evidence of
Martha Kawa. When, shortly after the trial, Samuel and Martha
disappeared simultaneously, every one felt that Samuel was surely
guilty, and that his acquittal, which was irrevocable, had involved a
terrible miscarriage of justice.

Miss Blake left the mission and returned to her family. Mr. Schultz
shortly afterwards retired from active work, and went to live in one of
the larger colonial towns. He drew a small pension which, with the
interest upon the scanty savings of his charitable life, was sufficient
for his moderate needs. He still holds by the fundamental axiom.

VI.

About three years after the tragedy just related, a native man and
woman lived together in a lonely hut close to the mouth of the Bashee
river, They were clad in the savage garb common to the uncivilised
natives. The woman was of a much lighter complexion than the man, and
she carried, slung on her back, an emaciated child with a badly
deformed spine. On her face and body were many scars, most of them
healed up, but some still raw, and evidently of recent infliction.
Samuel Gozani and Martha Kawa had wandered far since leaving the
mission. They had gone together to the kraal of the headman, Samuel's
father, in Gealekaland, but Samuel's violent temper had led to his
being driven away. His father gave him a few goats, and his other
relations told him to depart and return no more. So he and Martha built
a hut far from other men, and cultivated a small field of maize,
millet, and pumpkins. Samuel's temper grew worse under the stress of
his solitary life, and Martha suffered much from his ill-treatment.
Shortly after an act of particularly brutal violence on his part she
was confined, and the poor little baby, a boy, was found to be
hopelessly deformed. According to native custom, such a child would
have been destroyed, but when Samuel suggested this, the mother blazed
out into such wrath that he did not refer to the subject again. It soon
became apparent that Samuel--sometimes, at least--was insane. He
seemed hardly ever to sleep, and he remained days without speaking, One
day, on entering the hut, he savagely kicked the child, which was lying
on a mat just inside the door, to one side. The poor little thing set
up a thin, piteous squeal, which, when the mother heard it, roused her
to a pitch of tiger-like fury. She rushed at Samuel and flung him
backwards out of the door. Incensed to madness, he sprang at her,
dashed her down on the f