The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14

of these gurus a supernatural power?
have seen: / know"
But once you said that We should
eventually escape. all OF u.s.
And 1 still say 1t, Memsahib. What
is written is written" systematically.
YEARLY she turned toward her tent,
but paused to touch the head Of her
sleeping father as she passed. Her Occi-
denial mind would not and could not ac-
cept as possibilities these mysterious at
tributes of the Oriental mind. That a
will could reach out and prearrange "A
mans misfortunes was To her mind in
credible, for there were no precedents.
She never had Witnessed a genuine
case of hypnotism; those examples she
had seen were miserable buffooneries.
travesties, hoodwinking not even the
newsboys in the upper gallery. True.
she had read OF such things, hut from
the same angle with which she had read
the Arabian Nights-fairy stories.
Yet here was her father thoroughly
convinced OF the efficacy OF the gurus
curse and here was Ahmed compla-
Gently watching the effects and not
doubling in the least that his guru
would in the end prove the stronger of
the two.
one Of the elephants clanked his
| chains restlessly. He may have heard
the proving of a cat. Far beyond the
fire, beyond the sentinel. she thought
she saw "a naked form flash out and
back of a tree. She stared intently al
the tree for time: but as she saw
nothing more she was convinced that
her eyes had deceived her. Besides
her body seemed dead and her mind too
heavy for thought.
Umballa. having satisfied himself that
the camp would not break til morning
skunk away into the shadows. He had
failed again; but his hate had made
him strong. He was naked except for a
!oin clout. His beard and hair were
matted. the latter hanging over his
eyes. His body was smeared with
ashes. Not even Ahmed would have
recognized him a yard on.
He had something less than nine
| hours to reach the cape before they
did and 1t was necessary that he should
have accomplices. The fishermen he
knew to be OF predatory habits, and the
promise Of gold would enmesh them.
The half island which constituted
the cape had the shape of a miniature
volcano. There was 'verdure at the
heads here and there hardly. 1t was a
mile long and half a mile wide; and 'ir
| the early morning 1t stood out like a
] huge sapphire against the rosy sea
Between the land and the promontory
there lay stretch OF glistening sand
there was half mile Of IL. Over this
flock OF guls were busy, az scaven.
gers always are. At high tide. yondei
was an island in truth.
Sometimes a British gunboat would
drop down here suddenly. but It always
wasted it's time. The fishermen knew
nothing; nothing in the way Of guns
and powder ever was found; and YET
the British raj knew that somewhere
about lay the things for which 1t sc
diligently and vigorously sought.
On the beach fishermen were dsem.
barking. a sloop with a lateen sail lay
AT anchor in the rude harbor. Some OF
the fishermen were repairing nets and
some were tinkering about their fishing
boats Beyond the beach nestled q
few huts. Toward these other fishermen
were making progress.
The chief of the village-the head.
man-disembarked from this sloop lie
was met by his wife and child, and the
little one clambered about his legs in
ecstasy. Among the huts stood one more
Imposing than the others, and toward
this the chief and his family wended
their way. In front Of the hut stood
an empty bullock cart. Attached to one
Of the wheels was a frisking kid. The
little child paused to play with her pet.
Absorbed in her pastime she did not