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would not have been ON duty when the
message came to carry Kings belong
ings to his new cave of residence.
There would have been no object in
killing the dumb man, and so there
would have been an expert with load
ed rifle to keep Muhammad Amin Turk
ing down the trail.
Muhammad Amin came-like the
devil, to scotch Kings faith. He had
followed the women with the loads.
He stood now, like big bear on a
mountain track, swaying his head from
side to side six feet away. King
jumped, nearly driving the lance into
new place In his patients neck.
"Let him go!' growled Muhammad
Amin. go, thoul Stand guard over
the women until / comet"
The mullah turned a rifle this way
and that In his paws, like great bear
dancing. The very Orakzai Pathan
who had sat next King in the Cavern
Of Earths Drink, was creeping up be-
hind the women and already had his
rifle leveled at the man with boils.
"AyeF said the mullah, watching
Kings eyes. 'He has done well, and
the road is cleari"
The man with boils offered no fight.
He dropped his rifle ind threw his
hands up. In a moment the Orakzai
Pathan was in command of two rifles,
holding King from among the women
whom he seemed to regard as his plum
der too. The women appeared SUI
premely Indifferent in any event. King
nodded back to him. A friend is a
friend In the "Hills," and rare is the
man who spares his enemy.
"None comes to earn a living In the
Hills" growled the mullah, swaying
his head slowly and devouring King
with cruel calculating eyes. ''Why art
thou here"
81 slew man." said King.
"Thou Hest 1t was my men who got
the head that let thee in! Speak
Why art thou herep
But King did not answer. The null
lah resumed.
"He who brought me the message
yesterday says he has 1t from another.
who had 1t from third, that thou art
here because she plans a simultaneous
rising In India, and thou art from the
Punjab where the sikhs all wait to
rise. Is that true"
"Thy man said it," answered King.
"Then hear mep said the mullah.
Listen, thou" But he did not begin
to speak yet. He tried to see past King
into the cave and to peer about into
the shadows.
where Is sheW he asked. ''Her
man Rewa Gunga went yesterday, with
three men and letter to carry down
the Khyber. But where is she?"
SO be had slept the clock round
King did not answer. He blocked the
way into the cave and looked past the
mullah. The 0rakzai Pathan crouched
among the women, and the women
grinned. The mullah stared into
Kings face, with the scrutiny of
trader appralsing loot. Fire leaped up
behind his calculating eyes. And with
out a word passing between them, King
knew that this man as well as Vas
mini was In possession of the secret
of the Sleeper. Perhaps he knew IL
first; perhaps she snatched the keep
ing of the secret from him. AT all
events he knew 1t and recognized
Kirgs likeness to the Sleeper, for his
ewes. betrayed him. He began to stroke
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once passed the grilling tests before
enlistment in British-II.dian regl-
ment. 1t may need experience to lay a
finger on 1t, but 1t Is surely there.
II heard" said King, "as came to-
ward the Khyber In great haste Cor
the police were at my heels)-"
"Ah, the police !" the Pathan grinned
pleasantly. The inference was that at
some time or other he had left his
mark on the police.
II heard" said King, shat the sirkar
has offered pardons to all deserters
who return"
"HahI But thou art q hakim, not a
soIdieri"
"True !" said King.
an India earned my salt. obeyed
the law. There Is no law here In the
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CHAPTER XvII--continued.

