The Huttig news., 1911-07-29

lishwomans India: it's our life, ever to strive and struggle and contrive to piece together out of makeshift odds and ends the atmosphere of Home! It's suffoeating in here. Come. ' She rose with a quick shrug of i'm patience, and led the way back 10 the gardens.
 Pensive. the girl trained her long skirts heedlessly over the dew drenched grasses, Amber at her side, himself speeches. with an intangible, ineluctable, unreasoning sense of ex- pectancy. Never, he told himself. had lovers hour been more auspiciously timed or staged; and this was his hour. altogether hisl If only he might find the words of wooing to which his lips were strangel He dared not delay; tomorrow it might be too late; in the womb oi tho TOT row a world of chances stirred con tingencies that might in a breath set them world apart.
 They. found seats in the shadow of repul
 Are you in the habit of indulging in protracted silences 2" she rallied him gently Between friends of old standing they're permissible. I believe, but.
 "A days journey by tonga natures served abstrusely.
 'Tndeed?" She laughed.
 At least, hope so."
 He felt that he must be making progress; thus far he had been no less inape than any average lover of the stage or fiction And he wonder ed: was she laughing at him, softly. there in the shadows?
 You see" she said. amused at his relapse into reverie, you're incurable and ungrateful I'm trying my best to be attractive and interesting. and you won't pay me any attention what ever. There must he something on your mind. Is it this mysterious CT rand that brings you so unexpectedly 10 India-to Kuttarpur. MT. Amber?"
 Yes he answered truthfully.
 And you won't tell me?"
 T think l must, he said. bending forward
 There sounded stealthy rustling in the shrubbery. The girl drew away and rose with startled exclamation. With a bound man in native dress sped from the shadows and paused before them panting. Amber jumped up, overturning his chair. and instipetively feeling for the pistol that was with his travelling things, upstairs in the Residency.
 The native. reassured him with a swift. obseauious gesture. Pardon. sahib, and yours, sahiba, If I have alarmed you, but am come on an CT rand of haste. seeking him who is known as the Sahib David Amber"
 ''I am he. What do you want with me?"
 Tt is only this. that have been commissioned to bear to you. sahib.'
 The man fumbled hurriedly in the folds of his surtout, darting quick glances of apprehension round the garden. Amber looked him over as closely as he could in the dim light. but found him wholly stranger merely low-caste Hindu. counterpart of million others to be encountered daily in the highways and bazars of India. The Virginian's rising hore that he might prove to be Labertouche failed for want of encouragement: the intruder was of a stature the Englishman could by no means have counterfeited.
 From whom come you?" he de handed in the vernacular.
 Nay, a name that is ,unspoken harms none. sahib" The native pro duced small. thin. fiat package and 1 thrust 1t into Amber's hands With permission, go, sahib; 1t were un- wise to linger-''
 There is no answer?"
 None, sahib" The man ashamed and strode away. seeming to melt soundlessly into the foliage
 For minute Amber remained astare. The girls voice alone reused him.
 ''I think you are very interesting person, MT. Amber" she said, resum- ing her chair.
 Well! begin to think this most uncommonly interesting country" He laughed uIeertainly, turning the package over and over. Upon my word, haven't the least notion what this can be,'
 Why not bring it to the light. and find out?"
 He assented meekly, having been perfectly candid in his assertion that he had no suspicion of what the packet might contain, and moment later they stood beneath the window of Residency, from which a broad shaft of light streamed out like vapor ized gold.
 Amber he'd the packet to the light; 1t was oblong, thin. stiff, covered with common paper. guiltless of superscrip tion. and sealed with mucilage. He tore the covering, withdrew the en- closure, and heard the girl gasp with surprise. For himself. he was trans fixed with consternation. His look wavered in dismay between the girl and tho nhotopra nh in hiS hand-hor or