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^ ■/ PAGE TWO 7.... '■lb BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA .. ■ WJ.j ■ if l y 3 •- Q •1 / K. -ftornuNDY. COfrfMC/fT BY r//f floeuij- \ mu'* it cor ram t Ill j* ' *■ ’ • • * •u/h-red, and with his rifle at the' ■«tf < i : ^h t Into the. ryes of the ftangnr | yrvatT.v" am). tin* Iettf»-tucked Inside J iri’wji Guugnl • ids shirt, tin*. Rut ban favon jl Kins? ( ’ Hew «licl you pci hery?" lie. asked { \\ i! It Am f'ai'^m U grill had, obeyed. “Get.ouf!” the .mulin'Hr snarled then iimii' iliVllp*-y. '.Isj 1 '■ 1«» llif-M-rk.'*. i,«;H ( iIhmii 1 Mont Hnft*. Hid theft! be* gride- /fui l*i\U • ' ■ t- J ; / j/ / Klng\ wirjf./I Ii» r<^< n tlio a I*, most rnadnoijs iUat constituted the mul* English.. , v .„ •*An> fool could lrnrti tt)V‘'|ins*s«-ofrt love for-liltiist lf! Into this camp! I’niiic over here;..sa- from.Jjrst to.last,J liih. I bftfig'Vvnfil Tr*)t»i he/* J .'] to rtiak^ h" With her not only to become scented with her unmistakable porfiim.* hut even to-yet her hair on hi? pojyvti, then gone was all'ininginatioijApf her Then shjcjiad iied ... , 7 .. 111 lev- le r/th. I gftP Tfttpht The/ground'was criss-creSsed like a J use tiltit, atuTTindimr she had fiiUed. she rntin’s palm by the'sliadowys of tent- hud sent Jier.trufv love with the dagger | -1 ; fi I...I t ... e. irlu.f.n h. mul-u * ! , n nv.il 1 lab's driving power. It is mnUige ms: j | that madness, urrtiLlt destroys itself. ' It had made'several thousand) men fob 1 lfi\y btrrnmil believe in hint; hut it had- j omre given Vasm'nh a cliance, to fool him and defeat him. ami now it gave "Kink his chance, lit* let tile uiullah till Ilk himself obeyed* implied tty. another and some fob no, reason at all, **’’ brt ' ulll( ‘ lire busiest man in Btill-wifh-'fi-beard looks the other wa/y. 1 ^'IK. White the mullah id CHAPTER XIX—Continued. i_ ’ Kihg nodded-agalni, formal nod Is less Speak thou to them about the pardon .committal than 'a word ^ and thefnod ’ thet1s- offered *” 1 ' So King wient down among therft, ropes, i ne Kangar ted amu ai ^ui-rt-1 to ni:ij,;i‘ in end the tents were -Tufty feet 4t.:uT MU<jX IrV a nmn'ieiit ‘be imng’tu'd 'a whole nolle -was likely +r/ ovrrle ar tbeftl^+4efHtV‘,. as it might have been' in a »-> * \ V ' ' _ . >uZk--—sr ■ - ' - ; - There he turned like it flash. “She sends you this !’’'he. hissed. In that same instant King was fight ing for. his life.' In another second they were 'down together aniong the tenfpegs. King Molding the Hangar's ■ feud. . Wit ness the - Nlkaiseyns, who worship a long-since-dend Englishman. “We seei^~jo:ik‘d one ot (hem. “We wu!” they chorused, arid the idea TmdTTh:; r-gK J'roirjf tffiafymfiiute-* Then sin had ,trb-d' + lTn y-Avere a. new band, y. ith a war-cry iff jthfdyypwm ‘‘We see/ 1 tiiey howled, sVatterkig through the^eyjup, and the mpllah (hiute out to ghtre- at them and tug. He became tire busiest maniu all tin- j wrist with both bands and struggling c rystal.*of Himself trnppeilypnd niade fo don tin* Itoman’s armor amP forced; topose To the savage “Hills”—or i’ccfiled into posing to them -as her lover. . While Hew*li (inrigit lurked be hind the scenes and waited' for the harvest .in the end. And what kind of bisjlieairft an*f'wonder what possessed, them. " t-V-. ' ' “To Khinjnh! ns to Kb in.inn !” > “To Kldninn. then .” they roared. “Lead hg thundered. tbrowhig,; uii both anus in a sort- of owered to break .It, and the Hangar striving 1 harvest ? was enotigh to start the mullah off again. . / “I saw the Sleeper.and his bride be fore she* knew"i f cither L_.lt .wua I who let'her Into Khinjan"! It was I who told tin* men she is the ‘Heartiof the mils’ come to life*! Slie~trieked me t Hut t ills Is no hour for bcaring-gjcudges. taking sonic of "the trf<ds : elf iiFs sup pose'll trade* with Tiim. ami trying ten e-rowel down t,he triiiinpli thkt would \vell up. TTi<* see-el lie: bad sown luul mullipfp-el by fifty 'in n night.TIe want* e v el to shout, as “men iipce <lid. be'-fore ^iu* walls of Jericho. Possibility of |>ur- <>ve*r the camp from the cave rnout.h or 'I ulminati el from the* Quran or feiugtit with othe-b. mullahs, with words for ■ " \ .. . • - • l r .......... ...x. ' . > n weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and larrce-ej and poUttl-ced and physicke-d tjutiLlitu. head sivyaiu with ,was he-r perfunn 1 in the* air. for another ;stroke.