Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HIKE TODAY Sir Charles. Abingdon engages Pan! Harley, criminal investigator, to solve for him the mystery of constant surveillance of Sir Charles by persons unknown to him. While Harley is dining at the Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls from his chair in a dying 6tate. His last words are "Nicol Brinn" and ‘iFlreTongus.” Paul asks N'tcol Brinn to tell him the meaning of ‘Fire-Tongue.” but Brinn refuse# to enlighten him. Harley and Phil, daughter of Sir Charles, are made prisoners in the home of Ormus Khan Brinn rescues them and goes to tell the story of Fire-Tongue lo the poll e. He tells of his love for N'aida, a member of the Fire-Tongue cult. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “Respecting: the tests to which candidates were put. she spoke with more freedom. Those who, having reached •he second grade, aspired to the first, were submitted to three very severe ones, to make trial of their courage, nurity and humility. Failure in any of these trials resulted in instant death, and the final test, the trial by fire, which took place in a subterranean chamber of the great temple, “SHE EXACTED AX OATH THAT I WOULD NEVER DIVULGE WHAT I HAD SEEN OR HEARD.”

resulted in a candidate whose courage failed him being precipitated into that lake of flame which I have already described —a dreadful form of death, whioh by accident I had witnessed. “I have the reputation of being a cold, hard man. So had Antony before he met Cleopatra. But seven years ago, under the Indian moon, I learned tolerance for the human weakness which forgets the world for the smiles of a woman. “It had to end. Sooner or later, discovery was inevitable. One night I told Nalda that I must go. Over the scene that followed I will pass in silence. It needed all the strength of a fairly straight, hard life to help me keep to my decision. “She understood at last, and consented to release me. But there were obstacles—big ones. The snow on the loweA mountain slopes had begun to melt, y.nd the water-gate in the valley 111 Clean Child's Bowels with -California Rg Syiup"

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by which 1 had entered was now impassable. Asa result, I must use another gate, which opened into a mountain path, but which was always guarded. At first, on hearing this, I gave myself up for lost, but Naida had a plan. “Removing a bangle which she always wore, she showed me the secret mark of Fire-Tongue branded upon the creamy skiri. “‘I will put this mark upon your arm,’ she said. ‘ln no other way can you escape. I will teach you some of the passwords by which the brethren know one another, and if you are ever questioned you will say that you were admitted to the order by the Master of the Bombay Lodge, news of whose death has just reached up.’ “ ‘But,’ said I, 'how can I hope to pass for an Oriental?’ “ ‘lt does not matter,’ Naida replied. ‘There are some who are not Orientals among us!’ “She exacted an oath from me that I would never divulge anything wnich I had seen or heard in the City of Sire. She urged thkt I must leave Incha as quickly as possible. I had already learned that this remote society was closely in touch with the iffairs of the outside world. And, because I knew I was leaving my heart behind there in the Indian hills, I recognized that this dreadful parting must be final. “Therefore I scarcely heeded her when she assured me that, should I ever be in danger because of what bad happened, a message in the Times of India would reach her. I never intended to Insert such a message, gentlemen. I knew- that it would need all my strength to close this door which I had opened.”

