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PL A1T3M0 DTI1 WEEKLY IIEUALDTIIUKSDA Y OOTOBEK 120, 1887..
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fETno op "Kino boumon's McnM," "una."
-jess,' "tub witcu'u esad," Em
Toro wo got Midi to our quarters. lleVtf w'j
heard from Alnhonsc, who was doeply ug-
grieved because our non-return had spoiled
his dinner (for ho had turned cook again
now), that Good had como Lack from his
hawking and eono on duty. As instructions
had already been Riven to the oflicer of the
outer guard to double the sentries at the gate,
and as wo had no reason to fear any imme
diate danger, wo did not think it worth whilo
to hunt him up und tell him anything of what
had passed, which at best was, under tho
. fieculiar circumstances of the case, one of
those tusks one prefers to postpone: so, after
Bwallowing our food, wo turned in to get
some much needed rct. Before wo did ho,
however, it occurred to Curtis to toll old Um-
nlIogaas to keep a lookout in the neighbor
hood of Nyleptha's private apartments. Urn-
slopoguas was now well known about tho
place, and by the queen's order allowed to
pass whither he would by tho puards: a per
mission of which he often availed himself by
roaming about tho puloco during tho still
hours in a nocturnal fashion that ho favored,
and which is by no means uncommon among
black ir.eu generally. His presence in the
corridors would not, therefore, bo likely to
excito remark. Without any comment tho
.Zulu took up his ax and departed, and wo
also departed to bed.
I seemed to have been asleep but a few min
utes when I was awakened by a peculiar sen
sation of uneasiness. I felt that somebody was
In the room and looking at mo, and instantly
Bat up, to se to my surprise tliat it was al
ready dawn, and that there, standing at tho
foot of my couch, and looking peculiarly
grim and gaunt in tho gray light, was Urn-
Slopogaas himself.
"How long hast thou been there?" I asked,
testily, for it is not pleasant to bo aroused in
such a fashion.
"Mayhap the half of an hour, Macumazahn.
X have a word for thee."
"Speak on," I said, now wide enough
awake.
"As I was bid, I went last night to tho placo
of tho White Queen, and hid myself behind a
pillar in the second anteroom, beyond which is
tho sleeping place of tho queen. Bougwan
(Good) was in the first anteroom a!one,and out
side the curtain of tbat room was a sentry; but
1 liad a mind to see if I could pass in unseen,
and I did, gliding behind them both. There
I waited for many hours, when suddenly I
perceived a dark figuro coming secretly
toward me. It was tho figuro of a woman,
and in her hand she held a dagger. Behind
that figuro crept another, unseen by tho
woman. It was Bougwan following in her
tracks. His shoes were off, and for so fat a
man he followed very well. The woman
passed me, and tho starlight shono upon her
laco."
, "Who was it?" I asked, impatiently.
"The face was tho face of the 'Lady of the
.Night,' and of a truth she is well named.
"I waited, and Bougwan passed mo also.
Then I followed. So wo went slowly and
without a sound up tho long chamber; first
the woman, then Bougwan, and then I; and
tho woman saw not Bougwan, and Bougwan
saw not mo. At last the 'Lady of tho Night'
came to the curtains that shut off the sleep
ing place of the W Lute Queen, and put out
her left hand to part them. Sho parsed
through, and so did Bougwan, and so did 1.
At the far end of tho room is the bed of tho
queen, and on it she lay very fast asleep.
could hear her breathe, and see one white
arm lying on the coverlid like a streak of
snow on the dry grass. The 'Lady of tho
Night' doubled herself thus, and with tho
long knife lifted crept towards the bed. So
straight did sho gaze thereat that she never
thought to look behind her. When she was
quit close Bougwan touched her on the arm,
and she caught her breath and turned, and I
saw the knife flash, and heard it strike. Well
was it for Bougwan that he had the skin of
. "7 saw the knife flash."
iron on him, or he had been pierced. Then
for the first time he saw who the woman was,
and without a word he fell back astonished
and unablo to speak. She, too, was aston
ished, and spoke not ; but suddenly she laid
her finger on her lip, thus, and walked toward
and through tho curtain, and with her went
Bougwan. So close did she pass to mo that
her dress touched me, and I was nigh to slay
ing her as she went. In the first outer room
she spoke to Bougwan in a whisper, and
clasping her hands thus she pleaded with him,
but what she said I know not. And so they
passed on to the second outer room, she plead
ing, and ho shaking his head, and saying, '.Nay
nay, nay. And it seemed to me that ho was
about to call the guard, when she stopped talk
ing and looked at him with great eyes, and I
saw that he was bewitched by her beauty.
