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THURSDAY, JULY 30. TO-DAY’S FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS THE AUGUSTA COTTON MARKET. Middling closed today 13%c Middling last year 13%c. Tone steady. 'CLOSING "QUOTATIONS * ' Close. Goord ordinary 31 strict snort ordinary J ‘ Low middling v sur-vt low middling J, f-'J Middling A V* Strict middling uoud middling , « o Tinges, first *5 Vi Tinges, second * Previous Day’s Figures Good ordinary “ 2‘S Strict good ordinary “ ~ V Low middling.. Strict low middling }“ Middling ** S , Strict middling }“ i „ First s inge tteconu tinge Receipts For Week Sales. S*ln. Slilyt. Saturday “1* Monday on n Tuesday —— - Wednesday. . . . Thursday HO . Friday ——: 3" - - Totals ■ ■~77« 140 435 Comparative Receipts 1513. 1914. Saturday Monday 04 Tuesday ** r , Thursday “ Friday . Totals 480 ir!. NEW YORK_ COTTON m*uu York—All of the good feeling the tradeTms niorning was confronted V,y another gloomv situation abroad and n very weak market here. 1-list prmea wt i e IT to 29 points net lower and al most off to the lowest levels reached v esterdiiv, representing over |1 a f b ®}® loss in the past week as a result of the war scare The market was extremely feverish with heavy selling byyeste rlav's buvers a feature and verj little support in evidence except from scatter-- ed s'imrts and to a small al ®° - fr ?™ trade interests. Fair weather was n iiiinted for most of the belt but <-ut iu tk Sire in the market which towards 1 o'clock was violently active and -5 to 29 points under the ciose. r At midday the market collapsed under extremely heavy selling by spot bouses and Wall street together with the con tinned grave nature of all ® l ' r °P|| n o ?'a litical news. October sold at 11.38 or «i i,leak of 57 points under last night and later positions sold off 45 to 51 points 0» practically $-.50 per bale. . A steadier feeling prevailed in the earlv afternoon when shorts attempted to cover and prices rallied seven to ten points from the bottom. trading be fame quite normal although nervousness w 'S still apparent and a close watch was kept on the European news. Cotton futres closed weak. High. Low. Close. T „ lv I ...11.50 11.10 10.31 BA'A::: :::!!$ ffiS ifg March 1135 U '“ a NEW ORLEANS COTTON New Orleans.—War news weakened tl'«* cotton market in the early trading todu . First prices were 19 to 22 Point a off and uflrr Hie call the market stood 20 to 23 points down. While shorts took profits on large .scale the market was flooded with fresh offerings and the un dertone was easy. Disturbing reports regarding suspen sion of business between this and for eign countries caused heavy selling and weakness from the middle of the morn ing on and the market fell to a level 51 to 53 points under yesterday’s close. LIVERPOOLCOTTON Liverpool.—Cotton spot easier. Good middling 7.34: middling 6.86: low mid dling 6.38. Sales 7,00". For specula tion and export 300. Receipts 100. bu t ures barely steady. July « « 6 . July and August September and October J December and January J‘22 February and March 6.3< April and May • 6.39V6 CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET Chicago, |ll».—lncessant reports of warlike movements sent wheat soaring today. 'i he opening which ranged from 3 to' 7V'. higher tha nlast night was felt b. some additional upturns but also by a read ion of two cents or more. Later the market again stiffened. (’urn showed more responsiveness to the wheat excitement today than am previous time. The market opened \ to ::% higher and only receded to a mod « »ate"* extent when wheat suffered a temporary setback. War disturbances extended into the oats trade In a decided manner though not so decisively j.s corn or wheat. Of all the staples traded in provisions alone escaped the war contagion. Prices were firm. Duting most of the day comparative y little wss done in the wheat pit not withstanding price changes were un usually wide. The close was heavy but 6 to 8% above last night. In subsequent dealings corn rose and fell with wheat. The final level was 1 to 3 above last night, but tending downgrade. Open. If gh Low C.o» WHEAT— July .... 92 97 92 91 Sept .... 91 97 91 94 >4 CORN— July .... 74% 75*4 74% 75 Sept .... 