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KKATURE SECTION- Janunry 11, IMO M A M R A T W JS H T é RS DU BOTE HEYWARD A u th a t a f A S to ry o f Sacrifice, Romance, H um or and Tragedy M N4T N %« l U m M I l IM T N K U »T I H \ rr»«4 MAGAR PAYS A DEBT l . l i o l l i * « blM M M iM l i n i « * w « I4 m i a l #*#»U bM M tr *»!»# h «a W rr.m » l4 r n llA * 4 » l l h |»* m i f l l * < U » i ( t « a p « h « * « » l»rr * « l . r «II« 4 t«| h « n 4 « l 4 w «f* f i « m ^hf h It a t i* « l u i « I l f ••1*4 MMrh # « ( » » H » » !.«• • • It M t * » « » b » ! »1 t h • * ! # • ! • « • l » l * l l l « r n i t t « » h » ^ft i > « m * * U h » n k W «rlh . j way through Un- matted growth «U h ymmmg N * | t t p a l i ! * « a «4 t U lln io i H * la * » « > la lr » t # 4 *n 4 • • f l h v h l l * . « » 4 I » l i - ' her right hauti while alie i U-ad led #«••1 *4 I » !-»••• I l i » Il ( • N i i l r u b l i 4U|M*I#4 » U h h * ( U f i? « i M M l i l n D i » 4#y »b# 1*11* Uie body witli Iter ielt Bul tlii» | h # l . « «DII# mi Ih * • M i l h « l ah* •• I » I 4 I# 1 « pimmé mi h «r N * | i t b r i •»•*# , a ll h*« position caused her to advance with • t a * U I « « • » * l o i i g Ih v ir * '4 # i » » 4 » * l * la l a » h i ! * I- wrred iiead and eyes hard on tire «i# f4 lM l* w m i n a r » . a w a l i l l a k r a a l« mmé Ih * Itu # llappar I r p* a**ba I Uaa'a « a » I mwi I s ni «hallow water through which J aHlMM«bip Hwt » b*« u h « f b * « « r l i » # 4 n a la ir u l a l l r i mhmlé mi lia fd ln la a a w !»»#• Iiar4laala h « « # «b#4 I •••• la a**aa»pa«*> l»c» a » a p a rty A lia r a »»# b I » p a «4 ra**Hlal l i n a • ■ h u n I i la g « (tu ' «fcr m *b »a 4 «a « b *r i « « a i l a M r 4 r r * * r »# b » 4 x r r a M fi I h » a a m lilla lln g I I * « ' Ih * party P i i » r#. 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Rut present ly site became aware of the reflection of an object that projected over her - boulder and I mked down Into the water, a* sire waa doing She paused, and Hie re fle c tio n d id llk rw ts r Th en she recognised its cause a* the head of the corpae which hung over tier ..boulder clone lo her own W illi the first sense of uneaslnesa that her deed had brought to her she stinted her load so that it would no linger gaze downward and start ed forward again Hut with an al- moat animate persistence the body nioved with each stride, and grad ually the round, blank silhouette again ecllfmed Lite miniature skies through whi ch she waded Now her anger rose, and she splashed heavily through the water, shattering and dispersing it* reflection* An hour passed, and ilie sun now- well over tiie tree-top*, commenced — S O M C*0 O S M I M I I M I « f O I V - to draw a thin steam rut of the swamp The din of voice* that had INHTAL1.MKNT XV heralded dav commenced to abate, field*, and cabins. The light gatiiered -ettltng In drowsy diminuendo into 'Ilie fowls h«d quirted down again speed It poured along tlus ground.; m alnios, complete alienee Then after Uie first cock-crow, and Site dividing tree fr in tree It tlfUd in - 1 saw liirm. ml» tv blobs of darkness, to Hie brandies that still clutched as Ha-car rear lied the dense growth that clogged Ilie central area of the ranged along a limb against tiie sky at retreating mists and peopled thrm| I morass and made progress difficult, That meant a good hour of darkness vlth sc,mrat: leaves. Then, as at a flic air about her broke Into a shrill ahead of Iter Rile drew lier skirt given signal, the world burst into - minims whine, and a black cloud ot up snd tucked It high like a field sound. Birds shrilled from the hands, leaving tier Iona legs tun to rasetta bushes, ami like an ominous mosquitoes enveloped her. settling dust nil head, shoulders, and lire knees and unimpeded Then she call Hagar braid tiie teeming Ilie | like Involuntarily she strurk out set oft with a free stride In the di Ilf ilie swamp awake and lilt its legs w nil both hands With a heavy splash rection of Hinton’* shark " i n i s i . i U - t ol l- Mh. h n l l * , n tii. o i l lier burden fell from her back and T iie muon had set. withdrawing by beauty, and day had taken I mt comme- red to settle slowly Into the Its dlltuseil radiance fr m the misty unaware* .'