"I HEAR HER CALLING ME'
From the Heart of Africa
WILL EVERYMAN, a naturalist, specializes in photographing
wild animals and makes a trip to Africa for this purpose. Happily he secures a remarkable negative of a leopard that is a
asure to his eyes, dearer far than the diamonds of Ivimberly. With
plates securely wrapped in his coat, he races out of the wilderness
his shack to develop them. While he is preparing his developer,
wife, Daisy, curiously but carelessly picks up the plate holder and
drops it, so that the precious negative
this juncture Everyman returns and di:
himself with rage, and after upbraiding
in high dudgeon. The poor woman, conscience
rushes after him, imploring him to return, but
not listen. The desolated wife is deeply distress
cries have hardly died away when a stealthy leo]
tearing open the great veins of her throat, lc
moaning in death. The man returns hurriec
agonizing cry that awakens him to quickened
too late. The woman he had sworn to love,
lies dead at his feet, and all through his fault
is broken, but the years of his memory are e^
At
shattered beyond repaii
ivering the accident, is beside
3 wife, rushes from the house
:ience smitten and terrorized.
his
3 he will
:d, but the echo of her
■es her
y,—but all
honor and protect,
lis stubborn nature
alive to the echoes
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WILL EVERYMAN, A Naturalist Charles Clary
HINDU GUIDE Lalayette McKee
DAISY, Everyman's Wife 1 Ka|hIyn Williams
MARY SKILLMAN, Daisy .- Double , ^
MRS. EVERYMAN Emma Bell
MRS. SKILLMAN Lyllian Leighton
of that agonizing call that brought him back to look upon the loved
one he had lost.
He leaves Africa,—he travels,—he seeks change in every way but
haunted with that pitiful call by day and impressed with the pathetic
vision by night, he gets no respite from the tragedy that has darkened
his life. He would be a boy again and returns to his mother's home
for the solace that only a mother can give. But even this does not
dissipate the spell of sadness, banish dreams, or give surcease of sorrow from that despairing cry from far off Africa's wilderness.
He drops the habit of the student, mingles with his fellow men in
society and looks to the gaiety of the seaside resort as forgetfulness
for the tragic past. There he meets the living counterpart of his dead
wife and he thinks to honor her memory by taking this woman for
his wife. In the shadow of the altar as the organ intones the wedding
march and the service begins, there comes again dinning in the portals
of his ears that far-off cry. and dimming his eyes that vision of appeal,
so that he nee^ the hoh place in horror and deserting ins bride, returns
once again to live the part of a recluse. Then and only then the
recognition of the call seems to bring some relief from sorrow for his
declining days.
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