(Fact cemented with fiction)
“In accordance with Nature’s designs as he was a good artist he was also good. He possessed1 nothing but his individuality.”
ANON.
Wylo was an artist, and, like all true artists, an artist by grace of God.
His family was not in any sense artistic2. Of his lineage all had been forgotten, save a few of the many failings of his grandsire. So none could tell whence the talent that burst into blossom with him had sprung. It had not been transmitted. It was spontaneous; it was a gift; and all such gifts — are they not supernatural?
Gaunt old father and withered3 old mother would tell that Wylo from earliest boyhood could always “make em good fella along tree”; and now that he was a man and there were the emblems4 of manhood on his broad chest — deep, cut lines and swelling5 ridges6 — and he oft wore his hair long and fuzzy, his hand was very free.
Every morning he traced upon the convenient sand studies vigorous though entirely7 free from the canons of the schools. No authority existed that could tongue-tie his art. Each steamer, each boat which passed was sketched9 off-hand, and by some little trick, due to his inspiration, character faithful to the original was imparted. Banana-plants in full fruit and slim palms in cluster were ofttimes his models; but portraiture10 was not Wylo’s forte11. On the bark of trees, on flat rocks as well as on the shifting sand he expressed himself plentifully12 and graphically13. He could no more exercise restraint when he found a convenient surface and a piece of charcoal14 or a lump of soft red stone than he could have recited the Book of Job.
His genius was imperative15, almost overbearing. He had been commissioned by an imperious authority to sketch8 — a fever almost amounting to insanity16 fired his soul. His work was everywhere, for he had miles of forest and jungle country for his studio, and no hampering17, sordid18 cares to distract him. The light of genius in such an obscure world was unrecognised. Being beyond comprehension, it existed as the coldest commonplace. Not one of his fellows was equipped mentally to register the deviation19 from the frowsy norm of the camp exemplified in him; and if the camp never produced another artist the default would occasion exactly similar unconcern.
Wylo’s masterpiece in portraiture — the one revelation of the human form divine which he permitted himself to accomplish in other than transient sand, was a fancy picture of one of his many sweethearts — a lady in a very old hat and nothing more, with a few boomerangs thrown in to fill otherwise waste space on the inner surface of his shield. Wylo, though strenuous20 in his love of art is ever economic of the materials by which that love finds such apt expression. His scenes are crowded.
As a warrior21, and as a strategist, not altogether as an artist — though sympathy must ever be with him in that o’ermastering talent of his — Wylo also displayed those gifts which proclaim the gifted, though he was true to his race in many of its phases of simplicity22. His skill, or rather his supreme23 striving to appease24 aesthetic25 thrills, made Wylo superb in the fight. He developed a meek26, affected27 voice, somewhat mincing28 ways, and a faraway look in his eyes. These distinctive29 traits, worn with careless hair, were so original, so intensely entertaining and notoriety-provoking in a camp which had never possessed the copyright of more than one shabby corroboree, that Wylo made many conquests. For each conquest of the heart he had fought, and the more frequent his fights the more expert and daring he became. Thus did love indirectly30 raise him eventually to the dignified32 position of king.
Never before had any man of the camp so many fights on his hands. The artistic instinct caused him to fashion weapons true and perfectly33 balanced, made his hand the steadier and his aim very sure, while his intense earnestness in love imparted terrific speed to his blows when he beat down his rival’s shield with his great short-handled wooden sword. He was enthusiastic as a duellist35 as he was absorbed in art. It came to pass that when Wylo was not tracing his favourite seascape he was either flirting37 or engaged in the squally pastime of fighting an aggrieved39 husband or scandalised lover.
Wylo had so many of the fair sex to do his bidding, that he was relieved of the necessity of troubling himself about food. Frequently, as all manly40 men do (civilised as well as savage), he longed for the passion of the chase; and then he fished or harpooned41 turtle or hunted wallabies with spear and nulla-nulla, or cut “bees’ nests” from hollow trees, when his face would become distorted by stings and his “bingey” distended43 with choice honey, and he would without patronage44 bestow45 upon gratified female friends, old or brood comb.