72% 74 72% 71% OATBx July ... 36% 37% 36% 36% Sept .... 37 38% 36% 37% rUHK Juiv 2326 2350 2325 2325 Sept . . . .2070 2095 2070 2075 LARD— Sept . . . .1015 1022 1015 1025 Oct . . . .1025% 1042 1025 1037 RIBS— Sept . . . .1197 1207 1197 1250 Oct . . . .1160 1165 1157 1157 MONEY MARKET New York.- Mercantile paper 5a %. Sterling exchange very unsettled. 60j days nominal; demand 497. Commercial bills nominal Government bonds steady; railroad bonds weak. Cali money strong 6*6. ruling rate 5; closing 4a6 Time loans rdPuntl, 60 days, 90 days *«* months 5% rui. Stocks and Receipts Stock in August-.t. 1913 11,406 Stock ir. Augusta. 1914 11.202 Rec. since Sept. 1, 1913 338,471 Kec. since Sept. 1, 1914 338,471 % Augusta Daily Receipts 1913 2914 Georgia Railroad Southern Ry. Go 18 * Augusta Southern Augusta-Aiken Ry. Co Georgia and Florida 12 (\ and W . C. Ry 7 6 A. 0. L. R. R Wagon 2 6 Canal River Net receipts 39 12 Through Total 39 12 Port Receipts Today. Last Yr Galveston New Orleans 291 Mobile ■ --- Savannah 11 Charleston 50 Wilmingtoi) NorfoiK 225 Total ports (est) 1000 Interior Receipts Today, last Yr. Houston Memphis —— St. Louis - Cincinnati —- Little Rock ~ Weekly Crop Movement, End ing Friday, ,Tuly 24, 1914. 1914. 1913 Receipts . . 4,659 1.9. SOI 5.565 Crop in St. 14.295.662 13,409,854 1 ',399,364 Came in St. 14.298,662 13,409,854 U.,399.36! Shipments .. 21.429 13,857 8,565 Stock 129 729 158,015 110,503 Vis. Sup. .. 3,303,501 2,770,943 2.659.825 NEW YORK STOCK MARKET New York.—The stock market strong ly reflected the tense European situation again today and almost complete de moralization resulted. After a severe opening break in prices, selling continued to become more precipitate until by mid day a number of leading shares were down five to seven points and all of yes terday's low prices were either equalled or passed. The extreme delicacy of the financial situation abroad was made more evident here in the course of the day when it became known that banks of France, Belgium and the Netherland had followed England’s lead in advancing discounts. Foreign exchange was even more unsettled and exports of gold were increased until they amounted to $5,500.- 000 by noon. Call money rose to six per cent. There waR scarcely any cessation of activity in the early afternoon. Reading extended its decline to over eleven points, People’s Gas dropped ten and Lehigh Valley and Amalgamated eight. Some of the higher grade investment stocks, such as are seldom traded in were offer ed at concessions. A rally of 1 to 3% points was in progress at 1:30 o’clock, by which time over a million shares had changed hands. Bonds were weakk. The market closed in a state of col lapse. Germany’s ultimatum to Rus sia caused frenzied selling in the last hour, the list declining to lowest prices with practically no support leaders showed losses of six to seventeen points. NEW YORK STOCK LIST Close.* Amalgamated Coper 19% American Agricultural 60% American Can 19% American Car and Foundry 41% American Cities pfd 59% American Cotton Oil 32 American Smelting 62% American Sugar 100% American Tel and Tel ... 114 American Tobacco 216% Atchison 89% Atlantic Coast lane 114 Baltimore and Ohio 72 Canadian Pacific 167% Chesapeake and Ohio 42 Chicago. Mil and St. Paul 85% Erie 20% General Electric ]39 Great Northern pfd .144 Illinois Central i()6 Interborough Met. Pf d 52 Kansas City Southern 2OVI Louisville and Nashville 127 Liggett and Myers 190 Lori Hard Company ]#o Mexican Petroleum 53 Missouri. Kansas and Texas 70% New York Central so N. Y. N. H. and Hartford 51 Norfolk and Western 97% Northern Pacific 98% Pennsylvania 105% Reading Rep. Iron and Steel jo Rock island Co. pfd '' Seaboard Air Line 15 Do pfd 47% SIOBS, Shes. Steel and Iron 4 9v. bouuiern Pacific 84 7 A Southern Railway 17% Do pfd 67% Tennessee Copper -1% Texas Company .....112 * T’nion Pacific ......113% United Staes Steel . 51% Do pfd . .106% Virginla-Caro. Chemical 21 Western Union 54 HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 A. M 7 A. M 68 8 A. M 70 9 A. M 71 10 A. M 77 11 A. M 79 12 noon 80 1 P. M SO 2 P. M. ... ... 