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THE FARMER: MARCH 23, 1909.
I , THE LADY OF THE HEAVENS. 1
5:. Copyright. 1008, by H. Rider Haggard
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THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM
OF THE FIRST MEAL OF THE
DAY IS COFFEE
25
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One Poniid
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Objis
In order to baild jou np for the day's work should be Kimuliuiii
a healthy tonic leave m all to
SUNRISE COFFEE
Carefully selected, thoroughly cleaned
arid perfectly blended, and bein;
packed la air-tight cans, retains Its
MaW aa. at the same time prrvent
Ing thr ca i absorbing the flavors of
suci aa oil. Mi. butter, etc.
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THE REASON
W. L. Douglas
makes and sells
more men's '3.00
and '3.50 shoes
than any other
manufacturer in
the world.
Boys' Shoes
I.75fr2.00
I make and sell more
mien's M and tS. 50 shoes
than anr other manufac
turer is because I rive the-
wearer the benefit of the
most complete organization
of trained exDerts and nkillnd
shoemaKera in the world.
The selection of the leathers for arh
part of the shoe, and everv detail of th
making in every department, is looked after
by the best shoemakers in the shop, indnsrrv Tf t
could show yon how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would
then understand why they hold their shape, fit better and wear longer than
any other make. m
W. L DOUIjUS SHOE STOR: IN BRIDGEPORT: 1068 Wa;n St.
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CIGARS
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No matter what you pay for cigars at D. D. Smith's
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where. Goods are always fresh, as stock is moved
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reasonable. Box trade a specialty.
Fine line of Pipes, Cigar Holders, Tobaccos in Tins and all Smokers'
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Dr. CIWITH Opp Poli's Theatre,
U I ri, Fairfield Avenue
(Continued.
CHAPTER XIX.
Rachel Finds Her Spirit.
Northward, ever northward, journey
ed Rachel with the Ohost-priests; for
; days and weeks they Journeyed. sioWiy
and for the moat part at night, since
these people dreaded the glare of the
sun. Sometimes she was borne along
in a litter with Note upon the should
ers of the huere slaves, but more often
she walked between the littrtrs in the
midst of a guard of soldiers, for now
shs was so strong that she never seem
ed to weary, nor even in the fever
swamps where many fell, did any sick
ness touch her; Also this labour Tt
the body seemed to soothe her wander
ing and tormented mind, as did th3
touch of Xoie's hand and the sound of
Xoie's voice. At times, however, her
madness got hold of her and she broke
out into those bursts of wild laughter
which had scared the Zulus. Then
Kddo would descend from his little
and lay his long fingers on her fore
head and look into her eyes in such a
fashion that she went to sleep and was
at peace. But if Noie spoke to her i.i
these eleeps. she answered her ques
tions, and even talked reasonably as
she had done before the people of
Mafooti laid the body of Richard at
her feet, and she stood upon the .roof
of the hut which Ishmael strove to
climb.
Thus it was that Noie came to learn
all that had happened to her since they
parted, for though she had gathered
much from them, the Zulus could not,
or would not, tell her everything. In
past day3 sh5 had heard from Rachel
of the lad, Richard Darrien. who had
been her companion years before
through that night of storm oi the
Island in the river, and now she under
stood that her lady loved this Richard,
and that it was because of his murder
by the wild brute, Ibubesi, that she
had become mad.
Yes. she was mad. and for that rea
son Noie rejoiced that the dwarf .peo
ple were taking her to their horns,
since if she could be cured at all. they
were able to heal her, they the great
doctors. Moreover, if these priests and
the Zulus would have let her go,
whither else could she have 'gone
whose parents and lover were dad,
except to the white people on the coast
who did not reverence the insane, as
do all black folk, but would have lock
ed her up in a house with others like
her until she died. No. although she
knew that there were dangers before
them, many and great dangers, Noie
rejoiced that things had befallen thus.
Also in her tender care already Ra
chel improved much, and Noie be'i;ved
that one daj- she would be herself
again. Only she wished that she and
her lady were alone together; tat
there were no priests with them, and
above all no Eddo. For Eddo as sh
knew well was jealous of her authority
over Rachel: jealous, too. of the love
that they bore one to the other. He
wished to use this crazed wh'te chief -tainess
who had been accepted as their
Inkosazana by the great Zulu people,
for their own purposes. This had been
clear from the beginning, and that was
why when he first heard of her he had
consented to go on the embas.-y to
Dingaan. since by his mairic he could
foresee much of the future that was
dark to Noie, whose blood was mixed
and who had not all the gifts of the
Ghost-kings.
