The Wingham Times, 1915-10-07, Page 7w>w,
September 3oth, 1915
Coprlright. 1914 hi W. i, avinessa
The Story by Chapters
Chapter 1.—A Hundred Thou-
sand Years.•
Chapter I1.—Today.
Chapter III. -Tile Young Hunter,
Chapter IVs -•••TI. Dream Mate.
Chapter V.—Thei Zebra Killer.
Chapter VI.—The Ancient Trail.
Chapter VII. --The Lonely Man.
Chapter VIII.—A Prisoner.
Chapter IX.—The Hunt.
Chapter X.—The Death Dames.
Chapter XL—Happiness?
SYNOPSIS
Nu, the son of Nu, is shut up in a cave
by an earthquake 100,000 years ago. He
Dasa sweetheart, Nat-ui.
Near bis cave 100,000 years later Miss.
Victoria Custer and her brother are on 4
+seating trip. She is haunted by a dream
assn and also by a real life Lover. An
• earthquake releases Nu.
IIts es a case of suspended animation.
ids does not know he has bean asleep.
li1eteeia Custer has strange dreams that
• • savage man is seeking has.
" Ntrirea Victoria and'thinks she is Nat-
e!. Disturbed by visions of her dream
+ inn. Victoria goes tor a walk at night.
She is saved from a tion by Nu, who is
• wounded by a bullet from the gun of
• Cgrtlas, Victoria's suitor. Victoria goes
In search of Nu.
MOO gads—film unconscious and names
talpeleathis cave. Arabs kidnap her, and
halt friends capture Nu.
Nu learns English, declares he does not
faow wears Victoria 1e and 'finally es-
. saps to go in scarce of her. „ ,,
Victoria is stolon from theArab _ sheikf by Abul Mulcarram, and 'Nit- coatInnee
• to trail her and her captor.
Nu overtakes and kills the Arab,' and
'Victoria, both attracted to and repelled by
I )her primeval lover. goes away with _him.
CHAPTER X.
The Death Dance.
ACH day Nu realized that he
was pining rapidly upon
those with whom-Nat•ul tray
P sled.
The experience of Ms other life as-
:allured
s•:eared him that she must be prlson-
•er, yet at the same time he realized
that such might not be the case at all,
•!or had he not thought of her n pits-
,oner among the others who had held
Iolm prisoner. only to )earn that one of
-them claimed her as a sister?
: It all seemed very strange to Nu. It
•was quite beyond him. Nat•ul could
• slot be the sister of Coster, and yet he
•bad seen her apparently happy and
•contented In the society of these
strangers. and Custer unquestionably
appeared to feel for her the solicitude
• of a brother.
Curtiss. It was evident, loved Nat-ul
—that much be had gleaned from con,
versatloes he had overheard between
:him and Custer. How the man could
• have become so well acquainted with
Natal between the two days that had
••elapsed since Nu had sot forth from
the eaves beside the restless sea to
hunt down Oo and the morning that
,he had awakened following the mighty
• shaking of the world was quite as
:much a mystery as was the remarkable
.changes that had taken place in the
..aspect of the world during the same
brief period.
Nu had given much thought to these
miraculous happenings, with the result
-that he had about convinced himself
,that be must bate slept much tenger
than he had believed, but that a hun-
• Bred thousand years had rolled their
..stow and weary progress above his un-
•.cotlscious head could not, of course,
e occurred- to hint, even as the re-
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words of Curtiss, and with them the
attitude Of the strangers with whom
be had been thrown: He had qulekty
appreciated the fact that their man -
Pers and customs were as far removed
from his as they • were from those of
the beasts of the jungle.
He had seen that his own way were
more in accordance with the ways of
the black and•balf naked natives whom
the whites looked upon as so touch
their interiors that they would not
seen eat at the same,table-witb. them.
He had noted the fact that the
blacks treated the other whites with a
marked respect watch they did not ex•
tend to Nu, and, being no fool, Nu had
come to the conclusion that the whites
themselves looked upon him as an he
ferior, even before Curtiss' words con•
vinced him of the truth of his suspl•
cions.
