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TIE ADVENTUBE MT1LYN By HAROID MAC GRAT11 lllr, ' j,; w t-'fe topi's nw -,t& t'H-z4f: h Urjt.. p 4 i: if- ;A NA' i wr;, . I , J, KATHLYN AND HtR FATHER WERC FORCED TO WITNESS THE EVENT, DRESEO IN THEIR FACES STAINED! ANO THEIR HEART5.SWEUING WITH IMPOTENT 1NCER , ; ITNOPSI 0 rBBVIOOi. CHAPTRni.1 V: , KaUilya IUr, lMllvtBC her fcr, Col. IUr, la HI, baa laanoinl fcr, Ivavta bar aaaia la tall larala to ta kirn la Allaba. ladla. lbIIh, tarr ta ba Ikraaa af thai yirlaelaallir, baa Im jrlaaaei Iba fwlaarl, aaaxd bf (ba lata kla aa bla blr, beeaaa ha (aara lha Aatarloaa mmf Initial aa Ida rayal nchla. . . " Vaaa bar arrival la Allaba Kalblra la lafarmatl bf Va)ballah that, hat falkar bala tlraa, aha la la ba anna a sanat atarrir him lurtknllk. Baeaaaa ( h r fatal aha la aaata ad la aadnrga iwa ar rala with wild bcaala. 1 , Joka Braaa. aa Amarlaaa, aaa fvllaw pautagar aa Iba baat whlah broaahl Kalblra la Allaba, aavaa bat III The alaphaal whlrh rarrlaa bar fram ba aaaaa ( bar trtala baaaaaaa lrlbta aad raaa awar, . rtarallaa- ba raa Braaa aad ba ml at Iba aartr. Aflar m riaa with aarll Kalhlya lakaa ralaca la a ralaai amapla. bat bar havra la alia tba abada af Uaat aad aha la faraad la 0aa fraat It. lha flada a aatraat la Iba Jaanlai aalr la fall lata lb haadai af a kaad at alava Iradara, rka briac hrr la AllahaT a lb aablla laart. tba la cold ta Viaballah, wha, f adlac hat altll aaaabaUaalva, tbrawa bar lata lha dancaaa with baa fatkar. Brana aad hla frlaada aSaat tba relaaaa af Kalhla ad tba aalaaal, aad tba faaltlTaa Bra clraa abaltar la tba aalaea af Bala Kkaa. ullrd whk. aaaMla had aarvaata bf thai ho. aitabla vrtaea, tba aarty aadaavara ta raarh tha aaaat, bat la artraawavad by baad af brlcaada aad ija caraaala raralla la tha aalaaal bclaa; drllvrrad ta I'aikallab. Kathlya and Braea aaaapa tram thaU raptors aad ratwra ta Allaba whara Kalblya laaraa i that hat fatharv whlia ftaaalaally klac, la reality a yrlaaaar, ft la ama-4 ta dad a brlda far hint. CaadU lataa aaama fraat aaar nail far, aad Kathlya aalaa aa aaaa ta tha aalaaa by aaaarla dlaanlaad aa aba of ibaajb'-A-.-iv; ' y ,:Ai S J Darlag tha aaraaaaay at betrothal tha laayarda which award tha traaawry baaaaia fra aad eater tha thraaa raaav thaawtac tha eatlra aaart lata a wild aaala. I hla aiakea It jaaaalhla far Brava aad Banabal la aeaaaa Kathlya aad bar father, and lha party ataala away fraaa Allah. i " ' "Tad imlnTM a KatUyn" mut mow t teati at --attiiVaf a tkd ls4inf moving piclura lAaalar. y tfcif vtUqut tHTatiyamaiti trttk f 8tUo Potyicop oowpaiiy it k fkercor pottibh Ml only to rtai Thi Advmtmn f XttMy" t ti ptptr -t ho to ktrp paoa wilk M twfaMMf of it al moving pMurt theater. ; 10aprnfMlUiBrUaraMaeOniia.l . CHAPTER XVI, THB CORONATION OF WINNIE. w ITU tha tiuilmaoet of the h.mlicrd Knthlta want down tba ropa ajllly and anfvly. Onca firmly oo br feet, 1 tornnl to tlunk the ;J Wild eyed btllnma. But hrr ixat Hloduitnnl (and tha wai able to apeak and underdaod quite a little by how) fell on care which beard but did not arose what aha aald.. Tha nan, mild and hftnniiua ruouh, fur all hit wild ayea, ahronlt back, for no wonmu of bit kind had arrr looked like ihii, Killiljn, wltb a dval uf fortbodlflf, reprated tha pbrme, nml tinkcd tha way bck to the hooter' rett houee. lie ahook hit bead ; bt under stood aotblnc Bat there U one language which bi unlve ral tha world rrer, hod thla la ai(n lenguefe. Kalhlyn quickly stooped had draw to tha duet tha ahape of lb rut houee. Tbeo tha pointed In the direction irheiM the had onme. Ha mnUed and nodded ardtedly. lie undoratood now. Vast, betas' unarmed, she felt "tha ned of soma sort of weapon. So aba drew the shnpe of a rifle In tha dust, thea produced foor ropeea, all eb.i hsd. ' The shopherd Torjled delifhtedly, ran Into the but, and returned with a , rifle of modm make and a belt f certriHrns. - With a - feature he signified that it was useless to blia because