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When she was & Child, she cried for Costona
When she became Mii. . chinjj to Career .6,
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it u Uiey pe out empty iiarsj ine duo
grows dark before your eyes; soon there
will be night ay, night in the noon-tinie.
Ye have asked for a sign ; it is given to ye,
row dark, O sun! withdraw thy lilit, thou
aright one; bring the proud heart to (lust,
and eat up the world with shadows."
A groan of terror rose from the onlookers.
Some stood petrilied witli fear, others threw
themselves upon their knees, and cried out
As for the king, he sat still and turned pale
beneath his dusky skin. Only Gagool kept
her courage.
"It will pass," she cried; "1 have seen the
like before; no man can put out the sun;
lose no heart; sit still the shadow shall
pass."
"Wait, and ye shall see," I replied, hop
ping with excitement
"Keep it up, Good, 1 can't remember any
more poetry. Curse away, there's a good
fellow."
Good responded nobly to the tax upon his
inventive faculties. Never before had 1 the
faintest conception of the breadth and depth
and height of a naval ofli -er's objurgatory
powers. For ten minutes he went on with
out stopping, aud he scarcely ever repeated
I himself.
Meanwhile the dark ring crept on. Strange
and unholy shadows encroached upon the
sunlight, an ominous quiet filled the place,
the birds chirped out frightened notes, and
then were still; only the cocks began to
crow.
On, yet on, crept the ring of darkness; it
was now more than half over the reddening
orb. The air grew thick and dusky. On,
yet on, till we could scarcely pee the tierce
faces of the group before us. No sound rose
now from the spectators, and Good stopped
swearing.
"The sun is dying the wizards have killed
the sun," yelled out the boy Scragga at last
"We shall die in the dark," and animated by
fear or fury, or both, he lifted his spear, and
drove it with all his force at Sir Henry's
broad chest. But he had forgotten the mail
shirts that the king had given us, and which
we wore beneath our clothing. The steel
rebounded harmless, and before he could re
peat the blow Sir ilenry had snatched the
sp"ar from his hand, and sent it straight
through him. He dropped dead.
At the sight, and driven mad with fear at
the gathering gloom, the companies of girls
broke up in wild confusion, and ran screech
ing for the gateways. Nor did the panic
stop there. The king himself, followed by
the guards, some of the chiefs, and Gagool,
who hobbled away after them with marvel
ous alacrity, fled for the huts, so that in an
other minute or so ourselves, the would-be
victim, Foulata, Infadoos, and some of the
chiefs, who had interviewed us on the pre
vious night, were left alone upon the scene
with the dead body of Scragga.
"Now, chiefs," I said, "we have given
you the sign. If ye are satisfied, let us fly
swiftly to the place ye spoke of. The charm
cannot now be stopped. It will work for an
hour. Let us take advantage of the dark
ness." "Come," said Infadoos, turning to go, an
example which was followed by the awed
chiefs, ourselves, and the girl Foulata, whom
Good took by the hand.
Before we reached the gate of the kraal
the sun went out altogether.
Holding each other by the hand we stumb
led on through the darkness.
CHAPTER XII.
BEFORE THE BATTLE.
Luckily for us, Infadoos and the chief
knew all the pathways of the great town
perfectly, so that notwithstanding the in
tense gloom we made fair progress.
For an hour or more we journeyed on till
at length the eclipse began to pass, and that
edge of the sun which had disappeared the
first, became again visible. In another five
minutes mere was sumcient iignt to see our
whensibouts, and we then discovered that
we were clear of the town of Loo, and ap
proachmg a large flat-topped hill, measur
ing some two miles in circumference. This
hill, which was a formation very common in
Southern Africa, was not very high ; indeed.
its greatest elevation was not more than
two hundred feet, but it was shaped like
horseshoe, and its sides were rather precipi
tous, and strewn with bowlders. On the
grass table-land at the top was ample camp
ing-ground, which had been utilized as a
military cantonment of no mean strength.