Evidently, though his skin wag
white, he was now in some subtle way
different from the other whites. 'Po9
sfbly it was in the matter ssr raiment
He had tried to wear the strange
body coverings they had given him,
but they were cumbersome and" nn•
comfortable, and, though "he was set
dem warm enough now, he had never-
Useless
evertheless been glad when the opportun%•
ty came to discard tbe hampering and
unaccustomed clothing.
These thoughts suggested the poes1
bility that if Nat-ul had found reeog•
unlon among the strangers upon as
equal footing with them that•she, too,
Might have those attributes of supers.
ority which the strangers claimed, and
If such was the fact it ',Warne, evident
that she would consider Nn from the
tiewpoint of ber new friends= -as as
fattener. - -
Such reveries made Nu very sad, tot
he loved Nat-ul Suet as you or I would
love= -just as normal white men have
always loved—with a devotion that
paced the object of his affection upon
et pedestal, before which be 1#01 hatt
WY to bow down and worship:" Mts
passion was not of the brute type of
the inferior races, which oftentimes
' allemnizes the marriage ceremony with
♦ cudgel and ever places the woman
i the position of an inferlor and a
Chattel.
Even as'fiLu pondered the puzzling
questions which confronted him his
sand ears were alert as he sped
Meng the now fresh trail of the cam -
taw'
Beery indication pointed the recent
passing of many men, and the troglo•
dyte'Wats positive that he could...be e but
a few hours behind his quarry.
A. few mites east of him the rescue
party` from the Greystoke ranch were
pushing rapidly ahead upon a different
trail, with a view to heading off the
grabs.
len Aswad had taken a circuitous
bailie in "order that he Might pass
round the country of the Wpztri, and
with' his slow moving slave caravan
iter' -hid nbw reached a point' but a
Sew days' journey in a direct line from
the ranch. The lightly equipped pun
suers, having knowledge of the route
taken by the• Arabs from the messen-
ger who had come to seek their asslst.
ance, had not been compelled to follow
the spoor of their quarry,: but' instead
had marched straight across country
tl¢ .;i dfitect'line for it point Which they
'believed would bring 'them ` ahead of
Guy caravan.
Thus It was that Nu and Terkoz
tug the party of Whites and Wazirl
from the ranch were closing In upon
Ibis Aswad from oppbsite directions tri•
irnitaneously, -
But Nu was not destined to follow
MO trail of the raiders'. to where they
were still engaged in repelling the sav-
age attack of the fierce Wamboli, 'for
as be trotted along with the dog at
his side his quick eyes detected that
which the hound, with all his wen-
drous instinctive powers, would have
Vitssed by unnoticed—the well marked
patititis of the hoofs of two donkeys
that had eosfie back along the trail
'since the caravan had passed.
That they were donkeys belonging
to the Arabs was evident to Nu
through his familiarity with the dis,
tinctive beef prints of each, which draw
lug the past three days° had become ea
well known to him as his mother's
face had been. But what were they
doing retracing the way they had but
just covered?
He halted and raised his head to
sniff the air and listen intently for the
faintest sound from the -direction in
which the beasts had gone when they
left the old trail at the point that he
had discovered their spoor.
The Wind, however, was blowing
Prem tate opposite direction, so there
was no chance that Nu could scent
thein. He Was itidoubt,as to whether
be should leave the trail of the main
body and follow these two or Continue
on his way.
From the manner of their passing—
side by side --he was convinced that
cult carried a. riders renege ahr.r.tril!
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they Whold• nate gone" Ili singlia file
after the manner of beasts moving
along a none too wide trail, but there
was nothing to indicate that either
rider was Nat-ul.
Jr or an instant he hesitated, and then
els judgment told him to keep on after
the main body, for if Nat-ul was a
prisoner she would bo with the larger
force—not riding in the opposite..dirge-
thin with a siugle guard.
Sven as he turned to take up the
penult again there came faintly to his
ears from the jingle at his left the
sound of a human voice. 1t was a
woman's,' raised in frightened protest.
Like a deer Nu turned atad leaped-:
In the direction of that familler voice.
The fleetwolfhound was put'to tt to
keep pace with the agile cave Iran, for
Nu had lett the earth and taken to the
branches of the trees, where no under-
brush retarded his flight.
From tree to tree b'eioaped or swung,
siometimep fettling bis body twenty feet
through the air from one jungle giant
to another.