ba Aid not know how to use it. ' ' He took the rupees and Kst'ulya took the rifle, vaguely"' wondering how it came into th posmmkIob of this poverty stricken hillman. Of one thins she was certain; it bad become bis either through violence of bis own. or of, other. Rhe examined the r-h and found n dead shell, which she wet oot. The rifle carried ail cartridge, and she .loaded ekillfuUy, much to the astonishment of the htnman. Then sha awung the butt to ber shoulder and fired OP t. the ledge where the panthers had last been The bUlmaa cried out in alarm and scuttled away to hla VuU When be peered forth stain Katblyn made a friendly gesture, and be approached timidly. Once more ehe pointed to the dust, st the picture 0f the rest house; and then, by many etsbe of bis Anger In the sir, be sue ' eeeded in making the way back sufficiently clear to Kath lya, who Smiled, shouldered the rifle, and strode confl lentJy down the winding psth; bat also the was alert sad watchful. There was not a bit of rust on th rifle, and the fsct that one bullet had sped amoothly convinced her that the weapon was serviceable. Some careful hunter had net possessed it, for It wae abundantly oilej. To whom tod it belonged! It was of German make ; but that slg 'lifled nothing. ' It might have belonged to an English an, a Frenchman, or a Kussinn; mora lively the latter, rioce this was one of the localities where 'they crossed led recroesedwlth their ante fff utlliisd tgti'irt (hat day when tha Bear dropped down from the north and tackled the Lion. i Kathlyn hid to fo down ta tha y Attorn at tha ratine. She most follow tha foat path, bo matter whar It wound, for till ultimately would lomd hex to tha rest bouse, At the started up tha final Incline, through tha cedar and pines, she heard tha bark of tha wolf, tha red wolf who bunted In packs of twenty or thirty, In reality far mora menadnf than a tiger or a panther, tinea no hunter could kill a wbola pack. ,' To thla wolf, when hunting hla kill, tha rlgsr gara wlda berth ; tha bear took to hit care, and all float footed thing of tha Jungles fled In panto. Katblyn climbed as rapidly aa ah could. She dared not moont a tree, for tha rod wolf would outwit her. She must go on. Tha bark, or yelp, bad been a thjnal; but now there c&ma to bar ear tha long howl Sha had beard It often in tha great forests tt borne. It wat tha call of the' jnck that there was to ba a kllL, Sha might shoot half i ton of them, and the liring rand tha dead, but tba main pack would follow and arartaks ber. ' She twong on opward, eatching a sapling here, a Hmb there, pulling hprself over hnrd bits of going. Obos ah turned snd fired a chance shot in tha direct! on of tha bowling. Far sway -cams tba roar of one of tha moun tain lions , snd the pack of red wohas became suddenly and magically silent Kathlya made good ass of this Interval. But preeently tha pack raited Its howl again, snd the knew that tha grim struggle was about to begin. Sha reached the door of tha teat house lust aa tba pack, a large one, came into view, brads down, tails streaming. Pundits, who wet at tha firs preparing the noon meal, seised Kathlya by tha arm and hurried her. into ths bouse, barricading ths door. Tba wolrta, arriving, fluag themselves against it savagely. Bat the doer was stoat, snd only a battering ram in aomaa bands could have made it yield. TJnfortuntely, there was bo knowing when the mta folk would return from their ehasa of tha horses, nor how long the wol?es would lay siege. Tha two women tried shooting, though Pundlta wat tba veriest tyro, being mors frightened at the weapon In htr hands thaa st the howling animals outside. They did little or no damage to the wolves, for the available cracks were not at aulTicleatly good angle. An hoar went by. - Kathlya could bear the wolves as they crowded against tha door, sniffing the till The Colonel, Bruce, IUmabsl, snd Ahmed had fonnd the horses half a down miles sway 'and they had thrashed the thieving