■••mi-fluid ou re Slapping wildly al weal, so tiiat now even the solid mass Bile broke Into a dag trot It was Ihe maddening cloud, and with tier of tin- swamp toward which site liniiriatlir llial she rear'll the shack skin cm fire from the poison Hagar Journeyed was Invisible against the tiefnre proplr were up and ab id turned her bark on the body and hot Ison Hut Hie tides of life had Tiie voire of Live swamn grew louder, i broke savagely thrcMMli live tangle In definitely r t toward the new day. mid now. against Us gloom, site ssa •carch of one of the little Islands that [faint as ft. but stirring along the the squat ugly bulk of the shark rise through Ilie watrr of tiie swamp earth In little rshllaratlng waves, Billion was lying where site had and offer a slight harbourage from tilling the air with tliu«e subtle v i left him Quickly stir brnt over, ihe pest brations that are the precursors of cnllirred him up and flung him upon At last she found It a knoll of high light Thiotigh the glo hi the big tier shculder Thru, c asting a hasty j ground, lifting out of the cypress free-striding figure of tiie woman glance around, she went out and knees, and having above it an Ir- advanced The movement about Iter dosed tiie door She had onlv a c cular cirri* of opaque blue-gray quickened Hlie threw a glance be hundred yard* to travrl lor cover >ky. Crouched over almost on all hind hrr. and high In the east, she slid this was fortunate, fur. as she • fours with prehensile hands tearing ■saw a finger of light touch tiie mist left the shark, the sun pierced Hie I her wsv through the undergrowth Then suddenly sire was upon that mist «nd drenched the clearing with the great woman emerged like a pre hour of the twenty four when Earth light It outlined tiie huge figure of historic creature quitting It* primal recapitulate.-, tier creation, when In the woman with fire, and cast a I rllme. and climbed out upon the a brief cosmic atavism she slips back (largantuan shadow before her as 1 knoll. to her wild beginnings. she labor.ed forward beneath her | For a moment site sat panting The void through which llagar rigid and grotesquely posturing bur heavily, her face and arms stream ing with sweet and blood from stings moved no longer hung poised in den Hiie extended an arm and parted : and thorn I«erratums Then from her Inert IS Free-running tide* of life pocket she drew a bandana handker a curtain of vines, then she passed aet It swlngnlg and pulsing The mist into welcoming gloom chief, a clay pipe, tobacco, snd lifted and divided itself Into vast. through *low-movln;: bodies that hung close Black ooar squirted between tier toes matches She mopped her face filled She heaved , Ihe pipe and lighted It. then sat to Uie ground and hesitated until and covered her feet some unseen forte seised them anti a deep sigh of relief and paused to gulping tiie acrid * m i i kr in great draughts and blowing It In a cloud whirled them together in silent take tier bearings The Iasi of tiie mosqui First site must dispose of the body, about her chaos Tire woman st pfird In lire toes took reluctant flight, and with and to do this most effectively she road, touched by the m aglc'of It. and ■•»"I r., i l l « iilxiiit her s h e . aw must penetrate to the heart of the a long sigh site lay back on the tough vague. Inchoate masse* heaprd up swamp where no one would be like swamp grass lo think things out Khe realised with rellel that there on the olm earth Hire saw then* ly to fltid It Hlic bent forward and Beyond masca obliterated by the mist shifted the burden from her shoulder