Black Heart and White Heart

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - At the date of our introduction to him Philip Hadden was a transport-rider and trader in the Zulu. Still on the right side of forty in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall dark upright with keen eyes short-pointed beard curling hair and clear-cut features. His life had been varied and there were passages in it which he did not narrate even to his most intimate friends. He was of gentle birth however and it was said that he had received a public school and university education in England. At any rate he could quote the classics with aptitude on occasion an accomplishment which coupled with his refined voice and a bearing not altogether common in the wild places of the world had earned for him among his rough companions the soubriquet of The Prince. However these things may have been it is certain that he had emigrated to Natal under a cloud and equally certain that his relatives at home were content to take no further interest in his fortunes. During the fifteen or sixteen years which he had spent in or about the colony Hadden followed many trades and did no good at any of them. A clever man of agreeable and prepossessing manner he always found it easy to form friendships and to secure a fresh start in life.