealed and trunk of the rearing beast they were single gunbearer that crept before her, M'sungo relaxed his grip; Bathtub got spanked by his mother. But such following. For the first time in her close on the heels of hla master. dropped to the ground like a nerveless Infinity seemed to come and go be- sack but bounced up again, aU his trimmings of details impress them- life, measuring again that height, she selves only on his subconscious mind. felt actual awe. M'sungo cast a glance fore they had advanced twenty paces. emotions except fear once more in fall In reality his whole attention is fixed over his shoulder. Ills face was alight ; She came to the bare trunk of a big cry across his grinning face. on the main chance. By the season of his eyes shone with a swimming bill- -' tree whose top bad been felled by Andrea laid both bands bn Msungos the year he knows that this herd is not llance. lightning and at that moment M'sungo arm. It wasnt his fault," she gasped. i A few minutes lster they came to looked back, a terrible frown on bis I started to do Just what you told traveling alone. The track of the males Is nearby. If we didnt have the ragged edge of the elephant bush. face. Without taking her eyes from me. White Man. Yon know you saw the three old hunters we would go up The tracker cast left and right with his she leaned against the stump of me hugging the tree. But when I heard the bank of the river until we struck quid:. Jerky steps. Here the three' the tree and put her arms around It the Day of Judgment right on top of sign, for It Memory came to her. She remembered me I I Just had to give It a nun for it but we dont have to because they bulls had separatedto ; JoyfulThe feed. tracker I what be had told her' to do. She Its money I found It by chance this morning at the showed Intention came to a halt dropped the tip of his hugged the tree In a great relief while first streak of dawn." While be talked, the tracker stud assegai shaft to a chosen spoor, led. the three wizened sat aloof, taking Msungo looked back at Andrea ImpAndrea becomes despond awn ff.- - Now, at a nod from M'sungo, tlently. She threw herself from Mar-theent arose and proceeded swiftly guerites back and hastily stripped offt hind. Suddenly the tracker paused with an along the margin of the big trees. ' ber Jersey, unbuttoned her skirt and swerved to the left and let It fall. She stood In helmet, khaki unmistakable finality. His hands went they Presently (TO BE CONTINUED.) propen; Laboriously . by shirt and breeches, puttees and tight-- np In an even, swift gesture of - to . a undergrowth through plunged Poles. path- - In the fine dust ly laced boots an adorable study In ing. His body sank gradually lower Most Unkind. But M'sungo had no time for and lower till it stretched fiat and still Idea-- ; brown. opem Lis eyes. saw Andrea the Miss of that runway Dont you think this Antique laboriously Propelled by poles and then across by tical monster spoor that the old black artistic effects; he turned from her as a log at the sldeof the narrow sge Is corrupt? noa and plunged Into the bush tralL With longtndled, cautions He Doubtless. eiamy paddles. It took them the best had drawn with his finger on the luw does It comla the wake of the tracker. Part f half an hour to make the movements the white man passed over pare, In your opinion, with previous ground beside her breakfast table. Another halt was caBed, The track- Fortunately for Andrea Use going him and stood erect, at oner stead agea? Lila. Andrea wa aorpriaed er squatted by one spoor and then another. lie beld up thre fingers. AH males? said JTsungo. The tracker nodded. Big ones?" said M'sungo, with that of exaltation. half-smil- THE MISERY OF ' BACKACHE e ul-ue- j - half-sey- Removed by Lydia E. Pink-haVegetable Compound. ms Tor six years I Muskegon, Mich. was so weak in my back at times that I could hardly walk. Lydia E. Pmkhami Vegetable j - d - ' ViEU), 210 An-dr- ' i g flat-toppe- d ele-plan- ts it nnti-cllmn- x , recommend your medicine and tell everyone I meet what it did for me. -- Mrs. G. SChoon- Wood Ave, Muskegon, Mich. Woman t d Com- pound was recommended to me and it made me good and strong again so that 1 am able to do all my work. 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