The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31

the priests returned to him, their heads bent him little. It represented salaam, much they had given to the king himself. glow ran over Um- ballah.
 Highness, agree There will be terms"
 '' I will agree them without question:"
 Life and power again; real power! These dodderng fools should him, thinking the while that they served themselves
 Half the treasury must be paid to the temple"
 "Agreedw Half for the temple and half for him. self; and the aboishment of the leopards With this stipulaon Ramabai is yours, white people to be mne"
 The priests sgnifed assent
 And Umbalah smiled in secret Ramaba would be dead on the morrow
 " There remains the king" said the chief priest
 Umballah shrugged.
 The chief priest stared soberly the lamp above his head. The king would be, then, Umhalah's affair."
 He is ll?"
 " He is morbund. .Silencew warned Umballah
 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 madv'
 " And thou art stupid foolr"
 Umballah's hand fell away from his dagger.
 It is woman" he said Admit her.'
 The curtains thrust aside, and the painted danc ing girl who had saved Umbalah from death capture in the fire of his contrvng rushed in Her black hair studded with turquoise, a necklace of amber geamed like gold around her neck and her and ankles plenitue silver bracelets and ankles With her back the curtains, the young priest staring cu ously her shoulder, she presented picturesque tableau.
 WellY' said Umballah who understood that she was here from no idle whim.
 Highness, you must hide with me this night"
 Indeed?
 " Or die," coolly.
 Umballah sprang forward and seized her roughly.
 !. What has happened?'
 :" I was in the zenana highness visiting my sister, whom you had transferred the palace All at heard shouting and tramplng of feet and moment later your house was with They had found the king in the hut and had taken him to the palace That they did not find you because you here"
 "Tell me all"
 " It seems that the majordomo gave the poison to Ramabai, but the white goddess. :"
 The white goddess' cried Umbaah, as if stuns by cobras fang.
 Ay, hiehness. She did not die on that roof. Noth- ing can harm her. It is written"
 And was never told!"
 She lived, lived, and all the terrors he had evoked for her were naught! Umbalah was not above superstition himself for all his European training Sure y this girl of the white people was mbued with some thing more than mortal. She lived!
 Go on" he said. his voice subd1ed as was his soul
 :" The white goddess by mistake took Ramabais gob- let and was about to drink when the maordomo seized the goblet and drained the poison himself He confessed everything where the king was, where you were. They are again hunting through the city for you For the present you must hide with me"
 "The white woman must dies sad v1nhs,,.b ,r . voice like one being strangled.
 To this the priests agreed without hesitation. This white woman whom the people were calling goddess was deadly menace to that scepter Of theirs super stition
 What has gone is a pactr
 pact, Durga Ram," said the chief priest Win RamabAi spreading Christianity. the abhorred creed which gave people liberty of peon and thought the fu turs of his own religion stood In imminent danser pact" he reflected To you Dursa Ram, the throne: to half the treasury and all the sncent rtss of our creed restored" ss q "I have said it.
 Umballah followed tAe dancing sisi into ths seuers nsfoss sas t.mp's He turned and sn'ilsd lsoai