Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-22


stool Of the throne. and even gifted
her.
She felt the pity. AS she tossed the
hair back over her shoulder her eyes
slowed with another meaning-danger
ous-like tigers glare.
You pity me? You think because
l love you. you can feri my love on
la plate to the Indian government?
You think my love is "a weapon to use
against me? Your love for me may
wait for better time? You are not
so wise as l thought you, Athelstan !"
But he knew he had won. His heart
was singing down inside him as it had
not su@g since he left India behind.
But he stood quite hunt ~ before her
Tor had he not kissed her? He knew
he had won. Yet If anyone had asked
him how he knew that lie had won, he
never could have told.
IF you were to go back to India ex.
cept as its cOnqueror. they would strip
the buttons from your uniform and
tear your metals off and shoot YOU
in the back against Il walll My sigma
ture is known in India and l am
known. What | write will be believed
Rewa Gun%a shall take letter. He
shall take two-four-witnesses He
shall see them on their way and shall
give them the letter when they reach
the khyber and shall send them into
India with 1t. Have no fear. Bull
With-a-beard shall not intercept them.
as have intercepted his men. When
Rewa Gunga shall return and tell me
he saw my letter on its way down the
Nhyber, then we shall talk again
You and II Come"
She took his arm, as if her threats
had been ceresSt~. Triumph shone
from her eyes. She tossed her brave
chin and laughed at him. only en-
couraged to greater daring by his atti-
tude, and by the dme they reached the
ebony table and she had taken the pen
and dipped it in the ink. she was
chuckling to herself rs if the one good
joke had grown into hundred.
She wrote in Urdu. with an easy,
flowing hand, and in two minutes she
had thrown sand on the letter and had
given it to King to read. 1t was not
like a woman's letter 1t did not waste
word.
! Your Captain King has been too much
| trouble. He has taken money from the
| Germans He adopted native dress. He
called himself kurram Khan. He slew
| his own brother at night in the Khyber
| pass These men will say that no car
| RED the head to Khinjan, and their word
! Is true, for l, Yasmini. saw. He used the
head for a passport. to obtain admittance.
/ He proclaims Jihad He urges invasion
OF Indial He held up his brothers head
| before five thousand men and boasted OF
the murder. The next you shall hear OF
| your Captain King of the khyber rifles,
| he Will be leading jihad into India. You
would have better trusted me,
YAsMINL
He read 1t and passed it back to her.
"They will not disbelieve me-" she
said, triumphant as the very devil over
a brandered soul all hot. They will
| be sure yoA are mad, and they will
/ believe the witnesses /"
"Rewa Gunga shall start with this
/ today she said with more umuse-
mont than malice. After that she was
still for a moment, watching his eyes,
/ at "A loss 10 understand his careless
ness. He seemed strangely unbiased.
I His folded arms were not defiant. but
neither were they yielding.
Il love you, Athelstan" she said.
| DO you love me2"
81 think you are very beautiful,
princess!'
Beautiful? I know / am beautiful.
! Bur is that all?'
Clever" he added.
She began to drum with the golden
dagger hllt on the table. and to look
dangerous, which is not 10 infer by any
means that she looked less lovely.
"Do You love mcf' she asked
"Torgive me. princess but you for
! get. was born east Of Mecca but my
/ folk We're from the West, We are
slower to love than some other nations.
/ With us love is more often growth, less
often surrender ut first sight. | think
you are wonderful 81
She nodded ana tucked the sealed
/ letter In her bosom.
al mall 60" she said darI,ly land
another letter with it, They looted
your brothers body, In his pocket they
found the note you wrote him. and that
You asked him TO destroy! That viii
be evidence. That will convinced
/ Comet"
/ He followed her through leather cur
tains again and down the dark pas
t<l IA II ! aaa