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H f1! m LG LI. Wvâ€"'_ __ m. surreptitiously whi e the foreit’whis- pered of it. In its surface the reflec- tion of the great stars of the southern hemisphere ran into little streaks of silver. shimmering away into darkness. All sound of human life was still. .The natives were asleep. In the next room Joseph in his hammock was just on the barrier between the waking and the sleeping lite. as soldiers learn to he. Oscard would not have needed to UK ”Jay-v ~-__,, river crept unctueusly. silently to the led. It seemed to be M ‘away W Van-- . _-V raise his voice to call him to his side. The leader or this hurried retreat had been sitting there for two hours. The slimy moving surface of the river had entered into his brain; the restless silence of the African forest alone kept him awake. He hardly realized that the sound momentarily gaining strength within his ears was that of a paddleâ€"a single. weakly irregular paddle. It was not a sound to wake a sleeping man. It came so slowly, so gently through the whisper of the drip- ping leaves that it would enter into his slumbers and make itself part of them. Guy Oscard only realized the mean- lng of that sound when a black shadow crept on to the smooth evenness of the river’s breast. Oscard was eminently a man of action. In a moment he was on his feet and in the darkness of the room there was the gleam of a rifle barrel. He came back to the window-â€" watching. He saw the canoe approach the bank. He heard the thud of the paddle as it , LL- was thrown upon the ground. In the gloom, to which his eyes were accus- tomed. he saw a man step from the boat to the shore and draw the canoe up. The silent midnight visitor then turned and walked up toward the house. There was something familiar in the gaitâ€"the legs were slightly bowed. The man was walking with great ditficulty, staggering a little at each step. He seemed to be in great pain. A A ~â€" .- .Lr Asa- “A .7“...- Guy Oscard laid aside the rifle. He stepped forward to the open window. “Is that you. Dun-nova?" he said. without raising his voice. “Yes.” replied the other. His was muffled as if his tongue gwollen. and there was 8. st! break in it. Oscard stepped aside at passed into his own house. “Got a light?" he said in the same muffled way. In the next room Joseph could be heard striking a match. and a moment )ater he entered the room. throwing a flood of liqht before him. m“Good God!" cried Oscard. He step- ped back as if he had been struck. with his hand shielding: his eyes. “Save us!“ ejaculated Joseph in the same breath. The thing that stood there. sickening their gaze. was not a human being at 31!. Take a man’s eyelids away. leav- ing the round balls staring. blood streaked; cut away his lips, leaving the grinning teeth and red gums; shear ofl his earsâ€"that which is left is not a man at all. This had been done to Victor Durnovo. Truly the vengeance of man is crueler than the vengeance of God! Could he have seen himself, Victor Durnovo would never have shown that face. or what remained of it, to a human being. He could only have killed himself. Who can tell what cru- eltles had been paid for. piece by piece, in this loathsome mutilation? The slaves had wreaked their terrible venge- ance; but the greatest. the deepest. the most inhuman cruelty was in let- ting him go. ‘They've made a pretty mess of me." said Dumovo, in a sickening. lifeless voice. and he stood there with a terrible caricature of a grin. Joseph set down the lamp with a xroan and went back into the dark room beyond. where be cast himself upon the ground and buried his face in his hands. 'éuf Oscard never attempted to run away from It. He stood slowly gulp- lng down his nauseating horror. His teeth were clinched; his face, through the sunburn. livid; the blue of his eyes seemed to have faded into an ashen “0 Lord!" be muttered. “0 God in heaven, km it, kill it!” by. The eight he was looking on would have sent three men out of five Into gibbeflnydiocy. Then at last he moved forward. With averted eyes he took Dumovo by the “Come," he said. “lie down upon my bed. I willtrytohelpyon. Canyon take some food?” Dumovo threw himself down heavily on the bed. There was a punishment sufficient to explate all'hls sins in the effort he saw that GuyOseardhsdhad to mafia before he touched him. He oughttobeineverystableand barn in Canada. It prevents: little horse troubles from becoming big ansâ€"and taks spray an . signs of lamenm With a botthof Kendall’s Spsvincmghandy, 1,, youmprepatedforacddenmthstmayhappenstanyfim'e. "“'- PAGE TWO. mystic Southern Crou the 81'9“ ,..A_n_ L- bk. ' Kendall’s 51min Cure copyruht- 11”“ Wm 11 Your Home , Gets Earl? If one of the horses should be ~. kickedâ€"cutakneeâ€"straing shoulder ago lameâ€"have you the remedy‘d: hand to CURE the injury? be said in the same HENRY SETON MERRIMAN -Ih- and Dumovo His voice mgue were a startling HARPBI. a 32.018335 “Joseph.” said Oscard, returning to the door of the inner roomâ€"his voice sounded different: there was a metallic ring in itâ€"“get something for Mr. Dur- novo; some soup or something.” Joseph obeyed. shaking as if ague was in his bones. Oscard administered the soup. He tended Durnovo with all the gentleâ€" ness of a woman and a fortitude