Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05

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their backs turned. In short, the regula-
ticns cut of every opportunity Of commun'
icstion or spying.
In . few hours Lazar discovered this state
Of things, and get himself to master it. He
made the most of his military knowledge
and his education, protesting to have served
in Q British regiment, as have thousands of
his people. Within o month he was sp-
pointed naik, q grade which brought him
under notice of the officers, and shortly won
him further advancement. As hsvilsndar,
he could move more freely, and the heat
gave him q excuse for haunting the ram
parts after nighifsll. Summer was now at
Its hottest period, a season as terrible,
and almost as dreary as the Arctic win
ter of those parts. The marshes lay
ankle deep in dust, The trees Of the gar
den daily dropped and withered, to recover
nightly, when the sluice-gstes opened. No
one who could help it stirred from quarters
until evening, when, after a brief parade,
the fort glimmered with a thousand little
lamps, round which, in the dust, the soldiers
lay telling stories, singing, gambling, listen
ing to the bsg.pipes. At the same time the
Governors house lit up, and a shrowei glow
! rose above the foliage of the garden. Long
after the main building lay in darkness,
lights shone in one spot. Lazsr inquired
cautiously of those who had seen the place
in winter, and he learned that there
abouts stood a kiosk, hidden now
by the leaves. 1t was evident to him that
the ladies assembled there at evening, as is
q common practice, and that all of them
did not withdraw to sleep, since, on dark
nights, a very feeble radiance CLEANED till
morning. de had the advantage of know
ing the Khan's household, and reckoning it
over with such care as the stake of life i'm
presses on a computation, he judged that
his mistress slept at the kiosk, on the root
no doubt, with two or three female slaves,
and possibly a little sister.
G:t to communicate with her still made q
problem 90 h~ewilderipg that Lazar ceased
to think of the resG.,.. till it was mastered.
Time brought no solution, Gcc-r any chance
be dared to use. There was always nivTe-
ment about the Khan's quarters. and
amongst the younger Momunds Lazar
recognized several whom he would have
sounded cautiously had it been possible to
do so; carriers also, poVindahs and gipsles.
ready for q treacherous service well paid, II
It lay outside their cont act, often passed
with loads. But he could not approach
them unobserved. At length, urged by de
s~psiring passion, Lazar resolved a scheme
as reckless as criminal. One slave OF the
Khan's was a very big old woman, detormed
in her legs. She constantly passed the Lsl.
poora gate alone, and returned, by special
permit, after dark. 1t was her habit, when
thus belsted, to enter the Governors house
by the garden, letting herself in with a
mighty key. Lazar determined to waylay
this poor creature outside, take her clothes
and key and pass, throw the body into the
stream and re-enter the fort in disguise. No
one would speak to him, the slaves rolling
walk was easy to initiate, her trousers and
long veil would hide his uniform, the key
would give him admittance 10 the garden,
and then-as it pleased Allah. If nothing
'casp9a of it, the first time, he would always
hold a means Of reaching inc AtosRSS when
be chose to risk it, with a better knowledge
of the circumstances. Murder revolted him
no way. More satisfactory it would have
been. no doubt, had the person to be dis
posed OF been a male, but the decree OF
Providence was otherwise. Lazsr
thought out carefully the chances Of
being detected by women in the
garden, by soldiers in quitting 1t,
or in slipping off his disguise before
returning to quarters; considered in every
point the hue and cry that would be raised
when q trusty servant vanished within the
fort. since the gate-guard would certify her
return and the ~sentries would have seen her
enter and quit the garden-revolved these
great dangers and difficulties; thought out
a hiding place for the clothes and the key
that would not be discovered in the most
minute search. / do not dwell on these
matters, because the plan was changed in
some degree. He waited for a moonless
night, when the slave should 60 forth at such
an hour as would ensure a late return.
Then he ashed leave for the day, and stroll
ed across the dusty, burning fiat towards the
ford that lies between Dacca and Lalpoors.
His victim had an hours start. But IN
looked-for fates protected her that day.
III.
Lazar was not a ~favorite in his battalion.
A number Of old soldiers-Waziris for the
most part-~ho welcomed him cordially at
FIRST joining, had turned against the havil'
dar since his promotion, and the rest fol-
lowed their lead. He thought them jesl'
Gus, and gave little heed to their hostility,
absorbed in his own designs. They occu'
pied him wholly as be approached the ford.
Within a few inches of its swift current lay
a man, his bare head frizzling in the torrid
heat, the turban unrolled beside his nerve
less hand. That position told a story. The
Door fellow had felt the blood boil suddenly
to, his brain as he waded, and knelt
to dip his puggri upon reaching the
shore, and had fallen as by
a desth.stroke before he could replace the
dripping bandsge. Lszsr hesitated. Pity
g an unknown feeling to his kith, unless
there be something grand, emotional, in the
disaster. This man was his enemy, but tor
the same reason it might be worth while TO
help him. Nothing particular had he to do
for hours; 80 Lazsr knelt, raised the sense
!ess'body and dropped it full length IN the
stream, holding the face above water. In
a short time the hardy mountsineer re.
gained his sense and kicked. Lazsr drew
him out and stretched him on the hot sand;
then he lit his hubble-bubble. After q
while the patient sat up and dumbly put
out his hand. Laza7 did not misappcehend
this gesture; he dumblY transferred the
pipe.
Words came presently. ITO God be the
thanks! Why have you done this havll'
dsrT'
I'm the praise Of God l did it. Why
have you hated me, spahiY
For q good cause. You watch US blame
lees ones from the morning to the morrow's
dawn; we cannot move day or night, but
you are spying on the walls, at the gate, or
in quarters. What is ityou suspsctY' The
mans psle face and feverish eyes betrayed
more anxiety than he knew. ..
When a shepherd sits in ambush want
inp for the wolf, do his sheep imagine that
their master had bad designs? Then this
is the reason you Waziris have been un-
friendly! Reassure them, brother. l have
never spied on one of you"
They passed the pipe from hand to hand
,;Iontl1 Looking over the fat to the high