Arizona republican., 1914-08-02

from Umballah. He did not stir His mien was proud
snd naughty, but for all that his knees shook and his
heart Numbered He understood that it to be all
oil nothing middle course, half methods. He
waited, wettng his cracked and swollen lips. When
the priests to him. heads bent before him
little. 1t represented salaam. they had
given to the king himself. A glow ran over Um-
ballah.
Highness, agree. There will be terms"
Il will. agree to them without question"
Life and power again. real power! These dodderins
fools should him, thinking the while that they
served themselves.
Half the treasury must be paid to the temple"
Agreed" Half for the temple and half for him.
self: and the adjustment of the leopards with
this stipulation Ramab. yours. but the white people
to be mine"
The priests signifed assent.
And Umbalah smiled in secret. Ramabai would be
dead the morrow.
2" There remains the king" said the chief priest
sUmbsiah shrugged
The chief priest stared sobery at the lamp above
his head The king would be, then. Umballah's affair."
4" He is iE?"
He is moribund i. Silence!" warned Um-
ballah.
The curtains became violently agitated They heard
the voice of the Young priest outside raised in protest.
to be answered by the shrill tones Of woman
You mad" na
"And thou art a stupid fool"
UmbaIlah's hand fell away from his dagger
1t Is woman," he said" Admit her.
The curtains thrust aside. and the painted dane
ins girl who had saved Umbaah death OF capture
in the fire of his contrivng rushed Her black
hair studded with turquoise a necklace of amber
cleaned like gold around her neck and her arms and
ankles plenitude of silver bracelets ankets With
her back the curtains the young priest staring curious
~ her SHOULDER she presented a picturesque
tabeau.
Wel?" said Umballah, who understood that she was
here from no idle whim.
"Highness you must hide with me this night"
Indeed"
"Or die" cooly.
Umbalah sprang forward and seized her roughly
What has happened?'
:" in the zenana. hghness, visiting my sister,
whom you had transferred the palace All at once
heard shouting and trampng of feet and a moment
later your house with men. They had
found the king in the hut and mad taken him to the
palace. That they did not find you is because you
came here"
"Tel me ALL"
ut seems that the matordomo gave the poison to
Ramabai, but the white goddess :"
" The white goddess" cried Umbalah. If stung
By cobra's fang.
Ay, nignneSS. she Old not Gle on that f0o1 Nothing
can harm her. 1t Is written"
"And I was never toId!"
She lived. lived, and all the terrors he had evoked
for her naught! Umbalah above
superstition himself for all his European training. Sure
" this girl Of the white people imbued some
thing than mortal. She lived
60 on" be said, his voice subdued his soul
The white goddess by mistake took Ramabas goblet
and about drink when the ordomo seized the
goblet and drained the poison nimself He confessed
everything where the king was, where you They
again hunting through the city for you. For the
present you must hide with me-"
az The white woman must die" said Umballan. In
voice like being strangled. +
To this the priests agreed without hesitation This
white woman whom the people were calling a goddess
was deadly to that scepter Of theirs. super
stifien.r
(" What has gone is pact?"
g.Ape Durga RAM" said the chief priest. With