Then she stretched out her hand, and he kissed
it, whereon I gathered myself together to ad
vance and take her, seeing that now had
Bougwan becomo a woman, and no longer
knew the good from the evil, when behold 1
she was gone."
"Gone!" I ejaculated. "
"Ay, gone; and thero stood Bougwan star
ing at tho wall liko one asleep, and presently
ho went too, and I waited a whilo and came
away also."
"Art thou sure, Umslopogaas," said I,
"that thou hast not been a dreamer this
night?"
In reply he opened his left hand, and pro
duced about three inches of the blade of a
dagger of the finest steel. "If I bo, Macuma
Bahn, behold what the dream left with me.
The knife broke upon Bougwan's bosom, and
as I passed I picked this up ia the sleeping
place of the White Queen.''
CHAPTER XVIIL .
I T war! bed war. w
Telling TJmslopogaas to wait, I tumbled
Into my clothes and went off with him to Sir
Henry's room, where the Zulu repeated his
itory word for word. It was a sight to watch
Curtis' face as he heard it.
"Great heavens!" ho said; "here have I
been snoring away while Nyleptha was nearly
murdered and all through me, too. What
i fiend that Sorate most be! It would have
lervcdher well If Umslopogaaa had cflt hef
down in the act." ' - . -. -- -
"Ay," said tho Zulu. Tear not; I should
have slain her ere sho struck; I was but wait
ing the moment."
I said nothing; but I could not help think
ing that many a thousand doomed lives
would have been saved if he had meted out
to Sorais tho fate she meant for her sister.
And, as tho issuo proved, I was right.
After ho had told his talo Umslopogaaa
went off unconcernedly to get his morning
meal, and Sir Henry and 1 fell to talking.
At first ho was very bitter against Good,
who, he said, was no longer to bo trusted,
having designedly allowed Soruis to escape
by some secret stair when it was his duty to
have handed her over to justice. Indeed he
spoke in the most unmeasured terms on the
matter. I lot him run on a while, reflecting
to myself how easy wo find it to bo Lurd on
tHo weaknesses of others, and how tender wo
aro to our own.
"Iteally, my dear fellow," I said ut length,
"one would never think, to hear you talk,
tlmt you were t ho man who bad an interview
with this samo lady yesterday and found it
rather diflk-ult to resist her fascinutious, not
withstanding your ties to ono of tho loveliest
and most loving women in tho whole world.
Now suppose that it was Nyleptha who had
tried to murder Sorais, and you had caught
her, and she had pleaded with you, would you
have been so very eager to hand her over to
an open shame and to death by fire? Just
look at the matter through Good's 'eye gluss
for a minute before you denounce an old
friend as a scoundrel."
Ho listened to this jobation submissively,
and then frankly acknowledged that ho had
spoken harsblj. It is ono of tho best points
in Sir Henry's character that ho is always
ready to admit it when ho is in tho wrong.
But, though I spoke up thus for Good, I
was not blind to tho fact, however natural his
behavior might be, it was obvious that ho was
being involved in a very awkward and dis
graceful complication. A foul and wicked
murder had boon attempted, and he had let
tho murderess escape, and thereby, among
other things, allowed her to gain a complete
ascendancy over himself. In fact he was in
a fair way to become her tool and no moro
dreadful fate can befall a man than to be
como tho tool of an unscrupulous woman,
or indeed or any woman. 1 here is but one
end to it: when he is broken, or has served
her purpose, ho is thrown away turned cut
on tho world to hunt for his lost self respect.
Whilo I was pondering thus and wouderiu
what was to be done for the whole subject
was a thorny one I suddenly heard a great
clamor in tho court yard outside and distin
guished tho voices of Uinslopogaas and Al
phonso, the former cursing furiously and tho
latter yelling in terror.
