New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-04

them he did not find it easy to lOol
away again. Even mullah Muhammat
Amin seemed t%runsliXed, like Il grea'
foolish animal.
But King was staring very hard In
deed at something else-mentallI
c%ursing the plain glass s%pectacles hi
wore, that had begun to film over ant
dim his vision. There were two brace
lets on her arm, both barbaric things
of solid gold. The smaller Of the two
was on her wrist and the larger on hel
upper arm, but they were so alike, eX
ccpt for size, and so exactly like the
one Rewa Gunga had given him in hel
name and that had been stolen from
him in the night, that he ran the risk
of removing the glasses Il moment tC
stare with unimpeded eyes. Even ther
the distance was too great. He could
not quite see.
But her eyes began to search the
crowd in his direction, and then he
knew two things absolutely. lie was
sitting where she had ordered Ismail
to place him for she picked him out
almost instantly, and laughed rs If
somebody had struck II silver bell. And
Of those bracelets was the one that
he had worn; for she Haunted it at
him, moving her arm so that the light
should make the gold glitter.
Then, perhaps because the crowd
had begun to whisper. and she wanted
oil utfnutinn CHI, c,i,nJ I,tb -, .,
toss back the golden hair that came
%caScading nearly to her knees. And as
if the crowd knew that symptom wei,
ii drew its breath in sharply and grew
very still.
"Muhammad Amin" she said, and
she might have been wooing him.
"That was Il devils trick ="
II was rather an astounding state
mcnt. coming from lovely lips in such
ii setting. 1t was rather suggestive of
Il drivers whipllSh. ficked through the
air for Il beginning. Muhammad Amin
continued glaring and did not answer
her, So in her good time, when she
had tossed her golden hair back once
OF twice again, she developed her
meaning.
"Wo who are free of Khinian 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 n head for him
not even those of us who have Il lash
kar that we call our own, mullah Mu-
hammnd 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,
that lashkar has foolishly been sent
and has failed, is ii written in the Kala-
mullah saying we should pretend there
was Il head, and that the head was
stolen? a lie is a lie, Muhammad
Amin! Wandering perhaps is good, il
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 Knocked
him and her chin scOrned. The crowd
hrcathed hard and watched. The null
iah muttcred something in his beard,
and sat down. and the crowd began to
roar applause ut her. But she checked
it with Il regal gesture, and n glance
or contempt at the mullah that was
alone worth Il journey across the
Hills" to sec.
Guards" she said quietly. And
the crowds sigh then was like the night
wind in Il forest.
away with those three Of Muham-
mad Anim'S men,"
Twelve of the arena guards threw
down their shields with a sudden clat-
ter and seized the prisoners, four to
each. The crowd shivered with de-
Iicious anticipation. The doomed men
ism is an anOdyne as well as an explO-
King set his teeth. YaSmini, with
both hands behind her Lead, continued
to smile down on them all as sweetly
rs the stars shine on a battlefield.
She nodded once; and then all was
in a minute. With a ringing "Ho! !"
and Il II the guards lifted their vic
Tins shoulder high and bore them for
At the river bank they paused
a second to swing them. Then, with
another "lIo.' they threw them like
lead rubbish into the swift black wa
-er.
There was only one wild scream that
echoing and re-echoing to the
'oof. There was scarcely a splash,
md no extra ripple at all. No heads
up again to gasp. No fingers
at the surface. The fearful
'peed of the river sucked them under,
o grind and churn and pound them
through long caverns underground and
iurl them at last over the great cata-
act toward the middle of the world.
"Ah-h-h-h-h!" sighed the crowd in
is there no other stranger?" asked
searching for King again with
Ter amazing eyes. The skin all down
lis back turned there and then into
,ooseflesh. And as her eyes met his
he laughed like a bell at him. She
new! She knew who he was, how he
lad entered, and how he felt. Not a
of 1t!
CHAPTER XIV.