Morning looks down into Khinjan
hours after the sun has risen, because
the precipices shut 1t out. But the
peaks on every side are very beacons
of the range at the earliest peep OF
dawn. In silence they watched days
herald touch the peaks with rosy jew
eled fingers-she waiting as If she ex-
pected the marvel Of 1t all to make
King speak.
1t was cold. She came and snug
gled close to him, and 1t was so they
watched the sparkle of dawn's jewels
die and the peaks grow gray again, she
with an arm on his shoulder and
strands of her golden hair blown past
his face.
"Of what are you thinking?" she
asked him at last.
''Of India, princess"
"What of India2"
"She lies helpless"
"Ah! You love India?"
"Yes."
"You shall love me better You shall
love me better than your lifel Then.
for love of me, you shall own the India
you think you lovel This letter shall
go" She tapped her bosom. ut Is
best to cut you off from India first.
You shall lose that you moy win p
She got up and stood In the gap,
smiling mockingly, framed in the dark
ness of the cave behind.
81 understand p she said. ''You
think you are my enemy. Love and
hate never lived side by side. You
shall see !"
Her hands slipped into his, soft and
warm; her eyes fastened on his and
held them. And as they did so King
sank, like a sack half-empty and top
pied over sidewise on the floor asfeen.
He neither dreamed nor was con-
scious of anything, but slept like a
dead man, having fought against her
mesmerism harder than he knew.
Statesmen, generals, outlaws, all
make their big mistakes and manage
to recover. Very nearly always 1t is
an apparently little mistake that does
most damage in the end, something
unnoticeable at the time, that grows
In geometrical proportion, minus In
stead Of plus.
Yasmini made her little mistake that
minute in believing King was utterly
mesmerized at last and utterly In her
power. Whereas in truth he was only
weary. 1t may be that she gave him
orders In his sleep, after the accepted
manner of mesmerists; but If she did,
they never reached him; he was far
too fast asleep. He slept so deep and
long that he was not conscious of mems
voices, nor of being carried, nor of
time, nor Of anxiety, nor of anything.
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out to see the Cavern of Earths Drink.

out to see the Cavern of Earth's Drink.
The temptation was to fling the
brute after his victim. The tempta-
ton always Is to do the wrong thing
to cap wrath with wrath, injustice with
vengeance. That way wars begin and
are never ended. King beckoned him
into the cave, and bent over the chest
of medical supplies. Then, finding the
light better for his purpose at the en-
trance, he called the man back and
made him sit down on the box.
The business of lancing boils Is not
especially edifying In itself: but that
particular minor operation probably
saved India. But for hope of 1t the
man with the boils would never have
stood two turns on guard hand run
ming and let the relief sleep on; so he
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his beard monotonously with one hand.
The rifle, that he pretended to be hold
ing, really leaned against his back and
with the free hand he was making sig
nails.
King knew well he was making sig
nails. But he knew too that in Yas-
minis power, her prisoner, he had no
chance at all of interfering with her
plans. Having grounded on the bot
tom of impotence, SO to speak. any tide
that would take him OFF must be a good
tide. He pretended to be aware or
nothing, and to be particularly I'M
aware that the Pathan, with rifle
in each hand, was pretending to come
casually up the path.
In minute he was covered by a
rifle. In another minute the mullan
had dashed his hands. In five minutes
more the women were loaded again
with his belongings and they were all
halfway down the track In single hle'
the mullah bringing up the rear, de-
scending backward with rifle ready
against surprise, as IL he expected Vas
mini and her men to pounce out any
minute to the rescue.
They entered a tunnel and wound
along 1t, stepping at short Intervals
over the bodies of three stabbed SEN
tries. The Pathan spurned them with
his heel as he passed. IN the glare al
the tunnels mouth King tripped over
the body of fourth man and fell with
his chin beyond the edge villa sheer
| precipice.
They were on a ledge above the wa
terfall again, having come through @
projection on the cliffs side, for Kiln
jan Is all rat-runs and projections, like
a sponge or q hornets nest on titanic
scale.
They soon reached another cave, al
which the mullah stopped. 1t was
dark ill-smelling hole, but he ordered
King into 1t and the Pathan after hin
on guard, after first seeing the womer
pile all their loads inside. Then he
took the women away and went of
muttering to himself, staggering
swinging his right arm as he strobe, ir
a way few natives do.
"Let us hope he has forgotten
thesew the Pathan grinned, touching
the pile of rifles. weight for weigh
In silver they will bring me a fine
pricei He may forget. He dreams
For a mullah he cares less for mea
and money than any ever saw. He Il
mad, l think. 1t is my opinion Allal
touched him."
"What is that. under thy shirt?'
King asked.
The Pathan grinned, and undid the
button. There was second shirt I'm
derneath, and to that on the left breast
were pinned two British medals.
"Oh, yes p he laughed. II served The
raj was In the army eleven years.
"Why did you leave itT King asked
remembering that this man loved t.
hear his own voice.
"Oh, had furlough. I knitted a mar
this side of the border. 1t was no af
fair Of the British. But I was seen
and I entered this place. 1t is a devi
Of place."
Now the art Of ruling India consists
not in treading barefooted on scorpion:
not in virtuous indignation at mer
who know no better-but In seeking
for and making much of the gold tina
lies ever amid the dross. There Is
gold In the character of any man who
The evening world., 1918-01-31
BAKER CANCELLED ORDERS
GIVEN BROTHERS. COMPANY
Aviation CONTRACTS With Ohio Con-
Germ Brought Up During
War Inquiry.

