ne 5 p Ae At last matters got very baa, for two awhile." ' the indunas came forwaril to drag her ek off to execution, and it was not until you must go, and the Star must take her Stella fairly burst into tears that the chance. She is strong. It is nothing. fi sight of her grief, 4tmked by Mr. Car All will be weil." { Lions, \ "She," "Jess," ete. ' on's orders and my own remonstrances, "au revoir." at any rate. tn darlin omar is = Tt frightened ma, for Liew sire jy face change far away, bounding most perpendicular Ah, why _._.e_seek.so. continually and Wp lip the day. go? All this while Hendrika had been "For this reason, MacumazaW® a = atanding quite unmoved. At last the he looked cautiously round and tumult stopped, and the leading induna low. *") _ Called 't her t go, promising that if thousands, ever she showed her face near Ube kraals them." she should be stabbed like a jackal. Then Hendrika spoke to Stella in a low | voice in English: ome OU ns haunted me. somewhat, 'had not done with me, and saw had to a great extent passed or that our mercy was misplaced. § she ran swiftly from me, Stella and my father-in-law's illness, find as she. passed Indabs-zimbi, with a Started violently. "How do you know sudden movement snatched her : knife from his hand, When she had gone about twenty paces she halted, looked ong and earnestly on Stella, sg sr apptneg chs Sie Mella. igpedingen way off I knew her by her size, and I saw the white flesh of her arm when the up the face of an al- cliff--a cliff that no- bedy except herself and the conkl possibly climb. "Look," said Indaba-zimbi in my 'ear ' goes the ge bebyan frau.' But, Macumazahn, she will come back again. _ You not listen to my words? Have théy __not always been true words, gahn?" and he shrugged his shoulders ang turned away. For a while I was much disturbed, © present, and Stella, my dear and lovely wife, was there at my side, and in her honeymoon. But cer- tainly our illusion, or rather the great truth of which it is the shadow, did sur- vive, as to this day it survives in my i ube despair of the people when they learned that we were going to leave them was said again. something que pitiable. I could only little maid, and before they die we shall the console them by declaring that we were find them. |but on a journey, and would world even for an hour. Three days after our wedding Mr. Car- ind sometinies myself, Curiously enough he remembered little Totg best of f RS SAS spoke, = "Yes, yes, I Poor woman! you too hare " and he fell back dead. doubt 2 cutee iL Tis Patr tye i = EF gE*y i * "Indaba-sicabi bi alone = it, paw went dia, foe ~ whet wa? ife ey GOh A Wy ie fr ; igsoe i ee vn tere I; it would have been well for all im the little graveyard near the water- ») It was a sad business and Stella " cried very much, in spite of all I could a quarter of a mile from the huts. of COUrSs4 TITS Wiis ho reason to fe an --evidently she had gone to lay the flowers ont her father's grave. towards the graveyard, which wus about That night as I mat outside the hut smoking--for the weather was hot and Stella was lying down inside--old Indaba zimbi came up, saluted and squatted at ¥. c.," "Mr. my feet. When | got near the graveyard Tinct Colonel Quariich, Wil," "A Tale of Three Pre ili rman," one of the watives, who, by my orders, had been set round the kraals to watch place, and noticed that he was Fub- ving his eyes and yawning. "What is it, Indulsa-zimbit" I said. going to trek towards the coast?" "TI don't know," Lanswered. **The Star t és not «i vet we «t wai not fit to travel now; we must wait Jo, his mistress, and he answered that : .. be had not, wiieli wader the ciréum- "No, Macumazahn, you must not wait; : - stopping to reproach him, 1 ordered|the man to follow me, and went on te the grave, lay the drooping flowers which nd Stella had been carrving. 7; Teldsecluwon, or hide slipper. But wi i ne - i . - All the mountain is full o Tran from the graveyard and ¢alied olny who sat staring straight byfore him as though ke "3 space, and taking note of what went on An idea struck me. ann- had some occult power. Several times" during our adventures he had prophe sied, and_in every case his prophecies pra had proved true, He i Tacape » aloud at the topof my voice, but no an- * gwercame. Meanwhile the native! was "Vea," hea aiswered, "they went after Ore profitably engaged in trac ing their "Better let them kill me, mistress, bet- the niarriage, all but one or two; now SPvor- ter for all. Without you to love I shall they are back, all the go mad and become a babyan again." Stelia did not answer, and they k her. She stepped forward and looked at the natives with a stareof hate. Then bad something be! 