Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-11-30

Then, perhaps because the crowd
had begun to whisper, and she wanted
all attention, she raised both arms to
toss back the golden hair that came
cascading nearly to her knees. And as
if the crowd knew that symptom well,
it drew it's breath in sharply and grew
very still.
"Muhammad Anim!' she said, and
she might have been wooing him.
"That was q devils trick!"
1t was rather an astounding state
ment, coming from lovely lips in such
a setting. 1t was rather suggestive of
q drivers whiplash, fiicked through the
air for beginning. Muhammad Amin
continued glaring and did not answer
her, so in her own good time, when she
had tossed her golden hair back once
or twice again, she developed her
meaning.
'We who are free of Khinjan caves
do not send men out to bring recruits.
We know better than to bid our men
tell lies for others at the gate. Nor,
seeking proof for our new recruit, do
we send men to hunt head for him
not even those of us who have lash
kar that we call our own, mullah Mu-
hammad Amin Each of us earns his
own way in!"
The mullah Muhammad Amin began
to stroke his beard, but he made no an
swer.
"And-mullah Muhammad Amin,
thou wandering man of God-when
that lashkar has foolishly been sent
and has failed, is it written in the Kala-
mullah saying we should pretend there
was a head, and that the head was
| stolen? A lie is a lie, Muhammad
Animi Wandering perhaps is good, if
in search of the way. Is it good to
lose the way, and to lie, thou true fol-
lower of the Prophet?"
She smiled, tossing her hair back.
Her eyes challenged, her lips mocked
him and her chin scorned. The crowd
breathed hard and watched The null
lah muttered something in his beard,
and sat down, and the crowd began to
roar applause at her. But she checked
it with a regal gesture, and a glance
of contempt at the mullah that was
alone worth a journey across the
'Hills" to see.
| Guards ~ she said quietly. And
the crowds sigh then was like the night
wind in a forest.
Away with those three of Muham-
mad Anim's men!"
Twelve of the arena guards threw
down their shields with sudden clat-
ter and seized the prisoners, four to
each. The crowd shivered with de-
liciouS anticipation. The doomed men
neither struggled nor cried, for fatal.
ism is an anodyne as well as an explo-
sive. King set his teeth. Yasmini, with
both hands behind her lead, continued
to smile down on them all as sweetly
as the stars shine on a battlefield.
She nodded once; and then all was
over in minute. With ringing 'HoI =
and a run, the guards lifted their vic
tins shoulder high and bore them for
ward. At the river bank they paused
for q second to swing them. Then, will
another "How they threw them like
dead rubbish into the swift black wa
ter.
There was only one wild scream tha
went echoing and re-echoing to tn,
roof. There was scarcely a splash
and no extra ripple at all. No head
came up again to gasp. No finger
clutched at the surface. The fearfu
speed of the river sucked them under
to grind and churn and pound then
through long caverns underground an,
hurl them at last over the great cata
ract toward the middle of the world.
"Ah-h-h-h-h!" sighed the crowd II
ecstasy.
'1S there no other stranger?" aske
Yasmini, searching for King again wit
her amazing eyes. The skin all dow
his back turned there and then int
gooseflesh. And as her eyes met hi
she laughed like bell at him. Sh
J knew! She knew who he was, how b
had entered, and how he felt. Not
doubt of it