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THURSDAY. JULY 16. Oh Yes! Oh Yes! ' We're Cleaning House and if You’re Wise You’ll Help US Do It. JUST LISTEN Whil’st We Tell You Something Your Choice of any Shoe in our new and desirable big: Stock, at $2.95 This Fetching Price in cludes everything: in Men’s and Women’s '’Low Shoes.” Priced by us all season, $3.50 & $4 Remember You’re Not Asked to attend a sale where your Selections must be made from a collection of Antiquities, that were stylish when Washington was a Cadet, but the shoes we offer are all the present season’s styles, and are the best ef forts of a modern school of Shoemakers. You are, however, not con fined to a $2.95 Purchase We’ll Give you the Sur prise of your life tor $1.95 SALE STARTS Friday, July 17th Guarantee Shoe Co. Continued from Yesterday. "It isn’t money, miss, it's the rules,” so id the conductor, kindly. "I can’t do It.” | Katblyn turned In despair toward the station. It was then she saw the boxed lion or ‘.bp platform. Sho re turned to the condurtor of the freight. "Why Isn’t that lion shipped?” “Ws can't carry a lion without an attendant, Miss. You ought to know that.” “Very well,” replied Katblyn. She smiled at the conductor confidently. “I’ll travel as the lion's attendant. You certainly cannot object to that.” "I guess you've got me," admitted the conductor. “But where the dickens will we put the cat? Every car is closed and locked, and there Is not an empty?” “You can easily get the lion in the caboose. I’ll see that he doesn't bother any one.” "Lions in the caboose is a new one on me. Well, you know your dad's business better than I do. Look alive, boys, and get that angora aboard. This is Miss Hare herself, and she’ll take charge.” "Kit, Kit!” "Winnie!” "O, I’ll be brave. I’ve just got to be. But I’ve never been left alone before.” The two girls embraced, and Winnie went sobbing back to the maid who waited on the platform. What happened in that particular caboose has long since been newspa per history. The crew will go on tell ing it till it becomes as fabulous as one of Sindbad’s yarns. How the lion escaped, how the fearless young wom an captured it along, unaided, may be found in the files of all metropolitan newspapers. Of the brown man who was found hiding in the coat closet of the caboose nothing was said. But the sight of him dismayed Kathlyn as no lion could have done. Any dark-skinned person was now a subtle menace. And when, later, she saw him peering into the porthole of her stateroom, dismay became terror. Who was this man? CHAPTER 11. The Unwelcome Throne. Kathlyn sensed great loneliness when, about a month later, she arrived at the basin in Calcutta. A thousand or more natives were bathing ceremo niously In the ghat—men, women, and children. It was early morn, and they were making solemn genuflexions to ward the bright sun. The water front swarmed with brown bodies, and great wheeled carts drawn by sad-eryod bul locks threaded slowly through the mase. The many white turbans, Btir ring hither and thither, reminded her of a Held of white poppies In a breeee. India! There It lay, ready for her eager feet. Always had she dreamed about It, and romanced over It, and sought it on the wings of her spirit Yonder It lay, ancient as China, en chanting as storied Persia. If only she were on pleasure bent! If only she knew some one in this great teeming city! She knew no one; she carried no letters of Introduction, no letters of credit nothing but the gold and notes the paymaster at tbs farm had hastily turned over to her. Only by constant application to maps and guide booka bad she managed to arrange the short cut to the tar king dom. She had been warned that it was a wild and turbulent place, out of the beaten path, beyond the reach of iron rails. Three long sea voyages: across the Paclfio (which wasn’t), down the bitter Yellow sea, up the blue Bay of Bengal, with many a eea change and many a strange picture. What though her heart ached. It waa Impossible that her young eyes should not absorb all she saw and marval over It. India! The strange, elusive Hindu had dis appeared after Hongkong. That was a weight off her soul. Bhe w»s now assured that her imagination had be guiled her. How should he know any thing about her? was more natural than that he should wish to hurry back to his native state? Hbe was not the only one in a hurry. And there were Hindus of all castes on ail three ships. By now she had almost forgotten him. There was one bright recollection to break the unending loneliness. Com ing down from Hongkong to Singapore she had met at. the captain’s table a young man by the name of Bruce. He was a quiet, rather untaikatlve man, lean and sinewy, sun and wind bitten. Kathlyn had as yet bad no sentimental affairs. Absorbed in hsr work, her father, and the care of Winnie, such young men as she had met bad scarce ly Interested her. She Had only tol erant contempt for idlers, and these young men had belonged to that cate gory. Bruce caught her interest in the very fact that be had bat little to say and said that crisply and well. There was something authoritative in the shape of bis mouth and the steadi ness of his eye, though before her be never exercised this power. A doxen times she had been on the point of .