Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 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 asks Paul to dine with him at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying state. His last words are “Nicol Brinn" and "FireTonpue.” Paul asks Nicol Brinn to explain to him the meaning of "FireTongue." Brinn refuses to divulge his secret. Harlq> and Phil Abingdon, daughter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the hojie of Ormuz Khan, an Oriental. Nteol Brinn rescues them and goes to tell the story of Fire-Tongue to the police. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ur---] STRANGE greenish light prevailed here and directly before me I saw a tiight of stone steps leading upward through a tunnel in the rock. By the light of a pocket torch which I had provided myself, I began to ascend the steps. "I had ascended more than five hundred steps, and felt that a rest would shortly be necessary, when I ached a sort of cave, or interior j atform, from which seven corridors ranched out lifce the spokes of a wheel. “To thp damp coolness of the lower stairs art oppressive heat had now succeeded, and I became aware of a continuous roaring sound, which I found n: /self unable to explain. “Attached to a belt beneath my native dress I carried a Colt revolver; “ONE LONG-DRAWN, DYING SHRIEK REACHED MY EARS.” and therefore, leaving my rifle and bundle in a corner of the cavern, I selected one of these corridors more or less at random, and set out to explore. This corridor proved to slope very gently upward from the platform, and I could not fail to notice that at every step the heat grew greater and greater. It became possible to discern the walls of the corridor ahead because of a sort of eerie bluish light which had now become: visible. “At a point where the heat and a sulphurous smell were almost unendurable the corridor was blocked by massive iron bars beyond which the, leflection of some gigantic fire danced upon the walls of a vast cavern. “A hundred feet beneath me was a lake of fire! That is the only way I can describe it: a seething, bubbling lake of fire. And above, where the j roof of the cavern formed a natural' cone, was a square section formed of massive stone blocks, and quite obviously the handiwork of man. The bars were too hot to touch, and the heat was like that of a furnace, but while I stood, peering first upward and then downward, a thing happened which I almost hesitate to describe,

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for it sounds like an incident from a nightmare. “Heralded by a rumbling sound which was perceptible above the roar of the fire below, the center block in the roof slid open. “As if conjured up by magic, a monstrous column of blue flame arose, swept up scorchingly. and licked like the tongue of a hungry dragon upon the roof of the cavern. Instantly the trap was closed again; the tongue of fire dropped back into the lake from | which it had arisen on the draugha |o f air. “And right past me where I stood, i rigid with horror, looking through j those bars, fell a white-robed figure—t whether man or woman I could not I determine! Down, down into the fiery pit, a hundred feet below! “One long-drawn, dying shrieJc reached my ears. “Os my return to the place at which I had left my bundle and rifle I retain absolutely not one recollection. I was i aroused from a sort of stupor of horj ror by the sight of a faint light movj ing across the platform ahead of me, as I was about to emerge from the tunnel. “It was the light of a lantern, carried by a man who might have been the double of that yellow-robed mendicant who had first unconsciously led me to this accursed place. "As the light of the lantern was swallowed up In the passage, I found irv bundle and rifle and set out to fuflow the man. Pour paces brought me to the foot on! more steps. I walked barefooted, frequently pausing to listen There were many carvings upon the walls, but I had no leisure to examine them. “Contrary to my anticipations, however, there were no branches in this zigzag staircase, which communicated directly with the top of the lofty plateau. When presently I felt the fresh mountain air upon my face, I wondered why I could perceive no light ahead of me. Yet the reason was simple enough. “Since I had passed through that strange water-gate to the City of Fire, the day had ended! It was night. And when, finding no further steps ahead of me, I passed along a level, narrow corridor for some ten paces and, looking upward, saw the stars, I was astounded. “The yellow-robed man had disappeared. and I stood alone, looking down upon that secret city which I had come so far to see. “I found myself standing in deep undergrowth, and, perssing this gently aside, I saw a wonderful spectacle. Away to my left was a great white marble building, which I judged to be a temple: and forming a crescent before It was a miniature town, each j white-walled house surrounded by a j garden. It was Damascus reduced to j fairy dimensions, a spectacle quite un- | forgettable. "The fact which made the whole 1 think awesome and unreal was the presence, along the top of the temple (which, like that of Hatshepsu at Deir j el-Bahari, seemed to be hewn out of I the living rock, but was faced with j white marble) of seven giant flam- j beaux, each surmounted by a darting j tongue of blue flame. “I was afraid to move too far from the mouth of the tunnnel, but nevertheless, was anxious to obtain a good view of the little city at. my feet. Gin- j gerly, I moved forward, ever craning j out for a glimpse of the buildings more immediately below me. forgetful of the fact that T walked upon the brink of a precipice. "Suddenly my outstretched foot failed to touch ground. T clutched wildly at the bushes around me. Their roots were not firm in the shallow soil, and. enveloped like some pagan god in a mass of foliage, I toppled over the cliff and fell!” CHAPTER XXXIII Story of the City of Fire (Continued) "My awakening was as strange as anything which had befallen me, I lay upon a silken bed in a pavilion which was furnished with exquisite, is some what liarbaric, taste. "I was lying there, in a curious and apathetic state; when the cur tains draped in the doorway were pulled more widely aside and a woman came in. "Gentlemen, I will not endeavor to describe her. except to say that she was so darkly lovely that I doubted the evidence of my senses; tall anti lithe, with the grace of 3ome beautiful jungle creature. “When she saw that I was awake, she paused and lowered her head in confusion She wore a gossamer robe of sheeny golden silk, and standing there with the light of the dawn be hind her. she made a picture that I think would have driven a painter crazy. “This is not the time nor the place *for personal reminiscences. I am here for another purpose. One of those accidents which are really due to the hand of fate had precipitated me into the garden of the house of Naida, and she in her great compassion had tended me and Sheltered me, keeping my presence secret from those who would have dealt with me |in summary fashion, and, indeed, j who were actually on the look-out for my arrival. “Yes. so Naida informed me. To j my great surprise she spoke almost perfect English, and that sort of understanding sprang up between us immediately which, in the case of a man and a beautiful woman thrown together as we were, can only terminate in one way. “She was some sort of priestess of the temple which T had seen from the top of the cliff. What else she was I very shortly learned. “In accordance with one of the many strange customs of the City of Fire, her personal servants, or rather slaves, were blind mutes! "Naida, for such was her name, told me that the Brahmin, Vadi. who had acted as my guide, was one of the followers of the Prohpet of Fire, to whom had been given the duty of intercepting me. “In this way. gentlemen. 1 entered j upon a brief period of my life at once j more sweet and more bitter than any I had known. Next to that strange, invisible prophet whose name was Fire-Tongue, Naida held unquestioned sway in this secret oity. Her house

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