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When she was i Child, she cried for Castoria Vhen she beocme r!!i- vlir- r'i!i:p '.o .'"a-"l .r.r., "Vht-iiheUa.lCh:i-'r-n -.:.t ..w. rir Q ira ff urunKennes Hing Solomon's JJines. primitive lamp, (ood tossing to ana rro, nis features emaciated, his eyes shining large and luminous, and Jabbering nonsense by the yard; and seated on the ground by his side, her back resting against the wall of tbe but, tbe soft-eyed, shapely Kukuana beauty, her whole face, weary its it was, animated by a look of infinite compassion or was it something more than compassion? For two days we thought lie must die. and crept about with heavy hearts. Only Foula ta would not believe it. "He will live," she said. For three hundred yards or more around Twala's chief hut, where the sufferer lay. ; there was silence; for bv the king's order all j who lived in the habitations behind it had, ! except Sir Henry and myself, been removed, ) lest any noise should come to the sick man's : ears. One night, it was the liftii night of his illness, as was my habit, 1 went across to see how he was getting on before turning in for a few hours. 1 entered the. hut carefully. The lamp placed upon the tloor showed the figure of Good, tossing no more, but lying quite still. So it had come at last! and in the bitter ness of my heart 1 gave something like a sob. "Hush li hi' camo from the patch of dark shadow behind Good's head. Then, creeping closer, I saw that he was not dead, but sleeping soundly, with Foula ta s taper finger's clr.sped tightly in his joor white hand. The. crisis had passed, and lie would live, He slepi like that for eighteen hours: and 1 scarcely like to say it, for fear I should not be beli-ved, but during that entire period did that devoted girl sit by i him, fearing that if she moved and drew away her hand it would wake him. What she must have suffered from cramp, stiffness, I and weariness, to say nothing of want of food, nobody will ever know; but it is a ! fact that, when at last he woke, she had to be carried away her limbs were so stiff that she could not move them. After the turn had once been taken Good's recovery was rapid aim complete. It was not till he was nearly well that Sir Henry told him of all lie owed to Foulata; and when he came to ihe story how she sat by his side for eighteen hours, fearing lest by moving she would wake him, the honest sailor's eyes tilled with tears, lie turned an:t went straight to the hut where Foulata was preparing tha midday meal (we were back in our old quarters now), taking me with him to interpret in case he could not make his meaning clear to her. though I am bound to say she understood hi in inarvelous ly as h rule, considering how extremely lim iied was his foreign vocabulary. "Tell her," said Good, "thatl owe her my life, and that I will never forget her kind ness i intnpretcd, and under her dark skin she actually seemed to blush. Turning to liiin with one of those swift and grace fui motions that in her always re minded me of the flight of a wild bird, she answered softly, glancing at him with hei kirge brown eyes: "Kay, my lord ; my lord forgets ! Did lie not save my life, and am 1 not my lord's handmaiden.'" It will be observed that the young lady ap peared to have entirely forgotten the share which Sir Henry and myself had had in her preservation from Twala's clutches. 15nt that is the way of women ! 1 remember my dear wife was just the same. 1 retired from that iittle interview sad at heart. I did not like Miss Foulata's soft glances, for I knew the fatal amorous propensities of sailors in general, and Good in particular. There are two things in the world, as 1 have found out, which cannot le prevented; you cannot keep a Zulu from hghtmg, or a sailor from falling in love upon the slightest provocation ! It was a few days after this last occur rence that ignosi held his great "indaba" (council), and was formally recognized as king by the "indunas"' (head men) of Ku kuanaland. The spectacle was a most im posing one, including, as it did, a great re view of troops. On this day the remaining fragments of the Grays were formally parad ed, and in the face of the army thanked for tiieir splendid conduct in the great battie. To e:ich man the king made a large present of cattle, promoting them one and all to the rank of officers in the new corps of ("rays which was in process of formation. An or der was also promulgated throughout the length and breath of Kukuanaland, that whilst we honored the country with our presence, we three were to be greeted with the royal salute, to be treated with the same ceremony and respect that was by custom accorded to the king, and the power of life and death was publicly conferred upon us. Ignosi, too, in the presence of his people, reaffirmed the promises he had made, to the effect that no man's blood should be shed without trial, and that witch-hunting should cease in the land. When the ceremony was over we waited upon Ignosi, and informed him that we were now anxious to investigate