Show the h e ad adventures vien tures of kathlyn TV edby pictures from the moving picture prodoc flonoi by harold continued brou last week var rebellion great clamor and shouting before the palace stairs give us and the council give us the gutter rat durga ram we will bury him with the dwinel I 1 Um balla ballal from one end of or the city to the other there was turmoil heard the shouting and at first did not understand but soon the truth came to him the city was in revolt he lie summoned what servants he could trust and armed them and when the captain bt bf the guard entered to seize he was himself overpowered the dispatch with which this was accomplished stunned the eol sol diers who knew not what to do with out their leader 0 a 0 when lal singh staggered into the house of ramabhai holding his side in mortal agony dying kathlyn felt the recurrence of that strange duality which she had alist known in the temple of the lion we have failed whispered lal singh the palace soldiers betrayed us all are prisoners shortly to be shot food and w water iter there therel fly and thus lal singh gave up his cobbler cobblers s booth As in a dream kathlyn ran from the house into the street winnie would have followed but pundita clung to her refusing to let her go the stony look in Kath kathlyn lyna eyes had warned pundita of the futility of trying to coerce her with the sun breathing in lances ot of light against the ancient chair armor her golden hair flying behind her like a cloud on on Hat kathlyn lilyn ran neer nener Et stumbling never faltering till she d s a c VIM aft amla a ca came me out into the square before the palace like an amazon of old she called to the scattering revolutionists called harangued smothered them under her scorn and contempt and finally roused them to frenzy she became again in their eyes the white goddess whom no beast nor trap could harm and they would have gone to the gates of hell at a word from her and many did in her madness kathlyn turned the tide and when her father a arm closed round her she sank insensible upon his breast CHAPTER A goddess in armor they tell of 0 it to this day in aldaha to be sure they will elaborate and prevaricate twist and distort as the asiatic knows how having an in nate horror of brevity and d ness but the basic truth of kathlyn s ex is held intact the hoary old beggar who sits with his beggar e bowl near the steps of the mosque loquacious verbose and flowery loi foi an 8 anna piece will tell you the tale which happened all of 30 0 years ago thanks he will begin carefully scrutinizing the coin and testing its solidity between two tao fine rows rons of teeth tor for a man of seventy ah ali that was a day it was like a day I 1 knew in delhi when I 1 was a child for I 1 saw the great I 1 saw the powder magazine ah ali yes it is about the white god de dess s that you wish to know but help me over to all a coffee hoube u for it is hot here and it Is a long story so ou take the old rascal over to and seat D i in m under the umbrellas of all and you will buy him a sugar drink and a smoke from a water bot hot tie tle he having brought forth lively a cracked amber mouthy ece ecla she oame came out of nowhere in a chain armor that shone like rip pling water in the sunshine she was tall and lithe and vigorous and as beautiful as a dream of paradise when we ve saw the sahibs and ra mabal trapped by the cowardly sol diers of the palace we found ourselves without a head the men who led us had vanished we huddled I 1 ke sheep scattered formed fired aimlessly be gan to run ai away ay and brave lal singh with a bullet through his ach staggered off we were vere without hope we were brave enough but bravery has to be directed we knew only part of Rama bals s plans and what about this man ahmed As the kite flies heran he ran back to the house of when everything had apparently come to an end for ahmed loved the white goddess even as you and I 1 love life he ile was brave but as the serpent is wisely D d not the white queen ot of all the english g give lve him a dit or 01 copper to wear on his breast because he was wise as well as brave the old beggar tilted his cup with out touching it with his lips and let I 1 the sweetened water trickle down his throat when one Is old one Is always thirsty he observed to go on so there we were like sheep the ma bority of us did not have sense enough to run away Uni Lalla had lined up the white men and against the wall in the throne room and was about to send them to their gods when suddenly I 1 noticed a corn coin motion in the rear ot of us we ware were thrown about like sticks in a whirl pool and then I 1 saw her ah ali protector ot of the poor you white people rule the world because you always alays know what you want and when you want it but it is not natural for us brown people to think and act quickly at the same time I 1 saw her and I 1 thought at first that the gates of paradise I 1 ad opened and allah himself had set her down among us the water bubbles in the bowl ot of the pipe and a thin stream of smoke trickles from his bearded lips you must have patience for he will tell this tale only in his own fashion straight to the palace steps she ran waving her arms behold she spoke to us in her own tongue but allah Is witness that we understood what she was baying saying first we