New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-18

the murder, The next you shall hear OF
your Captain King Of the Khyber rifles,
he will be leading a jihad into India. You
would have better trusted me.
He read 1t and passed it back to her.
"They will not disbelieve me-" she
said, triumphant as the very devil over
II brandered soul all hot. "They will
be sure you are mad, and they will
believe the witnesses"
"Rewa Gunga shall start with this
today :" she said, with more amuse-
ment than malice. After that she was
ut IL loss to understand his careless
ness. He seemed strangely unbiased.
His folded arlns were not defiant, but
neither We're they yielding.
IL love you, Athelstan!" she said.
do you love me?"
II think you are very beautiful,
princess"
beautiful? l know | am beautiful.
But is hat ala"
Clever" he added.
She began to drum with the golden
dagger hilt on the table, and to look
dangerous, which is not to infer by any
means that she looked less lovely.
"Do you love me?" she asked.
"Forgive me princess, but you for
get. l was born east of Mecca, but my
folk were from the West. We are
slower TO love than some other nations.
With us love Is more often growth, less
often surrender at first sight. ! think
you are wonderful !"
She nodded and tucked the sealed
letter in her bosom.
ut shall co." she said dnrkly. "and
another letter with it. They looted
your brothers body. In his pocket they
found the note you wrote him, and that
you asked him to destroy! That Will
he evidence. That will convince !
Come"
He followed her through leather cur
tains again and down the dark pas.
sage into the outer chamber; and the
illusion was Of walking behind a gold
en-haired Madonna to some shrine OF
iillivNeiICc. IItI pcIluihc "uo Inv -
cense; her manner perfect reverence.
She passed into the cave where the
two dead bodies lay like a high priest
ess performing a rite.
Walking to the bed. she stood for
minutes, gazing Mt the Sleeper and his
queen. And from the new angle from
which King saw him the Sleeper's like
ness to himself was actually startling.
an incantation
were Yasmini's words when ut last she
spoke.
"Muhammad lied! Tie lied in his
His sons have multiplied his
lie! Siddhattha, whom men have called
GOtama, the Buddha, was before Mu-
hammad and he knew more! He told
of the wheel of things, and there Is a
Yet. what knew the Buddha Of
the wheel? He who spoke of Dharma
(the customs of the law not knowing
Dharma! This is true-of old there
was a wish of the gOds-Of the old
gods. And so these two were. There
Is a wish again now of the old gods.
SO, are we two not as they two were?
is the same wish, and 10! We are
this man and l. We will obey,
We gods-ye old gods!"
She raised her arms and, going closer
to the bed, stood there in an attitude
of mystic reverence, giving and re-
blessings.
Dear gods !" she prayed. Dear old
gods-oldcr than these 'Hills'-show
in a vision what their fault vas
why these two were ended before the
end!
II know all the other things ye have
shown me. l know the worlds silly
have made it mad, and 1t must
rcnd Itself, and this man and l shall
reap where the nations sowed-if only
obey! Wherein. We old dear gods,
who love me, did these two disobey?
pray you, tell me in a vision"
She shock her head and sighed. Sad.
ness seemed to have crept owe her,
ike a cold mist from the night. II
was rs If she could dimly see her
plans foredoomed, and yet hoped on in
spite Of 1t. The fatalism that she
as Muhammad's lie held her
its grip, and her natural courage
with 1t. Womanlike, she turned
o King in that minute and confided to
her very Utmost thoughts. And he,
without an inkling as to how she must
all, yet knew that she must, and pitied
Ter.
"Have you seen that breast under
he armOr?' she asked suddenly.
Come nearer! Come and look! Did
The kill him? Was that a dagger-stab
n his breast? I found perfume In
hese caves-great jars of it, and I use
t always. I think that scent is the
Athelstan-listen! !
hink he would have failed her! !
hink she stabbed him rather than see
lin fail. and then swallowed poison!
their servants laid them
here. She smiles in death because she