Hurrying out to see what was the matter, I
was met by a ludicrous sight. The little
Frenchman was running up tho courtyard at
an extraordinary speed, and after him sped
TJmslopogaas like a great greyhound. Just as
I came out he caught him, and lifting him
right off his legs, carried him some paces to a
beautiful but very dense flowering shrub
which bore a flower not unlike the gardenia,
but was covered with short thorns. Next,
despite nis howls and struggles, he with one
mighty thrust plunged poor Alphonso head
first into tho bush, so that nothing but tho
calves of his legs and his heels remained in
evidence. ' Then, satisfied with what he had
done, the Zulu folded his arms and stood
grimly contemplating the Frenchman's kicks,
and listening to his yells, which were awful.
"What art thou doing?" I said, running up,
"Wouldst thou kill tho man? Pull him out of
the bush V
With a savage grunt he obeyed, seizing the
wretched Alphonso by the ankle, and with a
jerk that must have nearly dislocated it, tear
ing him out of tho heart of tho shrub. Never
did I see such a sight as he presented, his
clothes half torn off his back, and bleeding as
ho was in every direction from the sharp
thorns. There ho lay, and yelled and rolled,
and there was no getting anythjng out of
him.
At last, however, he got up, and ensconcing
himself behind me, cursed old Umslopogaas
by every saint in tho calendar, vowing by the
blood of his heroic grandfather that be would
poison him and "have his revenge."
At last I got tho truth of the matter. It
appeared that Alphonse habitually cooked
Umdoposaas' porridge, which tho latter ate
for breakfast in the corner of the court yard,
just as he would have done at homo in Zulu-
land, from a gourd, and with a wooden
spoon. Now Umslopogaas had, like many
Zulus, a great horror of fish, which he con
sidered a species of water snake; so Alphonse,
who was as fond of playing tricks as a mon
key, and who was also a consummate cook,
determined to make him eat some. Accord
ingly ho grated up a white fish very finely
and mixed it with tho Zulu's porridge, who
swallowed it nearly all down in ignorance of
what he was eating. But unfortunately for
Alphonso ho could not restrain his joy at this
sight and canib capering and peeping round,
till at last Umslopogaas, who was clever in
his way, suspected something, aud after a
careful examination of the remains of his
porridge, discovered "the buffalo heifer's"
trick, and in revenge served him as 1 have
said. Indeed, tho littlo man was fortunate
not to get a broken neck for his pains: for,
as ono would have thought, he might have
learned from tho episode of his display of
axmanship that lo monsieur noir was an ill
person to play practical jokes on.
This incident was unimportant enough in
itself, but I narrate it because it led to serious
consequences. As soon as he had stanched
the bleeding from his scratches and washed
himself, Alphonso went off, Btill cursing, to
recover his temper, a process which I knew
from experience would take a very long
time. When he had gone, I gave Umslo
pogaas a jobation, and told him that I was
ashamed of his behavior.
"Ah, well, Macumazahn," he said, "you
must be gentle with me, for here is not my
place. I am weary of it weary to death of
eating and drinking, of sleeping and giving
in marriage. I love not this soft life in stono
houses that takes the heart out of a man, and
turns his strength to water and his flesh to fat.
I love not tho white robes and the delicate
women, the blowing of trumpets and the
flying of hawks. When we fought the Masai
at tho kraal yonder, ah, then life was worth
the living; but hero is never a blow struck in
anger, and I begin to think I shall go the
way of my fathers and lift Inkosi-kaas no
more," and he held up the ox and gazed at
it in sorrow.
"Ah," I said, "that is thy complaint, is it?"
Thou hast the blood sickness, hast thou? and
the Woodpecker wants a tree. And at thy
age, too. Shame on,thee, Umslopogaas!"
"Ay, Macumazahn, mine is a red trade, yet
it is better and more honest than some. Bet
ter is it to slay a man in fair fight than to
suck out his heart's blood in buying and sell
ing and usury, after your white fashion.
