St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-12-26
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By HAROLD MAC CRATH

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| ssther 20 tightly that the little fnuck
les cracked.
"A, ai!" she walled softly.
! She paced the confines Of her cham
ber with slow step. with fast step; os
leaned against the wall. her face hid
den in her arms: or pressed her hol
cheeks against the cool marble Of thu
lattice.
Human nature Il made up Of con.
erariss. Why. when we have had the
courage coolly to plan murder. or to
aid or suggest It. why must No be
troubled with remorse? More than
this, why must We battle against sflly
impulse to tell the first We meet what
We have done? Remorse: what Is It!
Now. this woman Of the zenana be.
lieved not in the God Of your fathers
and mime She was q pagan: her
heaven and HEN were ruled BY thou
sand gods. and her temples were nned
with their images. Yet this thing 70
morse, was stabbing her with its hot
uesdles, till no torture devised BY ruan
could equal It.
She was the poor, foolish woman
who loved DurgA Ram; loved him ~
these wild Asiatic women love. from
murder 70 the poisoned cup. Loved
him. and knew that he loved h,er not,
but used her for his own selfish ends.
There you have It. Had he loved her,
remorse never would have lifted its
head o. raised its voice. And again
had not Umballa sought the white
woman. this butterfly Of the hFem
mioht 1Avo Aied ef old ase without IN
burdening her soul. Remorse II the
result Of = crime committed uselea5ly.
Humanity IL Interchangeable. for all it,
variety Of skins.
And here was this 'eoman, wanting
to tell some one!
Umballa had done = peculiar thing.
he had not laid hand upon either Ra-
maba1 or Pundita. When asked the
reason for thu generosity toward .
man who but recently put . price On
his head. UJnballa smiled and e E
planned thst Ramabai was not ool. 7
broken politically. but was 4 religious
outcast. It was happiness for such
person to die, 20 he preferred that Rar
mabai should live.
Secretly. however, Ramabais revo-
lutionary friends were still hack Of
him. though they pretended to bow e
The yoke Of tho priests.
So upon this day matters stood
thus: the colonel, Kathlyn. Bruce and
Winnie were prisoners again: Ahmed
vas in hiding: and Ramabai and his
wife Knocked BY those who once had
them. The ingratitude Of
kings Is a. nothing when compared
Q the insratitude Of people.
A most ridiculous country: to crown
xathlyn again (for the third time!)
md than to lock her up! Next to
superstition as barrier to progress
here stands custom. Everything one
lid must be done as some one else
lad done It; the initiative was still
hained up In the temples, It belonged
Q the bald priests only.
But Umhalla had Nude two mis-
axes: he should have perm aitted the
vhtte people to leave tie co untry and
tyen silken cord to the chief eunuch
0 apply - directed. The re- are no
1ritten laws among the .da rk peoples
hat fcrbids the disposal Of that chat
el known as a woman Of tho .harem.
: xenana-. There are ertain Gus
pms that even the all 20 Terful Brit
III raj must ignore.
The catafasQue Of the deed king
ested upon tho royal pls Aform. Two
noopers sto Cd below: o therwiseI the
latform WAS deserted. When Ra ma
ii and Prmdtta arrived and mount I'd
le plato rm to pay their last respect =
= kin dly man. the fpldiers saluted
ravelys even sorrowf ally. Ramabai, /
y hia courage. his fOnesty and jus
ce. vas thetr mai: but they no I
rEer dared serve hi "a, since It would
, at the expense Of their own lives.
NY lord" whtsI ,ered Pundita,
ressing Rarabat's hs nd. "Courate!"
Or Pundita underst ood the man ct
sr side. Had he be- an honorless. she
ould this dfg be y earring crown.
Pundita, they missed us a. We
used"
Not the ,oldiar4 my lord"
And this. poor nan! Pundita, he |
- murde': I'd, and I am powerless to i
.enge him. Il vas Umballa; but
hat protk have r.. None, none. Well.
+ me uAere 10 let but one thing: to
lvo> Aldahs for B sod. We two shall
J to some countE y whore honor, and
ndnees are not 6 rimes but virtaes-"
ny lord, Il i . ur new religion"
Ard shall We b sid to It and 60, Or