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"Then tho Dead One spoke once more very faintly, yet m the silence of the place I heard his* words: " 'He is named Umslopogaas the Slaughterer, son of Chaka, Lion of the Zulu.'" Now whon Umslopogaas heard these words he started up from his place by the fire. "I am nameiil Umslopogaas," he said, "but the Slaughterer I am not named, and I am the son of Mopo and not the Bon of Chaka, Lion of the Zulu. You have dreamed, a dream, Galazi, or, if it was not a dream, then the Dead One lied to you." "Perchance this was so, Umslopo gaas," answered Galazi the Wolf. "Per haps I dreamed, or perhaps the Dead One lied. Nevertheless, if he lied m this matter, m other matters he did not Me, as you shall hear. "After I had heard these words, or had dreamed that I heard them, I slept indeed, and when I woke I remembered the dream that I had dreamed. So I rose, and leaving the cave found a place where I might climb up to the breasts and head of the Stone Witch. I climbed, and as I drew near the likeness to the face of a woman faded away and I saw nothing before me but rugged heaps of piled up rock. Now I was on the breast of the mountain and wandered to and fro awhile between great heaps of stone. At length I found a crack m the stone, and near this crack stood great stones blackened by fire and beneath them broken pots and a knife of flint. I looked down into the crack—it was very deep and green with moss and tall ferns grew about m it. There was nothing else. I had dreamed a lying dream. I turned to go, then found another mind and climbed down into the cleft, push ing aside the ferns. Beneath the ferns was moss. I scraped it away with the Watcher. Presently the iron of the club struck on something that was yel low and round like a stone, and from the yellow thing came a hollow sound. I lifted it. It was the skull of a child.

"I dug deeper and scraped away more moss. Beneath the moss was nothing but bonea of men —old bones that had lain there many years; the little ones had rotted, the large ones remained— some were yellow, some black and oth ers yet white. They were not broken as are those that hyenas and wolvea have worried, yet on some of them I could see the marks of teeth. Then I went back to the cave.

"Now I skinned the she wolf also. When I had done the sun was up and I knew that it was time to go. But I must not go alono —he who sat aloft m the cleft of the cave must go with me. 1 feared greatly to touch him—this Dead One who had spoken to me m a dream yet I must do it. So 1 brought stones and piled them up until I could reach him. Then 1 lifted him down, for he was very light, for he was but skin and bones. When he was down 1 bound the hides of the wolves around mo. 1 placed him on my shoulders, and holding him by that foot which was left on him I set out for the kraal. Down the slope 1 went till I drew near to the heart of the forest. Then 1 heard a wolf howl on my right and from the left came an swering howls, and these again were an swered by others m front of and be hind me.

"Now I could see forms of gray and black slinking near my path, sniffing at the air as they went, and now I came to a little open place, and behold! all the wolves m the world were gathered together there. On every side were the brutes, great and hungry. I stood still till they formed a deep circle around me. Presently one sprang, but not at me. He sprang at that which sat upon my shoulders. I moved, aside and he missed his aim, Then I remembered the words of my dream, if dream it were, how that the Dead One had given me wisdom that I should be king of the ghost wolves —I and another whom the lion should bear to me. Was it not so? If it was not co how came it that the wolves did not devour me? For a mo ment I stood thinking, then I lifted up my voice and howled like a wolf, and lo! all the wolves howled m answer, 1 called to them. They ran to me as though to devour me. But they did not; they licked my legs with their red tongues and pressed themselves against me as does a cat. One, indeed, snatched at him who sat on my shoulder, but 1 struck him with the Watcher and he slunk back. Moreover, the others bit him so that he yelled. Now I knew that I was king of the ghost wolves, so I walked on, and with me came all the great pack. I walked on and they trot ted beside me till at length I came to the edge of the forest.

"Now I must not be seen thus of men, lest they think me a wizard and kill me. Therefore, at the edge of the forest I halted and made signa to the wolves to go back. At this they howled as though m grief, but I called to them that 1 would come again and be their king. Then they all went, till presently I was alone. And now it is time to sleep. To morrow night I will end my tale."

CHAPTER m THE WOIJF BRETHREN. Now on the morrow night once again Galazi took up his tale.

"I passed on till I came to the river. It was still full, but the Kater had run down a little, so that my feet found foot hold. I waded into the river, using the Watcher as a staff, and the stream reached to my elbows, but no higher. Now one on the farther bank of the river saw that which sat upon my shoulders and saw also the wolfskin on my head, and ran to the kraal, crying, 'Here comes one who walks the waters on the back of a wolf.' So it came about that as I drew toward the kraal all the people of the kraal were gathered together to meet mo except the old woman, who could not walk so far. But When they saw me coming up the slope of the hill, and when they saw what it was that sat upon my shoulders, they were smitten with fear. Yet they did not run because of their great wonder, only they walked backward before me, clinging to each other and speaking no word. And I too came on silently, till

at Length I reached the kraal, and before its gates sat the old woman basking m the sun of the afternoon. Presently she looked up and cried, 'What ails you, people of my house, that you walk back ward like men bewitched, and who is that tall and deathly man who cornea toward you?

"But still they drew on backward, saying no word, till they passed the old wife and ranged themselves behind her like a regiment of soldiers. Then they halted against the fence of the kraal. But I came on to the old woman and lifted him who sat upon my shoulders and placed Mm on the ground before her, saying: 'Woman here is your boh.

I hare snatched him with much toil from the jaws of the ghosts, all save one foot, which I could not find. Take him now and bury him, for I weary of his fel lowship.'

