The Huttig news., 1911-09-09
Copyright by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

Tor a duck shooting visit with his friend, MMn,inohy Quain of Tanglewood Lodge, Nakomls, comes upon an attractive young ,aay equestrian who has been dismounted py her horse becoming frightened at the Suoden appearance in the road Of a burly Hindu Amber Is about to attack the babn, put the latter convinces him that he is innocent of being the intentional cause of s tne Rebar; Ryqang iaay s g mishap He declares he mouthpiece of The Bell addresses Amber as ,.i man of high rank and pressing a mysterious little bronze box "rne To- Ken. into his hand disappears in the nearby wood. Turning to the girl at his sloe, Amber is astonished to hear her call CI1- -. II.-IIis wits come to his rescue and he addresses her as Miss sophie Farrell daughter of Col Farrell of @ the British diplomatic service In India, aau Ylsltns his friends, the Quains. She sufmises that Quain had written informa- moh leading to this deductive reasoning. ity ahey agree to keep secret the meeting With the Bengali and tine matter of the mysferious box. Several nights later the , Quain home is burglarized and the bronze box- stolen
 1 Cfl-al -R IIL-Amber and his friend QGain go hunting on an island and be- ! Tohe iost When darkness comes on Start ing TOT nome in a boat, the yawl slips 1 away III the night with Quain aboard and i Amoer is left marooned He waaders about. finally spies lights in the distance, resches s q cabin and knocks for adrnis-
 CHAPTER Iv.-upon being admitted he l ..,l .c.osl liIes 1 as It's occupant an old friend iis,si;ea iaa5 Hstton, whom he last met in Eng Iaio, ana Who appears to be in hidine " hen Miss Farrell is mentioned Rutfoo Is strangely agitated. Chatterji appears aha nha @ elves the stolen Token to Rutton, ring. ig. Chatterzi summons him to a meet ing or mysterious body of which he is msmber md departs
 IE v.--.gt.5n se,zes a revolver and dashes out after Chatferii He ra- turns wildly excited and says he has kill so,,,tl so the Hindu; Then. wrought up over Dying, he asks Amber, as a friend, to go 1 70 = dla -ca a --1ysterious errand
 ta., 1iiaIl ,zs. lGa Si.---i1e servant helps Am per nury his dead friend The next day Amber finds Quain. tells him something or ms adventure and decides to leave at once for India. Quain takes him in his motor boat to intercept an outward bound TER vII.-Amber journeys To In pia p on the steamship Poonah. On the way s,.,a ne atfa senas letter to Mir. Laberteuche. a scientific ,r friend in Calcutta. by a quiclse. port native mendicant hangs constantly as -. s-s = =-.- ;s-fc.. --= ' f.s scientist
 ,n n ealcutta he finds note. apparently rom rom Laoertouche, awsitiny him at his notei. It hints that something peculiar has happened. advises secrecy and di- rscts Amber to meet him at certain p,aee. On arriving there a middle a ged man resembling the Hindu babu Chatferii greets him Amber's suspicious are aroused and he whips out his pistoi
 CHAPTER IX.-The man whom Am per thought traitor turns out to be isabertouche in disguise The latter tells nm he knows his mission to Calcutta is 70 get Miss Farrell out of the country before a second mutiny occurs Iaber- touche strolls about while Amber goeT in- to money-lenders with the Token. The ga, srsn bs,,1ad ,s 9n9nt to examine it when dag throat crowd rushes in. a hand 1 ciuycsheS Ar'ber and urges escape.
 CHAPTER x.-smber Is hurried Into a dark hut. Here his companion. a Hindu. professes great subservience to Amber as 4 member of the secret order Evidently ne mistakes Amber for Rutton and saw der's. Amber returns to his hotel to be passed on the street by 8 babu who ut iers the mystic words: Tomorrow Dar- TER XI.--Amber understands that the message is from Labartouche, a, and starts next day for. Darjeelng On Chosen of the Gateway, by a Hindu.
 CHAPTER XII.-on his journey Amber unexpectedly nets Miss Farrell. also Laoertouche sent him to Darjeeiing know Ing he would meet the woman he loves MISS Farrell is greatly surprised. They continue the journey that evening resting at the local Residency of the Govern r-'aPTER xIII-A nativ. myster.ous,y brings photograph Of Miss Farrell to Amber. She 1t in his possession. questions him about 1t and he confesses that he loves the original. He asks her consider 1t. Amber realizes that he is in ths- .-r, nit ,,:,. ne naive canspirators
 iNPTER ncx- day while Amber Is strolling about another Hindu appears apparently messenger from Labertouche. He announces that the mystic hour Is at hand. The man wishes impelled by curiosity, Amber goes with CHAPTER xv.-The Hindu leads Am Der to a magnificent garden and leaves him in the presence of a beautiful woman who halls him as her husband He tries to persuade her that he Is not Button as she supposes, but she insists that as he wears the Token ring he must be Rut- ton. Amber departs In a new maze of mystery.
 CHAPTER xvI-A guide leads Amber to bungalow where he Is given a drink that brings sleep. Meanwhile the woman Naraini talks with a native. who Is ex- pected to produce Rutton soon and his failure and his mistake in taking Amber for the former, may lead to punishment by- death.
 But Amber set his teeth and wrought with the reins until his mount comprehended the fact that lss had met a master and, moderating his first furious burst of speed, settled down into league-devouring stride, crest low, limbs gathering and stretch ing, with the elegant precision of clockwork. His rider. regain'ng his roise. found time to look about him and began to enjoy. for all his cares, this wild race through the blue-white night.
 They circled finally great, round, grassless hillside. and pulled rein in the notch of a gigantic V formed by two long prow-like spurs running out upon plain whose sole, vague bound ary was the vast arc of the horizon.
 Before them loomed dead Kathiapur, an island of stone girdled by the shsl- low silver river. Like the rugged pedestal Of some mammoth column. its cliffs rose sheer threescore feet from the waters edge to the foot Of the outermost of its trirle walls. From the notch in the hin- grect stone