The Huttig news., 1911-08-05
Copyright by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

| Anthony Quain of Tanglewood Lodge Nakomls, comes upon an attractive young l duy equestrian who has been dismounted | py her horse becoming frightened at the
 Ioden appearance in the road of burly
 ,.'uu, =. Ainper Is about to attack the babn l u the latter eonvinces him that he IS innocent of being the intentional cause of he young lady's mishap. He declares he nouthpiece of The Bell,'' addresses Amber
 man of high rank and pressing aysterious little bronze box. The To- Ken, into his hand. disappears in the nearby wood. Turning to the girl at his slde' Amber Is astonished to hear her call 1 C-f1,T - II.-His wits come to his rescue and he addresses her as Miss sophie Farrell, daughter of Col Farrell ot the British q plomatic service in India. ana visiting his friends, the Quains She sufmises that Quain had written informa- ton leading to this deduetive reasoning. They agree to keep secret the meeting | with the Bengali and the matter of the | mysterious box Several nights later the Qnain home is burglarized and the bronze b9zs-sf9Isa .,s=- el:.a, =, Qualn go hunting on an island and be- | come lost when darkness comes on4 Start lils Tor home in boat, the yawl slips | away In the night with Quain aboard and Amber is left marooned He wanders about. finally spies lights In the distance reaches cabin and knocks for admis-
 CHAPTER Iv-Upon being admitted he recoSnlzes as its occupant an old friend hah1eo hutton, whom he last met in Eng iand, and who appears to be in hidng. | When Miss Farrell is mentioned Rutton IS strangely agtated. Chatterji appears and gives the stolen Token to Rutton. Who opens the box and finds an emerald is. rIns. Chatterzi summons him to a meet ing of a mysterious body of which he is q member and departs.
 | CHI v.[-satt.on se.zes a revolver and dashes out after Chatterii He re- turns wildly excited and says he has kill ed, ed the Hindu: Then. wrought up over | Soine apparent danger. he takes poison. Dying, he asks Amber. as a friend. to go ee es - -==,qla .a- -21 -clys-erious errand.
 hex ofi,ATI s,,..l IitR , ,i--le servant helps Am Der bury his dead friend The next day Amber finds Quain. tells him something or his adventure and decides to leave at once Tor India. Quain takes him in his nto.p ,to.or boat to intercept an outward bound TER vII.-Amber journeys To In dia on the steamship Poonah. On the way ne sends letter to MT. Labertouche a l scientific friend In Calcutta, by a duicke4 route. The day the Poonah arrives in port native mendicant hangs constantly
 5ssA. - =i 1:=s sesntist, ss lar r;,. In In Calcutta he finds note. apparently hotel, It hints that something peculiar nas happened. advises secrecy and di nlens pfees Amber nr to meet him at a certain man man resembling the Hindu babu Chatteri greets him Amber's suspicious are aroused and he whips out his pistol l CHAPTER I&.-The man whom Am Der thought traitor turns out to be hhaiaberto9ehe hiale in disguise. The latter tells nm ne knows his mission to Calcutta is to get Miss Farrell out of the country oefore a second mutiny occurs I,aber- touehe strolls about while Amber goey in 10 money=lenders with the Token The man is about to examine 1t when a dag ger hurled through the air enters his clrtahas throat. A crowd rushes in. hand clgtehes Nnber and urges escape
 CHATTER N.-Amber Is hurried into a uark nut Here his companion. a Hindu professes great subservienee to Amber as a member of the secret order. Evidently ne mistakes Amber for Rutton and saw nm ofer the Token at the money-len- der's. Amber returns to his hotel to he passed son the street by babu who ,it t&ers & the mystic words Tomorrow. Oar TER XI-Amber understa nds that the message Is from Labertouche and starts next day for Darjeeling On U the way there he is hailed as The | Chosen of the Gateway bv Hindu
 CHAPTER XTI-On his journey Amber unexpectedly nets Miss Farrell also traveling northward. He wonders if | Ing 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 mrc.
 AFTER XIrI.-A native mysteriou.ly brings photograph of Miss Farrell to 1 Amber She sees 1t In his possession questions him about 1t and he confesses that he loves the original. He asks her to eo,etdsr eeS"me ,t his wife and she promises to thee- mic. -ef naive .conspirators
 Wondering If the telegraph-babu by any chance wore pink satin, he dozed off on the decision that he would need to send a message the first thing in the morning.
 Some time later he was a second time awakened by further disputation in the compound. The troopers were squabbling amongst themselves; he was able to make this much out in spite of the fact that the sepoys, re- cruited exclusively from the native population of Khandawar, spoke pa tois of Hindi so corrupt that even an expert in Oriental languages would ! experience difficulty in trying to inter- pret 1t. Amber did not weary himself with the task, but presently lifted up his voice and demanded silence, desir- ing to be informed If his sleep was to be continually broken by the bick- erings of sons of mothers without noses. There followed instantaneous silence, broken by a chuckle and an applausive "Shabash!" and nothing more
 Amber snuggled down again upon his pillow and soothed himself with the feel of the pistol that his fingers grasped beneath the clothes.
 Footballs and hushed voices In the bungalow were responsible for the next interruption. Amber came to with start and found himself sitting up on the edge of the charpoy, with dreamy impression that two people had been standing over him and had just left the room, escaping by way of the khansamah's quarters. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and went out to remonstrate vigorously with the khansamah. The latter naturally professed complete ignor- ance of the visitation and dwelt with.