Wylo was a man and a king among his fellows, tall, white-toothed, generally decorated with a section of slender yellow reed through the septum of his broad-base nose, and with a broad necklace of yellow grass beads46 round his neck. He wore clothes sometimes, as a concession47 to the indecent perceptions of the whites (whom for the most part he despised); though he preferred to be otherwise, for he was a fine figure — not a plaster saint by any means, but a hero in his way and well set up, and an artist by Divine Right.
Handsome, then, of build and limb, if not of feature, the ideal of every female of the camp, a successful warrior, a true sportsman, was it any marvel49 that Wylo suffered gladly that pardonable transgression50 of genius — vanity? He oft wore nothing but a couple of white cockatoo feathers stuck in his hair. Thus arrayed he was audaciously irresistible51, and provoked the enmity of the crowd. As an artist Wylo was an all-round favourite; but as a dandy all but the women — and he was disdainful of the goodwill52 of the men — despised while they panted with envy and made grossly impolite references to him.
Now, the sarcastic53 jibes54 of a black fellow are not translatable, or rather not to be printed beyond the margin55 of strictly56 scientific works. Courageously57 free and personal, they would be beyond comprehension in these chaste58 pages. Why, therefore, attempt to repeat them? A genius has been described as a deviation from the average of humanity. This definition exactly suited Wylo, for it was discovered when jibes were flashing about that he was positively59 inspired. They were as sharp as his spears, as stunning60 as his sword’.
Yan-coo, the wit of the tribe, a stubby, grim old man, who spent most of his time making dilly-bags and modelling grotesque61 debils-debils in a pliant62 blending of bees’ wax and loam63, to the horror of every piccaninny, soon found that Wylo could talk back with such withering64 effect, such shatteringly gross personalities65 that he, who with the spiteful ironies66 of his venomous tongue had kept the camp in awe68, was dazed to gloomy silence by Wylo’s vivid flashes of wit. His weird69 models showed a mind corroding70 with vicious intent. He dared not open his lips while Wylo was about. The quaking piccaninnies cringed with fear as they watched him working up his malignant71 feelings into the most awful imps72 — imps which threatened violence to their souls.
Wylo was supreme. He gloried in his dandyism and in his skill as a fighter. His genius basked73 in the sunshine as he made high reliefs in the sand or charcoaled74 pictures on the cool, grey rocks hidden in the sound-sopping jungle. The one weak spot in his character was his faith in a sort of wizardry. Contemptuous alike of the open violence or stratagems75 of his fellows, he had the utmost horror of an implement76 which Yan-coo, who was medicine-man as well as chartered wit, reserved for use against mortal enemies.
This terrible tool he had never seen. Very few had, or even wanted to, for its effects were as incomprehensible as they were tragic77. Never employed in the exercise of private or individual malice78, the death bone was an unfathomable and awful mystery. So dire31 was its influence that if a woman touched it or even looked at it she sickened.
What was this instrument of death?
A human bone scraped and rubbed to a gradually tapering79 point, to the thick, knobby end of which a string of human hair, plaited, was cemented, the other end of a length of several yards being similarly cemented to the interior of a hollow bone, also human. When the stiletto-shaped bone is directed towards an individual who has incurred80 the enmity of the medicine-man, his best heart’s blood is attracted. Drawn81 from the throbbing82 organ, it travels along the string and into the hollow receptacle. The pointer is then sheathed83 and sealed with gum blended with human blood, the string being wound about it. Simultaneously84 with the extraction of the victim’s most precious blood by this subtle and secret process, a pebble85 or chip of shell is lodged86 in his body with the result of ensuing agony.
Unaware87 of these very dreadful happenings, the individual so operated upon may not suffer immediately any ill effect. The wizard watches, and if no untoward90 symptoms are exhibited he takes into his confidence a friend, and this candid91 friend tells the inflicted92 one that he must be ill and dying, for the death-bone has been pointed93 at him and has done its worst. Fear begets94 immediate89 sickness, and if the blood of the patient be not restored and the foreign substance extracted from his spasmodic side with elaborate ritual, death is inevitable96.
