The Huttig news., 1911-08-19
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Amber shook his head smiling "If you don't mind getting yourself dis l liked on my account. Dulla Dad. you may take back to the author of that l epigram this answer: You shall find but one way to Jehannum, and that right speedily Good morning, Dulla 1 Dad"
 The peace of God abide always with the heaven born!"
 Amber entered the bungalow, to find the khansamsh already awake and moving about At the Virginians 1 request he shuffied off to prepare cof fee-much coffee, very strong and black and hot, Amber stipulated He needed the stimulant badly He YVES sleepy and his head was in wh,rl
 He sat lost in thought until the khansamah brought the decoetion, then reused and drank 1t as 1t came from the pot, without sugar. gulping down huge bitter mouthfuls of the scalding black fluid. But the effect that he expected and desired was strangely long in making itself felt. He marveled at his drowsiness, nod ding and blinking over his empty cup. Out of doors the skies were hot and blue-white with forerunners of the sun, and the world of men was stir ring and making preparations against the business of the day: but Amber. who had a work so serious and so in- stant to his hand sat on in dreamy lethsrgy, musing
 The faces of two women stood out vividly against the misty formless void before his eyes; the face of Naraini and that of Sophia Farrell He looked from one to the other, stupidy contrasting them, trying to determine which was the lovelier. until their f. a. lures blurred and ran toge her and the two became as one ard
 The khansamah tiptoed cautiously into the room and found the Virginian sleeping like a log, his head upon the table. His face was deeply colored with crimson, as If a fever burned him, and his breathing was loud and stertorous
 Pausing the native beckoned to one who skulked without and the latter entering, the two laid hold of the un- conscious man and bore him to the charpoy The second native slipped silver money into the khansamah's B palm.
 He will sleep till evening" he said. If any come asking for him. say that he has gone abroad. leaving no word. More than this you do not know. The sepoys have an order to prevent all from entrance"
 Beneath the spreading banian. by the cistern of the goldfish. Naraim with smoldering eyes watched Amber disappear in the wilderness Of shrub bery. He walked as man with set purpose, never glanoing back She laughed uneasily but waited notion less where he had left her, until the echo of his boot heels on the marble slabs had ceased to ring in the neigh boring corridor. Then, lifting a flow er-like hand to her mouth. she touched her lips gently and with an air Of cu- riosity. The resentment In her eyes gave place to an emotion less super icial By Indur and by Har!" she swore softly 'In one thing at least he is like rajput: he kisses as a man l kisses"
 The east was gray with dusk of dawn-a light that grew apace. ma king garish the illumination of the f1ickering, smoking. many-colored lamps in the garden. Naraini clapp.d her hands. Soft footsteps sounded in the gallery and one of her hsndmaids threaded the shrubbery to her side
 "The lamps Unda.' said the queen; their light, think, little becomes me. Put them out" And when this was done, she composedly ordered her pipe and threw herself lazily at length upon pile of kincob cushions, her posture the more carele ss since she knew herself secure from observation; the garden being private to her use,
 The tread of boots with jingling spurs sounded in the gallery. warning her. She sighed, smiled dangerously to herself, and careiessly adjusted her veil, leaving rather more than halt her face bare. Salig Singh entered the garden and found his way to her. tow efing over her beneath the canopy. brave in his green and tinsel uniform l that expressed her attitude toward the man.
 "Achcha," she said. sharply. Thou art tardy, heaven-born Yet have waited for thee this half-h gone, heavy with sleep though be-waitedi to know the pleasure of my lord"
 There was a mockery but faintly :. disguised in her tone The maharauS seemed to find 1t not unpleasant. for, he Smiled grimly beneath his mus>' tache.
 There was work to be done" hc said briefy-"for the cause. And thou how has thou wrought, o Breaker of Hearts?"
 The woman clasped her hands be hind her head Am I not Naraini?" 4
 The man is ours?"
 Mine" she corrected amiably. Hfs face darkened with a scowl of jeal-i