THE THREE LIONS.By E RIDER HAGGARD.

CHAPTER L

"My tront, I did feel c/ticer."The story which is narrated in the fol-

lowing pages came to me from the lipsof my old friend, Allan (jnatermain, orHunter qnatennain, as we used to callhim in South Africa. He told it to maone evening when I was stopping withhim at the place he bought in York-shire. Shortly after that the death ofhia only son so unsettled him that heimmediately left England, accompaniedby two companions, who were, fellowroyagers of his. Sir Henry Curtis andCaptain Good, and has now utterly van-ished into the dark heart of Africa. Heis persuaded that a white people, ofwhom he has heard rumors all his life,exists somewhere on the highlands inthe vast, still unexplored interior, andhis great ambition is to find them beforehe dies.

This is the wild quest upon which heand his companions have departed, andfrom which 1 shrewdly suspect theynever will return. One letter only haveIreceived from the old gentleman, datedfrom a mission Btation high up the Tana,a river on the east coast, abont threehundred miles north of Zanzibar. In ithe says they have gone through manyhardships and adventnres, but are alivoand well, and have found traces whichgo far toward making him hope that theresults of their wild quest may be a"magnificent and unexampled discov-ery." I greatly fear, however, that allhe has discovered is death, for this lettercame a long while ago, and nobody hasheard a single word of the party since.They have totally vanished.

Itwas on the last evening of my stayat hia house that he told the ensuing•tory to me and Captain Good, who wasdining with him. He had eaten hisdinner and drunk two or three glassesof old port just to help Good and my-

x *elfto the end of the second bottle. Itwas an unusual thing for him to do, forhe was a most abstemious man, havingconceived, as he used to say, a greathorror of drink from observing its ef-fects upon the class of men—hunters,transport riders and others—amongwhom he had passed so many rears ofhis life. Consequently the 'good winetook more effect on him than it wouldhave done on most men, sending a littleflush into his wrinkled cheeks and mak-ing him talk more freely than usual.

Dear old man I Ican see him now as,—^ho went limping np and down the ves-

"""flrjsjrrey^'l" !»» gray hair sticking up inrcrubbing*orT»!s. fashion, his shriveled,yellow face and his^J^^dart e7«rtrlatwere as keen as any hawTs and yet softas a buck's. The whole room was hm.gwith trophies of his numerous huntingexpeditions, ami ho had some storyabout every one of them, if only youcould get him to tell them. Generallyhe would not, forhe was not veryfond ofnarrating his own adventures, but to-night the port wine made him morecommunicative.

"Ah, you brute!" he said, stopping be-neath an usually large skull of a lion,which was fixed just over the mantel-piece beneath a long low of guns, itsjaws distended to their utmost width."Ah, yon brute, you have given me a lotof trouble for the last dozen years, andwill, I suppose, to my dying day."

"Tell ns the yarn, Quatermain," saidGood. "Yon haveoften promised to tellme, and you never have."

"Youhad better not ask me to," he an-swered, "forit is a longish one."

"All right," 1 said; "the evening isyoung, and there is some more port."

Thus adjured, he filled his pipe from ajar of coarse cut Boer tobacco that wasalways standing on the mantelpiece, andstill walking up and down the room be-gan:

"Itwas, I think, in the March of 1869that 1 was up in Sikukuni's country. Itwas just after old Sequati's time, andSiknkuni had got into power—l forgethow. Anyway Iwas there. 1 had heardthat the Bapedi people had got down anenormous quantity of ivory from the in-'terior, and so I started with a wagonload of goods and came straight awayfrom Miduelburg to try and trade someof it Itwas a risky thing to go into thecountry so early on account of the fever,but Iknew that there were one or twoothers after that lot of ivory, so 1 de-termined to have a try for it and takemy chance of fever. I had got so toughfrom continual knocking about that 1did not set it down at much. Well, 1got on all right for awhile.

"Itis a wonderfully beautiful piece ofbnsh veldt, with great ranges of moun-tains running through it and roundgranite koppies starting up here audthere, looking out like sentinels over therolling waste of bush. But it is veryhot—hot as a stewpan—and when 1 wasthere that March, which of course isautumn in that part ofAfrica, tbe wholeplace reeked of fever. Every morningas Itrekked along down by the Oliphantriver 1 usetl to creep ont of the wagonat dawn and look out. But there wa.*no river to be seen—only a long line ofbillows of what looked like the finestcotton wool tossed up lightly with apitchfork.