Manv a man have 1 slam, yet is tuere never
a ono that I should fear to look in tho face
again; ay, many are they who once were
friends, and whom I should be right glad to
snuff with. But there 1 there! thou host thy
ways, and I mino, each to his own people and
his own placo. Tb6 high veldt ox will die in
the fat bush country, and so it is with mo,
Macumazahn. I am rough, I know it, and
when mv blood is warm I know not what to
do, but yet wilt thou be sorry when the night
wallows me and I am utterly lost in the
blackness; for in tby heart thou lovest me,
my father, Macumazahn tho fox, though I
Lo but a broken down Zulu wardog a chief
for whom there is no room in his own kraal,
an outcast and a wanderer in strange places;
ay, I love thee, Macumazahn, for wo have
grown gray together, and "there is that be
tween us that caunot be seen, and yet is too
strong for breaking;" and he took his snuff
box, which was mode of an old brcss curt-
ridge, from the slit in his ear, whero ho always
carried it, and handed it to me for me to
help myself.
I took the pinch of snuff with some emotion.
It was quite truo I was much attached to tho
bloodthirsty old ruffian. I don't know what
was the charm of his character, but it had a
charm; erhaps it was its fierce honesty and
directness; perhaps ono admired his almost
superhuman skill and strength, or it may
have been simply that ho was so absolutely
unnjue. frankly, wuu all my experience
of savages, I never know a man quite like
him, he was so wise, and yet such a child
with it all ; and though it seems laughable to
say so, liko the hero of tho Yankee parody,
ho "had a tender heart." Anyway, I was
very fond of him, though I should never
have thought of telling him so.
"Ay, old wolf," I said, "thino is a strange
love. Thou wouldst split me to tho chin if I
stood in thy path to-morrow."
"Thou speakest truth, Macumazahn; that
would I if it came in the way of duty, but I
should love tlieo all the same when tho blow
hod gono fairly home. Is there any chance
of somo fighting here, Macumazahn?" he
went on, in an insinuating voice. "Methought
that what I saw last night did show that tho
two great queens were vexed ono with an
other, elso had tho 'Lady of the Night' not
brought that dagger with her."
I agreed with him that it showed that more
or less pique and irritation existed between
the ladies, and told him how things stood, and
that they were quarreling over Incubu.
"Ah, is it so?" ho exclaimed, springing up
in delight; "then will thero bo war as surely
as the rivers rise in the rains war to the end.
Women love tho last blow as well as tho last
word, aud when they fight for love they aro
pitiless as a wounded buffalo. See thou,
Macumazahn, a woman will swim through
blood to her desire, and think naught of it.
With these eyes have I seen it once, and twice
also. Ah, Macumazahu, we shall see this fine
place of houses burning yet, and hear the bat
tle cries come ringing up the street. After
all, I have not wandered for nothing. Can
this folk fight, think ye?"
Just then Sir Henry joined us, and Good
arrived, too, from another direction, looking
very pale and hollow eyed. Tho moment
Umslopogaas saw the latter he stopied his
bloodthirsty talk and greeted him.
"Ah, Bougwan," ho cried, "greeting to
thee, Inkoos, thou art surely weary. Didst
thou hunt too much yesterday?" Then, with
out waiting for an answer, he went on:
"Listen, Bougwan, and I will tell thee a
story; it is about a woman, therefore wilt
thou hear it; is it not so?
"There was a man, and . he had a brother,
and there was a woman who loved tho man's
brother, and was beloved of the man. The
man's brother had a favorite wife, and loved
not tho woman, and ho made a mock of her.
Then the woman, being very cunning and
fierco hearted for revenge, took counsel with
herself, and said to tho man, 1- love thee, and
if thou wilt mako war upon thy brother I
will marry thee.' And he knew it was a lie,
yet because of his great love of the woman,
who was very fair, did he listen to her words
and made war. And when many people had
been killed his brother sent to him, saying,
Whyslayest thou me? What hurt have I
done unto thee? From my youth up have I
not loved tbee? When thou wast littlo did I
not nurture thee, and have we not gone down
to war together and divided the cattle, girl
by girl, ox by ox, and cow by cow? Why
slayest thou me, my brother, son of my own
mother?'
"Then the man's heart was heavy, and he
knew that his path was evil; and he put
aside the tempting woman, and ceased to
make war on his brother, and lived at peace
in the same kraal with him. And after a
time tho woman camo to him, and said, 'I
have lost tho past, I will be thy wife.' And
in his heart he knew that it was a lie, and
that she thought the evil thing, yet because
of his love did ho take her to wife.
