The Oriental Progress. (Blair, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ORIENTAL PROORE88
Adventures
of Kathlyn
!
HAROLD MACGRATH
was able to and under
Odlto a Ittu* by bow) foil on
*hlrb hoard but did not hum what
•Uo oald The man. mild and harmtoaa
•’•touch, for all bla wild oyoo. shn.uk
Uarh. for no woman of hla hind had
o»or looked Ilka this Kathlyn, with a
\
--- . — colonel, Hnic*. Kama ha I and
•ara | Ahiuod had found tba boraoa half a
duron mlloa away, and they had
thrashed (ho thieving natives soundly
and loatlllod the right kind of foar In
their breasts At rifle point they bad
forced the natlvea back to the root
d**al of foreboding repeated the phrase ] house The crack of their rifles soon
announced to Kathlyn that the dread
of wolves was a thing of the paat Bbe
wisely refrained from recounting her
experiences The men had worry
enough.
After a hasty meal the journey to-
ward the seaport began In earnest
A ncntl sAhon of the Mon*-
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SYNOPSIS.
Kathlvn Ilsre. believing her father. Col.
Hare. In peril, has summoned her. leaves
her home In California lo go (<• him In
Allaha, India t'mballa. pretender to the
throne, has Imprisoned the colonel, named
by the late king as his heir Arriving tu
Allaha, Kathlyn Is Informed by t’mballa
that her father being dead, she Is to be
queen, and must marry htm. She refuses
and Is Informed by the priests that no
woman can rule unmarried She ta given
sewn days tv think It over. She stlTl re-
fuses. and Is told that she must undergo
two ordeals with wild beasts If she sur-
vives she will be permitted to rule John
Wruce. tin American, saves her life. The
elephant which carries her from the
scene of ber trials runs away, separating
her from bruce and the rest of the party.
She takes refuge In a ruined temple, but
this haven ts the abode of a lion and she
Is forced to flee from It. She finds a re
treat in the Jungle only to fall Into the
hands of slave traders Kathlyn Is
brought to the public mart In Allaha and
Bold to t’mballa. who. finding her still un-
submissive. throws her Into the dungeon
with her fattier. She Is rescued by Bruce
and his friends. Colonel Hare also is
rescued. Cinballa, with soldiers, starts
In pursuit. Kathlyn Is struck by a bul-
let The fugitives are given shelter In the
palace of Bala Khan. Supplied with cam-
els by the hospitable prince, they start
for the coast, but are captured by bri-
gands. t’mballa journeys to the lair of
the bandits, makes the colonel a prisoner
and orders Bruce and Kathlyn killed The
bandits quarrel over the money paid them
by t’mballa and during the confusion
Kathlyn and Bruce escape and return to
Allaha. They concoct a plan to rescue
the colonel. The colonel .Is nominally
klr.g, but really a prisoner. Kathlyn gains
access to the palace In disguise, and her
rescue plans are succeeding when the
treasury leopards escape throwing the
V>ourt Jnto confusion. During the panic
Komabal and Bruce rescue Kathlyn and
her father, and the partv steals away
from Allaha.
CHAPTER XV—Continued.
"There is a village not far," remind-
ed Ahmed. "They are a friendly peo-
ple. It is quite possible, with the
money we have, to buy some horses,
small but sturdy. Rut there is one
thing I do not understand, sahib.
"And what Is that?" asked the colo-
nel.
“The readiness with which Umballa
gave up the pursuit. It’s a long walk;
let us be getting forward.”
Late that afternoon they were all
mounted once more, on strong, tracta-
ble ponies, with water and provisions.
And the spirits of all rose accordingly.
Even Ahmed became cheerful.
"We’ll make it. please God!” said
the colonel. "Give me a telegraph of-
fice. That’s all I need just now.”
“Two days, sahib." said Ahmed, “we
wiH reach the sea.”
They rode all through the night,
stopping only at dawn for breakfast
and a cat nap after. Then forward
again till they came upon a hunter's
rest house, deserted. Here they agreed
to spend the night. Beyond the rest
house were "half a dezen scattered mud
huts, occupied by natives who pretend-
ed friendliness, lulling even the keen
Ahmed into a sense of security. But
at dawn, when they awoke cheerfully
to pick up the trail, they found their
borses and provisions gone.
The colonel, Bruce and Ahmed, still
armed, never having permitted the
rifie9 out of their keeping, set out
grimly in pursuit of the thieves, while
Kathlyn proceeded to forage on her
own initiative.
