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For Rent-Furnished Rooms

THE STANLEY HOTEL AND BATHS
Modern in every way. Rates 81 90
aud uP. Room with Turkish Bath for
men $l.50 and mp. Open day and night.
: r. m. 500 Washington St Gary. Ind.
Phone sci. 2-2I-tf
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For Sale-Automobiles.

FOR sALE-1917 Ford touring car, Al
condition; reasonable. Sec Or T. 2.
Hale. Room 304 1st Nat. BS. Bldg. L
Chicago. S-o~o
FOR SAI.E-Cheap. 1917 Model Ford
touring car. on account Of draft. Phone
Hammond le3SR after r. m. 1913
FOR SAI.E-19Is Allen pass. Al shape.
$3.50 4506 Forsyth ave. Phone SIAM.
r. Chicago. "-i--A
FOR SAI.F-E1gfn car. 1917 model. run
1000 miles. cheap if taken at once
Call phone 234 Or see car at a. r g
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Wanted to Buy

TT4E STANLEY HOTEL And BATHS
Modern in every way. Rates. 90
o9en Il 20 and m. Open DAY and night
ladies'. baths open from 2 m. TO
p. a. 500 Washington st. Gary, Ind.
Phone sal. @--l-tL
WANTED TO BJY-Victrols Must be
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HaGlsxoud- --~e-@
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Lost and Found
Personal.

WHO Will JOIN ME-And lake IS or
so feet on improved street. North
Side ~ about cost Of assessments. Al
dress Box 256. Hammond, Ind. 2-9-S
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For Sale-Motorcycles.
Board and Room.

BOARD AND aFOOM-For > gentlemen,
IS per week 136 W Williams 81. w
Hammond Sill
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Wanted Male Help

" .ANTED- Young man for grocery de
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Situations Wanted.
For Rent

TFTF STANLEY HOTEL AND BATHS
Modern in every way Rates, 500
and up. Room with Turkish Bath for
man. $50 and UP open day and night
+ NJ 500 Washington St Gary. Ind.
Phone 5Sl. z-zl-tt
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Hst: hardwood throughout. 1884 Cal
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Real Estate Bargains

THE STANLEY HOTEL AND BATHS
Modern in every waN. Rates $500
and UP. Room with Turkish bath for
men, $3.50 and up- Open day and night.
Ladies baths open from a. m. to
? y. m. 500 Washington 81. Gary. Ind.
Phone 5S1 2-2l-tf
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FOR SALE-B Bargain; several uncaIled
mems and young mems suits and
single trousers. for sale az bargain
prices j. Guss. ESQ state St Phone
Hammond an. 3-lZ-1
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FOR RENT-Furnished front room. / or
gehtlement Phone Hammond
l00@J. Hammond s-T-t
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FOR RENT-Sleeping rooms, convenient
aO6W. Hammond 400 MAY S. 3-t-tf
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FOR RENT Furnished room: very de-
slIabte gentlemen. 4t21 Olcott ave
E. Chicago 3-9-3
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Wanted-F Female Help

THE STANLEY HOTEL AID BATHS Is
Modem in every way Rates Sl ~
and up Room with TUrkish 6 Bat a p IIl
-, 49, ha~hs Open from p m. 10
. - N 500 Washington st Gary ln d
Phone 5Sl.
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L OK Rem Rooms in private home
WITHIN walking distance Of STANDARD
steel Car plant, 1928 Monroe St. near
ConkeN ave. s-5-tf
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Special Cash Bargain

