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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, OCT. 28, 1904
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By HUGH WAKEFIELD
Copyright, Mi, by Hugh Wakefidd
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THE veteran war correspondent,
Phil Conrad, sat on deck, smok
ing and talking old times with
the captain, who once com
manded a government transport and
wore the "R. N. R."
"Colonel Quartermaln says be owes
life and everything else to you," said
the captain.
"Which I deny," Conrad replied. "I
Imply held my tongue where he was
not at fault and I had no business to
meddle. I'd Just come through the en
emy's lines with dispatches In the' Af
ghan war, I was near the British po
sition when, quite unexpectedly to us
both, I ran plump Into Kunbcer Khan,
vthe most dangerous leader in the dis
trict, also alone.
"It was only a question of first call.
I got it. The khan surrendered with
out a protest and walked humbly be
fore mo into camp.
VJt was ft big plume for me, of
course, however little I deserved it,
.when early in the evening I handed
over my prisoner and delivered my
dispatches. I'd been twenty hours on
foot, and after eating all I could con
veniently cover I went to bed in the
tent allotted me and was asleep in no
time.
"Heavens, how the fellow shook me
before I dragged my eyes open! And
there stood Quartermaln, holding a
lighted vesta and looking like a ghost.
It was his first commission, and ho was
the scaredest thing I ever saw. Ho
imply gasped, 'Khaheer Khan has es
caped!' and stood staring till the vesta
burned his fingers. Then he jumped,
threw it away, lighted another and be
gan to stare again.
"I didn't care. It was rather pleas
ing that I had captured him and
brought him to camp alone when the
whole detachment couldn't keep him
there a single night, but it worked the
mischief with me to be pulled out of
Bleep that way by a green Junior lieu
tenant, and I swore at the youth. You
ask him. He'll admit It in spite of the
epaulets he wears today. I swore till
he dropped Ills second vesta and didn't
daro to light a fresh one. 'What the
deuce alls you anyway,' I asked, 'com
ing round to wake me up? Do you
think I've got him hero under the bed
or will go out again and find him for
you?'
"He was meek as a lamb and re
plied: 'I didn't come for that. He's
gone for good. I only came to ask a
favor of you for my mother and sis
ter. I'm all they've got, you know.
They gave up everything to purchase
my commission, and at the very start
this beastly fluke will knock me out of
it , God knows I would keep still if I
could suffer alone, but on top of the
rest to have thera buried in shame is
tough, and I thought if I could explain
it to you you'd let me down easy in
the papers for their sake. This is the
last chance I'll have free, so I had to
wake you up. I'm sorry.'
"I'd have promised anything, hands
down, to get him away, but the poor
fellow had to rehearse the whole or
collapse. The khan had been ironed
and put In the two room hut unod
as a guardhouse, and Quartermaln
With four sepoys for goodness knows
why detailed as special guard.
"One of the sepoys, named Balaya,
confessed that he was a relative of
the khan and asked to be relieved. It
was an extremely honorable thing for
him to do, don't you know, for a Hin
doo is bound by every law he knows to
defend a relative, even If it Includes
the murder of an English officer.
Quartermaln understood It and sent
word to the colonel comninndliig, nsk
ing that Balaya be removed. But that
colonel was an ineffable nRs who con-
'rOH A MOMENT I SAT AND BTABBD."
Idered himself another Suwarrow.
He attended to every detail himself
with the utmost Idiocy possible, and
wo to him who dared to suggest a
change. He sent back word that
Quartermaln could obey orders or go
Into the guardhouse with the khan for
Insubordination.
"Quartermaln had to watch the four
epoys, especially Balaya, as closely as
he watched the prisoner. It was a hard
position. He hung the lantern inside
nd stationed himself at the window,
While the khan paced up and down and
finally thrvw himself on the floor under
bis blanket head and all native
fashion.
"Quartermaln knew his life was in
danger from those outside every time
he .looked 'away from them and
through the window, and as long as
the khan was quiet on the floor he
thought he'd be safer in the room with
lilin with his back against the door.
An hour later something possessed him
to wonder If the prisoner was dead.
With his pistol in one hand he drew
back the blanket with the other. The
khan was gone, irons and all, and
Balaya was under the blanket
"Of course I promised what Quarter
main asked and told him that If it real
ly came to anything serious I could do
a good deal more; so he went off
comforted and I was asleep in a sec
ond. "Hours later that didn't seem min
utes I started up, wide awake and
clutching my pistol. I knew that some
one out of order was in the tent It
was the first gray light of morning
and as soon as my eyes were used to It
I discovered a figure, wrapped in a
woman's sarai, outlined on the other
side. One of the officers had given up
his bed to me for the night and it was
probably some camp follower accus
tomed to coming there at that hour.