that was above the fortitude of men. De- spite himselt his hands trembled. big and strong as they were. His whole being was contracted with horror and vs ,# -_- sh“: turned his face away. “I haven’t eaten anything for twenty~ four hours," he said. with a whistling intonation. pain. Whatever Victor Dumovo had been. he was now an object of. such pity that before it all possible human sins faded into spotlessness. There was no crime in all that human nature There was not much to be done. and presently Guy Oscard moved away to his camp chair, where he sat staring into the night. Sleep was impossible. Strong, hardened, weather beaten man that he was. his nerves were all a-tin- gie. his flesh creeping and Jumping with horror. Gradually he collected his faculties enough to begin to think about the future. What was he to do with this man? He could not take him to Loango. He could not risk that Jocelyn or even Maurice Gordon should look upon this horror. Joseph had crept back into the in- ner room. where he had no light. and could be heard breathing hard, wide awake in his hammock. - -,,__ a... Suddenly the n loud cry: “Oscard! Os vuu‘.. ‘- u v In a moment'jbseph and Oscard were at the bedside. Dumovo was sitting up. and he grabbed at Shear-(1’3 arms. -- L- .4...‘ any... “What do you mean?" asked Oscard. They both thought that he had gone mad. Sleep had nothing more to do with Dumovo‘s eyesâ€"protruding. star ins. terrible to look at. “Don't let me go to sleep,” he re- peated. “Don't! Don’t!" “All right,” said Oscard soothinglyâ€" “all right. We'll look after you." He fell back on the bed. In the flick- ering light his eyeballs gleaned. Then, quite suddenly, he rose to a sitting position again with a wild of- tort. “I’ve got it! I've got it!” he cried. “Got what?" a . “The sleeping sickness!" ' sentry. and beneath their suaue u: crumbling walls of a cursed house are slowly disappearing beneath luxuriant growths of grass and brushwood. CHAPTER XXII. Na dimlylishtedroomlnthobmt- low at Lounge two women had beenutirallnight. Nomasdawn approached. one of them. worn out with watchlns. weaned with that blessed name at m which dolls While um» slant-Jocelyn Gordon walked softly um Indira-wen! with Roommate” Katerina __ _..s.-|.s.. he..- whole village devastated by It. the habitants lying about their own doors. Ist'ricken down by a. deadly sleep from which they never awoke. It is known “Good God!” cued 0mm. u u. V-vâ€"_‘_ God‘s saké!" he cried. “For sake. man. don’t let me go to x: Qience was broken by m 0t Wig His head tell forward even as to 1:8. and the staring. wide open“ eyes that could not sleep made a horror of piled Oscard. and ‘With his 3"” strongthheabook Dumovollkeaxu- “Shake me! God! We met" Then Oocndtook'hlm mhlsntrong mandaethlmonhlstéet Bedrock himgentlyatflrst. butastbedread aomnolence crept on he ghook harder. And so Victor Dal-nova, died. H18 stained soul left his body In Guy 0:â€" card's hands. and the big Englishman shook the corpse, trying to nwaxe x: from that sleep which knows no earth‘ 1y waking. So. after all. heaven moped in and laid lts softening hand on the Judg- ment of men. But there was a strange irony in the mode or death. It was strange that this man, who never could have closed his eyes again. should have been stricken down by the sleep- ing sickness. They lanl the body on the floor and covered the face. which was less grew- some in death. for the plty of the eyes had given place to peace. _ â€"-â€"“A-'â€" uuu Davy- rvwâ€"v VV The morning light, bursting suddenly through the trees as it does in equato- rial [Ah-ice, showed the room set in or- der and Guy Oscard sleeping in his camp chair. Behind him. on the floor. lay the form of Victor Dumovo. Joseph. less iron nerved than the great big game hunter. was awake and astir an _ -- 1..-- until the mutilated inhuman had rolled upon his shoulders. “It's a sin to let that man live," ex- claimed Joseph. turnlng away in hor- hem mm in a sitting position DB", novo’a fingers were clutching at his 9-5 6""-‘ __ , Wlul the dawn. He. too. was calmer now; He had seen death face to face too often to be appalled by it in broad daylight. So they buried Victor Durnovo be- tween the two giant palms at Msala. with his feet turned toward the river which he had made his. as if ready to arise when the call comes and un- dertake one of those marvelous jour- neys of his which are yet a household word on the west coast. - The cloth fluttered as they lowered him into his narrow resting place. and the face they covered had a strange mystic grin, as if he saw something , 1â€"â€" - n-_h Ann v -wvv __ - mystic grin, as if he saw something that they could not perceive. Perhaps he did. Perhaps he saw the simiaclne plateau. and knew that, after all, he had won the last throw. for up there. far above the table lands of central Africa, there lay beneath high heaven a chamel house. Hounded down the slope by his tormentors. he had left a memento behind him surer than their mun-w" _-_v torturing knives, keener than their sharpest steel. He had left the sleep- lng sickness behind him. 7,; â€"-â€"AL_ -0 we a. Vâ€"vvw His last journey had been worthy of F his reputation. In twenty days he had ‘ covered the distance between the plateau and Msala, stumbling on alone. blinded. wounded. sore