The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-12

ancestry and the manner Of his life
at home and abroad
/ Thunderstruck, Amber caught him
self just as he was on the point Of at
tempting to drag the driver from his
seat and beat him into q more endurST
able frame Of mind. He swallowed
the hint and gave UP the contest.
"Oh, very WELL" he conceded. Il
| presume you're trying TO say there
isn't another tonga to be had and It
can't be helped; but / don't like your
tone. However, there doesn't seem
to be anything to do but take you.
How much for the two Of us?"
"Your servant, sahib? He cannot
ride in this tonga" asserted the driv-
er impressively.
"He can't. Why not7"
"You can see there Is room for but
two, and have yet another passen-
| ger"
"Where?"
Eat the first dak-bungalow, sahib.
where the mail tonga broke down last
night. This tonga, which ! say Is an
excellent tonga, an aram tonga, q tons
ga for ease, is sent to take its place.
More than this, am hidden to go IN
haste; therefore there Is little time
for you to decide whether or not you
will go with me alone. AS for your
servant, he can follow by this after
Moons mail tonga"
4 Upon this ultimatum he stood, inn
movable: neither threats nor bribery
availed. It was an order, he said; he
had no choice other than to obey.
ShabashI Would the sahib be
pleased to make up his mind quickly
Perforce, the sahib yielded. It'll
be Labertouche; he's arranged this.
he told himself. THAT loafer said
| he'd gone on ahead Of us" And
comforted he issued his orders 70
Doggott, who received and acceded
to them with all the ill-grace irnagin-
able He was to remain and follow to
Kuttarpur by the afternoons tonga.
| Climbing aboard, the Virginian set
tied himself against the endless dis
comforts OF the ride which he fore
saw; the tonga was anything but IAN
aram tonga tonga for ease;" there
was no shade and no breeze, and
the face Of the land crawled with
heat-bred haze.
To a crisp cracking Of the whip
lash over the backs Of the two sturdy,
shaggy, flea-bitten ponies, the tonga
swept away from the station. swift
as hunted fox with dusty plume.
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the drivers face. your name, tonga
wallah7" he enquired.
Ram Nath, sahib." The man spoke
without moving his head, attending
diligently to the management Of his
ponies.
And this other passenger, who
awaits us at the dak-bungalow, Ram
Mathis he, perchance, one known
both TO you and to me?"
Ram Nath hicked the tagging
ponies How should known" he re-
turned brusQuely.
"One," persisted Amber, who
might be known by such name as,
say, Pink Satin?"
What manner OF talk is this?" de-
manded Ram Nath Il am no child
to be amused by a riddle. know
naught Of your Pink Satin" He
bent forward, shortening his grasp
upon the reins, as II to signify that
the interview was at an end.
Amber sat back, annoyed by the
fellows impudence yet sensitive to q
suspicion that Ram Nath was playing
his part better than his passenger,
that the rebuke was merited by one
who had ventured to speak Of secret
things in a land whose very stones
have ears. For all that he could say
their every move was watched by In.
visible spies, of whom the rock
strewn waste through which they
sped might well harbor q hidden
legion. But perhaps, after
all, Ram Nath had nothing whatever
to do with Labertouche. Undeniabla
as had been his wink, 1t might we'll
have been nothing more than an inn.
pertinence.
Meanwhile the tonga rocked and
bounded flendishly over an Infamous
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ing between huge boulders and in and
out Of pebbly nullahs, Ram Nath tool.
ing it along with the hand of a mas
ter. But all his attention was Of me-
cessity conferred upon the ponies, and
presently his tulwar slipped from his
knees and clattered upon the floor Of
the tonga. Amber saw his chance and
put his foot upon 1t.
Ram Nath," he asked gently, have
you no other arms?"
II were fool had not" The man
did not deign to glance round. she
hath need OF weapons who doth traf
fc with the Chosen Of the Voice.
sahib.'
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