WAs!uNC~oN. Jan. 5L-ln'eres' Of
H. u. Bal brother or Secretary
Baker. IN an e.. plane plant at Niles o =
which had but lost Government con-
tracts. came up to-day before the SEN
ote Military Committee at its inquiry
into the aviation service. Secretary
Baker ordered the contracts cancelled as
soon Is he learned the Aviation Service
he'd awarded them TO a concern In whieh
his brother was interested.
Senator Tlelinghuyscn OF New jersey
Submitted Information he had received
that the corporation--the Engel Air
craft Company--ot which n. Il, Bake;
IA president, had been overcapitallzed'
with sl,993.OOO Of a $4,000, 900 capital''
zatlon representing good will
Col Deeds OF tho Aviation Service tes-
titled that II. u. Baker conferred vita
him last June about securing a contract.
but had been "Natly turned down be-
cause the plant was not ready TO pro-
duce. Later Col Deeds said. when tho
plant was equipped, contracts were
given for 0iTplane parts on a cost
plus" basis,
The evening world., 1918-01-31
SWEARS HENN|G'S
SON MANIPULATED
PEG IN GYRO TESTS
Witness Declares Accused
Threatened He Would Be
Shot if He Told.

The FIRST direct testimony against
Pau, IIcnnig. on trial for treason
'eforc Judge Chatncld and a jury in
the Criminal Branch Of tho Federal
Court Brooklyn, was brought out By
Fred Welseimcycr this afternoon.
Welsclmcycr. who gave his a-e rs
twenty years, said lie was employed
in Hennigs department at the Bliss
works and that on July lie saw
Kari Honnig, son OF Paul, put in a
peg In a hole in the testing table
where the final run was being given
10 a gygoscope.
This was the peg installed bv Lieut..
shea whlch kept the table top firm
and prevented its movements from
counicrbaianclnG tho oscillations OF
tho Eyroscope. The Lieutenant testi-
ncd that after he had put the pes in
ne got no horoscopes from HcnniG
which were NJ for use. Woiselmeycr
testified that Karl Hcnntg kept his
apron over whore the peE was sup
posed to he, so that Lieut.. Shea. VINO
was watching tho test OF the gyro-
scope. could not note it's absence.
Paul Hennig called Lieut.. shea 20
the window to look At an approaching
thunderstorm" said tho witness.
lust toward the end Of the run. As
soon as the Lleutenants back was
turned Kari HenniS slipped the peg
back into its place"
Did Paul IIennig say anything TO
YOU tina, afternoon" was asked.
"IIc told me that IL anything were
said about what Kari had DONE" re-
lpl.cd the witness, 81 would get
plugged full OF lead. told Lieut.
shea all about it that afternoon"
Attorney Wing attacked the credit
ability Of the witness
Floyd Woods Mcintyre testified
that he had been an inspector In
Hennig's department since July Of
last year. lie described tho testing
stands OF the horoscopes as Lieut.
Shea described them yesterday and
repeated that Karl HennIng was in
charge OF one Of the stands.
Mcintyre said that Paul IIeunil
told him that it wasn't the custom
for the inspectors TO watch all the
test spins Of tho horoscopes. lie said
that they usually read a paper oI
magazine while the first two spins
we're being made and then witnessed
the third and final spin.
81 told him." said the witness, "tha
| preferred 10 watca all the spins, aud
did so"
The evening world., 1918-01-31
6O,3O4 LOADED
CARS STALLED ON
RAILWAYS IN EAST
Reports TO Director Smith
Show Great Freight Tie-Up
Is Still Unbroken.

