Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-08-08
King q the
Khybcr
Rifles
BY TALBOT MUNDY
sYNOPSls
a Romance r Adventure


CHAPTER lat the beginning Of
the world war Capt. Athelstan King OF
the British Indian army and of tts Sc
cret service. is ordered to Delhi to meet
Khtnjan to quiet the outlaws there who
are said by spies to be preparing for n
jthad or holy war.
CHAPTER lion his way 10 Delh,
kins quietly foiis plan to assassinatc
nim and gets evidence that Yasmjni is
After him.
CHAPTER III-In Delhi he il met by
hewa dunga. Yasmini's man. who tells
him that she has already gone North and
That ne, the Hangar. has been left to
CHAPTER rv--In Yasminrs house
the Hnngar attempts to. outwit King.
hut fails. Ismail. an Afridi belonging
servant.
CHAPTER viking rescues some Of
Yanmini's men and takes them North
with him: tricking the Rangar into 60
CHAPTER vI-RsjoIned b. the Rangar
q the mouth Of tho khyb1r pass, King
ssd party start through the pass fOf
CHAPTER v1r-Ths Rangar deserts
King and Ismail, with three otherG. "a
m paee.
Chapter yIIi- king s.nd. % his
alone n tho pass. and with his aid trana,
forms himself into . native hakim, Or
man Of medicine.
crApTrR fxA-calling Ysmaii ana the
eaen back he ut lrst pussles and then
estonishss and delights them BY hts
Transformation. lsmail grows frisndiy
xasmini may love King.
CHAPTER Kiln Khinjan King II tax
IN into the mosque, and Isman and an
pther falsely witnessing for him that he
has slain m Englishman. be II admitted
the caves Inhabitants. and hears of .
iashkar BY Bull with-a- Boards men.
CHAPTER xIf-Nsxt night Ismaii
takes him to vast cave through which
an. underground river pgurs-"Earth's
Dnnk"-and nnds gathered there thou
q out OF him the muiiah Muhammad
Amin. or Bull with-a- Beard.
CHAPTER xIIr-Aftsr Wild dance
beGins the trial OF three Of the muiiah's
men who have gained admiration BY
proof Yasmini appears, lovely vision
On : rock bridge above the crowd. and
orders the men thrown into Earth's
Drink.
CHAPTER NIV-Kin9, IN his disguise
~ Kurrnm Khan II placed on trial. and
1t tho critical moment has human head
thrust into his hands from behind. ~ he
holds II up he sees that II In the head OF
his own brother. He throws II In Earh'a
Drink to keep II from the savage mob.
Yasmini dances and the mob goes Grassy
under her spell.
CHAPTER xv--Ismail leads King
away. through dark passages to rock
door guarded by ancient curtains with
red shining Tampa before them. He
pushes through the curtains Before him
on an ancient bad lie the bodies OF Ro-
man warrior and a .drecian woman. dead
1000 years. yet perfectly preserved. The
woman 10 the perfect double cf Yasmini
Yaamtni herself appears and shows King
that no h like the dead warrior in every
feature.
CHAPTER XvI-~she tells King how
she found the Hleepern and used the myn-
terry to control the lawiess men Of the
Hlils. There Il. gold thsrs arc arms. md
are to take up the Slsepers' work and
together conquer india and peshape the
world.
CHAPTER xv1r--0he uses every effort
70 hand King to her Will and az last
writes and shows him q letter to his
general, telling that King has turned
traitor. They 70 back again to the
Shoppers and at last abe mesmcrixas and
loayen King aoloep.