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Show Trav'tfar . Re i jiL VOL III Heber Wasatch County, Utah, Monday, Mar. THE HEBER HERALD Editor and Manager. Entered at Heber .Postoffice , as second class mail matter Hatch Jr? A. ' , - go 0 ii pr SUBSCRIPTION PRICES 20 th 1S92 No. 19 bright sunshine. I also realised that he was much more than a match forme in strength; that I had no weapon which could be made to serve before he reached me; that I was on.my back while he was on his feet; that my only chance was to do something unexpected that would take him of his guard, and that he had but five feet of space to cross before he reached me. I almost closed my eyes lest he should be able to see that I was awake, breathed deep and loud inviting him to be at ease and take his time, and jiarrowly watched the dim shadow I stealthiiymhove toward-me- . Jill; He stood beside me, paused for a moment, muttering a native prayer, then slowly bent over me. That was the last ceremony. I knew' the end was near, but fought myself in vain for, some suggestion of J He sank upon one knee, and his broad shoulders came between me. and-the narrow line of moonlight. I heard him breath with that hard, guttral rasp is always d which with the indicative of desperate earnestness. 1 even felt his breath against my face as he bent lower over it, piercing the shadows with eyes that glistened even in the darkness, to assure himself that there was no mistake. t One Year $1.00 V Months. . Three Months Six r. 1. . . ; . . .$0.50 ........ $0. 25 "M" THE KAFFIR'S BEQUEST. ' It is always astonishing, when brought to notire the amount of thinking the mind can do in an emergency. Before the fellow, had time to take a single step from the curtain! knew that he was a Kaffir; that he had no more to Jo with the region of the Nile than I; that he had come a long way for a. purpose; that the purpose was to kill me unless he was making a mistake in identity and that we had met before. I could not think how or where, but as plainly an memory ever reproduced anything it reproduced that savage jaw and lobeless ear somewhere in the self-defenc- e. , half-civilize- |