The Huttig news., 1911-09-16
Copyright by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

AHthony Quain of Tanglewood Lodge, Nakomis, comes upon an attractive young iady equestrian who has been dismounted py her horse becoming frightened at the Snaden appearance in the road of a burly ifihdu Amber is about to attack the bsbn, put the latter convinees him that he is innocent of being the intentional cause of is 3ne Reba Rydbnng iady's mishap He declares he mouthpiece of The Bell" addresses Amber as man of high rank and pressing l i,lysterious little bronze box, "The To- i Ken, into his hand. disappears In the nearby wood. Turning to the girl at his sioe' Amber Is astonished to hear her call hl-a-h -hI- -,aa,ne.
 l CifIT -Is II.-IIis wits come to hIs rescue and he addresses her as Miss sopnle arrell, daughter of Col Farrell or the British diplomatic service in India aho Vlslting his friends. the Quains She surmises that Quain had written informa- 1oh m leao'ng to this deductive reasoning nHsy agree to keep secret the meeting With the Bengali and the matter of the mys.efious box Several nights later the Qua1n home is burglarized and the bronze box-stolen
 Qua1n go hunting on an island and be- come lost when darkness comes on. Start ,f,s nl Tor home in a boat the yawl slips away in the night with Quain aboard and amber Is left marooned He wanders aoeut finally spies lights in the distance. reeaches a cabin and knocks for admis-
 CHAPTER Iv.-Upon being admitted n. reeognlzes as its occupant an old friend iaaiaea ia,a itutton, whom he last met in Eng n Ianu ana who appears to be in hidiue l " hen Miss Farrell Is mentioned Rutton is strangely agitated Chatterii appears ana ana glyes the stolen Token to Rutton, ring. Chatterzi summons him to meet ing or mysterious body of which he is member and departs.
 CHAPTER v.-T,Uftan se.zas re,,o,,,.r and dashes out after Chatterii. He re- turns wildly excited and says he has kill ea eo, the Hindu; Then, wrought up over Dvine apparent rent danger. he takes poison. 10 52dla on -eaysIerious errand
 1 1f,API Ets Ei.-1iie servant helps Am oer oury his dead friend The next day Ainper hnds Quain. tells him something oI Ills adventure and decides to leave at once Tor India. Quain takes him in his motor motor boat to intercept outward bound TER vII.--Amber journeys to In oia on the steamship Poonah. On the way ne s.aa sehas a letter to MT. Labertouche, a selentlnc friend in Calcutta by a quicise. route The day the Poonah arrives in port native mendcant hangs constantly aS=-;. s..1 = -. =s-'i..s -s=- :. fs S scientist
 n 1elcutta he finds a note. apparently rom l-abertouche. awaiting him at his hotel It hints that something peculiar has happened. advises secrecy and di. l rects Amber to meet him at certain place. On arriving there a middle aged greets him. Amber's suspicious are aroused and he whips out his pistol
 CHAPTER IX.-The man whom Am per thought traitor turns out to be Labertouche in disguise. The latter tells him he knows his mission to Calcutta is 10 get Miss Farrell out of the country DeIore second mutiny occurs. Laber- touehe strolls about while Amber goer h. 70 money-lender's with the Token The man ma IS about to examine 1t when dag ger hurled through the air enters his throat. crowd rushes in, hand ei999Iffhhes 9Ifh fs,rA. rr4An,eSr and urges escape
 l 0aTk hut. Here his nil professes great subservience to Amber as member of the secret order. Evidently ne he,,, mistakes Amber for Rutton and saw nm oner the Token at the money-Ien- | ders Amber returns to his hotel to be | passed on the street by babu who ut 1 ,ers the mystic wores: "Tomorrow Oar
 TIER xI.-Amber understands that the message is from Labertouche, the the way there he Is hailed as The Chosen of the Gateway by a Hindu.
 CHAPTER XII.-On his journey Amber tr unexp1se1edry 2a1,n9 mets Miss Farrell also i.abertouche sent him to Darteeling know irg 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
 .APTER xIII-A native rnvster,ou.,v Amber She sees 1t in his possession. questions que. ,s him about 1t and he confesses mat ne loves the original. He asks her to hecome his wife and she promises to consider it. Amber realizes that he Is in ths- s-T mifs. 1...,. ~ na..,,e scnsp.re.ors Amber is strolling about. another Hindu | appears, apparently a messenger from Labertcuche. He announces that the | mystic hour is at hand. The man wishes to lead him to some secret place. and impelled by curiosity, Amber goes with
 CHAPTER Xv.-The Hindu leads Am | Der to magnificent garden and leaves him in the presence of a beautiful woman | who halls him her husband He tries to persuade her that he is not Rutton as she supposes. but she insists that as he 1 wears the Token ring he must be Rut- ton. Amber departs in a new maze of
 CHAPTER XvI-A guide leads Amber l to bungalow where he is given a drink that brings sleep. Meanwhile the woman 1 Narafni talks with 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
 CH.--rER xvIJ-Amber is found by Labertouche who informs him that the Ii Hindus that night are to to make ..,s some great and Miss Farrell must go to a place of safety and the secret of the conspiracy beek Ia Nera'2- to-try to learn more.
 He drowned and took a step forward as If he would throw himself through the srchway:: for he had suddenly re membered with compelling vividness that Sophia Farrell was to be won only by that passage. But as he moved the swords clattered afresh and swung outwards, presenting a bristle i of points. And he stopped, while the voice. indifferent and remote as al- ways, continued to harangue him.
 ''If thy heart, o my chosen. be clean. unsuilied with fear and guile; if thy faith be the faith of thy fathers and thy honor rooted in love of thy land {: If thou hast faith In the strength of thy hands to hold the resns of empire
 enter having no fear
 "Trick-work" he told himself. He set his teeth with determination. Hope they don't see fit to cut me to pieces on suspicion: Here goes He