New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-08

him. He's in the next room! l hOpt
he's to be hanged. So that l can bu.
the mare" he added cheerfully.
King whistled softly to himself, an(
the general looked at him through
half-clOsed eyes.
go in and talk to him, King. Lei
me know the result"
He had picked King to go up the
Khyber on that errand not for moth
ing. He knew King and he knew the
symptoms. Without answering hin
King obeyed. He went out of the room
into a dark corridor and raped or
the door of the next room to the
right. There was a muffied answer
from within. COurtenay shouted some
thing to the sentry outside the door
and he called another man, who fitted
a key in the lock. King walked into
a room In which one lamp was burn
ing and the door slammed shut be.
hind him.
He was in there an hour, and il
ave did transpire just what passed
- Tx Gull ioiu Lhc toLSuC Oh tuy SuD'
.iect like a clam, and the general, If
anything, can go him mi better. Cour.
tenay was placed under orders moi to
talk, so those who say they know ex-
actly what happened In the room be-
tween the time when the door was
shut on King and the time when he
knocked to have 1t opened and called
for the general, are not telling the
truth.
What is known is that finally the
general hurried through the door and
calculated, "Well, I'm d-d" be-
fore he could close 1t again. The sen.
try (Punjabi Mussulman) has sworn
to that over a dozen campires since
the day.
And it Is known, too. for the sentry
has taken oath on 1t and has told the
story 80 many times without much
variation that no one who knows the
mans record doubts any lOnger-it Ii
known that when the door opened
again King and the general walked
out with the Hangar between them.
And the Hangar had no turban on,
but carried it unwound In his hand.
And his golden hair fell nearly to his
knees and changed his whole appear
ance. And he was weeping. And he
was not a Hangar ut all, but She, and
how anybody can eve have mistaken
her for a man, ever in mans clothes
and with her skin darkened, was be-
yond the sentry's power to guess. He
for one, etc. But nobody be-
lieved that part of his tale.
AS Yussuf bin Ali said over the
campfire up the Khyber later on.
"When she sets out to disguise her
self, she is what she will be, and he
who says he thinks otherwise has two
tongues and no conscience!
What is surely true is that the four
of them-Yasmini, the general, COur-
tenay and King-sat up all night in a
room In the fort, talking together,
while u succession of sentries over
strained their ears endeavoring to hear
through keyholes. And the sentries
heard nothing and invented very much.
But Partan Singh, the Sikh. who
carried in bread and cocoa to them at
about five the next morning, and
found them still talking, heard King
say. $50, In my opinion, sir. thereM
be. no jihad. in these parts. ThereTl
be sporadic raids, of course, but
nothing a brigade can't deal with. The
heart Of the holy wars torn out and
thrown away"
"very WELL" said the general. you
can 60 up the Khyber again and join
your regiment"
But, by. that time the Rangers tur-
ban was again and the tears we're
dry, and 1t was Partan Singh who
threw most doubt IN the sentry's tale
about the golden hair. But as the
sentry said, no doubt Partan Singh
was jealous.
There is no doubt whatever. that the
general went back to Peshawur In the
at. eight. O'Clock and that the
Hangar went with him In q. separate
compartment with about a dozen hill.
men chosen from among those who had
down with King.
And 1t is certain that before they
went King had a talk with the Hangar
in q room alone, of which CONVERSE
don, however, the sentry reported aft
that he did not overhear one