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agaia.-a iL
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T .en we turn d t Fiul.it l Thu poor girl
w is slabbed in the b sly, and ennd not, 1
saw, l'.v io.i.r.
"Ah? B011.rw.111, Idie!" g.isp. i!m beau
tiful erea.ure. "She cr t out -G uool; I
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".M ifuniazh;i!i, bi; my loir.Mie for n mo
ment, i jiray tlie, for Ii .uiwiin cannot uii-UiT-taud
me, aiid b foij 1 40 .iiLj tlio darli
ijess I would sp-ak a woiiL"
"Say on.Foulata, I will render it."
''Say to my lord, Ui.nwan, that I love
him, and that 1 am glad to die b eausn 1
know that he cannot cumber his lite with
me, for the sun cannot mate with the dark
ness, nor the white with the black.
"Say that ut limes 1 have L It as though
there were a bird in my bosom, which would
one day fly hence Mid siiu elsewhere; even
now, though 1 cannot lift my hand, and my
brain grows coid. 1 do not f el as thon-rh my
heart were dying; ii i 4 s full of love that
could live a thousand years, and yet be
young. Say that if 1 live again, mayhap 1
shall see him in the stars, and that I will
search them all, though perchance 1 should
there still be black and he would still bn
white. Say nay, Macuniazahn, say no
more, save that I love Oh, hold me
closer, llougwan, I cannot feel t'.iine arms
oh! oh?"
"She is dead she is dead?" said flood, ris
ing in grief, the te.irs running down his
honest face.
"You need not let that trouble you, old
fellow," said Sir Henry.
' Eli!" saidG.od; "what do you mean?"
"1 mean that you will soon be in a posi
tion to join her. Man, don't you see that
we are buried a'ive?"
For a few minutes we stood horrified there
over i.'-e corps i of Foulat-v. All the man
hood secnii(i to have gOhe out of us. The
first shock of this idea of the slow and mis
erabie end that awaited us was overpower
in. We saw It all now; that fiend Gaool
had planned this snare for us from the first.
It would have been just the jest that her
evil mind would have rejoiced in, the idea of
the three white men, whom, for some rea
son of her own, she had always hated, slow
ly perishing of thirst and hunger in the com
pany of the treasure they had coveted. 1
saw the point of that sneer of hers about
eating and drinking the diamonds now. Ter
haps somebody had tried to serve the poor
old don in the same way, when he abandon
ed the skin full of jewels.
'This will never do," said Sir Henry,
hoarsely; '"the lamp will soon go out. Let
us see if we can't find the spring that works
the rock."
We sprung forward with desperate ener
gy, and standing in a bloody ooze, began to
feel up and down the door and the sides of
the passage. But no ki:ob or spring could
we discover.
"Depend on it," I said, "it does not work
from the inside; if it did Gagool would not
have risked trying to crawl underneath the
i' stone. It was the knowledge of this that
made her try to escape at all hazards, curse
her."
1 "At all events," said Sir Henry, with a
hard little laugh, "retribution was switt:
hers was almost as awful an end as ours is
likely to be. We can do nothing with the
door; let us go back to the treasure-room."
We turned and went, and as we did so 1
i perceived by the unlinished wall across the
passage the basket of food which poor Fou
lata had carried. I took it up, and
brought it with me back to that accursed
treasure-chamber that was to-be our grave.
Then we went back and reverently bore in
Foulata's corpse, layiug it on the floor by
the boxos of coin.
"Let us divide the food," said Sir Henry,
"so as to make it last as long as possible."
Accordingly we did so. It would, we reck
oned, make four infinitesimally small meals
for each of us, enough, say, to support life
for a coupje of days. Besides the "bil
tong," or dried gameflesh there were two
gourds of water, each holding about a quart.
"Now," said Sir Henry, "let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die."
We each eat a small portion of the "bil
tong," and drank a sip of water. We had,
needless to say, but little appetite, though
we were sadly in need of food, and felt bet
ter after swallowing it. Then we got up
and made a systematic examination of the
walls of our prison-house, in the faint hope
of finding some means of exit, sounding
! them and the floors carefully.
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1 nerr was none. 11 va inn jnuir.iuio
that there would be one to a treasure-chamber.
The lamp bean to burn dim. The fat
was nearly exhausted.
'Quatermain," said Sir Henry, "what is
the time your watch goes?"
