Henry C. Niles Jackson Missouri: Eastern District Elmer E. Adams St. Louis 1896 Western " John F. Phillips 1888 Montana

" Captain Phillips had heard promises of the kind before and accounted them at their true value.

"Within these walls, in one of these roofless rooms, you were born," said Phillips, "and that grave before which you prayed is the grave of a man named Luffe, who defended this fort in those days.

Captain Phillips pointed towards the clump of trees where he had tied it up.

"Will you fetch it?" said Shere Ali, and as Phillips walked off, he turned towards the nobles and the old mullah who stood amongst them.

Phillips heard his voice, as he began to speak, and was surprised by a masterful quiet ring in it.

Captain Phillips was roused out of his reflections as the cavalcade approached a village.

Captain Phillips asked.

Captain Phillips shook his head.

Else how came it that Captain Phillips rode amidst that great and frenzied throng, unhurt and almost unthreatened?

A high wall enclosed it, but it was a house, not a fortress; and Phillips had at his command but a few levies to defend it.

But it was Captain Phillips whom he saluted, and not the Prince of Chiltistan.

Shere Ali spoke with the same quiet note of confident authority which had surprised Captain Phillips before, to the seven nobles at his back.

Captain Phillips looked back as much in surprise as in relief.

"Upon my word," cried Phillips in a burst of admiration, "you have got your fellows well in hand.

Captain Phillips stared.

" It was the second time that Captain Phillips had been surprised within five minutes, and on this occasion the surprise came upon him with a shock.

How it had come aboutthat was all dark to Captain Phillips.

" There was yet a third surprise in store for Captain Phillips.

" The menace of Shere Ali's tone roused Captain Phillips.

Captain Phillips dismounted, and calling forward a reluctant groom, gave him his horse.

Phillips looked into the hall, but the dusk was gathering in the garden.

"Ah! would you!" cried Captain Phillips, turning sharply on the instant.

Captain Phillips looked round.

Two hours later Captain Phillips mounted on to the roof of his house and saw that the guards were no longer at their posts.