Marietta Monitor. (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, November 3, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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' DtvIJ Amber tartlne for a duck-ehoot-Ing
vielt with hla friend Qualn come bp
' en i young lady equestrian who has been
dismounted by her horse becoming fright
ened at the sudden appearance In the road
ef a burly Hindu He declares he Is
Beharf Lai Chatter! "The appointed
mouthpiece of the Bell addresses Amber
a man of high rank and pressing a
mysterious little bronta box "The To-
ken'' Into his hand disappears In the
wood The girl calls Amber by name
He In turn addresses her as Miss Sophie
Farrell daughter of Col Farrell of the
British diplomatic service In India and
visiting the Qualns Several nights later
the Quafn home Is burglarised and the
bronze box stolen Amber and Qualn go
bunting on an Island and become lost and
Amber Is left marooned - He wanders
about finally reaches a cabin and rec-
ognizes as Its occupant an old friend
named Rutton whom he last met In Eng-
land and w ? appears to be In hiding
When Miss Farrell Is mentioned Rutton Is
strangely agitated ChatterJI appears
and summons Rutton to a meeting of a
mysterious body Rutton seizes a revol-
ver snd dashes sfter ChatterJI He re-
turns wildly excited ssys he has killed
the Hindu takes poison and when dying
asks Amber to go to India on a mysteri-
ous errand Amber decides 4o leave at
once for India On the way he sends a
letter to Mr Labertouche a scientific
friend In Calcutta by a quicker route
Hpon arriving he finds a note awa't’ng
him It directs Amber to meet his friend
at a certain place The latter tells him
he knows his mission Is to get M as Far-
rell out of the country Amber at’emots
to dispose of the Token to a money-lender
Is mistaken for Rutton and barMv
escapes being mobbed A message from
Labertouche causes him to start for Dir-
Jeellne: on the way he meets Miss
Farrell and at their Journey's end asks
her to become his wife A Hindu con-
ducts Amber to a secret place and Into the
fresence of a beautiful woman who mis
akes him for Rutton Later Amber
drugged Tho Hindus plot rebellion
CHAPTER XVI r (Continued)
“Hazoor" the native quavered In
fright "it was cold upon the water
and you kept me waiting overlong
landed seeking shelter from the wind
If your talk was not for mine ears
remember that you used a tongue
did not know '
“So you were listening!” Amber
calmed himself "Never mind Where's
your boat? '
“I thought to hide It in the rushes
If the hazoor will be patient for a lit-
tle moment The native
- dropped down from the bund and dis-
appeared Into the reedy tang’e of the
lake shore - A minute or so later Am-
ber saw the boat shoot out from the
chore and swing In a long graceful
curve to the steps of the bund
"Make haste" he ordered as he
Jumped In and took pis place "If I
have kept you waiting as you say
then I am late"
"Nay there is time to spare" Dulla
Dad spun the boat round and away
"I did but think to anticipate your Im-
patience knowing that you would as-
suredly come"
"Ah you knew that Dulla Dad?
How did you know?"
"I hazoor? Who am I to know
aught? Nay this have I
heard" — he paused cunningly: “'You
ehall find but one way to Kathiapur "
Amber realizing that he had Invited
this Insolence was fair enough not to
resent it and held his peace until he
could no longer be blind to the fact
that the native was shaping a course
almost exactly away from the Raj
Mahal “What treachery is this deg?”
he demanded "This Is not the
way — ”
"Be not mistrustful of your slave
hazoor" whined the native "I do the
bidding of those before whose will I
am as a leaf in the wind It Is an
order that I land you on the bund of
the royal summer pavilion by the
northern shore of the lake There will
you find one waiting for you my
lord"
He landed on the steps of the bund
and waited for Dulla Dad to Join him
but when hearing a splash of the pad-
dle be looked round it was to find
that the native had already put a con-
siderable distance between himself
and the shore Amber called after
him angrily and Dulla Dad rested
upon his peddle
“Nay heaven-born!" he replied
"Here doth my responsibility end An-
other will presently appear to be your
guide Go you up to the Jungly path
leading from the bund"
The Virginian lifted his shou’ders
Indifferently and ascended to d’scovfr
a wide footpath running Inland be-
tween dark walls of shrubbery but
Vju'te deserted He stopped with a
whistle of vexation peering to right
and left "What the deuce!" he sa'd
aloud "Is this another of their con-
founded tricks?"
