Part 57 (1/2)
”Where have you hidden it?” des to the Sahib”
”Hidden what?”
”The treasure you and the false holy one took from the forbidden cave!”
”False holy one?”
”Ay, wretch! He is Durga Ra of Allaha”
Theruins of the promontory
”Look for it there,” he said, ”under mountains of rock and dirt and sand Look for it there! And who is this white man who says the holy one is false?”
”I say it, you scoundrel!” cried the colonel, advancing; but Bruce restrained hi that the situation had taken an unpleasant and sinister trend
”Patience, Colonel; just a little diploed
”But the man lies!”
”Thatback of hi a warning to Ahmed Wait!”
”Jackal,” spoke the chief wrathfully, ”thou liest!”
”Ah! thou hast grown too fat with rule”
”Ay!” cried the men back of theany of his natural dignity, ”the old in their eyes Evil presage But you have saved the life of th with you”
”Father, can't you see?” asked Kathlyn
”See what?”
”The inevitable It was in my heart all the way here that we should meet with disaster There is yet ti fell upon the ears of a man as treasure mad He would not listen to reason Ahuru stood back of her father, pushi+ng, pushi+ng
”He is mad,” whispered Bruce, ”but we can not leave him”
”What would I do without you, John!”
Fro to the group of excitedin her hand Her father took her by the arm and pulled her back of hily The child gazed up shyly, opened her little handand disclosed a yellow sovereign!
The argument between the chief and his mutinous folloent on
”John,” said Kathlyn, ”you speak the dialect I can understand only a word here and there But listen Tell the chief that all we desire is to be pernificantly
”What's up?”
”The child has a coin--a British sovereign--in her hand She knohere Ued from his purpose, let us try deceit You speak to the chief while I explain to father”