Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1919-12-18

voyage as was theirs, would readily
be believed. so that 1t might come
about that the crew and officers would
take things into their own hands, and
would take the ship to the place Ram
Gulab Singh had set down upon the
paper, and where Ram Gulab Singh
would lie i'm wait to work his will upon
the master and upon them all. sahib,
for dead men tell no tales. But for
that paper, sahib, It so fell out, he had
no need until you, by Al!ah's will, came
also to the ship, as / have related. All
this, sahib, / learned tonight while l
lay hidden"
go on" urged Wallen tensely. 81
begin to sea little. My father, Gun
ga-and this Ram Gulab Singh?"
THE young sahlb is twenty-four,"
said Gunga. 1T began two years be-
fore you were born. The master was
a great merchant here. owning schoon.
ers by means of which he traded with
Inc natives. RAM Gulab Singh was
the native governor over q group of
these islands.
"He was very powerful, and his
wealth was beyond reckoning.
ALSO, sahib, he was murderer and
a thief, whereby he had his wealth !;
and he hid his face behind the British
government, whom he deceived. Your
father lost one schooner and then an
other and many goods; and knowing
I'm his heart that It was Ram Gulab
Singh, he complained to the govern
ment. But because he could prove
nothing, nothing was done, sahib only
that It came to the ears of Ram Gulab
Singh, and he Knocked your father, my
master. by messengers in private.
"Sahlb, my master was brave man,
and of great cunning. He loaded n
schooner with such richness Of goods
that it was common talk; but also, in
secret he placed abundance of arms
upon the vessel; and at night, as she
sailed, he himself came aboard In the
darkness with many men 10 join the
crew, and Of these / was one, sahib.
1T came about as the master had
fOreseen.
"He sailed to the Islands where Ram
Gulab Singh was; and Ram Gulab
Singh, knowing that 1t was your ia
theirs schooner, and thinking IT a prize
of great value, fell into the snare.
Sahib. he came upon us with four
prOas, and our men lay hidden below
the decks. that they might not be seen
until the pirates, led by Ram Gulab
Singh himself, boarded US from the
prOas.
ut was q fight, sahib, that l would
to Allah might see again before die.
for my arm is still strong and my
blood is the blood Of youth, and the
years count not. They fought as rep
tiles fight who must either fight or die.
But half escaped, and those by swim
ming to the prOas which. In their first
onslaught. after all hail come on board
of US, we had cut adrift from the
schoOner's sides.
"Many times in the melee my mas
ter tried to single out Ram Gulab
Singh. that they might meet face to
face, but It was only at the last the
master came upon the other as Ram
Gulab Singh was climbing over the rail
to escape, and his hand was on the
rail- but before he had dropped into
the water the masters cutlass had sew
cred three fingers from the hand OF
Ram Gulab Singh-such, sahlb. is the
reading Of the paper with the One-fin-
gered hand.
"Sahib, this time the government
took heed, for we had prisoners who
confessed; but against these Ram
Gulab Singh sent many TO take the
oath that he had been elsewhere at the
time. And so again there was not the
full measure OF proof. but my master