I A low and marvelously sweet laugh
sounded at his elbow and he turned
with a start and a Sutter of his pulses
"Naralnl!" he cried
- “Tell me not thou art disappointed
O my king!" she said placing a soft
hand firmly upon bis arm "Didst
thou hope to meet another here?"
"Nay how should I expect thee?"
His voice was gentle though he
steeled his heart against her fascina-
tions for now he had use for her
"Had Dulla Dad conveyed me to the
palace then I should have remember-
ed thy promise to ride with me o
Kathiapur But being brought to this
place "
"Then thou didst wish to ride with
ne?" She nodded trrroval and sstls-
faction "That Is altogether as I wou'd
have It be Lord of my Heart By this
bave I proven I bee for thou hast con-
tented to approach the Gateway not
altogether because the Voice bath
summoned thee but likewise I think
fttrrr thine n heart urged Uua
Nay' but tell me King of my Sou)
did it not leap a little at the thought
of meeting meT"
With n quick gesture she threw her
veil aside and lifted her Incomparably
fair face to his and he was conscious
that ha trembled a little and that hla
voice shook as he answered evasive-
ly: "Thou shouldst know Ranee1
- "Thou wilt' not draw back In the
end?” Her arms clipped him softly
about the neck and drew his head
down so that her breath was fragrant
in his face her lip a sweet peril be-
neath bis own “Thou wilt brave
whatever may be prepared for thy
testing for the sake of Naralnl who
awaits thee beyond the Gateway O
my Beloved?"
"1 shall not be found wanting"
Lithe as a snake she slipped from
his arms "Nay I trust thee not!
she laughed a quiver of tenderness in
her merriment "Let my lips be mine
alone until thou bast proven thyself
worthy of them" She raised her
ro Ice calling: "Ohe Runjit Singh!
The cry rang bell-dear In the still-
ness and its silver echo had not d'ed
before It was answered by one who
stepped out of the black shadow of a
spreading banian somp distance away
and came toward them lead'ng three
horses As the moonlight fell upon
him Amber recognized the uniform
the man wore as that of the imperial
household guard of Kbandawar while
the horses seemed to be stallions he
had seen in the palace yard with an-
other but little their Inferior in mettle
or beauty
"Now" announced the woman In
tones of deep contentment "we will
ride!”
She turned to Amber who took her
up In bis arms and set her In the sad-
die of one of the stallions
The sowar surrendered to Amber
the reins of the other stallion and
stepped hastily aside The Virginian
took the saddle with a flying leap and
a thought later was digging bis knees
into the brute’s sleek flanks and saw
ing on the bits while the pith flowed
beneath him dappled with moonlight
and shadow like a ribbon of gray-
green silk and trees and shrubbery
streaked back on either hand In a
rush of melting blacks and grays
Swerving acutely the path ran Into
the dusty high road Amber heard a
rush of hoofs behind him and then
slowly the gauze-wrapped figure of the
queen drew alongside
“Maro! Let him run my king!