Its ordinary garrison was one regiment of
three thousand men, but as we toiled up the
steep side of the hill in the returning day
light, we perceived that there were many
more warriors than that upon it
Keaching the table-land at last we found
crowds of men huddled together in the ut
most consternation at the natural phenome
non which they were witnessing. Passing
through these without a word, we gained
hut in the center of the ground, where we
were astonished to find two men waiting.
laden with our few good saw! chattels, which
of course we had been obliged to leave be
hind in our hasty flight
"I sent for them," explained Infadoos;
"also for these," and he lifted up Good's
long-lost trousers.
With an exclamation of rapturous delight,
tiood sprung at them, and instantly pro
ceeded to put them on.
"Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful
white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos, regret
fully.
But Good persisted, and once only did the
Kukuana people get the chance of seeing
hid beautiful legs again. Good is very
modest. Henceforward they had to satisfy
their aesthetic longings with his one whisker.
his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.
Still gazing with fond remembrance at
Good's trousers, Infadoos next informed us
that he bad summoned the regiments to ex
plain to them fully the rebellion which was
decided on by the chiefs, and to introduce to
them the rightful heir to the throne, Ignosi.
In half an hour the tniops, in all nearly
twenty thousand men, constituting the flow
er of the Kukuana army, were mustered on
a large open space, to which we proceeded.
The men were drawn up in three sides of a
dense square, and presented a magnificent
spectacle. We took our station on the open
side of the square, and were speedily sur
rounded by all the principal chiefs and offi
cers. These, after silence had been proclaimed,
Infadoos proceeded to address, lie narrated
to them in vigorous and graceful language
for like most Kukuanas of high rank, be was
a born orator the history of Ignosi's father,
how he had been basely murdered by Twala,
the king, and his wife and child driven oat
to starve. Then he pointed out how the
land suffered and groaned under Twala's
cruel rule. Instancing the proceedings of the
previous night, when, under the pretense of
their being evil-doers, many of the noblest
in the land had been hauled forth and cruelly
done to death.
Next be went on to say that the whit
lords from the stars, looking down on the
land, had perceived its trouble, and deter
mined, at great personal inconvenience, to
alleviate Its lot; how they had accordingly
taken the real king of the country Ignosi.
wno was tanguisninc in exue, oy tne nana,
and led him over the mountains; how they
had seen the wickedness of Twala's doings,
and for a sign to the wavering,, and to save
the life of the girl. Foulata, had actually, !y
the exercise of their high magic, put out the
sun, and slain the young fiend, Scragga; and
now they were prepared to stand by them,
and assist them to overthrow Twala, and set
up the rightrul king. Ignosi, in his place.
lie finished his discourse amidst a murmur
of approbation, and then Ignosi stepped for
ward ani began to speak. Having reiterat
ed all that Infadoos, his uncle, had said, he
concluded a powerful speech in these words:
"Oil, chiefs, captains, soldiers and people,
ye have heard my words. Mow must ye
make choice between me and him who sits
upon my throne, the uncle who killed hi
brother, and hunted his brother's child forth
to die in the cold and the night That I am
indeed tiie king, these" pointing to the
chiefs "can tell ye, for they have seen the
snake about my inid lle. If 1 were not the
king, would these white men bo on my side,
with all their magic? Tremble, chiefs, cap
tains, soldiers, and people! Is not the dark
ness they have brought iijmii Hip land to
confound Twala, and cover our flight, yet
before your eyes!"'
"It is," answered the soldiers.
"I am the king; I say to ye, 1 am the
king," went on Ignosi, drawing up his great
stature to its full, and lifting his broad
bladed battle-ax above his head. "If there
b3 any man among ye who says that it is not
so, let him stand forth and I will tight him
now, and his blood shall be a red token that
I tell ye true. Let him stand forth, 1 say;"
and he shook the great ax till it flashed in
the sunlighL
As nobody seemed inclined to respond to
this heroic version of "Dilly, Dilly, come
and be killed," our late henchman proceed
ed with his address.
