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CHAPTER XVI.

HOW TIELETON YIELDED.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20TH, 1903

charpoy. At the sight he stifled a deep and muttered curse, as the Gularzai pounced greedily upon it. He had reason to curso deeper still as they ordered him to at once deliver up any arms

that should haud this Faringhi avar to their sosroely gutted blood lust and histo.

Hear me, O great Siralar,” cried a voice, pitched in loud, harsh tones. Hear me, I ena

The Lovy sowars who had aurrendered, to the number of about a dosen, were grouped on the putkirts of the freebooters. From one of these the vales proceeded.

"Let him come forward," said Murad Afzal,

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was a youngish man, tall and well built, with aquilino features and a short curling beard.

Who art thon" asid the chief shortly. Mabomed Afa, Waziri̟," answered the man. Woll, what dors thou know?"

"This O great Sirdar, Murad Afzul, This, this. That sa thou didst stay my father, Mahomed Jax, so now enter Jehanum by tho hand of his son."

and anmunition he might have in his possession. give the information then reqntrast, O award of 6 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Inwardly be groaned again, as he saw his beau the Prophet." tiful shot gun and Mannlicher rifle in the anger grip of the booked claws of these copper-bed brigands. Then he was ordered outside again. Murad Afrul had not dismounted from his fine camel, and from the altitude of his at-- for he had ridden into the centro of the camp- was directing operations. Several of his fol- lowers wore musieking the touts, trandling out their contents; and soon tranke and doapstol boxes, baga and tins of provisions, articles of clothing and kitchen utensils were piled to- gether in promissions haag. But what de- lighted the warrior soul of the fresboeter was the sight of four or five good, up-to-dato rilles and a brace of revolvers. The shotguns, too, he contemplated with satisfaction but the rifles Quick as thought, while ultering these words appealed to him most, and these ho caused to he had snatched a rifle from the loose, nnguarded be handed up to him que after the other as he grasp of the manu next to him, and without ent on his camol, and each he would bring to waiting to raise it to his shoulder, discharged his shoulder, eighting it at some object far or the piece well-night point blank at the chief, near, away over the plain. The weapons of But the ball bammed viciously past, just ruffling the Levy saware, who had of course been dis the edge of Murad Afrul'a volumicons turban armed, were good, but they were only Martinis. For the camel, whether acting auder the infa But these magazine and repeating gane, enes of the ingradicablo gassedness which is spick and span nad of first-rate workmanship-inherent in its ep eles, or irritated by the harsh Ya Mahomed, what a find

resiforation right at its ear, had suddenlyteached Now he boned Horlam to him. The For-round its bead with a cosehtful gront, making eat Offear, standing there under this arch bri

a vicious snap at the would-be slayer, with the gaod, looking down upon him from the height double effect of somewhat marring his aim and of his towering camel, felt that humiliation was moving its rider by just the few inches requisite indeed his lot to-day.

to the saving of his life. In a twinkling the.

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Bo, jungle wallab began Murad Afzul, speaking in Hindustani, and soreringly witbal So, jungle wallah, I told you I was not temas

man was seized,

tomed to sel the same question twice; yet this time. I will give you yet another chance, and ask it the third time. Where is Raynier ?

That I can't fall, for I don't know," auswered Haslam with porfect trath.

The chief bant over, and whispered instruc-avor and ever."

Ya, Allah!" he mouthed, struggling futi ously in the grasp of those who held him, Avago me of this robber-dog, this rolture bred cowan who only strikes those who are too weak to oppose bis numbers. Mahamed Prophet, strike him down into the bursing pit of Hawiyat, where his gnawing vitals shall consume for The declamat ry voice had rison to a wild sarcom. Murad Afzul, sosted on his camel, had not move throughout the whole scene. Now he spoke.

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{tions to some of his followers on the off-side of bis camel. These came round, and laying a hand on Haslam's shoulder ordered him to go with them. Resistance was absolutely useless, and Halem was marched away. They were Bo thou art the son of Mahomed Jan,

that taking him in the direction of the Levy sowars' Waziri thief and enemy of Allah?" he said, down upon bis would-be slayer. Allah camp, he noticed, of course to ereouts him there. His

time had come, he conduded. Rapidly

dly, is great, and His Prophet has rendered thes as as he walked to his doom, bie past life dashed uuskilful in the pse of weapons as others of thy through his recollection. He had bean a care. kind. Well, ye wain, father and son, hate less sort of chap, he supposed, like others, ut been parten long enough, so now thou shalt josta hotter he would bare shtank from the impats thing in Jehanum, yet not at once, for I think tion of making any other claim-but, he hoped I will show thee some foretaste of its fires here, no worse. He bad not troubled his head much about what lay beyond the grave, nor had be ever abruak from death when duty or dangerous sport had brought him within gazing distance of it. Perhaps if all that was fought of what came after it were true, or even a portion, why he was sorrendering his life rather than give in formation which should place the lives of others in danger, and it might be taken into considerabia off sect free, tion. But of meroz at the bands of you inth less freebooter he had no hope. At any rate he would meet a swift death-they would shoot or bohend him, und they might have done him, to Willing fest sprang to do his bidding, Will death by slow torture. He thought of bis wife ing hands seized the mouthing, cursing manine, and young family away in England. Would who by dint of a camel baiter was forced to they miss him wach, and more important still, satch forth his neck. Then the fash of a keen would the Government do anything for them talwar in the air, and the deluging, headless over and above the rather moderata peosION which they would draw from the fond to which was writhing and squirming right st

Tarleton's feet. he had subscribed throughout his term of service? It was not probable. Government was seldom liberal. Then bis thoughts, were broken'in upon. They had reached the tents of the Lory Boware, and into one of these he was ordered.

He signed those who held the frantic man thou something in the aspect of the lafter caused bim to change his intention. For he recognised that the Waziri's mind bad given way, in short that be haul become a frenzied music, and to harm him as such would bo clean contrary to all tribal tradition and sanction. Yet he had no intention of lofting will spare bim the fre," he said, for of that he will have plenty. So-shorton him by the head."

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and at the mercy of these ruthless barbarians? Haalam was dead and thus no one pood ever know, for no one was left to witness against him, and if ever thero was a case of every man for himself" this was surely it. So be replied:

"He has gone to visit Surbaland Klan.'

(To be continued)

Ova other hoard it too, and that one was Tar. letou. This mind it suggested bat ons solution-possible rescue to rit-acting upon which idea he did what a man of his ballhearted temperment would be expected to do, but which, bad his iden been correct, was the very worst possible thing he could have done. He came to the tent door, and looked eagerly and anxiously out.

Murad Afen still sat thers on his grest camel, his countenance as cold and impassive as | the graceful folds of his snowy turban, while upon his followers a strange bush had fallen. At sight of the Feringhi it was broken-broken by muttered curses and threats. But where was Busiam

The chief beckoned him forward, and he had to obey. Yes, obey. There was no mining the word. He was in the power-absolutely in the power of this man, this "nigger." as "be would have described hini about half an hour age. "You heard those shota," said the Gularzai haughtily from the loftiness of bis tall steed. "Yes? Look around: Where is the jungle wallah ?"

Tariston did look round-with some alacrity moreover, But no sign of Haslam rownedől his glance. He began to see the grim drift of the injunction.

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