Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-07

and naughty, but for all his knees shook and his
heart thundered He understood that it to be all
nothing middle course, half methods. He
waited wetting his cracked and swollen lips. When
the priests returned to him. their heads bent before him
little. 1t represented salaam, mucn they had
given to the king himself. glow I'm
ballah.
Highness, agree. There will be terms"
I will agree to them without question"
Life and power again; real power These doddering
fools should serve him. thinking the while that they
served themselves.
=" Half the treasury must be paid to the temple"
Agreed" Half for the temple and half him
self; the adjustment the leopards. With
this stipulation Ramaba is but the white people
to be mine
The priests sgnifed assent.
And Umbaah smiled in secret Ramabai would be
dead the
There remains the king" said the chief priest.
Umbalah shrugged
The chief priest stared soberly the lamp above
his head The king would be, then. Umballah's affair."
He is il?"
He is morihund Silencei" warned Um-
balah
The curtains became violently agitated They hear
the voice of the priest outside raised in protest
to be answered by the shrill tones of
You mad"
And thou art stupid fool
Umballah's hand fell away from his dagger.
1T is woman he said" Admit her.
The curtains thrust aside, and the painted dane
ing girl who had saved Umbaah or capture
In the fire of his contrivng rushed in. Her black
hair studded with turquoise necklace of amber
cleaned like gold around her neck and her and
ankles plenitude of silver bracelets anklets
back the curtains the young priest staring
" her shoulder she presented picturesque
tabeau.
Well7" said Umballah, who understood she was
here from idle within.
Highness You must hide with this night"
"Indeed?"
"Or de-" cooy. 70
Umbalah sprang forward and seized her roughly.
What has happened?"
:" was in the highness, visiting my sister.
whom you had transferred from the palace All
heard shouting and tramplng OF feet. and a moment
later your house with They had
found the king in the hut and mad taken him the
palace. That they did not find you is because you
here"
Tell ALL"
1t seems that the majordomo gave the poison to
Ramabai, but the white goddess -
1.-THE white goddess" cried Umballah, as IL stung
by cobra's fang
"Ay, hignness She did not die on that roof Nothing
can harm her. 1t is written"
:" And was never told"
She lived, lived, and all terrors he had evoked
for her were naughtl Umballah was not above
superstition himself all his Duropesn training Sure
iy this girl Of the white people imbued with
thing than mortal She lived!
Go ont" he said, his voice subdued his soul.
The white goddess by mistake took Ramabais goblet
and about drink when the majordomo seized the
goblet and draiped the poison nimsef He confessed
everything where the king where you we're. They
again hunting through the city for you For the
present you hide with me-"
The white must die.' said Umballan, In .
voice like being stranged-
To this the priests agreed without hesitation Thil
white woman whom the people were calling goddess
was deadly menace to that scepter Of theirs, super
stition.
what has gone Is a pact7"
a pact, Dursa RAM" said the chief priest. viii