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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. BPANISn FORK, UTAIt should you risk your life for people banda than at the howling animal lalrir thn nay , perhsrv who are almost strangers?" known." l They dl Rule or no damage lo have jet Strangers?" He laughed softly, lb wolves, for the available crarka "Don't you want me?" asked Bruce lisa It never occurred to you that the ware not at aufllcleuUr good angles. quietly, w grow up with are never An hour went by. Kathlyn could hear Kathlyn hsd gone to her room to tepte that real friendship our friends; the wolvei aa they crowded against bide her learn. really the door, anlitlng tha iltl Want you! But no!" The colonel comes only with maturity of th mind? The colonel, Bruce, Ramabal and wrung Hie young man's band and Why, the best man friend I have la this world la a youog chap I met but Ahmed bad found the horses half a turned to go bark to Kathlyn. three dozen rullra away; and they had years ago. It Is not tba knowcolonel Walt a moment, SupposIbraebed the thieving natives soundly ing I wanted to go, what then? ing of people that makes friendships. nd Instilled tb right kind of fear In I should say to you what I dare It is the sharing of dangers, of bread llluairaiad hr Plriurnfrom lha Moving Pletur tbelr breasts. At rifle point they had not yet say to your daughter, that I la the wilderness; of getting a gllmpaa froduailon af ih belli Polrwop Co. forced the natives back to th rest love her belter than anything else la of th soul which Ilea beneath th conhouse. The crack of their rifles soon all this wide world; that It will be ventions of tb social pact Would announced to Kathlyn that the dreed happlnesa to follow wherever ah goes you call me a stranger?" Is of wolvea waa a thing of tha past. She . . . even unto death?" (hwprnabi hr lUrutd Haauaatha 0, no!" aba cried owlftJy. u want to I risk not do that you merely from her refrained do wisely you recounting Tha colonel wheeled. Bruce, With ft gesture ba signified that It IYNOPSII. your Ilf any further for us. Is tbero The man had worry mean that?" useless to blm because ba did not experiences. no way I can dlsauada your enough. know bow to ua It. "With alt my heart. Hr. But plea ... . ! "Nona that 1 can think of. I am in parti, na xmnrl toAfter a meal II Uf, tha affair thla ftnd took till Journey to hasty tbo Katbljrn Kathlyn rupees ay nothing r Imtiia in UHliirnln In a In hint In back with you. Thats settled ward going in tha earnest took tbo rifle, vaguely wondering bow seaport began AiUlm, India, I'mlnll. pralrnriar In lha ends, on way or tb other. 8b might Now 1 a. mlutt.1, ua talk of something elan. let ltnial lrunn, h Uniballa'a had cam am attack them far thrown mprl.,nd it of Into aens tbla of a stirred tha be by possession gratitude, v ilia lata hint aa ! hair. Arrivin in Don't you out of really want ma to go?" the were ona track. of stricken hlllmnn. Of Allalin, hallilyn la Infita4 lr I'ntlmlln fiovertr reguler They later regret IL When we get out l In ha hal Inr fattier Mn dead, now compelled to make a wide detour. this and I rather believe In tha "Ah, that Isn't fair," looking out to aba become It thing certain; inaan, and nmat marry him. a ha rafuaa bla either through violence of bis own Where tb Journey might her been prophecy of Ahmed's guru or faklr-U-ien sea again and following th lights nl la In fur ma hr lha inleata that no auman ran rula tinmnrrlnd. ua la or of Ml apeak. I bavs always been aboard tba Simla. others. Bh oiamlnod tbo brooch made lo three days, they would be aaan ilara a tlilnla II war. anil m now If unsea reached nd found th dead aboil, which abo cast lucky they rather a lonely man. There's been no It was mighty bard for him sot to fuarg. aiul la mid that aha inuat undatan ' arrival alth wild baaata If alia out. Tbo rlflo carrlad all cartridge, der five Tha men took turns In stand- real good reason. 1 have always de- sweep ber Into hla arms then and aha Will ha pentrillad In rule. Juhn lirura, aa An writ an. aavaa bar Ufa Tha and abo loaded skilfully, ouch to tba ing watch whenever they made camp, sired to N loved for my own sake, and thera. But ho would never be anrt of her till she waa free of this country, rlrphani wiihh rarrtaa har f rum lha aatonlabment of tbo blllmut. Then and Kathlyn and Pundita bad no time not for the money I have." h nf har irtala runa awar. erpnrniln free of tb sene of gratitude, free to Idleness. colonel. the for bad abo learned their Money?" repeated her fmm Hriaa and Ilia rant nf lha pnrty, awung tbo butt to bor ohoulder They ha taken rfuga In a ruined (ampin. bul ond fired up at tbo no more careleeaneea, noth- Never had be In any way associated weigh her sentiments