The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26
CHAPTER XVII.
began to go about
cheerfully. He no longer
doubted his star. Gutter born.
una hao rat from the

was ne! rat from the
streets? Very we'll: there were rats and
rats, and some bit so deep that people
died Of 1t.
He sometimes doubted the ACCESSIBILITY
Of permitting Col. Hares headman
Ahmed To- roam about; the rascal might
in the end prove too sharp. Still 1t
was not a bad idea to let Ahmed be-
lieve that he walked in security. All
Umballa wanted was the Colonel Kath.
Ign, and the young hunter. Bruce. It
would be Ahmed. grown careless, who
would eventually lead him or his spies
to the hiding place.
That the trio were in the city Um-
balla did not doubt in the least. nor
that they were already scheming to
liberate the younger sister. All his
enemies where he could put his hand
on them,
Cheerful was the word.
The crust OF civilization was thin;
the true savage was cracking out
through 1t. In the days Of the Mutlny
Umballa would have been the Mana
given the tragedy at Cawnpore an ex-
ira touch.
Ten thousand rupees did not go far
among soldiers whose arrears called for
ten times that sum. So he placed 1t
where it promised to do the most good.
1t was a capital idea. this OF cutting
Ramabais throat with his own money.
The lawless element among the troops
was his, Cmballas; at least his long
enough for the purpose he had in mind.
When the multitude round the plat
form dissolved and Winnie was led to
her chamber in the zenana, Umballa
treated himself to beverage known
as the Kings peg-a trifie composed
Of brandy and champagne. That he
drank to stupefaction was Gods method
Of protecting that night an innocent
child-for Winnie was not much more
than that.
Alone, dazed and terrified she dropped
down upon the cushions and cried her.
self to sleep--eXactly as Kathlyn had
done In the morning she awoke to
find tea and food She had heard no
one enter or leave. CHANGING curiOusly
round her prison Of marble and jasper
and porphyry, she discovered a slip of
white paper protruding through q
square in the latticed window which
opened out toward the garden of brides.
Hope reused her into activity. She
ran to the window and snatched the
paper eagerly. 1t was from Kathlyn,
darling Kit. The risk with which II
had been placed in the latticed window
never occurred to Winnie.
q, f,,r. u
doctor of zenana had been suffl-
GENTLY bribed to permit Kathlyn to
make up like her and gain admittance
to the zenana. Winnie must complain
Of illness and ask for the doctor, but
not before the morning Of the following
day. So far as she, kathryn, could
learn, Winnie would be left in peace till
the festival Of the car Of Juggernaut.
III, she would not be forced to attend
the ceremonies. the palace would be
practically deserted and then Kathyn
would appear.
This news pucked up Winnie's
spirits considerably, Surely her father
and Kit were brave and cunning enough
to clrcumvent Umballa. What "a fright
ful country What "A dreadful people.
She was miserable over the tortures
her father had suffered, but neverthe-
less she held him culpable for not
l"'lng both her and Kit al. ana not half
truth. A basket Of gems, She and
Sit did not wish to be rich only free
ana happy And now her own folly
In coming would but add to the miseries
Of her loved ones.
Ahmed had told her Of the two or
deals, the black dungeon. the whipping;
n" had done so to convince her that
she must be eternally on her guard,