The way Is not fas for such as be
Have no fear lest he tire!" '
But Amber set his teeth and
wrought with the reins until his
mount comprehended the fact that he
had met a master and moderating bis
first furious burst of speed settled
down Into a league-devouring strli-
crest low limbs gathering and stret
Ing with the elegant prec’s'on of
clockwork His rider regaln'ng his
poise found time to look about him
and began to enjoy for all his cares
this wild race through the blue-white
night
They circled finally a great round
grassless hillside and pulled rein In
the nofch of -a gigantic V formed by
two long prow-like spurs running out
upon a plain whose sole vague bound-
ary was the vast arc of the horizon
Before them loomed dead Kathiapur
an Island of stone girdled by the shal-
low sPver’ river Like the rugged
redestal of some mammo’h column Us
cliffs rose sheer threescore feet from
the water’s edge to the foot of the
outermost of Us triple Vails From
the notch In the hills a great stone
causeway climbed with a long and
oasv grade to the level of the first
great' gate spanning the chasm' over
the river by means of a crazy woeden
bridge
A gasp from the woman and an
oath from the sowar startled Amber
out of somber apprehensions Into
which he had been plurg'-d by contem-
plation of this Impregnate fortress
of desolat'on Gone was Ms lust for
reril gone his high heedless Joy of
adventure gone the Intoxication which
had been his who had drunk deep of
the cup of romance there rema'ad
on’y the knowledge that he alone and
sir g handed was to pit hla wits
against the invisible and mighty
forces that lurked In hiding within
tbose walls to seem to submit to
their designs and so find hla way to
the woman of his love tear hr from
the grasp of the unseen and with her
escape
Naralnl had indeed no need to cry
aloud or clutch his hand in order to
apprise him that the Eye was vigilant
He himself had seen It break forth a
lurid star of emerald t'ght suspended
high above th dark bsrt of the city
Slowly while they watched the
star descended foot by foot dropn’ng
until the topmost pinnacle of a bidden
temple seined to enpnort It snd
there U rested throbbing with light
now bright now dull
Amber shook himself imnat'ently
"Silly charlantry!” he mut’ered Irri-
tated by hia own susceptibility to its
sinister sugg'stlon "I'd like
to know how they manage it though
the light Itself comprehensible
enough but their control of It
If there were enough wind I'd suspect
a kite "
“Then srt not dismayed my king?”
He laughed not quite ss successful-
ly as he could have wished and f ot
S sl" Le rturnj tq English a
tongue which seemed somehow better
suited tor service la combating the
oterto Influences at work upon bis
mind "What’s the next turn on tbs
program?"' n
"I like aot that tons nor yet that
tosgtie" The woman shivered "Even
ss the Eye seeth my lord so doth
tbs Ear hsar - Is It meet and wise to
peak with levity of that In whose
power thou shalt shortly her
"Perhaps not” he admitted thought-
fully “la whose power 1 shall short-
ly be i Well ef course 1"
"And thou wilt go on? Thou art
not mind to withdraw thy hand?"
"Not so that you’d notice it Nsr
rainl" -
"For tbs sake of the reward Ns-
rainl offers thee?” she persisted dan-
gerously 1 don’t mind telling you that you’d
turn ’most any man’s head my dear"
he said cheerfully and let her Inter-
pret the words as she pleased
She was not pleased for her ac-
quaintance with English was more In-
timate than she had chosen to admit
but If she felt any chagrin she dis-
simulated with her never-failing art
"Then bid me farewell O my aoul
and go!"
“Up there?" he inquired lifting his
brows i
"Aye up the causeway and over the
bridge into the city of death”
“Alone?"
"Aye alone and afoot my king”
"Pleasant prospect thanks" Am-
ber whistled a trifled dashed "And
then when I get up there — ?”
“One will meet thee Go with him
fearing naught"
“And what will you do meanwhile?"
"When thou shalt have passed the
Gateway my lord Naralnl will be
wnlting for thee"
"Very well” Amber threw a leg
Came Toward Them
over the crupper handed the stallion’s
reins to the sowar who had dismount-
ed and drawn near and dropped to hla
feet
Naralnl nodded to the aowar who
led the animal away When he was
out of earshot the woman leaned from
the saddle her glorious eyes to Am-
ber's "My king!" she breathed in-
tensely But the thought of Sophia Farrell
and what she might be suffering at
that very moment was uppermost—
obtruded Itself like a wall between
himself and the woman
"Goodnight my dear” he said amia-
bly and turning made off toward the
foot of the causeway
When he had gained It be looked
back to see her riding off at a wide
angle from the causeway heading out
Into the plain When he looked again
some two or three minutes later Na-
ralnl the sowar and the horses bad
vanished as completely as If the earth
had opened to receive them He
rubbed hla eyes stared and gave It
up
So he was alone!