Moreover, the Mother of the Trees
was Noie's great aunt, being the sis
ter of her grandfather, or of his father.
Noie was not sure which, for she had
dwelt among them but a few days, and
never thought to inquire of the matter.
But of one thing she was sure, that
Eddo the first priest, hated this Moth
er of th Trees. vho was nam?d Nya.
and desired that "when her tree fell"
the next mother should be his servant,
which Nya was not. Perhaps. rfflct-
ed Noie. it was in his mind that her
lady would fill this part, and being
mad. obey him in all things.
Still she kept a watch upon her
words, and even on her thoughts, for
Eddo and his fellow-priests. Pan! and
Hana. were able to peer into human
hearts, and read their secrets. Also
she protected Rachel from him as
much as she was able, never leaving
her side for a moment, however weary
she might be. for she feared lest he
should become the master of her will.
Only when the fits of madness fell up
on her mistress, she was forced to al
law Eddo to quell them with his touch
and eye. since herself she lacked this
power, nor dared she calle the others
to help for they were under the hand
of Eddo.
Northward, ever northward. First
they passed through the Zulus and
their subjects who knew of them and
of the Inkosazana. All of these were
suffering from the curse that lay upon
the land because, as they believed,
there was blood between the Inkosa
zana and her people. The locusts de
voured their crops and the plague
ravaged their cattle, so that they were
terrified of her, and of tho little Grey
folk .With whom she travelled, the wiz
ards who had shown fearful things to
Dingaan and left him sick with dread.
They fled at their approach, only leav
ing "a few of their old people to pros
trate themselves before this Inkosa
zana who wandered in search of her
own Spirit, and the Dream-mn who
dwelt with the ghosts in the heart of
a forest, and to pray her and them to
lift this cloud of evil from the land
bringing gifts of such things as were
left to them.
At length all the Zulus were passed,
and they entered into the territories
of other tribes, wild, wandering tribes.
But even these knew of the Ghot
kings, and attempted nothing against
them, as they had attempted nothing
against Noie and her escort when she
travelled through this land on her em
bassy to the People of the Trees. In
deed, some of their doctors would visit
them at their camps and ask an
oracle, or an interpretation of dreams,
or a charm against their enemies, or
a deadly poison, offering great gifts
in return. At times Eddo and his fellow-priests
would listen, and the
giants would bring a tiny bowl fi'led
with dew into which they gazed, tell
ing them the pictures they saw there
though this they did but se'dom. as
the supply of dew wh'ch thy had
brought with them from their own
country ran low. and since It could
not be used twice they kept it for
their own purposes.
Next they came to a country of vast
swamps, where dwelt few men an1
many wild beasts, a country fu'l of
fevers and reeds and pools, in which
lived snakes and crocodiler. Yet no
harm came to them from these kings,
for the Ghost-priests had medicines
that warded off sickness, and charms
that protected them from all evil crea
tures, and in their bowls thy read
what road to take and how dangers
could be avoided. So they passed the
swamps safelv: only here that slave
whom Eddo had cursed at the kraal
of Dingaan, and who froaii that day
onward had wasted till he seemed to
be nothing but a great skeleton, sick
ened and died.
"Did I not tell you that it should be
so?" said Eddo to the other slaves,
who trembled before him as reeff-i
tremble in the wind. "Be warned, ye
fools, who think that the strength of
men lies in their bodies and the'r
speari." Then he kicked the corpse o
the dead giant gently with his san
dalled foot, and bade his brothers
throw him into a pool for the croco
diles to eat.
Having passed the swamps and many
rivers, at length they turned west
ward, travelling for days over grassy
uplands like to those of Natal, anion
which wandered pastoral tribes with
their herds of cattle. On these plams
were multitudes of game and many
lions, especially lis the bush-clad slopes
of great isolated mountains that rosi
up here and there. These lions roared
round them at night, but the Priests
did not seem to be afraid, for when
the brutes became over-bold they
placed deadly poi3on in the carcases of
buck that the nomad tribe brought
them as offerings, of which the lions
ate and died in numbers. Also they
sold some of the poison to the tribe
for a. great price in cattle, as to tha
delivery of which cattle they gave
I iuiiimc uirecLiuiis. tor mey Knew tnai
none aarea to cneat the Mother of the
Trees and her prophets.