carefully and leeaone; tbo sboro ledgo thin harvn la lha alMHla of a linn and alia He sat down abruptly on ing but the sharpest vigilance from thla healthy young hunter with money. a furwl in f!a from II. Hlie flnila a ra-- i panther bod loot boon aoen. real in lha Junla tnlf In fall Inin (ha now on. Hid he not make a tusftesa of trap- the wreck of aa ancient bull embedTbo blllmta cried out and alarm in liamla nf alava I rail era. halhlya la On day, aa tha pony caravan made ping and aelllng wild animals. Ilka ded In th land. She sank down a UP nmuahl in lha publlo marl In Aliahn and oou tiled sway to bla bub Whoa ba "Id lo (nihalia. who. finding her anil tin peered forth turn round a ragged promontory, himself? Money! I did not know that tie way from him. mad a again Katbljrn uhtuleelve. Ihruwa har Ihlo lha dunaann He began to tell her gome of hla Bruca." b and With har falhar. Mha la raued hr Itrura friendly geaturo approached they suddenly paused. Perhaps twen- you bad any,aoo of Roger Bruca." I am tb and hie frimda. Culunrl liar past exploits; tha Amazon, th Oria tan la timidly. One mor ah polntod to tbo ty miles to tha weet lay tha emerald reerued. I'mballa, with aohliara, el aria "What! The man who owned near- noco, tb Andes, Tibet and China; of Tha colonel In purault. huh duab at th picture of tbo root bouao; tinted Persian gulf. Kathlyn la alrurk hr at Tha fuRiiivee are alvan ahalier In lha and then, by many ataba of bla finger lipped off his horse, dragged Kathlyn ly all of I'eru and half tha railroads In tb strange flotsam and Jotsam ba bad met la his travels. But aha sensed palara of llala Khan. Supplied with ram from hers, and began to esocuto a South America?" la hr lha hnairiulila they alert th sound of bla vole and tha d You "Yes. are we only fur lha rnaal, hut ara prtnra, see, colonel, hrl hornpipe. He wee Ilk a boy. raptured W lehila, I'mballa Journara lair of alike. We never aak ques- alre to reach out bar hand and touch la lha Th something Home th sea. and aa! Kit, .ha bandit. mahaa lha rhnel a pnauner nd nrdar lirura and Kallilro killed. Tha Winnie; out of this devll'a caldron! tions. It would havs been far bettor hla. Friendship! Bread In tba wilderMmllia quarrel over lha mwnef paid them Ton writ coma along with ua, Bruce?" If we had. Because I did not queetion ness! e l7 ! nilnilla and during lha mnfualun I haven't anything els to do,' Kathlyn when 1 first met her 1 feel Kalhlrn and lirura aarapa and return lo waa Ahmed and Allaha. Thap enncori a plan lo rear u a lean blame to half deceptlva to for her misfortunes, Hruco smiled beck. lha etdoneL Tha ndonel la mimlnallr Like ha apth Hindus, have should told many all Allaha eye. har about m. but realtr a Then he gssed at Kathlyn, who Kalhlrn aalna tree Jo the pa Inrprlauner warned her to keep out of It I peared anemic; and yet the burdens and In dlegulae, aj herself found filled with suddenly reeeua plana ara surrwadlne when native the man could put on hla hack and embarrassment In times of should have advised her to eend Iesha-wuIreaaurr lenpards aacape (brewing lha strings r carry almost Indefinitely would hava abo to In remain Into Investigators, runfuelun. rurl lha panlo danger eham and subterfuge have no lUmahal and lirua law--inning killed many a wblta man who boasted and Kalhlrn th she But till learned truth. th her faihnr, and lha partr alaala awar place. Ileretofora she bad met Bruce name of Har of hla strength. On half a loaf of to from Allaha. suggested nothing as a man, to whom a glance from her 1 had left her at black bread and a soldier's canteen of not me, till after eyes had told her secret Now that 1 be could travel for two days. CHAPTER XV Continued. the door to clrlltullon lay hut a few Singapore. Bo I shall go hack with water He could go without sleep for 4S hours, mtlca away, the old conventions you. But please let Kathlyn continue "Thera a village not far," remindto think of me aa a man who earna bla and when he alcpt he could sleep anydropped tbelr obscuring mantle over own ed Ahmed. where, on the moment. living." They or a friendly peoher and she felt ashamed. And there God ple. It la quit possible, with the bless You Filling his eaddle bags with three have my you, boy! waa not a little doubt rerhapa aha money w hare, to buy aome horses, had mistaken the look In bla eyes, put a new backbone In me. It'a hard days rations, two canteens of water, mall but sturdy! Hut there Is one back there In th desert hack In the not to have a white man to talk to, to he set off on a hagln, or racing camel thing I do not understand, sahib.' first day when they had fled together plan with. Ahmed expects that w for Allaha, 200 miles Inland aa the And wbot Is that?" asked tha colohall be ready for the return In