shrug he plodded on
CHAPTER XVIIL
The Hooded Death
The causeway down which the
horsemen of forgotten kings of Kban-
dawar bad clattered forth to war In
Its age-old Jesoetude had come to de-
cay Between Us great paving blocks
grass sprouted snd here and there
creepers and even trees had taken
root and in tbe slow Immutable proo
ess of their growth bad displaced con-
siderable masse of stone so that
there were pH fails to he avoided
Otherwise a litter of rubble made tho
walking anything but good Amber
picked his way with caution grumb-
ling After soma three-quarters of ' an
hour of hard climbing he came to tbn
wooden bridge and halted surveying
It with mistrust Doubtless tn the o'd-
time a substantial but movable
strooturv stroct enough to tuuva a
troop of warrior but light ehougb to
be easily drawn up - had extended
across tho chasm rendering the city
impregnable from capture by aaaault
If so it had long since been replaced
by an airy and well-ventilated lattice-
work of hoards and timbers none of
whloh seemed to the wary eye any toe
Bound Amber selected the moat olld-
looking of the lot- and 1 gingerly ad-
vanced a pace or two along It With
a soft crackling a portion of tho tim-
ber crumbled to duat beneath his ftet
He retreated hastily to the causeway
and swore and noticed that the Eye
was watching him with malevolent in-
terest and swore some more En-
tirely on Impulse he heaved a bit of
rock ' possibly twenty pounds in
weight to the middle of the structure
There followed n splintering crash
and the contraption dissolved like
magic-lantern effect leaving a solitary
beam about a foot In width and six
or eight inchea thick spanning
flight of twenty and a drop of sixty
feet The river received the rubbish
with several successive splashes dis-
tinctly disconcerting and Amber sat
down on a boulder to think It over
"Clever Invention” be mused
"one’d think that after taking all this
trouble to get me here they’d changed
their minds about wanting me I’ve
a notion to change mine ”
There seemed to be no possibility
of turning back at that stage how-
ever Kuttarpur was rather far away
and moreover he doubted If he would
be permitted to return Having come
thus far he must go on Moreover
Sophia Farrell was on the other side
of that Swordwide bridge and such
being the case cross it he would
though be were to find the next world
at its end Finally be considered that
he was presently to undergo an ordeal
of some unknown nature probably ex-
Leading Three Horses
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tremely unpleasant and that this mat-
ter of the vanishing bridge must have
been arranged In order to put him In
a properly subdued and tractable
frame of mind
He got up and tested tbe remaining
girder with circumspection and In-
credulity but It semed firm enough
solidly embedded In the stonework of
the causeway and immovable at the
city end ' So he straddled It and
averting hla eyes from tbe scenery be-
neath him hitched Ingloriously across
collecting splinters and a very dis-
tinct Impression that aa n vocation
knight eirantry waa not without Its
drawbacks
When again he stood on hla feet he
was In the shadow of the outer gate-
way the curtain of the second wall
confronting him
Casting about he discovered the sec-
ond gateway at some distance to the
left and started toward It forcing a
way through a tangle of scrubby un-
dergrowth weeds and thorny acacia
but bad taken few steps ere a heavy
splash in the river below brought him
up standing with n thumping heart
After an irresolute moment he turned
back to see for himself and found hla
apprehension only too well grounded
the swordwide bridge was gone dis-
placed by an agency which had been
prompt to seek cover— though be con-
fessed himself unable to suggest
where that cover bad been found
He gave it up-consldering that It
were futile to badger hla wits for the
how and the wherefore Tbe Impor-
tant fact remained that he waa a pris-
oner In dead Kathiapur bis retreat
cut off and— Her ha made a sec-
ond discovery Infinitely more shock-
ing: bis pistol was gone
Turning back at length be made hla
way to the second gateway and from
It to the third under the lewdly
sculptured arch of which he stopped
and gasped forgetting a a for the first
time Kathiapur tbe Fallen was se-
rrated to him tn tbe awful beauty of
Its naked desolation
A wide end atotalv avenue stretched
away from tbe porta U ’ev s-u
of dwtlllags palaces of marble am
stone tombatonas : nod mausoleum
with meaner houses of sun-drUd brick
and rubble roofless all and disinte-
grating tn tha alow terrible proccs
of the years ' "