She came presently upon a magnifi-
cent ravine, half a mile in depth.
There was a broad ledge some fifteen
feet below. It was evidently used as
i goat path, for near at hand stood a
shepherd's hut. Stirred by the spirit
of investigation, she made prepara-
tions for descent by attaching the rope
she had brought along to a stout boul-
der.
Panthers!
and asked the way back to the bun-
tar's real house I la abok bla brad,
ha understood nothin*
Hut thara la ona language which la
universal iba world ovar. and that la
atfn language Kathlyn quickly
atooped and draw In tha dust tha shape
of the reat house Then aba pointed
In the direction front whence aha had
cotue lfa» sinlU-d and nodded excited
ly- He understood now. Next. being
unarmed, she fell tha need of noma
eort of weapon Bo she drew tha shape
of a rifle In the duet, then produced
four rupees, all aha had. Tha shep-
herd gurgled delightedly, ran Into tha
hut and returned with a rifle of mdd
arn make and a belt of cartridges
With a gesture he signified that It was
useless to him because be did not
know how to use It.
He took the rupees and Kathlyn
took the rifle, vaguely wondering how
it caute into the possession of tbla
poverty stricken hlllman. Of one
thing she was certain; It had become
his either through violence of hla own
or of others. She examined the breech
and found a dead shell, which she cast
out. The rifle carried alx cartridges,
and she loaded skilfully, much to the
astonishment of the hlllman. Then
she swung the butt to her shoulder
and fired up at the ledge where the
panthers had last been seen.
The hlllman cried out in alarm and
scuttled away to his hut. When be
peered forth again Kathlyn made a
friendly gesture and he approached
timidly. Once more she pointed to the
dust, at the picture of the rest house;
and then, by many stabs of his finger
in the air, he succeeded in making the
way back sufficiently clear to Kathlyn,
who smiled, shouldered the rifle and
strode confidently down the winding
path; but also she was alert and
watchful.
There was not a bit of rust on the
rifle, and the fact that one bullet had
sped smoothly convinced her that the
weapon was serviceable. Some careful
hunter had once possessed it, for it
was abundantly oiled. To whom had
it belonged? It was of German make;
but that signified nothing. It might
have belonged to an Englishman, a
Frenchman, or a Russian; more likely
the latter, since this was one of the
localities where they crossed and re-
crossed with their note books to be
utilized against that day when the
Bear dropped down from the north and
tackled the Lion.
Kathlyn had to go down to the very
bottom of the ravine. She must fol-
low the goat path, no matter where it
wound, for this ultimately would lead
her to the rest house. As she started
up the final incline, through the cedars
and pines, she heard the bark cf the
w’olf, the red wolf who bunted in
packs of twenty or thirty, In realty
far more menacing than a tiger or a
panther, since no hunter could kill a
whole pack.
To this wolf, when hunting his kill,
the tiger gave wide berth; the bear
took to his cave, and all fleet footed
things of the jungles fled in panic.
Kathlyn climbed as rapidly as she
forgotten na for a tin* '* And Abmod
atruda out to make tba arrangamaota
for tba return
"Bruce.” said tha colonel. ’It la time
for you to laBva ua You ara a man
You hats stood by ua through thtek
and thin I cannot ask you to abarw
anv of tba dangars which now confront
ua. perhaps wore slnlatar than any we
have yat known
"Don’t you want maf aakad Hnica
qulatly.
Kathlyn bad gona to her room to
hide bar team
Waul you! Hut no'" The colonel
f,
1'mballa'a attack had thrown them far wrung tha young man’* band and
«*ut of the regular track. They ware turned to go back to Kathlyn
now compelled to make a wide detour "Walt a moment, colonel. Buppoa-
" h"**’ ,ht* might have been | In* I wanted to go, what then? Hup-
made In three days, they would be ' posing 1 should aay to you what I dare
lucky now if they reached tha sea ua- j not yet aay to your daughter, that I
der five. The men took turns In stand- , love her belter than anything els* In
Ing watch whenever they made camp. ; all this wide world; that It will be
and Kathlyn and Pundita had no time i happlneas to follow wherever ahe goea
for Idleneaa. They had learned their . . . even unto death?"
l<-»aona; no more careleeaneaa noth- j The colonel wheeled "Hruce, do you
lug but the abarpeat vigilance from I mean that?"
