Show I 1 yellow men sleep by jeremy lane 1 4 1 illustrated by IRWIN MYERS t fr copyright by the century co CHAPTER X continued 14 ile he hobbled on ell Illi ahead erid and many walked close beside the white nien men but there was MIS no talking if the miners were curious they were silent if they were as distrustful ns as they appe appealed aed in glances they were for the moment persuaded by the arab con smelled camels there wrig was n ledge where the walls sloped buck back to meet the lowering roof and in the lie wedge shaped space between th the white ewhite men were permitted to conceal themselves levington drew its his friend further into the narrowing space and at once the torches were gone silence came about the two as they waited prom beyond a jutting wall the light from the gas alre faintly colored tile the rock lining leaving the alio hitting hiding place in deep shadow 1 I talked I 1 ipuh nelen about these ah inan net in lil tila march they are the sons of mothers ind and fathers their blood is pure or has already been duplicator duplica tod iti ili the city that is their crime they are aie not blended or necessary it to the lie blend and so as outcasts at an sentenced ced to the work here the women ili aru not all deformed and the lie children ire riot not always born dwarfs but I 1 understand that the babies it lire re taken to the city to be lansed in tile the liota house es of if tho the war ur casle the ilif legs and backs bachs of the intiso children are aru polled poll eil in ID order to till nip any future revolt olt tho the arins aims are left le ft unhurt tor for the hie sake of nf labor it is well thought thou glit out the devils own scheme said cun con thore tire pure japanese here pure Per persian sinn the lord knows how many different elements riot not desired for the purposes of empire nut but how did you iou begin to persuade them 1 I thought of their grievances tind and neade thu most of that it appears r that it a they liuo have lit at times cherished the iduix of it a revolution our arabian friend wila oie of the candidates for leadership years ago lie he says ays but ills his les were too bit bad they had to gin it up lip ant that the bitterest huni limmor liu mor or 1 I wont go anywhere again without learning the language said mid con it wib almost its as if they had burn been looking for us u added marth march 1 I hope we call 1011 make inake good your ioui promises 1 I hope they can protect us its curious game ant it buu cd levington lie was thinking of princess helen fa youre yoi iru not enuch elated oi croni deliverance dell crance objected the elder comrade walt whitman said tant if a thousand perfect pet feet wen wore ivere to appear before him lie be surprised Is vint unit the way you ou feel laughed march yes re oue one book helen ought to have hae walt could show her the matter with tou tau xuan kuan you yon might inight do that mot yourself tho the father faglier fat lier an giitl tile conversation lapsed distantly levington heard the miners rousing the cornels camels tor for another days work it must be almost daylight da light said march all the same saine down here but I 1 suppose they can truck track us in ili the daytime back tit at my desk in the days before I 1 found chee wag said march 1 I was vas depressed because tic causo I 1 felt I 1 should f never neer reach the heart of the G cobl 0 bl it had become the same as heaven to tile me and nil all my illy dream ladders had failed toppled down hut but even in ili my younger days I 1 never imagined a world like this that first big surprise stretched me said con when we ran into the green valley alley the palace made mii me numb and the apartment of your little princess prides finished ine 1111 lc trolas apes and tili if I 1 had riot not seen roy my own father go gio down under koreja korc kore jh ih I 1 believe hint chrit either but as it Is I 1 think nothing ou oil gods footstool will ever startle tile me again tin the white inen lily lay for wore more than an lijour talking in whispers and peering put out ant tile ha great dial one cave no lily light could enter here only lily the noiseless dunce of orange tinted shat shadows lows upon the further fin liter all volt at moments they could hear of the lie ic thley of the in miners iners in ili another section of ohp lif subterranean passages thea abel tile alie arch tit at the left wits darkened by large familiar forms the soldiers there was a score of them with smoking h ing torches tun lies A long limn bag was dragged upon the floor the first g glance arice about this part of the caverns was wag a disappointment to the big framed warriors but they had not completed their search bearch swords clanked down against the rock floor door as they opened one end of the sack A black serpent slipped out at their feet from 1 rom the elevation election levington saw tit p snake lift its head bead and rapidly tongue to e the leggings of the nearest who shoved shaved it away with the blunt of hla his sword tile the other soldiers stood till still its small sall eyes were like jewels A leather thong was fastened in a ring lust just hack back of its head holding their tore torches hes high the soldiers waited and us its the nap elnko seemed disinclined dis inclined to net e t fille lingo huge rider caught