The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-26

grudge against a man sometimes I said.
NO, L do not mean that sort of thing he
answered.; but did you ever hate man so
that you dreamt every night of killing him,
SO that you would die happy if you could
think he had died, too-died some dreadful,
torturing death?'
thoughts but he would not listen, and kept on
talking about some man he hated; and then
again ne suddenly stopped and asked II nad
ever heard of the shrine sacred to the God
dess Kali, up in the Himalayas. l had just
heard of it and that was ALL and he went on
to tell me Of a certain necklace of uncut en-
eralds that hung there, round the neck of
llfe-Sized image of the goddess. The priests
declared it mad fallen from Heaven, and it
was to be kept sacred even from the eyes of
the unbelievers. We'll, I have it here he
said, and smiled at in a CHASTITY fashion
oh, that's all right!' said, thinking he was
only rambling; but he fumbled under his pill
low and finally drew out a little leather bag,
from which he shook a necklace of dull
green stones.
That's it, he said; and the man who
carries that about with him had better insure
his life for all it is worth for over ten thou
sand HindooS are secretly initiated into the
Brotherhood of the Goddess, and it will be
the duty Of every member not to rest until
he has restored the necklace to the neck Of
the idol
II said 1 wondered he was not afraid to
carry it about with him; but ne laughed, and
said that for north it was the custom for.
no one to enter the inner sanctuary of the
SOQueSS, dS SIle was supposed TO De SlUIllDeI-
ing, the loss would not be Immediately
discovered
90 got it through revenge, and it will come
back through revenge he said. Two of the
priests had dispute over woman, and the
defeated one, to show his contempt for the
whole brotherhood, stole 1t and sold it to me.
He will probably confess what he has done,
under the influence they will bring to bear
upon hin-you know, are very behind
hand in our ideas Of torture, these Asiatics
really carry it into a fine art-but by then
1t will have left my hands
" What do you mean to do with it, then?
I said, and I felt little creepy-his
manner devilish in it's exultant cruelty.
'Ah, ah that is just it, he said. What would
you think Of giving it as a present to this
man I hate, or to the woman he is going to
marry, eh? 1t would be very fine idea,
would it not?'
60 I think it would be the most Internal
idea ever heard Of said; and you could
not be such brute to do it, He seemed
to realize, then, that ne had been giving him
self away for he pulled up, and said he was
afraid he had been talking nonsense"
Douglas had pulled out his handkerchief,
and was wiping the cold drops from his brow.
Like vision, there rose before him Evans
CHASTITY face, as, holding Cora's hand in his
over the necklace, he had entreated her to
accept it as sign of their reconciliation.
1t semed incredible that a~man~who had
once loved her, should have plotted such an
inhuman revenge. 14~
But why did you not stop him. or tell
people?" he asked hoarsely.
My dear fellow, Stewart not a man
with whom it was easy to interfere, and the
next morning l really thought he had been
wandering in his mind; that he had picked up
the necklace somewhere, and had imagined
all the stuff about it," said Colonel Majendie,
apologetcally. Il had to push with my
men. too. and it was not till some time
later, that 1 met a district magistrate who
had been called up that way, that the matter
required to The authorities were trying
to indentify the murdererS of man who had
been found just breathing, suspended from
tree, but mangled in perfectly indescribable
manner. The magistrate told me, in conf
dence, that they would never trace them, that
the man was initiate of a secret society
banded together in the worship of the Cod
deSS Kali, and that he had betrayed his trust
by disposing of some sacred jewel.
He was a man who spoke five or six diff
ferent Indian dialects, and knew of
their ways than any other European l ever
met, and he hinted that the authorities dared
few tales about this brotherhood that made
me feel very uncomfortable: and then 1 told
him about Stewards tale of the jewel
The necklace will be back here within a.
year. he said, very solemnly; but Heaven
knows how many murders it may not have
been the cause of by then
well, you may imagine I felt pretty un-
comfortable at that and, when the next day.
read in home paper of the murder of your
cousin, it took a 81 eat load off my mind:
made certain that they had got hold of the
jewel again.
Il wish to Heaven they hadl" said Doug
las, fervently. "Majendie, off at once I
do not like to think of my wife left in that
lonely village, with that fatal necklace in her
DC session
But 1 suppose there are plenty OF people
about her in the hotel?'
1T is not hotel; only q bungalow a
friend lent US for our honeymoon. At night
there is only woman in the house besides
ourselves 1 think if 1 am off at once, 1 may