The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-03
The rescue Of Kathlyn.
"A trap and a tunnel"
sAhsv

"Ah!"
There used to be one. A part of
It caved in four or five years ago. 1t
can be reexcavated in a night. The
men who do that shall be my own.
Your animals will be used. To Kathlyn
Memsahb your pet leopards will be as
playfellows. She has the eye and the
voice. and the touch. She shall be yelled
to her eyes, with bit Of ochre on her
forehead. Who will recognize herr"
THE sight OF you. Ramaba will
cause him to suspect
That remains in the air. There must
be luck In it,"
III Cmballa can be lured to drink his
pegs Then with an impatient gesture
Ahmed added: Folly! What, Umballa
and the Council will not recognize the
Colonel Sahib's hair. the Memsahib's
golden head?"
In the go-down " Lal Singh. the
cobbler there are many things, even
wigs and false Boards" retorted
Ramabai slyly.
Ahmed started. then laughed.
you are right, Ramaba. SO then We
have wigs and boards. Go on" He was
sitting cross legged and rocking back
and forth
After the tricks are done kathryn
Memsahib will throw aside her veil and
stand revealed, to Umballa, to the Coun-
| ell. to the populace."
Bruce jumped To his feet.
BE patient. Bruce Sahib." reproved
Ramabai. II am not yet done
Bruce sat down again. and kathryn
stole glance at his lean, aunhappy
face. How she longed to touch il, to
| h. Of a.
! camaraderie was gone; there seemed to
Ice some invisible barrier between them
| now.
| "She will discover herself then" pro-
cceded Ramabai "rmballa will at once
start To order her capture, when sh,
shall stay him 10y crying that she is
willing to face the arena lions. Re
| member, there will he trap and a
| tunnel"
And outside" said Ahmed, still
doubling.
There will be soldiers. my men. Bu
they will at that moment be elsewhere
"If You have soldiers, then why no
slip them into the palace and have then
, take the young memsahib by force?"
my men are not permitted To enter
the palace, Ahmed Umballa is afraid o
| them. To go on. Winnie MemsahN
will stand up and eNclaim that she will
join her sister. to prove that she Is n
less brave"
"But the ns,"-from Bruce. From
his point of view the plan was as alb
surd as It was impossible.
, Ramabai, however. knew his peopl
and Bruce did not.
| always remember the trap and tn
) tunnel, Bruce Sahib. At the entran"
: Of the lions the trap will fall. lnsid
: the tunnel will be the Colonel Sahib am
Bruce Sahib. outside will he Anime
and the brave men he had with him I'M
night. And all the road free to tn
gates"
"Ah, for those thousand men" sighe
Ahmed. II cannot forget them"
"Nor I the dungeon keep" reptile
Ramabai II must go my own way
the right and wrong of 1t you are nc
concerned, Ahmed"
by the Lord" exclaimed the Colone
getting up. Il begin to understand. II
Is alive and they hold him there in
den. vile like mine was. Allye'
Ramabai nodded. but Ahmed c'appc
his hands eXultantly.
"Tmballa did not put him there.
was the politics Of the Council and tn
Is the sword which Umballa holds ov'
their heads. And II ] summoned M
thousand men their zeal for me-
Pardon. Ramabai!" cried Ahmed coI
tritely. Pardon"
"Ah, finally you UNDERESTIMATE
"Yes. You are not only good ma
but great one, II you gave the sig
to your men there would be no one
yonder dungeon keep--aiive'"
"They know, and ! could not stay Il
tempest once ] loosed IT. There, that
all That IL the battle I have fougl
and won"
The Colonel reached down and offer'
his hand.
"Ramabal, you're n man."
"Thanks, Sahib. And | tell YOU thi
love my people. was born amor
them. They are simple and easily le
wish to see them happy, but I cam
step over the dead body OF one who WI
kind to me. And this add: When yo
my friends are free, will make hi
free also Young men are my follow
ers, and In the blood OF the young the
IL much heat. My plan may appear