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King of the Khyber
By TALBOT MUNDY
The Most Picturesque Romance of the Decade
Copyright by The Bobb.-Mcrrill Ccmptoy
KING HAS A FINAL CONFERENCE WITH HIS FRIENDS AT
THE MOUTH OF KHYBER PASS AND PREPARES FOR
THE JOURNEY INTO STRANGE COUNTRY.
the beginning of the world war Capt. Athelstan
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rrvirr •s&zfsz ss ss/stts:
jihad or holywa . t,vldence ,hnt Yasmlnl Is after him. He meets
nUatam Mini'" man, who says .he has already gone north,
and at her town house witnesses queer dunces.
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
The Hangar's eyes blazed for a sec-
ond and then grew cold again, as King
flld not fail to observe. All tills while
the women danced on, in time to wall-
ing flute music, until. It seemed from
nowhere, a lovelier woman than any
of them appeared In their midst, sit-
ting cross-k'gged with a flat basket at
her knees. She sat with arms raised
and swayed from the waist as if in a
delirium. Her arms moved in narrow-
ing circles, higher and higher above
the basket lid, and the lid began to
rise. It was minutes before the bodies
of two great king cobras could be
made out, moving against the woman's
ipangled dress with hoods raised, hiss-
ing the cobra's hate-song that is pre-
lude to the polson-deuth.
They struck at the woman, one nfter
Ae other, and she leaped out of their
range, swift and as supple as they,
instantly then she Joined in the dance,
with the snakes striking right and
(eft at her. Left and right she swayed
to avoid them, far more gracefully
than a matador avoids the bull and
courting a deadlier peril than he poi-
lonous, two to his one. As she danced
Bhe whirled both arms above her head
nd cried as the werewolves are said
to do on stormy nights.
"Do you do this often?" wondered
King, in a calm aside to Rewa Gunga,
turning half toward him and taking his
off the dance without any very
grent effort.
Rewa Gunga clapped his hands and
the dance ceased. The woman spirited
her snakes away. The blind was
drawn upward and In a moment ail
was normal again with the punkah |
iwlnglng slowly overhead, except that
the seductive smell remained, that was
like the early-morning breath of all
the different flowers of India.
"If she were here," said the Rangar,
a little grimly—with a trace of disap-
pointment In his tone—"you would not
gnatch your eyes away like that I Per-
haps you shall see her dance some day!
^h—here Is Ismail," he added In an
altered tone of voice. He seemed re-
lieved at sight of the Afridi.
Bursting through the glass-bead cur-
tains at the door, the great savage
strode down the room, holding ont a
telegram. With a murmur of conven-
tional apology King tore the envelope
Rangar narrowly, yet he could not
detect the slightest symptom of emo-
tlon.
"Explain?" said the Rangar. Who
can explain foolishness? It means
(hat another fat general has made an-
other fut mistake 1"
"Ah!" said King. "You are positive
she has started for the North?'
"Sahib, when she speaks it is best to
believe I She told me she will go.
Therefore I am ready to lead King
sahib up the Khyber to her!"
There's a train leaves for the
North tonight," said King.
The Rangar nodded.
"You'll want a pass up the line.
How many servants? Three—four-
how many?'
"One," said the Rangar, snd King
was Instantly suspicious of the mod-
esty of that allowance; however he
wrote out a pass for Rewa Gunga and
one servant and gave It to him.
"Be there on time and see nt>°ut
your own reservation," he said. ' I U
attend to Ismail's pass myself."
He folded the list of names that the
Rangar had marked and wrote some-
thing on the back. Then he begged
an envelope, and Rewa Gunga had one
brought to him. He sealed the list in
the envelope, nddressed It and beck-
oned Ismail again.
"Take this to Saunders sahib!" he
Go first to the telegraph of-
Around them the clatter of the station
crowd began to die, and Parsimony
In a shabby uniform went round to
lower lights.