the crow files. It was hla Intention to from the ordeals. And yet I nel. ride straight down to the desert and On hla part Bruce did not particu- morning. He, however. Intends to go Th readiness with which UmbalU beck on a racing camel, to go straight across thla to Colonel Hare's camp. If larly welcome the sea. There might such a thing now existed. A dromedary gar up the pursuit Its a long walk be another man somewhere. No worn, to my bungalow. If It ian't destroyed ua let bo getting forward." lo time. this good condition can make from sixty Winnie not by has Perhaps an ao beautiful as Kathlyn could posLata that afternoon they were all to eighty miles a day; and the beast 1 trust Ahmed." arrived there yet be without suitors. And when sibly mounted once more, on strong, tractaSo do L I have known him for a Ahmed had engaged was of Arab the Journey down to the sea waa reble ponies, with water and prorlalona. blood. In four days he expected to time that Is. I thought I did long sumed he became taciturn and moody, Winnie's Dark, Proud Face Showed And the spirits of all rose accordingly. reach the camp. If Winnie had not and few the last weeks he has during and Kathljn's heart correspondingly No Terror, Ecn tinned became cheerful. been a revelation. Think of his being yet arrived, he would take the road, heavy. Weli make ft please tSod!" salt headman all these years, and yet meet ber, warn ber of the dangers In the air, he succeeded in making the The colonel was quite oblivious to your th colonel. "01 r me a telegraph working for hla raj, the Brit- which she was about to face, and consteadily back way sufficiently dear to Kathlyn, this change. He swung hla legs free ish That's all I need Juat now." vey ber to the seaport. If It was too raj!" who smiled, shouldered the rifle and of the primitive stirrup and whistled r Two he would send the camel back said can late, secrets." sahib," days, Ahmed, "we strode confidently down the winding the airs They keep which had been popular in will reach the bps." with a trusted messenger to the colo. we have this Well, satisfaction: path; but also she waa alert and America at the time of hla departure. when They rode all through tha night watchful Pundita rules It will be under the nel, to advise him. There was no lightness In the exIn a cloud topping only at dawn for breakfast There waa not a hit of rust on the pressions of Ramabal and Pundita. protecting hand of England. Now let of They watched him depart moat enand a cat nap after. Then forward the and then dust, played look at the cheerful aide of rifle, and the fact that one bullet had They were about to lose these white us try to In existence that of again till they came upon a banter's convinced her that the people forever, and they had grown to the business. Think of what that girl ervating game aped smoothly rest house, deserted. Here they agreed for has they had decided to wait gone through with scarcely a waiting; waa serviceable. Some careful love, nay, worship them. More, they to spend the night Beyond the rest weapon from Ahmed before till heard scratch! In read they Can't you something hunter had once possessed It, for It must return to face they knew not bouae were half a dozen scattered mud waa moved. See how they that? strong and abundantly oiled. To whom had Four nights later, when Ahmed arhuts, occupied by natives who pretend It belonged? It was of German make; what he has become under such misforAs for he hla Ahmed, displayed ed friendliness, lulling even the keen rived at the bungalow, he found condiwould aa have tunes driven mad any but that signified nothing. It might unconcerned. by Ahmed Into a sense of security, Ilut woman! Can't you see light tions as usual. For reasons heat known ordinary have belonged to an Englishman, a He had made appearing up his mind not to reat dawn, when they awoke cheerfully to himself Umballa had not disturbed Frenchman, or a Russian; more likely turn to America with hla master. In all this? I tell you, there Is good and to pick up the trail, they found tbelr the anything. In fact, he had always had evil for and and worktng ua, against atnee was one this of the There was much to do In Allaha, and latter, horses and provisions gone. will In fakir the end the coming of the younger sister In localities where they crossed and the spirit of intrigue had laid firm hold that Ahmedja than The colonel, Druce and Ahmed, still old mind and left the bungalow and camp prove your stronger with their note books to be of him. He wanted bally to be near at hand armed, never having permitted the utilized I When ara out of the guru. Orient I untouched, ao as not to alarm her. against that day when the when Ramabal struck hla blow. He riflea out of their keeping, set