The Monticellonian., 1919-10-31

You didn't kill him" Wallen cried. Then who" He leaned forward and gripped the others wrist herceIy. "Gunga, the time has come for ne to know. Why wns my father murdered, and hy whom? Why did he live that strange life in that old gray, stone house2 Why did Drink House sam set crew of Chinese murdererS loose upon me? And this" he held out the diagram of the human hand with its missing tingers-"what does IL. sig nify and why-was it shrped under the door of my cabin last mght?'
 In the moonlight Guuga's face was working again, and his eyes narrowed, seemed to be searching intcntly the surface of the water around him.
 Among tne crew, sahib. he asked there Is q Kanaka, t tall man with great shoulders and whose lip k scared as though il had been cut across?e
 @Ies = The word WIS sharp in- take of Wallen's breath.
 "Then il is true said Gunga. Tonight he slipped away from the ship and swam ashore and il may he. for Allah is all powerful, that he will swim back again. I lay hidden. sahiB where I have lain hidden for many nights, and he came and told the story: and l, GHnga, listened unknown te him. and the light was gone from my life, as he told how he had shot the master through the porthole 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 Gied to kill you, but fate had not willed il %. And at lasl, thinking that your death was sure, either hy his hand CT by one in l Singapore. and thinking 10 torture you with fear.he put the paper With the hand upon thunder your cabin door,
 And other things he told as well. sahih.
 @Of how the captain and the crew thought strangely of the voyage, nf how through him. they came te WhiS- per among themselves that il WAS q l treasure-hunt; and how, the day after you came aboard. before he knew the ship Was going 10 Singapore. that you might not escape hY 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 ta staY on hoard, he pretended to have found q slip of paper with certain latitude and longi- l tade upon il which he made pfefense you had dropped from &our pocket.
 This he carried to the captain, thinking that the captain would believe the treasure within his reach and search for t on his eWH account in spite of you, sahib, and so keep you l 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 look the paper and baae him hold his i tongue and
 Wait said Wallen quickly. "It is i certain, then, that Captain EaYnton and the crew had nothing to do with my fathers mHder-with Drink-House Sam?'
 n is certain, sahib,@ Gunga an swered Though, too there are strange things about that shtp-but the i tale is for another time"
 And this Ram Gulab Singh?" Wal len questioned through thin lips.
 Ganga,s eyes were still searching the water around him in the same in tent curious way.
 Have patience, sanib," he said "Time does not press TOW. IL is we'll that you should know III before you go aboard. The ship is to saii ai once. then?e
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