the mystery of the mines to which Solomon's Road ran, asking him if he had discovered anything about them. "My friends," he answered, "this have I discovered. It is there that the three figures sit, who here are called the 'Silent Ones,' and to whom Twala would have offered the girl Foulata, as a sacrifice. It is there, too, in a great cave deep in the mountain, that the kings of the land are buried; there shall ye find Twala's body, sitting with those who went before him. There, too, is a great pit, which, at some time, long-dead men dug out, mayhap for the stones ye speak of, such as I have heard men in Natal speak of at Kimberty. There, too, in the Place of Deatli is a secret chamber, known to none but the king and Gagool. lint Twala, who knew it, ij dead, and I know it not, nor know I what is in it. But there is a legend in the laud that once, many generations gone, a white man crossed the mountains, and was led by a woman to the secret chamber and shown Hie wealth, but !cfore he could take it siie betrayed him. and he was driven by the king of that d;iy baek to the mountains, and since then no man has entered the chamher." "The story is surely true, Ign-isi, .for on t'.i mountains we found the whito ni.in," I s.til. "Yes, we found him. And now I have t;ro;nisnd ye that if ye can find that chamber, and the stones are there " "The stone upon thy forehead proves that they are there," 1 put in, pointing to the great diamond I had taken from Twala's dead brows. "Mayhap; if they are there," he said, "ye shall have as many as ye can take hence if, indeed, ye would leave me, my brothers." "First we must find the chamber," said L "There is but oue who can show it to thee Gagool." "And if she will not?" "Then shall she die," said Ignosi, sternly. "I have saved her alive but for this. Stay, she shall choose." and calling to a messen ger he ordered Gagool to be brought. In a few minutes she came, hurried along by two guards, whom she was cursing as she walked. "Leave her." Wiethe king to the guards. as soon aa their rapport wu undrawn the "Wltnered""oTa -DnntTlB-oT roar looked more like a bundle than anything else sunk into a heap 6n the floor, oat of which her two bright, wicked eyes gleamed like a snake's. "What will ye with me, Ignosi?" she piped. "Ye dare not touch me. If ye touch me I will blast ye as ye sit. Beware of my magic." "Thy magic could not save Twala, old she-wolf, and it cannot hurt me," was the answer. "Listen; 1 will this of thee, that thou reveal where is the chamber where are the shining stones." "Ila! ha!" she pied, "none know but 1, and I will never tell thee. The white devils shall go hence empty-handed." "Thou wilt tell me. 1 will make thee tell me." "How, O king? Thou art great, but can thy power wring the truth from a woman?" "It is dillicult, yet will 1 do iL" "II w, O king?" ".Nay, thus; if thou tellest not thou shalt die." "Die I" she shrieked, in terror and fury; "ye dare not touch me man, ye know not who I am. How o!d think ye am 1? I knew your fathers, aud your fathers' fathers' fathers. When the country was young I was here, when the couutry grows old I shall still be here. I cannot die unless I be killed by chance, for none dare slay me." "Yet will 1 slay thee. See Gagool, moth er of evil, thou art so old thou canst no lon ger love life. What can life be to such a hag as thee, who hast no shape, no form, nor hair, nor teeth hast naught, save wickedness and evil eyes? It will be mercy to slay thee, Gagool." "Thou fool," shrieked the old fiend, "thou accursed fool, thinkest thou that life Is sweet only to the young? It is not so, and naught thou knowest of the heart of man to think of iL To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their beloved pass to the land of shadow. But the old feel not, they love not, and, ha! ha! they laugh to see an other go out into the dark; ha! ha! they laugh to see the evil that is doiu under the sun. All they love is life, the warm, warm sun, and the sweet, sweet air. They are afraid of the cold, afraid of the c:ild and dark, ha! ha! ha!" and tho old hag writhed in ghastly merriment on the ground. ' Cease thine evil talk and answer me." said Ignosi, angrily. "Wilt thou show the place where the stones are, or wilt thou not? If thou wilt not thou diet even now," and he se z"d a spear and held it over ln-r. "I will not show it; thou darest not kill me, darest not. He w;:o slays me will be accursed forever." Siowly Ignosi brought down the sj.ear till it pricked the prostrate heap of rags. With a wild ye.'l she sprung to her feet, aud then again feli and roll.d upon the ilor. "Nay, I will show it. Only let ni live; let ine sit in the sun and Lave a bit of meat to suck, ami I will show ih.e." "It is well. I thought I shou:d find a way to reason with th;;e. To-morrow thou shalt go with Infadoos and my while broth ers to the phnw; and beware how thou full est, for if thou show.'st ii nol then shalt thou die. I have spoken." "1 will not fail, Ignosi. I always keep my word; ha! ha! ha! Once a woman showed the place to a