I drew it out, and looked at it It was six
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urea enouch to pay off a moderate national
debt, or to Dui.d a ftVet o iron-tlad.i, and
yet wo would gladly have bartered Uiem all
for the fiinUbt chance ofcc:ipe. Soon,
doubt hs we should be c ad to exrhangv
them f r a bit of f o d or a nip or water, and,
a' ter laL evt'ii for the privilege of a speedy
cio-o to our suff-riiiKS. Truly wealth, which
men spend all t.ieir Hvim in acquiring. Is a
valueless tiling at the la.st.
And so the uiht wore on.
"Good." sai l !Sir Henry's voire at last,
anil it sounded awful 111 the intense stillness,
"How ni;inv matches have you in the box?"
"Kiirht, Cuilis."
"hlrike oii', ;md let us see tho tune."
lie did so. and in comr.ist to tin douse
l u kiK'ss the llanin ii"aily blinded us. II
w. is live o'clock by my watch. The beauti
ful dawn w.is now olushin on t!ie snow-wr-athi
far ovit our heads and tlie bn-t-ze
wouid be stirring the intent mists in the hol
lows "Wo had better eat something and keep
up our strength ," said I.
"What is the ijood of eat'n;;?" answered
(loud; "the sooner we die and get it over
the better."
"While there is life there id hope," said
tiir Henry.
Accordingly we ate ami sipped some wa
ter, and another period of tim -i passed,
when somebody suggested that it mijrht Iw
as well to get as near to the door ns possible
and halloa, on the faint chance of somebody
ratehing a sound outside. Accordingly
(iood, who, from Iom practice at sea, had a
line pien-inif note, rro il his way down the
passairc and bewail, and 1 must say he made
a most diabolical noise. 1 never heard such
yells; but it mitrlit have been a mosquito
buzzing for all the effect it produced.
After awhile ho K:ve it up, and c une back
very thirsty, and had to have some water.
Alter that we gave up yelling, as it en
croached on the supply of water.
.So we all sat down onee more aij linst our
chesU of useless diamonds in that dreadful
inaction, which was one of the hard.-.st cir
cumstances of our fate; and I am bound to
say that, for my part, 1 Rave way in des
pair. Jviyiiu my head against Sir Henry's
broad shoulders I burst into t'-ars; and I
think I heard (i.iod gulping away 011 the
other side, and swearing hoarsely at himself
for loing so.
And so somehow the day went as the
night had gone (if, indeed, one can use the
terms wlicra all was densest night), and
when 1 lit a match to sc. the time it was
seven o'clock.
Once more we ate and dr ink, and as wo
did so an idea occurred to me.
4'lIow is it," said 1, "that the air in this
place keeps fresh'.' It is thick and heavy,
but it is perfectly fresh."
"Great heavens.'"' said. Good, starting up,
"I never thought of that It can't come
through the stone door, for it is air-tight, if
ever a door was. It must come from some;
where. If there were no current ot air ii
the place we should have been stifled when
first we came In. Let us have a look."
It was wonderful what a change this mere
spark of hope wrought In us. In a moment
we were all three groping about the place on
our hands and knees feeling for the slight
est indication of a draught Presently my
ardor received a check. I put my hand ou
something cold. It was poor Foulata's dead
face.
For an hour or more we went on feellnf
about till at last Sir Henry and I gave it ui
in despair, having got considerably hurt bj
constantly knocking our heads against tusks
chests, aud the sides of the chamber. Bui
Good still persevered, saying, with an ap
proach to cheerfulness, that it was better
than doing nothing.
"I say, you fellows," he said presently, in
a constrained sort of voice, "come here."
Needless to say, we scrambled over towarc
him quick enough.
"Quatermain, put your hand here where
mine is Now, do you feel anything?"
"I think I feel air coming up."
"Now listen." He rose and stamped upor
the place, and a flame of hope shot up ic
our hearts. It rang hollow.
With trembling hands I lit a match. I had
only three left id we saw that we were ii
the angle of the far corner of the chamber, a
fact that accounted for our not having
noticed the hollow ring of the place during
our former exhaustive examination. As the
match burned we scrutinized the spot There
was a joint in the solid rock floor, and, great
heavens! there, let In level with the rock,
was a stone ring. We said no word, w
were too excited, and our hearts beat too
wildly with hope, to allow us to speak.
Good had a knife, at the back of which was
one of those hooks that are made to extracl
stones from horses' hoofs. He opened it
and scratched away at the ring with it.
Finally he got it under, and levered awaj
gently for fear of breaking the hook. Th
ring began to move. I3:ing of stone, it had
not got set fast in all the centuries it had
Iain there, as would have been the case had
it been of iron. Presently it was upright
Then he got his hands into it and tugged
with all his force, but nothing budged.
"Let me try," I said, impatiently, for th
situation of the stone, right in the angle ol
the corner, was such that it was impossible
for two to pull at once. I got hold and
strained awav, but with no results
Then Sir Henry tried and failed.
