Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Blue Aloes, by Cynthia StockleyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Blue Aloes Stories of South AfricaAuthor: Cynthia StockleyRelease Date: September 10, 2007 [eBook #22568]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUE ALOES***E-text prepared by Al HainesBLUE ALOESStories Of South AfricabyCYNTHIA STOCKLEYAuthor of "Poppy," "Wild Honey," etc.G. P. Putnam's SonsNew York and LondonThe Knickerbocker Press 1919Copyright, 1919byCynthia StockleyCONTENTSBLUE ALOESTHE LEOPARDROSANNE OZANNEAPRIL FOLLYBlue AloesThe Strange Story of a Karoo FarmPART INight, with the sinister, brooding peace of the desert, enwrapped the land, and the inmates of the old Karoo farm hadlong been at rest; but it was an hour when strange tree-creatures cry with the voices of human beings, and stealthy velvet-footed things prowl through places forbidden by day, and not all who rested at Blue Aloes were sleeping.Christine Chaine, wakeful and nervous, listening to the night sounds, found them far more distracting than any the daycould produce. Above the breathing of the three children sleeping near her in the big room, the buzz of a moth-beetleagainst the ceiling, and the far-off howling of jackals, she could hear ...