"And tho very night that they were wed,
when the man was plunged into a deep sleep,
did tho woman arise and tako his ax from
his hand, and creep into the hut of his brother
and slay him in his rest. Then did sho slink
back like a gorged lioness, and place the
thong of the red ax back upon his wrist and
go her ways
"And at the dawning the peoplo came shout
ing, 'Lousta is slain in the night!' and they
camo unto the hut of the man, and there he
lay asleep, and by him was tho red ax.
Then did they remember tho war, and say,
Lo! he hath of a surety slain his brother,'
and they would have taken and killed him,
but ho rose and fled swiftly, and as he fleeted
by he slew tho woman.
"But death could not wipe out the evil she
had done, and on him rested tho weight of all
her sin. Therefore is he an outcast, and his
name a scorn among his own people; for on
him, and him only, resteth the burden of her
who betrayed. And therefore does he wan
der afar, without a kraal, and without an ox
or a wife, and therefore will he die afar like a
stricken buck, and his name be accursed from
generation to generation, in that the ieople
say that he slew his brother, Lpusta, by
treachery in the night time."
The old Zulu paused, and I saw that he was
deeply agitated by his own story. Presently
bo lifted his head, which ho had bowed to his
breast, and went on:
"I was that man, Bougwan. Oul I was
that man; and now hark thou! Even as I
am, so wilt thou be a tool, a plaything, an ox
of burden to carry the evil deeds of another.
Listen! When thou didst creep after the
'Lady of tho Night' I was hard upon thy
track. When she struck thee with the knife
in tho sleeping place of the White Queen I was
there also. When thou didst let her slip
away like a snake in the stones I saw thee;
and I knew that sho had bewitched thee, and
that a true man had abandoned the truth,
and he who aforetime loved a straight path,
had taken a crooked way. Forgive me, my
father, if my words are sharp, but out of a
full heart are they spoken. See her no more,
so shalt thou go down with honor to the
grave. Else because of the beauty of a woman
that weareth as a garment of fur shalt thou
be even as I am, and perchance with more
cause. I have said."
Throughout this long and eloquent address
Good had been perfectly silent, but when the
tale began to shape itself so aptly to his own
case ho colored up, and when he had learned
that what had passed between him and
Sorais had been overseen he was evidently
much distressed. And now, when at last he
spoke, it was in a tone of humility quite
foreign to him.
"I must say," ho said with a bitter littlo
lausrh. "that I scarcely thought that I should
live to bo taught my duty by a Zulu, but it
just shows what we can come to. I wonder
if you fellows can understand how humiliated
I feel; and the bitterest part or it ur tnac x
deserve it all. Of course I should have handed
her over to the guard, but I could not, and
that is a fact I let her go and I promised to
say nothing, more is the shame to me. She
told me that if I would sido with her she
would marrv me and make me king of this
country; thank goodness, I did find the
heart to say that own to marry her I could
not desert my friends. And now you can do
- what you like; I deserve it all. AH I have to
say n that I hopo you may never lovo a
woman with all your heart and then be so
sorely tempted of her," and ho turned to go.
"Look here, old fellow," said Sir Henry,
"just stop a minute; I have a littlo tale to tell
you, too." And ho proceeded to narrate what
had taken place tho previous day between
Sorais und himself.
This was a finishing stroke to poor Good.
It is not pleasant to any man to bo made a
tool of, but when tho circumstances aro as
peculiarly atrocious us in tho present case it
is about as bitter a pill as anybody can be
called ujoii to swallow.
"Do you know," ho said, "I think that be
tween you you fellows have about worked n
cure," and he turned and walked away, and I
for ono felt very sorry for him. Ah, if tho
moths would always carefully avoid the can
dle, how few burnt wings there would lie!
That day was a court day, when the queens
fat in tho great hall und received petitions,
discussed laws, etc., and thither we adjourned
shortly afterwards. On our way we wero
joined by Good, who was lookingexeeedingly
depressed, and no wonder.