stricken. through a thousand daily valleys of death. With wonderful endurance he had paddled night and day down the sleek river without rest, with the dread microbe of the sleeping sickness slowly creeping through his veins. He had lived in dread of this disease. as men do of a sickness which clutches them at last; but when it came he did not recognize it. He was so racked by pain that he never recognized. the symptoms. He was so panic stricken. so paralyzed by the nameless fear that lay behind him. that he could only think of pressing forward. In the night hours he would suddenly rise from his precarious bed under the shadow of a fallen tree and stagger on, haunted by a picture of his ruthless foes pressing through the jungle in pursuit. Thus be accomplished his wonderful Journey alone through trackless forests. Thus he fended on the sickness which grip- ped him the moment that he laid him down to rest. He had left it. a grim legacy, to his torturers. and before he reached the river all was still on the slmiacine plateau. ‘-4_ "a- And so we leave Victor Dnrnovo. His sins are buried with him. and beneath the giant palms at Msala lies Maurice Gordon's secret. And so we leave Msala. the accnrsed camp. Far up the Ogowe river. on the left bank. the giant palms still stand sentry. and beneath their shade the crumbling walls of a. cursed house are slowly disappearing beneath luxuriant growths or grass and hmhwood. night it had held on until the whole eurth seemed to pulsatewlfl: the desire for relief. Jocelyn kept movingrso that the changing air waned over the little bare limbs might allay the (even. She was in evening dress. having. indeed. been called from the drawing room by knowledge otmedlclna bad man with them until midnight. mumgdone “3 but. hadxom 3m....lenvin8 the chfld'to the two'fiomén. mnflco had been In twice, clumsily. on‘ W’m with for Shake me!" awake It and "v“. W â€"â€"-_. _ torlus until her dusky cheek almost touched Jocelyn's falr English one. “He ls asleep." she whispered- And her great dark eyes probed Jocelyn's face as It wondering whether her arms. bearing that burden. told her that thls was the last sleep. Jocelyn nodded gravely. and con- tected by Dun-ww- Nestorlus continued to sleep. and at last Marie. overcome by sleep herself. lay down on her bed. Thus it came about that the durn round Jocelyn moving softly in the lâ€" I.-â€" 1 I a moment looking out at the sleepers. little knowing what the advent of these two men brought with it tor one or them. Then the Engliahwoman went to change her dress. awaking her brother as she passed his room. It was not long befue Maurice Gor- don had hospltably awakened the travelers and brought them In to change their torn and gagged clothes for something more presentable. It would appear that Nestorins was not particular. He did not mind dying on While she was still at the wmnow Marie rose and came to her side. Nes- torius was still sleeping. Foll0win‘ the direction of her mistress' fies. Marie saw the two ‘men. Joseph was sleeping on his face. after the manner of Thomas Atkins all the world over. Guy Oscard lay on his side. with his head on his arm. “That is so like Guy Oscard.” said Marie, with her patient smile; “so like. so like. It could be no other manâ€"to do a thing like that.” Jocelyn gave Nestorlns back to his mother. and the two women stood for .- '_-~- . fast with that patient mhgnation which seemed to emanate from having tasted ot the worst that the world hu to give. Joaeph was ready the first. and he promptly repaired to the kitchen. where he set to work to help Marie with hit customary energy. It was Marie who first perceived a dilemma in Nestorina. ma duet: lit tle race was ahinins with a sudden. weakening perspiration. hia_iirnba in! mg;iy,vv;lth 3. lack of their and comfortable looking grace. “Go!" the odd quickly. “Fawn mu Gordon!” Jocelyn came. and mules 1nd Guy 03am: for they had been Weather in the dining toom when Joseph donut-ed When he aw Guard small taco suddenlyexptndedmoabrmhntm “Baden-e!" beam“ It was rather cardiac. until m spoke. “He thinks you are Mr. W" to say ‘bad case! " Neatorlus looked from one to tho other with gavely speculative was. which presently closed. ~ “He is (Lyingâ€"yea!” said the mother. than any otthem. 11.: went forward and leaned over the table. Marlo to- Momma-amt! baconthat‘wu 'the kitchen table it need were. His mother deposited him on this table on a pillow. while she prepared the break- â€"~ in _“A‘-_ lying on the table near to the pillow. With the unconsciousness of long mm the swept some crumbs any with her apron- Oacu-d was trying to and tho pulse In them wrist. but flattens notmnchtonnd. " “1m dunno bury 111."th Aé'm.moatm mac humour and Hamlin}; “tux-av .am '0 “M I") her duties. I . ' 3 _gentle swaying motion at- women under such cucum- ?.neredlth taught him » 58F EEBE-Bn: b» 9.- 8982: noonâ€"5 n3.» n5. :5 8809.18. 8 9o 1. 153 .8 389 19 En c399,: Marie raised her shoulders with a pathetic gesture of resignation “The sleeping sickness." she said. “what will you? There is no remedy. He always said he would die of that. He feared it." In the greater sorrow she seemed to have forgotten her child. who was staring open eyed at the ceiling. 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