As Amber moved forward - smsh
alert ghosts roie from - the under
growth and scurried silently tbeace
a circumstance which mads him very
unhappy
The way waa difficult and Amber
tired After a while having seen
nothing but tbe Jackals an owl or
two several thousand bats and a
crawling thing which had lurched
along In the shadow of a wall some
distance away giving an admirable
Imitation of a badly wounded man
pulling himself over the ground and
making strange guttural noises— Am-
ber concluded to wait for the guide
Naralnl had promised him He turned
aside and seated himself upon the
edge of a broken sandstone tomb Tbe
alienee was ’ appalling and for relief
he took refuge In cheap Irreverence
"Home” he observed aloud "never
was like this”
A heart-rending sigh from the tomb
behind him Was followed by a rattle
of dislodged rubbish Amber found
himself unexpectedly In the middle of
the street and without Btopplng to de-
bate the method jot hie getting there
with such unprecedented raplditv
looked back hopefully to the tomb At
the e&me moment n black-shrouded
figure swept out of It and moved a few
paces down the street then paused
and beckoned him with a gaunt arm
“I wish" said Amber earnestly "I
had that gun”
The figure waa apparently that of a
native swathed In black from hla head
to hla heels and seemed tbe mere
strikingly peculiar tn view of the fact
that as far as Amber could deter-
mine he had neither eyes nor features
although his head was without any
sort of covering He gulped over the
proposition for an instant then
stepped forward
“Evidently my appointed cicerone"
he considered "Unquestionably this
ghost-dance ia excellently stage-managed
Though of course I had
to pick out that particular tomb"
He followed In the wake of the fig-
ure which sped on with a alngu’ar
motion something between a walk
and a glide conscious that hia equa-
nimity had been restored rather than
shaken by the -Incident
He held on in pursuit of the black
shadow passing forsaken temples and
lordly pleasure houses ail marble
tracery and fretwork standing arart
In what had once been noble gardens
sunken tanks all weed-grown and
rank with slime hnmbler dooryarda
and cots on whose hearthstones the
fires for centuries had been cold — his
destination evidently the temple of
the unspeakable Eye
Aa they drew nearer the leading
shadow forsook the shade of the walls
which he seemed to favor sweeping
hastily across a plaza white with
moonglare and without pause on Into
the black gaping hole beyond the
marble arch
Here for the first time Amber hung
back stopping a score of feet from
the door hia nerves a-Jang1 He did
not falter In hla purpose he was ’go-
ing to enter the inky portal bnt
would he ever leave it? And
the world was sweet to him
He took firm hold of his reason and
went on across the dark threshold
took three uncertain strides Into the
limitless unknown and pulled up
short hearing nothing unable to see
a yard before him Then with n ter-
rific crash like a thunder-clap tha
great doors swung to -behind him He
whirled about with a stifled cry con-
scious of a mad desire to find the
doors again took a step or two to-
ward them paused to wonder If he
were moving In the right direction
moved n little to tbe left half turn'd
and waa lost Reverberating the
echoes of the crash rolled far away
until they were no more than as a
whisper adrift In the silence until
that was gone
Digging his nails Into hla palms he
waited and In the suspense of dread
began to count the seconds
One minute two
three four
He shifted his weight from one foot
to the other
Seven
He passed a hand across hla face
and brought it away wet with per-
spiration Nine
In some remote spot a bell began to
toll at first slowly— clang!
clang! clang! — then more
quickly nntll the roar of Its sonorous
gong-like tones seemed to fill nil the
world end to set it a-tremb’e Then
Insensibly the tempo became more se-
date the first clamor of it moderated
and Amber abruptly waa alive to the
fact that the bell waa speaking — that
its voice deep clear sound meta’llc
was rolling forth again and again a
question couched in the purest Sans-'
krit:
"Who ia ‘ there? Who is
there? Who le the? '
The hair lifted on his scalp and he
swallowed hard In the effort to an-
swer but the lie stuck in his throat
he nee not Rutton and - and
it la very hard to lie effectively when
yon stand In stark darkness with a
mouth dry aa dust and your hair stl
ring at the roots because of the In-
tensely Impersonal and a'oof accents
of an inhuman bell-voice tolling away
out of nowhere
"Who is there?"
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