^Thei dagger he | And; what, kind of man must Rewn.' held hftd-Jtiissed King’s - ^bs by s?o I <iiu«u r be who oe'wile.l lightly let go all little 4bat-bis skin yet tingh-d from the- p»- judiees bf file* East fthtl submil Its touch. It Wits a diiggerTvltTi bronze* to whAi onlv the* tVi.-st 1ms endured blade and a gold -hilt—her dggger.^ 11.-hitherto- with any uumWeency—p weariness. The Sie-k They rolle-el over eja'd over.. 1 breathing “tertlum quid?" - . T' j Yet wlmta fool he, King, u.-fl I>eeo She has a plan and I amjnl.tfdvj.tt 1 -- don and reinstatement,..though Only v. heard of ill se-e-ood band, lmd brought unity Into Ireing. And unity brought eagernesa. “Lgt us start tonight!” urged one' mbn. - ^ y ". : . : “Nay!” ttw* I'athan objected at once. “Many of you can hardly march. Host ye here and let tin* hakim treat ■yetur. bellyaches. bade me wait hero for a letter that must gn to Khinjan today. Good. 1 will take* his letter. And in Khinjan 1 vyHl spreael news ntibtit yardons. It Is liKely the-re* are* fifty there who will dare* follow me back, and the-n we shull inarch down the Khyber, like a fitll company of the old days!” King got busy with his lancet, but the mullah cant * back and called him off and drove the crowd away to a dis tance; Then he drove King Into the enve In front of him. bis nmuth work- Ki.ng.Tay still and looked up at him, sure that irencliefy way the* ultimate enel e>f any plan the mullalL Muham mad Aniin tmd. India 1ms bee-n saved by the Ire-acheVy of her enemies more ofte-n than ruine*d hy false friends. So has the world, for that matter. “A jihad when^the right hour comes will raise the' tribes,” the piullah growled. “She and thou, as the Slee-p- er and his mate, could-work wonders. But who can trust her? ShgjBtole that head! She stole qll the ammunition! Doi*s she surely love thee?” . King nodded again, for modesty could not help him at that Juncture, Love and boastfulness go together In the “Hills.” “She shall have thee back, then, at a pricer* King did not answer. Ills brown eyes watched the mullah’s, and he drew his keep.them at tmy; so he choSe twenty think with that scent in his fibstrfls of the-least sick from among those j_«od Creeping into his lungs, liven in i HatW after the stress of fighting h*- won<it-r'--<l bnW the Hangar’s clothes and tftrban had swarmed so around him Ibard.: King, wanted tb think la-fore not to appreciate at once that Hewa that he had to Have a bodyguard to f he'gave an hbjrni, ..and he could not Gunga must be her lover.. Why should lie not be? We're they hot alike as Cousins? And the East doi^s not.love its contrary, hut its complement, being older in love than the West, and w;iser in its ways in all hut the material, lie had been Min'd, lie had overlooked- the obvious—that from first to last her plan had been to-set herself and tins Hewa Giinga on the throne of India! He washed and wont through the mummery of Muslim prayers for the watchful MtiJIah’s sake, and climbed ! on to his M-<1. -Hut Mdcep seo.med out of ^he question. He lay and tossed for] an Hour, his bund as busy as a terrier in hay. And when ho'did fall'asleep’) at last it was so to dr-emn and mutter that the mullah came ami h)in nnd preacln-d him a half-hour’'sofluiony brenth n little jerks, lest hy breath-' lnK ns ,f ht * worp bitin >^ bits of * vt?n " ing aloud he should miss one word of what was coming. “She shull have thee hack against Khinjan and the ammunition! She and thou shall huve India, hut -I shull be the pdwer behind you! I have men In Khinjan! I huve us'many as she! On the day I march there will be a re volt within. She would better agree to terifis!” King lay looking at him, like a pris oner on the rack undergoing examina tion. He did not answer. « “Write thou a letter. Since she loves thee, state thine ow n case to her. Tell her that I hold thee hostage, and that Khinjan Is mine already for a little lighting. Jn a month she cunnot pick out my men from among