natives souutlly snd Instilled tha right kind of tear in their breasts. At rifle point they had forcrd the nativee back to the rest boose. Tha crack of tbelr rifles toon announced to Kathlya that the dread at wolves was a thing of the past eba wisely refrained from recounting ber experiences. The men bad worry . enough. . . After a hasty meal the journey toward the aeaport I.cgt.o in earnest. Umhalla't attack bad thrown them far out of the regular track. They were now compelled to make a wide detour. Where the journey might have been tuaJa in three days, they would be lucky now if they reached the tea under five. Tha men took rnrna in stand ing watch whenever they made camp, and neither Kath :vu nor Fundlta had time for idleness. They bad learned their lesson; no mora rarelestmeaa, nothing bat the eherp rt vigilance from now on. ; One day, at the pony caravan made a turn round a ragged promontory, they suddenly paused. Perhaps ' twenty miles to the went Iny the emerald tinted Persian gulf. The Colonel slipped off his boras, dragged Kathlya from hers, and began to execute a hornpipe, a boy. Be was like "The aeo. Kit. tha ara! Home and Winnie; out of this devil's caldron! Ton will come along with Ba,. Bruce?".- . - - - "I haven't anything else to do," Bruce smiled back. Then he gsied at Kathlyn; who found herself sud denly filled with strange embarrassment In timet ot danger sham and subterfuge have no place.' Heretofore she had met Bruce na a man, to whom a glance from hrr eyre bad told ber secret. Now that the door to civilisation lay but a few miles away, the old conven tions dropped their obscuring mantles over ber, and aha felt ashamed. And there was not a little doubt Per hsps she bad mistaken the look In bit eyes, back there in-the desert back In the first day when they had fled together from the ordeals. And yet . . .1 On his part, Bruce did not particularly welcome the fee. There might be another man somewhere. No woman ao bra ut if til aa Kathlyn couM poaslbly be with out suitors. And when the journey down to the ea waa resumed be became taciturn and moody and Kathlyn's heart correspondingly heavy. The Colonel was Quite obltvioue' to this change. Fts swung his legs free of the primitive stirrups and whistled the aire which bud been popular in America at the time of hla departure. , ' There was no lightness In the expresslone of Itamabal and Pntr.llta. They were about to lost those white people forever, and they had grown to love, nay, worship '"" mual i'luru Is fate they knew uul what Aa for Ahmed, ha displayed his orientalism by appear- NATIVE COSTUME, AND DESPAIR . Ing unconcerned. He had made up bla mind not to return to America with hit master. There was much to do In ATlaha, and the spirit of intrigue bad laid firm bold ot him. He wanted to be near at band when Raanbai struck hla blow. Ha would break the oewt to the Colonel 8ahib before they sailed. ' ,' ; 5 1 ; It was o'clock when the caravan entered the little seaport town. A few tramp steamers my anchored In tha offlng. A British flag drooped from tha stern ot one ot them. This meant Bombay and Bombay, in tarn, meant Sues, the Mediterranean, and the broad Atlantic, . The air wat still and hot, for the Indian summer was now beginning to lay Its burning hand upon this great peninsula. The pale dust, the whits stucco of the build lags, blinded the eye. l;j J ; : t ' . They proceeded at. once to tha stogie hotel, where they found plenty of accommodation. Then the Colonel hurried off to the cable office and wired Winnie. i Next ha aacertained that the British ship Simla would weigh anchor the following evening for Bombay ; that there they could pick op the Delhi, bound for England. There was nothing further to do but wait for the answer to the Colonel's cable to Winnie, which would arrive somewhere about noon of the next day. And that answer struck the hearts of all of them with tha coldness ot death. UmbalUh bad beaten them. Win. I V V !., 31 ' . 