After the plans were left behind. thy
reached a vast, fertile and low-lying
country that sloped upwards for miles
and miles, which, as Noie explained to
Rachel, when she would listen, was the
outer territory of the Ghost-people, for
here dwelt the race of the Umkulus
or Great Ones, who were their slaves,
that folk to which the soldiers of their
escort belonged. Of these there were
thousands and tens of thousands who
earned their living by agriculture,
since although they -were so huge and
fierce-looking, they "id not fight unless
they were attacked. The chiefs of this
people had their dwellings in vast caves
in the sides of cliffs which if need be,
could be turned into impregnable for
tresses, but their real ruler was the
Mother of the Trees, and their office
was to protect the country of the Trees
and furnish it w.ith food, since the Tree
people were dreamers who did little
work.
While they travelled through this
land all the head-men of the Umkulus
accompanied them, and every morn ng
a council was held at wh'ch these
made reports to the Priests of all that
had chanced of late, and laid their
causes before them for judgment. Th;se
causes Eddo and his felolwpriests
heard and settled as seemed best to
them nor did any dare to dispute their
rulings. Indeed, even when they de
posed a high chief and set another In
his place, the man who had lost all
knelt before them and thanked th-sm
for their goodness. Also they tried
criminals who had stolen women or
committed murder, but they never or
dered such men to be slain outright.
Sometimes Eddo would look at them
dreamily and curse them in his slow,
'hissing voice, bidding them waste in
body and in mind, as he had done to
the soldier at Umgugundoh'ovu, and
die within one sear, or two or three
as the case misht be. Or sometimes,
if the crime was very bad he would
command that they should be sent to
"travel in the desert," that is, wander
to and fro without food or water un
til death found them. Now and again
miserable-looking men, mere skeletons,
with hollow cheeks, and eyes that
seemed to start fom their heads,
would appear at their camp weeping
and imploring that the curse which
had been laid upon them in past day?
should be taken off their heads. At
such people Eddo and his brother
priests. Pani and Hana, would 'augh
softly, asking them how they throve
upon the wrath of the Mother of the
Trees, and whether they thought that
other who saw them would be en
couraged to sin as they had done. But
when the poor wretches prayed that
they might be killed outright with the
spear, the priests shrank up in horrrr
beneath their umbrellas, and asked if
they were mad that they should wish
to "sprinkle their trees with blood."
One morning a number of these be
witched Umkulus, men, women and
children, "appeared, and when the three
priests mocked them, as was their
wont, and the guards, some of whom
were their own relatives, sought to
beat them away with sticks, threw
themselves upon the groundand burst
into weeping. Rachel, who was camp
ed at a little distance with Noie, in a
reed tent that the guard had made for
her. which they folded up and carried
as they did the umbrellas, heard the
sound of this lamentation, and came
out followed by Ngie. For a space she
stood contemplating their misery with
a troubled air. then asked Noie why
these people seemed so starved and
why they wept. Noie told her that
when she was on her embassy the head
of their kraal, an enormous man of
middle age, whom she pointed out to
Rachel, had sought to detain her be
cause she was beautiful, and he wish
ed to make her his wife, although he
knew well that she was on an embassy
to the Mother of the Trees. She had
escaped, but it was for this reason
that the curse of which they were
perishing had been laid upon him and
his folk.
Now Rachel went on to where the
three priests sat beneath their um
brellas dozing away the hours of sun
light, beckoning to the doomed family
to follow her.
"Wake, Priests," she cried in a loud
voice; and they looked up astonished,
rubbing their eyes, and asked what
was the matter.
' "This," said Rachel. "I command
you to lift the weight of your ma'e
diction off the head of these people,
who have suffered enough."
"Thou commandest us!" exclaimed
Eddo astonished. "And if we will not.
Beautiful One. what then?"
"Then," answered Rachel. ' I will lift
it and set it on to your heads, and you
shall perish as they are perishing. Oh!
you think me mad. you priests, who
kin more cruelly than did the Zulus,
and mad I am whose Spirit wanders.