"Are you sure—"
King's merry eyes looked into Saun-
ders' as If there were no world war
really and they two were puppets in a
comedy. , _
••—are you absolutely certain Yas-
mlnl Is in Delhi?"
"No," said Saunders. "What I swear
to Is that she has not left by train.
She's the most elusive Individual in
Asia! One person in the world knows
where she Is, unless she has an accom-
plice. My Information's negative. I
know she ha not gone by—"
King struck a match and held it
out, so the sentence was unfinished;
the' first few puffs of the astonishing
cigar wiped ont all memory of the miss-
ing word. And then King changed the
subject.
"Those men I asked you to ar-
rest—?" , ,
"Nabbed"—puff—"every one of em .
—puff-puff—"all under"—puff-puff
"lock and key,—best smoke I ever
tasted."
"Well—I'll go along with yon ti
you like and look them over.
Both tone and manner gave Saun-
ders credit for the suggestion, and
Saunders seemed to like It. There Is
nothing like following up, In football,
war or courtship. tl
"I see you're a Judge of a cigar,
said King, and Saunders purred, all
men being fools to some extent, and
the only trouble being to demonstrate
the fact.
They had starV«4 for the station en-
trance when a nasal voice began in-
toning, "Cap-teen King sahib—Cap-
teen King sahib !" and a telegraph mes-
senger passed them with his book un-
der his arm. King whistled him. A
moment later he was tearing open an
official urgent telegram and writing a
string of figures in pencil across the
top. Then he de-coded swiftly:
Advices are Yasmlnl was in Delhi as re-
cently as six this evening. Fall to under-
stand your Inability to get In touch. Have
you tried at her house? Matters in I y-
Saunders led the way through a mod
ern iron door. Into what had once been
a royal prince's stubles.
In gloom that was only thrown Into
contrast by a wide-spread row of elec-
tric lights, a long line of barred and
incked converted itorse stalls ran down
one side of a lean-to building. All that
King could see of the men within was
the whites of their eyes. And they did
doot Slammed K2 g continued down
the line with his left wrist held high
so that the occnpant of each cell
turn could see the bracelet
"May God be with thee! came the
Instant greeting from each ce un
down toward the farther end. The
occupants of the last six cells were
silent. He had scarcely finished do nu
that when Ismail strode in shimnilng
the great iron door behind him. Jan
X/n bunch of keys and l«oklng more
than ever like somebody out of the Old
i Testament. , .
"Open every door except those whose
numbers I have rubbed out!" King or-
dered him. . .. t
Ismail proceeded to obey as if that
wore the least improbable order In all
the world. It took him two minute,
to select the pass-key and determine
how It worked, then the doors flew
open one after another in quick suc-
Ce"Come out!-' he Krow,ed- '
ont!—Come out!" although King hail
not ordered that.
King went and stood under the con-
1 ter light with his left arm bared. The
prisoners emerging like dead men out
u.ust have known our fix.
shouldn't have asked.
King smiled. "Perfectly good op-
portunity for me. sir!" he said cheer-
'""So you seem to think. But look out
for that woman, King—she s danger-
0-19. She's got the brains of Asia
coupled with Western energy ! I_ think
she's on our side, and I know he be-
lieves it; but watch her!"
"Ham flektn h l!" King grinned. But
the older man continued to look as
he pitied him.
"If vou get through alive, come and
e about it afterward. Now, mlL."1
I'm awfully Interested, but
growled
; each of them.
They stood still then, awaiting fresh
not look friendly. ,,nSuun=
He had to pass between them and £ (ombf, blinked at the bright light-
the light, and they could see more of ^ him—then the bracelet—and sa-
blm than he could of them At the ^
first cell he raised his left hand and ..^i0y God be with thee!
made the gold bracelet on his wrist
clink against the steel bars.
A moment later he cursed himself, dcve,opments. It did not seem to oe-
and felt the bracelet with his finger any one of them as strange that
a British officer in khaki uniform
should be sporting Yasmlni's talisman;
the thing was apparently sufficient ex-
planation In Itself.
