The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-15
SYNOPSIS.


message, believes her father Col. Hare,
who is hunting in India has summoned
her to him. She starts Immediately
for Alfalfa.
tmballa. a protegc OF the King OF
Alfalfa. hopes to succeed to the throne
on previous visit to Alfalfa Col Hare
had saved the life OF the King and as
reward decoration, carrying with 1t
royal honors and the rights of success
sion, had been conferred upon him
In the meantime the King OF Alfalfa
has died and Cmballa and the three
Councillors Of the Kingdom have thrown
Col. Hare into prison. on Kathlyns
arrival In Allaha she Is informed by
rmbaila that her father Is dead and
that she Is the Queen. An elaborate
Dunbar Is arranged the central figure
of which Is kathlyn, protesting and grief
stricken. In her extremity she thinks
of John Bruce. a fellow passenger on
the boat. Her fathers servant, Ahmed,
approaching to present her with flowers.
she whispers his name and tells him
to bring Bruce to her aid She refuses
to marry Cmballa
The council DEGREES she shall face
several ordeals with wild animals and
II she survives she will be allowed to
reign as maiden Queen. She Is dashed
to tiger trap as human bait AS
the tiger Is freed and goes toward
Kathlyn Bruce leaps into the trap and
fires AZ the animal. who limps off into
the jungle. They decide she should
he sent into the elephant arena, before
the assembled populace. to confront wild
lions. Bruce and his friends. hearing OF
the plan, plant mines in the centre Of
the amphitheatre and as the animals
approach Kathlyn touches of the bat
terles They escape TO Bruce's camp
In hpg
night flight on elephant back TO safety.
At sunrise Bruce dismounts for water and
Rijah. suddenly taking fright. dashes
into the jungle with kathyn. Then fol-
lows a wild ride until RaJdh is captured
by some soldiers. They take Kathlyn
before the kumar who orders her sent
back to Alfalfa. on the journey they
come upon a funeral pyre. The half
crazed Hindus take Ka,hlyn from the
elephants back. bind and place her on
the burning mass. She is rescued by
RaJah. Kathlyn takes refuge In
ruined temple after her elephant has
been frightened into running away
There she is discovered by holy man
who believes he has produced an ancient
priestess, and decides to guard her
against escape. on the nth day the lion
appears and kathryn fees 10 the river.
CHAPTER VII.
w IlIEN Kathlyn came to the river
N/ she swerved toward the broad
w est part OF ii. Twice she
stumbled over boulders, but
rose pluckily and, bruised and breath
less, plunged into the water. 1t was
swift running and shoulder deep. and
She was forced to swim strongly to
gam the opposite shore. She dragged
herself up To the hank and once there
looked back. What she saw rather
astonished her. She could not solve
the riddle at first The lion seemed
to be struggling with some invisible
opponent. lie stood knee deep in the
sands. Juggling and pulling. He began
TO roar Even as kathryn gazed she
saw his chest touch the sand and his
swelling tanks sink lover. Fascinated
she could not withdraw her gaze. How
his mighty shoulders hcaved and pulled
But down. down. lower and lower till
nothing but the great named head re-
manned in view. Then that was drawn
down the sand filled the animals
mouth and stopped his roaring: lower
lower.
QuiCkSands' The spot where he had
stirred and glistencd and
and then the eternal blank
ness of sand
She was not, then. TO die? Should
She return to the temple? Would they
not demand of her the restoration OF
the lion? Sh. must go on. whittier
she knew not. Sh. regretted the peac,
of the temple in the daytime. She
could see the dome from whore sh'
stood. Like Ishmacl she must go on
forever and forever on. Was Goo
watching over her? Was 1t His hant
which stayed the onslaught Of tbs
beast and defeated the haser schemes
of man? Was there to he a haven al
the end? She smiled wany. What
more was to beset her path she knew
not. nor cared just then, since there
was to be u haven at the end.
Perhaps prescience brought to hel
minds eye n picture; she saw hel
father, and Bruce and Winnie, and hel
sweetheart and they seemed TO b'
toasting her from the end Of n Ions
table under the blue California sky. This
vision renewed her strength. She pro
Cccdcd onward.
She must have followed the river a
least mile when she espied raf
moored To clump of trees. Here sh'
saw a way of saving her weary limb
many a rugged mile. She forded tn
stream. freed the raft. and poled gu
into the middle of the stream.
1t happened that the Mohammedal
hunters who owned the raft We're n
this moment swinging along towar,
the temple. On the shoulders OF tw
rested IA pole from which dangled tn
lifeless body Of newly killed leopard
They were bringing it in as gift t
the head man of the village, who wa
a thoroughgoing Mohammedan and VIII
held in contempt Hinduism and all it
amazing qualifications.
The white priestcss was indeed
puzzle; for while the handful Of Mo
hammedans in the village were fanati
cal in their belief in the true prophe
and his Koran. and put little faith i
miracles and still less in holy me
who performed them. the advent Of tn
white priestess deeply mystified then
There was no getting around this: sh
was there: with their own eyes the
saw her. There might be somethin
in Hinduism after all.
When the hunters arrived at tn
portico If the temple they found tw
greatly terrified holy men. 'shrillin
their al, All" in lamentation an
heating their foreheads against III
earth.
Holy men, what IL wrong?' aske