its black I 1 P n t h it upon on ills scabbard and lifted it the ledge its as high as his head the serpent might go where they could riot not see it remained lemal ned still in the new position in rather an angry mood and then star started ted upward it did not come toward the white fugitives but mounted the lip uneven walls opposite until tile hie leathern lentlie in rope in the hands of the ann all bolow ani nearly played placed out lin bently the serpent had circled the lie cmero and was waa nearing the americans silently it progressed from one sl shadow inflow to the next when the thong taught aught on a rocky point the warrior below would whirl ills end of it and the tether would go tree free the snake sn ake paused with trembling rage at the dim ince then went on levington Leng ton tin had drawn ills turban down over oer ills his neck with face preyed pressed to the rocks but lie could not withhold a glance at the approaching 9 snake and his heart beat heavily with terror ile he steeled himself to hold perfectly still tile the eyes ees of the reptile were upon him now within two tivo yards ards ap 11 presently the serpent had circled the cavern and vas nearing the arner icons of ills head liand the long lone silent body slid hald up lip to liim under its dusky skin vere golden inar kings like sunlight on stagnant water A forked white tongue was flickering in and out in a 0 kind of smile there was no hesitation tile the snake ans looping gliding gilding onward across the ledge cons soul wits was gripped in horror herror but if the searching party had reckoned on forcing the fugitives to betray themselves by sonie outcry or sign of fear they had failed neither american Ameil can had so much as winked while the sinuous thing writhed past without striking the hunters passed on to the next cavern CHAPTER XI you are making me Um unhappy happy 11 con hear bieard his friend breathing once more exhaling pent air they waited sonio some time before moving out of the tight place A merry little worm lie he 11 whispered con are ale you ou clif chilled fled asked march whimsically you tire are chattering too retorted the young oung ninn man 1 I wonder it if they the left any of those behind for foi our benefit 1 I saw only the one so I 1 know it was real wild said levington gohl gobi police log dos ill never neer forget f 01 get the glance lie gave me ine yellow ellow diamond eyes ees and do you ou know what lint ile he ind had a smell whispered loving 1 ing to toimi Ni march tirell quietly and said lie he did not doubt that there wits it house in Down glac continued levington Ieng ton a very lery old house tile the walls were nvere full of murder ind and worse A poor lady lived live there with a number of miseries erlea such rut as jaundice e and eczema her apron was always torn she do the murder it did her I 1 was small then I 1 remember the broken plaster that came down upon the beds which were gray arry and active jumpy dishes under the stove and under the table the cats whose fur was stiff with garbage and the grasshoppers that hung on the parlor curtains well in that house there drifted this same cold poisonous smell andrew march was very grave now 1 I do riot not doubt that either he said bald levington worked his way further out of the crevice to a position better for breathing although still in the shadow lie ile rolled over upon his back and drew up his knees with a deep sigh that house would be proud of 0 me it they knew and it if I 1 was able to bring back a straight story of this country the source of the worlds koresh yes that house and many others I 1 run am glad you feel as you do 1 I suppose our government would ask the chinese government to coop co op crate in reaching and controlling tau ruan knan 11 and the russian added march they are badly hit do you think it Is possible asked con after a silence the elder comrade suit said slowly to be fr frank allik I 1 have lind faith and lost it and regained and lost it so many times that I 1 cannot say it Is my duty to try but I 1 cant sl say y any more than that levington folt felt the curious depression again in his friend an alarming we wp lelit I 1 the arabian sailor appeared below them grinning you rou told hold still uke like stone salil said con site she do a not strike you at all passed Iusi sed both of u us 11 said march you tire iro cherished of allah de blared the chilor they have taken away four of us its ile grill itla world of meaning the suitors lors were nvere punishing punish inq the lie in miners iners for perham tile lie title of the white mens lid did riot not impress UK the searching party willit will they ilo 10 to tile ho four break log said bald the lie arab maybe starve andrew 1 march shuddered and the strange ono one below volunteered my aly men inin do not ilk llop tevan ton saw that two white strangers causing great trouble for fit the miners could riot not become very popular 1111 ell alo sad lip HP alil simply slin ply take tile inc your inon ix diore anything you cui cin say biked con only what I 1 toli told then eliom lire replied alarce we represent it netlon that Is Is as ea ciar or to tn bunni liu 1111 kunn ns tin so evoi krs pun call lie if i ann cnn an ret got line ihrk talce to in toll tell tile the stun I 1 cun can make o that flint clelar tit