Freight tranlc on all the lines un-
der tho supervision Of A. y. Smith.
Director OF Eastern Railroads, are
stlll greatly hampprod and in some
places almost paraly2cd, according
10 reports sent to him to-day By the
presidents OF the Eastern railroads.
Tho Pennsylvania system IL working
at 80 per cent. under normal capacity
because o' lee and snow conditions.
In the Pittsburgh gateway district
ice gorges on the Monon8ahcla River
have backed water across the tracks,
Everywhere added forces OF work
men are d.Sg.nE into the drifts and
slow progress at rehabilitation OF the
traffic ways is reported.
Loaded cars stalled both by
wes thcr conditions and freight con-
gcstion IN all tho territory under
Smiths supervision numbered 60,50i
to- day. This is an increase OF 1854
over Yesterdays report Eastbound
"empties" are tied up TO the number
OF 9.eOJ cars, which represents a de-
crease of S95 over yesterday West
bound "cmptics" numbered 3G,6l0 rs
against 1892 yesterday. In west
bound loaded cars tied up there was
decrease OF e,090 over yesterday
figures.
It was reported from Chicago that
III cars of livestock, dressed meats
aud porishablc foods were started
eastward yesterday All congestion
OF iour shipments out OF Chicug,
has been cleared up.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
MARTIAL LAW IN CITIES;
NEARLY 100000 ON
STRIKE IN GERMANY
Continued from First PaseJ

lie, asks whether tho Germans ought
10 laugh or cry vhilc hundreds Of
thousands Of workers have left the
factories the Prussian Diet should be
discussing such unimportant matters
~ whether the Crown Prince and
other Princes should be life members
u tho Upper House.
Tho strikers have presented an
ultim1tum 90 tho Government de-
handing immediate negotiations for
4 general peace on the basis OF no
anncNations and no indomEities. bet
ter food and number OF electoral
reforms. That tho Governmpnt is
disturbed is proved by the suppress
sion OF newspapers and Field Marshal
H!ndenburg's warning that the strike
must stop.
The strike movement embraces
Government and private shlphuilding
yards, tho mining centres and nu-
mcrous important factories in the
Berlin district. There Is also news
OF the formation Of a Workmen's
Council on the model OF tho Work
mems and Sailors Councils IN Rus
sia
The military authorities in the
Berlin district, according to the Bor-
lin correspondent OF the Copenhagen
Politillen have prohibited oil meet
ings convened to discuss public
questions AZ we'll az workmen's meet
ings and demonstrations.
Fifty thousand workmsn have
ceased work at kisl. The strike
is now general in the Chemnitz
district, which is the most i'm
portant industrial section in Sax.
ony. Field Marshal Won Hindon.
burs's proclamation appealing to
the workers 10 stop striking sp-
peared on all tho street corners
OF Berlin yesterday
Tho cessation OF work in Ham.
BURG is now virtually complete,
according TO a Daily Telegraph
despatch from Rotterdam. The
strike has extended from the Wi.
can Shipbulding Works in Ham.
| bura TO tho works Of Blohm &
Voss. another large shpbuildino
concern. These strikers also de.
mand an immediate peace on tho
basis OF no annexations and no
indemnities.
At meeting OF tho Berlin strikers
on wednesday. tho TGgeblatt adds
! a resolution was passed declaring
that the strikers would oppose to ;hC
utmost OF their power any reprisal,
against their leaders or represents
! tlVes.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
REVOLT LIKE
THAT IN NPETROGRAD,
BUT MORE VIOLENT
Forces Opposed to Each Other
Evenly Balanced and Cas-
ualtieS Are Many.

