Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1919-12-11

"You didn't kill hint" wallen cried
Then who" He leaned forward and
grlpped the others wrist hercely.
"Gunga, the time has come for me to
know. Why was my father murdered
and by whom7 Why did he live that
strange life in that old gray. stone
house? Why did Drink-House Sam SET
crew Of Chinese murderers loose
upon me7 And thls"-he held out the
diagram OF the human hand with Its
missing fingers-"what does this sig
nifty, and why was II slipped under the
door Of my cabin last nightr
In the moonlight Gunga,s face was
working again. and his eyes, narrowed,
seemed TO be searching intently the
surface of the water around him.
among the crew, sahib," he asked,
"there is a Kanaka, tall man with
great shoulders, and whose lip is
Scared as though II had been cut
acrossr
"Yesr The word was a sharp in
take Of Wallen's breath.
"Then It is true" said Gunga.
Tonight he slipped away from the
ship and swan ashore; and 1t may be,
for Allah Is all powerful, that he will
swim back again. 1 lay hidden, sahib,
where I have lain hidden for many
nights, and he came and told the story ;
and ], Gunga, listened unknown to
him, and the light was gone from my
life, as he told how he had shot the
master through the portfolio and
thrown the pistol and those things
to clean it with in upon the floor.
"And he told of you, sahib, and the
strange way you came aboard the ship,
and how twice he had tried to kill
you, but fate had not willed 1t so. And
at last, thinking that your death was
sure, either by his hand or by one in
Singapore and thinking to torture you
with fear he put the PAPER with the
hand upon II under your cabin door.
"And other things he told as well,
sahib.
"Of how the captain and the crew
thought strangely Of the voyage, of
how, through him, they came to whis-
per among themselves that 1t was a
treasure-hunt; and how, the day after
you came aboard before he knew the
ship was going to Singapore, that you
might not escape by going ashore at
some port where they would not be
waiting for you as they would at
Singapore, that you might even be
forced by the captain to stay on board,
he pretended TO have found a slip of
paper with a certain latitude and longi-
tude upon it which he made pretense
you had dropped from your pocket.
This he carried to the captain,
thinking that the captain would believe
the treasure within his reach and
search for 1t on his own account in
spite of you. sahib, and so keep you
aboard for the paper was the position
Ram Gulab Singh had given the Kan
aka, as he had also given the drawing
Of the hand; but the captain only took
the paper and bade him hold his
tongue and"
wait" said Wallen quickly. ut is
certain, then, that Captain Laynton
and the crew had nothing to do with
my fathers murder-with Drink House
Sam?"
at is certain, sahib," Gunga AN
swered. Though, too, there are
strange things about that ship-but the
tale is for another time"
"And this Ram Gulab Slngh?" Wal
len questioned through thin lips.
Gunga's eyes were still searching
the water around him In the same in
tent, curious way.
Have patience. sahib," he said.
thine does not press row. 1t is well
that you should know all before you
90 aboard. The ship is to sail ut once,
them"
YES" said Wallen.