Wednesday Only.
Duofold Davenport; worth
$3.50 for S24.50 Zone only)
Hammond Furni-
ture Co, 242 East State st.
3-I2-I
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FOR SALE OR ExCITANGF-C'hi so
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suitable for saloon or light mtg What
have you2 Tel. or write. Deluxe Thea
tTe. Hammond S-6-6
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FOR RENT Furnished rooms for light
housekeeping: all modern conVen-
fences. SS4 Indiana ave. Hammond
s-9-3
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gagged him. At q word from Muham-
mad Amin they loosed him; and at a
threat the hairless one gave signal
that brought the great stone door slid
ing forward on its oiled bronze grooves.
Then. with a dozen jeSts thrown to
the hairless one for consolation, and
an utter Indifference to the SacrednesS
of the mosque floor, they sought outer
air. and Muhammad Amin led them up
the Street of the Dwellings toward
Khinjan's outer ramparts. They
reached the outer gate without Incl
dent and hurried into the great dry
valley beyond it. AS they rode across
the valley the mullah thumbed long
string of beads. Unlike Yasmini, he
was praying to one god; but he seemed
to have many prayers. His back was a
picture of determined treachery-the
backs of his men were expressions or
the creed that she shall keep who
canw King rode all but last now and
had a good view of their unconsciously
Wanted blackguardism. There was not
hint of honor or tenderness among
| the lot, man, woman or mullah. Yet
his heart sang within him as If he
! were riding to his own marriage feast
Last of all, close behind him,
marched his friend, the Orakzai Pa
than, and as they picked their way
among the powders across the mile
| wide moat the two contrived to fall a
little to the rear. The Pathan began
speaking in whisper and King, riding
with lowered head as If he were study
| ing the dangerous track, listened.
"She sent her man Rewa Gunga to-
ward the Khyber with a message" he
whispered. she took a few men with
him, and he is to send them with the
message when they reach the Khyber
but he is to come back. All he went
| for is to make sure the message is not
| intercepted, for with-a-beard is
growing reckless these days. He knew
what was doing and said at once that
she is treating with the British, but
there were few who believed that
There are more who wonder where she
hides while the message is on it's way,
None has seen her. Men have Swarmed
into the Cavern of Earths Drink and
howled for her, but she did not come
Then the mullah went to look for his
ammunition that he stored and sealed
in cave. And it was gone. 1t was
all gone. And there was no proof OF
who had taken it!
''Hakim, there be some who say-and
| Bull-with-a-beard is one OF them-that
she is afraid and hides.
"His men say he is desperate. His
own are losing faith in him. He
snatched thee to be bait for her, hav-
ing it in mind that a man whom she
hides in her private part of Khinjan
must be of great value to her. He has
sworn to have thee skinned alive on q
hot rock should she fail to come to
| terms I"
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CHAPTER XIX.

