Show 0 i I 1 adek by GEORGE AGNEW chamberlain sa white V mtv man d H 13 author of home through stained glass john bogardus Bog etc t Copy copyright ight by merrill co s P ral 11 ANDREA IS WARNED AGAINST ANOTHER WHITE MAN alfred anorea handsome daughter ot of lord impecunious aristocrat la Is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle aged diamond mine owner she disconsolately wanders from her hotel in south africa and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach impulsively ot of course imagining that the trip will be merely a pleasant excursion she begs to be taken tor for a flight although she does not know him lie ire somewhat unwillingly agrees egrets and they start when she realizes her unknown aviator la Is not going back andrea in desperation tries to choke him alth ith one ot of her stockings he lie thwarts her and they sail on into the very heart of africa landing in an immense braal andria andrla finds the natives all bow in worship to her mysterious companion white man continues deat deaf to andrea andreas s pleadings to be restored to her friends she goes on a days hunting trip white man marx and thoroughly 9 the exciting experience white man by a skillful shot eaves her from the attack of a table sable bull and she Is 1 fast becoming reconciled to her tale fate after eight diya days in tie vie braal on another expedition the donkey on which andrea Is mounted runs away with her and she Is for a moment made ridiculous white man explains the african method of wife purchase I 1 she Is horrified after a tedious tramp three bull elephants are sighted end and andrea Is transfixed by the excitement of the chase CHAPTER VII continued 8 she dropped her head hend igal nt him and sobbed he put his arm around her and patted her awkwardly on ane back there there therel he stid s tid dont please dont seemingly with out his volition his arms drew cu cr and closer until he suddenly awot c to tho the fact that he m nas as just plainly pug nu ging andrea ue he pushed her roughly from him here he bald sald in quite a different ferent voice I 1 this isn t my funeral come and cry on the elephant all right said andrea docilely how many were thele I 1 beard heard a troupe an army ot of them you heard just one said Mr brungo ungo dabbing at her eyes with SOMA elsts ehe she followed him to the bide side ot of the fallen monarch around which were gathered the natives a sort of awe on faces tor for the dead bull was a mighty tusker tusler carrying ivory to the value of eights eight women at 11 a in gos approach their arms up IE in a single gesture and from one throat they yelled bal ye te tel 10 scarcely bad had the cry of homage died away when a sound came to them through the huh that froze them into listening silence their faces expressed unbelief lef but their knowledge was in sistena it told them that they were mere haaring a dedith struggle the whisper ins inz gui of blood from mighty lungs mightily pierced ced with a yell they broke toward that music and suddenly stopped remembering that it Is al a ways m vise ise with elephant to let the gun go first andrea frightened stopped top snivel tag ing what Is it she asked 1 I got tuo ald apolo get leally the one that kept me we waiting walting between hlaca and hell 1 1 I remember it w wis is but why did you x wait aft C lit did he lie have to do car smiled in spite of himself he ile had n great de deni deil il to do with it he answered until ho lie started tearing the tree to pieces anil and tool took t hilt hilf turn to dodge the damage ho he was headed right down our trail he lip andrea nodded well continued 21 bungo kicking licking a the mountain of 0 flesh at ut hit side just ag as long as he be was facing us I 1 couldn coulden t tale the fair mark ot of tills this old boy one of the bats lilts of knowledge that lias has been paid for with the lives of many men A startled led elephant chairge cb irge he bolts whichever chiche er w m ay lies headed ile looked up and added with par donable pride and that too Is how bow I 1 knew where to get him running the other way I 1 made up my mind where to shoot before ho he mas as there they went ment to survey the second beast ile was quite dead one long tusk gleaming bilte an ivory island a a lale of bright blood I 1 come away alvay said M bungo quickly he ile led her ter to the shade of one of the bl big ft trees where marguerite newly arrived 41 was already drowsing and dreaming amin happily of all the e evil eil il in the world around the nearby elephant the na swarmed like m gota bathtub I 1 shouted M bungo cho cula I 1 I 1 bathtub turned lingeringly from the carriss car ciss rushed over dropped the lunch box at fit ani lungoci sun goci feet and plunged back agian well have to forgive him sitting down and proceeding to open the tin and lay out And andregg reig lunch for her the ele elephant pliant especially a dead de id one holds a place in the native cosmos bat no white man lias lins ever quite succeeded ciL eded in grasping all those boys hie quite mad ive seen ane sever is Is thumb from his body ahen he lie as like that and never notice it till he lie from lost 1 of blood andrea shivered but alls o did im not notice it they believe he lie con inked I 1 that the meat of elphant Is a v loni ont pound of the flesh of 0 nil all animals and that by