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Thwaite was finishing a solitary dinner and atte to find interest in a novel when his butler caun-roo tired and cross, told hie about supplies The man returned in a little ord that he could not understand it Then Thwaite arose, blessing hiraph office proper was on the other side of the river, on the edge of the native town, but a telephone had been established to the garrison

Thwaite's first iantic hoax A scared native clerk was trying to tell hiy in his ination as a raether, but two facts seemed to stand out from the confusion One was that there was an unknown pass in the hills beyond Nazri through which danger was expected at any ht; the other was that treason was suspected throughout the whole north Then caave Thwaite acute uneasiness Finally cae's tords of advice--keep strict watch on the native town and hold Bardur in readiness for a siege; and wire the sahout Kashmir and the Punjab Above all, wire to the chief places on the new Indus Valley railway, for in case of success in Bardur, the railould be the first object of the invader

Thwaite put down the ear-tru He looked at his watch; it was just on nine o'clock The raenuineness of the e when he had heard at the end the nah the pass, and little the Khautainst hih it cost every life in the garrison Four hours' delay would arm the north to adequate resistance

He telephoned to the telegraph office to shut and lock the doors and admit no one till word calish servant, and the native officers of the garrison He had one detachment of Imperial Service troops officered by Punjabis, and a certain force of Kashmir Sepoys who made ineffective policemen, and as soldiers orse than useless And with them he had to defend the valley, and hold the native tohich ive trouble on his flank This was the anized the thing, then nothing could be unexpected, and treachery was sure to be thick around them