"Ye all know this?" he asked, hold-
ing up bis wrist. "Whose is this?"
"Hers!" The answer was monosyl-
labic and Instant from all thirty
throats.
King lit a cheroot and made men.al
note of the wisdom of referring to her
by pronoun, not by name.
"And I? Who am I?" he asked.
"Her messenger! Who else? Thou
art he who shall take us to the 'Hills!'
She promised."
"I shall start for the 'Hills' at dawn,
King said slowly, and he watched their
eyes gleam at the news. No caged
t)o-er is as wretched as a prisoned hill-
man. No freed bird wings more wildly
for the open. No moth comes more
foolishly back to the flaine again. It
was easy to take pity on them—prob-
VA<.eiVf>oC-
tell me i
you do!
ks for envying you—"
"Envv!" King almost squealed. He
made the bedsprings rattle as ha
Jumped. "I wouldn't swap Jobs with
General French, sir!
"Nor with me, I suppose!
"Nor with you, sir!
"Goodby, then. Goodby, King, my
boy. Goodby. Athelstun. Your broth-
er's up the Khyber. isn't he? Give him
my regards. Goodby!"
CHAPTER VI.
Long before dawn the thirty prison-
er! and Ismail squatted in a little-herd
on the up-platform of n railway sta
tion, shepherded by King, who isrnok.id
a cheroot some twenty jm('es '
sitting on an unmarked chest o
cines. He seemed absorbed In a book
on surgery. Ismail nursed
handbag on his knees, picklng eve-
lastingly at the lock and wondering
audibly what the bag conta nedJo an
accompaniment of low-growled sjmpa
thy. ®
"I am his servant—for she said s
and he said so. Then why-why In
Allah's name—am I not to have th.
key of this little bag that holds
little and Is so light?"
"A razor would slit the leather eas-
ily," suggested one of the herd "Then,
later, the bag might be pushed vio-
lently against some sharp thing, to e
plain the cut."
Ismail shook ftls head.
"Why? What could he do to thee?
"It is because I know not what he
would do to me that I will do noth-
ing !" answered Ismail.
"May God Be With Thee!
the Prisoner's Voice.
ordered. lrleu ll1sl
flee, where you were before, the babu bef dtstrict much iess satisfactory. Word
there will tell you where Saunders from 0_c Khyber *4
sahib may be found. Deliver the letter lastikar <,ulck
to him. Then come and find me at the
Star of India hotel and help me to
bathe and change my clothes."
"To hear Is to obey!" boomed Ismail,
bowing; but his last glance was for
Rewa Gunga, and he did not turn to go
until he had met the Rangar's eyes.
When Ismail had gone striding down
the room King looked into the Itangar s
eyes with that engaging frankness of
his that disarms so many people.
"Then you'll be on the train to-
night?" he asked.
"To hear Is to obey! With pleas-
ure, sahib!"
"Then gooil-by until this evening."
King bowed very civilly and walked
out, rather unsteadily because his
head ached. Probably nobody else, ex-
cept the Rangar, could have guessed
what an ordeal he hail passed tlirou;''!
or how near he had been to losing selt-
command. >
In the street he found a gharry after
a while and drove to his hotel. And
before Ismail came he took a stroll
through a bazaar, where he made a
few strange purchases. In the hotel
lobby he Invested in a leather bag
with a good lock, In which to put them.
Later on Ismail came and proved him-
self an efficient body-servant.
That evening Ismail carried the
leather bag and found his place on the
train, and that was not so difficult, be-
cause the trains running North were
ly as compatible with caution. L- M
Good news?" asked Saunders, blow-
ing smoke through bis nose.
"Excellent. Where's my man? Here
—you—Ismail!"
The giant came and towered above
him.
"You swore she went North. ^
"Ha, sahib ! To Peshawur she went!
"I have a telegram here that says
she is In Delhi!"
He patted his coat, where the inner
pocket bulged.
"Nay, then the tar lies, for I saw her
go with these two eyes of mine!"
