The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1922, Page 24

ep ca RRR = DCE EERIE BAR ih BAAR A semeatas = ort aN se THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1922. TALBOT MUNDY HOR OF"THE EYE OF ZEFTOON" PEOPLE AND THINGS IN THE STORY. THE TREASURE OF SIALPORE, fabulous wealth’ gathered by genera- dons of maharajahs, is sought by three persons. first is YASMINI, daughter of the last maharajah and a Russian princesa, Toher, id of bequeathing the secret of its hiding place, he left only a riddle for ; GUNGADHURA, a distant cousin of Yasmini, is placed on the throne in her father’s place by the British authorities, who hold that a woman could not fully rule the territory. He employs spies of all kinds to watch Yasmini, ing that she has knowledge of its whereabouts, Though he is a dissolute, Wascrupulous man, he was chosen over UTIRUPA SINGH, another distant cousin. DICK BLAINE, an American mining engineer, {s hired by Gungadhura to earch for gold in the vicinity of Sialpore. ‘ THERESA BLAINE, his wife, strikes up a friendship with Yasmin. The latter enlists the services of TOM TRIPE, the maharajah’s English drill master, and his dog Trotters en her side of the Wy SIR RONALD SAMSON, the English Commissioner, is the third anxious to find the treasure, on the Government's account holding that Gungadhura tight cause trouble should he find it and mistrusting Yasmini’s impetuous ways ff she should be the lucky one, Fearing to eat lest Gungadhura poison het, and planning to ay Yasmini begs Tess to come to her own palace (where she is a prisoner) ess comes with Dick, who stays with Tom Tripe while the ce Ps ith ‘ i asmini and Tess plot the former's escape, Dick and Tom Tripe wait- fng some distance away in a shed, Gungadhura arrives with three canna and demands admittance. As he shows his face at the gate Yasmini strikes at him with her knife and he suffers an ugly wound in the face, He is forcing the gate os peat te aaa ogee ited tum, chases Tripe’s dog Trotters to ate, frightening Gungadhura and his aids away. Yasmini tw ami the terrified teas : Pee unlene ¢ diversion created by the drunken elephant allows the women to esca from the palace with Dick and Tom Tripe. Vasmini persuades Tess to go with on a secret mission to a place some distance. O: could not speak aloud, for|mini and they turned and walked to- the spell of mystery overlay | ether to the temple. Then Hasamur- everything. They walked into|! @nd Tess followed, keeping thelr distance, until Yasmint and her lover the very heart of silent) <it on one stono in the moonlight on beanty. Overhead, enormous trees, in| the temple porch, thgir faces clearly which the sacred monkeys slept, | lighted by the mellow beams. Bropped tendrils ttke tong 2 ue ve Papas ae a Tess beware ever dreamex —and Tess fag with the love of Mother Earth. | was no familiar of hoydenish amours; Here and there the embers of a dying | gentle—poetic—dignified on his part— fire glowed crimson, and the only oo- | manly as the plighting of the troth of asiona) sound was of sleepy cattle | Warriors’ sons should be. the cud cortentedty.|__Y#*mIn!'s was the attitude of simple self-sur-ender, strip] ene, Rak i adidd'y:-voloe idmitar'by' a: Sres ur-ender, stripped of all pretense, fi f mide conjured back for a moment the} will to give herself and all she had, r ‘ au pr *| For an hour they gat together Hand in hand they followed the road|reading eyes, and hand enfolding of squadroned lances to watch her go. temple nestled in the shadow of great “Dear lord!" she answered, Then edged with carved stone. house. Sere Yasmini bade them etand. stroking the hair back from her fore- ,Bhe had a great blue flower injesked. ‘How do you like him? Tell : of her own emotion. Hasa-| {SPlendia:” Tess answered. nestled closer, and Tess felt her own| Singh. He came to my garden part maharajah Instead of Gungadhura. ¥ fas ‘rata alone ter tha weer harajah instead of Gungudhura «to dance, moving very slowly in the| ‘To-morrow night you shall see an- playing her young outline as she bent came from everywhere, in order that refcctlon still, #0 close she danced to | custom died, along with other fashions { turned to the moon. But presently|ter! To-morrow night I will single him—in the presence of such men of 3 She moved now around the water, | Many who will gladly sce t 2 I * ising conveyed a thought of maid-| With his story of finding a silver tubs devoid of any other spirit than th world’s hard {llusion; but the still- | and knowledge that her gift was more ness and the mystery overcame him, | ‘!4n gold and rubies. murmuring questions and reply, @erful. heart answering to heart, ey fo {te end and came into a clearing at} 8d: until at last Yasmint rose to i where an ancient ruined | !©2¥° him and’ he stood Itke a tort “Moon of my existence!" was his trees. farewell speech to her. In front of the temple wes a pond ot she turned and left him, Not a word passed her lips until they reached the Still hand tn hand, they crossed the gleasing midway to the pond, and} Very late indeed that night Tess was awakened by Yasmini's hand “Draw no nearer. Only stand and] ) 0. watch.”