81 LIVE STOCK MARKET CHICAGO HOG AND BATTLE MARKET Chicago. His. Hogs Receipts 16,000, slow; bulk 870a855; pigs 7-60a905. Cattle; Receipts 3,000; slow; beeves 740al0.00; steers 640a840; Stocker* and feeders &60a800; cows and heifers 375a -915; calves 760 a 11.25. Sheep; Receipts 14.000; steady; sheep 615*585; yearlings 560a655; lambs 600*810. SAID THAT BUSINESS MEN GET TOO MUCH EXERCISE London.—The business man gets too much exercise. What he needs is rest. This Is the view of a fftmous London pnysioian, Dr. W. R. Had man, who is an advocate of walking as the best of ail eexrcisns. “In these days of rush,” he says. I am afraid the business man, as a rule, gets too much exercise. If the exer cise backwards anti forward* in a shop, up and down the stairs, in and out of the warehouse, lifting down parcels, handing up goods. tying. straining, wrapping. bending. turning. running, gesticulating, hand-shaking, were to be all taken Into consideration, they would match the most elaborate and compli cated rules of physical culture that ever were Invented. "Not a muscle in the body but gets Its turn again and again during the day. hour after hour, and at the end of it what is needed more than anything clue is rest. * 7 CENTS IIP 111 WHEAT IST MIN. December Option Sold at Opening at 98 Cents. May Goes to $1.03 in Grain Pit. Chicago.—After a sensational advance today *‘*i account of imminence of Ger many and Russia entering the Austro Servian war, the wheat market closed almost in a state of collapse. At the (dose values were down three cents a bushel from earlier high prices, on seem tngl\ complete paralysis of export de mand. Chicago.—Wheat today jumped \\% seven cents a bushel In the first minute of trading as a result of the European tension. The December option which closed at 91 cents last night, sold immediately to day at 98 cents. Prices were tow cents apart in different sections of the pit at the same moment. Transactions soon became scanty, only speculators who were prepared to put up Instantly almost unheard of margins be ing in a position to trade. Then prices begun a fresh advance, May wheat sell* ing al $1.03 as against 95% last night. Withdrawal of firms from active operations on 'charge increased as the day wore on and as news by cable be came more and more ominous. Several houses went so far as to give numbers of of their employes a complete furlough. Rumors that Germany and Russia had severed diplomatic relations caused a fresh burst of excitement just before midday. In a ’few* minutes prices had surpassed the early high level by more tnan a cent. AUGUSTA SECURITIES, BONDS_AND STOCKS (Corrected Weekly for The . Augusta Herald by Martin ft Garrett) . Bank Stock*. Bid. Aak Augusta Savings Bunk 150 Merchants Rank 212 215 National Exchange Bank of Augusta 135 li,J Planters Loan & Savings Bank (par value 10) 43 46 Cltlxens It So. Bank 340 250 Union Ravings Bank (per value 6100) 126 Railroad otoevta. A. * W. P. R. R. Co 150 162 Atigubta ft Savannah Ry. Co. .103 lU6 Chattahoochee ft Gulf R. Hj Company 102 Ga. R. R. ft Bkg. Co 268 262 Seaboard pfd stock .....60 a 3 Seaboard Common Stock .....20 u Southwestern R. R. Co 101 106 Factory eonoi. Augusta Factory, let 6s. 1015 M. ft N 91 It Eagle ft Phoenix Mills Co. Ist 6s. 1926. J. ft J 15 lot Enterprise Mfg. Co.. Ist Bs 1923. M. ft N 10 92 Sibley Mfg. Co.. Ist ss, 1923, J. & J 90 02 Fsotory Stocks. Granltevlll* Mfg. Co ;rs King Mfg. Co 77 s> Aiken Mfg Co, 25 Augusta Factory 80 Enterprise Mfg. Co. 60 King Mfg. Co., pfd 103 105 Warren Mfg. Co 7O CALLING FOR THE SPOT Edward was the proud-fiwner of hie first pair of pants. On the occasion of his first wearing them a neighbor happened to come in, and was chat ting with 'his father; but, much to Edward's disgust, the all-important subject was not mentioned. The little fellow stood it as long as he could, then, in a very indif ferent manner, remarked: “There are three pairs of pants in this room.”’ POINCARE INTERESTED IN CALLIAUX TRIAL PRESIDENT POINCARE OF FRANCE. Paris. In the outcome of the trial of Mme. Caillaux no one except the principal and her husband is more in terested than President Poincare, of France. Am tiie recipient of certain letters found on the person of the dead Figaro editor. M. Galmette, the president wae brought into the case directly, but deeper than that are the possibilities of the result of the outcome on French politics. Gaillsux. formerly premier, slill wield* an enormous Influence In the government. He is the real man be hind the throne and could probably make or break such n figure as tho president In corUiin Junctures. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA. AMERICAN WOMAN CAUSES COMMENT MRS. CLARENCE A. POSTLEY (MARGARET V. STERLING.) Carlsbad, Bohemia. Ono of those who havoinade this health resort, sit up recently is Airs. Clarence A. Postlev (Miss Margaret V. Storing) of New York. Not even the Czar of Bulgaria, the King of Sweden or any ol* the Rothschilds has occupied the eight rooms at the most fashionable hotel in Austria, the Imperial, as Mrs. Postlcy did. But this American lady caused a still greater sensation by an act of kindness without precedent in either Carlsbad or the whole Umpire, it is estimated that Mrs. Postley’s expenses at the hotel must have been about S2OO a day and as her “cure” was to terminate June 30 she gave notice, leaving two weeks before. About June 20 her servant had an attack of indi gestion and the doctor recommended that she go through a cure too. “How long will that take?” inquired Mrs. Post lev. “I think it would he advisable for your servant to stay here until July 12.” said the doctor. “Well,” said Mrs. Postley then we must stay here too till ih« 12th.,“ and orders were given to post pone her departure. COTTON MtOKET IS DEMORALIZED Prices Crashed From $2 to $2.50 a Bale Below Pre vious Finals European Cables the Cause. New York. —The cotton market wan demoralized today. In the heaviest selling movement that has yet developed price# crashed from $2 to $2.50 a bale below previous finals. European Cable. New Orleans As the result of pessi mistic cablegrams today from large mar ket centers of Europe and vague rumors to the effect that, big English concerns were cabling this side not to risk fur ther shipments of various commodities cotton declined two dollars and a half a bale during the late forenoon. OTMOOmfION IN N. y. STOCKS Sharp Break at Opening, a Rally Then Wave of Liqui dation in Wall St. Today. New York. At the opening oT the stock market here today, prices again broke ahasply on the latest turn in tha foreign situation. Losses ranged from 2 to ♦> points, the latter in Canadian Pa cific. A rally of one to two points followed the first decline, lifter which another selling movement ensued, carrying prices below the opening and In several Im portant instances under yesterday * low. Trading in ttie first hour amounted to 255,000 shares. A fresh wave rjf liquidation swept over the. market around noon, stocks literally falling out from all quarters. Reading lost eight points, Canadian Pacific, Le high Valley and Amalgamated Copper seven points. There were numtrot other declines ranging from three to five points. At times the lint seemed to lie without any support from nlnaelal quarters. AUGUSTA QUOTATIONS GROCERIES, PROVISIONS D. 8. Reg. Ribs. 60-lb. ...» 12% D. 8 Reg. F ate*. BGb. ay 11 D. 8 Clear platen .JO D. 8. HeilleH, 25-lb llfc Pearl Grites, 96-lb , ull s ees 1.96 Yellow Cora 15 Red Cob White Corn 98 Mixed Feed Oats 62 Best White Oats 66 Fancy Iliad Rice 06% Medium Mend Rice .06 Japan Head Rice 03% Funry Green Coffee Choice Green Coffee V aJr Oreen Coffee .12 Ter.cent Roasted Coffee. 100 plcgs.. .67 Arhuckle n Coffee, pr. c* , 100-lb 19.10 Arbuckle's Ground Coffee, 86-1ba...19.90 R A J. Coffee, 60-lb. Heno Coffee, Ground, ICO 1-lb 21 P It. Molasses, bb s .30 Cuba Molasses, bbls 28 Rebofled Oa. Byrup. % bbls to N Y Gr. Bufar. bbls. or bulk bags 4.30 N Y. Gr. Sugar. 4 2ft bags 4.36 N. Y. Gr. Huger (60 2 ertns), tag Jb 4 66 N. Y Gr. Hugnr f6f> ?rrtns). per lb. 455 N Y Or. Hu gar 32-1% ertns per lb. 4 56 12-or. Fvripnrated M'lk 1.76 peerless 5c Evap. Milk. 0 do* ... 2.9 ft M. Jb I* Stick Cmdy 30-lb. boxes.. 00% Ground Pepper, 10-lb. palls, par lb. 16% Mixed Cow Pph9. iiar bu. ....... 300 White Cow Peas, per bu. 2 35 Tanglefoot Fly Paper |.70 1- Chum Salmon JO 2- Torn* toe* 70 S-lb Tomatoes .96 New Argo Salmon, per do*. ..... 3.50 Va. Peanuts 05)4 (Continued from Yesterday.) 