It Is not wise to lie to me,
nail. He had made a deep nick in the
soft gold. A second later yet he
smiled. . .
"May God be with thee!" boomed
a prisoner's voice in I'ashtu.
"Didn't know that fellow was hand-
He Is not
It at all like other sahibs I have bad
dealings with. This man does unex-
pected things. This man is not mad
be has a devil. I have it in my heart
to love this man. But such tolk
foolishness. We are all her men.
"Aye ! We are her men!" came the
chorus, so that King looked up and
watched them over the open book.
At dawn, when the train pulled out,
the thirty prisoners sat safely locked
in third-class compartments.
If we fall, Allah do more to lay lazily on the cushions of n
j Class carriage in the rear, #nd Ismntl
"Ye shall leave this attended to the careful packing of soda
bottles in the icebox on the
ably not one of whom knew pity's
meaning.
"Is there any among you who would
care to come—?"
"Ah-h-h-h!"
"Will ye obey me and him?" he
asked, laying his hand on Ismail's
shoulder, as much to let them see the
Boomed bracelet again as for any other rea-
son.
"Aye!
King
.first-
King laughed.
place as my prisoners. Here ye have
no friends. Here ye must obey. But
what when ye come to your 'Hills' at
, last? Can one man hold thirty men
Did you hear isonPr's then? In the 'Hills' will ye
been
my
cuffed," said Saunders.
the ring? They should have oeeu : stl]] 0bey me?"
taken off. Leaving his irons on has i The answer to thnt was unexpected,
made him polite, though." | Ismni] knelt—seized his hand—and
Where did you arrest them? King prpssed the gold bracelet to his lips!
In turn, every one of them filed by,
knelt reverently and kissed the braee-
let!
"Saw ye ever a billmnn do that be-
asked when Saunders came to a stand
under a light. ^ )(
"All in one place. At All s.
"Who and what is All?"
"Thief crimp—procurer — Prussian
spy and any other evil thing that takes
his fancy! Runs a combination gamb-
ling hell and boarding house. Let's
•em run into debt and blackmails 'em.
in the kaiser's pay—that's known!
water
floor. , fl
"Shall I open the little bag, sahib?
he asked. , .
"Put it over there!" King ordered,
"Set it down!"
Ismail obeyed and King laid his book
down to light another of his black
cheroots. The theme of antiseptics
ceased lo exercise its charm over him.
He peeled off his tunic, changed his
shirt and lay back in sweet content-
All's iu iiiv i
friend," King assured him. so pleasant-1 We'll get him when we want him, but
lv that none could doubt he was telling
truth.
"If T lie may I eat dirt!" Ismail an-
swered him.
Inches lent the Afridi dignity, but
, i; 11j t y has often been used as a stalk-
ing horse for untruth. t King nodded,
nnd it was not possible to judge hy ills
expression w hether he believed or not.
"Let's make a move," he said, turn-
ing to Saunders. "She seems at any
rate to wish it believed she has gone
North, ril take the early morning
train. Where are the prisoners?
"In the old Mir Khan palace. Shall
we take this gharry?"
With Ismail up beside the driver
nursing King's bag i.nd looking like a
great grim vulture about to eat the
As She Danced She Whirled
Arm* Above Her Head and Cried
as the Werewolves Are Said to Do
on Stormy Nights.
tnd In n second his eyes were ablaze
with something more than wonder. A
mystery, added to a mystery, stirred
all the zeal In him. But In a second ho
hail sweated his excitement down.
"Read that, will you?" he said, pass-
ing !t to Rewa Gunga. It was not In
cypher, but lu plain every-day Lug-
Usli.
Btie bas not gone North. She ts still
In Delhi. Hult your own movements to
your plans.
"Can you explain?" ssked King In
level voice lie wes watching the
nearly empty, although the platforms ,irovc back through swarm-
were all crowded. As he stood at the ^ streets in the direction of the river,
carriage door with Ismail near him, a
man named Saunders slipped through
tbe crowd and sought him out.