* “What do you think of him?" she her bosom that heaved and fell for}™e!”’ ‘ “Did you recognize him?" rourti's band was trembling as she} “Surely! I know Prince Utirupa pulsing to quick heart-beats as she| Isn't he the one who Sir Rolund Ww 4 the girl's. son told me ought to have Yasmin! nodded and pressed her edge of the pond, where she began | hand, Emrst few rhythmic steps resembling | tte? Spectacle. Once, when Rajpu- a water goldneas, the clinging allk dis. | (22, Wa# @ veritable land of kings, = und swayed. She might have beon watching her |t#e King’s daughter might choose her ry own husband trom among them. ¥ the water’s edge with her back|that were good. Lam a King’s daugh- the dance grew quicker, and extendoa | Ut my husband, and name him by * that glistened in the light iike|{"® ttle under which T shall marry 4g ivory Increased the sinuous perfection | royal blood as can be trusted wit! + of each pose. secret for a day or two! There < Gufhgadhura!"* 2 tn a measured cadence that by some | (oS*N4re "unfathomable witchery of her de- Tom Tips came to Gungadbura ‘ = {n the cellar of the house occupied by enhood and modesty. It dawned on e occupied by ae 7 the Blaines and owned by Mukhum ‘Tess, who watched her spellbound, | pass, that there was not one immodest} Dick Blaine had seen him so he had e thought in all Yasmini's throng of |not taken the tube, he said. Dick fur- 2 thermore had rolled a safe over the moods, but only @ scorn of all im- a pee cellar door, Tom reported, Mukhum + modesty and its pretensions. Dass, during the absence of Blainc, Presently she danced more ewift-|broke into the cellar and stole the **'iy, making no sound, so phantom. | tube. Only Pinga the beggar watched him, Mght and graceful that the rhythm) 4") tite tater Mfukham Dass, sof ber movement carried her with/as ie rode, was struck down + scarce a touch to earth, knife-blow alin: ya nd and _pitche - Then there came a man's volco ot his tut most. The fact ta of his money having been taken de- calling from the temple in the anclent | prived the murder of any unsual in- Rajasthani tongue terest, “Oh, moon of my desire! Oh, dear oe 8 elight! Oh, spirit of wll gladness! | Tess and Ys Come!" the latter's fu Instantly the dance ceased, In-|™ony ts over," said Tes stantly her air of triumph left her | your have proclaimed Prince Uti and a new mood clothed her with|!UPa King of Sialpore, there will still humility; for all that grace of high|"emain the problem of how to get Gungadhura out of the way.’’ has been sending mes- sages to the Northwost tribes, He thinks to prove that the tribes began the dickering, and then to offer lis “attainment given her were nothing, unless she, too, made of it a gift. ‘That night her purpose was to give the whole of what she knew her- self to be. and Se, with arms to her sides “and|*'™Y 0 the English—Tom Tripe and head erect, she walked straight |S!!! Patall put him up to it. Perhaps wants a nec lace made of Hill- toward the temple: and a man came} men's teeth—who knowa? Gungad- out to meet her. (il and strong, who hura went deeply into debt with Mahe strode Ike u scion of a stock of war-|gudis, From the daily expenses of his iors. They met mid-way and neither} army, he could extract a lakh or two, spoke, but each looked in the other's} patali yearns for diamonds in the fill. eyes, then took each other's hands,| ings of ner teeth!” and stood still minute after minute. “And you have been looking for the ‘Hasamurti, gripping Tess’ fingers, treasure ever since your father died?” eaught her breath in something lke er since. My father prophesied @ sob. while Tess could think of noth-Jon his deathbed that I should have ing else than Brynhiid's oath: it in the end, but all he told to help “O Bigurd, Sigurd, me find it wada sort of conundrum. Now hearken while I swear! "Whoever looks for flowers.’ he said The day shall die forever ‘finds happiness, Who looks for gold And the sun to darkness wear [finds all the harness and (he Ere I forget thee, Sigurd. . ."|war! A hundred guard the treasure { Wee men put his arm ebout Yes-ldey and night, changing with the full teeth of because I was very friends with the snak to handle even cobras without fear of them. there was a custom that each reat | tive: King held a durbar, to which princes | pipal But that was in the very first chukker of the game ‘The|— excitedly. ace across the river, that me, th pipe four,” f|elowing as if there were fire behind changing, except to grow bigger and bigger. men. tho winning of tt!" lowed closely by Hasamurt! and the other women walked between the pomegranates to the gate in the gurden wall. Robert E. Johnston ie emt * “FOR AN HOUR THEY SAT TOGETHER MURMURING QUESTIONS AND REPLIES, HEART ANSWERING HEART.” fo I have alway looked for hourse command and u lowers, and T am often happy.” Who or what can the