The march went on in single file I'M
Ill the sun died down in splendid fury.
Then there began to be wind that
they had to lean against, but the wom-
en- were allowed no rest.
At last at place where the trail be-
gan to widen, the mullah beckoned
King to- ride beside him. 1t was not
that he wished to be communicative,
but there were things King knew that
he did not know, and he had his own
way of asking questions.
Cd hakim!" he grOwled, "Pill-
man! Poulticer! That is a sweeper's
trade of thine! Thou shalt apply it at
my camp! have some wounded and
some sick"
King did not answer, but buttoned
his coat closer against the keen wind.
The mullah miStoOk the shudder for
one of another kind.
"Did she choose thee only for thy
face? he asked. "Did she not con-
slider thy courage? Does she love thee
well enough to ransom thee?'
Again King did not answer, but he
watched the mullahs face keenly in
the dark and missed nothing of it's ex-
preston. He decided the man was in
doubt-even racked by indecision.
Should she not ransom thee, hakim,
thou shalt have a chance to show my
men how a man out of India can die |
By and by / will lend thee a messenger
to send to her. Better make the mes
sage clear and urgent Thou shalt
state my terms to her and plead thine
own cause in the same letter. My
camp lies yonder."
He motioned with one sweep Of his
arm toward a valley that lay in shadow
far below them. AS they approached
it the rock Glove in two and became
two great pillars, with a man on each.
And between the pillars they looked
burned before a thousand hide tents,
with shadows by the hundred fitting
back and forth between them. A dull
roar, like the voice of an army, rose
out of the gorge.
More than four thousand men ~
said the mullah proudly.
"What are four thousand for a raid
into Indian" sneered King, greatly
daring.
"Wait and seei" growled the mullah !;
but he seemed depressed.
He led the way downward, getting
off his horse and giving the reins to a
man. King copied him, and PARKWAY
sliding, part stumbling down they
found their way along the dry bed Of
water-course between two spurs of a
hillside until they stood at last in the
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midst of cluster of a dozen sentries,
close to a tamarisk to which a mans
body hung spiked. That the man had
been spiked to it alive was suggested
by the body's attitude.
Without word TO the sentries the
mullah led on down lane through the
midst of the camp, toward great
open cave at the far side, in which q
bonfire cast fitful light and shadow.
Watchers sitting by the thousand tents
yawned at them, but took no particular
notice.
The mouth of the cave was like q
lions, fringed with teeth. There were
men in it, ten or eleven of them, all
armed, squatting round the IRE.
"Get out! ~ growled the mullah. But
they did not obey. They sat and stared
at him.
"Have We tents?" the mullah asked.
in voice like thunder.
"Ayep But they did not go yet.
One Of the men, he nearest the null
lah, got on his feet, but he had to step
back a pace, for the mullah would not
give ground and their breath was in
each others faces.
"Where are the bombs? And the
rifles? And the many cartridges? he
demanded. eve have waited long, Mn
hammad Amin. Where are they nowT
The others got up, to lend the first
man encouragement. They leaned on
rifles and surrounded the mullah, SO
that King could only get glimpse OF
him between them. They seemed in no
mood to be treated cavalierly-in no
mood to be argued with. And the null
lah did not argue.
aye dogs!" he growIed at them, and
he strobe through them to the fire and
chose himself a good, thick burning
brand. aye sons of nameless mothers !"
Then he charged them suddenly,
beating them over head and face and
shoulders, driving them in front Of
him, utterly reckless Of their rifles.
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CHAPTER XVIII.

When King awoke he lay on COM
Portable bed in cave he had never
vet seen, but there was no trace of Vas
mini. nor of the men who must have
carried him to it. He had no idea how
long he had slept. 1t did not matter.
He had probed Khinjan caves, and
knsw the whole purpose for which the
aawless thousands had been gathering
and were gathering still. Remained, to
thwart that purpose. He began at
che beginning, where he stood.
Behind him in corner at the back
of the cave was narrow assure, hung
with n leather curtain, that was doubt
Sess the door into khinjan's heart; but
4he only way to the outer air was along
A ledge above a dizzying precipice, 81,
high that the huge waterfall looked
like a little stream below. He was In
a very eagles aerie; the upper rim OF
Khinian's gorge seemed not more than
n uarter of a mile above him.
Round the corner, ten feet from the
entrance. stood a guard. armed to the
tooth. with a rifle, a sword, two pistols
and n long curved Khyber knife stuck
handy In lis girdle. AS he looked,
yi,tle PROCESSION of women, led by a
man. came up the ledge. The man was
nrmed. but the women were burdened
with Sis own beiongings-the medlclne
.,bes+-his saddle and bridle-hls I'M
~,t1ed mule-pack. They came past the
dumb man on guard and LAID theh Ill
az Kings feet just inside the cave.
He smiled. with that genial. face
transforming smile of his that mas 81
often melted road for him through
.SuIIen crowds. But the man In charse
of the women did not grin. lie was
suffering. He growled at the women
and they went away like ooedient ani'
mails. TO sit halfway down the ieuse
md await further orders. He himseii
x,oda as If TO follow them. and the
,aumb man on guard did not pay mucn
attention: be let women and man pass
behind BIN, stepping one pace for"aro
Soxvars the edge to make more room
rr,.at was his last entirely voluntary
act in this world. III
with a suddenness that disarmeo al
oonosition the other bumped himsen
AGAINST the wall and bucked into u''
.s,nh mans back, sending nun
weapons and all, hurting over tat
nrecipice to the caverns into which tls
syater tumbled thousands of feet awsy
r,sa other ruffian spat after him. ant
soan walked back to where King stoou
aNow heal me my boils?' he SAID
wr,nnIng at last, doubtless from pleas
sre ST the prospect. He was the same
s.on who had stood on guard at th'
.s,,est-cave" when Ismail LED hihs
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CHAPTER XVlI-continued.