When wo got into tho Lull Nylept ha wus
already on her throne, and proceeding with
business as usuul, surrounded by councilors,
courtiers, lawyers, priests, ami an unusually
strong guard. It was, however, easy to see
from tho air of excitement und expectation
on tho faces of everybody present that no
body was paying much attention to ordinary
affairs, the fact being that tho knowledge
that civil war was imminent hud now got
abroad. We suluted Nyleptha und took our
accustomed pluees, aud for a littlo while
things went on as usual, when suddenly the
trunqiets began to cull outside tho palace,
and from the great crowd that was gathered
there in anticipation of some uuusual event
there rose a roar of "Sorais! Sorais!''
Then came the roll of many chariot wheels,
and presently the great curtains at the end
of the hull were drawn wide, and through
them entered the "Lady of the Night" herself.
Nor did sho como alone. .Preceding her was
Agon, tho high priest, amryed in his most
gorgeous vestments, and on either side were
other priests. Tho reason for their presence
was obvious coniiutr wilh them it would
'have been sacrilege to attempt to detain her.
Behind her were a number of tho great lords,
and behind them a small body of picked
guards. A glanco at Sorais herself was
enough to show that her mission was of no
peaceful kind, for in place of her gold em
broidered "kaf" sho wore a shining tunic
formed of golden scales, and on her head a
littlo golden helmet. In her hand, too, she
boro a toy spear, lieautifully made und fash
ioned of solid silver. Up tho hall sho camo,
looking liko a lioness iu her conscious pride
and beauty, and as she approached the spec
tators fell back bowing and mado a path for
her. By the sacred stone sho halted, and
lavincr her hand on it. she cr.'ed out with a
loud voico to Nyleptha on tho throne, "Hail,
O queen 1"
"All hail, my sister!" answered Nyleptha.
"Draw thou near. Fear not, I give thee safe
conduct."
Sorais answered with a haughty look, and
swept on up tho hall till sho stood right lie-
foro the thrones.
"A boon, O queen !" she cried again.
"Speak on, my sister; what is thero 1 can
give thco who hath half our kingdom?"
"Thou canst tell me a truo word me and
the people of Zu-Vend is. Art thou, or art
thou not, about to tako this foreign wolf,"
and sho pointed to Sir Henry with her toy
spear, "to be a husband to thee and share thy
bed and throne?"
Curtis winced at this, and turning towards
Sorais, said to her in a low voice, "Methinks
that yesterday thou hadst other names than
wolf to call me by, O queen!" and I saw her
bite her lips as, liko a danger flag, tho blood
flamed red upon her face. As for Nyleptha,
who i nothing if not original, she, seeing
that the thing was out, and that there was
nothing further to lie gained by concealment,
answered the question m a novel and effec
tual manner, inspired thereto, as I firmly be
lieve, by coquetry and a desire to triumph
over her rival.
Ud she rose, and descending from tho
throne swept in all the glory of her ro3'al
grace on to where her lover stood. There she
stopped and uutwined the golden snake that
was wound around her arm. Then she bade
him kneel, and ho dropped on one knee on tho
niarblo before her; and next, taking the
golden snake with both her hands, she bent
tho pure soft metal round his neck, and when
it was fast deliberately kissed him on the
brow and called him her "deailord."
"Thou seest," she said, when the excited
murmur of the spectators had died away,
addressing her sister as Sir Henry rose to his
feet, "I have put my collar round the 'wolfs
neck,' and behold ! he shall bo my watch dog,
and that is my answer to thee, Sorais, my
sister, and to those with thee. Fear not,"
she went on, smiling sweetly on her lover,
and pointing to the golden snake sho had
twined round his massive throat. "If my
yoke be heavy, yet is it of pure gold, and it
shall not gall thee."
Then, turning to the audience, she con
tinued, in a clear proud tone: "Ay, Lady of
tho Night, lords, priests, and peoplo here
gathered together, by this sign do I take the
foreigner to husband, even here in the face
of ye all. What, am I a queen, and yet not
free to choose the man whom I will love? T. hen
should I bo lower than the meanest girl in all
my provinces. Nay, he hath won my heart,
and with it goes ray hand and throne and all
I have ay, had he been a beggar instead of
a great lord, fairer and stronger than any
here, and having more wisdom and knowl
edge of strange thing.-, 1 had given him all;
how much more so, then, being what he is!"