"Arrested 'em all 1" he grinned.
King did not answer. He wns watch-
ing Rewa Gunga, followed by a serv-
ant, hurrying to a reserved compart-
ment at the front end of the train. The
Rangar waved to lilm and he waved
back.
The engine gave n prellir'nary shriek
and the giant Ismail nudged King's
elbow In Impatient warning. There
was no more sign of Rewa Gunga, who
had evidently settled down In his com-
partment for the night.
"Get my bag out again I" King or-
dered, and Ismail stnreil.
"Get out my bag, I said!"
"To hear Is to obey!" Ismail grum-
bled, reaching with his long arm
through the window.
The engine shrieked nguln, some-
body whistled, and tho train begun
to move.
"You've missed It!" said Saunders,
ntnused at Ismail's frantic disappoint-
ment.
at present he's useful 'a3 Is' for a de-
coy."
"You wouldn't call these men pros-
perous, then?"
"Not exactly! All Is the only spy
out of the North who prospers much at
present, and even he gets most of his
money out of his private business. The
Germans pay All a little, and he traps
the hillmen when they come south
lets 'em gamble—gets 'em Into debt—
they can get away when they've paid
him what they owe. Yasmlnl sends
and pays their board and gambling
debts, and she's our man, so to speak.
She coaxes all their stories out of 'em
and primes 'era with a few extra good
ones into the bargain. Everybody's
fooled—'specially the Germans—and
exceptin', of course, Yasmirii and the
raj. Nobody ever fooled that woman,
nor ever w'ill if my belief goes for
anything!"
King rubbed his chin
King seemed to have lost all Interest In
crowds. He sat staring ahead in
silence, although Sounders made more
than one effort to engage him in con-
versation.
"No!" he said at Inst suddenly—so
that Sounders Jumped.
"No what?"
"No need to stay here. I've got what
I came for!"
"What was that?" asked Sounders
but King was silent again. keeper of the queen's secrets
of the unaccustomed the j why fVy(n] suppose she passed
fore?" asked Ismail. "They will obey
thee ! Have no fear!"
"Then come!" ordered King, turning
his back confidently on thirty savages
whom Saunders, for instance, would
have preferred to drive in front of him.
after first seeing them handcuffed.
"Each lock has a key. but some keys
fit all locks," says the Eastern proverb.
King has been chosen for many tick-
lish errands in his time, and Saunders
is still in Delhi.
The prisoners were left squatting
under the eyes nnd bayonets of a very
suspicious prison guard, who made no
secret of being ready for all conceiv-
able emergencies. One enthusiast drew
the cartridge out of his breech cham-
ber and licked it at intervals of a min-
ute or two, to the very great interest
of the hillmen, who memorized every
detail that by any stretch of imagina-
tion might be expected to improve
I their own shooting when they should
get home again.
King found his way on foot through
a maze of streets to a place where he
was admitted through one door nfter
another by sentries who saluted when
he had whispered to them. He ended
by sitting on the end of the bed of a
•4
"Um-m-m! „ ,iv>i"j -
"Know anything of my man Ismail t j „ray.hoailed man who owns three titles
"Sure! He's one of YtsmK.I's pets, j ^ whose wor(1 ls ]nw between the
She linlled him out of All's three years
ago and he worships her. It was he
who broke the leg and ribs of a pup-
rajah a month or nvo ago for puttins
on too much dog In her reception
room, ne's Ursus out of 'Quo Vndis.
Conscious lie's dog, desperado, stalking horse
r:,'. drew ,;,nd he could s7e STedTe him "along to me?" asked King.
iroat gold bracelet Uewa Gunga
'Look Out for the
She's Dangerous.
Woman, King-
She's Got the
of the gr
had given him In Yasmlni's name
"Know anything of Rewa Gunga?
he asked suddenly again.
