The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-28
THE EYE OF A GOD.
By ". A. FRASER.
Lcnnvrlrht. 1Sas hv ihe Anihor.1


reached ost for Moung Ouray and gath
cred in Hpo Thit instead, it was this
way:
The night after the boat race at the |
water festival at Thayetemeo Hpo Thit
came to Valentyne, the superintendent
of police, and said that there were
many balls of opium hid away in
Moung Ouray's house. When he spoke
of Moung Ouray VALENTINE started a
little.
Moung Ouray was Mi Mra's brother
and Mi Mra-she had the daintiest way
of doing her hair, all looped up with
pirclets of jasmine flowers, and the
nattiest little supari pellets she used to
chew. Valentyne was always putting
the little Burmese worked silver supari
box away out of sight Fellows were
always dropping in ON him, and those
things looked so odd lying about,
Hpo Thit knew all about that, only
VALENTINE was not aware that he knew.
How do you know of this thing, o
Opium Walla-of the balls Of opium
in Moung Ouray's houseY" queried the
superintendent, with a hard, impatient
ring in his voice. Ibid you put the
beastly stuff there yourself, and then
come to cackle about the eggs of your
own laying?"
mo, thakine Abdul, who is
pariah of Mussulman, saw Moung
Ouray take it off the fireboat which
goes up the river.
"And did Abdul, who is a pariah
see where Moung Ouray put the black
stuff?'
"No, thakine, but where would
Moung Ouray put it? Would he put his
rupees in a rice pot and bury it i'll the
ground like Bengali? No, thakine,
that which is good and Of much value
will Moung Ouray have in the box
where is kept the hand doomed putsoe,
which he bought at the time of the
races, which were one year ago, for 200
rupees, from the seller, who came from
Mandalay."
There was little soft rustic just be-
yond the plated bamboo wall which
rose on the inner side of the veranda,
close behind the thakine's head. 1t
might have been the mosquito curtain
falling from the top of the bed frame
over which it was thrown, so gentle was
the noise.
Then there was a little metallic click
Surely that was the closing of the lid Of
the silver supari dish.
, VALENTINE gave toss in his chair
and ooughed long and Justify. That
was diplomatic, for jungle wallahs like
J Hpo Thit had sharp ears.
J Another little rustic as Mi MIRA
wrapped the lemon colored silk scarf
: about her throat and slipped like a
gentle shadow down the back steps of
the bungalow.
In and out among the mango trees
her slight figure fitted as she sped
swiftly through the tope toward Moung
Ouray's bamboo bungalow.
THE thakine, who makes Mi Mai
! laugh, asked Hpo Thit if he had laid
the eggs in brothers. box. Perhaps he
: did. We shall see-ha, ha, hal" and
her teeth, which were pink from the
juice of the supari, cleaned in the flick.
ering moonlight like coral beads.
VALENTINE pondered for few mo-
; ments over what Hpo Thit had told
him His duty was straight enough,
but but-"It's put up jobr' he nut.
4 tered to himself. Its the same old
, bazaar trick of running a man"
: And also was not Moung Mi Mra's
: brother?
, Eventually, however, VALENTINE sum
/ moned the sergeant of police over at the
thauna, and together they proceeded tC
D Moung Ouray's bungalow
!, AT the sergeant request he unlocked
. the box for them and tho former pro
C ceeded to 90 through it.
: First the handsome putsoe, and then
S one after another, the jaunty little jack
y cts and divers other things were laiC
: on the floor.
i In the bottom was big round LACQUER
y box. When the sergeant lifted the lid
: there were four balls there-four oval
$ white balls, as unlike opium as they
Y could well be, for they were eggs
= Now Moung Ouray knew that he haC
u not put the eggs there. He did no
= make pantry of his clothesbox; alst
{ had not Hpo Thit left them The ball
he had slipped into the lacquer DO,
u while Moung Ouray was down at tn,
pody We're round and black, not at al
!. like eggs
= The two Punjabi policemen wer
grinning from ear to ear. Valentyn,
gave sarcastic little laugh and asked
Hpo Thit if that was the opium he hat
n seen Moung Ouray carrying off tn
:, steamer.
l. Here is not got aim, said the ser
It geant, and asked if he should searcl
n further
d Before VALENTINE could answer
/, fiendish uproar smote upon his ears, |
d was as though the pody and the who'll
Il clash of bazaar noises had been sudden
S. ly emptied into the compound of tn
& Phoongye Kyoung across the road,
l. 1t was proper oriental babel, tn
l. cry of thief cutting through the gen
eral noise like sharp edged knife.
|, 1.-THE bazaar budmashes are killinI
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