Estacada progress., February 25, 1915, Image 3

S EE
Cont<nu0d from last Issue
The F ree Picture Show
Saturday Afternoon
And then S E E U S about
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You will need for the week.
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you have.
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Set of Six
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improved scrubbing bru»h, it scrubs,
mops and takes up the water, and does
away with that tiresome bending over.
“ And flint's nil we know, except thill
no one has none there, and they tight
and in any place where they fight a
man who knows how to drill men ouu
always he a king. We shall go to those
parts and say to any king we Mud:
D'you want to vanquish your foes?"
H id we will show him how to drill
men. for timt w e know better than
anything else. Then we will subvert
that king and seize his throne aud es­
tablish a dy nasty,"1
"Y ou 'll be out to pieces l>efore you're
fifty miles across the bonier.** I said.
You have to travel through A fgh an ­
istan to get to that country. Are you
at ail in earnest?'*
"A ilttle." said Druvot sweetly. "N ow .
us hig a map as you have got. even
if it s all blank where KuMrlstun Is. aud
any books you've got. We can read,
i bough we aren't very educated.”
I imoused the hig thirty tw o miles to
the fiii'li map o f India and two smaller
frontier maps, hauled down volume
liif-kan o f the Encyclopaedia Britan-
idea, and rile men consulted them.
"See here!*’ said Druvot. his thumb
on tlie map " I p to Jagdallak. Peach­
ey anil me know the road. W e was
there with Roberts' army. W e’ll have
to turn off to the right at Jagdallak.
through laighinatm territory; then we
get among the hills—14.000 feet—15.000.
It w ill be cold work there, but It don’t
look very far on the map.**
I smoked while the men |>ored over
R averty. Wood, the maps and the En­
cyclopaedia.
"T h ere is no use your waiting.*' said
!>ravot jiolltely. "It's about 4 o'clock
now. W e'll go before tl o’clock if you
wutit to sleep, and we won't steal any
o f the puffers.
When w e’ ve got cur
kingdom In going order we ll let you
know, and yon can come up and help
us to govern It."
"W ould tw o lunatics make a con
truck like ih at?" asked.t’aniehaii with
subdued pride, showing me a greasy
h alf sheet o f note paper on which was
written the following. 1 copied it then
and there as a curiosity:
T h is con track betw een me and you per •
suing w ltnesseth In the name o f l l o d -
A m en and h o fo rth
O n e .- T h a t m e and you w ill settle this
m a tte r to g e th e r—1. e.. to be K in s » o f Katt-
ristan.
T w o .—T h a t you and me w ill not. w hile
this m a tter Is bein g settled. l»»ok at any
liquor, nor any w om an black, w hite or
brown, so as to g e t m ixed up w ith one
•v th e o th er harm ful.
T h re e - T h a t We conduct o u rselves w ith
d ig n ity arid d iscretion , and if one o f u*
yeta into tro u b le /he other w ill Btay by
him.
Signed by you und me tnls day.
P ea ch ey T a lia fe r r o Carnehan
D an iel
Druvot
n oth d en tlem e n at L arge.
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8 P. M.
not
there und givin g dm the l»ooka. I am
P each ey- Peuchey Taliaferro C’arne-
han. and you've been sitting here ever
yelled to his servant, "d riv e out the since--oh. Lord! Poor. poor. Dun. that
would never take advice, not though i
camels, Imt let me first mount my
begged of him!”
own '
••Take the whisky,” I said, "and take
lie leaped on the buck o f his Iveusl
your owu time. Tell me all you cun
as it knelt and. turning round to me
cried. "route, thou, a Iso. sahib, a little recollect of everything from beginning
along the road Slid I will sell tliee a to end. You got across the bonier on
charm, an amulet ttiat shall- make thee >our camels. Druvot dressed as u mad
priest und you his servant. Do you
king o f Katlrlsnin."
Then the light nroke upon me. and I remember that?”