"Not much. I've seen him. I ve
spoken with him, and I've had I" stand
Impudence from him—twice. I've been
tipped "IT more than once to let him
alone bemuse he's her man. Ho does
ticklish errands for her, or so they
say. He's what you might call 'known
to the police' oil right."
h on Rge-old
Do me
CHAPTER V.
They began to „ln.ro««.„ ^ he agk(,(1. .,)r „ nest
The rear lights of the troln ho hnd
not taken swayed out of Delhi station
and King grinned us ho wiped (ho
sweat from his face with a dripping
handkerchief. Behind him towered the
hook-nosed Ismail, resentful of the un-
expected. In front of him Saunders
eyed tho proffered block cheroots sus-
piciously, accepted one with on olr off
.curiosity anil posued the case back..
palace near the river,
red a password when on armed
They were halted
whlspi
guard halted them,
borders of a province. To him he
talked ns one schoolboy to a bigger
one, because the gray-haired man hod
understanding, and hence sympathy.
"I don't envy you!" said he under
the sheet. "There's the release for
your prisoners. Take it—and take
them! Whatever possessed you to
want such o gift?"
"Well, sir—first place, she doesn't
wnnt to seem to be connected with me.
Second place, she has left Delhi—anil
she did not mean to leave those men.
Third place, if those thirty men had
been anything hut her particular pet
gang they'd either have been over the
border or else in jail before now—just
like all tho others. For some reason
that I don't pretend to understand, she
promised 'em more than she has been
able to perform. So I provide per-
formances. She gets the credit for it.
I get a pretty good personal following
at least ns far as up the Khyber 1 Q.
Or get the fiery furnace I E. D., Kir''
God be with thee' stuff'! The man in bed nodded. "Not bad,
Dunno! This Is your little mys-
tery, not mine!"
"Glad you appreclato thatl
a favor, will you?"
"Anything in reason."
"Get the keys to all these cells—send
•em In here to me by Ismail—and
leavo me In here alone!"
Saunders whistled nnd wiped sweat
from his glistening face, for in spite
of windows wide open to tho courtyard
it wns hotter than a furnace room.
Mayn't I have you thrown Into a
of cobras?
ready? That
Is habit—they say it with unction be-
Brains of Asia Coupled With West-
ern Energy."
ment. Headed for the "Hills," who
would not be contented, who had been
born In their very shadow?—In their
shadow, of a line of Britons who have
all been buried there!
The day after tomorrow I'll see
snow!" he promised himself. And Is-
mail, grinning with yellow teeth
through a gap in his wayward beard,
understood and sympathized.
Forward in the third-class carriages
the prisoners hugged themselves and
crooned ns they met old landmarks
and recognized the changing scenery.
There was a new, cleaner tang In the
hot wind that spoke of the "Hills" and
home!
At Peshawur the train was short-
ened to three coaches and started u(
the spur-track, that leads to Jamrud
where n fort cowers In llie very throoi
of the dreadfulest gorge In Asia tlx
Khyber pass.
at a gloomy „y | (or(l they knlfe „ man!"
officer cnmc
his leave they left the gharry and fol-,
lowed him under the nrch until their
heels rang on stone paving in a big ill- inen_ enn _ argue
"I'll
chucklt
bo careful, then," King
J; and It Is n fnct that few
him when he
Send mo
lighted courtyard surrounded by high laughs quietly In that way. "So
lighted courtjaru ru |n the keygi Ilke „ g„0(i chap.'
WnllS' .. . „ m t« talk they left So Sounders went, glad enough to
Isuiau'jquattlng beside King's bag, and [ get InU, tie outer air. Tho Instant the
he snld.
"Didn't she make some effort to get
those men owoy from All's?" King
nsked him. "1 menn, didn't Bhe try to
pet them dry-nursed by the sirkur in
some way?"
"Yes. She did. But she wonted them
arrested and locked up at a moment
when the Jails were all crowded, She
The Rangar deserts King and
his native escort In a dangerous
part of Khyber pass, and the
special agent tastes more weird
adventure.
(TO blil CONTINUED.)
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