grew ashamed then we e stopped running then we became men the lead tubes began to speak again a and d we too found our voices with yells Y is we followed and there was battle ba e battle battle to the very foot of t the e throne she threw herself be between teen the lev ley aled guns and her people the sol diers could not fire and seeing that in truth he had lost this time fled toward the corri dors and none was quick enough to prevent him but we went ent shouting after him through this corridor and that we could i ot find him it seems he es through one of the chambers in the zenana A shrilling sh of fifes and a rattling ot of drums distract you and break in upon the tory A company of trim wiry Gur lilas tramp past and you know by the flag they carry under whose r ie le aldaha m works arks out its destiny to day what became of the captain of the guards he was wat 0 ordered rde ed to the a arena rena lions but we ve saved him loosing the aiena I 1 ons to do so I 1 am thirst again and you buy him another cup oto of y sweetened water but we cheered the white goddess that day there are men who will swear ear that her feet never ever touched the earth as she walked but I 1 knew that she was the daughter of colonel sahib 7 M 01 A 4 A woman who loved him hid him in a palanquin and that she had red blood in her veins like the rest of us women are mysteries here was one who fought like an ancient warrior and yet she swooned in her fathers arms that is all today I 1 am an old man and my throat dries quickly come tomorrow and I 1 will tell you more but tomorrow comes to find you in te rested in something else and the old be beggar 99 ar juggles his bowl before the steps ot of the mosque patiently waiting for or another listener kit kit cried kathlyns s father when h en she came to her senses my girl my ciril dad how could you do it do ahat vaguely lead a forlorn cause to victory you a girl she brushed back the hair which tumbled about her eyes glanced at the powder stained faces grouped about her glanced at the toppled throne at bruce at she made an ef ort fort to explain but the words would not come 1 I would not question her bald said bruce to the colonel for my part I 1 never so thoroughly believed in god as I 1 do now she does not realize what she has done the colonel bent his head rever rover antly we owe our lives to her said ra mabal somewhere in the dim ages there was a great mother and today her soul entered the mem sahib mine murmured bruce this beautiful strange woman Is mine minet god send the day quickly when I 1 can take her in my arms and guard her ra anabal he said aloud go to the balcony and proclaim pundita queen let us have done with this before there Is any chance of ering what shall we do v with ith the council lv walt wait responded it Is for another to say and he lie point ed to the marble flags at his feet and all understood what honor meant to this man of dark skin now he continued I 1 wish to go home at once we will leave a chent guard here to watch over the palace my wife waits and the death ot of lal singh may have the same thought flashed through kathlyns s mind the dagger ding lal singh had declared that was a prisoner and well would pun dita comprehended what that meant yes yea let ua us go quickly kath in cried pundits might be dead and winnie crazed with grief they left the palace immediately the overthrow of seemed to be complete everywhere the sol diers mors surrendered tor for it was better to have food in the stomach than lead tomorrow there would be many a pyre at the chats but today was a day of victory every one began to hunt for bumbal la there m was as as yet no price on his head it was aa the zest of hunting only that set the people to it they ran in and out of s house and were not above looting though word bad had gone forth that ramabhai would have every looter shot it found in the act but search as they would they could find no trace of Um balla A woman wha loved him the only one loyal to him in all aldaha that day had hidden him in a palanquin in the garden of bridee brides crouched down in the narrow space shuddering at the sound of shot whether near or far dying a thousand deaths wishing he had never been taken from the gutter willing to give up hie his jewels jenels plate simply to live the woman ot of the zenana when the tumult died away completely found some slaves she made them divest themselves of the royal turbans and assume ordinary white ones then she told them to carry the palanquin to a certain house in the fruit bazaar to go by side streets alleys passages to avoid all gatherings once in the house ot of her elster sister the dancer urn um balla would be sate safe till he could secretly return to his own bouse house and enter the secret chamber when kathlyn left the palace a thun der of cheers greeted her kathlyn was forced to mount the durbar throne much as she longed to be off but bruce anticipated her thought though and tand dispatched one ot of the revolutionists to the house of kathlyn held out her hands towards the excited populace then turned to Rai nabal ex pres vely calm and fled aa as ever stepped forward and was about to address the people when the disheveled captain of the guard whom w ora had sent to the arena llona lions pushed his way to the toot of the form the arena lions have escape