eating it they acquire all the leading attributes the courage of the lion the sirnes of the J jichan ackal the gorging capacity of the snake the eyesight of the hak by day lay and of the le felines bv br night the industry of the nut ant mil ac ke homing instinct of the bee lon iii PC fe tho the tine its endless and jut bajo thol ihfe aime more tivi thia A a p of the i they siek the will never die dlf topped to give andrca andrea a drinis drink of maler and to feed her a first sand vich aad nd that isn ism t tho the only thin thing that pvn diw lacs lie he wint wi nt on his a eesle el ok I 1 narrowing to a peculiar look 1001 she had bad never seen in them before such a look 1001 as one Is apt to connect only with mystics les fanatics ardent bel believers leNers and thoroughly out of keeping nith the conception of the white man she hai haj for herself why white mani she cried what do aoa a mean come over you pul ile looked away and then back at hr well he said a quizzical gleam into his eyes chos afraid why I 1 tell once more a thing taits been written a hundred times I 1 y greater adepts than I 1 and never believed its this andrca andrea dont set yourself too high above the native and bis his worship of the greatest of bea for he knows what you cant even believe and that ts Is that elephants are killed they never die in all the centuries that blacks arabs and whites have padded the myriad trails of africa no man has ever seen or heard beard of an elephant dying from old age or any other natural cause his eyes hardened on her face you seea see he whispered you cant believe it elephants never die 11 leading the march home over the back trail set a pace apace that kept marguerite at a jogging trot andrea protested but to no adall comfortably smoking pipe after pipe bad had withdrawn into one of those male havens of the mind that remains marvelously ly untroubled by the tongues of women andrea sulked when they arrived at the river there bein being t but three natives in their reduced foll following oming go promptly took his place as one of the tour four pall bearers to marguerite there was some something thing about being carried even in part by a white man that seemed to appeal to the old rogues el sense of humor he ile threw up his barrel long head and brayed an accompaniment to his triumphal pro progress gres into the scow no sooner was he deposited than M bungo seized his tall and bore down oa on it with all his weight the music sud denly ceased but andreas clear laughter still rang out oh she cried when she could speak I 1 be he Is clever I 1 dida t realize how ridiculous you were until ho lie laughed I 1 I 1 she let herself go ogain glared at her and you were brutal she contin ped you pulled his tall 1 I pulled his tall tail to male him shut up said Ms ungo 1 1 I I wish f tie he pa paused bcd say it cried andrea you wish you could make me shut up well you can cant rm going to laugh all I 1 like listen I 1 I 1 she opened wide her mouth for a stage ua nal I 1 ha hal I 1 ila I 1 but it never got out M bungo threw his arms around her and switched snit ched her to him his ills lips came closer and closer to hers in his ces cues wis an exasperated twinkle ilease please don dont t be he begged andrea glanced down dowa her nose at ills his lips saw that they bad had halted in their advance jud vance on hers illers and decided to struggle fie from his embrace embraced why I 1 I 1 she asked argumentatively I 1 what Is there about thit muggy old river that has you has you bluffed A lot of things began Ms ungo bis his eyes shifting shit ting andrea watched matched him shrewdly adly tell me white man she concluded what la Is the one reason she saw a doubt and then a sudden decision come into bis his face all right he lie said I 1 tell yon you tonight they reached the home araut at the setting ot of the sun in rapid succession came tea a hot bath fresh clothes and dinner with the first puff at her cigarette andrea settled back in her chair and said now the man did not pretend to be at a loss for her meaning lie ile nodded lit III ills cl dair ir and sat down all right be he eald raid trust you heres the jat out of fhe the bag im rm not the only alte man in this bit of coun try there theres a another who came in arross across the wilderness and has hia his camp about forty miles up the river iari business and mine have one thing thin and one thing only thank god in common they are both clandestine As it hap pens I 1 don t think he lie knows or cares carea A hat rm up to but I 1 know all about him because on those rare occasions when he comes down the aher be ho Is invariably roaring drunk ills tongue never stops docs does beever he ever asked andrca andrea you mean doeg does he stop here she nodded yes he does said 1 I wih he but he always coee does and what had you intended to do with me on his first visit she asked well said M bungo his brows puckering ive had in mind to tell 3 ou all about it just as im doing and trust you but if it come to that I 1 was going to gag you and lock you up oh mere ft ere you said andrea her eyes narrowing let me tell you at once that I 1 do not consider myself un der parole I 1 dont mean by that that I 1 ni going to felt sit on the rix aher or bank wait ins in for this man to corae come along but when he comes I 1 would mould be a