her own. Her position Is undermined. Tell her that. Tell her that If she obeys she shall have India and he queen. If she dis obeys, she shall die in the Cavern of Eurth’s Drink!” "She Is a proud woman, mullah," an-" swered King. “Threats to such as she—?” The mullah mumbled and strode - bnck and forth three times between King’s bed and,the tire, with his lints, knotted together behind him and his head bent, as Napoleon, used to walk. When he stood beside the bed again at last It was with his mind made up, as blk clenched fists and his eyes Indi cated. “Muke thine own terms with her!" he growle*!. "Write the letter und send it! I hold thee; she holds Kliin- Jan ftnd the ammunition. I am between her and India. So be it. She shall starve in there ! she shall lie in there until the war is over and take whut terms are offered her in the end ! Write thine own letter A ^Stute the case, and bid her answer!” “Very well,” said King. He began to see now definitely how India wawto be saved. It was none of his business to pldn yet, but to help others’- pTTfns destroy thetuselves und to sow such seed in tin* broken ground us might bear fruit in time. The mullah loft him, to squat and gaze into the fire, and mutter, and King ■ lay still. After a whilethe mullah went to the mouth bf the cave, to stand iintL Stare out at the camp where the thou- sai-d fires were dying fitfully and wood sni<»ke purged the air of human nasti ness. The $itars looked blown on hiinT and he seemed to try to' read them, standing with fists knotted together at blsLluu-k And-np he stood so, six other mul lahs came to hjm and begiinTo argue witli him in low tones, he browbeating them all with t^jrious words.hissed be tween half-closed teeth. They were whispering slilPwhen King fell asleep. It was courage, not carelessness, that let him sleep- courage and a .great hope born of theTnullah’s perplexity. geunce ofT for future use “Write fhy letter, thou! Write thy letter! Here Is paper. There Is a pen ul Avro tJ So King Began to Write in Urdu. —take It! Sit! Yonder is ink—ttutt- ttutt J»—write, now,-write!” - King sat at a box and waited, as if to take dictation, but the mullah, tug ging at ids bengd. grew furious. “Write tfifne own letter! Invent thine own argument! Persuade her, qt die in a new way! I will invent a new way for thee l" So King began to write, in Urdu, for reasons of his own. He bad spoken once or twice in Urdu to.the mullah and bad received no answer. H was a fair guess that Muhammad was. ignor ant of the scholars’ language.' “Greeting,” be wrote, "to the most beau- and very Wise Princess Yasminl, in her palace In the caves in Khinjan, from her servant Kurram Khan the hakim, In the ..camp of the mullah Muhammad Anim In Ua "Miris.” “TT Who had fcilfccd with the sunrise. . ** * And-'.because- each of those then had friends, anVl it Is only huiftan to wish ohe’s friend in the sunje boat, especial* ly when tlie.Ktja.TaVlo speak, is rough, the progress thr/uig‘4 the camp-became a current of- missionary zeal and the virtues of the Anglo-Indian raj were Hull-vvith-a-heuriL better sfuikcn of than the “Hills” had heard for years. * • Not that, tlu-re was any effort made to con vert the camp en masse. For from it. Hut the likely few were pounced ¥)n and were told of “t chance To-enlist for tt bounty in India. And \yhat with winter not so far ahead, and ‘what -with experience of former lighting against the British armyj the choosing was none -so difficult. From -the day when the lad first? feels soft down upon his face until the old man’s heard turns white and his teeth shake but, the bllltnah Wkmld rather fight than eat; but he prefers to fight on the winning side if he may, and he likes good treatment. - —•—,——— Before it was* dark that, night there were thirty men sworn to hold their tongues.