white man before, and behold, evil befell him;" and here her wicked eyes glinted. "Her nauie was Ga gool, too. Perchance 1 was that woman." "Thou liest," I said; "that was ten gener ations ago." "Mayhap, mayhap; when one lives long one forgets. Perhaps it was my mother's mother who told me; surely her name was (iagool also. But mark, ye will find in the place where the bright playthings area bag of hide full of stones. The man filled that bag, but he never took it away. Evil befell him! Perhaps it was my mother's mother wiio told me. It will be a merry journey we can see the bodies of those who died in the battle as we go. Their eyes wili be gone by now, and their ribs will be hollow. Ha! ha!" CHAPTKK XVTt. TIJE PI.ACK OK IH' ATII. It was already dark on the third day aftei the scene described in the previous chapter, when we camped in some huts at the foot ol the "Three Witch-s." as tiie triangle ol mountains were called to which Solomon's Great Road ran. Our party consist of our three selves and Foulata. who waited on us especially on Good Infadoos, Gagool, who was borne along in a litter, inside which she could be heard muttering and cursing all day long, and a party of guard and attendants. I had better leave the feelings of intense excitement with which we set out on oui march that morning to the imagination of those who read this history. At last we were drawing near to the wonderful mines that had been the cause of the miserable death of the old Portuguese don. three cen turies ago, of my poor friend, his ill-starred descendant, and also, as we feared, of George Curtis, Sir Henry's brother. Were we des tined, after all tnat we had gone through, to fare any better? Evil befell them: as that old fiend (iagool said, would also befall us? Somehow, as we were marching up that lasl stretch of beautiful road, I could not help feeling a little superstitious about the mat ter, and so 1 think did Good and Sir Henry. For an hour and a half or more we tramped on up the heather-fringed road, going so fast in our excitement that the bearers with Gagool's hammock could scarcely keep pace with us, and its occu pant piped out to us to stop. "Go more slowly, white men," she said, projecting her hideous shriveled counten ance between the curtains, and fixing her gleaming eyes upon us; "why will ye run to meet the evil that shail befall ye, ye seekers after treasure? ' and she laughed that horrible laugh which always sent a cold shiver down my back, and which for a while quite took the enthusiasm out of us. However on we went, till we saw before us, and between ourselves and the peak, a vast circular hole with sloping sides, three hundred feet or more in depth, and quite half a mile round. "Can't you guess what this is?'' I said to Sir Henry and Good, who were staring in astonishment down into the awful pit be fore us. They shook their heads. "Then it is clear that you have never seen the diamond mines at Kimberley. Y'ou may depend on it that this is Solomon's Diamond Mine; look there," I said point ing to the stiff, blue clay which was yet to be seen among the grass and bushes which clothed the sides of the pit, "the formation is the same. I'll be bound that if we went down there we should find "pipes' of soapy brecciated rock. Look, too," and I pointed to a series of worn fiat slabs of rock which were placed on a gentle slope below the level of a water-course which had in some past age been cut out of the solid rock; "if those are not tables once used to wash the stuff,' I'm a Dutchman." At the edge of this vast hole, which was the pit marked on the old don's map, the great road branched into two and cireum- rented IL In many places this circumvent ing road was built entirely of rait blocks of stoge, apparently with the objnet of sup porting the edces of the pit and preventing falls of ; reef. Along this road we pr used, driven by curiosity to see what the three towering objects were which we could dis cern from the hither side of th-i great hole. As we got nearer we perceived Mat tiiuy were colossi of some sort or another, and rightly conjectured that these were the three "Silent Ones" that wer held in such awe by the Kukuana people. But it was not un til we gut quile close that wo reeogniz -d the full majesty of tuese Silent Ones." There, u on huro iwdestaN of dark rock, sculptured In unknown characters, twenty paces b' tweeu each, and looking down tho road whi h crossed some f.x:y m.ies of plain to Loo, were three colons. ti s at -d forms two male and one feina e each measuring about twenty feet li'ju the crown of the head to the pedestal. Before we had finished examining these extraordinary relics of remote mi'iuiiy, In fadoos came up, nn I, having saluted the "Silent Ones" by lifting h s spear, a.Ued us if we Intended entering the " I 'lace of Death" at once, or if we would wait till af ter we had taken food at midday. If we were ready to go at once, (iagool had an nounced her willingness to guide us. As it was not more than eleven o'clock, we driven to it by a burning curiosity an nounced