"It. was the fever mist Out fromamong the scrub, too, came little spiralsof vapor, as though there were hun-dreds of tiny fires alight in it—reek ris-ing from thousand* of tons of rottingvegetation. It was a beautiful place,but the beauty was the beauty of death,and all those lines and blots of vaporwrote one great word across the sur-face of the country, and that word wa*'fever.'

"1 had trekked from dawn till eleveno'clock—a long trek—but 1 wanted toget on, and then had the oxen turnedout to graze, sending the voorlooper tolook after them, meaning to inspanagain about six o'clock and trek withthe moon tillten. Then 1 got into th*wagon and had a good sleep tillhalfpast two or so in the afternoon, when 1got up and cooked some meat and hadmy dinner, washing itdown with a pan-nikin of black coffee—for itwa* difH-

Icult to get preserved milk in fboa* days.Just as 1 hud finished snd the driver, anan called Tom. wps washing np the

(things, in comes the voting sconndrel ofa voorlooper driving one ox liefore him

" 'Where are the other oxenf I asked.

" 'Koos,' he said, 'koos (chief), theother oxen have gone away. 1 turnedmy back for a minute, and when 1looked round again they were all goneexcept Kaptein here, who was rubbinghis back against a tree.'

" 'Yonmean that you have been asleep; and let them stray, you villain. 1 willI mb your back agaiust a stick,' I an-

awered, feeling very angry, for it wasnot a pleasant prospect to bestuck np in

i that fever trap for a week or so while weI were hunting for the oxen. 'Offyon goand yon, too, Tom. and mind yon don't

! come back till you have found themTbey have trekked back along the Mid-delbnrg road and are a dozen miles offby now, I'll be bound. Now, no words.Go, both of yotif

"Tom, the driver, swore and caughtthe lad a hearty kick, which he richlydeserved, and then having tied old Kap-teia np to the disselboom with a reimthey got their assegais and sticks andstarted. 1 would have gone, too, only Iknew that somebody mnst look after thewagon, and 1 did not like to leave eitherof the boys with it at night. I waa in avery bad temper indeed, although I waspretty well used to this sort of occur-rence, and soothed myself by taking arifle and going to kill something.

"For a conple of hours 1 poked abontwithout seeing anything that 1 could geta shot at, but at last, just as I waa againwithin seventy yards of the wagon, 1put np an old Impala ram from behinda mimosa thorn. He ran straight forthe wagon, and it was not till he waspassing within a few feet of it that 1could get a decent shot at him. Then 1pulled and caught him half way downthe spine. Over lie went, dead as a door-nail, and a pretty shot it was, though Iought not to say it. This little incidentpnt me into rather a bettor temper, es-pecially as the buck had rolled overright against the after part of the wagon, so 1 had only to gut him, fixa reimround his legs and haul him up.

"By the time 1 had done this the sunwas down and the fullmoon was np, anda beautiful moon itwas. And then therecame down that wonderful hush thatsometimes falls over the African bush inthe early hours of the night. No beastwas moving, and no bird called. Not abreath of air stirred the quiet trees, andthe shadows did'not even quiver; theyonly grew. It was very oppressive andrery lonely, for there was not a sign ofthe cattle or the boys. 1 was quitethankful for the society of old Kaptein,who was lying down contentedly agaiustthe disselboom, chewing the cud with agood conscience.

"Presently, however, Kaptein beganto get restless. First he snorted; thenhe got up and snorted again. 1 couldnot make it out, so, like a fool. 1 got downoff the wagon box to have a look round,thinking it might be tho lost oxen com-ing.

"Next instant 1regretted it, for all ofa sudden 1 heard an awful roar and sawsomething yellow flash past me and lighton poor Kaptein. Then came a bellowof agony from the ox and a crunch aathe lion put his teeth through the poorbrute's neck, and I began to realize whathad happened. My rifle was *j (ktwagon, and my first thought was'to get

"iC, and fturned"and made a bolt for itigot my foot on the wheel and flung mybody forward ou to the wagon, and there1 stopped as if 1 were frozen, and nowonder, for as 1 was about to spring up1 heard the lion behind me, and next

second 1 felt the brute—aye, as plainly aa1 can feel this table. 1felt him, 1 say.sniffing at my left leg that was bangingdown.

