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Updated: June 13, 2025
Fancy the ghost of a hill-man!" Next morning I sent a penitent note to Kitty, imploring her to overlook my strange conduct of the previous afternoon. My Divinity was still very wroth, and a personal apology was necessary. I explained, with a fluency born of night-long pondering over a falsehood, that I had been attacked with a sudden palpitation of the heart the result of indigestion.
She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and brought their baby to the Mission to be baptized. The Kotgarth Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and "Lispeth" is the Hill or pahari pronunciation.
On the other hand, the dark stock predominates in Southern and Western France, in Spain, along the Ligurian shore, and in Western and Southern Italy; in Greece, Asia, Syria, and North Africa; in Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Hindostan, shading gradually, through all stages of darkening, into the type of the modern Egyptian, or of the wild Hill-man of the Dekkan.
"No, no, good Hill-man," answered the courageous boy; "you have got my little sister, and I have got your cap, which I shall keep." "I will give you a better cap for it all gold and jewels oh, so beautiful!" said the Hill-man, persuasively. "I will not have it. What good would it do me?
One eye was blind; the other twinkled and gleamed like a spark under the penthouse of his brows. Many folk said that the one-eyed Hans had drunk beer with the Hill-man, who had given him the strength of ten, for he could bend an iron spit like a hazel twig, and could lift a barrel of wine from the floor to his head as easily as though it were a basket of eggs.
He delivered his message, gave his master's compliments, and requested the honour of his company at the christening. The hill-man thanked him, and said "I think it is but right I should give you a christening present." With these words he opened his money-chests, bidding the boy hold up his sack while he poured money into it.
'I took refuge with you because the old hill-man, whom I have offended, was trying to kill me, and here I am safe. 'You had better stay here then, said the princess. So Hans stayed, and he and she became good friends; though, of course, he only became a man when no one else was present.
His mood had changed abruptly. He too felt the specter of the waiting unknown, though his hopes and fears were nearly opposite; and he became once more the untrusting hill-man. He lifted his spear, jaw set against the dark uncertainty that awaited them. Sylviana strode ahead anxiously. Together they cleared the sand, and climbed the first slanting rise.
"Is there enough now?" said he, when he had put a good quantity into it. "Many give more, few give less," replied the boy. The hill-man once more fell to filling the sack, and again asked "Is there enough now?" The boy lifted the sack a little off the ground to see if he was able to carry any more, and then answered "It is about what most people give."
On the top stair stood the little Hill-man, holding the glowworm lamp, and making many low bows to his new master. Arndt glanced rather fearfully down the staircase; but then he thought of Reutha, and his love for her made him grow bold. He took upon himself a lordly air, and bade his little servant lead the way.
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