'TVo liave elephants but a little way outside the city. We have pulling chains. Let ue be off at once. It ta not necessary to enter the city, for this window. Ahmed says, Is on the out side. We can easily approach the wall In a roundabout, wny without being seen. Have you money?” From his belt Hannibal produced some gold. "That will he sufficient. To you. then, the bribing. The men. should there be any, will hark to you. Come!" concluded nruce. impatient, to be off. “And 1?" timidly asked Pundita. "You will seek Hare Sahib'* camp,” said Ramabal. “This Is a good oppoiv tunlty to get you away also.” Ahmed nodded approvingly. Pundita kissed her husband; for these two loved each other, a circum stance almost unknown in this dark, mysterious land of many gods. “Pundita. you will remain at the camp In readiness to receive us. At dawn we shall leave for the frontier. And when we return it will ho with might and reprisal. Umbulla shall die the death of u dog." Hantahai clinched his hands. “llut flret," cooed Ahmed, " ho shall wear out the soles of his pig’s feet In the treadmill. It is written. I am a Mohammedan. Yet sometimes these vile fakirs have the gift of seeing into the future. And one has seen . . Ho paused. "Seen what?” domnuded Rruce. “I must not put false hopes In your hearts. Hut this I may say; Trials will cotne, bitter and heart burning; a storm, a whirlwind, a tire; but peace is after that. Hut Allah uses us as his tools. Let. us haste!" “And I?" said Hamabal, sending a piercing glance at Ahmed. Hut Ahmed smiled and shook his head. “Walt and see Hamabal. Home day they will rail you the Fortunate. Let us hurry. My memHahib watts." "What, did thU fakir see?" whis pered Bruce as he donned his burnoose again. "Many wonderful things; but per haps the fakir lied. They all lie. Yet . . . Hurry!" The (luartel, passed out of the city unmolested. Ramnhui’s house was supposed to be under strict, surveil lance; but the soldiers, duo to largees, were junketing In the bazaars. Short ly they came up to two elephants with bowdahs. They were the best man nered of the half dozen owned or rent ed by Colonel Hare. Mahouts sat astride. Rifles reposed in the side sheaths. This was to be no light ad venture. There might be a small war fare. Pundita flung her arms round Ra mabal, and he consoled her. Hhe was •then led sway to the colonel’s camp. "Remember," Ramabal suld at part ing, "she saved both our lives. We owe a debt." "Qo, my lord; and may all the gods —nay, the (‘ihristiun (iod —watch over you! ” "Forward!" growled Ahmed. First, though, he saw to It. Ihat the pulling chains were well wrapped In cotton blankets. There must be no sound to wa-n others of their approach "Ahmed," began Itruce. “Leave all things to me. sahib." In terrupted Ahmed, who assumed a strange authority at times that con fused end puzzled Bruce. "It Is my memsahib, and I am one of the Angers of I hft long arm of the British raj. And there aYn books In Calcutta In which my name Is written high No more!" Through the moon-4roeted jungle the two elephants moved silently. A drove of wild pigs scampered across the path and the wild peacock hissed from the underbrush sleepily. All si lence again. Several times Ahmed halted, straining his ears. It seemed Incredible to Rruce that the enormous beasts could move so soundlessly. It was a part of their business; they were hunters of their kind. At length they came out Into the open at the rear of the prison walls Here Ramabal got down and went In search of any sentries. He returned almost at once with the good news that there was none. The marble walls shimmered like clusters of dull opals What misery had been known behind their crum bling beauty! Ahmed marker] the tree and raised his hand as a sign. “Rruce Bahlb!” he called. “Yes. Ahmed. I’ll risk It first.” Bruce moved the elephant to the barred window. His heart best wildly. He leaned down from his bowdah and strove to peer within. “Katblyn llare?" he whispered ’’Who Is It?" "Hrucs." "Father, father!" Bruce heard her cry; "they hare found us!" Ahmed heard the call; and he sighed as one who had Allah to thank. To gether! (lod was grsat and Mahomet was his prophet. ■■Listen," said Bruce "We ehall hook chains to the bars and pull them out, without noise If Thjj The Adventures of Kathlyn By HAROLD MAC GRATH Illustrated by Pictures from the