LONDON. Jan. 1i.-Finland Is co.
ing through n social revolution sim
liar In aims TO tho November rovolu-
ton In petrogrnd. says the Potrogr nd
correspondent OF the Daily News In
describing the Finnish situation. Tho
forces opposed TO each other IN Fin
land. however arc very equally bal
anced. no addr. and n comparatively
painless revolution. like that pushed
through 10y the Russian Bolshuvlld,
Is unlikely.
Tho latest advlces from PetrogrAd
are of continued nghting and disor-
ders In Finland. but the destruction of
telegraph ana telephone lines 10 pre-
venting much news from comins
through.
Tho members OF the Finnish sem
nte nro said 70 have taken refuge in
| Vnsa.
beyond preparing 20 send swodlsh
warships 60 take out any endangered
Swedish subjects. Sweden seems at
present 90 contemplate no intcrfcr-
oncc IN Finnish affairs, but the stu
alton Is engaging the closest attention
| OF the Swedish Government.
Tho Consuls at llelsingtors Of the
scandinavian nations are arranging
for special train 10 remove thelI
countrymcn from Finland
STOCKHOLM, Jan, 3l--All is quiet
at Ilelsingfors. despatch from that
city reports. but lighting is under
way at other points In Finland be-
tween tho Red Guard, which is sup
porting the revolution and tn,
White Guard. which Is upholding the
! Finnish Government.
In fighting Tuesday near Kaemerc
station tho Red Guard lost 81 killed
ana le7 injured. while the White
Suard lost only s killed ana /
wounded
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 81 The
Finnish Government leaders have
escaped toward Tammcrfors. where
the army Is now concentrating, ac-
cording to dispatches received here
to-dey.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
.PERSHING AND BLISS
At GREAT WAR COUNCIL
Clemenoeau, Lloyd George Or
lanlo and Other Notables in
Attendance.

VERSAILLES, France. Jan, 5i--Gen.
PersAing attended vesterday's meeting
ot tho Supreme war Council here, TO-
gethcr with Gen. Tasker II. Bliss the
CHIEF Of STAFF of the American Army
Premier Clemeneeau presided Cen,
Pctain. Gen. Foeh and Gen WeyGand
sat ht the promier's LEFT. David LLOYD
George had Gen Sir William X, Robert
sou. Chicf OF the General stan and
Major Cen. Sir Henry llughoS Wilson
Sub Chief OF stan, at his left. Gen,
nliss aud Gen. PershinE were In Goul
at the right, with prof Orlando the
Italian prcmicr Baron Sonnino, italian
Foreign Minister and Gen, Cadoma be-
side them at the left.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
ANARCHISTS SEIZED
BY BOLSHEWKI FOR
THREAT TO FRANCIS
Delegates to Pan-Soviet Con-
GreSS Who Warned u. S.
Envoy Arrested.