was no occasion for speed Then she aet ihe swamp lay a hr sd belt of open ami when she looked again, the cur lo tier arched back olT as briskly as possible, tearing a and populous land planted in truck tain« were withdrawn and the young (arms, and this must be crossed at fIrayvjii knew what he was talking night if she would escaiie detection. about lie had said right out in Mhe need not resume her Journey, (Tiurch that spirit s rouidn t walk. i hen. lor *c era! I lours, and this was Even old Matmi Vina believed that— th ' beat place to wait and she iiad been almost a conjure I She ate break last from her pack- woman lieraelf with her herb*, and ; I* of provisions, and refilled her tier money in the road. She would pe Already her fatigue waa pass I think abou' the Reverend awhile. . . ing and her mind commenced to I He always wore that shroud. . . Yes. turn ever her problem, dwelling upon (iilly » » « I d forge! that she had savrd iU various aspect*. Usually, when his life once. . . He'd only remember Mamba iiad told tier what to do. that that the had strangled him and leit mded it, and ahr gave the matter no liim with hia eyes full nt bbo k watrr. The Reverend -th e Reverend—Ha furllier thought. But now. with tiie realisation that the guiding genius gar made a desperate elfort to vis of ttial intelligence had gone from ualise him. but his face eluded her her. gone perhaps forever, a sense —he was only a column of whiteness of individual resp.nMbliily bore down against a wall that iiad a cross upon tier and forced tier to study .•suited on it. What had he said that and reason on tier own account. day when he look Maum Vina's ho,ie M.unba iiad had to think mighty ■ away from her? . . . Spirits only lived quickly tiie re in the dark with Lis a in heaven or hell . . That was it. watting to hurry away to safety. And The terror that had been pressing Mamba did not know this -ountry in upon her was suddenly dissipated. as site did. Uld not know Proc E »g- Again her mind was a clean blank. gart. for one tiling. Mamba a plan She got to her feet and moved about depended lor success entirely upon ilie island, stretchejl her limbs, and her eacape. her ability to traver.-e again became conscious of the haiy the mainland and reach one of the i untight tiiat beat down upen her. She saw that the sun was directly .Sea Islands where there were almost no white iolka, and where tile Ne overhead, and she realized that she groes would hide that big clumsy was hungry' Opening her lunch she body of her., from the police so Uiat ale heartily of tier combread and •lie c uld not be caught and ques cold meat, then lay on her belly and < drank a few swallows from the side tioned Her train of thought broke off. and of the island where the water was for a moment tier mind was a clean clearest A sense of well-being per blank, then vividly the image of vaded her body. Why worry? 8he d Bluton intruded itself. Site saw his be on Edisto by to-morrow morning. llniba Jutting woodenly from the wa Likely aa not they would never ftnd ter. snd black ooae creeping toward Bluton and think he had gone away. hi* i pen eye* Poor O llly—she rould- Then Lissa would always be safe. n t hate him now. Then she won Some day. a long time off. she might dered if he would hat* her. If he even get bark to see Mamba again would forget that she had saved him and hear all about Lissa from her one-' and remembered only that she She si retched tier length oil the grass, iiad strangled him and left him to and presently, in the steamy nar rot in ilie black mud of the swamp. cotic noon heat, she dropped into Well, what was done a as done, sleep ihe saw Biaion tern slowly over snd there was no use to worry about it. N-w. if she reached Uie -rtiter la Ihe mad She saw the rigid knre edge of the swamp by sundown and ■nd rlhoo toints glee and the man waited an hour, then set out to the ■ land upright. Then she saw him her