LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES EDWARD LUCAS WHITE LUKUNDOO _AND OTHER STORIES_ BY EDWARD LUCAS WHITE _Author of_ “EL SUPREMO,” “ANDIVIUS HEDULIO,” “HELEN,” ETC. GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY ON MURRAY HILL : : NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1906, 1925, 1927, BY EDWARD LUCAS WHITE COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY THE BELLMAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY HENRY RIDDER, PUBLISHER LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES --A-- PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS I LUKUNDOO, 9 II FLOKI’S BLADE, 31 III THE PICTURE PUZZLE, 75 IV THE SNOUT, 97 V ALFANDEGA 49A, 145 VI THE MESSAGE ON THE SLATE, 171 VII AMINA, 219 VIII THE PIG-SKIN BELT, 237 IX THE HOUSE OF THE NIGHTMARE, 281 X SORCERY ISLAND, 297 AFTERWORD, 327 LUKUNDOO LUKUNDOO IT STANDS to reason,” said Twombly, “that a man must accept the evidence of his own eyes, and when eyes and ears agree, there can be no doubt. He has to believe what he has both seen and heard.” “Not always,” put in Singleton, softly. Every man turned toward Singleton. Twombly was standing on the hearth-rug, his back to the grate, his legs spread out, with his habitual air of dominating the room. Singleton, as usual, was as much as possible effaced in a corner. But when Singleton spoke he said something. We faced him in that flattering spontaneity of expectant silence which invites utterance. “I was thinking,” he said, after an interval, “of something I both saw and heard in Africa.”