Ridicule97 is but a slight shaft98 to employ against any one who may retaliate99 with so potent100 a weapon as the death-bone. In the fulness of his vanity and wit, Wylo began to make gratuitous101 fun of Yan-coo, who fretted102 and fumed103 and terrified the piccaninnies with still more hideous104 debils-debils. I saw one of them. It resembled a span-long plesiosaurus, afflicted105 with elephantiasis, and a forked, lolling, tongue extruded106 from a head that swayed ominously107 right and left. A tipsy, disorderly, vindictive108 debil-debil it was, that made the boldest piccaninny shriek109 with dismay. Wylo with a tiny spear of grass knocked the head of the atrocious debil-debil off, and the piccaninnies changed shrieks110 for smiles.
That charitable feat48 sealed his fate. It was the beginning of a duel34 between wizardry and art.
At night Yan-coo, mute with vengeance111, left the camp for the secret hollow, in a mass of granite112 which held the implements113 and elements of his craft. While Wylo slumbered114 and slept the malicious115 sorcerer directed with every atom of fervour he possessed the grisly death-bone towards him from the distance of half a mile. The influence of the death-bone is so completely under the control of the operator that it usually goes straight to the person against whom he in the dead waste of the night breathes his moody116 and angry soul away. Should the medicine-man, however, be conscious that the potency117 is inclined to swerve118, if he but put his hand to the right or left it must fly in accordance with his will.
Perfectly unconscious of the dastard119 trick played upon him, Wylo continued for several days to flirt38 and fight. He had a glorious time, and so, too, had the piccaninnies, for Yan-coo, for reputation’s sake, dared not model debils-debils merely to have their horrible heads knocked off with irreverent grass darts120. Rather have no debil-debil than one subject to Wylo’s profane121 but splendid marksmanship. So the naked black kiddies danced about Wylo, while Yan-coo fortified122 himself with the grim knowledge that he had Wylo’s heart’s blood securely sealed up, and that Wylo had a pebble in his body which would make him squirm sooner or later.
But, strange though it was, nothing happened to the arrogant123 Wylo. His physical condition was perfect, his spirits boisterous124. The skill of the medicine-man, the whole dread88 influence of the death-bone were at issue, and to give effect to both Yan-coo whispered that he had employed the death bone against Wylo, because Wylo had become too “flash.”
The recital125 of the deed struck horror and dismay into Yan-coo’s confidant. He was shocked at the sacrilege, astounded126 that Wylo had not yet “tumbled down.” It was his duty to tell poor Wylo of his awful fate.
Individuals of other nationalities in all ages have been proof, as Wylo was, against unimagined evils.
“There may be in the cup
A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom67; for his knowledge
Is not infected; but if one present
The abhor’d ingredient, make known
How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge127, his sides
With violent hefts.”
“His knowledge infected,” Wylo collapsed128 forthwith in a spasm95 of fright. All the prognostics of the medicine-man were verified. Wylo’s hair became lank129, his eyes dull, his teeth yellow, his face pinched, his limbs weak. He spat130 frequently and groaned131. He pined daily, for he slept little and his appetite was gone. Knowing that the fatal death-bone had been pointed at him, what was the use of attempting to resist inevitable fate? Rather would he resistlessly meet it. How was it possible to live without his precious blood, now sealed up in the death-bone? And he had a horrible pain in his side where the stone was — just as Yan-coo had said.
All the camp knew what had happened. Yancoo’s reputation had been grimly asserted. Every one now dreaded132 him anew. Again he was king. Though it was contrary to all precedent133 to point the death-bone at a member of the tribe, yet had Yan-coo made a law unto himself and his own justification134, and the proudest testimonial to his skill was Wylo’s deplorable condition.
Wylo became thinner and weaker every day, for Yan-coo, seething135, with malignity136, stood aloof137, declining to interfere138. To him Wylo’s gibes139 had been more cruel than the grave, for they had had the grace of originality140, and once and for ever he purposed to shake his authority and dreaded power over the heads of the affrighted camp.