-.anti to wait for the word to hurry down "the Khyber for the pur pose of enlisting in some Brltish-ln- diau regiment. Some even began to -urge the hakim not to wait for the Orakrai I’athan, but to start with what lie had. “Slmll I leave my brother In the lurch?” the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it. - ~~ ~* ' Well for him that he had plenty of Epsom salts In his kit, for in* the “Hills” physic should taste evil and show very quick results to be believed In. He found a dozen diseases of which he did not so much as know the nuine.._but half of the Sufferers swore they were cured after the first <We. They would have dubbed him faquir and'have foiSted him to a pillar of holiness bad he cared to let then, r Muhammad Anim slept most of the day. like a great animal Hm-t scorns to live by rule. Hut at evening b e <•■•<""* to the cave mouth .and fulmi nated such n sermon ns set the whole camp to roaring. He showed his power then. Tin* jihad he preached would have tempted dead men from their graves to come and share the plunder, and the curses he called down un he ight ened the dead away again. In twenty minutes* he had undone all King’s missionary^work. And then In ten more, feeling his power and their response, and being at heart a fool as all rogues are. lie built it. up again. lie begun to make promlses^too defi nite. He wanted Khinjan cuvesNMore. he needed them. So he promised them they should all * be. free of Khlnjatk, caves wjthjri a day or two,“to come and go and live there at'their pleasure. He promised’ them they should leave their wives and children and belong- hlle they them- plunder India. lie overlooked the fact that KhinjairtTives for centuries -had hqen a secret to be spoken of in whispers, and that pros pect of its violation came to them as a shook. . . . i Half of rhem did not believe him. §«cb a thing was impossible:, and If he were lying as to one point, why i-iunuer, anu me curses ne caneu on|; 0 wards flQ T laggards- and I levers were enougl to have u* m.diah Muhamma.l-Aiirni demands' ings.safe In the caves w nder of Miinja.n Caves and of all his - c..„ u \ . . . iunit Ion , Fu'ftlje- he demands fu’J i ’ - ''ont down t° P ,u tHAPTER XX. \ Next morning sgt and sunned the Oruk hipiself k zui r in the rathan e c6ntrol of you and 6f me and of all your men. '• “He-threatens"aft A pr* limlnary tOhlook- a-le Khinjan caves, unless file answer lo this prove favorable,.: letting -noju'-wnfor nut calling his own men rnifio J-ln him. l ins would suit the. Indian government, because while ttje" Hills’ figlit among themselves they cannot raid India, and «iiile lie blockades Khinjan e aves there W 'Tcfewlnv- e t!v„ m he iiKUin , 8t liiin , Jfiit as to-all tlie others, toeP? lynouing mat tie dares tiepin and car* accomplish What lie threatens, 1 am sor- because I know It is said howf many services you have renrierbd of old to.the government 1 serve. We vv-ho serve- one raJUare one—one to remember—one to fur- b'ct—one to heip eacli otlie-r*ln good tune. Tb indy be that vengeance .against me woulij seem sweeter to you than, return to your former allegiance. Iri tli.it case. Princess, you,only need bi ? triiy me nv-T-he \nd the army veterans.' who had heeq converted hy-King's talk of par dons, and almost reconverted hy the sermon, shook .tlielr heads'at the talk of taking Khinjan. Why wastd time' trying to do what never had been done, with her to reckon against, when a I’bice in the sun was waiting for them mouth, emitting ivordly WlsdorU, un ,adulterated with divinity. As King ;-:..-dSS.CUt - ttn\ ard him to >ee to whom ho spoke he,grinned and pointed with his • thumb, and King looked down on some sick and wounded men who sat iu a crowd together on the ramp, ten feet hr so below the cave. L mullali, and be sure my death would leave*-• down ill India, to' sav nothing of the nctlung jo lie desireM by tlie spectators. At present lift docs not suspect me.' assured, lioyvo-.er, that not tp be tray me to iiim ts to leave me free to serve my government and well able to ilo so. 1 invite you to return to I.ndia with me, bearing news that the 'mullah Mu- ham mad Anim and. pis men are bottled In Khinjan cavt-s,‘aikl lo plan with me to that end. .' if you will, then write an answer to Muhammad Anim, not In Urdu, but In a language he can .understand; seem to sur render to him. Hut to me send a verbal message, either by tha l*earer ot this or by some trustier messenger. „. _ ,,,,,, —: t “lTKtta“ can"profit yet by your service if I hey seemed stout soldierly fellows. |^- ou will. And