PErROGHAD. Jan 81 Omitted
Press).-A number OF anarchists
delegates to the PAN Soviet Congress
here e-were arrested by the BolshevIki
Government to-day as the resuit--of
threats TO hold American Ambassa-
dor Francis responsible for Ameri-
cas- treatment Of Alexander Bark-
man
Dispatches from Snaplen
yesterday toll OF anarchist
groups az Heisingrors. Finland,
having sent an "ultimatum" to
Ambassador Francis, notifying
him that he would be held to ac-
count for whatever punishment
might he meted out 90 Borkman.
recently convicted in the United
states OF conspiracy to defeat
the Conscription law. His last
appeal was rejected on Monday
by the supreme Court Of the
1'nhed states
WASUINGTON. Jan. THE
United states Government expects
Ambassador Francis to appeal TO the
Bolshcviki Government for protec-
ton should Russian Anarchists at
temp, TO carry out their threats
against his safety Allied diplomats
at the Russian capital also are ex-
pested TO rally to the support OF the
American envoy II the worst should
come.
While no instructions have gone
forward TO Francis to demand safety
Of tho BolshevilSi. 1t was said at the
state Department the step was re-
garded as the only sensible thing to
do"
Meantime legal complication arose
here against any stay OF sentence
against Alexander Berkman, Anarch-
ist now awaiting Imprisonment for
anti-draft agitation. for whose lib
ertv Francis is being held "person- =
ally responsible" by Russian Anarch.
lists. Inquiry at tho Justice Depart
ment developed tho difficulty OF sus-
pending Supreme Court arrest writs
against Bcrkman and Emma Gold &.
man, his Co-Rgitator. Officials point
out such a step would at once jeop-
ardize the Governments case against
all others convicted and Jailed for
obstructing the draft.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
.EaRiGHT PASSES Up CHANCE
TO MAKE HIMSELF CAPTAIN
Much Red Tare Would Have Done
II, But Commissioner Gives
Vacancy 10 Another.

Police Commissioner EnrIght passed
up a chance 20 promote himself to-day.
For be II remembered, Commissioner
though he bo for the time being, the
police rank he retains on Leave OF alb
sencc and Ia which he viii return
when he quits being Commissioner, is
that OF Lieutenant
~ Capt. Edward G. Barnett OF the
Wakefield station Was retired to-day
FOR physical disability, and the vacancy
could have been made Enrighrs 10y a
lot of red tape, lie would have had
to resign temporarily as Commissioner.
become temporarily an active Liculen-
ant again. and receive the captaincy
at the hands OF temporarily ap-
pointed new Commissioner II could
nave been done,
hut Enrlght Just laughed at the sug-
gcstion and made a Captain OF Lieut..
John 5, Routh and put him In COM
mand Of the Arsenal ~ Central Park.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
Conflicts Bctwccn TroopS and striksrs
In Bertin Reported.

GENEVA. Jan, 3i.--According TO n
Basic despatch 10 La Suisse there
have been serious conflicts between
troops and strikers in Berlin, with
casualties, At some places troops
refused to rre on the strikers
Dispatches from Vienna received
here asserted that soldiers started the
recent strike movement, many Aus
trlan officers leading. These officers
il was declared, tore or their in
sigma and Joined with their men,
A despatch to the Democrat de-
clarod "a revolution, not a strike Is
relgnlng In Austria,
Prague messages reported that IN,
local authoritios were unable to sap,
prcss the strikers and that trUop,
we're arriving TO aid.
The evening world., 1918-01-31
FREaCHMAN GIVES BLOOD
TRYING TO SAVE U. S. FLYER
Pittsburgh Aviator Dies as Result OF
an Attack by Six Germans
While on Patrol.

PARIS. Jan. 3i.-A French army
sorgeant's sacrifice OF blood In a trans
fusion operHo could not save the lie
Of Philip Benney OF Pittsburgh. Pa an
pvin,or in the Lafayette Escadrille' ac-
cording to details received to-day. The
sone message from the front also
brought word Of the death IN sc'i2n t,noot OF
drnls flyer, n native OF Highland Park.
iEcnney was attacked by six Germans
while patrolling the SKY Jan. -. NJ
.HIr,S No MANAGED 20 regain his own
lines and was removed from his ma
tlpinc cxbaustcd from loss OF blood.
Sncnccr was killed while on MS way
home from the German INES; re va va
a graduate Of Yale and was twenty 'on'
Ncara old.