Morning looks down into Khinjan
hours after the sun has risen, because
the precipices shut it out. But the
peaks On every side are very beacons
or the range at the earliest peep of
oaWn. In silence they watched days
herald touch the peaks with rosy jew
'eied hngers-she waiting as If she ex-
pected the marvel of it all to make
King speak.
1t was cold. She came and snug
igied close to him, and it was so they
watched the sparkle of dawn's Jewels
die and the peaks grow gray again, she
win an arm on his shoulder and
strands of her golden hair blown past
his face.
"Of what are you thinkingp she
asked him at last.
"Of India, princess"
what of India?"
"She lies helpless"
"Ahl You love India?"
eyes"
you shall love me betteri You shall
love me better than your life! Then,
for love of me, you shall own the India
you think you love! This letter shall
,go!" She tapped her bosom. '"It is
best to cut you off from India first.
You shall lose that you may win!'
She got up and stood in the gap,
smiling mockingly, framed in the dark
ness of the cave behind.
81 underestimate 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
Piled over sidewise on the floor asleep.
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 it is
an apparently little mistake that does
most damage in the end, something
unnoticeable at tho 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
Gong that he was not conscious of men
voices, nor of being carried, nor Of
time, nor of anxiety, nor of anything.
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$50 Thou Art to Ape the Sleeper IN
His Bronze Mail, Eh!"