Angry over another disturbance I
threw my head down on the pillow,
muttering that I was the wrong man.
But the woman replied:
" 'It is the sahib whom I seek. Bho
wanee give him rest'
" 'She will without your help, I re
torted, but the voice went right on;
'It Is the sahib who made Khabeer
Khnn prisoner. He is gone again. The
trail of the serpent has crossed his
track. A hare leaped upon the right
An ass brayed at the starting. He is
safe.' Her voice was nothing if not
musical and oriental courtesy is always
soothing. I was dropping off to sleep
again when through the fog I caught
the words, 'I went with him, sahib,
until he sent me back to you.' Then
I was up again Instantly.
" 'Sent you back to me to kill nie, did
he, because he couldn't do it himself?
Well, why didn't you make a try while
I was asleep? Did I wake up too quick
for you? It isn't the easiest thing In
the world to do while I'm awake. Get
out of those shadows. Pull the flap
and stand in the light where I can
have a look at you. We might meet
again,'
"She did Just that, and as the light
fell over her my word, she was a
beauty! For a moment I sat and
stared. -1 never saw a handsomer wo
man In my life. She held the curtain
back with a bare arm as perfect as
ever sculptor modeled and in the same
soft music said: 'It was you, sahib, and
not the khun who spoke those words;
but If it would save the life of one I
love to kill you I would not wait Kha-;
beer Khan's bidding. I would do It
now, while you are awake and armed.
I'd do it with these empty hands.' And '
with all respect to my proverbial pow-'
ers of self preservation I honestly be- j
lieve she could and would. Heavens,
how her eyes flashed and her teeth .
clicked and glistened! Then she went
on, like a summer breeze: 'These are
the words of Khabeer Khan. He said:
"The sahib is both brave and kind.' Go
to him. He will bear you and help
you to save Balaya If he can." '
"'Balaya!' I muttered. 'The fellow
who took the khan's place last night?'
And I saw tears glisten like diamonds
on her cheeks as she replied, 'He Is the ,
light of my eyes, the breath of my
body, the father of my children.'
"'Yes, yes; but he's a traitor!' I in
terrupted, for the thing was getting too
sentimental for me. 'What would your
khaa say was right for a man who
cheated him as Balaya has cheated
us?' i
"She answered instantly: 'Death.
But, sahib, I am not the khan; neither
am I Balaya. They do not speak. It
Is I who plead for him. Balaya expects
to die. He told the English 'officer what
he was. and asked to be sent away.
Ho might have killed the officer or tied
with the khan, ne did his duty to a
relative, then waited to dlo for It as a
British soldier. It is I who am plead
ing for his life.'
"I knew that I had not one spark of
Influence with the colonel. I did not
think she would have, but I advised
her to go to him. She replied: 'I went
to his bed, sahib, as I came to yours,
and looked Into his face, but there was
nothing there for me.' j
" 'And after that you want me to
try?' I exclaimed. 'My word, he'd only
laugh at me.
"Her reply was peculiar, but there
was a certain wisdom in it that was
profound. She said: 'He will answer,
"Let him die!" But go to him, sahib.
Let him once be truly told that Balaya
Is not a traitor deserving death. Give
him the opportunity to show mercy,
lie will not show It, but tlien, when
tho time arrives that the sun of my
heaven must be touched by clouds that
shall darken It, the voice of a woman
will speak to him. He will bear and
will heed it. He will bow his forehead
in tho dust to me, and the fountain of
my lite shall not be unjustly quenched.'
"If I were an artist my life would
not be endurable till I accomplished
the Impossible and portrayed that wo
man as I saw her then, her head thrown
back and her. long hair like a llvlug
thing caressing her bare shoulders and
throbbing throat Her fingers tight
ened on the curtain and her breasts
heaved till they almost burst the silk
choull restraining them, and her whole
body shook In a deep, qnlverlng sigh.
Her olive cheeks were crimson; her
eyes were like fire; her dark lips parted
over teeth that glistened like snow.
"Suddenly it changed. She fell on
her knees beside the bed, clutched my
hand and sobbed: 'Oh, sahib, promise
me that you will go to him! Give him
the chance to be merciful, for I do not
want to speak.'
"I said, 'I'll see the colonel the first
thing In the morning, but I warn you
now that it will amount to nothing.'