‘HE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSIA, GA. ” The Adventures of Kathlyn By HAROLD MAC GRATH Illustrated by Pictures from the Moving Picture Production of the Selig Polyscope Co. taking him into her confidence, hul the ! irony of fate had always firmly closed j her lips. And now, waiting for the ship to warp into its pier, she realized what a 'atal mistake her reticence had been. A friend of her father! Bruce had left the Lloyder before dinner (at Singapore), and as Kath lyn's Britisb-India coaster did not leave till morning she had elected to remain over night on the German boat. As Bruce disappeared among the dis embarking passengers and climbed into a rickshaw she turned to the captain, who stood beside her. “Do you know Mr. Bruce?” "Very well,” said the German. “Didn’t he tell you who he is? No? Ach! Why, Mr. Bruce is a great hunt er. He has shot everything, written books, climbed the Himalayas. Only last year he brought me the sack of a musk deer, and thut is the most dan gerous of all sports. He collects ani mals.” Then Kathlyn knew. The name had been vaguely familiar, but the young man’s reticence had given her no op portunity to dig into her recollection. Bruce! How many times her father had spoken of him! What a fool she had been! Bruce knew the country she was going to, perhaps as well as her father; and he could have sim plified her journey to the last word. Well, what was done could not be re called and done over. "My father is a great hunter, too,” she said simply, eyeing wistfully the road taken by Bruce into town. "What? Herr Gott! Are you Colo nel Hare’s daughter?” exclaimed the captain. “Yes." He seized her by the shoulders. "Why did you nbt tell me? Why, Colo nel Hare and I have smoked many a Burma cheroot together on these wa ters. Herr Qott! And you never said anything! What a woman for a man to marry!” he laughed. "You have sat at my table for five days, and only now I find that you are Hare's daughter! And you have a sister. Ach, yes! He was always taking out some photo graphs in the smokeroom and showing them to us old chaps.” Tears filled Kathlyn's eyes. In an Indian prison, out of the jurisdiction of the British Raj, and with her two small hands and woman’s mind she must find him! Always the mysterious packet lay close to her heart, never for a moment was it. beyond the reach of her hand. Her father’s freedom! The rusty metal sides of the ship scraped against the pier and the gang plank was lowered; and presently the tourists flocked down with variant emotions, to be besieged by fruit sell ers, water carriers, cabmen, blind beg gars, and maimed, naked little chil dren with curious, Insolent black eyes, women with Infants straddling their hips, stolid Chinamen: a riot of color and a bewildering babel of tongues. Kathlyn found a presentable car riage, and with her luggage pressing about her feet directed the driver to the Great Eastern hotel. Her white sola-topee (sun helmet) had scracely disappeared ill the crowd when the Hindu of the freight ca boose emerged from the steerage, no longer In bedraggled linen trousers and ragged turban, but dressed like a native fop. He was In no burry. Leis urely be followed Kaitblyn to the hotel, then proceeded to the railway station. He bad need no longer to watch and worry. There was nothing left now but to greet her upon her arrival, this golden bourl from the verses of He'adl. The two weeks of durance vile among the low castes In the steer age should be amply repaid. In six days he would be beyond the hand of the meddling British KaJ, In his own country Sport! What was more beautiful to watch than cat play? He was the cat, the tiger cat And what would the Sahib Colonel say when he felt the claws? Beautiful, beautiful, Uke a pattern woven In an Agra rug Kathlyn began her Journey at ones. Now that she was on land, moving to ward her father, all her vigor returned. She felt strangely alive, exhilarated She knew that sha was not going to be afraid of anything hereafter. To enter the strange country without hav ing her purpose known would be the main difficulty. Where was Ahmed all this time? Doubtless In a cell Uke hls master. Three days later sha