His own rife lay on the ground behind
him, and King kicked its stock clear
| Of the fire.
"Oh, shall pray for you this night"
Muhammad Amin snarled. "What a
curse 1 shall beg for you'll Oh, what
burning of the bowels We shall havel
What a sickness What running of the
eyes What soresl What boils What
sleepless nights and faithless women
shall be yoursl What prayer will
pray to Allah!"
They scattered into outer gloom De-
fore his rage, and then came Lack to
kneel to him and beg him withdraw his
curse. He kicked them as they knelt
and drove them away again. Then.
silhouetted in the cave mouth, with the
glow of the fire before him, he stood
with folded arms and dared them
shoot.
After five minutes of angry contem.
plation of the camp he turned on a
contemptuous heel and came back to
the fire, throwing on more fuel from a
great pile in a corner. There was an
AANh POS III tAC IIC oClACu u
stick and stirred the contents furious
ly, then set the pot between his knees
and ate like an animal. He passed the
pot to King when he had finished, but
fingers had passed too many times
through what was left in it and the
very thought of eating the mess made
his gorge rise; so King thanked him
and set the pot aside.
Then, "That is thy placer Muham-
mad Amin growled, pointing over his
shoulder to ledge OF rock, like a shelf
in the far wall. But though he was al
lowed to climb up and lie down, he was
not allowed to sleep-nor did he want
to sleep-for more than an hour to
come.
The mullah came over from the fire
again and stood beside him, glaring
like a great animal and grumbling in
his beard.
Does she surely love thee?" he
asked at last, and King nodded, be-
cause he knew he was on the trail Of
information.
$50 thou art to ape the Sleeper In
his bronze mail, Ell? Thou art to come
to life, as she was said to come to life,
and the two of you are to plundsE
lndia2 Is that it?"
CTo BE CoNTNUEDA
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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 a big bear on
mountain track, swaying his head from
side to side six feet away. King
jumped, nearly driving the lance into
a new place in his patients neck.
LET him go!" growled Muhammad
Amin. &C.,. thou! Stand guard over
the women until Gomez
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 Earth's Drink, was creeping up be-
hind the women and already had his
rife leveled at the man with boils.
"Ayew said the mullah, watching
Kings eyes. ''He has done well, and
the road is clear!'
The man with boils offered no fight.
He dropped his rifle and 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%
II slew a man." said King.
"Thou lest 1t was my men who got
the head that let thee in! Speak
Why art thou here?"
But King did not answer. The null
lah resumed.
"He who brought me the message
yesterday says he has it from another.
who had it from a third, that thou art
here because she plans q 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 mer 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 she?" he asked. "Her
man Rewa Gunga went yesterday, with
three men and letter to carry down
the Khyber. But where is she?"
So he had slept the clock round !!
Bing did not answer. He blocked the
way into the cave and looked past the
nullah. The Orakzai Pathan, crouched
among the women. and the women
grinned. The mullah stared into
Fing's face, with the scrutiny of q
trader appraising loot. Fire leaped up
| behind his calculating eyes. And with
out a word passing between them. King
knew that this man as we'll as Vas
| mini was In possession of the secret
of the Sleeper. Perhaps ne knew 1t
first; perhaps she snatched the keep
| ing of the secret from him. At sill
events he knew 1t and recognized
Kings likeness to the Sleeper, for his
eyes betrayed him. He began to stroke
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once passed the grilling tests before
enlistment in a British-Indian regi-
ment. 1t may need experience to lay a
finger on it, but it is surely there.
81 heard" said King, ''as I came to-
ward the Khyber in great haste (for
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.
ST heard" said King. shat the sirkar
has offered pardons to ali deserters
who return"
"Hah! But thou art hakim, not a
soldier!"
'sTruei" said King.
@In India earned my salt. I obeyed
the law. There Is no law here in the
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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 Vas
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 good
tide. He pretended to be aware of
nothing, and to be particularly I'M
aware that the Pathan, with a rifle
| in each hand, was pretending to come
| casually up the path.
In a minute he was covered by a
| rifle. In another minute the mIllah
| 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 file.
the, mullah bringing up the rear, de
scending backward with rifle ready
against surprise, as If he expected Vas
mini and her men to pounce out any
minute to the rescue.
They entered a tunnel and wound
along it, 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 at
the tunnels mouth King tripped over
the body of a fourth man and fell with
his chin beyond the edge of sheer
precipice.
They were on a ledge above the wa
terfall again, having come through a
projection on the cliffs side, for Kiln
jan is all rat-runs and projections, like
a sponge or a hornets nest on a titanic
SCALE
| They soon reached another cave, at
which the mullah stopped. 1t was a
dark ill-smelling hole, but he ordered
King into it and the Pathan after him
on guard, after first seeing the women
pile all their loads inside. Then he
took the women away and went off
muttering to himself, staggering,
swinging his right arm as he strobe, in
a way few natives do.
"Let us hope he has forgotten
these!" the Pathan grinned, touching
the pile of rifles. weight for weight
in silver they will bring me a fine
price! He may forget. He dreams.
For a mullah he cares less for meat
and money than any ever saw. He is
mad, L think. 1t is my opinion Allah
touched him."
"What is that, under thy shirt?''
King asked.
The Pathan grinned, and undid the
button. There was a second shirt un-
derneath, and to that on the left breast
were pinned two British medals.
ooh, yes!" he laughed. II served the
raj l was in the army eleven years.
"Why did you leave it?' King asked
remembering that this man loved to
hear his own voice.
ooh, I had furlough. knitted man
this side of the border. It was no af-
fair of the British. But 1 was SEEN
and 1 entered this place. 1t Is a devil
of place."
Now the art of ruling India consists
not in treading barefoOted on scorpions
not in virtuous indignation at men
who know no better-but in seeking
for and making much of the gold that
lies ever amid the dross. There is
gold in the character of any man who