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HIDKIl IIACQAUI. cii.v i'n: u l I meet snt iii:nm:y ctktir. It Is a curious thiiiic tint nt mv a? ti ft y five last birihdux I should liud un-c!l' tJK iuK up a jh'ii to try uml writ a lustury. 1 wonder what s.u t of a history it will be wlwn 1 huve doiio it, if I fvvr com to tli end of the triji! 1 li.ive doiio a od many UiiiiKS in my lile, whi u k-m.js tnni om, to me. owiiik u my haviui? l-i?im so youn pernapa At an ape when other bovs are at school, I wan eariiii!r my living as a trailer in the old colony. 1 have Uieu trading, huntins:, tichtinif, or mining over since. Ami yet it is only eiht months auo that I ma'le my pile. It is a big pile now I have fcot it I don't know yet how bit? but I don t think 1 would go through the last liltoen or sixteen months aRaln for it; no. not if I knew that I should come out safe at the end, pile and all. But then I am a timid m;in, and don't like violence, and am pretty sick of advent ure. 1 wonder why 1 am going to write this book: it is not in mv line. I am not literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament an t n'.-vj to the "liiKoldsby Le gends." Let me try and set down my rea sons, just to see if 1 have any. First reason: Ueeame Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John (iood asked me to. Second reason: Because 1 am laid up here at Durban with the pain and trouble of my lett leg. Ever since that confounded lion pot hold of me 1 have been liable to it, and its being rather bad just now makes uie limp more than ever. I here must be some poison in the lion's teeth, otherwise how is it that when your wounds are healed they break out aj?ain, generally, mrK you, at tne same time of year tliat you got your mauling? It is a hard thing that when one has shot sixl v- live lions as 1 have in the course of my lii'i tuai me sixiy sixin snoum chew your lliie a quid ol tobacco. It breal.s 11. e routiii o! tiie thing, and jiiittiu olIeT considers lions aside, 1 am an orderly man bnd don't like that This is by the way. Ihird reason: Because 1 want my boy. tiarry, wno is over there at the Hospital m London studying to become a doctor, to hav sotiietiung to amuse him and Keep him out of mischief for a week or so. Hospital work iiiiist sometime pall and j;et rather liul:. for even of cutting up dead bodies, there must come satiety, and as this history won't !e dull, whatever else it may be, it may put a little life into things for a da or two while he is reading it. Fourth reason ami last: Because I am go ing to tell the strangest story that 1 know of. It may seem a queer thing to say that, especially considering that there is no woman m it except Foulata. Scop, though! tin is Oagaoola, if she was a woman and not fiend. But she was a hundred at least, nd therefore not marriageable, so 1 don't count her. At any rate, 1 can safely say that thivr is not a petticoat in the who e history. Well. 1 had better come to the yoke. It's a still place, and I feel as though 1 were bogged up to the axle. But "sutjes, sutj -s," as the Boers say (I'm sure I don't know "now they spell it), softly does it. A strong team will come through at last, that is if they ain't too poor. You will never do anything with poor oxen. Now to begin. J, Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, gentleman, make oath and say that's how 1 began my deposition before the magistrate, about poor Khiva's and Ventvogel's sad deaths; but somehow it doesn't seem quite the right way to begin a book. And, besides, am I a gentleman? What is a gentleman? 1 don't quite know, and yet I have had to do with niggers no, I'll scratch that word "niggers" out, for I don't like it. I've known natives who are, and so you'll say, Harry, my boy, before you're done with this tale, and I have known mean whites with lots of money and fresh out from home, too, who ain't Well, at any rate, 1 was born a gentleman, though I've been nothing but a poor travel ing trader and a hunter all my life. Wheth er I have remained so 1 know not, you must judge of that Heaven knows I've tried. I've killed many men in my time, but I have never slain wantonly or' stained my hand in innocent blood, only in self-defense. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I supnose he meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it won't be brought up against me when my clock strikes. There, there, it is a cruel and wicked world, and for a timid man I have been mixed up in a deal of slaughter. I I can't tell the rights of it, but at any rate I have never stolen, though I once cheated a J Kafir out of a herd of cattle. But then he had done me a dirty turn, and It lias troubled me ever since into the bargain. Well it's eighteen months or so ago since I first met Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, and it was in this way. 1 had been up elephant hunting beyond Bamangwato, and had had bad luck. Everything went wrong that trip, and to top up with I got the fever badly. So soon I was well enough 1 trekked down to the Diamond Fields, sold such ivory as I had, and also my wagon and oxen, discharged my hunters, and took the post-cart to the Cape. After spending a week in Cape Town, (hiding that thev over charged ine at the hotel, and having seen everything tiitre was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seemed to me like ly to confer a great benefit on the country, and new Houses of Parliament which 1 ex pect will do nothing of the sort, I determin ed to go on back to Natal by the Dunkeld, then lying in the docks waiting for the Edin burgh Castle due in from England. 1 took my berth and went aIoard, and that after noon the Natal passengers from the Edin burgh Castle transhipped, and we weighed and put out to sea. Among the passengers who came on board there were two who excited my curiosity. I One, a man about thirty, was one of the j biggest-cnested and longest-armed ever saw. He had yellow hair, a bij ig yellow mtTthUS:ibeanl, clear-cut features, and large gray eves set deep m his bead. 1 never saw a finer-looking man, and somehow he remind ed me of an ancient Dane, Not that I know much of ancient Danes, though I remember a modern Dane who did me out of ten pounds; but I remember once seeing a pict- ure of some of those gentry, who I take it j were a kind of white Zulus. They were drinking out of big horns, and their long hair hung down their backs, and as I looked at my friend standing there by the companion-ladder. 1 thought that if one only let his hair grow a bit, put on one of those chain , shirts on to those great shoulders of his, and gave him a big battle-ax and a born-mug, be inieht have nat as a model for that picture. And by the way it is a curious thing, and just shows how the blood will show out I j found out afterward that Sir Henry Curtis, j for that was the big man's name, was of 1 Danish blood. He also reminded me srrong : ly of somebody else, but at the time I could not remember who it was. The other man who stood talking to Sir Henrv was short stout and dark, and of a the course of my life, and they have always tecu just the beit and bravest and nicest fel lows 1 ever met though given to the use ol profane language. 1 asked a p.ige or two back, what Is a gen tleman? I'll answer it now: a royal naval ofhVcr is in a general sort of a wav, though ot course, there may be a black bheep among them here and there. I fancv it is just the wide sea and the breath of (lol's vnln;.i thai washes their heart and blows the bitternes cut of theii minds and makes theui what men ought to Iw. Well, to return, 1 was riirht again; I found out that he wa a naval ollieer, a lieutenant of thirty-one, who, after H'Vv.liU'eil ears' service, iad teeil turned , out of her majesty's employ with the barren honor of a comma Oder's rank, because it was impossible that he should le promoted. That is what jwople who serve the ipim-n have to expect; to be shot out into the cold world to hn! a living just when they are be ginning to really understand their work, and to get to the prune of ; Well, 1 suppose they doj.j mind it, but for my part I had ratliei' f rn my bread as a. hunter. One's halfpence ai'e as scarce per haps, but you don't get so many kicks. His name 1 found outr by referring to the pas senger's list w as Good -Captain John Good, lie was broad, of medium height, dark, stout, and rather a curious man to look at He was so very neat, and so very clean shaven, and always wore an eyeglass in Ins right eye. It seemed to grow there, for it had no string, ami he never took it out ex cept to wipj it. At tirst 1 thought he used to sleep in it, but I afterward found that this was a mistake. He put it in hi-, trousers Iockct h"ii he went to bed, together with his false teeth, of which lie had two beauti ful sets that havrt often, my own being none of the best, caused me to break the tenth commandment. But 1 am anticipating. Soon alter we got under veigh evening closed in, and brought with it very dirty weather. A keen breeze sprung up off land, and a kind of aggravated Scotch mist soon drove everybody from the decK. And as for that Dunkeld, she is a fl it-bottomed punt, and going up light as she was, she rolled very heavily. Jt almost seemed as though she would go right over, lint she never did. It was quite impossible to walk about, so I stood near the engines where it was warm, and amused