now on | "With all my heart, air Hut pleaae
One day. as tba pony caravan made ! aay nothing to Kathlyn till this affair
a turn round a ragged promontory, ends, one way or the other. She might
they suddenly paused. Perhaps twen be stirred by a sense of gratitude, and
ty miles to the writ lay the emerald later regret It. When we get out of
tinted Persian gulf. The colonel chla— and I rather believe In the
slipped off bis home, dragged Kathlyn | prophecy of Ahmed'a guru or fakir—
from hem. and began to execute a then I'll speak. I have always been
hornpipe. He was like a boy. rather a lonely man. There's been no
"The sea. Kit, the sea! Home and j real good reason. I have always de-
Winnie; out of this devil's caldron! aired to be loved for my own sake, and
^ ou will come along with us, Bruce?’’ not for the money I have.”
”1 haven't anything elae to do," "Money?" repeated the colonel.
Bruce smiled back. Never had he in any way associated
Then he gazed at Kathlyn, who | this healthy young hunter with money,
found herself suddenly filled with : Did he not make a business of trap-
strange embarrassment. In times of ping and selling wild animals, like
danger sham and subterfuge have no himself? "Money! I did not know that
place. Heretofore she had met Bruce J'ou had any. Bruce."
as a man, to whom a glance from her ' “I am the sou of Roger Bruce.”
eyes had told her secret Now that "What! The man who owned near-
the door to civilization lay but a few i ly all of Peru and half the railroads In
miles away, the old conventions I South America?"
dropped their obscuring mantles over I "Yes. You see, colonel, we are
her and she felt ashamed. And there ; something alike. We never ask ques-
was not a little doubt. Perhaps she tlons- It would have been far better
had mistaken the look in his eyes, if we bad. Because 1 did not question
back there in the desert, back in the | Kathlyn when I first met her I feel
first day when they had fled together i half to blame lor her misfortunes. I
from the ordeals. And yet . . . ! j 8bould Lave told her all about Allaha
On his part. Bruce did not particu-! and warned ber to keep out of it I
larly welcome the sea. There might should have advised her to send native
be another man somewhere. No worn- lnve8tisators. she to remain in Pesha-
an so beautiful as Kathlyn could pos- I wur 1111 she learned the truth. But the
sibly be without suitors. Ahd when
the journey down to the sea was re-
sumed he became taciturn and moody,
and Kathlyn's heart correspondingly
heavy.
The colonel was quite oblivious to
this change. He swung his legs free
name of Hare suggested nothing to
me, not till after I had left her at
Singapore. So I shall go back with
you. But please let Kathlyn continue
to think of me as a man who earns his
own living.
"God bless you, my boy! You have
of the primitive stirrups and whistled . PU; f “ew backbone in me. It’s hard
the airs which had been popular in ’ n.0t t0 baJe a whlte man t0 talk t0’ t0
America at the time of his departure. • *1™, Z , ®d eXpecU that WC
There was no lightness In the ex- !*““ be ready Jor the 1"eturE‘ in the
pressions of Ramabai and Pundita. “°raing- He- however. Intends to go
They were about to lose these white ^ 08 a ra<;tng ca“el’( t0 g0 stral*ht
people forever, and they had grown to J® baDgaJo^’ }* lt 1 destroyed
love, nay. worship them. More, they j by thIa *!me' PerhaP8 " Innle has not
must return to face they knew not! TyaL 1 V"ust Abmed.
what. oo do I. I have known him for a
a„ fr>. v,a si, i a vi i *ong time—that is, I thought I did—
as tor Ahmed, he displayed his orl- . ... , , .
entalism by appearing unconcerned l g ,tb® last*aw weeks be has
He had mad. „n hi- iI been a revelation. Think of his being
jour headman all these j’ears, and j’et
steadily working for his raj, the Brit-
He had made up his mind not to re-
turn to America with his master.
There was much to do In Allaha. and
the spirit of intrigue had laid firm hold
of him. He wanted to be near at hand
when Ramabai struck his blow. He
would break the news to the Colonel
Sahib before they sailed.
It was four o’clock when the caravan
could. She dared not mount a tree, for entered the little seaport town. A few
tramp steamers lay anchored in the
offing. A British flag drooped from the
ish raj!
“They can keep secrets.”
