Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23

appeared to be bathed in perpetual silence Sufdar
become seriously concerning the absence
of the savage dogs.
"f the Sahib pleases. perhaps had better go back
he advised. Some demon may have flown IN here and
made everything bewitChed His fear went to prove
that he was quite scorful of superstition at
heart as he had tried to impress upon Kemp
We'll, the Sahib doesn't please anything OF the kind
retorted Kemp "He hasn't climbed up all these steps
for more result than to turn round and scramble
down again.
LIE shaded his ewes from the intense light Of the open
- court and peered under the balconies. He dis
covered a passage leading inward, and decided to
plore in that direction Sufdar came on behind with
marked reluctance The passage twisted tor some dis
tance, down short flight of steps and ended IN
heavy curtain Kemp drew aside the curtain and passed
into a hall of spacious dimensions.
He halted suddenly, as one who meets with the en-
trelv unexpected 1t not the hall itself, with It's
immense gilded figures its groesque decorations or the
bowls of food here and there to feed the holy rats
and mice OF the lanasery that at the moment impressed
him. but the group of men by whom he confronted
There nearly dozen OF them and they looked to
Kemp entirely the opposite OF tl1n1d sheep nature
They swarthy, hawkeatured, muSCular-bu1t tel
lows with greasy locks hanging beneath fiat tur-
bans They were armed with rifles and supple curved
blades, and wore long wooden garments much weather
and travel stained. They returned kempS gaze with
sulen, unfrendly stares from piercing, browoverhung
eyes. No could less resemble dreamy Shooshok
than the who appeared to be their leader Other
he chiefly distinguished by pair OF red leather
boots Kemp impulsively glanced over his shoulder, to
that retreat had been cut off by detachment OF the
band He also noticed that the valiant Sudar qulv
ering all over with apprehension.
Pr Mohammedr fell from his lips a half grOanlng
whisper. Alas Sir we already dead
While Kemp realized that he had heedessly walked
into dangerous trap it plain that the only way
out by putting bold front He grabbed hold
OF Sufdar and made him interpret.
Tell the Pr that | wish to the ShOoShOk.
An came back that the Pr had made himself
ShooshOk; that he would like to know the Sahb bust
in those parts
Tell him, instructed Kemp that am American
travelling under permit of the Nceroy OF India to hunt
ibex."
Somewhat OF a scorful grin touched the PRS sinister
lips His response was that he cared not an anna for
the Nicerov of India who ruled a of dogs; but
since he was Shooshok he wanted recruits for his
lamasery. Therefore, he had decided to make the
Sahb a lama. If the Sahib proved good lama per
haps some day he would send him back to his
country to proclaim the perpetual greatness OF Pr
Mohanmed.
Kemp understood the PRS attitude to be in a vein of
haunting jest. He sorey tempted to speak without
reserve of what would happen when the Pr even
tually captured But the odds against him held his
resentment check He rcckoned that his chance
OF getting Of the place alive by the Of firm
diplomacy.
Say to the Pr he on, "his fame is notorious
that II Is real pleasure to meet him. But cannot
cept his offer OF becoming"
Kemp proceeded no further with demand to leave
the laniserv unnpeded. The Pr tossed a hand aside
AT the signal, Kemp and Sufdar seized by half
dozen Of the band. As the pair unarned and their
lives could have been put out in instant, Kemp