The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

For hours they had waited in dread contemplating flight when would take them anywhere but to Baa Khan, who rewarded cowardice in fashion only. For but for their cowardy inactivity their charges might by now be safe in the seaport toward which they had been journeying. So they brought food for the two and begged that they would not be accused cowardce t, Baa Khan.
 Poor devisl" said Bruce. Had they shown the least resistance those brigand chaps would have killed them off like He beckoned to the head man. :" Take us back to Baa Khan in the morning, and promise that no harm shall befa you Now, find a place to sleep"
 Nevertheless, it was hard work to keep that prom se. Baa Khan stormed and swore that death was too good for the watery hearts of his camel men. They should be crucifed the wall. Kathyns diplomacy alone avered the tragedy Finally with good deal of reluctance. Bala Khan his word.
 So Bruce and kathlyn planned return to Aana, and it was the khan himself devised the method. The young people should stain their and don native dress He would give them two camels outright, only they would be obliged to make the journey with out servants
 But if harm to you, and I hear it, by the beard of the prophet, I'll throw into Alaha such of stinging bees that all Hind shall hear of it. Now go, and may Allah watch you, infdels though you bel"
 Umbalah messenger on before for he loved the
  enter the city the shrlng of reeds and the ing tom-toms; impress upon this unruy populace that he Dinga Ram, of his word, that when he set out to accomplish thing good done His arrival greeted with cheers, but there an undertone of that not pleasant to his keen Deep In his heart he cursed, by these sounds he knew that only the froth his, froth of the town The iron hee they would have it in preference to his friendship O. some way to trap Ramabai, to hold him up in ridicule, smash him down from his pedestal, known but yet unseen!
 He wondered if he would find any of those anonymous notes relating to the invioabe person of Ramabai. Woe to him who laid them abodt, could he but put his hand upon him! He, Dnga Ram, held Allaha in the hollow of his hand, and this day he would prove it.
 So he put a rope about the waist of Col Hare, and led him through the streets, the ancient Romans he about did to the vanquished He himsef rec ognzed the absurdy of all these things but his safety lay in the fact that the popuace large incapable reasoning for themselves they only that which visible to the eye
 On the palace steps he harangued the people, prasing his deeds He alone had gone into the wilderness and faced death to their lawful king. Why these bonds? The king shirked his duty; he had betrayed his trust; but in order that the people should be longer without head this man should become their prisoner kng he should be forced sign laws for their betterment Without the royal signature the treasury could not be touched and the soldiers should be paid in full.
 From the soldiers about wild huzzahs.
 Ahmed and Lal Singh, packed away in the heart of the crowd, exchanged gloomy looks. Once the army was Umbalahs, they readily understood what would fol- low: Umbalah would acclaim himself, and the troops would back him.
 We have thousand guns and ten thousand rounds Of ammunition murmured La Singh.
 "Perhaps we had best prevail upon Ramabai to