myself with watching the pen dulum, which was lixed opposite to me, swinging slowly backward and forward as the vessel rolled, and marking the angle the touched at each lurch. "That pendulum's wrong; it is not proper ly weighted," suddenly said a voice at my shoulder, somewhat testily. Looking round I saw the naval ollieer 1 had noticed when the passengers came aboard. "Indeed, now what makes you think so?" I asked. , "Think so. I don't think at all. Why there" as she righted herself after a mil "if the ship had really rolled to the degree that thing pointed to then she would never have rolled again, that's all. But it is just like these merchant skippers, they always are so confoundedly careless." Just then the dinner-bell rung, and I was not sorry, for it is a dreadful thing to have to listen to an ollieer of the royal navy when he gets on to that subject 1 only know one worse tiling, and that is to hear a merchant skipper express his candid opinion of oflicers of the royal navy. Captain Good and 1 went down to dinner together, and there we found Sir Henry Cur tis already seated. He and Captain Good sat together, and I opposite them. The cap tain and I soon got into talk about shooting and what not; he asking me many questions, and I answering as well as I could. Present ly he got on to elephants. "Ah, sir," called out somebody who was Bitting near me, "you've got the right man for that; Hunter Quatermain should be able to tell you about elephants if anybody can." Sir Henry, who had been sitting quite quiet listening to our talk, started visibly. "Excuse me, sir," he said, leaning forward across the table, and speaking in a low, deep voice, a very suitable voic it semed to me. ir. but is your name Allen Oiatermain?" 1 said it was. The big man made no further remark, but heard him mutter "fortunate" into his beard. Presently dinner came to an end, and as we were leaving the saloon Sir Henry came up and asked me if 1 would come into his cabin and smoke a pipe. 1 accepted, and he led the way to the Dunkeld ca'u'n, and a very good caiun it was. it naa Deeu two cabins, but when Sir Garnet or one of those big swells went down the coast in the Dun keld, they had knocked away the partition and never put it up again. There was a sofa ih the cabin, and a little table in front of it Sir Henry sent the steward for a bottle of whisky, and the three of us sat down and lit our pipes. 'Mr. Quatermain," said Sir Henry Curtis, when the steward had brought the whisky, and lit the lamp, "the year before last about this time you were, I believe, at a place called Bamangwato, to the north of the Transvaal." '1 was." I answered, rather surprised that this gentleman should be so well acquainted with my movements, which were not, so far as I was aware, considered of general in terest ' i ou were trading there, were ycu notF' put in Captain Good, in his quick way. '1 was. 1 took up a wagon-load of goods. and made a camp outside the settlement and stopped until 1 had sold them." Sir Henry was sitting opposite to me in a Madeira chair, his arms leaning on the table. He now looked up, fixing his large gray eyes full upon my face. There was a curious anx iety in them I thought 4Did you happen to meet a man called Neville there?" "Oh, yes; he outspanned alongside of me for a fortnight to rest his oxen before going on to the interior. I had a letter from a law yer a few months back asking me if 1 knew what had become of him. which 1 answered to tbe best of mv abuitv at the tias. xca, - aaiu oir xiemy, -your itoo forwarded to me. You said in it that the gentleman called Nevelle left Bamangwato In the beginning of Mav in a wagon with a TIic three r,f is snt down and lit our pijex. whero he would sell his wagon, for six months afterward you saw thn wagon In Ihn MSHcsson of a Portuguese trader, who bld you that lie had bought It sit hnati from a white man whose name ho had forgotten, and that the white man with a native serv ant had started otT for the Interior on a sheeting trip, he believed." Ye." ' Then came a pause. "Mr. Oiiatermain?" s.iid Sir Henry, su l- denlv, "I suppose you know or can guess nothing more of the reason-i of my of Mr. Neville's toiirnev to the northward, or in to what Minl that journey w.w directed I" "1 heard something," 1 answered, ami Flopped. The subject was one 1 didn't earn to discuss. ' Sir Henry and Captain Goxl looked at each other, and Captain Good nodded. "Mr. Quatermain," said the former, "I am going to tell you a tUory, and ask your advice, and erhaps your assistance, Th agent who forwarded me your letter told me that I R'ni'nt imDtitii'-Iy f'V nnon It 19 vorfta were, - ne bbmi, -wen Known aim universal ly respected In