Moving Picture Production ol the Sellg Polyscope Co. moment they glvo . . . Have you something to stand on?" “Yes, a taboret." “That will serve. You stand on it and I'll pull you up and through Then your father." "Father is in chains." "Ahmed, he Is In chains. What In Clod's name shall we do?" "Return for me later." said Hare “Don’t bother about me. Get Kit away, and quickly Umballa may return at any moment. To work, to work, Bruce, and God bless you!" They flew to the task. Round the hooks Ahmed had wrapped cloths to ward against the chink of metal against metal The hooks were deftly engaged. Bruce guve the signal and the elephants started forward. The chains grew taut. So far there wan but little noise. The elephants leaned against the chains; the bars bent and sprang suddenly from their ancient sockets. Kathlyn was free! CHAPTER X. The Escape. Kathlyn flung herself Into hor fa ther's arms. “Dad, dad! To leave you alone!" "Kit, you are wnstlng time. Be off Trust me; 1 wasn't meant to die In this dog's kennel, curse or no curse. Kiss me and go!" "Curse? What do you mean, fa ther?” "Ahmed will tell you. In God's name, go, child!” “Come, Miss Kathlyn," Bruce called anxiously. Kathlyn then climbed up to the win dow, and Bruce lifted her Into Ills howdah, bidding her to lie low. How strong he was, she thought. Ah, something hud whispered to her day by day Ihat he would come when she needed him. Suddenly she felt her cheeks grow hot. with shame. She snuggled her Imre legs under her grass dress. Till this moment she had never given hjir appearance a single thought. There had been things so much more vital But youth, and there is ever the way of a man with u maid Now, Kathlyn did not love this quiet, resourceful young man; at least If she did she was not yet aware of It; but the touch of his hand and the sound of Ills voice sent a shiver over her that was not duo to the chill of the night. Bhn heard him glvo his orders, low voiced. “Do not lift your head above the howdah rim. Miss Kathlyn. till we are In the Jungle. And don't worry about your father. lie’s alive, and that’s enough for Ahmed and me. What a strango world It Is, and how fate shuf fles us about! Forward!" The curse: what did her father mean by that? It seemed to Kuthlyn that hours passed before Bruce spoke again. “Now you may sit up. What In the world have you got ou? Good heavens, grass! You poor girl!” Ho took ofT his coat and threw It across her shoul ders, und was startled by the contact of her warm flush. "I cannot, thank you In words," she said, faintly. "Don't Pshnw, *t was nothing I would have gone- ” He stopped em barrassedly. "Well?" Perhaps It was coquetry which Impelled the query; perhaps It was something deepe-. He laughed. "T was going to say that. I would have gone Into the depths of bell to serve you. We'll bo at year father's bungalow In a minute or so, and then the Anal stroke. Umballa Is not dependable. He may or may not pay a visit to the cell tonight I can only pray that he will come down the moment I arrive.” Hut he was not to meet Umballa that night. Umballa hud won his point In .regard to having his prisoners flogged; but, oriental that he was, he went about the matter leisurely. He ate his supper, changed his clothes, and dallied In the zenana for an hour The rascal had made a thorough study of the word "suspense;” he knew the exquisite torture of making one’s victim wait. For the time being his pssston for Kathlyn had subsided. Ha desired above all things just then revongo for the humiliating experience In the cell; he wanted to put pain and terror Into her heart, Ah, she would he on her knees, begging, begging, and her father would struggle In vain at his shackles. Rpurned; so be It. She should have a taste of his hate, the black man’s hate And always there would remain the little dark halred sister. She would marry him; she would do It to save her father and sister. Then the fili gree basket heaped with rubles and pesrls and emeralds and sapphires' As for the other, what oared he If he rotted? It gave him the whip hand over the doddering Council. Master he would be; he would blot out all things which stood In his path. A king, till be had gathered what fortune he needed. Then let the Jackals