The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-10-26

| open one after another in quick sue
ceSSiOn.
"Come OUT" he growled. "Come
out Come outw although King had
not ordered that.
King went and stood under the CEN
ter light with his left arm barred. The
prisoners emerging like dead men out
Of tombs, blinked at the bright light
saw him--then the bracelet-and sa-
luted
MAY God be with thee!" growled
each OF them.
They stood still then, awaiting fresh
developments. 1t did not seem to oc-
cur to any one of them as strange that
a British officer In khaki uniform
should he sporting Yasmini's talisman ::
the thing was apparently sufficient ex-
PLANTATION in itself.
"Ye all know this?" he asked, hold
| ing up his wrist. "Whose is this?"
'HerSw The answer was monosyl-
/ Liable and instant from all thirty
| thrOats.
King lit cherOot and made mental
! note of the wisdom of referring to her
| by pronoun, not by name.
"And 1? Who am II" he asked.
"Her messenger, Who else? Tbou
art he who shall take US to the Hills =
She promised"
Il shall start for the Hills at dawn"
King said slowly, and he watched their
eyes CLEAN at the news. No Gagged
tiger is rs wretched as prisoned hill
man. No freed bird wings more wildly
for the open. No moth comes more
foolishly back to the flame again. 1t
was easy to take pity on them-prob-
ably not one of whom knew PHYS
meaning.
us there any among you who would
care to Gomez"
"Ah-h-h-h!"
"Will We obey me and him?" he
asked, laying his hand on Ismails
shoulder, as much to let them see the
bracelet again as for any other rea-
son.
aye! If we fail, Allah do more to
us"
King laughed. "Ye shall leave this
no friends. Here We must obey. But
what when ye come to your Hills at
last? Can one man hold thirty men
prisoners then? In the Hills will We
still obey meT
The answer to that was unexpected.
1smail knelt-seized his hand-and
pressed the gold bracelet to his lips
In turn, every one Of them filed by,
knelt reverently and kissed the brace
let!
saw ye ever hillman do that be-
fore?" asked Ismail. "They will obey
thee! Have no fearw
"Then come" ordered King turning
his back confidently on thirty savages
whom Saunders. for instance, would |
have preferred to drive in front of him. |
after first seeing them handcuffed |
Each lock has key. but some keys |
hit all locks" says the Eastern proverb. |
King has been chosen for many tick
lish errands in his time, and Saunders |
is still in Delhi.
The prisoners were left squatting |
under the eyes and bayonets of very
suspicious prison guard, who made no
secret Of being ready for all conceiv-
able emergencies. One enthusiast drew
the cartridge out Of his breech cham
Der and licked it at intervals of min
ute or two, to the very great interest
OF the hillmen, who memoriZed every
detail that by any stretch of imagina-
tion might be expected to improve
their own shooting when they should
get home again.
King found his way on foot through
maze of streets to place where he
was admitted through one door after
another by sentries who saluted when
he had whispered to them. He ended
by sitting on the end Of the bed of a
gray-headed man who owns three titles
md whose word Is law between the
borders Of province. To him he
talked as one schoolboy to bigger
one, because the gray-haired man had
understanding, and hence sympathy.
II don't envy you" said he under
he sheet. There's the release for
your prisoners. Take it-and take
hem! Whatever possessed you to
want such gift?"
"Well, sir-first place. she doesn't
want to seem to be connected with me.
Second place, she has left Delhi-and ,
she did not mean to leave those men.
Third place, if those thirty men had ,
'een anything but her particular pet ,
,ang they'd either have been over the ,
border or else in Jail before now-just :
ike all the others. For some reason !
hat don't pretend to understand, she !
'em more than she has been
lble to perform. So I provide per- G
ormances. She gets the credit for it. (
get pretty good personal following '
It least as far as up the Khyber! Q. G
T. d., sir =
The man in bed nodded. "Not bad"
le said.
didn't she make some effort to get