Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1924, Page 38

THE OWL 'S HOUSE A Thrilling Adventure Story By Crosbi Coprright. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) I Te waited Uil (he other had gone to sleep. and then ate his cake and meat He wa ravenous and didn’t want to share it Black day succeeded black night down in the hold, changing places im- Perceptibly. Onee every 21 hours the prisoners were taken on deck for a few minutes. In the morning and evening they were fed. Nothing els served to break the stifiing monotony It seemed to Ortho that he had been chained up in blank gloom for untold vears—gloam peopled with disem- badicd voices that became loquacious only in sicep. Couraze gagged their | waking hours, but when they slept| and no longer had control of them- | seives they talked. muttered. groaned | and cried aloud for lost places and | lost loves. At night that hoid was an | inferno, sa dark cavern filled with damned souls wailing. Two Biscay- ners did actually fight once. but they didi't fight for lonz: hadn't spirit| cnough. It was over a few crumbs | of bread that they fell out. The man | on Ortho's right. an old German sea- man, never uttered a word. (me morning. when they came around with food, he didn't put his hand out for his portion. and they found that he was dead—« fact the rats had dis- | cavered some hours beforc. The o Derson who was not .depressed Nr. Puddicombe. late of Brixham and Algiers. He had the advantage of knowing what he was called upon to face. combined with a strong strain of natural philosophy. England. viewed from Algiers, had seemed 4 green land of plenty. of per- cnnial becr and skittles. When he £ot home he found he had to work harder than cver he had done in Africa, and after nine years of sub- tropics the northern Winter had bit- ten him to the bone. Provided he did | not become a government slave! ¢which he thought unlikely. being too | old), he was not sure but that alll was for the hest. He was a good tailor and carpenter and generally useful about the house. a valuable posscssion. in shert. He would be well treated. He would try to get a Jatter through to his old master. he aid, and sec if an exchange could be worked. He had been quite happy in Sidi Okbar street. The notary had treated him more 3s a friend than a servant. They used to play “the king's game” (a form of chess) to- Gether of an eveninz. He thought Abd-el-Hamri. being a notary, a man ©f means. could casily effect the ex- change, and then, once comfortably settied down to slavery in Algiers, nothing on earth should tempt him 1o take any more silly chances with freedom. he assured Ortho. He also zave him a lot of advice concerning his future conduct “I've taken a fancy to you. my lad." he said onc evening, “an’ I'm givio' you advice others would pay ducats and golden pistoles to get, y'under- stan'2" Ortho was duly grateful “Arc you a professed Catholic, by any chance?” “No—Protestant.” “Well, if you was a Catholic p. fessed T would tell you to hold for a bit and see if the Redemptionist Fathers could help you. but if you be a Protestant nobody won't do nothin' for you. So you'd best turn rencgado and turn sharp—like I done. Sce what T mean?” “Renegado”” *Turn Moslem. Sing out night and mernin’ that there’s only one Allah and nobody like him. After that they =ot to treat you kinder. If you'm a Kafir—Christian, so to speak—they're doin’ this here Allah a favor by peltin’ stones at v It vou're a Moham- medan, vou're one of Allah's own, and they got to love you. See what I mean? Mind vou, there's drawbacks. You ain't supposcd to touch liquor. but that meedn’t lie on your mind God knows when the corsairs came home full to the hatches and business was brisk there was mighty few of us remegades in Algiers City went sober to bed, nderstan’> Then there's Ramadan. That means you got to close-reef your belt from sunrise to sunset for 30 mortal dayve. If they catch you as much as sucking a lemon they'Il beat your innards out. T don't say it can't be deme, but don't let ‘em See what T mean? Lea liguor and this £ot nothin' When vou get old and clever as me. youll find that religions is much like wear what the others is wearin' you can do what vou like. You take my advice, my son, and as soon as you land holla out that ther's only one Allah. and keep on hollaing. Understand'?" | | 1 et and |and bonnet e Garstin 1924, by Frederick A. Stokes Ce. Ortho understood and determined to do likewise. Essentially an oppor- tunist, he would have checrfully sub- scribed to devil worship had it been tashionable. One morning they were taken on deck and kept there till noon. Pud- dicombe said the officers were in the hold valuing the cargo. They were nearing the journey’s end. It was clear weather, full of sun- shine. Tacks of chubby cloud trajled acroes a sky of pale azure. The three ships were in close company, line ahead, the lame flagship leading, her lateens wing and wing. The ginger- bread work on her high stern was one glitter of gilt and her quarters were carved with stars and crescent moons interwoven with Arabic scrolls. The ship astern was no less fancifully embellished. Al three were decked out as for holiduy, flying long coach- whip pennants from trucks and latcen aks, and each had a big green ban- jack-staff on the poop. No land was in sight, but there were siges of it. A multitude of gulls swooped and cried among the rip- pling pennants. A bundle of cut bam- boos drifted by and a broken hasket. MacBride, a telescope under his arm, a fur cap cocked on the baeck of his head, strutted the poop. Pres- ently he came down the upper deck and walked along the line of prison- crs, inspecting them closely. He gave Ortho no sign of recognition, but later on sent for him. “Did Jerry Gish ever tell you the yarn of how him and me shaved that old Jew junk dealer in Derry and then got_him’ pressed.” “No, sir." MacBride related the story and Ortho laughed with great heartiness. “Good yarn, ain't it”" said the cap- tain Ortho vowed it was the best he had ever heard “Of course vou knowinz old Jerry wouldappreciate it—these others——:" The captain made the gesture of one whose pearls of reminiscence have been cast before swine Ortho took his courage in both hands and told a story of how Capt. Glish had got hold of a gypsy's bear. dressed it up in a skirt, cloak and let it loose in the Quakers' meeting house in Penzance. As a matter of fact., it was not the inimitable Jerry who had done it at all. but a party of young squires: however, it served Ortho's pose to credit the exploit to Capt. Gish. Capt. Gish, as Ortho remembered him. was a dull old gentleman with theories of his own on the lost tribes of Isracl which he was never tired of disclosing, but the Jerry Gish that MacBride remem- bered and delighted in was evidently a very different person—a spark, a blood. a devil of a fellow. Jeremfah must be maintained in the latter role at all costs. Ever since his visit to the cabin Ortho had been thinking of all boisterous jests he had ever heard and tailoring them to fit Jerry against such a chance as this. His repertoire was now extensive The captain laughed most beartily at the episode of “good old Jerry” and the bear. Ortho knew how to tell a story; he had caught the trick from Pyramus. Encouraged, he was on | the point of relating another when there came a long-drawn cry from aloft. The effect on the Arab crew was magical. “Moghreb!” they cried. “Moghreb!” and. dropping whatever they had in hand, raced for the main ratlines Capt. MacBride, however, was before them. He kicked one chocolate mari- ner in the stomach. planted his fist in the face of another, whacked yet another over the knuckles with his telescope, hoisted himself to the fife rail. and from that eminence dis- tributed scalding admonition to all and sundry. That done, he went hand- over fist in a dignified manner up to the topgallant yard. The prisoners werc sent below, but to the tweendecks this time instcad of the hold Land was in_sight. the Brixham man informed Ortho. They had hit the mark off very neatly, at a town called Mehdia a few miles above Sallee, or =0 he understood. If they could catch the tide they should be in by evening. The admiral was lac- ing bonnets on. 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