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the word-love. We two will go into
civilization together-and you, Hajji
.Dass, have not the power to take her
away from me!"
“The power I have and will use it!"
cried the ex-yogi: and t en in sharp
Warning; "Have a care, man have a
,care what you do? Centuries of forces
,-countless.’ eager rahtiseare back of
retorted: Walverain,
know them and you for what you are.
You have only the false and the mis-
placed Energies behind you and they
have only the power human fear gives
to them. In life they were impostors,
, you are, Hajjl Dass, never true
Adepts, but always with evil aims; and
vana and never again to be permitted
incarnations, You are an impostor wit
only the power of impostors behind
you; and this night I will defy you and
‘defeat your centuries of gathered forces
by the power of a single Will‘
thine own
in Sanskrit.
attainable Nirvana, thine aid I again
command! Concentrate yourselves again
in the stone that,I may manifest thy
creature who denes thee. reduce him,
body and spirit, to cosmic dust, efface
.even his memory from the thoughts of
men! And then give me,the maiden
that she may be my slave in the Garuda
Temple!‘
The lights of Rooksedge faded. Again
a darkness, deeper than the darkest
night nrevailed. ' the cold of
' all present.
. Now God defend you, Lyclas VValver.
.oin, and God protect you, you orse
.maidenl The Thing is present-the
Thing of countless evil faces. of count-
less thousands of terrible claws! They
clutch at your throat, Lycias Walverain,
they tear at your vitalsl
,the breadth of an atom, believe in them.
fear them for one second and they will
.be upon you! ' -
And the girl moaned and was fearful
-as she knelt in the
man stood tense and undlsmayed.
the Thing circled about him and foamed
.wlth rage; and then the Evil Faces.
gnashlng their teeth. disappeared leav-
ing behind only ps of nlmy vapor;
and the man stood, strong undlsmayed.
even scornful.
Then out of the wisps of smoke came
.conntless winged serpents-cobrns,sIimy
and deadly, squirming across each other
as they floated about. And yet the man
.dld not fear. Only, tiny beads of sweat
stood out on his forehead. But the
skeptic in him was heard to cry out:
-“Illusion! All illusion!”
And then the room was again ablaze
with llgllt, and Halli Dass. with a cry
like that of a mortally stricken animal.
solved the Garuda stone. And Halii
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1. rom Out -the Centuries
-Dastil reeled before the terrible fact that
‘his dream of evil power was over.
ut Yournee, rolvnsed, lied. Sohbinlz,
to Liza and her mother, to swoon, strong
woman tllo she was. Only Doctor “fal-
verain stood as tho turned to stone and
now the sweat o his effort was upon
his face. And it may’ be that, skeptic
<tho he was, he felt that a momentary
loss of conndence might have lost him
all. v
Down the steps from RDOkS9(lge‘s
main entrance totteretl a man whose
one brief
hour Hajji Dass had grown old, old, old
mold beyond his years and before his
me!
XV.
LOVE IN THE LONG AGO-AND TODAY.
“ ISTENI" said IValverain, as Yournee.
with eyes shining, came into the
.room again. And he opened a window
which looked out on the sea.
Far away across the dunes came
series of pistol-like volleys. The elec-
tro-vapor launch was getting under way.
“It is Hajji Dass' farewell," said the
scientist.
"lmpostor he was, but certainly no
ordinary one," Said the doc-for thoughtw
fully, speaking in the Norse-English
tongue; “and sincere in his theories no
doubt as I myself. r after all what
belief did I hold that was good? If I
believed anything it was that Life is a
nightmare of devil's‘ angels a
Earth-folk are the Cililtlren of
hateful dream. ',
“Hajjl Dass' ways were novmore evil
"than mine, despite the difference in our
methods; and yet he has lost all and I
have gained everything.’ But it is for
me to keep what I have gained. I am
not too old. I think-I am but in my
early forties. I have wealth, skill in
surgery zl knowledge of,many things.
And gr atest of all, I have an impulse
-that kind without which no man can
do a good work in this world, And I
"have I‘I‘iLlI'ii repalrlng to do bcrore 1 am
jworthy of you, my Yournee." .
Yournee was reminiscent.
we
their
always hate and defy.
was many times stronlzer, and
I U
besides he beat me with his great club.
The bruises I have yet and they hurt
me at times, ziitho they are ten centuries
'old. ‘ And
fight so that I
would not he like the other women who
walked always in the shadow of fear.
But with you, I think, there would never
have been It Shadow, bu always the
beautiful sunshine. '
"I am old. very old," she finished with
her pretty lisp, “altho my Yesterday in
the Long Ago was but aisllort one. Ah‘
rn old. t t does not matter
for to love I am very young. And it is
all so splcndicl." And then she slipped
into his oulstrt-tclletl nrms.
END.
