The Huttig news., 1911-07-15
Copyright by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

Anthony Quain of Tanglewood Lodge, ;NakoInls comes upon an attractive young .aoy equestrian who has been dismounted oy her horse becoming frightened at the
 .peen appearance in the road of burly n.hdu. Amber is about to attack the babu. no .u5 the latter convinees him that he is innocent Of being the intentional cause of ne young lady mishap He declares he Behari Lal Chatterji, "the appointed nouthpieee of The Bell" addresses Amber IS man of high rank and pressing a mysterious little bronze box The To- Ken, into his hand. disappears in the nearby wood. Turning to the girl at his Stue' sue Amber is astonished to hear her cali
 Cti.ET II-IIis wits come to his rese pe and he addresses her as Miss Sephle arrell. daughter of Col Farrell oI the brihsn plOmatic service in India ana visiting his friends. the Quains She suIlnises that Quain had written informa- moh @ leading to this deductlve reasoning Iney agree to keep secret the meeting with the Bengali and the matter of the mysterious box Several nights later the Sualn home is burglarized and the bronze box box=stolen. ole
 CEl ER III-Amber and his friend Quain go hunting on an island and be- come lost when darkness comes on. Start lng Tor home in a boat, the yawl slips away In the night with Quain aboard and hr alnper IS left marooned. He wanders about, finally spies lights in the distance. reaches cabin and knocks for adnis,
 CHAPTER IV.-Upon being admired h.. recognizes as its occupant an old friend nahieu Hutton, whom he last met in Eng ISlttu, VII, ana h1s who appears to be in hiding. strangely agstated Chatferfi annears ana gives the stolen Token to Ratton. rin Tno opens the box and finds an emerald is, ohalierzi summons him to meet ing or mysterious body of which he is member nd departs.
 CIIaI - v.-TEyson se,zes reyolver a1rrs ana oashes ashes out after Chatterji He re- ed the Hindu Then. wrought up over some apparent danger. he takes pntson. Dying; he asks Amber. as a friend, to go 'G 9,s 94ssi-2e, z. a =. -=9ys-srious errand.
 per bury his dead friend The next day Anper finds Quain, tells him something oroa or ms "a adventure and decides to leave at once for India. Quain takes him in his motor boat to intercept an outward bound s,- f.R VII.-Amber journeys to In- pla p on ihe steamship Poonah. On the way ne sends letter to MT. Labertouche. a scientinc friend in Calcutta by a uuicke, route. The day the Poonah arrives in port native mendicant hangs constantly
 S--:.= - =,- - scientist .1 uu,,.a. In Calcutta he finds note. apparently troin ho.n Laoertouche. awaiting him at his has happened, advises secrecy and di- rects Amber to meet him at a certain piace. On arriving there a middle aged Hidii lesslilDHHS the Hindu babu Chatterif greets him Ambers suspicious are aroused and he whips out his pistol
 CHAPTER IX.-The man whom Am per thought a traitor turns out to be Laoertouche in disguise. The latter tells nm ne knows his mission to Calcutta is to get Miss Farrell out of the country petore second mutiny occurs. Laber- touehe strolls about while Amber zoe In 70 money-lender's with the Token The man is about to examine 1t when a dag ger hurled through the air enters his throat. A crowd rushes in, hand clutches Arber and urges escape.
 CHAPTER X.--Amber Is hurried into a uark nut Here his companion, Hindu professes great subservience to Amber as member Of the secret order Evidently he mistakes Amber for Rutton and saw nm offer the Token at the money-l len oef Amber returns to his hotel to be passed on the street by babu who ut ters the. mystic words: Tomorrow, Oar ieohrc ~
 He hammered until he was a-weary, then deputized his task to Doggott. who resourcefully found him a stone of size and proceeded to make dents in the door. This method elicited the Eurasian. He came out. listened at tentively to abuse and languidly to their demands for a tonga to bear them to Kuttarpur. and observed that the mail tonga left once a day-at three In the afternoon Doggott caught him as he was on the point of returning to his interrupted repose and called his attention to the un. wisdom of his ways.
 Apparently convinced. this ticket deavoring to find a tonga for the sabib. Besides, he was not unwilling 10 acquire runees. He scowled thoughtfully at Amber. ferociously at Doggott. went back into the station. gossipped casually with the te'egra ph sourder for quarter of an hour. and finally reaprearing without a word or a nod left the platform for the road and walked and walked and walked and walked
 An hour passed as three. The heat became terrific: not breath of wind stirred The face of the world lost its contours in wavering mirage.
 Tn the simple fitness of Asiatic time a tonga came from heaven knew where Amber got up and looked il over with just eye and a temper none the sweeter for his experience It was brute of tonga. a ratched and ramsbacke wreck of what had once been real tonga. witk no top tc protect the travellers from the sun and accommodation only for three, in cluding the driver.
 The Eurasian ticket agent alighted and solicited rupees. He got them and with them Amber's unvarnishe opinion of the tonga: something which was not received with civility by the driver.
 He remained in his seat-a short swart native with .an evil countenance and. across his knees. a sheathed tul
 war-arguipg with s'~her in broker English and abusing him scandalous-