CHAPTER XXXIV Nicol Brinn’s Story (Concluded) “The incidents of the next seven years do not concern you. gentlemen. I had one aim in life—to forget. From the time that I left India until the moment when fate literally threw me in the way of the late Sir Charles Abingdon, I had heard nothing of the cult of Fire-Tongue. ‘Then, lunchng wih the late Sir Charles after my accident in the Haymarket. he put to me a question which literally made me hold my breath. * ‘Do you know anything of the significance of the term Fire-Tongue?” he asked. “I am not accustomed to any dis play of feeling in public, and T replied in what I think was an ordinarytone: “ ‘ln what connection. Sir Charles?' “ ‘Well,’ said he, watching me odd ly, ‘I know you have traveled In India. and I wondered if you had ever come in contact with the legend which prevails there, that a second Zoroaster has arisen, to preach the doctrine of eternal fire.’ “ ‘I have heard it.’ I replied guardedly. “‘I thought it possible,’ continued Sir Charles, ‘and T am tempted to tell you of a curious experience which once befell me during the time that I was a guest of ray late friend. Colonel Banfield. in Delhi. My reputation as an osteologist was not at that time as fully established as it later became, but I already had some reputation in this branch of surgery; and one evening a very’ dignified Hindu gentleman sought an Interview with me, saying that a distinguished native noble, who was a guest of his. had met with a serious accident, and offering me a fee equivalent to nearly £SOO to perform an operation which he believed to be necessary. “’I assured him that my services were at his disposal, and blankly declined to accept so large a fee. He thereupon explained that the circumstances were peculiar. His friend belonged to a religious cult of extremely high order. He would lose caste if it became known that he had been attended by a Christian surgeon; therefore my visit must be a secret one.

“ ‘Accordingly I was driven in a car which was waiting to some house upon the outskirts of the city and conducted to a room where the patient had been carried. I saw hitn to be a singularly handsome young man, apparently about 23 years of age. But there was something effeminate about him which repelled me, I cannot say in what way; nor did I approve of the presence of many bowls of hyacinths In the room. “ ‘However, I performed the operation, which, although slight, demanded some skill, and with the nature of which I will not trouble you. Intense anxiety was manifested by the young man’s attendants, and one of these, a strikingly beautiful woman, insisted on remaining while the operation was performed. “ ‘She seemed more especially to concern herself with preserving in tact a lock of the young man’s jetblack hair, which was brushed in rather an odd manner across his ivory forehead. Naturally enough, thfs circumstance excited my curiosity and, distracting the women's attention for a moment —I asked her to bring me something from a table at the opposite side of the room—l lightly raised this wayward lock and immediately leplaced it again.

'• ‘Do you know- what it concealed, Mr. Brinn?’ “I assured him that I did not. “‘A mark, apparently natural, resembling a torch surmounted by a tongue of fire!" “Strange though it must appear, at this time I failed to account for Sir Charles confiding this thing to me. Later, I realized that he must have seen the mark on my arm, although he never referred to it. “I moved at once. I inserted in the Times the prearranged message, hardly daring to hope that it would come to the eye of Naida; but it did! She visited me. And I learned that not only Sir Charles Abingdon, but another, knew- of the mark which I bore! “I was summoned to appear before the Prophet of Fire! ‘'Gentlemen, what I saw- and how I succeeded in finding out the location of his abode are matters that can wait. The important things are these: First. I learned why Sir Charles Abingdon had been done to death! •he unwelcome attentions of the ma* known as Ormuz Khan led Sir

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tents led to my being summoned to the house of Fire-Tongue! It also ‘•purred the organization to renewed (ffortp, for it revealed that Sir Charles contemplated confiding the story to others. "You will have observed, gentlemen, that I am somewhat damaged. However, it was worth it! That the organization of the Fire-Worshipe's is destroyed I am not prepared to assert. But I made a discovery to day which untied my hands. Hear ing, I shall never know how, that ttnida had had a secret interview with me. Fire-Tongue visited upon her the death penalty. “I found her lying on a silken divan in the deserted house, her hands clasped over a little white flower, like an odontoglossum, which lay on her breast. It was the flower of sleep—and she was dead. “My seven years’ silence was ended. Cne thing I could do for the world: remove Fire-Tongue—and do it with my own hands! “Gentlemen, at the angle where the high road from Upper Claybury jcins the Dover Road is the Mert< n Cottage Hospital. Mr. Harley is awaiting us there. He is less dam aged than I am. A native chauffeur whose name I don’t know, is lying insensible in one of the beds—and in another is a dead man, unrecogniz able, except for a birthmark reseni bling a torch on his forehead, his head crushed and his neck broken. “That dead man is Fire-Tongue. T should like, Mr. Commissioner, to sign the statement.” THE END

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