Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-18
Continued from 1ast week


Never before III all his life had
9ry, potent LIQUID like the one now
tckling down his throat passed his
IS. The thud of the wrecked car as
tOppled at last into the ditch seemed
aid in his awakening.
lie sat suddenly erect, looked stu
" around. Friendly hands helped
into the Pullman.
Feeling better?" Buck Williams
already forgotten his own trivial
ries in the sOlicitude he felt for
timorous little alien peering up
Tim with apologize eyes.
Les, sahib," breathed the brown
So do not understand"
III. it's all over" cheerfully inter-
ed Williams. eve had a break
on the locomotive and came to
uick stop. The old wooden diner
nEied up-that's all. Couldn't eX-
anything else, hitting the hill the
we were, with a big hog like that
rOnt and the steel Pullman behind.
couple of niggers killed-and you
the worst deal of any of the pas
gers, / guess"
rhe sOmber look in the eyes deep
ID as Jitendra scanned his face with
quaint intentness which was alto
her new and q little uncanny. Will
ms shifted uneasily as he went on:
''Wrecking crews got the engine on
le track again; Wen only be a few
ours late into FL PasO. Do you think
ou'd better get off at Deming and let
doctor look you Over?
Jitendra s. OOk his head. 81 am not
,uch hurt, Sahib Buck" he gravely
aplied. but how came I to escape
re fire? Was L not overwhelmed by
le disaSter?'
"Oh, you were penned in under that
d hulk of q diner until we dragged
u out" laughed the mining man.
But that's done now. You'll be in
licagO almost the same as if nothing
d happened, in two days. 1t was
ky for both of us that we were to-
rd the back end of the car"
1T was fate" affirmed Jitendra,
h an emphatic pOsltiveness con-
sting strangely with his wee figure.
1t you, Sahib Buck-were you, too,
nerSed in the shatterings?"
Nix grinned Williams. 81 back
tailed right over tables and chairs
1 landed in the vestibule.'
] seemed to be looking down upon
Tho Ioct T tYly1co6 th1s
entail, fastening his eyes searching
upon the other mans.
l missed you" admitted Buck I'M
tatingly, land grabbed an ak and
pped down to where you lay. But
m sure that you would have done
much for me. Do you remember
1t we were talking about when the
sh came2"
it1ndra nodded.
Yes, Sahib Buck. You were inquir-
OF me concerning certain powers
my people. But Vishnu willed that
ihould not reply. SO my lips were
led, as you saw. 1t may be. that
hall never reveal to you, sahib, the
ngs of which / was about to speak
Why nOt?" demanded Williams
riOusly. The finality in the voice OF
Hindu interested and, oddly
ugh, disquieted him.
"Sahib Buck" patiently began Ji-
ldra, sit is not easy for me TO eX-
in the powers which rule us in spite
our complacent self-confidence. But
saw you running for this train
.ich was late. Tell me il you can,
you make it late?"
No."
Nor Gid T." affirmed the Oriental.
or did either you or / check its
ID rush toward the places whittier
are travelling. Therefore, how
I'll / make clear to you that what
nay call fate bears rule over all?
is not we'll that men should know
much of such things, sahib, else
would lay the blame for their
deeds on destiny or fate. So is
not wiser to deal warily with such
tiers, that, being in ignorance, men
Il have the more fear of that which
idden and kept secretY
Perhaps" laconically admitted
IiamS.
This morning" imperturbably went
Iitendra, 81 did not know that such
an as you lived, nor did you know
Fate wills that we meet and jour
On together"
o FL PasO?" INTERCEPTED the other
whittier the same fate shall de-
that babe you drag me from the
ng car. / did not ask it, fol
" had sealed not only my lips
smOthered my thoughts. Fate
sahib, and you Obeyed. And
he same fate whispers to me
me turn aside from my jour
id go on with you until it per
he to preserve you as you have
preserved me-"