The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29

ing vigorously, but with the greatest
composure.
On each side of him, swaying in per-
feet rhythm to the music, were two re-
pulsive ~king-cobras. A hypnotic spell
seemed to fill the room. Neither the
piper nor the snakes appeared aware
of the intrusion.
"Jitendra |" sharply CALCULATED Will
liams.
The music abruptly ceased.
The ophidians, as if seeming pos
sible danger, fiattened to the floor and
glided with amazing swiftness over to
the Hindu. He thrust one nonchalant-
ly into his turban and the other into
the neck-cloth he plucked from the
floor and adjusted.
The four Americans gasped.
1t was several seconds before Will
liams could find his voice. So many
weird things had happened that he
would not have been surprised to see
the little brown man disappear through
the floor or dissolve into nothing while
they watched.
81 thought you were dead. Jiten-
dra Z" at last exclaimed the mine
owner.
The diminutive brown man arose
and salaamed profoundly.
1.-The sahib speaks true of Jalising-
rao Jitendra, who today excarnated
on the Seven Paths from the prison
ward of the city-iS it not So?"
Buck WINGED.
But his careful scrutiny of the half
starved figure before him removed the
sudden doubts which had projected
themselves into his mind.
you're Jitendra, all right" he posi-
lively replied. II know your feet
you loyal little cussl You cut the soles
of them almost to pieces following me
from Ell Paso. Look at them-they're
raw yetr
"Jalisingrao Jitendra has passed
on" politely but firmly returned the
Oriental, with the flicker of a smile
across his mobile face. But, verify,
his soul reincarnates again in my body
but l, sahib, am called Swami RAM"
'I get you, Steve" laughed Buck up
roariously. "And I think 1 savvy an
other little incident which occurred
when the late Jalisingrao Jitendra-
Gee what a mouthful that name is
in my company. If you had that
interesting creature around your head
when you leaned over toward Manuel
Pacheco on the way to Jail in Zapa-
tillio, no wonder he kicked off so mys-
t~eriously. I'll match a cobra against
a greaser, any day."
1.-THE vengeance of Vishnu is swift
and sure" placidly returned the Hindu.
Likewise, sahib, silva was of some
small service to you during the earth
life of the late Jitendra."
"You mean down in the carcel?"
The little brown man bowed low.
"Sahib, when silva crept under the
door where no mar might pass, n
coiled upon the neck of the guard,
think you not there were reasons why
he wished, very much, to come inside
to have speech with Jitendraf'
"Ughw ~shuddered Buck, ST should
think there were-plenty of them. So
that was how you nailed the sentry in
the corridor. And it was his rife
which the late Jitendra gave me, I sup
poser"
Swami Ram nodded.
"Vishnu and silva, sahib, as you will
are not without power to sue
cor the deserving in their distress"
They're a couple of perfectly good
snakes" hastily acquiesced the Ameri-
can. But why did Jitendra die in
stead of following me out Of the
And what became Of that
0ther Mexican guard?"
"Jitendra had lost caste by being
thrust into that foul dungeon by IN
clean hands, sahib. Also, he had
a cigarette, which is likewise
forbidden. He was to wed the Princess
Iidira, but she must now seek another
husband. 1t was needful for him to
excarnate for publication"
'But they took you out to shoot you,
didn't they? 1 thought I heard the vol
ley just as I rode up"
"a little patience, sahib. The guard
n the hall vowed obedience to Vishnu
and silva in return for his life, thus
becoming a novitiate on the Seven
Paths. 1t was he who made ready for
Jitendra to pass out by hiding the pow
der kegs in the old drain beneath the
place where the killers of men were
/, oo,1 c4orno6 m ctoud
"Also he strewed powder to the hole
where Jitendra stood when he lighted
he forbidden cigarette. Jitendra did
lot smoke cigarettes, but his act was
to carry out the will of the
gods. For, sahib, those deluded ones
we're also fated to seek wisdom else
where. Not until they shall raise the
veil of Maya from their vision and,
1~erceiving Truth, resolve to kill no
more, may they hope to return to
/:
Buck Williams grinned at the naive
His three friends were too
to speak.
Where are you going now?" Queried
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