“Well, we have this satisfaction:
when Pundita rules it will be under the
protecting hand of England. Now let
us try to look at the cheerful side of
the business. Think of what that girl
has gone through with scarcely a
scratch! Can’t you read something In
the red wolf would outwit her. She
heard It often in the great forests at the Mediterranean, and the broad At- ordinary WOman: Can't you see light
home. It was the call of the pack that i Iantic. u you see iignt
there was to be a kill. She might The air was still and hot, for the In- j evil working fo/and aea^n^^us and
shoot half a dozen of them, and the dian summer was now beginning to th-it ihmcd n r vV <n t ’ and
living rend the dead, but the main lay its burning hand .pon tbla greM ; J H ln “* e”d
pack would follow on and overtake peninsula. The pale dust, the white I When I an, “out o°Mbe OrteM I
laugh at such things, but I can't laugh
at them somehow when I’m in India ”
“Nor L”
That night Kathlyn signified that
she wished to go down to- the beach
ac-
the white
stucco of the buildings, blinded the
She swung on upward, catching a eJ"e.
sapling here, a limb there, pulling her- They proceeded at once to the single
self over hard bits of going. Once she hotel, where they found plenty of ac-
turned and fired a chance shot in the commodation. Then the colonel hur-
direction of the howling. Far away ried off to the cable office and wired ! bevond^the harbo^ blsin° I!
came the roar of one of the mountain Minnie. Next he ascertained that the : companied her Often he rano-ht h
lions; and the pack of red wolves be : British ship Simla would weigh anchor! faring out at the twinkHnv nfhf ^
came suddenly and magically silent, the following evening for Bombay; j S tSe sLla 1 Lv ,
Kathlyn made good use of this inter- that there they could pick up the Delhi.! COuld hear the windlass creaking
val. But presents the pack raised its ’ bound for England. There was noth-1 volume of black smoke
howl again, and she knew that the ing further to do but wait for the an-1 nouVed from the"
zrim Ftrue^lp wa* ahnnt tr» hxityin SWPr tn the* pnlrmol'a TTM-w-i _ . . __ . . dl 3 fun-
grim struggle was about to begin. swer to the colonel s cable to Winnie
She reached the door of the rest which would arrive somewhere about
house just .as the pack, a large one noon of the next day.
came into view, heads down, tails And that answer struck the hearts
streaming. Pundita, who was at the of all of. them with the coldness of Mi«s Hare
to descend: but how to get back to the I Tbe woIv€s’ arHvmg. flung themselves Ahmed spat out hie betel nut and ship and the mrade-
1 JElT-’i h“ had*'rather! i ’‘T‘“erv U.VHJ Jravi'rt
zr-tr “u” *4" - r i r ~ ”»• •' ~
ing when the men folk would return “Sahib, it is fate.” he said “We
from their chase of the horse*, nor must return at once to Allaha. Tmly
how long the wolves would lay siege, the curse of that old guru sticks like
The two women tried shooting, though the blood leeches of the Bengal
Pundita was the veriest tyro, being swamps But as you have faith in
more frightened at the weapon in her your guru. I have faith In" mine Not
hands than at the howling animals out- a hair of our heads shall be harmed.”
side. They did little or no damage to < "I am a very miserable man. Ah
nel. The ship was putting out to sea.
Why do you risk your life for us?"
she asked suddenly.
Adventure is meat and drink to me,
her star
r^be called out loudly as she swung
downward The shepherd came run-
ring out of his hut. dumfound*d at
what be saw
CHAPTER XVI.
Il la tba sharing of dangers, of bread
In tbs wilderness; of golfing a glimpse
of tba soul ahlch lisa banaaib Uta con
vnntlons of tba social pact Would
you call m* a strangar*”
"O. no*” aba triad swiftly. ”lt is
mer-ly that I do not want you to rlak
your llfo any furtbsr for ua la Ukore
no way I can dissuade you?”
"Nona that 1 can think of I am
going back with you. That’a aattisfl
Now let ua Ulk of aomstblng alas.
Don’t you really want uta to go?*’
"Ah. that Isn't fair,” looking out to
saa again and following Ibo lights
aboard tha Mlinla.
It was mighty hard for him sot to
sweep her Into his arms then and
there. Hut he would never be aura of
her till she was free of this country,
free of the sense of gratltudo, free to
weigh her sentiments cartfully and uo
blasedly. He sat down abruptly on
the wreck of an uuclent hull embed
ded In the sand. She sank down a lit-
tle way from him.