"Myword, 1 did feel queer. 1 don'tthink that 1 ever felt so queer before. 1dared not move for the life of me, andthe odd thing was that 1 seemed to lonepower over my leg, which had an insanesort of inclination to kick ont of its ownmere motion—just as hysterical peoplewant to laugh when they ought to beparticularly solemn. Well, the lionsniffed and sniffed, beginning at myankle and slowly nosing away up to mythigh. 1 thought that be was going toget hold then, but he did not He only

jgTowled softly and went back to the ox.i Shifting my head a little 1 got a fullview of him. He was the biggest lion 1ever saw, and 1 have seen a great many,and he had a most tremendous blackinane. What hia teeth were like youcan see—look there; pretty big ones, ain'tthey?

"Altogether he was a magnificent ani-mal, and us I lay there sprawling on thefore tongue of the wagon it occurred tome that he would look uncommonly wellin a cage. He stood there by the carcassofpoor Kaptein and deliberately disem-boweled him as neatly as a butcher could

| have done. All this while 1 dared notI move, for he kept lifting his head and! keeping an eye on me as ho lifted his| bloody chops. When he had cleanediKaptein out he opened his mouth and! roared, and 1 am not exaggerating whenj 1 say that the sound shook the wagon.

i Instantly there came an answering roar.

" 'Heaven!' 1 thought, 'there is his; mate!'

"Hardly waa the thought out of myj head when I caught sight in the moon-| light of tbe lioness bounding alongj through the long grass, and after her a

; couple ofcubs about the aize of mastiffs.| She stopped within a few feet of my

; head, and stood and waved her tail and; fixed me with her glowing yellow eyes;| bat just as Ithought that all was over

she turned and began to feed on Kap-[ tein, aad so did the cubs. There werej the four of them within eight feet of me

1 growling and quarreling, rending andtearing and crunching poor Kaptein'sbones, and there Ilay shaking with ter-ror and the cold perspiration pouringjont of me, feeling like another Daniel

! come to judgment in a new sense of th*! phrase.

"Presently the cubs had eaten theirfill and began to get restless. One went

" around to the back of the wagon andpulled at the Impala buck that hung

* there and the other came around myway and began the snifliug game at my

I leg. Indeed he did more than that, for,my trousers being hitched up a little,he

I began to lick the bare skin with hisrough tongne. The more he licked themore he liked It, to judge from his in-creased vigor and the loud pairing noisehe made. Then 1 knew that the endhad come, for in another second his file-like tongue would have rasped through

, the skin of my leg—which "was luckilyjpretty tough—and have got to the blood,and then there would Ije no chance forme. So I just lay there nnd thought ofmy sins and prayed to th* Almighty,and thought that, after all, life was a

j T*ryenjoyble thing.?A*KMM*all of» sudden X hsard a

crashing of bushes and the abonting andwhistling of men,*nd there were thetwo boys coming back with the cattlewhich they had found trekking alongall together. The lions lifted theirheadsand listened, and then without a Boundbounded off—and Ifainted.

CHAPTER 11."The lions came back no more that

night, and by the next morning mynerves had got pretty straight again,but 1 waa fullof wrath when I thoughtof all that 1 had gone through at thehands, or rather noses, of those fourlions, and of the fate of myafter ox, Kap-tein. He was a splendid ox, and I wasvery fond of him. So wroth waa I that,like a fool, 1 determined to go for th*whole family of them. It waa worthyof a greenhorn out on hia first huntingtrip, but Idid it nevertheless.

"Accordingly, after breakfast, havingrubbed some oil upon my leg, whichwss very sore from the cub's tongue, 1took the driver, Tom, who did not halflike the job, and having armed myselfwith an ordinary double number twelvesmoothbore, the first breechloader 1 everhad, 1 started. 1 took the smoothborebecause it shot a bullet very well, andmy experience has been that a roundball from a smoothbore is quite as effect-ive against a lion as an express bulletTho lion is soft and not a diflV-ultanj-

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