Hisvery existence was improbable, inexplicable, and alto-gether bewildering. They waded waist-deep in the grass, in acompact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in theirmidst. "When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all ofthem armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, thischap came on board. I made the strange discoverythat I had never imagined him as doing, you know, butas discoursing. I--I--haven't slept for the last tennights. That was not thepoint. They trespassed upon my thoughts. It was very curious to see the contrast of ex-pressions of the white men and of the black fellows ofour crew, who were as much strangers to that part of theriver as we, though their homes were only eight hundredmiles away. A grand piano stood mas-sively in a corner, with dark gleams on the flat sur-faces like a somber and polished sarcophagus. The luster of in-quiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness. He declaredhe would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and thencleared out of the country, because he could do so, andhad a fancy for it, and there was nothing on earth toprevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased. You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as youwould an ordinary man. he cried. I was anxious to dealwith this shadow by myself alone,--and to this day Idon't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any-one the peculiar blackness of that experience. I've seen it. The thing was to know what he be-longed to, how many powers of darkness claimed himfor their own. He hesi-tated, then said shamefacedly, 'They don't want him togo.' I takeit, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with thedevil: the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil toomuch of a devil--I don't know which. 'Oh, he enlarged my mind!' The horror!'. There had been enemies, criminals, work-ers--and these were rebels. . It felt like it too--choking, warm, stifling.Besides, all I said, though it sounded extravagant, wasabsolutely true to fact. ', "I gave him Towson's book. And you say, Absurd!Absurd be--exploded! 'To speak plainly, he raided the country,'I said. They laid him down in one of the little cabins--just a room for a bed-place and a camp-stool or two,you know. 'Ye-e-es,' he muttered, not very con-vinced apparently. Was it supersti-tion, disgust, patience, fear--or some kind of primitivehonor? 'Oh yes, of course;' he had discovered lots ofvillages, a lake too--he did not know exactly in whatdirection; it was dangerous to inquire too much--butmostly his expeditions had been for ivory. Suddenly she opened her bared arms and threwthem up rigid above her head, as though in an uncon-trollable desire to touch the sky, and at the same timethe swift shadows darted out on the earth, swept aroundon the river, gathering the steamer into a shadowy em-brace. "I came upon him, and, if he had not heard me coming,I would have fallen over him too, but he got up intime. "I was looking down at the sounding-pole, and feel-ing much annoyed to see at each try a little more of itstick out of that river, when I saw my poleman give upthe business suddenly, and stretch himself flat onthe deck, without even taking the trouble to haul hispole in. True, he had made that laststride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had beenpermitted to draw back my hesitating foot. A deuce of alot of smoke came up and drove slowly forward. It appears their intercourse hadbeen very much broken by various causes. It wasa kind of partnership. One of the agents witha picket of a few of our blacks, armed for the purpose,was keeping guard over the ivory; but deep within theforest, red gleams that wavered, that seemed to sink andrise from the ground amongst confused columnar shapesof intense blackness, showed the exact position of thecamp where Mr. Kurtz's adorers were keeping their un-easy vigil. Canoes get upset some-times--and sometimes you've got to clear out so quickwhen the people get angry.' . And we were staggering within ten feet ofthe bank. . "Kurtz discoursed. Well, the name wasas true as everything else in his life--and death. Save ME! 'We talked of everything,' he said, quite transportedat the recollection. There wasnothing either above or below him, and I knew it. It made me hold my breathin expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into aprodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixedstars in their places. Itwas no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossilwhen it is dug up. He invoked then the nameof science. Confound theman! "I went forward, and ordered the chain to be hauledin short, so as to be ready to trip the anchor and movethe steamboat at once if necessary. The fusillade burst out again. The twigs overhung the current thickly, andfrom distance to distance a large limb of some tree pro-jected rigidly over the stream.

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