The Huttig news., 1911-07-29
Copyright by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

= 5Iauen appearance in the road of a bury Hindu. Amber is about to attack the babn s,l nn, the latter convinees him that he is innocent of being the intentional cause of the young lddE's mishap. He declares he is bsharl Lal Chatterji, .the appointed mouthp.ece of The Bell.f addresses Amber as man Of high rank and pressing a mysterious little bronze box "The To- Ken. into his hand. disappears in the nearpy wood Turning to the girl at his side, Amber is astonished to hear her call hlE--hN-nanle.
 o.i.. II.-His wits come to his rescue and he addresses her as Miss oopile farrell. daughter of Col Farrell or the British (, plomatfc service in India ahe he Vislting his friends. the Quains She siuIHises sur that ouain had written informa- non non leading to this deductive reasoning They agree to keep secret the meeting With the Bengali and the matter of the nnNsierious box. Several nights later the box-stclel o'iNe -R III.-Amher and his friend Qasln go hunting an island and be- come lost when darkness comes on Start Ing for home in a boat. the yawl slips away In the night with Quan aboard and abni'f amnfr e IS ,l,e left marooned. He wanders aeeut, nnaliy spies lights in the distance rttaches rta cabin and knocks for adrnis-
 CHAPTER 1v.-Upon being admitted h. recognizes its occupant sn old friend named Rutton. whom he last met in Eng Iand, and who appears to be in hidins 1. wren Mss Farrell is mentioned Rutton 7s H and gives the stolen Token to Rntton who opens the box and finds an emerald irrns ina oe Chatterzi summons him to meet a member and departs
 1.issl i-is v.-Tsufson se'zes a revolver ana ana dashes out after Chafterji He re- edfns ad IS wilqiy excited and says he has kiln sa the Hindu. Then. wrought up over some apparent danger he takes poison. Dylng, he asks Amber. as a friend. to go 'o o == -=!ala s1e,zoz.z -aa -avs-erious errand
 A per bury his dead friend The next day at'lper ~ ne. nnds Quain, tells him something onan or ms s adyenture and decides to leave at once for India Quain takes him In his motor boat to intercept an outward bound - TER vTT.-Amber journey. 10 1n- uaa on the steamship Poonah. On the way he sends letter to Mr Labertouche. a selentlhe friend in Calcutta. hy a auicke, route. The day the Poonah arrives in port native mendicant hangs constantly
 I.l.,I 7s5. --s7 ssae'..sl sen 'Tiber arrive, fr fron, e,alcatta cautt he finds note. apparently rom i-abertouche. awaiting him at his 1 hotel. II hints that something peruliar mas mas happened, advises secrecy and d. r1e n11ees AInoer to meet him at certain p'ace. on arriving there a middle-a aged man resembling the Hindu bahu ChattsrIl greets him. Amber's suspicious are ar9pssq cWa PTRR sFd he 1x whips Ip out bis pistol
 per thought traitor turns out to be bis1 bbishertoqehe r in disguise; The latter tells t''i' hS hliuWS HIS mission to Calcutta ti9 10 get Miss Farrell out of the country before a second mutiny occurs. Laber- touehe strolls about while Amber goe1 in- to money-lenders with the Token. The man is about to examine It when a dag ger hurled through the air enters his eIlrtshau ehroat A crowd rushes in. a hand clutches A~ber and urges escape
 CHAPTER X-Amber Is hurried into a dark hut Here his companion. a Hindu professes great subservience to Amber as member of the secret order Evidently ne mistakes Amhpr nd him offer the Token at the money-len- oer s. Amber returns to his hotel to be passed on the street by babu who ut ters, the mystic words: Tomorrow Oar
 TIER xL-Amber understands that the message is from Labertouche, and starts next day for Darjeenng. On the way there he Is hailed as The Chosen ,,, of the Gateway" by a Hindu unexpectedly nets Miss Farrell. also travelling northward He wonders if i.abertouche sent him to Darjeeling know ing he would meet the woman he loves Miss Farrell is greatly surprised They continue the journey that evening resting at the local Resdeney of the Govern mer..
 Amber made a careful note of this information; he was curious about that babu.
 In the drawing room Raikes and Farrell impressed Clarkson for. three handed bridge Sophia did not care to play and Amber was ignorant of the game-a defect In his social edu- cation which he found no cause to re- gret, since 1t left him in undisputed attendance upon the girl
 She had seated herself at a warped and discouraged piano, for which Raikes had already apologized; it was, he said, legacy from former Resi- dent. For years it's yellow keys had not known a woman's touch such as that to which they now responded with thin, cracked voices. the girls fine, slender fingers wrung from them a plaintive, pathetic parody of melody. Amber stood over her with his arms folded on the top of the instrument, comfortably unconscious that his pose was copied from any number of senti- mental photogravures and "art photo graphs His temper was sentimental enough, for that matter; the woman was very sweet and beautiful in his eyes as she sat with her white, round arms flashing over the keyboard, her head bowed and her face a little ayerted, the long lashes low upon her cheeks and tremuious with fathom- less emotion It was his thought that his time was momentarily becoming shorter, and that just now, more than ever, she was very distant from his arms something inaccessible, too rare and delicate and fine for the rude possession of him who sighed for his own unworthiness.
 Abruptly she brought both hands down upon the keys, educing a jan gled. startled crash from the tortured wires, and swinging round. glanced up at Amber with quaint mirth trem- bling behind the veil of moisture in her misty eyes.
 ''India!" she cried with broken