I leaned forward aud looked into til*
followed file tw o camels out of the
Serai fill w e reached open road, and face as steadily as 1 could lie dropped
one baud upon the tuble ami 1 grasp­
fhe prlc«t halted.
"W h at d ’yoti think o ' that?” said he ed It by the wrist. It was twisted like
in English " ( ’arnefian can't talk their a bird’s clifw, and iq>on the back was
patter, so I’ve made him my servant
a ragged, red, diamond shaped scar.
lie make-» s handsome servant. TNn t
“ No, don't look there. Look at me."
for nothin*..» that I ve iieen knockin'.’ said Caniehaii.
.»hour the country tor fourteen years
"You went as far as Jagdallak with
IMdn’t I do that talk neat?
W ell that caravan.” I said at a venture. "T o
hitch on to a caravan at Peshawar til
Jagdallak. where you turntMi oti to try
we gel to .lautlalhik, and then w e ll see to get luto Kail list »ill. ”
if we can pet donkeys for our camel«*
"No. we didn't neither What are yon
a ltd -trike Into Katiri-tan. Whirligigs talking about? W e turned off before
fo* the jittieei <» Lord! Put your hand Jagdallak, because w e heart) the roads
tliidet the camel lings ami tell me wtiai was good.
But they wasn't good
Voti t»»el "
enough for our tw o camels mine amt
l felt tlie butt of a Martini and tin
D ravot’s. When w e left the caravan
other and another.
Druvot took off all bis clothes and
"Tw ciitv o f 'em. said Druvot placid
mine too and said wo would be heath­
iv. "tw en ty of cm and aininuiiitioii to en, because the Kaffirs dldn t allow
eorrespond under the whirligigs amt Mohammedans to talk to them. So we
the tnnd doits
dressed betwixt and between, and such
' I l e a » e l l help yoi| i f you « f e Ctt tight
a sight as Daniel Druvot I never saw
with Iho-e th in gs" | sai.I
"A M ar­ yet nor expect to see again. That was
tini i> worth her weight in sll\ er in a most mountainous country, and
among the Puthans "
our camels couldn’t go along any more
" l iff » n hundred rupees of capital
been us«* . *f the mountains. They were
e v e n rupee \\ e eon id heg borrow or tali at
nick, aud coming home I saw
steal lire invested oi l these, two ram
them tight like wild goats- there are
e ls " said iln ivo t
"W e won't get lots o f goats in KaMristuti *’
caught
W e r e going through the
"T a k e Home more whisky," I said
K lia llie r w llh a reg u lar caravan. very slowly. "W h a t did you and Dan­
Who'd touch a poor uuul priest? Good
iel Druvot do when the camels could
by.” And he gave me tils hand cau­ go no further because o f the rough
tiously.
roads that led Into KattristanT*
('itrnehiiii leaned down and shook
"W h a t did which do? T here was a
hands. Then the camels passed away party called Peachey Taliaferro <*nrne-
uloiig the dust} road, and I was left ban that wus with Druvot. Shall I tell
alone to wonder. Mv eye cotiul detect you about him? He died out there In
no failure in the disguises. The a« eue the cold. Slap from the bridge fell old
In the Serai attested that they *vere Peachey, turning and tw isting In the
complete fo the uathe ml lid
air like a penny w hirligig ttiat you can
Ten days later a native friend o f sell to the ameer.
mine, giving me the news o f the day
"A n d then these camels were no use.
from Peshawar, wound up his letter and Peachey said b* Druvot. •l-'o'r Pic
with. "T h ere has been much laughter Lord's sake let's get out of this tiefore
here on account o f a certain mad priest our heads are chopped «»ft " And with
who is going in his estimation to sell that they killed the camel* all among
petty gauds and insignlMcant trinkets the mountains, not having anything in
which he ascribes us great charms t»* particular to eat. but rtr*t tliev took off
11 H the ameer of Bokhara.”
the tioxes with the guns and the am ­
The two. tlieu. were beyond the fn»r- munition till tw o men came along d riv ­
de". I would have (»rayed for them, ing four mules Druvot up and dunce«
but that night a real kiuu died in Eu­ ir. frout o f them, singing. 'Sell me four
rope aud demanded un obituary notice. mules.’ Says the first man. If you are
rich enough to buy you are rb h enough
to rob.’ But tiefore ever tie could put
P A R T II.