"I am indeed the king, and if ye do stand
by my side in the battle, if 1 win the day, ye
shall go with ni-j to victory and honor. 1
will give ye oxen and wives, and ye shall
Like place of all the regimenta; and if ye
fall 1 will fall with ye.
"And, behold, this promise do I give ye.
that when 1 sit upon the seat of my fath er's,
bloodshed shall cease in the land. No lon
ger shall ye cry for justice to find slaughter,
no longer shall the witclifinder hunt ye out
so that ye be slain without a cause. No man
shall die save him who offendeth ag unst the
laws. The 'eating up' of your kraals shall
cease; each shall sleep secure in his own hut
and fear not, and justice shall walk blind
throughout the land. Have ye chosen,
chiefs, captains, soldiers, and eople?"
"We have chosen, O king!" came back the
answer.
"It is well. Turn your heads and see how
Twala's messengers go forth from the great
town, east and west, and north and south, tc
gather a mighty army to slay me and ye, and
these my friends and my protectors. To
morrow, or perchance the next day, will he
come with all who are faithful to him. Then
shall I see the man who is indeed my man,
the man, who fears not to die for his cause;
and 1 tell ye he shall not be forgotten in the
time of spoil. 1 have spoken, O chiefs, cap
tains, soldiers, and people! Now go to your
huts and make ready for war."
There was a pause, and then one of the
chiefs lifted his hand, and out roiled the
royal salute, "Koom." It was a sign that
the regiments accepted Ignosi as their king.
Then they marched off in battalions.
Half an hour afterward we held a council
of war, at which all the commanders of the
regiments were present It was evident to as
that before very long we should be attacked
in overwhelming force. Indeed, from our
point of vantage on the hill we could see
troops mustering, and messengers going
forth from Loo in every direction, doubtless
to summon regiments to the king's assistance.
We had on our side about twenty thousand
men, composed of seven of the best regi
ments of the country. Twala had, so Infa
doos and the chiefs calculated, at least thir
ty to thirty-five thousand on whom he could
rely at present assembled in Loo, and they
thought that by midday on the morrow he
would be able to gather another five thou
sand or more to his aid. It was of course,
possible that some of his troops would desert
and come over to us. but it was not a contin
gency that could be reckoned on. Mean
while, it was clear that active preparations
were being made to subdue us. Already
strong bodies of armed men were patrolling
round and round the foot of the hill, and
there were other signs of a coming attack
Infadoos and the chiefs, however, were of
opinion that no attack: would be made that
night, which would be devoted to preparation
and to the removal by every possible means
of the moral effect produced upon the minds
of the soldiery by the supposed magical
darkening of the sun. The attack would be
on the morrow, they said, and they proved
to be right
Meanwhile, we set to work to strengthen
the position as much as possible. Nearly the
entire force was turned out, and in the two
hours which yet remained to sundown won
ders were done. The paths up the hill.
which was rather a sanitorium than a fort
ress, being used generally as the camping-
place of regiments suffering from recent
service in unhealthy portions of the country,
were carefully blocked with masses of
stones, and every other possible approach
was made as impregnable as time would
allow. Files of bowlders were collected at
various spots to be rolled down upon an ad
vancing enemy, stations were appointed to
different regiments, and every other prepara
tion which our joint ingenuity could suggest
was taken.
Just before sundown we perceived a small
company of men advancing toward us from
the direction of Loo, one of whom bore a
palm-leaf in his hand as a sign that he came
as a herald.
As he came Ignosi, Infadoos, one or two
chiefs, and ourselves went down to the foot
of the mountain to meet him. He was a gal
lant-looking fellow, with the regulation
leopard-skin cloak.
greeting v ne crieu, as he came near;
the king's greeting to those who make un
holy war against the king; the lion's greet
ing to the jackals who snarl round his
heels."