Natal, and especially noted for your discretion." I bowed and drank some whisky and wa ter to hide my confusion, for 1 am a modest man and Sir Henry went on, "Mr. Neville was my brother." "Oh," 1 said, starting, for 1 now knew who Sir Henry had reminded me of when 1 first saw bun. His brother was a much smaller man and had a dark beard, but now 1 thought of It he possessed eyes of the same shade of gray and with the same keen look in them, and the features, too, were not unlike. "He was," went on Sir Henry, "my only, and younger brother, and till live years ago I dil not snpposo we were ever a month away from each other. But just about live years aico a misfortune tx-lell us, us .some times does happen in families. We had quarreled bitterly, and I behaved very un justly to my brother in my aiiL'er." Hero C iptain Good nodded his head vigorously to himself. The ship gave a big roll just then, so that the looking-glass, which was lixed opposite us to starboard, was for a moment nearly over our heads, and as 1 was sitting with my hands in my pockets and staring upward, I could see him nodding like any thing. 1 "As I dare say you know," went on Sir Henry, "if a man dies intestate, ami has no property but land, real property it is called in England, it all descends to his eldest son. It so happened that just at the time when we quarreled our father died intestate. He had put off making his will until it was too late. The result was that my brother, who had not been brought up to any profession. . - , . Hi . was left without a penny. Of course it would have been my duty to provide for him, but at the time the quarrel between us was so bitter that 1 did not to my shame I say it" (and he sighed deeply) "offer to do any thing. It was not that 1 grudged him any thing, but I waited for him to make advan ces, and he made none. 1 am sorry to trou ble you with all this, Mr. Quatermain, but I must make things clear, eh, Good'."' "Quite so, quite so," said the Captain. "Mr. Quatermain will, I am sure, keep this history to himself." "Of course," said J, "for 1 rather pride myself on my discretion." "Well," went on Sir Henry, "my brother had a few hundred pounds to his account at the time, and without saying anything to me he drew out this paltry sum, and, having adopted the name of Neville, started off for South Africa in the wild hope of making a fortune. This I heard afterward. Some three years passed, and I beard nothing of my brother, though I wrote several times. Doubtless the letters never reached him. But as time went on 1 grew more and more troubled about him. I found out, Mr. Qua termain, that blood is thicker than water." "That's true," said I, thinking of my boy Harry. "I found out, Mr. Q'latertnaln, that I would have given half in . fortune to know tfiat my brother George, tiie only r-latlon I have, was safe ami well, and that 1 should see him again." "But you never did, Curtis," Jerked out Captain Good, glancing at the big man's face. "Well, Mr. Quatermain, as time went on, I became more and more anxious to find out if my brother was alive or dead, and if alive to get him home asrain. I set inquiries on foot, and your letter was one of tho results. So far as it went it was satisfactory, for it showed that till lately George was alive, but it did not go far enough. So, to cut a long story short, 1 made up my mind to come out and look for him myself, and Captain Good was so kind as to como with me." "Yes," said the captain; "nothing else Ur do, you see. Turned out by my lords of the- ' admirality to starve on half pay. And now perhaps, sir, you will tell us what you know or have beard of the gentleman called Neville." CHAPTKK II. TITK LEGEM) OK SOLOMON'S MINKS. "What was it that you heard about my brother's journey at Bamangwato?" said Sir Henry, as I paused to liil my pii; before an swering Captain Good. "I heard this." 1 answered, "and I have never mentioned it to a soul till to-day. I beard he was starting for Solomon's Mines." "Solomon's Mines!" ejaculated both my hearers at once. "Where are they?" "I don't know," 1 said; "I know where they are said to be. 1 once saw the peaks of tbe mountains that border them, but there was a hundred and thirty miles of desert be tween me and them, and I am not aware that any white man ever got across it save one. But perhaps the best thing I can do is to tell you the legend of Solomon's Mines a I know it you passing your word not to re veal anything 1 tell you without my permis sion. Do you agree to that? I have my rea sons for asking it" Sir Henry nodded, and Captain Good re plied. "Certainly, certainly." Continued Tomorrow.) La Cnppe. 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