The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-08-26

heard.
Shortly after the house collapsed.
The fire spread TO the houses on each
side.
Bruce seized the bearer by the arm.
Nov, the house which Umballa en-
tered.
Eagerly enough the slave directed
him. For allSthe abuse and ibeatings
the slave was to have his hour But
they. found the house empty except for
4 chattering monkey and o screaming
parrakeet, both attached 70 pedestal
perches.. Bruce liberated them and 10
turned to the. colonel.
Gone! Well, let him hide IN tho
Jungle, a prey to fear and hunger,
At least we are rid of him. But I
shall die unhappy 81 In this life We
two fall TO meet again. Kit.n
John" She withdrew from her
fathers arms and sought those or the
man who loved her and whom she
.loyed. as youth will and must sLes
him 80. Why should We care? Take
me to my sister,
Ahmed smiled as he and his men
rolled tho net. This was as &c should
be. For what man was a better mate
for his golden.haired memsahib? And
then he thought OF I.al Singh, and he
'choked little. For Lal Singh and
he had spent many pleasant hours to-
gether. They had worked together In
play and in war. shared danger and
bread and glory. oil OF which was
written in the books OF the British mi
in Calcutta. ~
1t was the Will Of Allah thereiwas
but one God, and AIahomet was his
prophet. Then Ahmed dismissed 1.ai
Singh and the past from his thoughts.
after tho philosophical manner o. the
Asiatic. and turned to the more vital
affairs under hand.
At Ramabai's house there was q
happy. reunion; and on her knees Pun.
idita confessed to her lord how near
she had been to Christian darnnatlon.
She had fallen from grace; she had
reverted to tho old customs Of her
race, to whom suicide was not sin.
Ramabai took her In his arms and
touched her forehead with his lips.
And now said the colonel, the
king!p isi,ls
Ramabai's head sank.
What is the matter? Is he dead?s,
"It. i knew that answered Rama.
bal, Il would rest content..n
But you searched the royal
PRISON. a
And found nothing, nothing.r
What do you believer
II believe that either the Council
or Umballa has forestal1ed us. We
shall visit tho Council at once. They
are prisoners II they have had no
hand in the disappearance OF the King.
then we arc facing a stone wall over
which We cannot leap. For umbaila
has fed, witlicr no one knows. and
with him has gone the secret Come,
we shall go at once to the palace
prison"
The Council which had ruled so long
in Alfalfa was very humble indeed.
They had Imprisoned the king be
cause hc had given many evidences Of
mental unbalance. Perhaps tnwisely
they had proclaimed his death. Durga
Ram had discovered what they had
done and had held over their heads
like sword blade. That thellsing was
not in his dungeon, why and whore
for, was beyond their knowledge.
They were in the power Of Ramabai:
let him work his will upon them. They
had told the truth. And Ramabai.
much as he detested them, believed
them. But for the present 1t was re.
quired that they remain tncarcerated
till tho king was found, dead or alive.
In the palace soldiers and SERVANTS
alike had already forgotten Umballn.
To them it was as Il he had not ex
listed. All in q few hours There was,
however, one man who did not forget
Upon a certain day umballa had care
lessly saved his life, and 70 his bene-
factor he was now determined to de.
vote that life. This man was the ma
jordomo, the chief servant in the
kings household. It was not TINT he
loved Umballa; rather than he owed
Umballa o debt and resolved topay It
Two days later, when the fires were
extinguished and thelpopulace had set
tied back into its former habits, thia
majordomo betookj himself to I'm
blla's house. II was well guarded,
and by men who had never been close
to Umballa, but had always belonged
to the dissatisfied section. the frankly
and openly mutinous section. No
bribery was possible here; at least,
nothing short OF a fabulous sum Of
money would dlslodge their loyalty to
Ramabai, now the constitutional re-
gent. No one, could leave the house
or enter 1t without scrutinty and Dues.
ton.
The servants and the women of the
zennnas remained undlsturbed. Rama.
bal would have itso. Things had been
put in order. There had not been
much damage done by the looters on
the day Of the revolt. They had looked