fool to miss the cb chance ince of telling 0 film ilm just what my situation Is ile might nat bo be able to get roe me out but at least I 1 would mould no longer be totally in sour po power er it if my should be completed there would mould be a cred ible witness to the incredible fact that I 1 had really been here A dark flush spread oer wier Als s face at the risk of further arousing your curiosity he said I 1 let me as sure you that yon you are a thousand times safer in my sole power than in that of one or a dozen MaeCI 1 Is that his name Mac Closter asked andrea coldly nodded and what Is bis his reprehensible business inessa 1 I cant conceive why I 1 should tell you one cant spread that sort of tang without harming goneos ones self so 3 sou ou dont trust me after all paid sald andrea it isn t a question of trusting replied at bungo I 1 it its s a question of whether it ever pays to tell tales out of school and you dont think you are justified in telling me this mans business just as a warning I 1 you mean t said 31 bungo so thit th it you can believe me when I 1 tell you it would be a disaster should he catch a glimpse of you in other words you want to be persuaded that I 1 im m telling the truth av not at all I 1 said andrea youre fishing for tr trouble I 1 mean just a warning 0 11 1 well if you mean just that said M bungo it Is quite unnecessary for I 1 the man Is his own warning only see him before he lie sees you and I 1 wont have to gag you I 1 wont have to lock aou QU ab I 1 may however have to put the tracker on your trail into the I 1 bush you think there is a man living I 1 would run from I 1 said andrea you 1 don dont t know me perhaps sou jou wouldn V 1 sold Ms ungo but in the case of maccloy ter it would be because you coulden couldn ift t i on account of jelly in the knees oh I 1 cried andrea now you have havo done it now I 1 n want ant to see him andrea said M bungo quietly please belle e me when I 1 tell you that you don t rm hoping the old devil wont go on a tear while youre here but it if he does and if he comes just remember what I 1 tell you rather than have hae Mac Alac Closter see you and touch you I 1 would gladly cut your throat why mine asked andrea it would have impressed me a lot m more ore it if said your own perhaps you realized that I 1 quite believe tint now boure oure trying to quarrel said taid the white man coolly aaren arent you sleepy no SANO of he ile yawned dawned t 4 nice of you s said a ld andrea and since youre interested I 1 might as veil men ask a a few lons tons hat mele you doing on that d b beach e a C h with your a airplane Ir plane anyway will that be telling tales out of school lie ire looked relieved not at all id got off my third ste steamer arper load and I 1 suddenly had that thit put it up to me to change the captains sailing orders before be he passed beyond the reach of wr wireless eless there time for anything but the old flying boat so I 1 ran her out and jogged bogged 0 down the coast I 1 on that ad d I 1 beach more than thirty minutes all told thirty minutes murmured andrea who would mould have thought that one little half hour bour could ever matter he looked nt at her mp musingly singly it pay to tell you things he eald said we get along letter just living I 1 I 1 wonder how yon you know I 1 I 1 said andrea youe you e told me such a lot ba ent you where did you learn to clyl fly her question seemed to send a shock through him but he met her bek eyes squarely and said nothing andrea waited a full minute then she began who are you your name where did you coma come from do you al fit n arys r ys take an airplane along are 3 ou an tin amateur if you re not whit do 3 sm ou shrivel every time I 1 say flying ma chine chino why do youl you she pounded the table the mans fico pice paled and went m whit crat each of her questions but he held ae tongue and bis his silence ma mad d I 1 bened her without taking her angry eyes tyes off his face she siept sw apt two coffee cups two saucers and two liqueur glas glasses es to the ground with a crash nothing could have served better to break the tension the man smiled that was great he said pleasantly youre like me ine when la in doubt do something well he be continued in lit his lighter tone 1 I can an aisner answer the spirit of all your questions and I 1 will answer them because I 1 dont want you to ask them again stubborn pride Is 1 the root of the whole mystery during the first year of the war I 1 was mas a flyer for the allies I 1 was on the way may to a big name when my nerve went back on me I 1 couldn coulden t believe it t I 1 came down ON n here and brought a machine with me working on my old theory of contrasts you saw how I 1 flew how I 1 I eded you took tool me for an amateur nil all please leave it its the flaw in my philosophy the inevitable fly in the clear amber of a reasonably happy life ile snapped his cigar away sending after it a long last puff of smoke andrea no longer watched him her ebes a fixed on the diang glow of the cigar butt 1 I several apologies 11 she said quietly but ito im not to blame I 1 couldn coulden t have guessed I 1 can understand some of what you feet because ive heard of several cases like yours poor devils that look young and m well ell but find terror in the anju 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