The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28


canvas. Blood was streaming down his
face His temples wore blue from crashing
blows. without looking At the women. he
rushed, painting. toward the rock where lay
Hsrry lifted the tent canvas and came
out. Mario was facing him again. but thia
time there was cleaning revolver In mis-
hand.
singoalla uttered cry. Pauline sped to
Harry a. If to shield him.
But Singoalla was before him.
xiii him; save yourself; did not mean
In an instant Mario was fitting the bul.
lets into the gun.
Pauline was clinging to Harry. She was
= begging him to nee.
But it was too late to nee. She had
stopped his rush and Mario was smiling.
Harry turned to the wrecked tent. The
medicine bottles were strewn all about It
He seised two of them.
Get the bottles!" he shouted to Pauline.
He hurled the two he had with the force
of cannon shots at Mario Mario lodged.
Surprised. he stopped filling the pistol.
Pauline was beside him again. her arms
filed with bottles. Heavy with the beauty
poison. they whixzed and broke and
spia:hed upon the rock wall behind the
He lifted the revolver ana tried to take
aim, but could not. The shot biased into
space. A bottle struck his head and he fell
heavily beside the rock. singoalla fell be-
Harry caught Pauline into his arms, but
she forced him back.
II can run" she said. "Come!"
They sped through the deserted camp into
the automobile was hidden.
AS they drove away they did not see the
Princess Singoalla following them.
sinsoalla stopped and wandered back
through the meadow that verged the camp
She was more desperate now than she had
been when Pauline was Mario's prisoner
There was bruise on her forehead where
Mario struck her. His curses were ringing
in her ears. The only outlet for her ele-
, mental sorrow was in new vengeance. The
vengeance had turned toward Harry Marvin
and the "yellow-haired lady" whom she had
saved.
Bushes trimmed the meadows. AS Sin.
goalla glided beside the bushes her ear
caught low whirr.
She stopped and leane over the hedge
like barrier and looked down.
: The whirr continued. She crept through
the bushes. Softly she broke q stem Of the
heavy briar. Deity she fashionsd fork
In the end of 1t.
A moment later the fork descended
sharply over the head of coiled rattle
snake. With the snake in her hand. Sim
goalla went back to the deserted camp.
She searched the grounds for basket
and found one at last. She put the snake
in 1t and held 1t fast with the forked stick.
Then she went back to the meadow.
Inc daisies were In fulSOme bloom. They
grew SO high and close together that It
required only few snatches Of her small
brown hand to gather enough to NIL the
basket.
Il don't know exactly. sir, who brought
them. 1t was pretty little woman-per.
haps a gypsy. She said they we're for the
'yellow-haired lady, whom she loved"
Bemis the elderly butler at the Marvin
house. was used to uncommon gifts as he
was used to uncommon occurrences. As he
brought back . basket Of daisies to Pauline
in the library Harry had questioned him
doubtfully, but his answer was reassuring.
why. It IL the little gypsy girl who
helped mo fnd you" said Harry. r.Bemis.
see II she has gone. She ought to be re-
warded"
"She has gone. SIR" said Bemis
Neither he nor Pauline nor Harry knew
that the beautiful, menacfug face Of Sin.
goalla was peering through the window At
them just at that moment
Even after the grave peril from which
Pauline had escaped only . few hours ago,
none Of them realized that death might lie
among the blossoms.
They are beautiful. and 20 was she.
said Pauline.
She pressed her face down among the
flowers.
Ito be continued next weele)