Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY , Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul Harley, criminal investigator, to solve for him the mystery of constant surveillance of Sir Charles Sir Charles invites Harley to dine with him at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls to the floor in a dying condition. His last words are “Nicol Brinn” and "FireTongue." Paul asks Nicol Brinn to tell him the meaning of “Fire-Tongue.’’ Brinn refuses td divulge his secret. Harley and Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the home of Ormuz Khan, an Oriental. Nicol Brinn rescue them and goes to tell the story of Fire Tongue to the police. t NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY i<|_, | HIS was not primarily \ot I scale a peak of the Himala1. J vas. nor even to visit Khat.lane’ll, but to endeavor to obtain a linipse of the Temple of Fire! “We had camped for the night in the shadow of one of some giant tors. The bearers were seated around their .Ire at some little distance from us. and Vandi and I were consulting respecting our route in the morning, when I decided to take him into my confidence. Accordingly: “ ‘Vandi,' I said. * I know for a poslve fact that we are within ten miles ' the secret Temple of Fire.” “ ‘The sahib is wise.’ he replied. 'So is Vadi.’ said I. ‘Therefore he : :>.ows how happy a thousand pounds

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I DEALT WITH HIM AS HE HAD MEANT TO DEAL WITH ME.” of English money would make him. it is his in return for a sight of the Temple.' “ 'A man may die for nothing,’ he "turned, softly. 'Why should the >ahib pay a thousand pounds?' “ ‘Why should the sahib die?’ *&id I “ ’lt is forbidden for any to see •he Temple, even from a distance.’ “ ‘But if no one ever knows that I ! ave seen it?* “ ‘Fire-Tongue gknows everything,’ .e replied, and as he pronounced the name, he performed a curious salutation, touching his forefinger ■with the tip of his tongue, and then layng his hand upon his brow, upon his tips, and upon his breast, at the ame time bowing deeply. “This conversation took place, as I i.ave aiready mentioned, in the shadow of one of those strange stone hillocks which abounded here, and it was at

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this point that I received a warnnig which might have deterred many men, since it was inexplicable and strangely awesome. “My attention was drawn to the phenomenon by a sudden cassation of chatter amongst the bearers seated around their fire. I became • aware that an absolute stillness had fallen and in the eyes of the Brahmin who sat facing me I saw a look of exaltation, of wild fanaticism. “I jerked my head arottnd. looking hack ever my shoulder, and what I saw' I shall never forget, nor to this day have I been able to explain the means by which the illusion was produced t , “Moving - downward toward me through the jungle darkness, slowly, evenly, but at a height above the ground of what I judged to be about fifteen feet, was a sort of torch or flambeau, visible because it was faintly luminous: and surmounting it was a darting tongue of flame! “At the moment that I set my eyes upon this apparently supernatural spectacle the bearers. citing some word in Hindustani which I did not understand, rose and fled in a body.

“I may say here that I never saw | any of them again; although, conI sidering that they took nothing with fthem, how they regained the nearest i village is a mystery w’hich I have | never solved. “Gentlemen, I know the East as few of my fellow-citizens know it. T | know something of the powers which i are latent In some Orientals and ac tive in others. That my Brahmin 1 guide was a hypnotist and an illusionist. I have since thought. “For. even as file pattering foot steps of the bearers .grew faint in the distance, the fiery as if by magic, and a silken cord was about my throat! “As I began a desperate fight for life. I' realized that, whatever else Vadi might be. he was certainly an expert thug. The jungle, the rocks, seemed to swim around me as I crashed to the ground and felt the Hralimin’s knee in the small of my j back.” t

CHAPTER XXXI Story of the City of Fire (Continued) “How I managed to think of any defense against such an attack, and especially in the circumstances, is a matter I have often wondered about since. “You may observe that I have large hands. Their size and strength served me well on this occasion. At the mo ment that the rope tightened about my throat, I reached up and grasped the | Brahmin's left thumb. Desperation : gave me additional strength and I ; snapped it like a stick of candy. “Just in the nick'of time T felt the cord relax, and though the veins in | my head seemed to be bursting. I managed to get my fingers under that j damnable rope. "Clutching the rope with my left hand, I groaned and lay still. The Brahmin slightly shifted his position. ! which was what I wanted him to do. 1 The brief respite had been sufficient, j As he moved, I managed to draw my ! knees up. very slightly, for he was a ! big. heavy man. but sufficiently to enable me to throw him off and roll over. "Then, gentlemen. I dealt with him as he had meant to deal with me; only T used my bare hands and made a j job of it. “The fires burned lower and lower, j but I made no attempt to replenish them: and because I sat there .so ! silent, all kinds of jungle creatures crept furtively out of the shadows and watched me with their glittering eves. “So the night passed, and dawn found me still sitting there, the dead ■ man huddled on the ground not three paces from me. lam a man who as j , a rule thinks slowly, but when the j I light came my mind was fully made : up. I dressed myself in Vadi’s clothes and. being very tanned at this time, I think I made a fairly creditable native. “Faintly throughout the night, above the other sounds of the jungle. I had heard that of distant falling water. Now. an informant at Nag pur, in speaking toime of the secret temple, had used the words: “ ’Whoever*would see the fire must quit air and pass through water.’ “This mysterious formula he had firmly declined to translate into com prehensible English: but during my journey I had been considering it from every angle, and I had recently ccme to the conclusion that the en trance to this mysterious place was in some way concealed by water. "And now. gentlemen. I must relate a discovery which I had made in the act of removing cloth ii’g. Upon his right forearm was branded a mark resembling the apparition which I had witnessed in the r :ght, namely, a little torch, or flam beau, surmounted by a tongue of fire. ‘ The plateau upon which I stood vas one of a series of giant steps, i and on the west was a sheer descent |to a dense jungle, where banks of ; rotten vegetation, sun-dried upon the ! I top. lay heaped about th 4 tree stems, j "Dragging *the heavy body of Vadi | to the brink of this precipice, I top j pled it over, sw'aving dizzily as I j watched it crash down into the poison | ous undergrowth two hundred feet below. j “I made a rough cache, where T j stored the bulk of my provision!,• jano selecting only such articles as 1 thought necessary for my purpose. 1 set out again northward, guided by the sound of falling water. “At midday the heat grew so great that a halt became imperative. The path was still clearly discernible: and ib a iittle cave beside it, which jafforded grateful shelter from the Mereiless rays of the sun. I unfast ened my bundle and prepared to take a frugal lunch. “I wras so employed, gentlemen, when T heard the sound of approaching footsteps on the path behind me —the path which I had recently traversed. “Hastily concealing niy bundle, slipped into some dense undergrowth by /he entrance to the cave, and croumhed there, waiting and watching. I haS not wafted very long before a yellow-robed mendicanf passed by, car-

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