And sho took his hand aud gazed proudly on
him, and holding it, stood there boldly
facing the people. And such was her sweet
ness, and the iower and dignity of her per
son, aud so beautiful she looked standing
hand in hand there at hor lover's side, so
suro of him and of herself, and so ready to
risk all things and endure all things for him,
that most of those who saw the sight, which I
am suro no one of them wul ever forget,
caught tho fire from her eyes and the happy
color from her blushing face, and cheered her
like wild things. It was a bold stroke for her
to make, and it appealed to the imagination;
but human nature in Zu-Vendis, as elsewhere,
loves that which is bold and not afraid to
break a rule, and is moreover peculiarly sus
ceptible to appeals to its poetical side.
And so the people cheered till the roof rang;
but "Sorais of the Night" stood there with
downcast eyes, for sho could not bear to see
her sister's triumph, which robbed her of the
man whom she had hoped to win ; and in the
awfulness of her jealous anger she trembled
and turned white like an aspen in the wind.
I think I have said somewhere of her that she
reminded me of the sea on a calm day, having
the same aspect of sleeping power about her.
Well, it was all awake now, aud, like the
face of the furious ocean, it awed and yet
fascinated me. A really hansdome woman
in a royal rage is always a beautiful sight,
but such beauty and such a rage I never saw
combined before; and I can only say that
the effect produced was well worthy of tho
two.
Sho lifted her white face, the teeth were
set, and there were purple rings beneath her
glowing eyes. Thrice sho tried to speak, and
thrice sho failed, but at last her voice came.
Raising her silver spear, sho shook It, and
the light glanced from it and from tho golden
scales of her cuirass.
"And thinkect thou, Nyleptha," 6ho said. In
notes which pealed through the great hall
liko a clarion "thinkest thou that I, -a queen
of tho Zu-Vendi, will brook that this huso
outlander shall sit upon my father's throne,
and rear up half breeds to fill tho place of tho
great house of tho Stairway? Never! never!
whilo there 1b lifo in my Ijosom und a man to
follow mo and a spear to striko with. Who
Is ou mv side? who'
Tho Difference-
Omaha teacher "Yes, my children, re
member there is no human love equal to
a mother's love."
Little girl "Women love llnir chil
dren better than flnir husbands, don't
they?"
"Very often."
"Yes indeed. When we gets the hic
coughs miitmiui gets sorry ami tries to
cure 'em, but when papa, gi ts the hic
coughs srlie gets mud."
Couldn't Fool the LittioCirf
Lm:ili.'i Win Id
Omaha Mamma Now, dear, you must
invite one of your little friends in to
ehfire your candy.
Little Dot 1- I guess 111 invite Jaicv.
"Well, tha t will be nice."
"Yes, candy makes her tooth ache an
t-he never cats ninth, "
Tnrc Japanese OovTimirnt hns engaged
a young San Francisco woman to organ
ize a school of domestic service nt Toki"
to familiarize Jupancea ;i i Is wilh our
customs.
Don't
l ?t that cold of yours run on. You think
it is a light thing. Hut it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or con
sumption. Cat drill is disgusting. Jl'noimionia is
dangerous. Consumption is death itself.
The breathing aparatus must be kept
healthy anj clear of all obstructions
and offensive mat' c r. Otherwise there
is trouble ahead.
All tin; diseases of tlu se parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs,
can be delightfully and entirely cured
by the use of Uoschce's German Syrup.
If you don't know this already, thou
sands and thousands of people can tell
you. 1 hey have been cured by it, and
"know how it is, themselves." Dottle
only To cents. Ask any druggest, 1
can live nt home and make more
money at work for u than at ::ny
thing else iu this world. Capital
not reeded ; you are started free.
Uoth sexes : all :eres. Any one ran
do the work. I.are earning-' sure
from first, start. Cost.lv outfits and
terms free. Better not. delay. Costsyou noth
ing to send ns your address and Hint but ; and
if you are wiso you will do so at once, Addn-ss
II. li A Li lett & CO.. Portland, Maine. :;Iy
XXJPPZLST
d, Shop Worn Goods,
WB CAN NOW OFFKK SOME FKKSH AND M I'EUIOU GOODS IN
BOO S
fs&i nm
it Greatly 2&g&hcg& Pricas.
