Part 54 (1/2)

Ahrimly and pointed toward his forehead

”Is there really such evil, Ahets good The Colonel Sahib did wrong And who shall deny sourus a supernatural power? I have seen; I know”

”But once you said that we should eventually escape, all of us”

”And I still say it, Mematically

Wearily she turned toward her tent, but paused to touch the head of her sleeping father as she passed Her occidental mind would not and could not accept as possibilities these mysterious attributes of the oriental e a man's misfortunes was to her mind incredible, for there were no precedents She never had witnessed a genuine case of hypnotism; those examples she had seen werenot even the newsboys in the upper gallery True, she had sole hich she had read the Arabian Nights--fairy stories

Yet, here was her father, thoroughly convinced of the efficacy of the guru's curse; and here was Ah in the least that his guru would in the end prove the stronger of the two

One of the elephants clanked his chains restlessly Heof a cat Far beyond the fire, beyond the sentinel, she thought she saw a naked form flash out and back of a tree She stared intently at the tree for a ti more, she was convinced that her eyes had deceived her Besides her body seeht

U satisfied hi, slunk away into the shadows He had failed again; but his hate hadHe was naked except for a loin clout His beard and hair wereover his eyes His body was snized hi less than nine hours to reach the cape before they did; and it was necessary that he should have accomplices

The fisherold would enmesh them

The half island which constituted the cape had the shape of a miniature volcano There was verdure at the base of its slope and trees lifted their heads here and there hardily It was ait stood out like a huge sapphire against the rosy sea Between the land and the pro sand; there was half a ers always are At high tide, yonder was an island in truth

Sounboat would drop down here suddenly; but it alasted its tiuns and powder ever was found; and yet the British Raj knew that soently and vigorously sought

On the beach fisher A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor in the rude harbor So nets, and so boats Beyond the beach nestled a few huts Toward these other fishere--the head man--disembarked from this sloop

He was met by his wife and child, and the little one cla the huts stood onethan the others, and toward this the chief and his family wended their way In front of the hut stood an empty bullock cart Attached to one of the wheels was a frisking kid The little child paused to play with her pet

Absorbed in her pasti with ifted with an instinct which leaves us as we grow older; the sensing of evil without seeing or understanding it The child suddenly gazed up, to meet a pair of eyes black and fierce as a kite's She rose screaed and waited

When the parents rushed out to learn what had frightened their little one they were solery”

The chief salaa the holy man rice and milk

”Thou art an honest ravely

”Thou art poor?”

”That is with the Gods I serve”

”But thou art not without arew What meant these peculiar sentences?

”Wouldst put thy hand into gold as far as the wrist and take what thou couldst hold?”

”Yee, holy one; for I am human Whither leads these questions? What is it you would of me?”

”There are sooodinto the vernacular

The chief could not resist looking down at the ground, startled