in that case I pledge, mv word to direct the gov^rmpent’s attention only to your good service In the matter. ItTa noLyeTTob late to ehooqe^. It Is not Impertinent in me to urge you. “Nor can I 'say ho.w gladly I would subscribe myself your grateful and loyal servant." Men of another type were being kept atTi distance hy dint of argument atvd Threats. Away In the distance was Mu- Iran^juad Anim with his/ broad back turned to the cave, In altercutlon with a dozen other mullahs For the time he was out of the reckoning, “Some of theseyare wouqded,^ the Pathan explained. “Some have sores. Some have the bellyache. Then nguin, some are isick of words, hot and cold by day and night. All have served in the anny. All have medals. AM are de- aertera. some for one reason, some for * - The mullah pounced on the finished letter, pretended to— read it, and watched him seal it up, sintidglng the hot wox with his own great guarded thumb. Then he shouted for the Orak- zui Pathan, who came striding In, all grins, and swagger. . "There—take It I Make speed 1” he hope/of pardons and clean living for a while? They shook their heads and combed their beards and eyed oti£ another sidewise In a' Avuy the “Hills’,’ Understand. * ‘ x \ That nilght. while the mullah glow- ercd_ over , the cutup like a great old owl. wit,h leaping firelight reflected In his eyes, the thousands under the skin tents argqed, so thirty the nfghi was' all noise. Hut King slept. All of another day and* part of an other night he toiled among th’e srek*. wondering when, a message Would opmV back. „It was ntyirly midnight when he bandaged his lust patient und came out Into the starlight to bend his hack straight and yawn and pick his way reeling with weariness bhek to the- mullah’s* cave. He had given his bag of medicines a£d Implements to a man to qarry ahead .of film and had gone perhaps ten paces Into the dark when a strong hand gripped him by. the wrtst. T . — - * - “Hush!” said a voice that seemed fa miliar. , r . He turned swiftly and looked come to he drenched in it. lie admit ted to himself afterward that it was nothing else! than -jealousy that sug gested to him to make the Hangar prisoner .and hand him over to' the mullah, That would have been a ridiculous 'thing to do, for it would have forced his owir Kefhfynl to the mullah. Hut as if the Rirngar had .read his Ynind. he suddenly redoubled his efforts nnd King, weary to he point of sickness, had to redouble his^own or die. /f'up- bnps the jealousy helped put venom in hjs effort, Tor his strength eftine hack to him ns a mailninn’sjdoo*.. The Han* fcnr gave a moan and let the knife fall.’ And because jealousy is poison King •id the wrong thing then. TTe pounced on the knife Instead of on the Hangar. He could have questioned hiiri— knelt on hi in nnd perhaps forced a-xplann- tlons from him. Hut with a sudden swff effort like a snake’s the Hangar freed himself and was up am! gone be fore King could struggle to. his feet— gone like a shadow among shadows. King got up nnd felt himself all over, for they had" fought on stony ground and he was bruised.. Hut bruises faded into nothing, nnd weariness nsTvell, ns his mind began to dwell on the new complication to l.!s problem. It ,wns plain that the moment he had returned from his message to the Khyber the Hangar had been sent on this new’ murderous mission. . Yasminl had never believed her letter would be treated seriously by the authorities, and had only sent it in the hope of fooling him nnd undermining his de termination. Perhaps^ she saw her own peril. Perhaps she contemplated -^gosh ! what a contingency!