nt least alicy allu timy not lo be in a 11 ino il I 1 to I 1 Us 19 te it I 1 macli lich smiled sadly ilonis ilon ls ile ahtila lii gaii but hook ills his head the three men niomi passed in into to the larger portion of tile the cavern where tile I 1 lie red lili li li roof was with tin ill flare fanni the burning gas below ovel women cried out sharply nt at islat of if tile white men inen and nod fled like alit nulls mais to their rock pockets lit lip tile lie walls tills their skirts shirts were brief u ply several very young darted after their heir mothers to the lie safety of dark haunts too noling idling to have been 1 spoiled it was only it a period of months before they would be taken into the city to bo be mottled molded into slaves in tile houses g of the soldiers the circulation of their blood too retarded their very souls distorted returning to tn the mines n year or more after they would ile be lost and strange and as if orphaned among their own kin kill their family life did not receive sanction of the state the frightened women left food behind them jars jara stood close to tile lie Us Is sure from which came the lire fire alio contents hai had been prepared for linking con bent down to sniff lit tile lie open jars march and th the 0 krab pa eil on together mid and levington ann wilted vat ted feeling himself useless it in 1 riichi 1 1 il a co conference 1 1 ile he was more in tue r e st ed 1 in i 1 1 ni an exit exi I 1 to the left was the pas passage age lending leading to tile foot of the lie slanting shaft ile ho noted a long vine that came down over tile loose gravel like n gulde guide rope con ell climbed led into the enlarging daylight toward the top sunlight till the old alit enemy was beguiling ile he was thinking that lit in tau inu kunn they have either too sunshine or too little the pale imle I 1 haunted faces of thu the children below troubled hini him an ali intense light was wag blinding him from above A flush of ft desert days daya came over him oddly it a swift rein lit escen ce of pain and t i gone in ili the space of one upward evl yet leaving a dryness in tile aaront con realized that the only trees within a thousand lillice were nvere the lie half gronan oaks outside the casements of tile princess now the air changed lit in hl lili nostrils and lie he caught fagain the lie lint hot currents of the sand when the green blots left his taeg he be b big head niovi the level of if appi r virth aa 0 1 stared I 1 IM ay n the ih city ILS dnn it antle ml ia distant was behind liddi way aps nt lit ants by cloud clo uil of dut that the hallcy ile to iiii find 1 file path they hey had bail tiki n last I 1 night through tit the fog wl U il the sive peri rl rising Ilig to 0 o find biu b iu A dromedary druine dur with baskets and ft ek driver wits was coming ont ant nt lit the big glite out olit to tile the eolith wits was a motionless horseman the sun flashing from ills his salv er and steel lid seemed to be guarding tile alio horlor 11 vp id was one of tile the scores mho ilia sought 4 trace of the fugitives nut lilt nearer iii tier aloag the road was vas it a third rider can cantarini ho coteen teen n the green squares iris cons calls heart beat violently lie he recognized the kiy cloak of ills princess site she rode ludo under the full blaze of 0 high morning suit the pony moved bilak ly h the watcher was va puzzled its BS to iby she cattle out in the great bicet leaving the shelter of the palace slie site wag M alone save bale for tile far figure of tile the sentinel she was as mounted perfectly and this was comforting to con who ho longed tor for more inore signs sign of her western self sho she reached the cut in ili the lilt hill the lead held of the ravine and there tj n ere drew rein vividly mully lie reca ile I 1 th tant tit it MS IS the point of their list first IM eteng chere lier hii hi i uplifted right rl lit inn arni had hlin while with alth the left she bho con can coaled lin her fit fac lie I 1 1 0 swore soro to himself that lie was pro sumptuous tit in imagining she bw lind hall ridden there for foi tiny reason connected with himself unless sho she too was v is seeking eel to discover the white alte disturb disturbers ers of the empire and tle give them over nor to tile the li con argued agui 1 with bilm elf t hit hilt slip she had gono to the ravine before slie he lie exited that hat probably probable silo role there each clay di for fop a cons titu tont nl ill bince there was nowhere no here e else ise to go yet ills emotions had their fl final sav tia lifting 1 ahlm it I 1 alt f out at ili alie L mouth of the shaft haft lie glanced up and around alio tile llio sun still wits ns scorching if lip lie attempt ed i 1 to move ino along the fafe face of tile hill hilll lie would din araw tile eye of tin tho sentinel and till the end en 1 would come quickly cons n s turban lull in mil and bl use werk ind and lie he lilt felt that in ho bi I 1 gio alln 1 I I 1 like e n ell ou ID it abo dun dull hill ld omni til 11 alil i I 1 milti aris s tile fear li ir that ill it kulil ride liu on all or iii tit 1110 before lie could coul 1 reach mah lid ilor nothing clort of nf i word with lii ter would gullic e lir lie could n iiii t arvall ni ill that th it lie ind had tiny ni thing till ig to say the sli wv way nut |