path through the southward — But fillly hated the fo llo »i«g daik. -Bright lights," he would say. -»am p. b «t wltbowl effort, and this was atrante. for hi* ryes were blind -gimme > bright ligh t*“ Yea. to the southward, that was what she must with «»a m p ooae. Briars that had think about -th irty miles to Edtsto Impeded her did not detain him. He Island By fast travel she could do parted the vine» and threat hi» fare Ural by sunrise. Her thoughts came into the clearing. She opened her And there he »as. slowly. I Ivey made short rushes, eves in a stare s. moled, brought up against ob After Ihe passage of an indetermin able spac; of time the apparltiin stacles like a child learning to walk. By sunrise. . , She'd not risk the faded Hagar was terrified, but she knew bridge -but swim across below it. . . . Perhaps If (silly haled Ihe dark ** what she would have to do before she proceeded on her way Fighting hr hr wnaldn l slay where she had left him. "Saint Helena Island." she mosquitoes with tobacco smoke and said suddenly, out loud She had flailing arms, she retraced her steps heard lota of talk about Saint Helena and with incredible labour of body dragged the -two nights farther away-m aybe and agonv of spirit Rigor m.rti.s three thousands of niggers there— corpse to the i-laiul lodge members— If si«* could get was passing, and Hagar composed tire there and tell a lodge sister that limbs decently, and bat lied the face she was a "Vestal Virgin" they'd hide and eyes with her handkerchief. her sure. The "Virgins" always stood T h en .' leaving it. gazing up into the together — rven their own n en 1 open skv she set off for the outer edge of the swamp couldn't llnd out their secrets . When dark came on and (iilly ■»did * * * Her spirit soared, her step became n't see the stars— onlv blaek water— —what then. . . . Yes. the "Virgin*" light and sure It seemed that onlv always stuck up for each other. She now was she free of the actual physi remembered once »lie n ---- He'd be so cal incubus. She stretched her arm; Lightened maybe he’d break loose wide and straightened her broad III Uie hot sunlight Hagar'.. blood was shoulders Ollly would rest easy now suddenly chill She mopped her face with ilie sun in his face ail day and with the bandana Then she refilled I('»sO n u eg u r * g r t * a r l and lighted her pipe. The Reverend » (.KxaotMaMDDGiueciCiauGMMM 'V « The Stormy Career of Jack J o h n so n --N o . 11 dii«.)- Kiiti'u tm «.a 111 m 1 1 — h a « a a ■ ■ a. a a.i."a.:»s.ifuwii)uiCK.'a | a.» WKÊÊ a x.vj. | ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ » «.'cancan; | ■ Text by ROLFE DELLON Drawn by FRED B. WATSON 11 «:• «■«ji.-'gnca’K.'a.igitrieii'.noM.'aKSt.aia.abt'jtDaieMocieX'Ca KVa.« ■*** -new «-a-« n , « »* * ..« ■44 o i j ill U nuove, w m - — There had been eiech personal bitterness between Jack and Herns, and his friend* had rlrrnUted rem ar» that Jack was “ yrllow." At one time, a few days before the fight. Barns had attempted U hit Johnson with a chair, ■ e l Jack was not rowed by this display of poor spartamanshle. Jack was merely made more eager bv these M trained ‘ oethursU. M He Intensively ana ther- oeghlv. To prove hi* excellent physical ron - dltlon hr wagrrrd that he ronld oui run a kangaroo. He won the bet, and In ihr bar gain art snrh a vigorous pace that Ihr kan garoo toppled over dead. The day of thr Aghi waa Ueeember Sí, UHM. The representation of the press was the largest that had erre witnessed s light np lo that time. Out ot a perse of ili.M t. Jerk's share was bat IS,SO* This f Inequality of terms was doe to Jack's anxiety to bring about thr ■If bt. ill lea neon tH Í .... ^ U Í nd »pert* Hundred* formed in line t t ho before the tight began In arder to obtain «I n rood seat», While other hundred» were tnr arnrd away for lark ot seating rapacity. Three were fa tram all oree the world, a number of whom were In sympathy with Jack