Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-21
Copyright: 1914: By Harold MacGrath.)
CHAPTER XIV.

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"And then what?"
81 do not want the Memsahib to hear" Ahmed whis
pered But who shall that this is not the work Of
the gurus who forget who forgive, Sahib?"
But they would not followl 1"
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
rocks told him nothing. Armed with his rifle he plunged
Boldly back along the elephant trail but returned without
success. Whoever following them adept
secret Thuggee. All this worried Ahmed not little
He readily understood that the murderous attempt had
been directed against Kathyn alone but against all
OF them But COR her and subsequent warming
of them would have been dead at this moment.
Sahb it would be better to make camp the other
side Of the ford The Memsahb is weak from the shock
and might collapse If proceeded"
II leave everything you Ahmed But is there not
place farther below where the water does
30 fast?"
"Ramabai will know"
But Ramabai knew only the bridge They would have
to investigate and explore the bank Half hours jour
ney-rather difficult one-brought them to still and
shallow Here they and made camp beyond.
in natural clearing. They erecte the small tent for
kahlyn inside of which she changed her Clothes drunk
her tea. and lay dov to sleep.
What does Ahmed Think" asked Bruce anxiousy
That being followed by assassins hired
~ our friends the priests"
Colonel, let make straight for the seaport and let
this damnabe bushe rinkets stay where it is' urged
Bruce, the lover
:" That is not possible now" replied Ramabai. I'VE
reach there only by the ITSELF
the desert and journey the old trail We must
90 on"
The Colonel smoked his pipe moodly. He pulled
between necessity and desire. He had to Asia for
this fligree basket and he wanted it. with a passion
which was almost misery. At one moment he silently
vowed to the whole thing into the sea- and at the
next his fingers would witch and he would sigh.
Sometimes it seemed to him that there was some in
visible force working in him. drawing and drawing him
against the dictates of his heart lie had experienced
this feeling back in California and had fought against
it for weeks, without avail And frequently now, when
alone and undsturbed he could the old guru Shaking
with the Of his wrath the blood dripping from his
laceruted fingers which he shook in the Coones face
fecking it with blood. 1t So He must
obey that invisible will he must 60 and on
His pipe slipped from his fingers and his head tell upon
bis knees and thus Kathlyn found him.
Let him sleep, Memsahb" warned Ahmed from across
the fire. He has been fighting the old guru."
WHAT" Kathlyn whispered back. "Where?"
Ahmed smiled grimy and pointed toward his forehead
Is there really such evil. Ahmed?"
Evil begets evil. heaven born Just as good berets
good. The Colonel sahb did wrong And who shall
deny some of these gurus supernatural power7 have
seen know"
R,to .aidt that ,houyJ
all of u.s."
And still say it. Memsahib. What is written il
written" phegmaically.
YEARLY she turned toward her tent but paused to
touch the head Of her sleeping father passed Her
occidental mind would and could accept posi-
bes these mysterious attributes of the oriental mind
That will could reach and prearrange mans
fortunes was mind incredible for there were no
precedents She had witnessed genuine case Of
hypnotism; those examples she had seen were miser-
able buooneres, traveste4. hoodwinking the
newsboys in the upper gallery True, she had read
such things, but from the angle with which she
had read the Arabian Nights-fairy stories.
Yet here her father, thoroughly convinced Of the
efficacy Of the gurus curses and here Ahmed COM
placenty watching the effects, and doubling the
least that bis guru would in the end prove the stronger
Of the two.
One Of the elephants canked his chains restessly He
may have heard the providing Of cat Ear beyond the
fire. beyond the sentinel she thought she naked
form fash out and back Of tree She stared intenty
the tree for time; but she nothing more, she
convinced that her had deceived her. Besides
her body seemed dead and her mind heavy for thought
Umballah, having satisfied himsen that thu camp would