Finally the young man approached Nimba, who had stopped eating and was silently watching him, her mouth bloody from her raw repast. He dragged the animal from her side and shoved her into a corner, where a jagged stone cut her shoulder, causing the blood to flow. Having eaten his fill, the man lay down to sleep.
The great moon rose and silvered the sleeping lake. A night-bird screeched as it swept by the entrance to the cave and Nimba crept from her corner. Still bleeding, she stretched herself beside the sleeping man. Her body touched his and some blood from her shoulder mingled with his in a tiny pool.
Below them, in the water, a reptile splashed its way among the reeds. Nimba and her master slept.
Nimba had taken her mate.
What Comes After Death?
An Anonymous Author Gives a
Startling Answer in
The
YOUNG MAN
who
WANTED TO
DIE
By ? ? ?
FIRST EPISODE.
IN A MEAN, miserable, two-dollar-a-week bedroom in a Chicago lodging-house a young man was calmly and deliberately preparing to kill himself.