stood at the frontier, and her servant set about arguing and bargaining with the ma houts to engage elephants for the three days’ march through jungles and mountainous divides to the capital. Three elephants were necessary. There were two howdah elephaifts and one pack elephant, who was always lagging behind. Through long aisles of magnificent trees they passed, across hot, blistering deserts, dotted here and there by shrubs and stunted trees. In and out of gloomy defiles of flinty rock, over sluggish and swiftly flowing streams. The days were hot, but the nights were bitter cold Sometimes a blue miasmlc hare settled down, and the dry, raspy hides of the elephants grew damp and they fretted at their chains. ___ .. (Copyright by Harold Hacdrath) , Unci, the khltmatgar Kathlyn had hired In Calcutta, proved invaluable. ! Without him she would never have succeeded in entering the strange | country; for these wild eyed Mahom : edan mahouts (and it is pertinent to ! note that only Mahomedans are ever j j made mahouts, it being against the • tenets of Hinduism to kill or ride any- : thing that kills) scowled at her evil-! ly. They would have mnde way with | her for an anna-piece. Rao was a Ma- , liomednn himself, so they listened and obeyed. All this the first day and night out On the following morning a leopard crossed the trail. Kathlyn seized her j rifle and broke its spine. The jabber ing of the mahouts would have amused her at any other time. "Good, memsahtb,” whispered’Rao. "You have put fear into their devils' , hearts. Good! Chup!” he called. "Stop your noise.” After that they gave Kathlyn's dog tent plenty of room. One day, in the heart of a natural clearing, she saw a tree. Its blossoms and leaves were as scarlet as the j seeds of a pomegranate, j "O, how beautiful! What Is it, j Rao?” I "The flame of the Jungle, memsahlb. \ \ It is good luck to see It on a Journey.” | | About the tree darted gay parra- ] keets and fat green parrots. The green | plumage of the birds against the brtl ] liant scarlet of the tree was inde i scrlbably beautiful. Everywhere was ' life, everywhere was color. Once, as j i the natives seated themselves of the | I evening round their dung fire while i Kathlyn busied with the tea over a j wood fire, a tiger roared near by. The elephants trumpeted and the mahouts j rose in terror. Kathlyn ran for her | rifle, but the trumpeting of the ele phants vriU sufficient to send the! I striped cat to other hunting grounds j Wild ape and pig abounded, and oc casionally a calia wriggled out of the | sun into the brittle grasses. Very few beasts or reptiles are aggressive; it is only when they feel cornered that i : they turn. Even the black panther, the most savage of all cats, will rarely offer battle except when attacked. Meantime the man who had followed j Kathlyn arrived at the city. I Five hours later Kathlyn stepped out of her bowdah, gave Rao the 1 money for the mahouts, and looked $ * Kathlyn on Her Way to Allaha. about. This was the gate to the capi tal. How many times had her father passed through It? Her jaw set and her eyes flashed. Whatever dangers beset, ber she was determined to meet them with courage and patience. "Rao, you had better return to Cal cutta. What I have to do must be done alone.” "Very good. Rut I ahall remain here till the memsahlb returns.” Rao sa laamed. “And If I should not return?” affect ed by this strange loyalty. Then I shall seek Bruce Sahib, who has a camp 20 miles east.” "Bruce? Hut he Is In Singapore!" —a quickening of ber pulses. “Who can say where Bruoe Sahib la? He la Uke a shadow, there today, here tomorrow I have been hls servant, memsahlb, and that la how I am today yours. I received a telegram to call at your hotel and apply to you for service. Very good. I shall wait. The mahout here will take you directly to Hare Sahib’s bungalow. You will find your father’s servants there, and all will be well. A week, then. If you do not lend for me I seek Bruce Sahib, and we shall return with many. Some will apeak English at the bungalow." “Thank you, Rao. I ahall not for get.” "Neither will Bruce Sahib," hiyaterl ously, Rao salaamed. Kathlyn got Into the howdah and passed through the gates. Bruce Sae hlb, the quiet man, whose hand had reached out over seas thus strangely to reassure ber! A hardness came Into her throat and she swallowed des perately She was only twenty-four Except for herself there might not be a white person in all this sprawling, nigged principality. From time to time the new rnahout turned and stalled at her curiously, but she was tog absorbed to note hls attentions^ (To Be Continued Tomorrow) The Satisfaction Store The Store of Quality J. A. 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