The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

handmade Martini rifles that come oul
of the ameer's workshops at Kakul.
from one of the ameer's Herati reg1-
ments that would have sold the very
teeth out of their mouths for tsr-
uuoises. We got more than 100 hand
made Martins. 100 good Kohat jezails
that.Il throw to 600 yards, and 40 man
loads of very bad ammunition for the
rifles.
..Drayot was too busy to attend to
those things. but the old army THAT
we first made helped me. and we turn
ed out 500 men that could drill and 200
that knew how to hold arms pretty
straight. Even those corkscrewed, hand
made guns was a miracle to them ORA
vot talked big about powder shops and
factories. walking up and down in the
pine wood when the winter was COM
ing on.
~ won't make a nation says he.
TIL make an empire! These men aren't
niggers; they're English. Look at their
ewes look at their mouths. Look at the
way they stand up. They sit on chairs
in their own houses. There must be
a fair 1000 900 of 'em In these hills.
The villages are full o. little children.
Two million people-25O.O00 lighting
men-and all English! When everything
is shipshape I'll hand over the crown
this crown I'm wearing now-to Queen
Victoria on my knees. and she'll say.
Rise up, Sir Daniel Dravot-' oh. it's
big, It's big. tell you! But there's SO
much to be done in every pIace-Bash-
kai, Khawak Shu and everywhere
else. It's big country. and somehow
you can't help me. Peachey. in the way
1 want to be helped
$50 to your blasted priests them
said, and 1 was sorry when I made
that remark. but it did hurt me sore to
find Daniel talking SO superior when
I'd drilled all the men and done all he
told me.
Don't let's quarrel. Peachey.' says
Daniel without cursing. You're king.
too. and the half of this kingdom is
yours, but can't you see. Peachey. we
want cleverer men than US now-three
or four of 'em. that we can scatter
about for our deputies. There's anoth-
er thing. too The winters coming
and these people won't be giving much
trouble and If they do we can't move
about 1 want wife
For Cords sake leave the women
aloner says. We've both got all the
work we can do. though l am fool
Remember the contrack and keep clear
O. women
The contrack only lasted till such
time as we was kings. and kings we
have been these months past. says Ora
vot, weighing his crown in his hand
You go get a wife. too. Peachey.'
Don't tempt mer / says. L will
not have any dealings with woman.
not till we are a dam site more settled
than we are now. Let's lie OF a
bit and see If we can get some better
tobacco from Afghan country and run
in some good liquor. but no women
"'For the last time of answering 1
WILL said Dravot. and he went away
through the pine trees looking like n
big red devil.
But getting wife was not SO easy
as Dan thought He put 1t before the
council and there was no answer till
Billy Fish said that he'd better ask
the girls. Dravot id them all round.
What's wrong with meT he shouts.
standing by the idol Imbra. Am
dog or am 1 not enough of a man for
your wenchesT He walked out OF the
council room, and the others sat still.
looking at the ground.
BILLY Fish, says l to the chief Of
Bashkai. what's the difficulty here?
A straight answer to a true friend
You know says Billy Fish. How
should a man tell you who know ev-
erything? How can daughters of men
marry gods or devils? It's not proper
IA god can do anything says I. IL
the king Is fond OF girl he'll not let
her die She'll have to- said Billy
Fish. There are all sorts of gods and
devils in these mountains. and now
and again a girl marries one of them
and isn't seen any more. Besides, you
two know the mark cut in the stone.
Only the gods know that. We thought
you were men till you showed the sign
of the master
II wished then that we had explain
ed about the loss Of the genuine Sc
crets of a master Mason at the FIRST
20 off. but l said nothing All that
night there was a blowing Of horns In
a little dark temple halfway down the
bill. and heard girl crying dit to die.
One of the priests told us that she was
being prepared TO marry the king. The
girls a little bit afraid says the priest
She thinks she's going to die. and they
are a-heartening Of her up down In the
temple
".Hearten her very tender. then.
says Dravot, or I'll hearten you with
the butt of a gun so that you'll never
want to be heartened again
IT got up very early in the morning
while Dravot was asleep. and I saw
the priests talking together in whis-
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