Show I 1 yellow men sleep leep S by B JEREMY LANE catty C CHAPTER XIV continued C aed all 17 later march said id out at of his somber thinking 1 c cannot at baic believe e that my ealim Is 1 gone goal L levington evington eving to could make no it C ed the that t march his bious bc bride its as an she nas alas elgh eighteen cen years ago time bad not at until num now touched that sacred port blia of his life and they have ban taken my little ch child I 1 III touched her eyes with tile the drug drag until she be 1 Is no I 1 longer r mine cable but theirs their st bhe refuses refuse to IS go to america my 1 own daughter abe be liaa acs ics been wade ad to forget her mothe C con n was overwhelmed he be stretched out hla hand band and found marche march s arm am it was trembling were war not at done for far eald old loving to ton M uain li seemed it not at to hear bear pride time does no not love me sea scarcely reely rates cares to maae M my acquaintance neer at wished to no see ma me perhaps that 1 Is my culb in ment at fe for thinking of her aldava as a an lot infant ar 1 with fib a glorious mother aud and ephna 1 has 1 as been dead tor for years levington levi g t we was armed alarmed econ concerning 19 hla his friend who was slipping lipping deeper lot into colip despondency dency ile he forgot his hia work for or the united states go government emment his long labors labore in the name of if humanity and all his thought centered cent erid upon h hia t a personal per pol ronal olm I 1 ill disaster to he was vias close to a 0 t tragic tid id unbalance levington said quickly quick t but helm helen iya hep ber mother la Is not really molly it dead e d you have yourself told in me a that this life Is hut but the camp of it or on night might 1 in a long journey that the better ile air of the hills 1111 Is just be beyond and I 1 slowly ly 1 march I arm smiled dad it and ad sadly the camp of r one due night yet yes a long dw dark rich night we W have bae work to d do now urged the younger man work the that t me may bring a our do dawn it on was useless to try to cheer the bereaved man WID who only merely replied plied th they ey ere are causing ing little helen to forget all 11 her other mother gave to her they are am giving her to that jellow euma man no doll dall itol no V crie cried it le lecington igl ington not yeti yet and andrew 0 march laughed aaa at b him ho bit terly in some mine elwe potent patent re manner armer the gobi gob was waa too much for or white men they cc id not remain the same mine M march ach was nas slipping lip P ag down own hit hill U levington we was not his a former self easy going and slow to kindle a dreamer 11 he had grown groa n tense of nerve loved nose up strangely high d gh with ill a whole new on set of passions in his breast t no he wai db as teby ep expanded set free despite the abw pitchy cle caverns caserns 1 I he a am arose raw now and it moved oil way away train from his comrade commit elbowed through the shirting crowds crowd a goliath by cowe cowa con bruoit they made ad for far him th the ce U u they are ale coming for you at sunrise she ah said they will kill you arab call called ed something he did dot catch tb he had a deal desire for far a breath ot of upper air and was going toward the on be base of my the shaft halt it was ciarli I it at the he top up still tall night the blot ofa of 1 a englel there them con went up by the aid of the long 19 vine vice which be aal been wars I ill by the putting pulling of many my hands floods day after day the hunched a one who watched at ill alie top made way may for him but did not offer hand the own wen ere fading by go ifft ams or of new day lealdo be bind him oil tile the life helow 1 the h w warped V sapped cupped wasted boo ban draft with ith the menta litle a of wit bad chib bim Leving levington toD left the mouth month or of the left antl and strode up the rice tie lie diduk the ell cool air of the tha open I 1 to the east a low bond band of curty yellow sign aboe and mund around the th aphis month of waning night ony only the larger scan atan remained aloft white while and frendly fil endly points steatite jaaj closer than america westward the c city ct jtb a palace like mand mandaina aing built in a ad mighty gaty yesterday by giants giant and ad left behind for mon men dark now hot but plainly outlined from ubo the 1 J evi evington glan viewed the shade shadowy secrets of the she mo and nd p presently herdly his eyes aim stopped on a pat point t in tile road at the head of the ravine lie he stared stand through the tw light and saw a motionless horse man there know taking his former path all down the further side of the ridge and around to the cut lie im has amond ted t ed 1 in the a loneliness of that gray damn C ping near he be could hot dot odis mistake tahe the lage limp hop hat the it als tin c tile fling of the times cloak the pony tie he stood food up nod ran toward helm A hot hat 1 la 1111 it lie he asked they tire coming for far vou do at bun a rive she be said they will kill you yau tte is sea are ready to receive them lie he said the miners are am not at work and ad are not sleeping they are an wait 1 ing 19 9 armed the plan Is to fall upon the sold soldiers lers it if they come into the ac mines lou do have a ve caused this Ys he be answered