Meade County news., 1915-02-11

us, perhaps more sinister than any W,
} have yet known"
Don't you want me?" asked Bruc,
quietly.
Kathlyn had gone to her room t.
hide her tears.
Want you! But mol" The colone
wrung the young mans hand ant
turned to go back to Kathlyn.
Wait moment, colonel. Suppos
ing l wanted to go, what then? Sup
posing l should say to you what l dare
not yet say to your daughter, that
love her better than anything else in
all this wide world; that it will be
happiness to follow wherever she goes
even unto death?"
The colonel wheeled. Bruce, do YOU
mean that?"
With all my heart, sir. But please
say nothing to Kathlyn till this affair
| ends, one way or the other. She might
be stirred by sense of gratitude, and
later regret 1t. When we get out of
this-and l rather believe in the
| PAOPAOOJ VI 6uIu
then I'll speak. have always been
rather lonely man. There's been no
real good reason. have always de-
sired to be loved for my own sake, and
not for the money have"
Money!" repeated the colonel.
Never had he in any way associated
this healthy young hunter with money
Did he not make business of trap
ping and selling wild animals, like
himself? Money! did not know that
you had any, Bruce"
Il am the son of Roger Bruce"
What! The man who owned near
ly all of Peru and half the railroads in
South American"
Yes. You see, colonel, we are
something alike. We never ask oues-
tions. 1t would have been far better
If we had. Because did not question
Kathlyn when first met her l feel
half to blame for her misfortunes. /
should have told her all about Alfalfa
and warned her to keep out of it. /
should have advised her to send native
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Wur till she learned the truth. But the
name Of Hare suggested nothing to
me, not till after | had left her at
Singapore. So l shall go back with
you. But please let Kathlyn continue
to think of me as a man who earns his
own living"
God bless you, my boy! You have
put new backbone in me. It's hard
not to have a white man to talk to, to
plan with. Ahmed expects that we
shall be ready for the return in the
morning. He, however, intends to 20
back on racing camel, to go straight |
to my bungalow, If 1t isn't destroyed
by this time. Perhaps Winnie has not
arrived there yet. trust Ahmed"
so do l. l have known him for a
long time-that is, l thought | did
and during the last few weeks he has !
been a revelation. Think of his being
your headman all these years, and yet
steadily working for his raj, the Brit
ish rail-"
They can keep secrets"
We'll, we have this satisfaction:
when Pundita rules 1t will be under the
protecting hand of England. Now let
us try to look at the cheerful side of
the business. Think of what that girl
has gone through with scarcely a
scratch! Can't you read something in
that? See how strong and self-reliant
she has become under such misfor-
tunes as would have driven mad any
ordinary woman! Can't you see light
n all this? tell you, there is good and
evil working for and against us, and
hat Ahmed /fakir will in the end
prove stronger than your bally old
guru. When l am out of the Orient l
augh at such things, but l can't laugh
It them somehow when I'm In India"
Nor l."
That night Kathlyn signified that
he wished to go down to the beach
'eyond the harbor basin. Bruce ac-
her. Often he caught her
taring out at the twinkling lights on
'oard the Simla. By and by they