'is, i' The wolves, arriving, flang themselvee against the door savagely, but it was strong. ate had sailed weeks ago for Allaba, in search of father and sisterl . Ahmad spat ont his betel Bat and squared his shoul ders. Somehow he had rather expected something like this. Tha reason for Umballah's half hearted pursuit stood forth clearly. ; . Sahib, it it fate," he saW. Ws matt return st ones" to Allsha. Truly, the curse of that old gura sticks likt the blood leeches of the Bongsl swamps. But ss you hsv fuith in your gura, I l)ve faith in mine. Not a balr of onr beads shall be harmed."' " I am a very miserable man, Ahmed ! God has for saken me!" The Colonel spoke with stole calm; he was mora like the man Ahmed had formerly known. " No, Allah hat not forsaken ; he has forgotten us for a time." And Ahmed strode oat to make the arrange ments for the return. " Bruce," said the Colonel, " It is tiro for yon to leave us. Too are a man. Tou hava stood by us throngh thick and thin. I cannot ask yon to aha re any of the dangers which now confront us, perhapa more sinister than any we have yet known." "Don't you want me?" asked Bruce quietly. Kathlyn had gone to her room to hide her teara. ' Want you 1 But no !" The Colonel wrung the young man's hand and turned to go back to Kathlyn. " Walt a moment Colonel Supposing I wonted to go, what then? Supposing I 'should say to you what I dare not yet say to your daughter, that I love her bettet than anything else in all this wide world; that it will be happiness to follow wherever she goes ... even unto death?" The Colonel wheeled. "Bruce, do yon mennt that?" ".With H my heart, sir. But please ay nothing to Kathlyn till Jhie affair ends,, one way1 ...ot the other. She might le etirred by a tense of gratitude, and later wgret 11. When we grt"f ir (kit-Hind I rattier believe in the prophecy of Ahmed's gtira or fakir then I'll speak. I bare always been rather a lonely max There's beta no 4 i V ' UM8ALLAH'5 CAPTAIN OFCOARDS SEES. WllMNIE PASS THROUGH THE GATE TO THE CITY Or ALL AHA.' . real good reason. I have always desired to bs loved tor my own sake snd not for the money 1 have." "Money!" repented the Colonel. Never had bs in any way associated this healthy young hunter with money. Did he not make a. business of trapping and selling wild animals like he himself?, " Money I I did not know that you had sny, Braes." ; 1 . " I am th son of Roger Bruce." " What I Tha man who owned nearly all of Peru tod half the railroads in South America?" "les. Ton see, Colonel, we are eomething alike. W never ask questions. It would have been far batter, if we had. Because I did not question Kathlyn when I first met ber I feel bait to blame for her misfortune. I should have told ber all about Allaba Snd warned her to keep out of it I Should havs advised her to send native investigators, the to remain in Peshawar till she learned the truth. But th name Bar suggested noth ing to me, not till after I had left her at Singapore. So I shall go back with you. Bat pleass let Kathlyn con tinue to think of me ss a man who earns bis own living" i " God bless you, my boy 1 Too bars put a new back bone In me. It's hsrd not to have a whits mad to talk to, to plan with. Ahmed expects that uri shell be ready' for the return in the morning. lie, however, intends to go . back on a racing camel, to go straight to my bungalow, it it isn't destroyed by this time. F;rhsps Winnie has not srrived there yet I trutt Ahmed." "So do L I have known him for a long time that is, I thought I did and during the last few weeks bs has been a revelation. Think of his being your hesdmsa all these years, and yet steadily working for his Raj, th . British Rsji" ' .. " They can keep secrets." " Well, we have this satisfaction : when Pundlta rules It will bs under ths protecting banj of England. Now let ns try to look at the cheerful side ot the business. Think of whst that girl has gone through with scarcely i a scratch I Can't you read something in that? See bow strong and self-reliant she haa become under such mis fortunes as would bars driven mad any ordinary woman! Can't you see light in all this? I tell yon, there is good snd evil working for and against us, and that Ahmed's fakir will in the end prove stronger than yonr bally old guru. When I am out of tb orient ' laugh at soch things, but I can't laugh at them somehow when I'm in '" India." - ' - -'y.. ;: ; ; -. " Nor I." "":. ft: -' '"T": J".;:' i ' ' : 1'"-' "-' That night Kathlyn signified that she wished to go down to the beach beyond the harbor basin.