hundred be, ho guard the treasure day and mered in the tor one order to dra a word. In the road were three phants leaning against front was a and chains and howdah jature pagod: followed by Tess and Has took their place behind her in howdah, one on either side hight. ley must be snakes. them. The one » learning how on his gf on his stening k like a Then I looked for a hundred and found them! |A hundred trees all in a pl together! only like first th # you shall learn soon! “Then surely I know!" said “In the ground of the ou escaped 'fOm the night before you came to sce re is quite a little forest of elephant behind, and the glittering tn his turban, “Hig brother!" pered. Then again a broke on the stillness. Horses wher out from the shadow of the wall, } by saises, and the Rajput mounted, “Nine and sixty and the roots of Yasmin! answered, her eyes 5 he diMiculty ix, though, that don’t change with the full moon! ‘pal trees grow on forever, never the majestic trees, with the monk They outlive centuries of Nevertheless, they gave me the| ing nervously among the branches— clue, not only to the treasure but to That nigit Yasmini and Tess fol- ing ages more to come. A watchman opened the gate and, Yasmint leading, they passed through a double line of Rajput noblemen,| Another who drew thelr sabers at some one's! morrow. thrilling GIVE YOURSELF THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR LIFE Make some poor child happy Read THE RICH LITTLE POOR BOY by Eleanor Gates and Join - The Rich Little Poor Boys’ Christmas Club No Dues Save the Will to Make Some Child Happier, Membership Pledge and Story in SN de a steel arch overhead that flashed und ehim- Beyond that sabers none spoke great ele- standing in line with laddera in tusker with golden caps ivory —Yasmini mounted him, mur, who The other women climbed on to the nird one was mounted by one man, who looked like a prince, to judge by the jewels Hasamurt! whis- hoarse command ed entry Straight down the quiet road undor frightened by the torchlight, chatter- te the right near the lane Yasmini used the night before—and on toward the shadowy bulk of @ great house fo the distance the elephant trod loftily, the swing and sway of his back suggest- ing ages of past history and everlazt- (Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Syn¢icate, Ino.) instalment to- American College Girls As Smart in Appearance As They Are @ @ @® “Have Learned That Feminine Charm Is an Asset Quite as Valuable to Them as Brains— Can Even ‘Work Their Way Through’ Without Losing Caste.” “working their way through” college! the other students. That's as it should be. everything after the event! does value! \ Hence she gets more out of college@ than we do, The first girl “worked her w making hats for the other sti She was proud of tt. (An E }girl would have been Inte barrassed and have tried to hide It!) 19 second girl sold photographs, mended frocks and lingerlo and darned the other students’ stockings And the third, if I remember right, | waited on table and ed dishes, | They were iadics, wii of Luem, in the joest meaning of that much-abused word. Vital, keen and clever. |~ They w | ingly dresse were college girls at all, ju e specimens we have-on | dressed lally the Girton ones, are, clined to be careless in the n \thetr personal appearance, They | slder themselves ‘‘blue stockings,” and that automatically (in thelr own opin- ion and that of thelr friends and fel- low-workers) exempts them from tak- ing the slightest interest in thelr looks. Indeed, I have sometimes wondered {f {t en't considered an asset, a real hallmark of the highbrow, as {t wer ma?’ “Ye ies By May Christie. (Copyright, 1922, ty May Chrtstioy MDT three American oollege girls the other day, and, being « college gir! myself (wo call it “untversity”), was much intrigued to hear them talk. The first thing that quite astonished me was the fact that they were Now, thet isn’t possible tm England. And if it were, a girl would tnstantiy “lose caste,” though I'm ashamed to quote that snobbish, merrow- minded phrase, She would be thought the leas of by }> Here, apparently, it merely redounds to her credit that she has the necessary brains and grit and go- ahead-ness to pay her own way Instead of being a financial burden on her parents, or, as an alternative, Gispensing altogether with a The American girl is proud, then, of standing on her own two feet and being beholden to none, A result of this is that when she enters college she doesn't “‘slack,’’ as we so often did, cramming wildly at the Iast desperate moment for exams, and forgetting She ts paying her own fees for her own train- ing, and all the world knows that what one pays for, oneself, one certainly a dowdy example! ‘The American college girl other hand, 1s eh to lose her fe slightest just be She becomes even more attri the men, the right perspective and to gauge tho situation and that appeal of fe: _ OBJECTION ELIMINATED. 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