The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

Wait" she said Il wish you understand the enor-
nifty of your crime"
" Crime?' with elevated eyebrows
"Yes. You have abducted me-"
"No. You of your free will"
The white of my will pause to argue over
an. such subtley. Marry you do like ?our color"
A dull red settled under Umballa's skin.
I" 1 merely wish you," she went on that nv
blood will be upon your head. And to ou if it is
There white who will await the coming of tn,
British Raj
"Ah yes; some brave, hardy American; Bruce sahio,
instance. Alas he is in the Straits Settlements
Seven days"
81 afraid II die"
But there many kinds of DEATH" and with this
sinister reflection he stepped aside.
The multitude, seeing Kaihlyn coming down from the
das still surrounded by her Gordon troopers began
reluctantly disperse Bread and the circus ,-the
mobs will down the ages they will always pause to
witness bloodhed from safe distance you may be sure
There deal of roting in the bazaars that night and
of bhang and toddy kept fires burning
Oriental politics is like the winds of equinox it blows
from all directions.
The natives taxed conceivable subject
not dssimilar to the old days in Urdu, where paid
much for the privilege of squeezing man under him
Mutiny afoot, rebellion but it had not vet found
head The natives wanted change, something gossip
about during the hot lazy afternoons over their hookahs
and coffee To them reorm meant change only, the
alleviaton of some of their heavy burdens The
freeing slaves was but talk slaves lucrative invest.
inents would be fool free them An old man.
with skin white like this queens hair like spun
WOOL dressed in long black cloak and broad brimmsd
hat had started the agitation berating the slaves
More than that he carried lido, of his God never,
bathed in the CHATS took flowers the temples and
seemed always silently communing with simple iron
suspended from his neck. But had died during
the last visitation of the plague.
They had wearied of their tolerant king who had died
mysterously they wearied of the council and
Umbala; in other wo-ds, they knew not what they
wanted. being People.
Who this fair skinned woman who stood SO straight
before Umballas eye? Whence had she come? To be
ruled by woman wEo appeared be tongue teC, Well
there things than woman who could NOT talk
mus they gabbled in the bazaars round asers and duns
nres. And some talked of the murder The proud
namapa had been hailed to prison. his bankers gold had
not saved him. o. this street rat Umballa generally
what he wanted Ramabais wife was one of the beauties
of Hind.
through the narrow, evil smelling reefs of the ba
man hurried that night gancing behind frequently 10
see if by mschance some one followed He stoppsd
at the house of Lal Singh shoemaker whom he found
browsing his ter pipe.
Is it wellf' said the newcomer ntoning
1t is WELL, answered Lal Singh dropping the mouth
piece of his pipe He had spoken mechanically When
ne saw who his visitor his eyes frightened Ahmed?'
Hush" with gesture towarI the ceiling
She is out merrymakng like rest Of her kind
The old saying if waits, the comes to him
am alone There is news?"
There is journey Across Hind to Sima."
The hour has arrived?"
AT least the excuse. Give these to one in authority
with the British Raj whose bread we eat" Ahmed slid
across the table small scroll The Memsahib is
my masters Daughter. She must be spirited away 70
safety"
All" Lal Singh rubbed his fat hands. So the time
iears when shall wiring the vulture's neck? All 1t is
good! Umbaa the toad who swells and swells as tbs
days go BY SILVA HIS him we'll The king picks
him out OF the gutter for pretty bit of mpuencc sends
him afar to Umballa where he learns to speak Engso
where he earnr to shoes that button and stiff linen
bands round the neck He has gone on, gone on The
higher up the harder the fall"
The cellar"
Ihere are pistols and guns and ammunition and
strange little wires by which make magic fires"
sBatteries?"