- Braes accompanied ber. Often he caught ber staring oat st ths twinkling lights on board the Simla. By and by they could bear the windlass creaking. A volume of black smoke suddenly poured from the boat's slanting funnel. The ship was putting out to sea. ' , "Why do you risk your life tor us?" she stked sud denly. . . ." Adventure it meat and drink to me, Mist Hare." The prefix sounded atrangs and unfamiliar in her ear. Formality. She had been wrote, then ; only comradeship and th masculine seas of responsibility. Her heart was " llks lead. " It is very kind and brave of yon, Mr. Braes ; but J will not bar tt ' - ; "Hv whatr be asked, knowing foil wQ what ah metnt ,;r;v: ';-.". -iyv " ;.r,."-; " This going back with na. Why should yon risk year life for people who at almost strangers?" " Stranger r Ha laughed softly; "Haa It aerer occurred to you that' the ' people we grow " up with ara never really oar friends; that real friendship ' cornea', only with maturity of the mind? Why, the best man' friend I bav la this world is a young chap I met but three years ago. It I not the knowing of people that make friendships. It is the sharing of dangers ; of bread in the wilderness ; of getting a glimpse of the soul which lies beneath th convention of tb social pact Would you call me a Stranger?" .. ,.' "0, no!" ehe cried swiftly. "It merely that I do. not want you to risk your Ufa any further for ssv Is there no way I can dissuade you?" " None that I can think of. I am going back with yot That'a settled. Now let na talk of something els. Doat ' you really want m to go?" ." i "Ah, that isn't fair," looking out to e again and following the light aboard the Simla. It wae mighty hard for him not to sweep her Into his arms then and there. But he would never be tur of ber till she was free of thi country, free of th sens' of gratitude, free to weigh ber sentiments carefully and uabiasedly. He tat down abruptly oo th wreck of aa ancient bull imbedded in the sand. So sank down a little way from him. . ' ' -.. .., .- He begsn to tell her som of hi past exploits; th Amazon, the Orinoco, the Andes, Tibet and China; of tb strange flotsam and jetsam be had met In his travels. But she sensed only the sound ot his voice sod the de tire to reach out ber hand and touch his. Friendship! Bread in the wilderness I Ahmed wss lean and deceptive to the ey. IA many, Hindu, b appeared anemic; and yet th tfardaa tir man oovUI put 'on his back and carry almost indefinitely would have killed many n white man who boasted of his strength. On half a loaf of black Iread and a soldier's canteen of water he could travel for two days. H could go without sleep for forty-eight hoars, and when h slept h could sleep anywhere, on ths moment Filling his saddle bag with thre daya rations, two canteens of water, ke set off on a begin, or racing camel, tor Allaba, 800 miles inland aa ths crow fllea, . It waa hi intention to rid straight down to th desert and across this to Cot Hare's camp, if luck a thing; now existed. A dromedary in good condition can mak from sixty to eighty miles a day r and th beast Ahmed had engaged was of Arab blood. Ia four days he expected to reach th camp. If Winnie bad not yet arrived, ba would rake th road, meet her, warn her Of tb danger which h was about to fact, nd convey ber to tk seaport If It wss too lata, ha would tend th camel back with a trusted messenger to ths Colo, to adrkw him. They watched him depart la a cloud of dust, and than .played the most enervating gams in existence that of waiting ; for they bad decided to wait till they beard from Ahmed before they moved. - i Four night later, when Ahmed srrived at th bunga low, he found conditions sb usual. For reasons bast " known to himself Umballah had not disturbed anything. In tact, he had always had ths coming of th younger sister in mind and left the bungalow and camp oa i touched, so as not to alarm bet. J.:..