his hand to his knife Druvot breaks
H E wheel of the World swings his neck over his knee, and the other
through the same phases Sum­
party runs away So <*urnch:iii >oadcd
mer passed, and winter there­
the mules with the rifles that was
after. and came and passed taken off the camels, and together we
vgaiu The daily pu|a*r continued and I starts forward into those bitter cold
with It. ami upon the third summer mount’ll turns parts and never a read
there fell a ln»t night, a night issue aud broader than the buck of y o u r hand "
a strained waiting for something to be
He (mused for a moment while I
telegraphed from ttie other side o f the asked him If he couM remember the
world, exactly as had happened before. nature o f the country itirougti which
At 8 o'clock I cried. "P rin t o ff!" and he had Journeyed
turned t«» go. when there crept to my
"1 am telling you as straight as (
chair what was left of a man. He was can. but uiv head Isn’t as good as It
bent into a circle, tils head was sunk might !>e. They drove m i l l s through It
between his shoulders, and he iuow h I to make me hear liefter flow Druvot
his feet one over the other like a bear. died. We came to a t»|g level valley all
"I an you give me a drink?" he whim
among the mountains, and (tie mums
|*ered. “ For the Lord's sake, give me a
were near dead so w e killed them. !M*r
drink!*’
having aiivfhtuu in special for them or
1 went back to the office, the man
us to eat.
following with a groan o f (uilu. and I
"Th en ten men Aitti bows and ar­
turned up the lamp.
rows ran down that valley, cbasl ig
1 looked at him Intently. Once before
twenty men with bows and arrow *,
hud I seen eyebrows that met over the
and the row was treuieiijus.
They
nose In an Inch broad black band, but
was fair meu- fairer than you or me—
for the life o f me I could uot tell where.
with yellow hair and remarkable we 1
" I don’t know you.” 1 said, handing
built.
Suys Druvot. unpacking the
him the whisky. "W but can I do for
guns: 'This is the beginning of the
you ? ’
business. W e ll fight for tlie ten men
H e took u gulp o f the spirit raw anti
And wdth that he Mres tw o lilies at the
shivered In spite o f the suffocating heat
tw enty meu and drops one o f them at
" I 'v e come back," lie r e la t e d . "And
I was the king o f Kaflrlstiiu- me und *<¿00 yards from the rock where we was
D ru vot-crow n ed kings we was! in sitting. The other men begun to run.
tbb office we settled It you setting but Carneban and Dravot aits on the
T o be continuer!.
The Man Who Would Be King
later
than
of the day before.
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I left them still (Miring over the maps
and making notes on the hack of the
“ Contnick.*’ "B e sure to eome down to
the Serai tomorrow to say gmnjby.
were their parting words.
T h e Ktiinharseu Serai Is the great
four square sink of humanity where
the strings o f coin els and horses from
the north load and unload
In the
afternoon 1 went down there to see
whether my friends Intended to keep
their word or were lying about drunk
A priest attired in fragments o f rib
bons and nigs stalked up to me. grave
ly tw isting a child's paper whirligig
Behind him wus his servant, bending
under the load o f a crate of mud toy«.
The tw o were loading up tw o camels
and the Inhabitants o f the Serai watch­
ed them with shrieks o f laughter.
“ The priest is mad.'* said a horse
dealer to me. " l i e Is going up to K a ­
bul to sell toys to the ameer, l ie will
either be raised to honor or have his
head cut off. He came. I d here this
m oraine mod bus been behaving madly
ever «Ince.**
“ From Roam have I come.” shouted
the priest, w avin g his w hirligig—"from
Roum. blown by the breath o f a hun­
dred devils across the sea! Who will
take the protected o f (Sod to the north
to sell charms that are never still to
the amir? IIo ! H azar Mir Khun.” be