The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-08-26


house but an hour or two since. She
dung open the door.
sPunditaa" cried the man.
Winnie caught him by The sleeve.
and dragged him into the chamber,
Just in time The distracted Pun.
dita had splucked another dagger from
The wall; and the man stayed her
arm even as she struck.
%Hlghness,r he cried, .he Sliyesls
and he recopnted the startling events
OF the morning, the treachery Of the
palace troops, the coming Of Kath-
lyn in chain armor, the turn Of the
tide.
@They llve!" cried Pundita. and Gov
cred her face.
Winnie! had not understood a word
said, but the expression on Pundita's
acc was illuminative. She threw her
arms around the native woman, and
the two ofsthem wept in common. All
human beings have two faculties alike.
that Of weeping and laughing.
To return to Kathlyn: by and by
she YVES able to slip into doorway,
and the bawling rabble passed on
down tho narrow street. The house
was deserted, and the hallway and
what had been booth was filled with
rubbish. Kathlyn, as she leaned
breathlessly against the door, felt IT
give. And very glad she was Of this
knowledge a moment later. when two
lions galloped into the street, their
names stiff. their tails arched. Doubt
less, they were badly frightened.
kathryn reached for the revolver
she carried and fired at the animals,
not expecting to hit one Of them, but
hoping that the noise of the firearms
would swerve them into the passage
across the way. Instead, they came
straight to where she stood.
She stepped inside and slammed the
door, holding 1t and feeling about In
vain for lock or bolt.
Evidently the lions had halted out
side, undecided, for she could hear
them shifting at tile doorsIll II they
leaped she was lost. for she could not
hope to hold tile door against the on
rush of beasts as heavy as these lions
were.
Elsewhere in tho bazaars the colo
me-, Bruce, anc Ahmed were setting
nets for the, recapture Of tho lions,
quite confident that Kathlyn was by
this time safe, in the haven OF Rama.
bats house.
The girl glanced lurriedly over her
shoulder toward the dim rlckety stair.
case. The moment the smiling ceased
she withdrew from the door and ran
up the stairs to the first landing, to
find all these doors lockless! A crash
below announced that the lions had
heard her and had entered. There
was second fight, and up this flew
the girl. She might fire at. the beasts,
and even II she succeeded in hitting
them it would serve only to madden
them. One cannot kill lions with a
toy.
Still lockless doors! No safety.
She then espied ladder which gave
10 the roof top, and up this she
climbed. They could not possibly fol.
low her UP the ladder, and as she
reached the top she knew that for the
present she had nothing to fear from
the lions.
The interior Of the house was Of the
limsiest wood, slovenly put together.
Along, the roof was a parapct. She
left the trap one SO that she could
Geo all that went on below. Almost
as she looked the tawny bodies swept
UP to the foot of the ladder, and there
remained, snarling and splitting and
reaching up as far as; they could.
Gomowhere on the way Kathlyn knew
that these lions had tasted blood. !,
It was in this street ,dwelt the sister
OF the woman in the ,zenana, the ,wom>
IN who loved Umballa. g,s,s 4,
Kathlyn leaned over the parapet,
the street was totally deserted, All
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