-. SX: ;VV'V:''V'-;i'. She bad not yet arrived. So Ahmed flan himself down apoD his cotton rag, telling th keepers not to dis turb him; hs would b able to wake himself . whn the tim came. Bat Ahmed bad overrated hi powers; h , was getting along in years; and it was noon of th next day when a band shook him by tb rboulder aad h awoke to witnet th arrival of Winnie and her woman companion. For th first time in many years Ahmed cursed ha prophet H that had had tim to warn tb cMd hat) lept like tb Ioth ot Cylonl r:" : - He went directly to the point He told her briefly what had happened. Ha bad not the least doubt that TJmballah was already iware of her arrival. Sh moat remain bidden in th go-down of th bungalow ; bar maid also. r That night, if Umballah or hi men failed to appear, he would lead her off to safety. But titer was no hops of stealing away in ths daytime. In hla heart, however, h entertained no hope; and like the good gen eral be was, he dispatched ths messenger and camel to ths sea. The father and daughter wer fated to return. - -Ahmed had reckoned ahrswdly. Umballah appeared later in th day and demanded th daughter of CoL Hare. Backed aa h was by numerous soldiers, Ahmed resigned himself to the inevitable. They found Winnie aad her maid (whom later they seat to the frontier and aban doned) and took them to the palace. There waa bo weeping or walling or itrnggllng. , Tha dark, proud face of th young girl gar forth no siga of tba terror and utter loneliness of her position. And Umballah milted that It was In th blood of thai hU drn to b brava aad quiet There was b mercy ia kua heart' He waa power mad andgoul mad, aad his immiai Uvad because ba ould reach neither of bit desires sret their dead bodia. Th tigamarol and mummery Wlnnlt went through affected ber exactly at It bad affected her sister. It was all a hldeoot nightmare, and at any moment sha expected to wake ap in her easy corner at Ed ends ha. ' In th basaara they began to laugh at Umballah and hi ooronatiorjs, or durbars. " They begaa to jest at his ' futile sfforts to crown some en through whom h could 'i pot hla greedy band into th treasury. Still, they fooed ' plenty of mnemnt and excitement - Aad so they filled th sqnsrs in front of th platform when Umballah pat th crown on Winnie's bead. How long wuM this ann ;.ust? i ; , , , And Kathlyn, bar father, and Brae wer thread to witness the event from behind the cordon of guards, . dressed in natlrs costume, their faces stained, aad thafar hearts swelling with Impotent anger and despair. Fos tt ' was in such gniat they had returned to AQaha. 7 Daring a lull In th ceremonies a resonant Tote from . but ths dense throng cried, " Glv a a oaten ot onr Mood and race, thoa black, garter born dog V Ramabsl started at th sonnd ot that voles, bat canght himcself before he looked In ths direction wheat ft roe. - It belonged to on Lai Singh. ! . , Umballah scowled, bat gar no other sign that he v heard. - Bat e guard dove Into th crowd J, nsalessly. however. Kathlyn tonched Ramabaft arm. --" O, I tcrmrt speek to ber 1" ' "Be careful, Memsahibr h warned. But even aa he spoke sbs stepped past him, toward hef ' beloved sister, and offered the flowers sh held. Winnie, not dreaming that this dark Telled creature was her sister, smelled ths flowers aad bebeld a card which hsdjwriting onjt English 1 " Courage l Father aad I bav a plan for yens socap Kathlyn. ' V -
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