And I pushed her away. It was get
ting too much for me. She reached
the curtain, lifted It and, pointing to
the reddening east, said, 'It Is decreed
that an hour after sunrise Balaya shall
be shot' Then the curtain fell behind
her.
"I never got quicker Into my clothes.
The colonel received me with a surly
grunt and heard me through because I
would not stop. By way of reply he
detailed his fiendish plan for the ex
ecution. It was to take place in the
presence of the entire, force, he him
self to give the signal from a raised
platform. And Balaya was to be shot
not by a squad, but by his own sepoy
brother, standing alone, in front of a
squad with fixed bayonets! 'To teach
the natives that it is not blood rela
tives, but friends or foes, in the British
army.'
"It seems Incredible, captain, but 1
assure you it is true. Choking with in
dignation and regardless of everything,
I remarked, 'Of course you can execute
such plans as you arrange while alone
in command of a division, but there are
two Important elements which may be
disaffected to your injury.'
"'For example?' he grunted. And
though I knew It was serious business
for me I was too mad to care and re
plied: 'You have five sepoys here to
one English soldier. Suppose they re
bel. Then there are those In the seats
of the mighty at home who will not In
dorse your course.'
"You should have seen the devil in
his eyes as he answered, 'I'll' attend to
K BBPOKT OP THE KIFLB WAS FOL
LOWED BY A GliOAN."
my sepoys without your aid, and I'll
give you a front place on the platform
where you can take In the whole and
make a grand account of It for your
friends in the seats of the mighty.'
How much more he Intended or could
have accomplished I don't know. Pos
Blbly he could even have found a way
to give me Balaya's medicine. He was
ominously civil and kept me close to
him on the raised platform.
"Balaya was blindfolded and bound
to a post a little to our right. As far
on our left stood a line of regulars and
in front of them one poor sepoy, his
cap, covered with a deep, white pug
gery which almost hid his face and
fell in heavy folds over his shoulders
and around his throat, the native in
signia of mourning. The sepoy regi
ments were drawn up next to receive
the full force of the object lesson, and
behind them the home regiments.
"The colonel made a brief address,
and not a bad one, on the duty of the
soldier to defend the queen and em
press even against his own father and
mother. Then the poor sepoy in white
stepped three paces forward and threw
his rifle to his shoulder. We could
only see his eyes through the folds of
his puggery, but they were riveted on
the colonel, watching for the signal,
when he counted three and dropped his
handkerchief which was to be the
fatal sign.
"It was fiendish hideous! And the
eyes of that poor sepoy seemed to flash
fire through the white folds of the pug
gery. I thought of the woman and
looked about for her, but she was not
there. It would have been dangerous
for her to have spoken then. I thought
how fortunate that she had realized It;
more likely that what she said to me
was but the poetic Imagery of oriental
fiction. Yet cold perspiration dripped
from my forehead, and I shut my eyes
i ns tho colonel said 'Three!' and drop
ped the handkerchief.
"The report of the rifle was followed
by a groan, a heavy fall on the raised
platform and n gasp of horror from
those about nie. I opened my eyes to
see tho colonel shuddering In death ag
ony at my feet and, like the band
i writing on the wall, to hear again:
'The voice of a woman will speak to
him. He will hear it, and he will heed
it. ne will bow his forehead In the
dust to me.' Verily, he heard and
heeded!
"Before a soul could recover from the
hock, Khabeer Khan'a savage followers
burat upon our rear with their blood
curdling battlecry. Led by the khan they
had crept up close, under cover of the ex
citement.
"We were fortunate In being able to
make a successful retreat with only a
'heavy loss' to report. Balaya, hla wife
and brother disappeared. I atmply re
ported the colonel among the dead. It
was quite sufficient.
"Quartermaln was promoted for valiant
conduct, which he foolishly credited to
the reports which I sent home. The con
duct was his. Nothing but the reports
was mine.
"Not another soul knew that It was
Balaya's beautiful wife, disguised as his
sepoy brother, who fired the shot, and
did not see it. My eyes were shut. There
would have been no sense In my raking up
the ungodly facts as I knew them. It
would only have roused 111 timed lndlgna'
tlon at home. The colonel was dead, and
he alone was to blame.
"Quartermaln deserved promotion, as he
has shown ever since. It was the voice of
woman that saved htm, If he was really
In danger, and you can '"'1 him 1 sold so.
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A party arrived here Thursday even
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with them a carload of stuff, includ
ing two horses. Among the contents
of the car were 100 bushels of pota
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or 80 cents per bushel. The members
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and two small boys, who have located
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Dix. S. C. Mathew was also with
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