Below bim raced the panting Ter-
koz, ,red - tongue lolling from foam
flecked mouth, but with all their speed
the two moved-•with°tbe •noiselessness
et.ahadowy ghosts.
At the edge of the jungle Nu came
upon a parklike forest, and well into
this be saw a woman struggling with
a'white robed Arab. Ono sinewy brown
'tend clutched herr throat, the other
Was raised to strike her in the face.
Nu saw that be could not reach the
autn in time to prevent the blow, .but
be might distract his attention for the
moment that would be required for
him to reach bis side.
b'rom his throat there rose the sav-
age
atage warcry of his long dead people,
a cry that brought a hundred jungle
creatures to their feet, trembling in
fear or in rage, according to their kind.
It brought Abul Mukarram upetand-
b g, too, for in all his life ho had nev-
er heard the like of that blood freezing
challenge.
'At the sight which met his eyes he
dropped the girl and darted toward his
donkey, where hung his long barreled
ride in its boot.
Victoria Custer looked, too, and what
she saw brought unutterable relief and
happiness to her. Then the Arab had
turned with leveled gun just as the
cave man leaped upon him.
There was the report of the firearm
ere it was wrenched from Abul Mu-
karram'sgrasp and hurled to one side,
but the bullet went wide• of its mark,
and the next instant the girl saw the
two men locked In what she knew was
a death struggle.
The Arab struck mighty blows
head and face of his antagonist,
at the
while
He Saw a Woman Struggling With a
White Robed Arab.
the cave man, the great muscles rolling
beneath his smooth hide, sought for a
told upon the other's throat.
About the two the vicious• wolf-
hound slunk, growling and bristling,
waiting for an opportunity to rush in
upon the white robed antagonist of his
master.
Vittoria Custer, her cltnched fists
tight pressed against her bosom, watch-
ed the two men who battled for her.
She saw the powerful hands of her
savage man bend hack the heed of the
doomed Abdul Mukarram.
She saw ber ferocious mate shake
the man as a terrier shakes a tat, and
her heart swelled In fierce priesitive
pride at the prowess of her man.
No longer did Victoria Custer exist.
It Was Nat-ul, the savage maiden of
the Neocene who, as Nu threw the life-
less corpse of his kill to one side and
opened bis arms, flung herself into his
embrace.
It was Nat-ul, daughter Of Tha—Nat-
ul of the tribe of Nu that dwelt be-
yond the barren cliffs beside the rest-
less sea—who threw her arms about
her lord and master's neck and drew
bis month down to her lips.
It was Nat-ni of the first born who
Watebed Nu and the fierce Wolfhound
ctrele about the corpse of the dead
Arab.
'Yehe• cave man, moving in the savage
steps of the death dance of his tribe,
now bent halt over, now leaping higi
in stir, throwing his stone tipped spear
aloft, chanted the 'weird victory song
of a dead and buried age, while beside
him his equally savago mate beat time
with alien, white hands.
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CHAPTER XI.
• Happinesist
HEN the dance was done Nu
halted before Nat-ul. The
girl rose, facing him, and
for a long minute the two
.stood in silence looking at one another,
It was the first opportunity that either
had had to study the features of the
other since the strange miracle that
had separated them.
Nu found that some subtle change
had taken place in his Nat-ul.
It was she—of that there could be
no doubt, but yet there was that about
her which cast, a spell of reverential
fear over him. •She was infinitely finer
and more wonderful than he ever had
realized.
With the passing Of the excitement.
of the battle and the dance the strange
ecstasy which had held the girl in thrall
passed slowly away. The rhythm of
the dancing of the savage black haired
giant had touched some cord within
her which awoke the long dormant in-
stincts of the primordial
For the time she had been carried
back a hundred thousand years to the
childhood of the human race. She had
not known for those brief instants Vic-
toria Custer or the twentieth century
or its civilization, for they wore yet a
thousand centuries in the future.
Bet now once more she saw through
the eyes of generations of culture and
refinement Before her was a primi-
tive man.
In his eyes was the fire of a great
love that would not be denied. About
her was the wild, fierce forest and the
cruel jungle, and behind all this, and
beyond, her vision wandered to the
world she had always known—the
world of cities and homes and gentle-
folk.
She saw her father and her mother
and her friends. What would they
say?