'nd. _ she turned and walked past me, and as Of a pack of babowus." ashe passed whispered a native phrase in my ear. that, being literally transtated,; babyanfrau, Hendrika, is with Now, nothing had been hearil or seen "did not know that they had gone baboohs in the Ured yards till he came to a clamp ¢ 1imOsa bush that was sitaated hetwee he streans and the ancient marble quar: "Ts that all?" Teall, for I saw that he Ties just ubove the waterfall, and) qt the mouth of the ravine. Here he stopped and I heard him give @ startled ery, @ Spot, passed through the soged black with thern." "No, Macumazahn, ii ia not all. ispace in the center of the clade lid been on, the scene of a struggle. There, if) the h at first she and her threats had sft earth, were the marks of ghrée bu- by. degrees she "29 feet--two shod, one naked--Stella's, it of my lota's and Hendrika's. N mind, which was fully preoccupied with There, close by, lay the fragments of the 1 two dogs--they were nothing mare-an ene baboon, not yet quite dead, which great this" I asked, had been bitten in the throat: mazabn. 'She is disguised, she is dressed BUNIDErless baboons, up in baboon sXins, and ber face is stain- But 'theugh she was a long bat liad happened flashed into nay pind. ' My wife and Tota bad been carried off been killed, for if so their remaing would skins slipped aside. She has comeback, bave been found with thove of tig dogs. |" Macumazaha, with all the baboons in They had been carried off. 'The! brutes, ) the world, and she has come back to do acting under thw direction of the wWoman- ; evil, Now,do you understand why you Wouke , Should trek?" a ¥, Hendrika, had dragged them y tosome secret den, there fy keep " said, "though I-don't see how them till they died--or kill them! * will she and the baboons can harm us, [I Fora moment l literally stagger think that it will be bettertogo. If nec- neath the terror of the shock, "Phen I ns_some- roused nyself from my ir Heark- the native ran and alarm the 7 en, Indaba-zimbi: say nething of this to the kraals, telling them to come but the Star; I will not have her frightened. and bring me guns and anumunit -hoarken. te the head Went like the wind, and I turne, tien, and see that "watchers "are set al] low the spoor. around the huts and gardens, and kept plain enough--Stella had been ¢ there night and day. To-motrow we will along. atruck the ground; the child had, I pre- essary we can camp the w where fora while on the journey. and by the strength of her human will] bark in tho cliffs above me; it was and intelligefice muster them in order to swered by another, and then I saw that n thinking matters turned and fled back toward the huts. had come to the conclusion As 1 drew near I could see that my mes- duty to follow her father's senger had roused the settlement, for tions to the letter, and leare Bab- natives with spears and kerries in their y raals atonce. Into all our-talk I hands were running up towards \need not enter, but the end of it wasthat kraals. When I reached the hut I met \she agreed with me, and declared that old Indaba-zimbi, who woro a very seri- she could quite well manage the journey. Nothing happened to disturb us that slowing morning I he said. "Tt haa spe "xl Iny! limited experi- "Sa the evil hasfallen, Macumazahn he pointed to a spot in the horizon where -- nis it would have been about an hour and a , "The two doga were with and there im) or the sides of -precipices formed of wa riven rocks fantastically pited-one updn Mt aye stepped , another; 'in vAin we searched through bate bem an cml of Indaba-zimbi. Ah, endless delle and fern Clad crannies, FOU White hien, you know sQ much that How SoU think you-know everything. could we expect to find two human Feu dun't!: You fre always staring at beings hidden away_in-the recesses of the clouds and ¢iin't "see the things that this vast stretch of-mountain ground, j } which no man yet had ever fully ex- 2O*, Go you, Macumazahn? Well, I will aie There, was nothing to be found. plored? They were lost, and in all hu- man probability lost for ever. To and fro we wandered hopelessly, till at. last dawn found-us footsore and weary tearly at the spot whence we had We eat down waiting for the san (0 trike, and the men ate of such food as they bad brought with them, and gent to the kraals for more, I sat upon a stone with a breaking I cannot describe my feelings. Let the reader put himself in my posi- tion and perlaps he may get some idea startet. them. there. agi even f e now? w -Phave only: jast-found the herb T-want, ®3 aed he produced a handful of leaves of tormerly of - a plant that was unfamiliar to me. 2 Garaito prickly leaves, shaped very much 6 those of the common English nettle. 