He began to tell her some of bla
past exploits; the Amaxou. the Ori-
noco, the Andes, Tibet and China; of
tbs strange flotsam and Jetsam he bad
met In his travels Hut sbo sensed
only the sound of hla vole* and the da-
sir* to reach out her band and touch
hla. Friendship! Bread In tha wilder
ness I
*******
Ahmad was lean and deceptive to
the eye. Like many Hindus, he ap
peared anemic; and yet the burdens
the man could put on his back and
carry almost indefinitely would have
killed many a white man who boasted
of his .strength On half a loaf ot
black bread And a soldier’s canteen ot
water he could travel for two days
He could go without sleep for 48 hours, .
and when he slept he could sleep any-
where, on the moment
Filling his saddle bags with three
days’ rations, two canteens of water
he set off on a hagin, or racing camel,
for Allaha, 200 miles inland a* the
crow files. It was his intention to
ride straight down to the desert and
across this to Colonel Hare's camp* il
such a thing now existed. A dromedary
ln good condition can make from sixty
to eighty miles a day; and the beast
Ahmed had engaged was of Arat
blood. In four days he expected to
reach the camp. If Winnie had not
yet arrived, he would take tke road,
meet her, warn her of the dangers
which she was about to face, and con
vey her to the seaport. If lt was too
late, he would send the came) back
with a trusted messenger to tbe colo-
nel, to advise him.
They watched him depart in a cloud
of dust, and then played the most en
ervating game in existence—that of
waiting; for they had decided to wait
till they heard from Ahmed before
they moved.
Four nights later, when Ahmed ar
rived at the bungalow, he found condi-*
tions aB usual. For reasons best known
to himself Umballa had not disturbed
anjthing. In fact, he had always had
the coming of the younger sister in
mind and left the bungalow and camp
untouched, so as not to alarm her.
She had not yet arrived. So Ahmed
flung himself down upon his cotton
rug, telling the keepers not to disturb
him; he would wake himself when the
time came. But Ahmed had overrated
his powers; he was getting along in
years; and lt was noon of the next day
when a hand shook him by the shoul-
der and he awoke to witness the ar
rival of Winnie and her woman com-
panion.
For the first time in many years
Ahmed cursed his prophet He that
had had time to warn the child had
slept like the sloth of Ceylon I
He went directlly to the point. He
told her briefly what had happened
He had not the least doubt that Urn
balla was already aware of her ar
rival. She must rdmain hidden la the
go-down of the bungalow; her maJd
also. That night, if Umballa or bi*
men failed to appear, he would lead
her off to safety. But there was nc
hope of stealing away in the daytime
In his heart, however, he entertained
no hope; and like the good general he
was. he dispatched the messenger and
camel to the sea. The father and
daughter were fated to return.
Ahmed had reckoned shrewdly. Um
balla appeared later in the day and de
manded the daughter of Colonel Hare
Backed as he was by numerous sol
diers, Ahmed resigned himself to tbe
inevitable. They found Winnie and bet
maid (whom later they sent to the
frontier and abandoned) and took
them to the palace.
There was no weeping or wailing or
struggling. The dark, proud face ol
the j-oung girl gave forth no sign ol
the terror and utter loneliness of ber
position. And Umballa realized that
it was ln the blood of these chiktrcu
asked, knowing
full well what she meant.
Z i-M “*’• TW »c
who are almost strangers’" niercy In his heart. He power
mad and gold mad. and his enomie*
The Coronation of Winnis.
With the assistance of the shepherd the wolves, for the available cracks
Kathryn went down tbe rope agiMy were not at sufficiently good angles
and safely. Once firmly on her faec , An hour went by Kathlyn coaid bear
she turn'd to thank the wild-eyed hill the wolves as they crowded against
naan Bat Ler best Hindustani iaad , the door, sniffing the sill
•Strangers?" He laughed softly
Has it never occurred to you that the
people we grow up with are never
really our friends: that real friendship
lived because he could reach neither
of his desires over their dead bodies
The rigmarole and mummery Win
nle went through affected her exact.'’
med! God has forsaken me!" The
colcee’. spoke with stoic calm; he was
more like the man Ahmed had former-
,y*STSlaK w j three year, ago' iTu^” ^7 1 « ■
No. Allah baa not forsaken: be fcnajlag o< people that makes friendships j C04T forB*“r at Edendal
comes only with maturity of the mind’ ■ Dl* affected her exact ’
Why. the best man friend I have” in afr*r,e<5 her
^ . * **• 1 kl! sa n la an«i a -l-kt _ __ a —___
I three
this world Is a young chap I met"--* aM * a>*btmare.
and at any
make ap is
fTO RK OONTUlkUi
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