Again she let ber eyes rest upon the
man. It was with difficulty that she
restrained a desire to throw herself
upon his broad breast and weep out
her doubts and fears close to the beat-
ing of his great heart and in the safety
of those protecting arms.
But with the wish there rose again
the question, "What would they say?'
to hold her trembling and frightened
from him.
The man saw something of the girl's
trouble in her eyes, but he partially
misinterpreted It. for he read fear of
himself where there was principally
eelf fear, and, because of what he bad
beard Curtiss say, he thought that be
sew contempt, too, for primitive peo-
ple are infinitely more sensitive than
their more sophisticated brothers.
"You do not love me, Nat-ul?' he
asked. "nave the strangers turned
YOU against me? What one of them
could have fetched yon the head of
Oo, the man hunter?
"Seef" Be tapped tbe two great
tusks that hung from his loin cloth.
"Nn slew the mightiest of tbe beasts
for Nat-nl—the head is buried In the
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Nat -u1? Rove the ;drainage stolen
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The man spoke In a tongue 00 an'
dent that In all the world tbe fve
no man who spoke or knew a word of
It, yet to `Iictorla Custer It was as In-
tslbiglblo as Ler. own English, nor did
!t seem strange to ber that she an.
awered No Im his Awa language.-
"My heart tells me that I am yours,
Nu," she said, "but my judgment and
my training warn me against the step
that my heart prompts. 1I love yon,
but I could not be happy to wander
half naked through the jungle for the
balance of my life, and if I go with
you now, even for a day, I may never
return to my people.
"Nor would you be happy in the life
that I lead. It would stifle and kill
you. I think I see now something of
the miracle that has overwhelmed as.
To you it has been but a few days
since you left your Nat-ul to hunt down
the ferocious 00, but in reality couut
less ages have rolled by.
"By some strange freak of fate yon
have remained unchanged during all
these ages, until now you step forth
from your long sleep an unspoiled cave
man of the stone age into the midst of
the twentieth century, while I doubt-
less have been born and reborn a thou-
sand times, merging from one incarna-
tion to another until in this we are
again united.
"Had you, too, died and been born
again during all these weary years no
gap of ages would intervene between
us now, and we should meet again
upon a common footing, as do other
souls, and mate and die to be born
again to a new mating and a new life,
with its inevitable death.
"But you have defied the laws of life
and death—you have refused to die—
and now that we meet again at last a
hundred thousand years lie between us
—an unbridgeable gulf across which I
may not return and over which you
may not come other than by the same
route which I have followed—through
death and a new life thereafter."
Much that the girl said was beyond
Nas's comprehension and the most of it
without the scope of his primitive lan-
guage, so that she had been forced to
draw liberally upon her twentieth cen-
tury English to till in the gap.
Yet the man had caught the idea in
a vague sort of way; at least that his
Nat -al was far removed from him be-
cause of a great lapse of time that bad
occurred while he slept in the cave of
Oo, and that through his own death
alone could he duan the gulf betweeu'
them and claim her as his mate.
He placed the butt of his spear upon
the ground, resting the stone tip
against his heart.
"I go, Nat-ul," he said simply, "that
I may return again as you would have
me."
The girl and the man were so Dcct
pied and engrossed with tbeir own
tragedy that they did not note the rest-
less pacing of Terkoz. the wolfhound,
or bear the ominous growls that rum-
bled from his savage throat as be look-
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When Greystoke demanded that the
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spread his Waziri upon either side of
him, and thus they advanced, seldom
in sight of one another, but always
within hailing distance. And so it hap-
pened that chance brought William
Curtiss, unseen, to the edge of the jun-
gle beside the parklike forest, beneath
the giant trees of which he saw a
tableau that brought him to a sudden
halt
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sought. apparently unharmed, and two
donkeys, and the dead body of an
Arab, and the great wolfhound, look-
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ooking toward his biding place and growl
ing menacingly, and before the girl the
savage white man stood.
Curtiss was about to spring forward
when be saw the man place the butt
of his spear upon the ground and the
point against his heart. The act and
the expression upon the man's face pro-
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drew back again, waiting for the per-
petration of the deed that he knew was
coming.
A smile of anticipetlon payed about
the American's lips.