'Now, "bid the men leave us alune, and then follow me presently to the little glade down: there by the water." When 1 reached the glade J found Indaba-zimbi kindling « small fire under the shadow of a tree by the edge of © water. : "Sit there, Macumazahn," he said, pointing to a stone near the fire, "and do not be surprised or frightened at any- ~ thing you see. ' wo shall learn nothing." Isat down and watched. When the was alight and burning brightly, the old fellow stri and, going to himself in the water. back shivering with the cold, and, lean- ing over the little fire, thrust leaves of the plant I have mentioned into his mouth aud began to chow them, mutter- ing ashochewed, Most of the remaining leaves ho threw onto the fire. smoko rose from. them, but he held his head in this smoke and drew it down into » his Jungs till [saw thathe waa exhibiting} * 'every sign of suffocation. The veins in thie throat-and chest swelled; L-did wo, ter. wandered on. All night we d through the lonely moonlit val leys, startling the silence into a thousand echoes with our cries. But no answer Po'vet to speak with the Star. leame'to them, In vain oureyes searched 2"g¢Tous business, Macumazahn, for if 4 ter [had let things go dS little further they | oo, and there "wrarid + patente Soda mediate ie <r. J. G. YEMEN, MD., L.D.S. QOrree --Market Strect, Strathord On. Stratford, Jan. Tlet, lean, Thad 'to draw all the healthy strength und life from my body in order to gather | Drs. HIPPLE & BIDT, NTISTa, Oddfellows' Block, Market. Square Stratford Stratiord, Oct. 14, 1889 @ . TID that the Star has touched or worn? Scrofula is transmitted from parent to child, and thas becomes a family Inheri the duty of every serofylous person to cleanse hia blood by athorouhand persis- tent course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. DAVIS & VAN BUSKIRE 'ERS and SU UVEVYORS. STRATFORD bane Br OCk. Yfice :--Jn Mington's Mock, Markut and Erie | ~\divgton's Block, Market St Ontario £8 Drsinege, Rowds, Wridges, ete do from the Zulu Impi, had * told me to steer north, because there we should find the place of a white man who lived under the shadow of m groat peak that was full of baboons, vw could help in this extremity--at any rate [t was worth trving. "Indala-zitabi,'. 1 said, *'you say that you_can send your spirit through the doors of space and eee what we cannot ~ At the jeast I know that you can ilo strange things. If you can, and will save her, pivill give you half the cattle that we have bere," "[ never said anything of the sort, Macumazahn," d things, | do nottalk aboutthem. Neither M Anker fe do I seck reward for what I do like a commen witel: doctor, . ou have asked me to use my wisdom, _Stratigrd, Oct. 10, 1883. facumazala, fur I should not have us yvuin without being asked--no, not (pPtanio > . To ; rietor or the sake of the Starand yourself, gies Cigars, etc Dow's colebrated who J love, for if so my spiri drauch have been angry. In the other mattersI had a part, for my life was concerned aa wellas yours; butin this matter T hove no part, and therefore I might not use tion my wisdom unless you thought well to call upon mv spirit, -However, it would have been no good to uk me before, (Mawesa of tra Assomanos oF Paovimciat Lasp ) "y CIVIL PNGINEER nme: the Queen's Hotel Biedical, Dr. D. M. FRASER. | | QCFFICE :--At bis Resttence on Downie Bead T=. ly AS REMOVED t the New Bull@ing Gn the Market Scares Office ower Express Office Srtierd Telephone conpection, Stratford, New 14, 180 3-1 - DR. SHAVER. TN GUT MESSAGES may be: left st Orrin, Ouiano & treet, near Ceurt House, or af widence, Bronewick Street, on «block cnet of Clay £4F Telephon= Vonnection. Stratford, Sept wth, Ise0, - 'De. W.N. ROBERTSON, amp.) ..' 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I could cat no food, but I packed some What should they do when there waa no up to take with us, and made r ERs Ee : wd her, by when the @a8 elewd thar," loudly, and his eyea, from which tears were streaming, seemed as though they were going to start from his head. Pres- ently he fell-o senseless. my first impulse was to run to his ance, but fortunately I remembered his caution and sat quiet. ! Indaba-zimbi lay on the ground like a Person quitedead. His limbs had all the utter re i Feb, 3, 1560, 16l-ly ONTARIO HOUSE, STRATFORD. Large aod commodious stable: and an attentive CROWN HOTBL. Wi Dovrzo Sra, IDINGION & PALMER. to A? Beecee Rees Seva, on Von ans scares Dulbaiage hesitant: Market Duildings, W. MOWAT & SON, BANEBRS - + 186R) - --adn mgverable, cart and effectual! mags" SA eee Bs. c: Ley oath iy