Arizona republican., 1914-07-19
copyright: 1914. y Harold Mac Grath.l
CHAPTER XX.

~ HEY tell of it to this day in Alfalfa To be sure
they will elaborate AMI prevaIcate, twist and DIS
tort, as only the Asatic knows how having an
innate horror Of breIty and directness: but the
basic truth of kulhyns Gpoit is held intact The
boary old begsar who sits With his begsars bowl near
the steps of the mosque, ouacious verbose and How
cry for an piece will ell you the tale, which hap
pened all of thirty years a2.
"Thauks Huzoor." he vii begin carefully scruniz
ing the coin testing il solidty between two fine
rows Of teeth for Of 10 " AL that was a day
1t was like day knew il Delhi. when | was child
fer So the Great Muffin. | the powier maya
zine All. yes. Ihzoor; it is about the White
goddess that you wish lnow. But help me over to
Ais coffee house for it hot here, and it is long
story"
So you take tie old rasca over to and seat him under
the umbrellas ALL and yoi will buy him drink
and a smoke from waF bottle, he having brought
forth suggestiyely Il cracked amber mouthpeee
"Huzoor, she came out Il nowhere, in chain armor
that shone like ripping in the sunshine She
tall and 1.-the and vigorous, and beautiful dream
OF paradise.
when We saw the Saabs and Ramabai trapped by
the cowardly soldiers tie palace found ourselves
without head. The kho led US had vanished We
huddled like sheep scattred formed. fired aimessy,
began to run away And brave old Lal Singh, with a
bullet through his stomach. staggered of. We were
without hope We have enough. but bravery has
TO be directed. We knew mly part of Ramlbas plans
And what about this nan Ahmed?"
As the kite dies be RAJ back the house OF Rama
hal when everything had apparently to end.
For Ahmed loved the vile goddess even as you and
love life He was bra ve but the serpent is-wisey.
Did not the white queen Of all the English give him Il
bit Of copper to lis breast becauS lie was wise
ae well brave?"
The old beggar til;el hf cup without touching with
his lips and let the swedened water trickle down his
throat
When one is old one always thirsty, he observed.
"To go on So there we ,cre. like sheep The majority
of us did not have sense enough TO away Huzoor
TmbalIah had lined up the white AMI Ramabai
AGAINST the wall in the frone and about to
send them to tlcir gods hhen suddenly noticed
nation in the rear of q. \ patAw seemed to be
bevn ont among us WI we're thrown about like sticks
in whirlpool.
"And then saw her All, Protector of the Poor you
white peope rule the vrd because you always know
xhat Won want AMI wlc you want ii. But it is mol
natural for Ms brown pebble to think and quickly at
the same time | saw Ter: and thought at first tina
tie gates Of mar disc had opened and ALLAH himself had
set her down among u.s.
The water bubbles in he bowl Of the pipe and thir
stream of smoke trcke from his bearded lips. You
ust have patence for e will tell this tale only in his
fashion.
Straight to the palGe steps she ran, waving he
arms. Behold. She spok to us in her own tongue. bn
Allah is witness that We Understood what she
ing! First we grew ashaled then stopped running
then we became men. II zoor The lead tubes hega,
10 speak again; and we 90 found voices Witt
yels followed And tere was battle battle, battle
TO the very foot of tile tllbne.
Z "She threw herself betseen the leveed and lie
people. The soldiers mot fire. And Cmbalah. see
inp that in truth he had ost this time-Umbaah fet
toward the corrd RS and bone quick enough to pre-
gent him.