"Speak," Isaid.
"These are the king's words. Surrender to
the king's mercy ere a worse thing befall ye.
Already the shoulder has been torn from
the black bull, and the king drives him
bleeding about the camp."
What are Twala's terms?" I asked for
curiosity.
"His terms are merciful, worthy of a kine.
These are the words of Twala, the one-eyed,
the mighty, the husband of a thousand
wives, lord of the Kukuanas, keeper of the
great road (Solomon's Road), beloved of the
strange ones who sit in silence at the moun
tains yonder (the three Witches), calf of the
black cow, elephant whose tread shakes the
earth, huge one, black one, wise one, king
from feneration to generation 1 these are the
words of Twala: 1 will have mercy and be
satisfied with a little blood. One in every
ten shall die, the rest shall go free; but the
white man Incubu, who slew Scragga, my
son, and the black man. his servant whr
pretends to my throne, and Infadoos, my
brother, who brews rebellion against me,
these shall die by torture as an offenne to
Tin ones.
ouch are m nncuui
words of Twala."
, After consulting with the others
' answered him in a loud voice, so
a little, 1
thut the
, soldier might hear, thus:
i "Go back, thou dog, to Twala, who sent
t tlw-e, and say that wi, Ignosi, veritable king
, of the Kukuanas. Incuhti, Itougwnn, and
Maeumuz dm, the wise white ones from the
I stars, who make dark the sun, Infadoos, of
! the royal house, and the chiefs, captulnn, and
! fv-ople here gath-n d, niiKo ajmwiT mid say,
lhat we will not suireinh-r: th.it before th
' sun has twice gone down Twala's corpse
shall stiffen at Twala's gat-s. and Ignosi,
; v hose la her Twala slew, shall reign in his
stead.' Now go, ere we whip thee away, and
iH-ware how e lift a hand against such ua
we."
The hfiiild laughed loud. "Ve frighten
not men with such swellinir words." he cried
out "Show yourself as hold to-morrow, O
, ye who darken the sun! Hi; hold, li-ht, and
I be merry, before the crows p;ck j our hone
' till they are whiter than your faces. Fare
l well; perhaps we mav meet in the light;
1 wait for me, I pray, white men." Ami with
this shaft of s iioaui he retired, and almost
immediately the sun sunk.
That night was a husv one for us, for as far
as was possible by the moonlight all prepara
tions for the ni iirow's light were continued.
Messengers were constantly coming and
goiag lrom the place where we sat in coun
cil. At last, alxnit an hour after midnight,
everything that could be done was done, and
the camp, save for the occasional challenge
of a sentry, sunk into sleep. Sir Ilenry aud
I. accompanied by Ignosi and one of the
chiefs, descended the hill and made the
round of the vedettes. As we wen!, sudden--ly,
from all sorts of unexpected places,
spears gleamed out in the moonlight, only to
vanish again as we uttered the password.
It was clear to us that none were sleeping at
their posts. Then we returned, picking our
way through thousands of sleeping warriors,
many of whom were taking their last earth
ly rest
The moonlight flickered along their Hjear3
and played upon their features and made
them ghastly; tiie chill v night wind tossed
their tall anil hearse-like plumes. There
they lay in wild confusion, with arms out
stretched and twisted limbs; their stern,
stalwart forms looking weird and unhiimaii
in the moonlight
"How many of these do you supMse will
be alive at this time to-morrow?" asked Sir
Henry.
I shook my head and looked again at the
sleeping men, and to my tired and yet ex
cited imagination it seemed us though death
had already touched them. My mind's eye
singled out those who were sealed to slaugh
ter, and there rushed in upon my heart a
great sense of the mystery of human life,
and an overwhelming sorrow at its futility
and sadness. To-night these thousands slept
their healthy sleep, to-morrow they, and
many others with them, ourselves perhaps
among them, would be stiffening in the cold ;
their wives would be widows, their children
fatherless, and their place, know them no
more forever. Only the old moon would
shine serenely on. the night wind would stir
the grasses, and the wide earth would take
its happy rest even as it did asons before
these were, aud will do a;ons alter they
have been forgotten.
Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once
tiis mother and his monument remains. His
name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he
breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the moun
tains, the sound of the words he spoke yet
echoes on through space; the thoughts his
brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day;
his pa-ssions are our cause of life; the jojs
and sorrows that he felt are our familiar
friends the end from which he fled aghat
will surely overtake us also?
Truly the universe is full of ghosts not
sheeted churchyard specters, hut the inex
tinguishable and immortal elements of life,
which, having once been, can never die,
though they blend and change again forever.
All sorts of reflections of this sort passed
through my mind for, asl get older, I regret
to say a detestable habit of thinking seems
to lie getting hold of me while I stood and
stared at those grim yet fantastic lines of
warriors, sleeping, as the saying troes, "up
on their spears."
"Curtis," 1 said to Sir Henry, "i am in a
:ondition of pitiable funk."
Sir Henry stroked his yellow beard and
laughed, as he answered :
"I've heard you make that sort of remark
before, Quatermain."
"Well, 1 mean it now. Do you know, I
very much doubt if one of us will be alive
to-morrow night We shall be attacked in
overwhelming force, and it is exceedingly
doubtful if we can hold this place."
"We'll give a good account of some of
them at any rate. Look here Quatermain,
the business is a nasty one, and one with
which, properly speaking, we ought not to
be mixed up; but we are in for it so we
must make the best of it Speaking person
ally, 1 had rather be killed fighting than any
other way, and now that there seems little
chance of my finding my poor brother, it
makes the idea easier to me. But fortune
favors the brave, and we may succeed.
Anyway, the slaughter will be awful, and as
we have a reputation to keep up, we shall
have to be in the thick of it"
Sir Henry made this last remark in a
mournful voice, but there was a gleam in his
eye which belied it I have a sort of an idea
that Sir Henry Curtis actually likes fightiug.
After this we went and slept for a couple
of hours. '
J ust about dawn we were awakened by
Infadoos, who came to say that great activi
ty was to be observed in Loo, and that par
ties of the king's skirmishers were driving-iri
our vedettes.
We got up and aressea ourselves for the
fray, each putting on our chain-armor shirt,
for which at the present juncture we felt
exceedingly thankfuL Sir Henry went the
whole hog about the matter, and dressed
himself like a native warrior. "When you
are in Kukuanaland do as the Kukuanas
do," he remarked, as he drew the shining
steel over his broad shoulders, which it fitted
like a glove. Nor did he step there. At his
request Infadoos had provided him with a
complete set of war uniform. Kound his
throat he fastened the leopard-skin cloak of
a commanding officer, on his brows he bound
the plume of black ostrich feathers, worn
only by generals of high rank, and round his
center a magnificent moocha of white ox
tails. A pair of sandals, a leglet of goats
hair, a heavy battle-ax with a rhinoceros
horn handle, a round iron shield, covered
with white ox-hide, and the regulation num
ber of tollas, or throwing-knives, made up
his equipments, to which, however, he ad
ded his revolver. The dress was no doubt, a
savage one, but I am bound to say I never
saw a finer sight than Sir Henry Curtis pre
sented in this guise. It showed off his mag
nificent physique to the greatest advantage.
and when Ignosi arrived presently, arrayed
in similar costume, I thought to myself that
I never before saw two such splendid men.
As for Good and myself, the chain armor
did not suit us nearly so welt To begin
with. Good insisted upon keeping on his
trousers, and a stout, short gentleman with
an eyeglass, and one-half of his face shaved,
arraved in a mail shirt carefullv tucked into
WfO fit
Continued.
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