out Bear She had not yet arrived. Bo Ahmed such I but at can't things, laugh laugh down and from north the dropped would break the news to the Colonel grimly In pursuit of the thieves, while tackled the Lion. somehow when I'm in India.' flung himself down upon hla cotton at them Sahib before they Bailed. Kathlyn proceeded to forage on her rug. telling the keepers not to disturb Nor I." Kathlyn had to go down to the yery was four o'clock w hen the caravan It own Initiative. he would wake himself when the him; That bottom of the ravine. She must fol night Kathlyn signified that entered the little seaport town. A few she wished ShA came presently upon a magnifi. to go down to the beach time rame. But Ahmed had overrated low the goat path, no matter where It cent ravine, half a mile In depth wound, for this tramp steamers lay anchored In the beyond the harbor basin. Bruce ac- hls powers; he was getting along In ultimately would lead oiling. A British flag There was a broad ledge some fifteen her to the rest house. drooped from the companied ber. Often he caught her years; and It waa noon ot the next day As Bhe started stern ot one of This meant Bomthem. feet below. It waa evidently used as up the final Incline, out at the twinkling lights on when a hand shook him by the ahoui-de- r through the cedars and Bombay, In turn, meant Suez, staring a goat path, for near at hand stood bay; and he awoke to witness the arboard the Simla. By and by they and pines, Bhe heard the bark of the rival ot Winnie and her woman comshepherds hut Stirred by the spirit wolf, the red wolf who hunted In the Mediterranean, and the broad Atlantic. of Investigation, she made preparapanion. or thirty, In realty packs of tions for descent by attaching the rope far more twenty The air waa still and hot, for the InFor the first time In many years than a tiger or a menacing had brought along to a stout bouldian summer was now beginning to Ahmed cursed hls prophet lie that no kill alnce could a hunter panther, had hnd time to warn the child had der. Iny its burning hand upon this great whole pack. anthers! I slept like the sloth of Ceylon! To this wolf, when hunting his kill, peninsula. The pale dust, the white He went dlrectlly to the point He stucco of the buildings, blinded the They were coming up the pathway the gave wide berth; the bear told her briefly what had happen.. behind her. It would be simple enough took tiger to hla cave, and all fleet footed eye. not the least doubt that UmHe had to descend; but how to get back to the to once at the They proceeded single of the Jungles fled In panic. waa balla rest bouse? There was no time to things where already aware of her arfound they plenty of ac Kathlyn climbed bb rapidly as she hotel, rival. She must remain hidden In the plan; she must act at once. She must could. She dared not mount a tree, for commodatton. Then the colonel hurof the bungalow; her maid drop down to the ledge and trust to the red wolf would outwit her. She ried oft to the cable office and wired also. That her star. Next he Winnie. night H Umballa or hls ascertained that the on. must go The bark, or yelp, had to men failed She called out loudly as she swung been a British appear, he would lead Simla would ship weigh anchor signal, but now there came to But there was no off to safety. downward. The shepherd came run her ears the her for the following evening Bombay; had long howl. She In the daytime. ot away stealing nlng out of his but, dumfounded at heard It often In the great forests at that there they could pick up the Delhi, hope In hls heart, however, he entertained what he Baw. home. It was the call of the pack that bound for England. There waa nothno hope; and like the good general he there waa to be a kill. She might ing further to do but wait for the anwaa. he dispatched the messenger and CHAPTER XVI. shoot half a dozen of them, and the swer to the colonel's cable to Winnie, camel to the aea. The father and living rend the dead, but the main which would arrive somewhere about next noon of the The Coronation of Winnie. daughter were fated to return. day. would follow on and overtake pack AhmetJ had reckoned shrewdly. UmWith the assistance of the shepherd her. And that answer struck the hearts balla appeared later In the day and deKathlyn went down the rope agilely She swung on upward, catching a of all of them with the coldness of manded the daughter of Colonel Hare. and B&fely. Once firmly on her feet, sapling here, a limb there, pulling her- death. Umballa had beaten them. Backed aa he was by numerous solshe turned to thank the wild-eye- d self over hard bits of going. Once she Winnie had sailed weeks ago for AllaAhmed resigned himself to the But her best Hindustani (and turned and fired a