Arizona republican., 1914-04-12

conscious of another presence flash of moonlight striking chrysoberyls took Ae madness of her mind This forsaken temple the haunt of a leopard or a tiger.
 She was lost. That magnetism which ordinarily hers was at it's nadir She hestatcd for second then climbed into the empty sarcophagus, crouching low Strangely enough, she did calm fell upon her; all the of her position dropped away her miss from the mountain peaks She had however gotten into the hiding place soon.
 She heard the familiar pad pad the whif-whf of big cat. Immediately into the moonlight African lion, of place here as Kathlyn herself; his tail slashed, there long, black streak from his his tail where the hair had risen Kathlyn crouched lower. The lion roted round the sarcophagus sning. Presently he lifted his head and roared. The echoes played battedore shutecock with the sound. The lion roared again, this time at the insulting echoes. For a few minutes the noise deafening. rumble of distant thunder, and the storm died away
 By and by she peered cautiously. She saw the lion crossing the space between the temple and the jungle She him pause, bend his head then lope away in the direction taken by Raah
 To kathlyn it seemed that she had longer anything to do with the body of Kathlyn Hare The soul of another had stepped into this wearied flesh of and now directed its physical manifestations while her spirit stood gratefully and passivey aloof Nothing couI happen now; the world had gro n still and calm. The spirit drew the sleeves of the robe snugy about her and laid Kahlyns head upon them and drew her down into profound slumber
 Half mile to the north of the ruined temple there lay all unsuspected by Kathlyn village-a village belonging solely to the poor mostly ryots tiers the soil Tn, poor in Asia know but periods of me for rarely d. they possess such thing as watch or a clock sunset and sunrise Perhaps the man of the family may sit awhile at dusk his mud doorsll with his bubbing water pipe (f he has one) watch the stars slowly swing across the arch pinch of very bad tobacco slowly consumed then he enters the hut filings himself upon his mating (perhaps a cotton rug more likely bundle of woven water reeds sleeps No one wakes him habit him dawn. He scr bs his teeth with
 fbrous stick It is part of his religious belief to keep his teeth clean The East Indian (Iindu of Mohamme dan) has the whitest soundest the world if the betelnut is but tempelatey used.
 Beyond this village lay ruined city now inhabited by cobras and sinking jackals.
 Dawn few dung fires smoderel From the door way of of the mud huts lean man. lis naked sreaked with wet ashe his matted hair hanging in knots and tangles his emaciated shoulders His aspect exceedingly filthy be was Holy Man which in this mad country signifies physical debasement patience and fortitude such would have adorned any other use human lamprey, sticking himself always at the thin and board of the poor, vile parasite but holy!
 The Holy Man directed his steps the narrow, beaten pathway which led to the temple where every morning, he performed certain rites which the poor benighted ryos believed would day the ruined city and the prosperity which attends fat harvests The Holy Man had soemnly declared that it would take less than years to bring about this miracle And the villagers fell down with their foreheads in the dust He was Brah- min the caste string hung about his neck he wasndeed holy he who could have dwet the fat of the land, in maharajas The least that be said is that he performed his duties scrupuously.
 So then the red rim of the March sun shoudered up above the rolling jungle he into the clay court which fronted the temple. The lion staked only at night rarely appearing in the daytime Once month he given bullock, for he kept tiger and leopard away, and the villagers dwelt in peace The lion had escaped from Aaha, where the species were kept additional sport Since he had taken up his abode in the temple there had been fewer thefts the cattle sheds
 The Holy Man about to assume his squatng pos
 ure in the center of the court usual when from out of the sarcophagus anguidly form, shrouded in white The form stretched its lovely arms white ala baster and presently the hands rubbed pair of sleepy eyes. Then the form down within the sarcophagus laid its the rim, and weary hid its face in them
 The watcher was the most dumfounded Holy Man in all India For the first time in his hypocritical life he found faith in himself in his puerile rites. He had coujured uP yoDder spirit, unaided alone He rose,