"She looked upon that which, eat be fore her. She put out her withered hand and drew the bandage from his sunken eyes. Then she screamed aloud a shrill scream, and flinging her arms about the neck of the dead one she cried: 'It is my son whom I bore—my very son, whom for twice ten years and half a ten I have not looked upon. Greeting, my son, greeting. Now shalt thcra find burial, and I with thee—aye,l with theeF Then of a sudden a foam burst from her lips and she fell forward upon the body of her son and waa dead.

"On the morrow at dawn I rose and shook the dew from the red wolf hide. Then 1 went on into the forest and howled like a wolf. They heard me— the ghost wolves —and howled m answer from far and near. Then I Heard the pattering of their feet, and they catno around me by tens and by twenties and fawned upon me. I counted their num ber—they numbered three hundred and sixty and threo.

"Afterward I went on to the cave, and I have lived here m the cave, Umslopo gaas, for nigh upon twelve moons, and I have become a wolf man. For with the wolves I hunt, and what I bid them that they do. Stay, Umslopogaas, now you are strong again, and you shall see this very night."

Then Umslopogaas rose and laughed aloud. "I am young m years," he cried, "and scarcely come to the full strength of men, yet hitherto I have not turned my back on lion or witch, on wolf or man. Now let us see this impi of yours —this impi black and gray, that runs on four legs, with fangs for spears!"

"You must first bind on the she wolf's hide," quoth Galazi, "else before a man could count his fingers twice there would be little enough left of you."

So Umslopogaas took the gray wolfs hide and bound it on with thongs of leather, and its teeth gleamed upon his head, and he took a. spear m his hand. Galazi also bound on the hide of the king of the wolves, and they went out on to the space before the cave. Galazi stood there awhile and the moonlight fell upon him, and Umslopogaas saw that his face grew wild and beastlike, that his eyes shone and his teeth grinned beneath his curling lips. He lifted up his head and howled out upon the night. Thrice Galazi lifted up his head, and thrice he howled loudly, and yet more loud. But before ever the echoes had died upon the air there came howlings m answer. Nearer they grew and near er. Now there was a sound of feet and a wolf, great and gray, bounded toward them, and after him many another. They came to Galazi, they sprang upon him, fawning around him, but he beat them down with the Watcher. Then of a sudden they saw Umslopogaas, and rushed at him open mouthed.

"Stand, and do not move!" cried Galazi. "Be not afraid!"

"I have ever fondled dogs," answered Umslopogaas. "Shall I learn to fear them now?"

Yet though he spoke boldly m his heart he was afraid. The wolves rushed on him open mouthed, so that m a breath he was well nigh hidden by their forms. Yet no fang pierced him, for as they leaped they smelled the smell of tlie skin upon him and dropped down at his feet, fawning and licking him. Then Umslopogaas saw that the wolves leaped at him no more, but the she wolves gath ered around him who wore the she wolf's skin. They were great and gaunt and hungry, and their number was so many that he could not count them. Umslopo gaas, looking on their red eyes, felt his heart become as the heart of a wolf, and he, too, lifted up his head and howled, and the she wolves howled m answer.

"The pack is gathered; now for the hunt," cried Galazi. "Make your feet swift, ray brother, for we shall journey far tonight. Ho, Blackfang! Ho, Gray snout! Ho, my people, black and gray, away, away!"

Ho spoke and bounded forward, and with him went Umslopogaas and after them streamed the ghost wolves. Pres ently they stood by a Idoof that waa thick with wood. G-alazi stopped, hold ing up the Watcher, and with him stopped the wolves.

"I smell a quarry!" he cried. "In, my people, m!"

Then the wolves plunged silently into

He lifted the spear m his hand and drove it down between the bull's shoulders.

THB A<?flJsUi?To» GUABDIAK : WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 4, IBfc9 $

Printed and published by Henry Wiixrs o P«ter Street, Ashburton, for the Proprie ton, at their Printing Office, Burneti Street, Ashburton, WEDNESDAY, October 4, 1899







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This Coal Is the Beet and Cheapest Steam tnd Household Coal m the market, Ueod m the Woollen Factory and Oant* bury Floor Millß n » GIVES SPLENDID RESULTS WRITE FOR PRICES SO G. T« PAIK, MOUNU SOMERS,



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Seasonable '-lines. Finest Separator Butter, fush, laid Finest C indented Milk 61 Imperial Piurnn, per lb, 10J ])*ee (ex ra quality), 31b box^s, Is 6d ♦'Siam " Bonded Toi», Is 6d, lg 10fl, 2s 2d •' May Pickings" Ceylonßßus,ds, iqual to any 3< Tea, 2 41 per lb Assorled J un, io lib Tins, per Eozen 43 6d Ho noe.v.t if C >coa, 3d packet, la per lb Pep *i (>.'*irr), lib line, 1b Bine >i'< — -<'oe 6.1, Wine 6?, Tea 6d, Z -*!sn li* Mixed 6d, Fancy Mixed 9J, Dessert la (reductions for quantity) Water Biscuits, 41b tins, la 61 Brown and Polaoo'a Corn F.our 4J Golden Syrup, 41b tins, la " Favorito" Washing Extract, 41 per lb Oatmeal (Gora or Timiru), 25! b bags, 2i 6d Best Dcrwent Potatoes, per sack, 2* 91 We have just lan *e;l our new stock of



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"TTISITS Ashburton and surrounding V Districts every four months—viz. March, July, and November. ORDERS may bo lefb with MR LLEWELLYN OWEN at- hia Musio Studio, Arcade Chambers, Ashbarfcon, <r a Commercial Hotel 25 " irwTHAiMBR. " NOTICE OF REMOVAL TO NEW PREMISES. HAVING azsianged premises with the Farmtira' Co-operaciva Association, have much pleasure m stating that m future I (shall curry ou my business at tlie offices and store lately occupied by the above As Bocitntion at the corner of West Street and Havelook street (the Loan and Mercantile old premises.



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