F for r what reason from I 1 tda for far your year father and ad myself for the four workers who were token taken for the whole under ground city of miners minem and for you T tor r me I 1 do bot at ask it you wool want to be queen yes a and she implied that noali oil ing nold could be so natural nii tural she was sur pr priced 1 cd at t the que question tion 1 I lou on can be a queen lo in america he an said id wl with th h his is soul limping and who will re remain in aim here for far mur rule mile when we me hue done with your army she did not know knew whether to smile or be b terrial terri terr ibl bli displeased it ile ha dared not at be serious lees test lest his b heart carl break 1 in the my fay of the morning she was waa as lovely as a great moth in an garlic you would not be interested in rul ral mi ing h bere aid ii her boier r it if vou u realty m ll 11 y ot f clr viva g oa 03 bot belonged n d here bere I 1 it Is our white t bl blood it ill that gives you this thia strength all asia Is only a stage setting for farou aou let in me fight today for too ou let me lead in your biame mon Is it so much to be queen of a solitary city where strangers lens never minor comer Nv ever err 7 she repeated alter a pause he be asked what bra brought D lct you out so earty early this morn ing yesterday you were displeased be c caasi dac I 1 rode rade in the full she parried briod him ile he saw at once that he could not expect to be given any true reason tor for ile her r presence ence to here her row now unless 1 I a am thankful I 1 did not miss you he said aid T the e dawn micro colora are full of wonder it r she replied evading again that T at 1 Is true are am you afraid to alel die she asked P point mint b blank I 1 auk les as I 1 im in not going to I 1 want to tu me hie yesterday I 1 I 1 told you why but bat lou on were asleep I 1 could not at reimond said the prim ces away at the dark hurt horizon hut but I 1 heard dt distinctly it or alv your word ord Lav levington a s cheeks burned suddenly at the revelation she continued to cooki clooj away 7 fr arom fiat him 1 I meant my words all of them he aid 11 fetid she he did not dot turn back to him and ad he asked AN why by do you allow ill them to ghe you the drug 1 I am not at so a lonely when I 1 dream it places place you more sert securely trel y in the hands ad of ch chee ming and ad he Is no man an s friend he he has be beco I 1 my father always wb sh aid aid thih bleep alom of yellow me men to Is not alf not fr for ou you give we me un Imp happiness traina in again he felt the tremendous doubt ihal hat blie might be laughing at him from behind her earnest carrest lovely eves she looked full in his face for her ai ananca 1 will not go away w without you said laid levington 1 loa imy may not go at all 11 toed no helen that Is why by I 1 came here it wnm no troublesome to aref arrange inge but I 1 wanted iwanter to tell you IN half if my kill you it lanot beel because lose I 1 hate you Tb isom murmured mored IO I 1 gion 1 I could old haie ha died for far lesa heal come with my rather father the way you came yesterday and I 1 will do at I 1 can you you humble binm me with to ao much hon ban or said it the one im who stood bei below her but I 1 export expect to be voly very holy with tile the miners the copper mailer light touched her face the pony blinked bt at the east and ad tar far am away y con can saw the purple mantle at a slip from the city a tine line of at rotor faint gold cupoo lp the loftiest loft iest tiles of the pulses palace bw aly across the empty world came aine the voice of the hour hear gong going from in the city the last iders were melting into a pallid sky eky that vs was shot acrons with violet and russet gold ington heart was full but all 11 be longed imaged to way he b had told her yester day that intimacy fulti macy wes was maced by ill ahe thought that bhe he had bad heard ard ad rimma bored everything he had bad said gold he ill blushed bed something came to him blot of her aim afi it a fantastic kingdom almost within her grasp a throne from which every whim was law a city of I 1 weird power and much gold her boy own I 1 tor for the taking and only one young I 1 white man aim almost at a stranger to draw her let away a ay frona from it all she h had ad been born to love yet nil her training was toward power and queener rift and the there 11 was koresh helen I 1 I 1 he an saad 1 softly I speak he could ld not t the wave on a which heed I 1 he a had ridden able had p pd passed d the old silence was upon him b tin the wordless intensity in the presence loc of beauty timidity before the woman who could set him fre free acif if she would A no quick I 1 ak sparkle crossed created the dead w ca to the cost at twilight fled away may and ad the world mint whitened enad still the princess prince did not at move she too was then from the distant kate gate a horseman boners stood forth loving leving ton walled waited go she said aid there is 19 only doty one coming it Is bi th the form prince Ye kutal A i 11 he in lead your soldiers he will III never 1 lead d anything dg hel toon is a oa olce in had become in suddenly ad 1 filled with ill weariness levington devingt roused aguin again to the loy joy of making her unhappy 1 I shelf shall tile ride away she threat ened card please