Taking the hook again. Good scratched all
round the crack where we felt the air com
ing up.
"Now, Curtis" he said, "tackle on, and
put your back into it ; you are as strong as
two. Stop," aud he took off a stout black
silk handkerchief, which, true to .his habits
of neatness, he still wore, and ran it through
the ring. "Quatermain, get Curtis round
the middle and pull for dear life when I
ive the word. Now." .
Sir Henry put out all his enormous
strength, and Good and 1 did the same, with
such power as nature had given as
CSV.
Sir : Henry -jntt put all his enormous
ttrength, and. Good and I did the tarn.
"Heave I heave! it's . giving,!' - rasped Sir
Henry; and I heard the muscles of his great
back - cracking. Suddenly there came a
parting sound, then a rush of air, and we
were all on our backs on the floor with a
great flag stone on the top of us Sir Ilen
rv's strength had dona it. and never did mm.
cuiar power1iani a mnn in newer strM.
"L:glit a match, Quatennahiii." he said,
as soon as we bad picked ourselves up aud
got our breath; "carefully, now."
I did so, and th-re before us was, God bs
praised I the nrst step of a stone stair.
. i
"Now what In to be doner" asked Good.
"Follow tlie stabs, of course, and trust Ut
ProvideiicH."
"Stop!' said S r Hriirv: Q ntermaln.
?:ct the bit of biltong and Him w.tUT that is
eit: we may want them."
I went creeping back to our place by
the chests for that puixise, mid i s I was
coming away an Idea slruek me. We bad
Iiit tlioir.'ht inueli of llie diamonds for the
la-t twenty lour hours or so; indeed, I'm
idea ol liaiuonls was nauseous, seeiuir what
thev had entaile I uixiii us; Imt, thought I,
I 111:1 V as well pi.c!,i-t a lew in e sse we ever
should net out ol this gins y hole. So I
just stuck my li.it Into Ui ti st chest and
hl.ed ail the available packets ol my old
sli. ilinur co it, 4iiiiiir t:j this was a happy
thought. wish a ciiii..-ol lianllu:s ot ui.
Olies nut of Hie thud cheM.
"1 say, you fellows." 1 sung out, "won't
you tahC some diamonds vii!i ou'.' 1'vo
iilled my pockets"
"Oli! hang the diamonds!" said Sir Hen
ry. "1 h pe thai 1 inav lievi r . ce another. "
As for Good, he made no answer, lie was
I tlnlik. t 'king a lasl farewell ot all lhat
whs lett of the poor girl who loved him ho
weil. And, curious as 11 may seem to you,
iny leader, billing at home at ca-e and re
lleelingon the vast, indeed, the iiuineasuic
jilile wealth w hich we were thus abandoning
1 can assurti you that if ou had pas-ed soiuo
twentv-eight hours with next to nothing to
cat and dunk in tuat place, ou would have
not cared Ut cumber yourself with diamonds
whilst plunging down iuwt the unknown
bowels ot the earth, in the wild hope of
escape from an agonizing death. If it had
not, trom the habits ot a life-t me, 'eeoiii a
sort if second na lire with in - never to leave
anything worth having bchiini, 11 mere wa
the slightest chance ol my heing ah.e to car
ry it away, I am sure I should not havu
bothered "to till my pockets.
"Come on, Qtiaterinain," said Sir Henry,
who was alrea ay standing on Ihe Inst step of
the slone stair. "Stead, I will go lirst."
"Mind where jou put your feet; thero
may oesouie awful hole inidci neath," s;nd 1.
"Much more likely to be another room,"
said s-ir Henry, as lie slow ly descended,
counting the steps as he went
Wnen he got to "hiteen" he stooped.
"Here's the liotlom." he said. "'lliauk
goodness! 1 think it's a passage. Conic 011
down."
Good descended next, and I followed last,
and ou reacliiiiLC tin- bottom lit one of U10
two icmaiug matcacs. 1 J ' lis lilit wo
could just see that wo were standing in a
narrow tunnel, w:iieh ran riirht an 1 left at
right angles to the staircase we had descend
ed. Ii. fore we could maku out any more,
the match burned iny lingers and went out.
Thru ai'uso tho delicate question ol winch
way to tui-ii. Of course, it was Impossible
to know what the tuiircl was or wher
it ran to, and yet to turn one way might
lead us to salety, and the other to destruc
tion. We were utterly perplexed, till sud
denly it struck Good that when I had lit tin
match the draught of the passage blew tho
tlame to the lelt
"Let us go against tho draught," he
"air draws inward, not outward."
