Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-27

rheerily to give notice of his approach. Jasper shouted back and fired bunch pf grass 10 guide his rescuer.
 The water had already reached the cabin, and just as Curt swung the boat into the little eddy behind it he heard a grinding noise up the river and saw Q white mass looming into view. The gorge had broken, and the ice was com ing down with sweeping force.
 Jasper stood in the cabin door, and when the flaming wisp of grass showed him tho face of his rescuer he blushed with shame.
 Your Ge exclaimed, and that single word spoke volumes.
 "Dau't stop to talk" cried Curt h1r- been no one the moment before. Kellar started forward with an involuntary ex- clamation on his lips. I, too. was great 1 ly startled. The fakir had thrown aside his silk mantle and stood before us clothed only in his breechcloth. The boy. n handsome lad of apparently 10 or 12, was similarly clothed. At my re- i quest he took my hand and gave it a friendly pressure.
 'I must have q rope must have a ropc." exclaimed Abalani nervously, and 1 he gesticulated in the air quickly with his right arm, his actions seeming to fasCinatc me.
 'Ah!'
 i He ceased the action, and lowering i his Hr'u displayed large coil of native ! rope .n his hand that it would have been | impossible for him to have concealed about his person. Then, with a quick motion, he pitched one end of the coil straight up into the air, keeping the oth CT end in his grasp.
 The line seemed to catch up there in i the atmosphere. It staid there dangling | own between Us.
 Abalani ordered Aki to climb up, hur- | ryiuG him with word of impatience and stamp of his foot.
 Akli shook tho rope with one hand, as if to see if il were quite secure, and then did as he was requested.
 Up, up, up. he clamhered, higher and higher, gradually growing smaller and smaller as he asceuded until he actually disappeared from view. Yet we could tell that he was still climbing away up there, for the rope before us trembled with the motion tlat he made. Abalani did lis bcs; to study it.
 Then suddenly the faklr clapped his hands and sprang to one side. We heard the rushing sound of a body falling through the air, and then the form of
 ASli landed upon his feet before us un- hurt and smiling. Another clapping of
 Abalani's hands, and rope and boy both disappeared.
 The fakir stood alone before us. kellar and l were mystitied. He asked that
 .Abalani perform the trick again. When il had been done q second time. Abalani
 left u.' as pcrplexcd as before.
 For my part l gave the whole riddle
 up. had seen many strange feat of
 jugElrry. but this one completely non plusCd me. kellar was determined not
 to leave Buolak until he had satisfied
 himself Us tu how tho trick. or feat, had
 beer performed.
 A week passed. Our host enjoyed
 kcllAr'S QUand&ry kccnly us boy, and
 iokci him about 1t. However. Kellar
 joined u~ ,u the porch one afternoon
 with a certain amused expression upon
 lis fac, that made me feel reasonably
 sure that :,om; hing interesting was up.
 ''l shorli Ike tn Src little Akli climb
 just uIrr Ilorc this afternoon" he said. dropping mo a low steamer chair with more satisfaction than had noticed him ryiuce I"r the past week, Con and , should be leaving tomorrow or the next day at the latest
 To make known q! wish there was to
 nave ii gratilicI. After coffee that aft
 vrnouu -Abalani came walking gravely
 up the shaded path, his slight figure clothed as bcforc-in the flowing mantle
 and scanty brcechcloth-that dark cop
 per ring, d shade lighter in color than
 tine bry0>t it hung against. his only dec
 oratiun. As before. he was alone. There were the same low salaams, his dry, hard palms that were of almost the , whitencss If mine being stretched over
 Us. Few words were spoken. The man
 could not have been moro deferential. But a' thr ,am" time thought that l datcctr 1 a glcam uf c.gotistical challenge in his dark vyt> that made me hope Kel-
 lal would succeed III detecting his trick and increased my desire to know how II ; was rcrfornsd.
 : 1Tc moved down to the place in the
 garden where w Ind witnessed tho act before kcllar slippiE- into the house 2
 mcmon: first Little AkE appeared as , bright and S:n.l.nS C. when we had first seer him. Thc ropo appeared. AkE had ,limb1l :. wEe-. heard & slight sharp --lElk u- -ll -jJl whcro kellar was
 SAsl!lN.-tS. " 2.G-l 41LA-t -Ahll Ilsltl G4sAll- , bnrol o;;t ,. tight, Abalani clapped his hands ;,!ic'. Me shuddcrCd as we heard ila sounl uI -AklTs fallinS body. The rvIc hal dislppe ea'cl. and the little fel- lew stood there loW.r; before us. The
 next luumv@; he Wal .souc. ; Kclldr hurried mo into the house and
 to our room. The room had a dark closet. and soon Kellar was hold up a !, dripping by plate from his camera
 for me to view by the dim light of our : ruby lantern.
 l could see our host, arms akimbo, looking up wonderingly. could see Aba : lani-showinS upwhite i'll the negative his thin arms raised above his head, his feet braced widely apart, as they had S been when steadying the rope for little '. Akh to climb when l had heard the shutter of the camera snap. But there
 was no little Akli to be seen anywhere U nor any rope, for that matter. ? Abalani had mesmerized our host F Kellar and myself, but it was beyond : his fakir skill to mesmerize our detect i've camera.-Conyers C. Converse ill New York Herald.
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