wait let him come me it lor or what remo reasons iril 1 I 1 wont t h anil olt hl him said old co con oli 1 lou have e DO wrap weapon said aid the preas he way may have hare enough for both of us s I 1 see no do others upon the road they are am very sure they do not haste baste it Is early came on d doubtless dou idless otless having learned of the absence from the city of his bride elect levington waited beside the th large stone hidden bidden fr from in the prince A world of meaning came to him from the fact that R t helen remained lulng cm d fhe was not m unwilling 1 to 0 de e coy my her prince primes himself w was as acting more upon intuition than by no nv reason or plan what would cold you she inquired 1 I won t burt hurt him he repeated 1 I dt d don t know knew 1 in her col calm way she ile was wag looking straight lit at lovington levington and he lead had re gained enough of yesterday Y to return her br go gaze a ilia eves were robbers now am Z boldly id ly taking the slender curves that IH IB beneath the tr v cloak another laih w wave w waa e coining that would cold carry bin th the prince as he rode mile along to t abe tap old bead b of the ravine was a mere men pale shoot beat of royalty alty with the sun dazzling his eves ile he was long boned languid 1 his I stanty int y ey eyes peering from beneath a white satin ringed with will pearls the pennon hung bung limp from his lance he was brove brave with knives his loose sleeved arms were 1 evl evi dently weary with holding out the lance lie he made no DO bow bom of greeting to his intruded intended ludy andy giving bar but a word of oriental speech helen scarcely noticed him but continued to studa h lip sunrise aalf it arose saw from concealment and ad took til the a jeweled brolle bridle tile the fright of prince was painful lie he poured a mind self bertea of upon the white man alio 0 grinned at ichim him and took d down t the lance the then the w waxen far face shining I 1 in ill the new sun an was obscured by a pair ot at cpr upraised tacit hands hand dared not face want hot had bad befi lilan him 11 he forgot forgo the princess aas soft ot moans came fr from in behind tile the flow flowered end sleeve lev ingam hf lifler ad him down from final tile the sad ad die a eluned form the prince had bad fainted bainte con led the diadem ed mount meant down the to the valley silly floor and started a the miltond aw ni to tile the south moth lie he shouted and hurled buried a st lu ill a uli with panic yiu to acome ahome horse r ran with one bit of color in one stirrup dan dandling sling still 11 helen 1 bud bad not at charged changed I 1 her POSIt position IOD llie prints prince lay la upon tile the mud annd levington sold bald to her this Is tile the story to tell telou allen ahon you gallop be baik L k imir 1 our father and it I 1 secured be hores rn aiom a large party of while title men who no c came a in in fr roni in the moth anulli you saw the them a 90 9 0 mool number lr 1 mounted led ID 1 in wind to IB coming up bo an it con cai cover the tricel they made but bar they seized and ad bore ban him away my each eacle anno moment annot t tile the prince la Is being carri carried further and further onay away to the south ion a on wis wish hwe me to speak Ail fill seiyT ecly I 1 lea es replied I 1 eving kin it Is no DO devising of my own it la Is tor for your yaw cholm choice he said eaid tholly quietly helen said bald glancing down at the fallen one 4 1 I will go and tell them CHAPTER XV th tawny ross dr droop ps she touched illier spurs spun to her mount lount and galloped to tile the city hear bear loe ing the false alarm re carded his perfumed prisoner aler yaks teko tol let had bad but was playing deau dead no doubt feeling such each instant bun ban lived biting ad etea of teel steel upon pa id all person an agim agony of los gumb con picked him cp and bore ban him wrist aloof the tha slant t of bill toward the deep shaft haft figured silk alaka fluttered about his bis chin chia one of the royal sandal was missing ahe other spa sparkling kling brightly flapped on ft long S foot feet lovings levington 0 a was ally keenly all alive to the th press great of 2 alrae tho 11 realized ad that the swift it delicate unto affairs affair ot of the moment and all brutal c con sell sequenced ced were now 1 in the lap of the gods before helm helen had reached the city gate he be had bad shoved shared the helpless belou tol lot over the ridge and down to the over big hole at the al golma golian a slim in hands were convulsed with horror and he shrilled like a mouse when nhen he felt feit the tha emptiness below hla his legs lega con let g so and the fezatt coall swallowed od up the prince ile he went join own after him through tile the 0 flying ing dirt torches again in ID the heavy gloom gleam of the pit bottoms bottome his eyes grew al ac CUtO customer cus tomed MCd to the dep depths hs train I 1 rom all directions direction the strange ange little men came ab running the babble 1 of excitement fell into sudden budden hu hush h when be they saw the pir prisoner ismer more a closely O jy they press ed it backward murmuring levington Leving too felt a great need red for far march he found the arab and still did not see bee his bis comrade where 1 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