—perhaps she contemplated Milting into India with a story of her own. and leaving the mullah to Ins own devices! Would she dare escape into India and halve iiynself alive behind her? There was an alternative, the very thought of which made him fearfully uneasy, find yet brought a Jhrjll with_, d"\\ n t<>\\ .n il. him Tt. ’ Th all "Eastern lands, love scorned takes to th<* daggei. Hi* had half.be lieved her when she swore ; him! The man who .could himself loved by Ygstnini and not he thrilled to his core would he inhuman, whatever reason and caution and*caste imd greed might whisper in imagina tion’s wake. r - W'eling from fatigue (he felt like a man who had heon racked, for the Han gar’s strength was nearly unbeliev able), he started toward where the mullah sat glowering in the cave mouth. He /ound the man who hail carried his bag asleep'at the foot of the pnmp, nnd taking the bag away from him, let him lie there. And it took him five*mfnutes to drag his hurt, weary bones up the ramp, for the fight htwl taken more out of him than he hiuf gpessed at first. Thginullah glared at him hut let him by w’ithout’u \\%*rd. It was bv the fire, at the Hack of the cave, Where he j stopped to "dip watef from the mul- I lab’s enormous crock,’ that the next j r T-al-tov fc\if/w£ against the mortal sins that role 1 iib-n of peaceful-slumber by giving them a foretaste of the punishment to-xpaii*. Ail that seemed kipder t and more re freshing than King’s ownlthoughts had been, for when the mullah had done at- last and had gone striding hack, to “Khinjan Is Mine!” He Growled. “In dia Is Mine!” double apostolic blessing, and. then mo tioning iis if lie threw them the reins and leave to gallop. They roared back at him like the sea under the whip o< a gaining wind. And Ismail disap peared among them, leaving King alone. Then the- mullah beckoned him the cave mouth, he really did fall sound asleep, and jt was after daw n and showed liini_ a letter he had cruiu- When he awoke. The mullah's voTee, not untuneful, \yas rousing all the val ley echoes in the call to prayer. -Me loved imagine CHAPTER XXI. - i And while King knelt behind the mullah and the whole camp fared Mec ca In foreheaddn-the-dust abasement there came a strange man down the midst—not strange to the “Hills.” where such sights are common, but strange to that camp and hour. Some body rose and struck him. and he knelt like fhe rest; hut when ^prayer was over nnd cooking had begun aiid the camp became a pnc f t*'~o£ v juiyory smell, he came on again—a MimTTnan. He was clean shaven, apd he looked as if he had not been blind long, for his physical health wag good. il “Oh. the hakim—the_good hakim!” lie wailed. “Where is the famous ha kim? Show me the way fb Mm*!^Oh.4 (he famous, great, good hakim who can heal men’s eyes!” I am he.” said King, and he stepped - Tie- blind ticm^ : ’ face looked strangely familiar, though if was partly disguised by sqjne gummy stuff stuck all about the eyes. He stared at tlie face'again. " Tsmail!” lie said . “You?” “Aye! Father of cleverness! Make play of healing my eyes!” So King made a great show of rub bing on ointment.- In a minute ISmail, looking almost like a young man with out his great heard, was dancing like a lunatb: with both fists in-the air, and yPlhng ns if wasps had stung him. “Aietje-aicee-uTbre!’’ *he yelled. “I see again! I seeJ_ Ml eyes have light in them! AllahK Oh. Allah heap riches on the-^cat, wise hakim who can heal men’s eyes! Allah reward him richly; for I am a beggar and have no goods!” The whole camp. began to surge toward him to see the miracle, and his chosen bodyguard rushed- up to drive them back. Apd-as they wi-M a. tall AfnifKffimp-'’TtTifling down the^camp with a/jFtfor for the mullah held out in a cleft stick In front of him. “Her answer!” said Ismail with a wicked'grin. ‘•‘What Is her \word-? Where is the Orakzai Pathan?” Hiif Rubai I laughed nnd w^uld not answer hhrK Tt^seomod to King that <~ho scented ellnuixA -AlsQ M’ chose In pfALJof'J “Hushl" Said a Voice That Seemed Familiar. % disturbing factor came to light. He kicked a brand into the fire und the flame leaped. Its jight shone on a yard and a half of exquisitely fine hair, like spun gold, that Caressed his shoulder nnd descended dovFn- one arm. One thread of hair that conjured up a million thoughts, and In a second upset every argument! If Rewa Gungn had been near that instttnrfo Torre (he mullah's hand, on the principle that hurried-buffaloes’ will blunder. “To Khinjan!” Tie shouted to the nearest man.- “The mullah will march on Khinjan!” *' ~~ - "They murmured nnd wondered nnd hacked jhvnv from him to give him room. * Ismail watched him- with droppoci jaw and, wild eye. “Spread it througll the ramp that we mnfch on Khinjan! Shout it! Bid them strike the tents!’’ •> Son::-body behind took up the shout and it w;enf jncross the camp in leaps, as men toss a hall. There was n s'urge toward! the tents, but King called to his deserters and they clustered hack to him. He had to cement their al!e- L glance now or fail altogether, and he would not he able to do it by ordinary argument or by pleading; he had to fire the]r Imagination. AAnd he duk < “She is on our side!” That was a sheer guess. “She has kept j our man aiKl sent another, as hostage for him in token bf good faith! Listen! saw this man’s eyes healed, Let That, he^ a token! Be ye the men with Jfew eyes! Glye It out! Claim % lbe title and be true to it and see the guide you down the Khyber in good time like a regiment, many more than a hundred strong!” * __ They Jumped at 'the Idea. The “Hills” —the whole East, for that mat ter—are ever ready to form a new sect T pled Iiq Ms fist. There were only a few lines, written in Arabic, w.bieh all mullahs are Supposed to be able to read, und they were signed with a strange scrawl--that might have meant anything. Hut the paper smelt strong ly of her perfume. * Co me. then. Hrlng all your men. and I will lot you and them enter Khinjan caves. We will strike a bargain In the Cavern of Earth's Drink. # That was all, but the fire in the mul lah's eyes showed that he thought it was enough. He ,did not doubt that t mice he should ha\e his extra four thousand in the eaves Khinjan would be his; and he said so. “Khinjan is mine!” lie growled. “1°* din is mine!” King did not answer him. lie could only lie still and be glad be had set the ramp moving and so had forced th* mnffah’s hand. “The old fatalist .wouTd him* suspected her answer other wise!” he told himself, fur ht* knew that he himself suspected it. iYUile he and'the Tmrttah WaTCTTed ' the tents began to fall and the women labored to roil them. The men began tiring .their rifles, and w ithin the hour enough ammunition had been squan dered to have fought a good-sized skir mish; but tin* mullah did not mind, for lie had lyhinjan eaves in view’, and none knew better than he what vast store.-of cartridges and dynamite was piled* in there, lie let them waste. Watching his opportunity.. King slipped down the ramp atpl into the crowd,, while tin- mullah was busy with personal belongings in the cave. King left his own belongings to the fates, or to any thief who shrultt caTe to steal them. He was safe frem the mullah in the midst of his n farly eighty men. w ho hqlf believed hit a i? sending from the skies. ^ “\\ V see! We see!” they yelled and (lanced arodnd him. Before ever the muUv.vh, gave an or der they got under wj y and started climbing-"the steep valley \yall. The mullah on his brown mile thrust for ward, trying to get in the lead, and King arid-his men hung biiek, to keep at a distance from him. Two or three tidies along the top of tlie escarpment the mullah sent back word that he wautqcj. the hakim to be Tlgpide him. Hut King’s men treated the ^messenger to open seofh (intTsettt httu~-pac.king. • “Hid the mullah hunt himself an other He th<ui his hakim! Stay, we will glVe-dJieo a lesson in turn to us’e a knife !" The man ran, lest Tltey carry out their threat, for men jbk>- grimly in the “Hills.” Ismail enuje and held King’s stirrup, striding bbSide him with the easy hill- man gait. . “Art thou my nmri(at\last?” Kinjf asked him, but Ismtm hjnghed and shook his head. ' .- W • “‘I am.Jier-man,” “Where is she?” King asked. “Nay, who am I that I should knowf ’ “But she sent thee?” i “Aye, she sent me.” “To what,purpose?^ “To her purposed the- A/^dl ftn- swered. and’Klng could not get another <Vord out of hlrm He fell behind. . (TQ/BE CONTINUED.) si*. / Superiority, omen are queer.” ’Yes?” “Mrs; Twohble has just returned from a trip to New York-and merely because she stayed at a hotel with more dining tooras than the hotel usu ally patronized by Mrs. Jibway on her eastern trips can boasf of she’s in clined to look down on Mrs Jibway.” Only when a mao Is gt .ting the best, of it will be admit that he Is getting] enough to bef and Intimate" enough | or Join, a new'.band or a new blood-1 the worst of ML‘ }■ -