The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-10
Amber made a gesture Of surrender.

Amber made a gesture Of surrender.
"Of course you're right" he said.
You're always right. confound you'll"
Exactly agreed Labertouche.
smiling. I'm only here to help you
escape to the r%esidency. Raikes and
Colonel Farrell have already been ad.
vised to make preparations for a siege
or for instant flight. II give the
word. They need you far more than
I shall. 1t would be simple madness
for you to venture to Kathiapur to
night. The case Is clear enough for
you to see the folly Of doing anything
Of the sort"
1T may be clear to you
"See here" said LAbertouohe, with
p~ardonable impatience; Tn pre-
Stunning that you know enough Of IN,
dian history to be aware that the
Rutton dynasty in K~handawar is the
proudest and noblest in India; 1t has
descended in right line from the sun
There's not a living Hindu but will
acknowledge its supremacy, be he
however ambitious. That makes Il
plain. or ought to. why Har Dyal Rut,
ton, the last male Of his line, was
and is-considered the natural, the In.
evitable, leader of the second mutiny.
II devolved upon Salig Singh to pro-
duce him; Salig Singh promised and
lis on the point Of failure. l cant
say, precisely. what penalty hell be
called upon to pay, but it's safe to as
sumo that tin be something everlast'
ingly unpleasant. So he's desperate.
| 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
affair tonight. He's got to. Now you
are-or Rutton is-known to be dis
loyal to the scheme. Inevitably. then,
the nan who passes through the Gate
way in his name is to be quietly elm
mated before he can betray anything
in other words, as soon as he has
been put through tho ordeal, as they
call 1t, for the sake Of appearances
and the moral effect upon the Hindu
race at large. Now ! think you I'M
%derstand."
Il think I do, thanks Amber re-
turned dryly. You're quite right, as
said before. So I'm off to the resi-
demo-. But how to get through that
guard out there?"
He received nc response. In as lit
tie time as 1t took him to step back
wards from Amber Labertouche had
resumed his temporarily discarded
masquerade. Instantaneously 1t was
the khansamah who confronted the
Virginian-the native with head and
shoulders submissively Bonded. as one
who awaits an order.
Amber. surprised, stared. started to
speak, received q sign, and was silent,
the excuse for Labertouche's sudden
change Of attitude being sufficiently
apparent In al uproar which had been
raised without the least warning In
the compound. The advent OF q In
ming horse seemed to have been re-
sponsible for It, for the ~clatter Of
hoofs as the animal was checked alb
ruptly In mid-strlde was followed by a
Glamour of drunken cries, shrieks OF
alarm, and protests on the part of the
sepoys disturbed in the midst of their
carouse. Over all this there rang the
voice Of an Englishman swearing
good, round, honest British oaths.
Stand aside, you %hounds!"
Amber turned pale. That's Far
rell's v~oicel" he cried. guessing at the
truth.
Labertouche made no answer, blu
edged toward the k~hansamah's quar-
tiers.
(To be continued.)