T H U R S D A Y . DEC. 21. 1939
ERST nnn W EST
BY TALBOT M U N D Y
O TA IIO T MUNDY— WNU SWVICI
ed word with the bully, and she
tried to get me to stay where I
THE STORY THUS FAR
was. But I thought of the bay mare
standing outside in the alley, and
Captain Carl Norwood has been sent from his native England to the Kadur
she fidgety, and you fond o’ the
River district in India, along with his indispensable manservant. Moses O Leary,
mare and liable to find fault with me
soldier of fortune Norwood's job is to survey the district to determine whether
a valuable secret diamotid mine belongs to the temple priests or to the ruler, the
if she should come to harm. And 1
Maharajah of Kadur. Norwood calls on the British Residency to pay his initial
guessed it ’ud be wise to look into
respects On his wav he catches a glimpse of two women in a palace carriage,
one of whom is young'and beautiful. The other woman he knows to be the Maharanee
the woman’s story first.”
of Kadur O'Leary later tells him that the young woman is an American girl
“ You’d better leave that woman
named Lvnn Harding, who with her aunt. Mrs. Deborah Harding, is a guest at
the palace. On a sightseeing tour Mrs. Harding sprains an ankle, and sends to the
and her bully guessing, and show
palace for aid
Prince Rundhia. handsome, spoiled nephew of the rulers, comes
me the mine. Where is it?”
to her rescue, and takes her back to the palace where he meets Lynn. At a ban
O’Leary pointed: "Two hours
quet that night in the palace, attended by Captain Norwood. Mrs. Harding takes
one of the native doctor's pills, and becomes violently til.
from now, when the moon's about
there, I can guide you to a place
where you can see along under the
a
summerhouse
on
the
wall,
a
sort
CHAPTER IV—Continued
apron of water.”
of kiosk; it had been swept and
“ Very well, O’Leary. Which way
Lynn laughed: “That’s a testimo provided with cushions by a servant
did
you come?”
nial for me! But thank you, I’ll take who crouched in shadow. Rundhia
“Short cut. Don't you try it. Horse
ordered the servant away. He went
care of Aunty.”
might break a leg.”
“No,” said the doctor. He caught and lurked at the foot of the steps,
‘All right. I’ll follow the road.
Rundhia’s eye. Rundhia came to but Rundhia shouted at him and he
Meet me in camp.”
his rescue and made signals to the fled. Rundhia led Lynn into the
O’Leary vanished. Norwood had
Maharanee, who wanted nothing open-sided kiosk.
ridden another fifty yards when he
"You have promised,” she said,
better than to have Lynn under her
heard angry shouting, several times
“to behave.”
own roof.
repeated. He wasn’t sure, but he
“Do you believe men’s promises
“Lynn, dear, please do as the doc
The palace front gate clanged be thought he also heard a girl’s voice.
when they’re in love? Are you as
tor tells you. Please, please."
hind Norwood. The sullen sentry He rode forward slowly and then, a
Aunty groaned and protested that naive as that?”
“Yes. Don’t be silly. Let us look stood at ease, then easy and re bit alarmed by the ensuing silence,
it was a shame to inflict Lynn on the
sumed his snooze. Norwood turned stirred his horse to a canter. He
at
the view.”
Maharanee, but she was overruled.
his horse along the road by the pal drew rein, looking upward at Lynn,
“Look at me.”
She was carried out on an impro
His eyes were hardly less fiery ace wall, riding slowly because the not much more than two or three
vised litter and rushed to the guest
than
the glowing end of his ciga sais was following on foot. He had minutes after Rundhia had left her.
house, where Lynn’s belongings
ridden about fifty yards to a curve
was sitting in full moonlight on
were collected by the servants and rette. They made Lynn’s flesh tin in the road when O’Leary stepped She
top
of
the wall, on a cushion, with
gle.
He
threw
away
the
cigarette.
conveyed to the palace.
“Lynn, you romantic girl, this forth from a shadow. He didn’t look one foot hanging over the wall and
scene enchants you because love like O'Leary. He was wearing a her back against the kiosk.
CHAPTER V
“Hellol” he remarked. "Did Run
has stolen on you unaware. Neither turban, and dressed like a dripping
wet, dirty Hindu of no caste or os dhia leave you all alone here?”
Rundhia was puzzled and Lynn
tensible occupation. Norwood drew
“He said he’d come back.”
knew it. She enjoyed it. It was
rein and listened, watching the road
“ Well, he’ll keep that promise.
cool and beautiful beneath the moon
for pedestrians.
How well do you know him?”
lit trees in the garden.
“ I didn’t stable the mare in the
“ I met him for the first time this
“ You are the strangest mixture of
city. She’s back in camp. I’ll need evening.”
intelligence and innocence that I
her later.”
“ Like him?”
have ever met,” said Rundhia. “You
“ What for?”