Yet I tell you that new powers grow
within me, though whence they come I
know not, and what I say I can per
form." Now they stared at her muttering to
gether, and sending far a wooden bowl,
peeped into it. Whatever it was they
saw there did not please them, for at
length Eddo addressed the crowd of
suppliants, saying:
"The Mother of the Trees forgives:
the knot she tied she looses: the tree
she planted she digs up. You are for
given. Bones, put on strength: mouths,
receive food; eyes, forget your blind
ness, and feet, your wanderings. Grow
fat and laugh; increase and multiply;
for the curse we give you a blessing,
such is the will of the Mother of the
Trees."
"Nay, nay," cried Rachel, when she
understood their words, "believe him
not, ye starvelings. Such is the will
of the Inkosazana of the Zulus, she
who has lost her Spirit and another's,
and travels all this weary way to find
them."
Then her madness seemed to come
upon her again.for she tossed her arms
on high and burst into one of her wild
fits of laughter. But those whom she
had redeemed heeded it not, for thy
ran to her. and since they dared not
touch her. or even her robe, kissed the
ground on which she had stood and
b'essed her. Moreover, from that mo
ment they began to mend, and within
a few days were changed folk. This
Noie knew for they followed up Rachel
to the confines of the desert, and she
saw it with her eyes. Also the fame
of the deed spread among the Umkulu
people who groaned under the cruel
rule of the Ghost-king's, and mad or
sane, from that day forward they
adored Rachel even more than the"
Zulus had done, and like the Zulus be
lieved her to be a spirit. No mere
human being, they declared, could have
lifted off the curse of the Mother of
the Trees from those upon whom it
had fallen.
Thenceforward. Eddo.Pani. and Hana
hid their judgments from Rachel, and
would not suffer such supp'iants to
approach the camp. Also when they
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seized a number of men because, these
had conspired together to rebel against
the Ghost-people, and brought? thlrn on
towards their own eoumrj?-,f9r a, cer
tain purpose, they forced jJjti id act
as bearers like the others, .jhal Ra
chel might not guess their"OTOrnjr For
now, with all their power, they also
were afraid of this white Inkosazana,
as Dingaan had been afraid.
So they travelled up . this endless
slope of fertile land, leaving all the
kraals of the giant TJmkulus behind
them, and one mornb4g at the dawn
camped upo the edge of a terrible
desert: a place of dry sands and sun
blasted rocks, that looked like the bot
tom of a drained ocean, where no:.h ng
lived save the fire lizards and certain
venomous snakes that buried them
selves in the sand, all except their
heads, and only crawled out at night.
After the people of. the Umkulus this
horrible waste was the great defence
of the Ghost-kings, whose country is
ringea about, since none could pass it
without guides and water. . Itideed.
Noie .Htd been forced to stay here for
days with her escort, untiljthe Mother
of the Trees, learning of her coming
in some strange fashion, had sent
priests and guards to bring her to her
land. But the Zulus wno were witn
her they did not bring, except one
witch-doctor to bear witness to her
words. These they left among the Um
kulus till she should return, nor were
those Zulus sorry who had already
heard enough of the magic of the
Ghost-kings, and feared to come face
to face with them.
But it is true that they also - feared
the Umkulus, whom, because of their
great size and the fierceness of "their
air. the Zulus took to be evil spirits,
though If this were so, they could not
understand why they should obey a
handful of grey dwarfs who lived far
from them beyond the desert. Still
these Umkulus did them no harm, for
on her return Noie found them all safe
and well.
That afternoon Rachel and the
dwarfs plunged Into the dreadful wild
erness, heading straight for the ball
of the sinking sun. Here, although
she wished to do so, she was not al
lowed to walk, for fear lest the aer
pents should bite her, said Eddo. but
must journey in the litter with Noie.
So they entered it.and were borne for
ward at a great pace, the bearers for
eling at a run, and being often
changed. Also many other bearers
came with them, and on the shoulders
of each of them was strapped a hide
bag of water. Of this they soon dis
covered the reason, for the sand of
that wilderness was white with salt;
the air also seemed to be full of salt,
so that the thirst of those who trav
elled there was sharp and constant,
and if it could not be satisfied they
died.
(To b Continued.)
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