The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-11-02
CHAPTER Vl-continued.

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II was not long journey, nor very
slow one for there was nothing to
block the way except occasional men
with flags, who guarded culyerts and
little bridges. 1t was low tide under
fhc Ilimalayas. The food that was
draining India Of her armed men had
left Jamrud high and dry with little
nondoscript force stranded there, as
IL wcro, under a British major and
some native officers. Frownng over
Jamrud were the lean Hills" pcopled
by the ficrcest fighting men on earth,
and the clouds that hung over the Khy-
ocr'S course were an accent to the say
agery.
But King smiled mcrrily as he
jumped out of the train, and Rcwa
Gunga, who was there 10 meet him.
advanced with Outstrctched hand and
4 smile that would have melted snow
IN the distant peaks If he had only
looked the other way.
welcome, King sahib ~ he laughed,
with the air of skilled fencer who
i'lIiiil - dlbIlli'is uflA'I bAit. L Giidli
know better another time and let you
keep in front of me! | trust you had
A comfortable Journey"
Thanks" said King, shaking hands
with him, and then turning away to un-
,ock the carriage doors that held his
prisoners in. They were baying now
ike wolves to be free, and they surged
out. like wolves from cage, to Clamor
round the Rangar. paving him and
struggling to be the first to ask him
questions.
NAY, ye mountain people; nay" he
nughed. 81, too. am from the plains !
Nhat do I know of your families or
# your friends? Am l to be torn to
,ieccs to make meal?"
At that Ismail interfered, with the
i'd of an ash pick handle, chance
ound beside the track. Laughing as
( the whole thing was the greatest
oke imaginable, Rewa Gunga fell into
tride beside King and led him away In
he direction Of some tents.
"She is up the pass ahead Of u.s." he
announced. "She was In the deuce
# hurry, / can assure you She want
ID TO wait and meet you, but matters
we're too jolly well urgent. and we
hall have our hally work cut out to
'atch her, you can betl But I have
everything ready-tents and beds and
tores-everythingw
King looked over his shoulder TO
make sure that Ismail was bringing
he little leather bag along.
$50 have l." he said quietly.
81 have horses said Rewa Cunga,
"and mules and"
How did she travel up the Khy-
)erT' King asked him, and the Rangar
pared him a curious sidewise glance.
THE Hills are her escort King sa-
nib. She Is mistress in the Hills
There isn't n numbering ruflian who
would not he down and let her walk
NJ him She rode away alone on a
thoroughbred mare and she jolly well
eft me the mares double on which 10
ollow her. Come and look"
Not far from where the tents had
Dccn pitched in a cluster string of
lorses whinnied at a picket rope. King
saw the two good horses ready for
himself, and ten mules beside them
hat would have done credit to any
outfit. But at the end of the line, paw
ng at the trampled grass, was black
mare that made his eyes open wide
Dnce in a hundred years or so vice
'oy's cup or Derby is won by an ami
nal that can stand and look and move
as that mare did.
"Never saw anything better" King
admitted ungrudgingly.
There is only one mare like this
'ne," laughed the Rangar. "She has
fer"
"What1l you take for this one?'
King asked him "Name your price y
''The mare Is hers. You must ask
her. Who knows? She Is generous
There is nobody on earth more gen.
erous than she when she cares To be
See what you wear on your wrist !"
''That is loan" said King, uncover
Ing the bracelet. 81 shall give il back
to her when we meet"
"See what she says when you meet =
laughed the Rangar. taking a cigarett,
from his jeweled case with an air ant
smiling as he lighted 1t. "There 1:
your tent. sahib."
With nod of dismissal, Kml
walked over to inspect the bandobast
and finding 1t much more extravagan
than he would have dreamed OF provld
.ir, for himself, he lit one of his blacl