“Shouldn’t I?”
are in love with all this. You are
“As soon as I'm dressed decent
“ At your age, there is danger in
thrilled by the exotic strangeness.
again, I’ll go back to the bazaar. I exotic likes and dislikes.”
But it’s all old stuff to me, remem
told a yam about coming back to
“I’m twenty-two.”
ber. I’m a babe in the woods, too,
camp for more money. I’m going
“ You don't look it. I had guessed
in a certain sense. I’m as lost as
to need it.”
you as eighteen. However, no doubt
you are. Things and places don’t
“ What happened?”
how to take care of your
make life worth living. It’s the peo
“ Plenty. I was right about Noor you know
among men of your own race.
ple in the places, and the things
Mahlam. They’ve ditched him. So self
I’m taking it for granted that you’re
they do together. If you loved me
I did too. He was only ground bait. a nice girl with a sense of humor
and I loved you—”
He talked too much, then tried to but a bit rebellious against certain
“But neither of us does,” Lynn in
have me knifed to stop me talking. sorts of restraint. All this is new,
terrupted. “We are East and West.
They’d a trap set for me and I and you’re enjoying it. You like the
Europe delights you because you
walked straight into it. A woman. Indian setting, and the novelty and
can’t ever really understand it. And
I’ll tell you about her later; she’d | the moonlight and all that stuff.”
the East enraptures me for the same
fill a dictionary.”
“ Don’t you?”
reason.”
“ Never mind about the woman.
“ Yes. And I like you. I would
“So we’ve that much in common,”
What happened?”
like to hear of you making a
said Rundhia. “Let me tell you
“Nothing happened there.
It not
mess
your life for the sake of a
something else we have in com
couldn’t. I left your mare tied up spot of of excitement.
don’t un
mon. We like each other.”
to the veranda railing, military derstand India. You You
don't under
“Do we?”
saddle and all, and your initials on stand Rundhia.”
“Yes. One would have to be blind,
the bridle. So they couldn’t take
A shadow moved. Someone chuck
deaf, demented, not to like you.
chances. And I could. And I did.” led:
What’s wrong with me?”
“That’s enough about you. What
“ Doesn’t she?”
Lynn’s defensive tactic was a
happened?”
loomed on the wall with
“
Hello!”
he
remarked.
thousand times more shrewd than
“Kindergarten stuff. Confidence a Rundhia
guitar in his hand. He smiled
Aunty would dream of giving her of us until now has ever known game. The woman’s bully flattered
at Norwood. The moonlight
credit for:
me I knew the woman’s sister in down
love is.”
shone
on his teeth.
“Well, for instance, why do you what
Lahore, and he said the woman’s
“Do
you
think
you
know
now?”
“We
were reaching a beautiful un
dislike Captain Norwood?”
sister’d given me a rep for being derstanding,”
retorted.
said Rundhia. “ Are
“For the same reason that he she “You
smarter
than
most,
and
a
man
o’
doesn’t like me,” said Rundhia. cruel.” know I know it. You are my word. Then he introduced me to you on your way to camp? Well, it’s
a grand night for a ride. Sorry
“Cherchez la femme. Thank the
wish you’d sit farther away,” the woman. She’s all honey and poi you’re tired and sleepy.”
father and mother who bred him, she “ I interrupted.
son.
Sister
my
eye.
Two
words,
“Why don’t you
Norwood eased his horse a little
he’s only an Engineer. If he were make love to your own
countrywom and I knew she was lying about nearer to the wall. He gave the
Cavalry, I might feel jealous. Lynn, en?”
that.”
I love you.”
“Never mind her lies, or whose reins to the sais. In another mo
“There isn’t in all India such a
he was standing upright on the
“How many women have you said lovely
I
sister
she is. How much truth did ment
girl as you are.”
saddle,
with his head within six
that to?”
do you know? It’s true, isn’t she tell you?”
inches
of
the top of the wall:
“Hundreds. But I lied to all the it, “How
“Not much, barring that I’m the
that most of them are kept in
“I
am
not
so sleepy as perhaps I
others.”
)
most
exciting
man
she’d
ever
seen.
seclusion and you’re not allowed to
“I have sometimes had to lie to see them? Is that why you make 1 She was true enough excited, so I look,” he answered. “Give me a
Aunty. But I’m not nearly as prac love to me? Why not burgle a ze J knew the bully was listening in; and hand up, Rundhia.”
Lynn watched. This was some
ticed a liar as you must be. Let’s nana?”
i he weren’t her proper bully nei-
be truthful.”
! ther; he was someone who’d been thing altogether new in her experi
“Lynn,”
he
said,
“I
don’t
make
“I am telling you the truth. I love. I am love. And you also. We i rung in on her, and she scared o’ ence. Rundhia hesitated. Moonlight
have always thought myself a cynic. are love itself, as a musician be him and not used to his ways. She betrayed him. Rundhia felt tempted
I didn’t know I had a heart until I comes music. Why waste the glo | said there’d be a thousand rupees to refuse. But he hadn’t the iron.