howl. Accompanied by torch bearers, serv ants, and the professional (logger, he led the way to the cell and flung open (Copyright bj Harold MacUratta) the door triumphantly. For a moment he could not believe his eyes. She was gone, and through yonder win dow! Hell of all hells of Hind! Shft was gone, and he was robbed* "Out of your reach this time, yon black devil!” cried the colonel. "Go on Do what you please with me. I'm ready.” Umballa ran to the taharet and Jumped upon it. He saw the tram pled grass. Elephants. And these doubtless had come from the colonel’s camp, lie jumped off the tabaret and dashed to the door. Follow me!" he cried. "Later, Colonel Hare, later!” he threatened. The colonel remained silent. Up above, In the palace, Umballa summoned a dozen troopers and gave them explicit orders. Ue was quite confident that Kathlyn would he car ried at once to her father’s bungalow. If only for a change of clothes. It was n shrewd guess. As the Iron door clanged upon the sill Colonel Hare leaned against the pillar and closed his eyes, praying si lently. At the bungalow Pundita fell at Kathlyn's feet and kissed them. ’’Memsahib!" she cried brokenly. "Pundita!” Kathlyn stooped and gathered her up In her arms. After that Ramabal would have died for her under any torture. "Now, Alnned, what did my father mean when he said 'curse or no curse?' ” "It’s a long story, memsahib," said Ahmed evaalvely. "Tell it.” “It was In a temple In the south. The Colonel Balilb took a sapphire from an Idol’s eye. The guru, a very wise and ancient priest, demanded the return of It. Tho Colonel Hahtb. be ing a young man, refuged. The guru cursed him. That Is all.” "No, Ahmed; there must be more. Did not the guru curse my father’s children and their children’s chil dren?" "Ah, memsahib, what does the curse of a Hindu amount, to?" “Perhaps it Is stronger than we know," glancing down at her dress. Further discussion was Interrupted by one of the armed keepers, who came rushing up with the news that nrmed soldiers were approaching. Bruce swore frankly. This Umballa'* was supernaturally keen. What to do now? # "Quick!” cried Ahmed. "Get t|ye liowdahs off the elephants.” It was done. "Hobble them.’’ It waa Imme diately accomplished. "Injo the bun galow, all of you. Memsahib, follow me!” "What are you going to do?” asked llruce. “Hide her where none will dare look,” answered Ahmed. He seized Kathlyn by the hand and urged her to run. She had Implicit faith In this old friend, who had once dandled her on his knees. They dis appeared behind the bungalow and ran toward the animal cages. He stopped abruptly before one of the cages. "A leopard, but harmless. You'll know how to soothe him If he become* nervous. Enter." Kathlyn obeyed. This cage was not n movable one, and hud a cavity underneath. The heavy teak flooring was not nailed. The Boldlers arrived at the bunga low, boisterously threatening the ar rest of the entire ramp If Durga Ram’s slave wae not produced forthwith. "You are mistaken,” said Rruce. “There Is no sieve here. Search." "You stand In extreme danger, sa hib You have meddled with whet does not concern you," replied the cap tain, who had thrown his fortunes with Umballa, sensing that hern wae d* man who was bound to win and would bn liberal to those who stood by him during the struggle. "Hearch,” repeated Bruce. The captain and his men ran about, hut not without a certain system of thoroughness They examined the elephants, but were baffled there, ow ing to Ahmed'e foresight. They en tered the native quarters, looked un der the canvases Into the empty cages, from cellar to roof In the bunga low, when suddenly the captain missed Ahmed. "Where Is the Colonel Sahib’s man?" he asked, brusquely. "Possibly he Is going the rounds of the animal cages," said Bruce, out wardly calm, but shaking p'ithin. "And thou, Ramabal, beware!" "Of what, captain?” coolly. "Thou, too, hast meddled; and med dlers burn their fingers." “I am Innocent of any crime," said Ramabal. "I am watched, I know; but there Is still some Justice In Allaha." "Bully for you!” said Bnme In Eng lish The captain eyed him malevolently. "Hearch the animal cages," he or dered. _ _ (To Be Ojulinued Tomorrow.) USE HERALD WANT ADS. NINE