St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

"Tm ready at any moment! e3'
claimed, for was pretty keen on seq
| ing the thing through.
""There's P. & o. steamer ieasins
| Southampton tomorrow, he renarheo
inquiringly
"'All right-suits me exactly re-
piled.
so, that's how / went OF on the
jump Serang insisted on making ail
arrangen ents. We had the nnes'
suite on board, and travelled IKE
princes. Going up to Peuares every
wheel was creased, end Serans
throughout proved mighty pleasant
associate. He seemed saturated Win
a quiet citation over his discovery, ana
neither by word, sign, or look coulo
1 detect on his part a single iota OF
| doubt in the truth of my story.
well, when we arrived at the hoiy
city he left me for few hours 10
make, as he said, the necessary ar
rangements. When he returned ne
was clad in the native costume OF
high-class Brahmin and he brought
with him bundle of clean but rather
scanty garments of the kind worn ny
| Hindoos of the lower orders.
"'rhis is the only unpleasant incl
dent, Mr. Cortice,' he said, when
asked him If l was expected to wear
the things, but l am sure you will
not object. In no other guise could
you gain access to the temple-and
understand you insist on being pres
ent when you reveal the secret hiding
placer
That's Imperative I said, with
| finality So he proceeded to dresser
rather, undress-me, first applying
brown stain to the exposed parts OF
my limbs, face, and body.
when l looked at myself in the
| pier-glass l felt like consummate
fool, and when 1 reflected that had to
walk through the streets in such
rig almost weakened. But, said
Bharat:
mo one will notice you-there are
10000 in Benares dressed as you are
$50 we marched out of that hotel
just before sunset, ], at my guides heels,
for you must remember that I was
now low caste compared to him. We
reached the temple interior, and no
sooner had 1 set eyes on that beautl-
full, smiling Boodha, smelt the incense
in my nostrils, and saw the shadoWy
forms of the worshipers Frustrated on
the paved floor, than the whole tran
saction came back to me with re-
neWed force and clarity.
81 followed Bharat Serang into a
curtained recess-it might have been
the very one where had lurked in
fear and trembling on that night a
thousand years ago.
Here, after perhaps five or ten
minutes of waiting, we were Joined by
a girdled and tonsured priest - a
young, 1.-THE and active Brahmin, SO
far as could judge in the semi-gloom.
Then came the deep booming of mu.
steal gong, and Immediately there
after the clang of the temple doors as
they were closed for the night. Looking
out between the curtains l could see
lit by the dim glow of a great dull
lamp swinging in chains before the
statue of Boodha.
"Serang and the priest exchanged
a few sentences in strange tongue.
Then the former turned to me, and
whispered in English:
"'Will you now tell me where you
hid the ruby? None but Boodha' s
anointed priest may make the search!
Il nodded.
"Tell him to look in the hollow OF
Boodha's right cart
"That was where had dropped the
precious bauble in my hurry and fright
on that eventful night.
1.-the as cat, even as / had done
myself, the priest mounted the statue
There was moments anxious silence
a smothered ejaculation, then silence
again.
'In a couple of minutes the priest
rejoined us with swift and noiseless
! gait,
"'Look! he said, sweeping aside the
curtain. 4
II followed his outstretched arm, and
there, blazing in all its glory on the
forehead of the Boodha, outshining the
lamp itself by the fires from its radi
ant heart, was the great ruby, re,
stored to its rightful place by me!
| Then the priest took us by the arms
and thrust us out into tie night
through some secret door.
But what / can't quite make out,
said Cortice in conclusion, "iE whether
| Bharat Serang spotted mo all along.
Appeals. -.
| No longer does fame come from
skill at fencing or fitting, nor from
either physical Or mental prowess, as
we have been wont to understand
these things, nor even, as many be-
lieve, from riches. Nowadays a man
is known by his appeals. Almost any
one no matter to how low stratum
in society he has sunk, can secure At
least one trial with little difficulty, SUIT
to be able to- secure two trials for the
same offense marks man more fit
to survive, according to modern stand.
ards To be able to keep right on.
| making aDueal after auDeal and a..