New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01

virtues Of the A%nglO-Indinn raj wer,
better spoken Of than the Hills" hat
heard for years.
Not that there was any effort made
to convert the camp en- masse. Fa
ron 1t. But the likely few were
pounced on and were told Of a chance
to enlist for n bounty in India. Ant
what with winter not so far ahead
and what with experience of former
lighting against the British army, thu
choosing was none so difficult. From
the day when the lad first feels sOf
down upon his face until the old man!
beard turns white and his teeth shake
out, the hillman would rather fight
than eat but he prefers to fight on the
winning side If he may, and he likes
good treatment.
Before 1t was dark that night there
were thirty men sworn to hold thell
tongues and to wait for the word tc
hurry down the Khyber for the pur
pose Of enlisting in ONE British In;
hlhh regiment. Some even began to
urge the hakiIm not to wait for the
rakza Pathan. but to start with what
he had.
"Shall l leave my brother In the
lurch" the hakim asked them; and
though they murmured. they thought
better Of him for it.
Well for him that he had plenty of
Epson salts in his kit, for in the
Hills" physic should taste evil and
show very quick results to be believed
in. He found a dozen diseases of
which he did not so much as know
the name, but half of the sufferers
Swore they were cured after the first
dose. They would have dubbed him
faqulr and have foisted him to n pillar
OF holiness had he cared to let them.
Muhammad Amin slept most of the
day Ike a great animal that scOrns
10 i've by rule. But at evening he
came to the cave mouth and fulmI-
nated such a sermon as set the whole
camp to roaring. He showed his
power then. The jihad he preached
would have tempted dead men from
thelr graves to come and share the
pIunder, and the curses he called down
on towards and laggards and unbe-
'ievers were enougi- to have fright
ened the dead away again.
In twenty minutes he had undone all
Kings missionary work. And then In
ten more, feeling his power and their
response, and being at heart a fool
as all rogues are. he built it up again.
lie began to make promises too def
Mite. lie wanted Khinjan caves. More,
ne needed them. So he promised them
they should all be free of Khinjan
caves within n day or two, to come
ana 90 and live there at their pleasure.
lie promised them they should leave
their wives and children and belong
safe in the caves while they them
went down to plumber India. He
overlooked the fact that Khinjan caves
Tor centuries had been u secret to be
of In whispers, and that pros
Dect of its violation came to them as
1 shock.
a Of them did not believe him.
Such II thing was impossible, and il
he were lying as to one point, why
lot as to all the others. too?
And the army veterans, who had
converted by Kings talk of par
Ions, and almost %reconverted BY the
sermon, shook their heads ut the talk
II taking Khinjan. Why waste time
rying to do what never had been done,
WIN ner to reckon against, when a
lace In the sun was waiting for them
In India, to say nothing of the
Iope of pardons and clean living for
while! They shook their heads and
their boards and eyed one
mother sidcwise in a way the Hills"
Understand.
mat night, while the mullah glow
over the camp like Il great old
wi. with leaping freight reflected in
is eyes. the thousands under the skin
ants argued. so that the night was
IL noise. But King slept.
All of another day and part of an
Their night he toiled among the sick.
'ondering when a message would
ONE back. 1t was nearly midnight
hen he bandaged his last patient and
out into the starlight to bend
Is back straight and yawn and pick
is way Keeling with WEAKNESS back
+, the mullah's cave He had given
Is bag of medicines and implements
} a man to carry ahead Of him and
nd gone perhaps ten PAGES into the
ark when n strong hand gripped him
Y the wrist.
flush !" said n voice that seemed IA
liar.
He turned swiftly and looked
raight into the eyes of the Hangar
eva Gunga!
How did you get here?" he asked
English.
ANY fool could learn the password
to this camp! Come W. here, sa-
b. l bring word from her"
The ground was criss-crossed like a
ans palm by the shadows of tent
pes. The Hangar led him to where
tents were forty feet apart and
me IA likely to overhear them.
here he turned like n flash.
'She sends you this. he Kissed.
In that same instant King was fight !
e for his life. In another second
ey were down together among the
nt-pegs, King holding the Rangers
rist with both hands and struggling
break 1t, and the Hangar striving
r another stroke. The dagger he
Id had missed Kings ribs by so
tie that his skin yet tingled from
touch. 1t was a dagger with bronze
ade and a gold hilt-her dagger. 1t
IS her perfume In the air. I"