He could have scared the horse and
met you. I have found and lost it rious hours?"
, for me if I’d act discreet.”
Norwood look ridiculous. But
in the same moment. It is yours.
“What do you know about mu i “Whose thousand rupees?’} asked made
he
hadn’t
the nerve. Lynn felt sor
What will you do with it?”
i
Norwood.
she retorted. “Can you sing
His arm crept around her. He sic?”
! “Trust your Moses O’Leary. I ry for him. With a shrug he handed
Indian
songs?”
guitar to her, in order to use
hardly knew how she slipped away
“ Yes, love songs! I play the gui asked her that quick. She said it the
from him. She waltzed away. She tar.”
was Prince Rundhia’s thousand ru both hands to help Norwood scram
ran along the path, her arms ex
ble up the wall.
can? What fun! Why not pees. So I knew it wasn’t.”
tended to embrace the moonlit get “ You
“You weren’t invited,” said Run
“What
does
she
want
you
to
do?”
it? There couldn’t be a more
luxury of hue and view and per perfect
“She told me a mess o’ lies about dhia.
place
for
singing
than
this
fumed flowers. By the time he over garden wall in moonlight.”
Norwood stared. “No. I noticed it.
Prince Rundhia having quarrelled
took her, her retort was ready:
Can
you strum on that thing?”
with
the
temple
Brahmins,
and
him
sensed that he had cast
“ Perhaps you don’t like men with his Rundhia
Lynn spoke with all the malice she
wanting to get back at ’em, to spite
fly
too
boldly.
She
wasn’t
hooked.
red hair?”
needed more subtle persuasion. ’em. She told me, and I acted sur could put into her voice:
“I am looking,” he answered, “ at She
“ You like music, Captain Nor-
He
shouted
the servant to fetch prised, that there’s a diamond mine
your hair. I want to bury my hands the guitar. to
in the temple area. There’s a thou « wood? I supposed your line was en
There
was
no
answer;
in it, bathe my face in it, breathe the servant had taken him too strict sand rupees for me if I persuade gineering and ordering people
the—”
to run your survey line slap about.”
“ Borax! I washed it and the wa ly at his word, he was out of ear you
(TO HE CONTINUED)
through
the temple area, so that
shot.
Rundhia
shouted
again
and
ter’s terrible!”
the
mine
will
belong
to
the
Mahara
again.
He
swore
under
his
breath.
She escaped him again. Her black
Fist Fight Encouraged Newton
instead of the temple priests.”
pajamas vanished into shadow; she Then he governed his anger and jah “What
did
you
tell
her?"
Victory in a schoolboy scrap
became a beautiful, disembodied smiled at Lynn:
“I
said
you’re
easy,
but
you’re
spurred
Isaac Newton to scholastic
“Will
you
wait
here
if
I
go
and
head in a golden aureole that asked:
honest. I said I’ll have to find some honors. Before the fight he had
“ Is Captain Norwood married? F get it?”
way of artfully deceiving you if been sluggish, indifferent in school.
“ Yes, but—”
didn’t ask him.”
you’re to do what’s needed. I said But with confidence born of the tri
“What?”
“Well, why didn’t you ask him?”
“ You look murderous. Don’t whip I’d have to look into it, and I made umph with his fists, he set to work,
“I didn’t care.”
her tell me where the mine is and soon led his class, notes a writer in
“ Goodl” said Rundhia. “I’(n go the servant 1”
His undercover man was waiting how to get a look at it. She came the Washington Post. His mother
ing to make you care about some
tried to make a farmer out of him,
thing else. Come along. I’ll be for him in the usual place, by the clean.”
“How did she know?”
taking him out of school at fifteen,
gate in the wall that separated the
have. Come this way.”
“She’d been told. And she was but he was useless with a plow so
He led her up steps to the top of Maharajah’s palace from Rundhia's
the ancient garden wall. There was i —an unimportant-looking but pecu- out of her depth already. She want was sent back to classes.
liarly unmeek Hindu, who spoke in
a low voice without preliminary ges
tures of respect:
“The priests have learned of Cap
tain Norwood’s arrival. They sent
me to speak with his Eurasian spy,
O'Leary, who is a reptile. O’Leary
has already detected the opening of
the mine.”
Rundhia thought swiftly, and
spoke slowly: "Go and tell the
priests that Captain Norwood is here
to line his own pocket. Say he is
in debt and seeks an opportunity to
pay his debts. His secret report
will be in favor of the highest bid
der. But don’t say you heard it
from me. Say O’Leary was drunk
and you heard it from him. Make
it perfectly clear to the priests that
any other officer than Norwood
would be scrupulously fair, so let
them think about it.”
Then Rundhia found a servant in
the garden of his own palace and
sent him running to fetch the guitar.
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