Victoria Custer, too. guessed the
thing that Nu contemplated. It was,
in accordance with her own reason-
ing, the only logical thing for the man
to do; but love is not logical, and when
love saw and realized the imminence
of its bereavement 1t cast logic to the
winds, and with a little scream of ter-
ror the girl threw herself upon Nu of
the Neocene, striking the spear from
its goal.
"No! No!" she cried. "You must not
do it! I cannot let you go! I love you,
Nu—I love you!"
As the strong arms infolded her
once more she gave a happy sigh of
content and let her bead drop again
upon the breast of him who had come
back out of the ages to claim her.
The Iran pet nu arm about her waist,
and together the two tanned toward
the west in the direction that Abul
Mukarram bud been (leeiug nor did
either see the white faced, scowling
man who leaped from the jungle be-
hind them and with leveled rifle took
deliberate aim at the back of the black
haired giant -
Nor did they see the swift spring of
the wolfhound nor the thing that fol -
]owed there beneath the brooding si-
lence of the savage jungle.
Ten minutes later Barney Custer
broke through the tangled wall of ver-
fisa upon a. sight that took his breath
away.
There stood the two patient donkeys,
switching their tails nand flapping their,
long ears. Beside them lay the corpse!
of Abul Mukarram and upon the edge)
of the jungle at his feet, was stretched)
the dead body of William Curtiss, his
breast and throat torn by savage
fangs.
Across the clearing a great, gaunt
'wolfhound halted in its retreat at the
sound of Barney's approach.
The beast bared its bloody fangs in
an ominous growl of warning and then
turned and disappeared into the jungle.
Barney advanced and examined the
soft ground about the donkeys and the
body of the Arab.
He saw the imprints of a man's
naked feet and the smaller impress of
a womgn's riding boots.
He looked toward the jungle where
Terkoz had disappeared.
What had his sister gone to within
the somber, savage depths beyond?
What would he bring her back to were
he to follow after?
He doubted that she would come
without her dream man. Where would
she be happier with him—in the piti-
less jungle, which was the only world
be knew, or in the still more pitiless
haunts of civilized men?
A moment later he had reached his
decision, and with resolution strong in
the very swing of his stride he entered
the jungle, but whether toward the
east or the west I do not know, for I
was not there.
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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Not many years ago, being one of the
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with this interesting experience:
Living near a small fishing village
and out of convenient reach of the
treaty ports, I found It necessary to
content myself to a groat extent with
native subsistence. however, a daily,
supply of delicious living fish went far
to compensate for the absence of beef-
steak and bread and butter.
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finny merchandise in shallow tubs
tilled with water, suspended from the
ends of a yoke across the shoulders.,
In this fashion they trot along fort
miles on their rounds.
Having the advantage of first choice,'
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This suggestion would seem simple
enough in American markets, but when
he was told that stale fish Was unde-
sirable he explained that the remaining
half would be as lively tomorrow or
any day thereafter Until used; that the
operation would not hurt the fish
the slightest respect. At this point
curloslty prompted Me to direct the
flin xivisect111nist to fau'2eeea1 with his
■i a
Barbarous -act: - '-
He immediately laid one of the fish
on a board and placed his long, keen
edged knife just back of the gills and
quickly sliced off all of one side clown
to the tail and so close to the ribs that
you could almost see them. The part
containing the vital organs wassreturn-
eel to the water. where. of course, ow-
ing to loss of equllibrinm, it turned on
its side. But to my astonishment it
swam round lively ns ever, seemingly
undisturbed by the loss of so much
flesh, and remaiued so until the next
day when I was ready to cook it.
My native friends smiled at the sug-
gestion of cruelty and related the story
of a distinguished daimlo who caught
a fish sliced in this manner that had
been placed in the river years before*
anis Lived this long time batpny and—
lively as other fish. But the idea of
carving a living fish made we shudder,
and I never tried it uga!n.--C. D. Wel-
don, in New York 'Tribune.
A Dry Land Boat Race,
A dry land boat race took plactueat
some sports in the north of England
last year and caused much merriment.
The "crews" sit astride a pole and run
backward round a course, ateeredxby a
"cbx," who faces in the right direction;
Tumbles, needless to say, are very fre.
quent, and 'When the leader happens
to lose his footing he generally "'ship;
wrecks" the whole crew, to the vast
enjoyment of their rivals and the spee-
tators.-Wille Worid Magazine,