our intention of proceeding at once, and 1 suggested that, in case we Should be detained in the cave, we should take fonie food with us. Accordingly G gool's litter was brought up and that lad) herself assisted out of it; and meanwhile Foulata, at my request, stored some "bil tong," or dried game-flesh together with t couple of gourds of water in a reed baskeL Straight in front of us, at a distance of souk fifty paces from the backs of the colossi rose a sheer wall of rock, eighty feet oi more in height, that gradually sloped up till it formed the base of the lofty snow wreathed peak, which soared up into the air three thousand feet above us. As sou as she was clear of her hammock, (iagool cast one evil grin upon us, and then, lean ing on a stick, hobbled off toward Ihe sheei face of the rock. We followed her till w came to a narrow portal solidly arched that looked like the opening of a gallery ol a mine. Here (iagool was waiting for vs. still with that evil grin upon her hoi rid face. "Now, white men lroin the st irs," sh piped; "great warriors, incuoii, ISougwan. and Maciiiiiazilin the wise, are e p-ady! Behold, 1 am here lo do li.e balding of n.y lord the king, and to show ye the store ol bright stones." "We are ready," I said. "Good! good! Make strong your hearts t bear what ye shail see. C'oniesr thou tix. Infadoos, who betrayed thy master?" Infadoos frowned as h answered : "Nay, 1 come not, it is not for tif, to en ter there. But thou il.ixil, cuib lh tongue, and beware how thou dealest With my lords. At thy hands will 1 require them and if a hair 'of them be hurt, (iagool, Ix thou fifty times a witch, thcu shalt die. Hearest thou?" "I hear, Infadoos; I know thee, thou didst ever love big words; when thr.u was! a babe 1 remember thou didst thieateu thine own mother. That was but the other day. But fear not, fear not, 1 live but to do the bidding of the king. I have done tho bid ding of many kings, Infadoos, till in the end they did mine. . Ha! ha! 1 goto look upon their, faces once more, and Twala's, too1 Come on,, come on, here is the lamp," and she drew a great gourd full of oil. ami fitted with a rush wick, from under her fur cloik. "Art thou coming, F.nilata?" asked (iood in his villainous kitchen Kukuana, i which he had been improving himlf un der that young lady's tuition. "I fear my lord," the gill answered timidly- "Then give rne the basket." "Nay, my lord, whither thou goest, there will I go also." "The deuce you will !" thought 1 lo my self; "that will be rather awkward if evel we got out of this." Without further ado G ig.! plu lged into the passage, which was wi'e ei:ougn to ad mit of two walking abreast, and quite dark, we following her voice as she piped to us to come on, in some fear and trembling, which was not allayed by tiie sound of it sudden rush of wings. "Hullo! what's that?'' halloed Good; "somebody hit me in the face." "Bats," said I; "on you go." When we had, so far as we could judge, gone some fifty paces, we perceived that the passage was growing faintly light. An other minute, we stood in the most wonder ful place that the eyes of living man ever, lit on. Let the reader picture himself the hall of the vastest cathedral he evr stood in, win dowless indeed, but dimly lighted from above (presumably by shafts connected with the outer air and driven in the roof,' which arched away a hundred feet above our head), and he will get some idea of the size of the enormous cave in which we stood, with the difference that this cathe dral designed of nature was loftier and wider than any built by man. But its stu pendous size was the least of the wonders of the place, for running in rows down its length were gigantic pillars of what looked like ice, but were, in reality, huge stalacti tes. It is impossible for me to convey any idea of the overpowering beauty and grandeur of these pillars of white spar, some of which were not less than twenty feet in diameter at the base, and sprung up in lofty and yet delicate beauty sheer to the distant roof. Others again were in process of formation. On the rock Moor there was in these cases what looked, S.r Henry said, exactly like a broken column in an old Gre cian temple, whilst high atxive, deluding from the roof, the point of a hue icicle could be dimly seen. And even as with a tiny spla-h a drop of water would fail from the far-olT i ie!e on the co.tiiuti bi.iow. Sometimes the st.-.lae: .li s to.ik strange forms, presiun ibly where the dropping of the water ha.i not aiways oceo on the same spot. Thus one huge mast, which mus have weighed a hundred tons or so. was li the form of a pulpit, beautifully fretted ovei outside witli what looked like lace. Other: resembled strange beasts, and on the sidei of the cave were fan-like ivory tracing such as the frost leaves upon a pane. On she Jed us, straight to the top o the vast and silent cave, where we found another doorway, not arched as the firs' was, but square at the top, something like the doorways of Egyptian temples. 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