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Updated: May 28, 2025
I am sorry to be obliged to confess that the first recorded desire of this beautiful, brave, and devout young maiden, when she found herself safely among the fierce followers of King Clovis, was a request for vengeance. But we must remember, girls and boys, that this is a story of half-savage days when, as I have already said, the desire for revenge on one's enemies was common to all.
The atrocities of the Congo occurred in a country without law, in the interest of a great property, and in a series of battles with a half-savage people.
But that very sterling independence that had brought Myles so creditably through this adventure was certain to embroil him with the rude, half-savage lads about him, some of whom, especially among the bachelors, were his superiors as well in age as in skill and training.
Elise drew back astonished, and then, after a moment, approached again the half-savage girl with friendly words; again she made a threatening demonstration, but her hands were suddenly grasped by a strong manly hand, and a look so serious and determined was riveted upon her, that she trembled before it, and resigned herself to the power of the stronger.
But, at that, you whirl a bigger loop than I do. You've got the nerve, an' the head, an' the heart. You're a man. The girl loves you. An' I love her. My God, man! More than all the world, I love the woman who is to be your wife an' I have no right to! I tell you I'm half-savage! Take her, an' go! Go fast, an' go a long time! I never want to hear of you again.
I bore it all for a few minutes in silence; then, feeling qualmish at the half-savage boy's meal, I caught one of the shells as it came, and tossed it back with such good aim that it hit him a smart rap on the head. He turned sharply round with a vicious look, and seemed as if about to fly at me. "What are you doing?" I cried.
Does not the anthropologist tell us of a heraldry, with a large assortment of heraldic beasts, to be found among savage or half-savage peoples, as the "survival" of a period when men were nearer than they are or seem to be now, to the irrational world? Throughout the sprightly movement of the lads' daily life it was as if their "tribal" pets or monsters were with or within them.
"We must not tarry here. Horses are waiting at the south end of the footbridge. Let us hasten away at once." Then happened the strangest of all the strange things I have had to record of this strange, fierce, tender, and at time almost half-savage girl. Dorothy for months had longed for that moment.
The men were weak and weary with their late fasting, and in a short while stretched themselves by their saddles and slept. So much for our first night at the mission of San Pedro. We were to remain for three days, or until the buffalo meat should be dried for packing. They were irksome days to me. Idleness displayed the bad qualities of my half-savage associates.
Not even then did some of the half-savage combatants desist, and a many a thigh was gashed and boot-protected leg cut to the bone by those murderous hatchet knives wielded by hands which would soon stiffen in death.
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