chance diers, of In and father search sister! shot In the ha Inevitable. They found Winnie and her she was able to speak and understand direction of the howling. Far away Ahmed spat out hie betel nut and maid (whom later they sent to the quite a little by now) fell on ears came the roar of one of the mountain squared hla shoulders. Somehow he and abandoned) and took which heard but did not sense what lions; and the frontier had rather like expected beof red wolves something pack she said. The man, mild and harmless came suddenly and magically silent. thla. The reason for Umballa's halfthem to the palace. There was no weeping or walling or enough, for all Lis wild eyes, shrank Kathlyn made good use of this Inter- hearted pursuit stood forth clearly. The dark, proud face of back, for no woman of his kind had val. But presently the pack raised its struggling. la It he said. "We fate," Sahib, ever looked like this. Kathlyn, with a howl again, and Ehe knew that the must return at once to Allaha. the young girl gave forth no sign of Truly, Umballa Greets the New Queen. deal of foreboding, repeated the phrase grim struggle was about to begin. thf terror and utter loneliness of her the curse of that old guru sticks like Umballa realized that l.nd asked the way back to the hunShe reached the door of the rest the blood leeches of the Bengal could hear the windlass creaking. A position. And It was in the blood of these children ter's rest house. lie sliok his head; house Just as the pack, a large one, swampB. But as you have faith In volume of black smoke suddenly and quiet. There was no be understood nothing. came Into view, heads down, tails your guru, I have faith In mine. Not poured from the boats slanting fun- to be brave In hls heart. He was power But there is one language which Is mercy our heads shall be of who harmed. was at the a hair Pundita, nel. The ship was putting out to sea. mad and gold mad, and his enemies universal the world over, and that Is streaming. fire preparing the noon meal, Beized "I am a very miserable man. Ahdo you risk your life for us? lived because he could reach neither Kathlyn quickly Kathlyn by the arm and hurried her med! God has forsaken me!" The she Why sign .language. asked suddenly. of hls desires over their dead bodies. btooped and drew In the dust the shape into the house, barricading the door. colonel spoke with stoic calm; he was is meat and drink to me, "Adventure The rigmarole and mummery Winhouse. Then she pointed Tha wolves, arriving, flung themselves more like the man Ahmed had formerof the rest Miss Hare." went through affected her exactly In the direction from whence she had nie against it savagely. But the door was ly known. The prefix sounded strange and unhad affected her sister. It was it come. He smiled and nodded excited- Btout, and a Allah not huhas ram forsaken: he in only battering has familiar in her ears. Formality. She "No, hideous nightmare, and at any a all ly. He understood now. Next, being man hands could have made it yield. forgotten us for a time. And Ahmed had been wrong, then; only comrade- moment she expected to make up in unarmed, she felt the need of some Unfortunately, there was no know- strode out to make the arrangements ship and the masculine sense of re- her cozy corner at Edendale. port of veapen. So she .drew the shape ing when the men folk would return for the return. Her heart was like lead. sponsibility. (TO RK CONTINUED.) of a rifle in the dust, then produced from their chase of the Bruce," said the colonel, "It Is time horses, nor kind and brave of you, la very tour rupees, all she had. The shep- how long the wolves would You are a man. Mr. Bruce; but I will not have It. lay siege. for you to leave us. Bully I Oh, Very Bull-ey- ! herd gurgled delightedly, ran Into the The two Aomen tried shooting, You have stood by us through thick Irish Policeman If ye want to though be what?" asked, "Have knowing hut and returned with a rifle of mod- Pundita was the veriest tyro, cannot ask you to share full well what she meant and thin. being smoke here ye'll have to aUUer pul ern make and a belt of cartridges. more frightened at the weapon in her any of the dangers which now confront This going back with us. Why out yer cigar or go somewhere Use. i"rt out-Hid- e. The Adventures of Kathlyn 8r Dr. W. E. Warner Office it Lcc'i Bungalow Mad Calls From OTlca flight Phone 21 Spanish Fotk HAROLD MAC CRATXI Hup-posin- Dr. Joseph Hughes lf. Residence. 1st South It a it Office Office 10 Hours, Corner vt ind lit Wot to p. id. Wuudtjr Phone 53 12 a. m and 2 to a Ij appointment. Spanish Fork 1 u bd in u ... of-dj- - J. W. Hagan, M. D. County Quarantine Physician Office at Residence. 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