A Double-headed Conspiracy
- (Continued From Page 9)
needs my protection, J’aclcson."
that he
“ on the noon
d you're going home
tl'EilI7"
“I am, Jackson, because I'm going to
be very busy between now and the first
of the month."
"All right, Just hop to it!" I said as
I got up from'the settle.
The boy started away and then turned
back to me: .
"Jackson, every man has his ambl-
tions." he said and his earnestness-rtr
u an acceptable degree.
Please don't say anything about this at
ome. Patricia is , ,slster hut
sometimes-well she just doesn't know
much about men's mental processes and
as for ;father. he can‘t realize that I
have grown up. I want to show him.
Jackson, that I can start as bare-handed
as he did and go Just as far. Permit
me to break the news in my own way."
Always. ,I're wished that Kate and
lilac cpuld have been within czlr shot
and heard that little speech. The war
he said it marlelittle tickles run up nncl
lie mnde
high water wouldn't > change him. I
thought I could look down the right of
.wn)' and see some rough spots in the
road herl lmt I said nothing about them
at that time. To have, done that, In
the lnngurllze of I‘ht, would have been a
gross impropriety, whlc B social)’
way of saying "joy'kliler,".,I just stuck
Dulitny-‘hun-I to the yollngsteiiknll said:
, "I'm for you, Ilardinxl. Go your bestl"
“And you'll keep me posted on what
goes on at home?"
‘I sure Will,"
“And if I get in a hole, Jackson, may-
be you'll let me tell you about it and
show me the way out?"
“I sure will.“
‘‘You‘re a brick, Jackson, and Em
going to miss you like the devil."
The farther that conversation went
the more brilliant grew my ll-’Il“t of it-
he resembled lilac and while I had no
very clear idea of what were his plans
and purposes I was rt-ndy to go out and
bet at least one year's income that he“
go lhru with whatever he started, even
if if was nliowlnz his dad that he, the
youngster. was the son of his fault-r.
“‘lll unrdln J. minke good! “Ill he
nnrcerd In run-terlnlz the railroad unm-
ufrom the Inn down?‘ will an.
vnmpld. nun-ll-on 0-row n rulltrh and
m hnnl work to
lhe llllurllnln run: or the llnnr!'"I"""
Exp:-our Perhnplu the nut numhrr or
Ihe Lellker ulll lrll. Perhnpn. Any-
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Apaches of Paris.
I LMOST every newspaper reader has
read. at various Intervals, of the
Apaches of Paris. but few really KHOW
exactly what they are.
In plain English they are just hooli-
Kans. but they received the name of
Apaches because their running and cruel
methods were suvbosed to resemble those
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under cover of darkness.
LEDGER
prarticerl by the red Indian trlbo of that
name. ‘ '
A]):.t(-lies, aL‘(‘0lP(liIli( to II. J. Grcelnvel ,
an llutllo 9 both sexes an are nr
15
gangs, each Willi its own
allotted territory and ltsrown "king" or
"queen," as the case may be". '
Apaches never do any honest work.
They are human tigers, former on the
prowl. And, like the wild beasts of the
jungle, they prefer to stalk their victims
They hotly resent the charge of cow-
I:lI‘(il(‘(‘, which act so often leveled
at them. and it is in fact that many male
Apaches fought bravely in the war.
There is one story of a notorious
Almciit-, who when he was mobilized,
went to the police station and asked to
see the commissaire.
“I am going to the war," he said, with
$3.98
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an lnsolent smile on his face; will you .;".E,,.fg;,‘I,.‘;’.,n5.,.i....,.:.,"
shake hands with me before I go?" well t--In-d ".- mg"!-
The comml aire rt-fu:-ml. No doubt he hlrnhc-vypocknanmn Iennu
evrged, no rain edits, bar luck-
belt ll.rnpi. Waiotm
4, in!) Run length nnau
me. his run to 31v: In-can
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was worried and had no time to shake
hands with Apaches.
Two years passed.
Then the Apache reappeared at the po-
lice station, this time in uniform.
sleeve of his tunic was
“ efore I went away
conlmissairc, “ had two hands
asked you to shake one of them, but you
refused. Now I have only one hand: will
you shake it now?" The commissalre
shook
Nine-tenths of the street l"0iJll('l'iES and
"holrlups" in Paris are the work of
Apaches. They prowl everywhere and
Woe l;('llilE the belated stranger Who falls
into their clutches.
> To be robbed of all
least he can expect: e attempts
to resist or "squeals e is more likely
than not to be sandbagged or knifed.
The Apache has no family, no wife, no
home, He has a language of his own
which is Very pictures ue.
The Black Maria is a "salad basket"
and the prison is al “violin." “When one
Apache invites another to take a drink
yvith him he will ask if he Will "strangle
a parrot." '
Hardly anything is ever called by its
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