The Huttig news., 1911-09-02

smlnnR. m only HeFe to nelp gou escape to the residency. Raikes and Colonel Farrell have already been ad vised to make preparations for siege or for instant flight. if I give the word. They need you far more than shall It would be simple madness night The case is clear enough for you to see the folly of doing anything of the sort"
 Tt may be clear to you
 See here,. said Babertouche, with pardonable impatience: I'm pre- suming that you know enough Of Tn. dian history to be aware that the Rutton dynasty in Khandawar is the proudest and noblest In India: it has descended in right line from the sun There's not living Hindu h"' wi acknowledge its supremacy. be However ambitious. That makes ii plain, or ought to, why liar Oval Rut ton, the last male of his line, was and is-considered the natural. the tr evitable, leader of the second mutiny It devolved upon Salig Singh 10 pro duce him. Salig Singh promised ant lis on the point of failure. cant say, precisely, what penalty he'll be called upon to pay. but it's safe to as ;ume that it'll be something everlast ingly unpleasant. So he's desperate I can't believe he has deceived him self into taking you for Rutton, but whether or no. he intends by hook or crook to get you through this Gateway flair tonight. He's got to- Now you are-or Rutton is-known to be dis oval to the scheme. Inevitably. then, the man who passes through the Gate way in his name Is to be quietly elim mated before he can betray anything in other words, as soon as he has been put through the ordeal as they ,all 1t. for the sake of appearances and the moral effect upon the Hindu race at large, Now I think you un- derstand.'
 'I think I do. thanks" Amber re- turned dryly You're quite right, as said before So I'm of to the resi- dency. But how to get through that guard out Inefe
 He received no response. Tn as lit He time as it took him to step back wards from Amber Labertouche had esumed his temporarily discarded masquerade Instantaneously 1t was ae khansamah who confronted the
 irgiuian-the native with head and ,oulders submissiyely pended, as one
 ho awaits an order.
 Amber. surprised. stared. started to speak, received sign, and was silent, he excuse for Labertouche's sudden 7hange Of attitude being sufficiently nparent in an uproar which had been aised wit,out the least warning in he compound The advent of a run. ling horse & emed to have been re iponsible for it. for the chatter of loofs as the animal was checked ab. nptly in mid stride was followed by g slamour of drunken cries, shrieks oi alarm, and protests on the part of the epoys disturbed in the midst of their carouse. Over all this there rang the voice of an Englishman swearing good, round, honest British oahs.
 Stand aside, you hounds!'
 Amber turned pale. That's Far rell's vocei' he cried. guessing at the truth.
 Labertouche made no answer, but dged toward the khansamah's quar- ters.
 The din subsided as Farrell gained he veranda. His feet rang heavily on the boards, and second later he hrust the door violently open and damned breathlessly into the room, looted. s. drr.d d, his keen old face ,ivid, riding whip dangling from one wrist, revolver in the other hand.
 He wheeled on the threshold and lifted his weapon. then. with a gasp of mazement, dropped it. By heaven, sir!" he cried, that's odd! Those tanned sepoys tried to prevent my eeing you and now they've cleared out, every mothers son of them,"
 Amber stepped to his side; to his own bewilderment, the compound was deserted; there was not a sepoy in sight.
 50 much the better" he said, quick ly, the first to recover. Whats wrong, sir?"
 "WIong," Farrell stumbled over to ihe table and into a chair, panting 'Everything's wrongl Whats gone vrong with you. that we haven't been ble to find you all day?"
 I've been lying there,' Amber told i'm, noddiug to the charpoy, "drugged. Whats happened? Is Miss Farrell
 "Sophia!" The Political lifted his hand to his eyes and let 1t fall, with m effect of confusion. "In the name If charity tell me you know where she isl"
 You don't mean"
 She's gone, Amber-gone She's disappeared. vanished, been spirited 1wsy, Don't you understand me? She's been kidnaped!"
 Tn dumb torment. Amber heard a swift sharp hiss of breath as preg- nsnt with meaning as spoken word, and turned to meet Labertoache's eyes. and to see that the same thought was in both their minds. Sa ig Singh had found the way 10 lure Am | II