The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-08-31


or weeks, without ayail. Andfrequent-
n now. when alone and undisturbed.
|ae could see the old guru. shaking
with the yenomIo OF his wrath, ! the blood
tripping from his lacerated fingers
which he shook in the colonel's face.
decking It with blood! "a curse. It
was 50. He must obey that invisible
VIII; he must go on and on.
His pipe slipped from his fingers and
his head fell upon his knees; and thus
Kathlyn found him.
Let him sleep, memsahib.' warned
Ahmed from across the fire. "He has
been fighting the old guru."
"What?s Kathlyn whispered back.
'Where?" :.
Ahmed smiled grlmly and pointed to-
ward his forehead.
is there really such evil, Ahmedr"
Evil begets evil, heaven born, lust
as good begets good. The Colonel sa-
lib did wrong. And who shall deny
some OF these gurus a supernatural
power? have seen; l know" "
But once you said that we should
eventually escape. all Of u.s."
And | still say II. memsahib. What
ls written is written" phlegmatlcally.
YEARLY she turned toward her tent,
but paused to touch the head Of her
sleeping father as she passed. Her
occidental mind would not and could
not accept as possibilities these mys-
terious attributes Of the oriental mind.
That a will could reach out and pre-.
arrange mans misfortunes was to
her mind incredible, for there were no
precedents. She never had witnessed
a genuine case of hypnotism; those ex.
amples she had seen were miserable
buffooneries. travesties, hoodwinking
not even the newsboys in the upper
gallery True she had read OF such
things, but from the same anglo with
which she had read the Arabian Nights
fairy stories.
Yet, here was her. father, thoroughly
convinced Of the efficacy OF the gurus
curse: and here was Ahmed, compla..
Gently watching the effects, and not
doubling in the least that his guru
would IN the end prove the stronger
of the two. f. T. 80 n ~
One of the elephants clankcd his
chains restlessly. He may have heard
the proving of a cat. Far beyond tho
fire, beyond the sentinel, she thought
she saw a naked form flash out and
back of tree. She stared intently at
the tree for a time; but as she saw
nothing more, she was convinced that
her eyes had deceived her. Besides,
her body seemed dead and her mind
too heavy for thought.
Umballa. having satisfied himself
that the camp would not break till
morning, skunk away into the shadows.
lie had failed again; but his hate had
made him strong. He was naked ex.
eept for loin clout. His beard and
hair were matted, the latter hanging
over his eyes. His body was smeared
With ashes. Not even Ahmed would
have recognized him a yard of. He
had something less than nine hours to
reach the cape before they did; and it
was necessary that he should have nc
completes. The fishermen he knew to
be of predatory habits, and the prom.
',se'of gold would enmesh them.
The half island which constituted
the cape had the shape Of miniature
volcano. I, There was yerdure at the
base Of its slope and trees lifted their
heads hero and there hardly. It was
mile long and a half mile wide; and
In the early morning it stood out like a
huge sapphire against the rosy sky.
between the land and the promontory
there lay stretch OF glistening sand:
there was half mile Of 1t. Over this
flock of gulls were busy. as scaven-
gers always are. At high tide, yonder
was an island in truth.
Sometimes a British gunboat would
drop down here suddenly; but it al.
ways wasted Its time. The fishermen
knew nothing; nothing in the way Of
guns and powder ever was found; and
yet the British raj knew that some
where about lay the things for which
1t SO diligently and vigorously sought
On the beach fishermen were disem.
barking. A sloop with lateen sail lay
at anchor in the rude harbor.t Some OF
the fishermen were repairing nets,
and some were tinkering about their
fishing boats. Beyond the beach
nestled q few huts. Toward these
other fishermen were making prog
ress. q s'rH- X p
The chief Of the village-the head
man-disembarked from this sloop. He
was met by his wife and child, and
the little one clambered about his legs
in ecstasy. Among the huts stood one
more imposing than the others. and
toward this the chief and his family
wendell their way. In front of the hut
stood an empty bullock cart. Attached
to one Of the wheels was a frisking kid.
Tho little child paused to play with
her pet.
Absorbed in her pastime, she did not
observe the approach of a gaunt be.
ing with matted hair and beard and