Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-14
Copyright: 1914: BY Harold MacGrath.)
CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIII.
~ HERE is an old saying in Rajput that and
the four winds were born at the same time of the
mother: blew hot, blew cold, balmy or tenn
pestuously, from all points at Perhaps
In the zenana of the royal palace there a woman
tall. lthe with skin of ivory and and eyes
brown the husk of water chestnut On her bare
ankles gem incrusted anklet her bracelets
of hammered gold round her neck OF pearls and
emerads and rubies and sapphires And still she
not happy
From time to time her fingers strained at the Of
her glossy black hair and the whites of her great eyes
gisened. She bit her lips keep back the sobs crowd
ing in her throat She pressed her hands together
tightly that the little knuckles cracked.
Al. al! she walled softly.
She paced the confines of her chamber with slow STEP
with fast leaned against the WALL her face hidden
In her pressed her hot cheeks against the cool
marble of the lattice.
Human nature is made up of contraries Why, when
have had the cooly to plan murder, aid
suggest it. why be troubled with remorse7
More than this, why battle against silly
pulse to tell the first meet what have donei Re-
morse: what Is it?
Now this of the believed not in the God
Of your fathers mine She was pagan her heaven
and hell ruled by thousand gods and her temples
were filled with their images. Yet this thing remorse
vised by could equal it.
She the poor foolish woman who loved Durga
Ram loved him these wild Asiatic love- from
murder to the poisoned cup Loved AIM and knew that
he loved her not but used her for his own selfish ends
There you have it. Had he loved Ter, never
would have lifted its head raised its voice. again.
had not Umbaah sought the white woman this butterfly
of the harem might have died of old age without unbur
dening her soul Remorse is the result of crime
iffad p,fy
variety of skins.
And here was this woman, wanting to tell some oneI
Umballah had done peculiar thing: he had not laid
hand upon either Ramaba Punda. When asked the
reason for this generosity toward who but recently
put price his head, Umbalah smiled and explained
that Ramabai not only broken politically but was
religious outcast happiness for such person
die, 30 he preferred that Ramabai should live.
Secretly, however, Ramabais revolutionary friends
still back of him. though they pretended to bow to
the yoke OF the priests
So upon this day matters stood thus: the Colonel
Kathlyn, Bruce, and Winnie prisoners again Ahmed
in hiding and Ranabai wife Knocked by those
who had cheered them. The ngratude of kings Ia
- nothing when compared to the ingrattude of people,
most ridiculous country: to Kathyn again
(for the third time then tc lock her uni Next 70
superstition barrier to progress there stands custom
Everything one did must be done one else had
done it, the initiative still chained up in the tenn
1t belonged to the bald priests only
But Umbalah had made two mistakes he should have
permitted the white people leave country and given
slken cord to the chief eunuch to apply directed
There written laws among the dark peoples that
forbids the disposal that chatel known a woman Of
the haren, There certain customs that
the all powerful British raj must ignore.
The catafaque Of the king rested upon the royal
platform Two troopers stood below otherwise the plat
form was deserted When Ramabai and Pundta arrived
and mounted the platform pay their respects to
kindly the soldiers saluted gieyey sorrowfuy