We took this suggestion, and fueling alone
the wall with the iiaud, w hilst tr iug thg
ground before us at every step, we tit-parted
from that accursed treasure-chamber on our
terrible quest. If ever it shoultl be entered
again by living man, which I tlo not think it
will be, he will lind a token of our presence
in tlie open chest) of jewels, the empty
lamp, and the white bones of pour FouJata.
When we had groped our way for about a
quarter of an hour along the passage, it
suddenly took a sharp turn, or else Was
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ho il went ou for some hours We seemed
to be in a stone labyrinth which led no
where. What all these passages are, of
course, 1 cannot say, but we thought that
they must he the ancient workings ol a
mine, of which the various shafts traveled
hither and thither as the ore led them. This
is the only way in which we could account
tor such a multitude of passages
At length we halted, thoroughly worn out
wim fatigue, and with that hope deferred
w hich inaKcth the heart sick, and ate up our
poor remaining piece of biltong, and drank
our last sup ol water, for our throais were
like lime-kilns It secmud to us that we had
escaped death in the darkness 01 tne cham
ber only to meet him in the uarkness of the
tunnels
As we stood, once more utterly depressed,
I thought 1 caught a sound, to w nich 1 called
the aueiitioii of the others. It was very
faint ami far off, but it was a sound, a faiui,
murmuring sound, lor the others heard il
tot), and no words can describe tne Oie.ssed
l.ess of it alter ail those hours ol luu-r, aw
ful stillness
"By Heaven! it's running water," said
Good. "Come on."
Off we started again in the direction from
which the faint murmur seemed to come,
groping our way us betore along the rocky
walls. As we went it got more anil more
audible, till at last il seemed quile loud in
the quiet Ou, jet on; uow we could dis
tinctly make out the unmistakable swirl of
rusiwng water. And jt-i now cou,d tiit-re be
running water in the bowels ot the earth?
Now we were quite near to it. and Guod,
who was leading, a won; llial ho couid smell
it
"Go gently. Good," said Sir Henry, 'wo
must be close." Splash! and a cry from
Goot
He had fallen in.
"Good! (Iood! where are you" we shout
ed, in terrilied distress. To our intense rts
lief an answer came back in a choky, voice.
"All ritrht; I've got hold of a rock. Strike
a light to show me where you are."
Hastily 1 lit the last remaining match. Its
faint gleam discovered to us a dark mass of
water running at our feet How wide it was
we could not see. but there, some way out
w as the dark form of our companion hang
intr on to a projecting rock.
"Stand clear to catch me," 6ung out
Good. "1 must swim for it"
Then we heard a splash, and a great
struggle. Another minute and he had grab
bed at and caught Sir Henry's outstretched
hand, and we pulled him up high and dry
into tlie tunnel.
"My word!" he said, between his gasps,
"that was touch and go. if I hadn't caught
that rock, and known how to swim, 1 should
have been done. It runs like a mill-race,
and I could feel no bottom."
It was clear that this would not do; so
after Good had rested a little, and we had
drank our fill from the water of the subter
ranean river, which was sweet and fresh,
and washed our faces which sadly needed
it, as well as we could, we started from the
banks of this African Styx, and began to re
trace our steps along the tunnel. Good drip
ping unpleasantly in front of us At length
we came to another tunnel leading to our
right.'
"We may as well take it" said Sir Hen
ry, wearily; "all roads are alike here; we
can only go on until we drop."
Slowly, for a long, long while, we stumb
led, utterly weary, along this new tunnel,
Sir Henrv lending now.
Suddenly he stopped, and we bumped up
against him.
"Look!" he whispered, "is my brain go
iiiK or is that lightr'
We stared with all our eyes, and there,
yes, there, far ahead of us, was a faint
glimmering spot no larger than a cottage
window-pane. It was so taint that I doubt
if any eyes except those which, like ours,
had for days seen nothing but blackness,
could have perceived it at all.
. With a sort of a gasp of hope, we pushed
on. in live minutes there was no longer any
doubt; it was a patch of faint light A min
ute more and a breath of real, live air was
fanning us. On we struggled. All at once
the tunnel harrowed- - Sir Henry went on
his knees, Smaller yet it grew, till it was
onfy the alze of a large fox's earth it was
earth now, mind yoa ; the rock had ceased.
.A. squeeze, a struggle, and Sir Henry was
out and bo was Good, and so was I. and
there above us were the blessed stars, and in
our nostrils was the sweet air; then sudden
ly something gave, and we were all rolling
over and over through grass and bushes, and.
soft wet soil.
Continued.
PLATTSMOUTH
NEBRASKA