The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-10-29

FUSED to join the Stablemen and gar
deners in the plot to assassinate the
white people. AS a last resort the con-
splrators contrived to steal into the
chateau, hoping to fall upon their vic
TINS before Baillo could interpose. The
major domo, however, with the willy
sagacity of his race, anticipated the
move. The two forces met in the
south hall after the plotters had eff
fected an entrance from the garden.
The struggle was brief. for the con-
spirators We're outrumbered and sur
prised. They were even now lying be-
low, bound and helpless, awaiting the
disposition of their intended victims
ut is not because we love you, ex-
cellencies." explained Baillo, with a
sudden fierce look in his eyes, but be-
cause Allah has willed that we should
serve you faithfully. We are your
dogs. Therefore we fight for you. 1t
is vile dog which bites it's master"
Browne. with the readiness of the
average American. again assumed
command of the situation. He gave
instructions that the prisoners, seven
in number, be confined in the dungeon,
temporarily at least
There will be no other attack on us
tonight" said Browne, rejoining the
women after his interview with Bailo.
1t has missed fire for the present, but
they will try to get at us sooner or lat
err from the outside. Britt, will you
and Mr.. Saunders put those prisoners
through the sweat box? You may be
able to bluff something out of them if
you threaten them with death They
1T won't do, Browne" said Dep
bingham, shaking his head. They are
fatalists; they are stoics. | know the
breed better than you. Question if
you like, but threats wills be of no
avail. Keep 'em locked up; that's all"
Firearms and ammunition were TAX
en- from the gunroom to the quarters
occupied by the white people. Every
preparation was made for defense in
the event of an attack from the out
side or inside. The white servants
were moved into rooms adjoining their
employers. Britt and Saunders trans
ferred their belongings to certain gor
geouS apartments. Miss Pelham went
into a Marie Antoinette suit close by
that of the princess. The native serv-
ants retained their customary quar-
tiers below stairs.
Far in the night Genevra. sleepless
and depressed, stole into the hanging
garden. Her mind was full of the hor-
rid thing that had happened to Hol-
lingsworth Chase. He had been moth
ing to her. He could not have been
anything to her had he escaped the
guns of the assassins. And yet her
heart was stunned by the stroke that
it had sustained Wide eyed and sick,
/ she made her way to the railing and,
clinging to the vines, stared for she
knew not how long at the dull red
! glow on the mountain.
The night was still and ominously
/ dark. She had never known a night
since she came to Japat when the birds
and insects were so mute. \ somber,
supernatural calm hung over the is
land like pail. The smell Of smoke
hung about her. She could not help
wondering if his fine, strong body was
lying up there burned to u crisp. 1t
was far past midnight. she was alone
in the garden. Sixty feet below heT
was the ground; above, the black dome
of heaven.
She was not to know till long after.
ward that one Of her faithful Thor
berg men stood guard in the passage
leading up from the garden, armed
and willing to die. One or the other
slept in front of her door through al
those nights on the island.
Something hot trickled down bel
cheeks from the wide, plying eyes
that stared so hard. She was won
dering now if he had mother, sis
tiers. How their hearts would bt
wrenched by this! She was thinking
of him with pity and horror in hel
heart, not love.
A question was beginning to form
itself vaguely in her troubled mind
Were all of them to die as Chase hat
died?
Suddenly there came to her ears tn
sound of something swishing through
the air. An instant later solid oh
ject fell almost at her feet. She start
ed back with cry of alarm. A broa'
J shaft of light crossed the garden
, thrown by the lamps in the upper hal
: of the chateau. Her eyes fell upon
wriggiing, snakelike thing that lay i
: this path of light.
} Fascinated, almost paralyzed. sh
, watched it for a full minute befor
/ realizing that it was the end of
, thick rope which lost itself in tn
heavy shadows at the cliff end of tn
garden. She was standing directl
/ in the shaft of light. TO her surpris'
l the wriggling ceased. The next MI
!. ment faint, subdued shout was born
p TO her ears. Her fight was checke