The death-bone was slowly but implacably doing its office.
Among Wylo’s many sweethearts was one who, in early youth, had been kidnapped from a distant camp. She it was who took the news of Wylo’s direful sickness there, and implored141 the aid of a rival medicine-man. Glad of the chance of exhibiting his knowledge and skill in a case which was notorious and to outsiders absolutely hopeless, he followed the girl.
After making no doubt whatever that Wylo’s blood had been abstracted, that an angry stone was lodged in his side, and that death was imminent142 unless prompt measures were taken, the strange medicine-man chanted long and weirdly143. He squeezed and Pommelled Wylo, and made tragic passes with his hands over his body and limbs. Then suddenly he applied144 his lips to Wylo’s sore side, and, after loudly sucking, exhibited between them an angular piece of quartz145 which he triumphantly146 declared he had drawn from his patient’s body. Everybody, including Wylo, believed him.
Wylo brightened up at once. The two medical men, whose interests were common — for the profession is very close and regardful of its rights and privileges — consulted, communicating by signs and gibberish not understanded of the people. Accompanied by a few of the elders of the camp, they went to Yan-coo’s surgery, took out the death-bone, and with much ceremony unsealed it.
Blood stained the interior! All could see that it was Wylo’s blood. It could be none other, for none but Wylo had been deprived of any. Ostentatiously the medicine-men washed the death-bone clean, restored it to its unholy nook, and returned solemnly to the camp.
After deliberate and impressive silence it was announced by moody Yan-coo that Wylo’s heart’s blood had been restored, whereupon that hero rose to his feet sound and well though lean.
No word of anger or complaint passed Wylo’s lips the while he regained147 normal strength and gaiety. With frank ardour he resumed his sketchings and flirting with old-time success. He actually modelled the grossest of debils-debils for the piccaninnies and impaled149 all the vital parts with grass darts, while the piccaninnies broke into open jeers150 at Yan-coo, for the spell of the debil-debil had been destroyed.
Such outrages151 upon the craft of the sorcerer could not be tolerated. But Wylo watched Yan-coo, and one night as he strolled out of the camp Wylo followed with that light-footed caution and alertness significant of his artistic perceptions. Wylo carried a great black-palm spear fitted into a wommera with milk-white ovals of shell at the grip.
Yan-coo went straight to his surgery. Once more he prepared the death-bone. Every detail of the unholy rite36 was performed with determination, for he had abandoned all remorse152.
As he pointed the death-bone towards the camp where, as he supposed, Wylo rested, that hero cast his spear. He was strong. He had the sure eye of the artist, the vigorous hate of a black.
When they found Yan-coo next morning he was still kneeling on one knee, for the polished spear had impaled him, and, sticking six inches into the ground before him, kept him from falling. With his chin on his left shoulder and his right hand still retaining the string of the death-bone, he had died as unconscious of the hand of the artist as the artist had been primarily of his wizardry.
White folks heard of the, “murder.” Wylo was apprehended153 and put on trial. The solemn and upright judge could not learn the true facts of the case, since the witnesses were incapable154 of intelligently stating them. Wylo, who had promptly155 confessed to the crime in the terms, “Me bin42 kill ’em that fella one time — finish,” but who was denied the right of explaining that Yan-coo had been prosecuting156 designs against his life quite as effectual as a spear, and that Yan-coo had been “justifiably killed,” was sent to gaol157 for several years.
Constraint158 was dreadful to him, and the sorest trial which he endured was the suppression of artistic longings159; but he made pictures, he tells me, everywhere —“alonga wind, alonga cloud altogether, alonga water, alonga dirt, alonga stone.” They were mostly imaginative, but to his mind, in fine frenzy160 rolling, they were soothing161 and real. He made pictures out of airy nothing, and gloated over them with his mind’s eye. No power other than that which had bestowed162 the breath of life could subdue163 the beneficient mania164 that exalted165 his soul.
Wylo, is at the camp, sketching148, flirting, and modelling fearsome debils-debils for a new generation of hilarious166 piccaninnies.
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