Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-14
cOpyrigh, by the Bobbs-Merril Company


your brother outside Ali Masjid with
fifty of his men. They took his head
after a long fight, leaving more than
a hdndred of their own in payment.
"Bull-with-a-beard was pleased. Bur
he was careless, and l sent my men to
steal the head from his men. I needed
evidence for you. And l swear to you
i swear to you by my gods who have
brought us two tOgether-that l first
knew it was your brothers head when
you held it up in the Cavern of Earth's
Drink! Then ! knew it could not be
anybody else's headw
"Why bid me throw it to. them,
then?" he asked her, and he was aware
Of her scorn before the words had left
his lips.
She leaned back again and looked at
him through lowered eyes, as if she
, must study him all anew. She seemed
to find it hard to believe that he really
, thought so in the commonplace.
"What is a head to me, or to you
head with no life in it--carrion =
compared TO what shall be? Would
you have known it was his head if you
had thrown it to them when | ordered
your"
He understood Some of her blood
was Russian, some Indian. She stood
up, and Of course he stood up, too. So.
she on the footstool of the throne, her
eyes and his were on a level. She laid
hands on his shoulders and looked into
his eyes until he could see his own
| twin portraits in hers, that were glow
ing sunset pools. Heart OFF the Hills q?
The heart of all the East seemed to
burn in her. rebellious
"Are you believing me?" she asked
him.
| He nodded, for no man could have
helped believing her. AS she knew
the truth, she was telling it to him,
as surely as she was doing her skill
full best to mesmerize him. But the
secret service is made up of men
! trained against that.
! Come" she said, and stepping
down she took his arm.
She led him past the thrones to
other leather curtains in a wall, and
through them into long hewn passages
| from cavern to cavern, until even the
Rock of Gibraltar seemed like a dolls
house in comparison. She showed him
a cave containing great forges, where
the bronze had been worked, with
charcoal still piled up against the wall
at one end. There were copper and tin
ingots in there of q shape he had never
seen.
II know where they came from,
she told him. 81 made it my business
to know all the Hills / know things
the hillmen's great-great-great-gra
fathers forgot / know old workings
that would make a modern nation rich
We shall have money when we neeC
it, never fear We shall conquer In
dia while the English backs are turned
and the best troops are overseas"
Then she called him her warrior anC
her well-beloved and took him dowI
a long passage, holding his hand al
the way, to show him slots cut in the
floor for the use of archers.
'YOu entered Khinjan caves by
tunnel under this floor, well-beloved
There is no other entranceI
BY this time "well-beloved" was hel
name for him, although there was NJ
air Of fnality about it. 1t was as i
she paved the way for use of AthelstaI
and that was a sacred name. 1t wa
amazing how she conveyed that i'm
preston without using words.
"The Sleeper cut these slots for hi
archers. Then he had another though
and set these cauldrons in place, t
boil oil to pour down. Could any arm
force a way through by the route b
which you entered?"
mo-" he said, marveling at the ton
weight copper cauldrons, one to eac
hole.
And / have more than a thousan
Mauser rifles here, and more than
million rounds of ammunition %
She showed him a cave in whic
boxes were stacked in high, squar
! piles.
Dynamite bombs !" she boasteC
How many boxes? l forget! To
many to count Women brought ther
all the way from the sea, for eve
2 Muhammad Amin could not max
Afridi riflemen carry loads. / hay
wondered what Bull-with-a-beard wi
$ say when he misses his precious dyni
: miteI"
You've enough in there 10 bio
the mountain up!" King advised he
IF somebody fred a pistol in her
Z the least would be the collapse of tn
floor into the tunnel below with a hu
u dred thousand tons of rock on top
II it. There is no other way out?"
l "Earth's Drink !" she said, and
Y made q grimace that set her to laug
ing.
J. But she looked at him darkly aft
r that and he got the impression that t
s thought was not new to her, and tn
n she did not thank him for the advit
r He began to wonder whether the
ID was anything she had not thought of
any loophole she haG left him t
escGpe-any issue she had not FOL
;" seen.
She. showed him where eleven HI
n. dred Mauser rifles stood in racks
I'll another cave, with boxes of ammu
In ton piled beside them-each rifle a
a. cartridge worth it's weight in silly
lie COMA very rajah's ransOmI
III "The Germans are generous in sol
Id things-only in some things-vt
le mean in others :" she told him. "Tt