escaped dl 1 and there were a dozen lions in all strong cruel and no doubt hungry 1 panic men who had been at each others throat bravely and hardily turned and fled it was a foolish panic senseless but like all panics uncontrollable those on the plat form ran down the steps and at once were swallowed up by the pressing trampling crowd gruce bruce and the colonel believing that kathlyn was behind them fought their way to a clearing determined to se cure nets and take the lions alive when they turned kathlyn was gone for a moment the two men stood as it paralyzed then bruce relieved tho tension by smiling he laid his hand on the colonel colonels a shoulder she has lost ua us but that will not matter ordinarily I 1 should be wild with anxiety but today kathlyn may go where she will and nothing but awe and reverence will follow her be sides she has hr revolver I 1 believe you re right she will mise miss us and start right off tor for rama bal bat a boy she Is a goddess she Is supernatural she was this morning As god Is judge I 1 do not believe she under beanda or ever will understand what she did you noticed her eyes they N v ere era like those of a person in a trance think of it to turn the tide at the supreme moment that coat of mall mail her hair falling about her head ah ali colonel what a the use of beating about the bush you know I 1 love her will you give her to me without a moments hesitation the colonel said yes john you have proved yourself a man god bless you both but were not out of the woods yet we wove ve got to find and lock him up when that a done be able to breathe I 1 believe it Is as ahmed says well we 11 all pull out ot of this safely in the end now let 9 go and get the nets there will not be a dozen men in the whole town who will have sense enough to shoot the lions as they appear they 11 howl and run tor for shelter ramabhai a to aldaha HI III there a one now see coming round the corner III pot him but ere bruce level his weapon the lion turned tock back perhaps fright ened at the clamor kathlyn was not alarmed upon find ing herself separated from the two men she loved so well her only con cern corn was to avoid being knocked down and trampled upon she knew animals it if left quietly to themselves 1 the lions would make for the jungle but if II harried or frightened tl U ey hovd maul any one within reach kathlyn was packed in rather close ly and she was carried past the street which led to the house ot of kamawal though she struggled desperately to push through she was presently ear ar ried into the bazaars the la in their senseless flight tried to do what they could for her but self preserve pre serva tion was their first thought and it gasn t the cleanest a smelling melling crowd in the world either at the line same time kathlyn was fight ing vigorously to get tree fre e ot 0 f the mob winnie was struggling with w 1 th pundita striving to wrench the dagger from the grief f stricken wife a hand no no pundita tat let me go my lord Is dead and I 1 wish to follow you are a christian al at all al but he be may not be dead help help Is not lal singh there dead ie Is that not proof hither and thither across the floor they fought but winnie soon real iced that pundita being in a it frenzy was strongest the struggle ended quickly however but not through afu W in nie a efforts pundita did something bhe she tainted fainted dragging win nie to the floor with her the young girl a head came into contact with the wall and she was stunned tor for a moment upon sitting up she did not know exactly where she was but the calm high highbred bred face of the dead lal singh recalled the situation clear ly and she went about the resu selta tion of pundita As the latter tatters eyes opened wildly winnie heard a pounding at the door she was pulled two ways it if she an the summons pundits might take advantage of 0 her absence and kill herself again it might be the help tor for which she had called instinctively ehe she snatched up the fallen dagger ran to the door peered out cautiously and recognized one of the revolutionists who bad had left the house but an hour or two since she shel flung open the door Pun cried the man winnie caught him by the sleeve and dragged him into the chamber just in time the distracted pun puril dita had plucked another dagger from the wall and the man stayed hei hel arm even as ehe she struck highness he cried he llvell and he recounted the starving star ging eventa events of the morning the treachery of the palace troops the coming of kath lyn in chain armor the turn of tha tide they live cried pundita a and cov coy ered her face winnie had not understood a word vom bald said but the expression on pundita 4 face was ras illuminative bhe she threw her arms around the native woman and the two of them wept in common AH all human beings have two faculties alike that of weeping and laughing to return to kathlyn by and by she was able to slip into a doorway and the bawling rabble passed oil down the narrow street the house was deserted and the hallway and what had been a booth was filled with rubbish kathlyn nathlyn as she leaned breathlessly against the door felt li if give and very glad she was of thia this knowledge a moment later when lions galloped into the street their 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