The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-06-12

with the venom of his wrath. the blood
dripping from his laceratcd fingers.
which he shook in the colonels face.
decking it with blood. A curse. It
vas so. He must obey that invisible
will; he must go on and on.
His pipe slipped from his fingers and
his head fell upon his knees; and thus
Kathlyn found him.
Let him sleep, memsahib." warned
Ahmed from across the fire. HE has
been fighting the old guru."
WHAT" Kathlyn whispered back.
"Where?"
Ahmed smiled grimly and pointed to-
ward his forehead.
rs there really such evil, Ahmed?"
Evil begets evil, heaven born, just
as good begets coed. The Colonel Sa-
nib did wrong. And who shall deny
some of these gurus a supernatural
power? / have seen; l know"
But once you said that we should
eventually escape, all of u.s."
And | still say it, memsahib. What
Is written is written" phlegmatically.
YEARLY she turned toward her tent,
but paused to touch the head of her
sleeping father as she passed. Her
occidental mind would not and could
not accept as possibilities these mys-
FERROUS attributes of the oriental mind.
That will could reach out and pre-
arrange a mans misfortunes was to
her mind incredible, for there were no
presidents. She never had witnessed
a genuine case of hypnotism; those ex-
amples she had seen were miserable
buffooneries. travesties, hoodwinking
not even the newsboys in the upper
gallery. True, she had read of such
things, but from the same angle with
which she had read the Arabian Nights
fairy stories.
Yet here was her father, thoroughly
convinced of the efficacy of the gurus
curse and here was Ahmed, compla.
Gently watching the effects, and not
doubling in the least that his guru
would in the end prove the strong ,r
of the two
One of the elephants clanked his
chains restlessly. He may have heard
the prowling of cat. Far beyond the
fire, beyond the sentinel, she thought
she saw a naked fern flash out and
back of tree. She stared intently at
the tree for a time; but as she saw
nothing more, she was convinced that
her eyes had deceived her Besides
her body seemed dead and her mind
too heavy for thought.
Umballa, having satisfied himself
that the camp would not break till
morning, skunk away into the shadows
He had failed again. but his hate haG
made him strong. He was naked ex
cept for a loin clout. His beard anG
hair were matted, the latter hanging
over his eyes. His body was smearet
with ashes. Not even Ahmed would
have recognized him yard off. He
had something less than nine hours t
reach the cape before they did; and il
was necessary that he should have &C
completes. The fishermen he knew t.
be of predatory habits, and the prom
Use of gold would enmesh them.
The half island which constituted
} the cape had the shape of miniature
I volcano. There was verdure at thu
r base of its slope and trees lifted thei
heads here and there hardly. 1t wal
mile long and half mile wide; ant
in the early morning it stood out like
t huge sapphire against the rosy sky
Between the land and the promontor,
there lay stretch of glistening sand
t there was half a mile of it. Over thi
! flock of gulls we're busy, as scaven
I gers always are At high tide, yonde
: was an island in truth
: Sometimes British gunboat woul,
: drop down here suddenly; but it al
a ways wasted its time. The fishermen
t knew nothing; nothing in the way o
t gdLs and powder ever was found; an
n yet the British raj knew that some
t where about lay the things for whic
: it so diligently and vigorously sought
4 On the beach fishermen were olsen
, barking. sloop with a lateen sail la
at anchor in the rude harbor. Some G
e the fishermen were repairing nets
l. and some were tinkering about thei
k fishing boats. Beyond the beac
nestled a few huts. Toward thes
l. other fishermen were making pros
II ress.
o The chief Of the village-the heat
man-disembarked from this sloop. H
was met by his wife and child, an
e. the little one clambered about his leg
d in ecstasy. Among the huts stood on
r more imposing than the others, an
1t toward this the chief and his famil
e wendell their way. In front of the h,
d, stood an empty bullock cart Attache
d to one of the wheels was a frisking XII,
Of The little child paused to play wit
TX her pet.
Absorbed in her pastime. she did n,
I'd observe the approach of gaunt b
ing with matted hair and beard ar
~ ash besmeared body. Children al
Is gifted with an instinct which leaves |
as we grow older the sensing of ev
Or without seeing or understanding
Ell The child suddenly gazed up, to me-
ID pair of eyes black and fierce as
kites. She rose screaming and fl
al toward the hollse