The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
Copyright: 1914: By Harold MacGrath.)
 CHAPTER XXIv.

paused, scowling.
 And then what?"
 "I do not want the Memsahib to hear" Ahmed whis- pered But who shall say that this the work of the who forget who forgive, sahib7" But they would not followl"
 Nay, but their would, the fear of death will watch at night hereafter"
 Ahmed searched thoroughly about the ledge from which the side of the bridge had swung, but the barren rocks told him nothing Armed with his rihe he plunged boldly back along the elephant ra without Whoever following them adept secret as Thuggee. All this worried Ahmed a te He readily that the murderous attempt had not been directed against Kahyn alone but against all them. But for her eagerness subsequent warning of them would have been dead at this
 sahib it would be better make camp the other side of the ford The Memsahib is weak from the shock and might collapse if proceeded"
 "I leave everything to you. Ahmed. But is there place farther below where the water does fast?"
 e Ramabai will know"
 But Ramabai knew only the bridge They would have investigate explore the bank Half hours jour ney-rather a difficult one-brought them to still and shallow Here they crossed made camp beyond in natural clearing They erected the small tent for Kathlyn inside of which she changed clothes drank her tea and lay dov n to sleep
 What does Ahmed think?" asked Bruce anxiously
 That are >oeing followed by some assassins hired by frienis the priests" A Colonel let make straight for the seaport and let this stay where it is" urged Bruce. the lover.
 " That is not possible now" 1epcd Ramabai. "We reach there only by the te or return to the desert and journey the old We must go on."
 The Colonel smoked his pipe moodily He was pulled between necessity and desire. He had to Asia for this fligree basket, and he wanted it, with passion which was almost miserly. At moment he silently vowed to the whole thing into the sea, at the his fingers would twitch and he would sigh.
 Sometimes it seemed him that there was some in- visible force working in him, drawing and drawing him against the of his heart He had experienced this feeling back in California, had fought against it for weeks without avail And frequently now when alone and undisturbed he could guru shaking with of his wrath the blood dripping from his acerated fingers, which he shook in the Cooners face fecking it with blood. A curse. It was so He must obey that invisible will; he must go on and on.
 His pipe slipped from his fingers head fell upon bis knees; and thus Kathyn found him.
 "Let him sleep, Memsahb," warned Ahmed from across the fire. " He has been fighting the old guru"
 "what?" Kathyn whispered back where7"
 Ahmed smiled grmy and pointed toward his forehead. "Is there really such evil, Ahmed7"
 Evil begets evil, heaven born, just good begets good. The Colonel Sahib did wrong And who shall deny of these gurus a supernatural power? have know"
 But you said that we should eventually escape, all of us."
 "And still say it. Memsahb. What is written is written" phlegmatcally.
 Wearily she turned toward her tent, but paused to touch the head of her sleeping she passed Her occidental mind would not accept as poss- bes these mysterious attributes of the oriental mind That will could reach out and prearrange mans mis- fortunes to her mind incredible there were no precedents She had witnessed genuine case of hypnotism; those examples she had were miser- able buooneries travestes hoodwinking not even hs newsboys in the upper gallery. True, had read os such things but from the same angle with which she had read the Arabian Nights-fairy stories.
 Yet here her father, thoroughly convinced of the efficacy of the gurus and here Ahmed, com placeny watching the effects, and doubtng in the his guru would in the prove the stronger of the two.
 One of the elephants clanked his restessy He may have heard the prowng of cat Far beyond the fire. beyond the sentinel, she thought she saw naked form flash and back of tree She stared ineny at the for time; but she nothing more she convinced that her had deceived her. Besides her body seemed dead and her mind heavy thought Umbaah having satisfied himseh that the camp would not break till morning, slunk away into the shadows had failed agan but his hate had made him strong He naked except for lon clout His beard and hair matted, the latter hanging his eyes His body was smeared with ashes Not even Ahmed would have recognized him yard off, He had something leSs than