Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-06-30

people wants to be killed they had bet
ter not shoot their little matchl0rks.
for they had matchlocks. We makes
friends with the priest and ] stays
there alone with two OF the army.
teaching the men how to drill. and a
laundering big chief comes across the
snow with kettledrums and horns
twanging, because be heard there was
a new god kicking about Carnehan
sights for the brown of the men half
q mile across the snow and wings one
Of them. Then he sends q message to
the chief that unless be wished to be
killed be must come and shake hands
with me and leave his arms behind
The chief comes alone first, and Carne-
han shakes hands with him and whirls
his arms about, same as Dravot used.
and very much surprised that chief
was, and strokes my eyebrows. Then
Carnehan goes alone to the chief and
asks him In dumb show II be bad an
enemy he hated. i have says the
chief. So Carnehan weeds out the
pick of bis men and sets two Of the
army to show them drill. and at the
end Of two weeks the men can ma
neuver about as well as volunteers
30 be marches with the chief to
great big plain on the top of noun.
tain. and the chiefs men rushes into
a village and takes It. we three Mar
tinis firing into the brown Of the enc
my. So we took that village, too. and
I gives the chief rag from my coat
and says. Occupy till come which
was Scrlptural. Then sends letter
to Drayot. wherever he be. by land Or
BY sea-
At the risk Of throwing the creature
out of train l interrupted, How could
you write letter up yonder"
THE letter? Oh. the letter! Keep
looking at me between the eyes. please.
It was a string talk letter that wed
learned the way Of 1t from blind beg
gar in the Punjab.
II sent that letter to Dravot and told
him to come back because this king
dom was growing too big for me to
handle, and then l struck for the first
valley to see how the priests were
working. They called the village we
look along with the chief Bashkai and
the first village we took Err Heb. The
priests ut Er-Heb was doing all right,
but they had lot Of pending cases
about land to show me, and some men
from another village had been firing
arrows at night ! went out and looked
for that village and fired four rounds
at It from a thousand yards. That
used all the cartridges cared to spend.
pnd waited for Dravot, who had been
away two or three months. and kept
my people quiet. One morning heard
the DEVILS own noise of drums and
horns. and Dan DravOt marches down
the bill, with his army and q tall OF
hundreds of men. and which was amaz-
ing-a great gold crown on bis head
My Cord, Carnehan.' says Daniel. this
Is q tremenjus business. and we've got
the whole country as far as It's worth
having am the son Of Alexander BY
Queen Semiramis. and you're my
younger brother and god too. I've
got a crown for you. l told 'em to
make two Of EN- at place called Shu.
where the gold lies in the rock like
suet In mutton. Call up all the priests
and. here. take your crown
"One Of the men opens a black hair
bag. and slips the crown on. 1t was
too small and too heavy, but wore 1t
for the glory. Hammered gold 1t was.
five pound weight like a hoop OF
barrel.
.Peachey,' says Dravot. we don't
want to fight no more. The crafts
the trick, 50 help mel And he brings
forward that same chief that left ut
Bashkai-Billy Fish we called him
afterward because he was 30 like Billy
Fish that drove the big tank engine at
Mach on the Bolan in the old days.
Shake hands with him. says Dravot.
And l shook hands and nearly dropped.
for Billy Fish gave me the grip. said
nothing. but tried him with the fellow
craft grip. He answers. all right. and
tried the masters grip. but that was
q slip. "A fellowcraft he is.' l says to
Dan. Does be know the wordy He
does says Dan, and all the priests
know. But they don't know the third
degree. and they've come to hnd out.
It's Gods truth. A god and a grand
master Of the craft am |. and a lodge
In the third degree l will open. aud
we'll raise the head priests and the
chiefs of the villages
"Tt's against all the law ! says.
holding lodge without warrant from
any one, and We never held office In
any lodge. ,o,,,,. 40.
Dravot The women must make aprons
as you show them. III hold levee OF
chiefs tonight and lodge tomorrow.
81 was fair run or my legs. but l
wasn't such a fool as not to see what
a DULL this craft business gave US. we
took a great square stone In the ten-
ole for the masters chair and little
stones for the officers chairs and paint
ed the black pavement with white
squares and did what We could to
make things regular.
"Dravot gives out that him and me
were gods and sons Of Alexander ana
past grand masters In the craft and
was come to make Ka6ristaD coun.
try where every man should eat in
peace and drink In quiet and specially
obey us. Then the chiefs came round
TO shake hands, and they was 80 hairy
and white and fair 1t was just shaking
hands with old friends. We gave them
names according as they were like
men We had known In India-Billy
Fish, Holly Dilworth. Pikky Kergan
that wus bnzaar master when ! was at
Mhow, and 50 ON. and so on.
.rhe most amazing miracle was at
lodge next night. One OF tue o'n
priests was watching us continuous
and felt uneasy, for knew wed have
to fudge the ritual. and didn't know
what the men knew. The old priest
was a stranger come In from beyond
the village Of Bashkai. He fetches
whoop and howl and tries to over.
turn the stone that DravOt was sitting