Ladies' Kid Button Shoes, formerly 3.00, vow $2.00.
Ladies' Kid Button Shoe.-;, formerly .$:2.c2.", now $1.2.".
Ladies' J'eb. Goat Shoes, formerly 2.75, now si. To.
Ladies' A Calf Shoes, formerly 2.25, now 2.00.
Ladies' Kid Opera Slippers-, formerly 1.00, new 75".
Men's "Working Shoes, lormcrlv SI. 75, now 1.10.
I II I I II I
Choice Box of few old Goods left at less than half Cost
Manufacturing and Repairing Ready and
Promptly done.
GA.HL.DL. -A.T THE OLID &TS17JD OF
Unlaw l irjM. 1 w iiiim.ui jm wie.-'iMMBMfrrrTr,rLZCznpn.i
Have anything yoa want from a two
passenger
CARRIAGES FOR
. SHORT
are always kept ready. Cabs or
and everything ior luneralslurnishedon short notice. lermscash.
Sank Cass County
Cottier Mala and t-ttxth Htreetii.
LATTGMOUTH ZtTZLrOS
. V. II, 1A KMI.bK. ITf-sldent,
IJ. M. i'ATI'iiKJsUN. t'Hf-hier. J
Transacts a General Mu Easiness
HIGHEST cash pkice;
Paid for County and City Warrant
J O Id S; XUJT1 O !V 2 J A I K
and promptly remitted fcr.
1 1 u k ; -i' iJ :
O. It. Pain elf, '. nttrr-nn,
Kia ! older, A. J. Su tlV.
U. It. Wliiitli;iui. M. M.uilsey,
.lames Patterson. Jr.
THE CITIZENS
B X'
PLATTSMOUT1I. - M'lUiAMiA.
CAPITAL STOOK PAID IN, - $f0,0Co'
Authorized Capital, $100,000.
- Ol'KICl'ltH
I'KAMv CAUKUTil. .IDS. A. C"NNOi
President. VUe-President.
W. Ji. 'JUK1I1NG. Cashier.
UIKKCTOKS
Frank CarrutJi, J. A. Connor. P. K. Cuthmai n,
J. W. J o!i i! con. Henry !!u i ),.Io!iu O'Keere,
V. 1. Merriam, Win. Weteucauip, V.
II. Ce.-hti.:.
Tr.ns;ieti a Cenerii! J'i'Jik in Business. All
Who have any Bank inn tuisiiit-ss to I runs net
are tnvlted to eal!. .No iriattir lii-v
laifr or i-mall the traiinaeiinn, it
v i!l receive our careful at tci:S ion,
and we promise always eour
tet.'tis trrat.iiu-nt.
Indues Certificates of l)e- osils hearing Interest
Buyu and sell Ketelfii Exchange, County
and Citv teciiritieH.
JoriX PlTZ.'iV.KA I.l , H. YATHUT
President. C.'ieliier
r-'frGT ti AT! DUAL
3
'NT
-
of PBArr.-uifHrni. nkbbahka.
Oft'T.i t'ifi very t;e.'. taoililles for the prompt
trat.!iict!on of letritlraafo
BAEKING BUSINESS.
Wfocks, Bonds, (.'old. f;overnmerit Riirt Boc
Scour It U'f Bo ii eli t ".I'd Soltt, ir posit s reoe iv
ei k:: interest aii:;ve! oi! 1 i:i-e (V-rtifi-c.-'.t
i-f . Draff i' (l r;i v. n, :;,vai ;:;! i- In Kiiy
part of the t'r.itei! St;.te !,j .1 j4
the principal townt of
Burooe.
Collections marie C- jirornyilly ren.itted
Highest market prices paid f.-.r County War
State at.d County Bonda.
DIRECTOns j
John Fitzgerald
Jo" ii It. Clark,
J). Flaksworih.
it. r. wnit.
.s. v - aucrn.
COT ZVZJD Q3T OTJH
H ki . ii & m M
, !f3 VWS Afte y:
- wheeled go cart to a twenty -four
wagon.
PLEASURE AND
J3R1VES,
tight carriages, pall-hearer wagons