The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19

kathyn had to go down to the very bottom of the ravine She must follow the goat path. matter where it wound for this ultimately would ad her the rest house. As she started up the final inclne through the cedars pnes bark of the wolf the red wolf who hunted in packs of twenty thirty in reality far more menacing than tiger panther. since no hunter could kill a whole pack.
 To this wolf, hunting his kill, tiger gave wide berth the caye all fleet footed things of the jungles fled in panic.
 Kathyn climbed rapidly she could. She dared not tree, for the red wolf would outwit her. She must go The bark, yep, had been signal there to her the long howl. She had heaI it often in the great forests home It the call of the pack that there to be kill. She might shoot half dozen of them, and the living rend the dead but the main pack would follow and cvertake her.
 She swung on upward catching sapling here a limb there, pulling herself hard bits of going Once she turned and fired chance shot in The direction of the bowling. Far away the of Of the noun tain lions and the pack of red wolves became suddenly and magically silent Kathlyn made good of this interval But presently the pack raised it's howl again, and she knew that the grim struggle about begin
 She reached the door of the house just the pack large came into vew heads down, tails streaming Pundita, who at the fire preparing the meal. seized Kathlyn by the and hurried her into the house. barricading the door, The woves arriving. flung against Qoor was stout, and only battering in human hands could have made it yield.
 Unfortunately, there was no knowing when the men folk would return from their chase of the horses how long the wolves would lay siege. The two tried shooting, though Punda the veriest tyro, being frightened the weapon in her hands than at the bowling animals outside They did little damage to the wolves for the available cracks at sufficiently good angles. An hour by. Kathyn hear fhe wolya pudod <ha snifing the sill
 The Colonel, Bruce Ramabai and Ahmed had found the horses half a dozen miles away; and they had thrashed the theying natives sour~ly and nslej the right kind Of fear in their breasts. At rife point they had forced the natives back the house. The crack of their rifles announced Kathlyn dread of wolves was thing of the past ehe wisely refraned from recounting her experiences The men had worry enough.
 After a hasty meal the Journey toward the seaport began in earnest. Umbala's attack had throwu them far of the regular They now compelled to make wide detour. Where the journey might have been made in three days they would be lucky they reached the under five. The took ing watch whenever they made camp, and neither Kath- yn Pundta had time for idleness They had their esson careessness nothing but the sharp ert vigilance from
 One day. the pony caravan made turn round a
 
 twenty miles to the lay the emerald tinted Persian gulf The Colonel slipped of his horse, dragged Kathyn from hers, and began hornppe He was like a boy
 The sea, Kit. the Home and Winnie; out of this devils caldron. You will come along with us BruceY'
 haven't anything else to do." Bruce smiled back.
 Then he gazed at Kathlyn, who found herself sud denly filled with strange embarrassment. In times of danger sham and subterfuge have place. Heretofore she had met Bruce man, to whom a glance from her eyes had told her secret Now that the door to civilization lay but few miles away, the old conven- tions dropped their obscurng her, and she felt ashamed. And there little doubt. Per haps she had mistaken the look in his eyes, there in the deser back in the first day when they had fled together from the ordeas And yet
 On his part Bruce did particularly welcome the sea. There might be another somewhere No beautiful Kathlyn could possibly be with out sutors And when the journey the sea was resumed he became taciturn and moody and Kathyns heart correspondingly heavy
 The Colonel quite oblivious to this change He swung his legs free of the primitive strrups whsted the airs which had been popular America the time of his departure.
 There no lghtness in the expressions of Ranabai and Pundita. They about to lose these white people forever, and they had love- worship them More, they must return to face they knew not what
 Az for Ahmed, he displayed his orientalsm by appear