Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1933, Page 23

VaLIANT Dust by Percival Christopher Wres afivonm CHAPTER XXXXV. | The Trap Is Sprung. | BOUND. The turning of a key in the Jock. | ‘The door opened and the Great Kaid, Haroun Abd'allah Karim, stood in the doorway. He entered the room, and, like & fol- luqunhldow, the glint Negro, Ibra- him the Lion, stooping through the six- foot doorway, followed his master. Be- hind him came the Kald’s confidential | scribe. Softly the door closed behind him, and Le Sage suppressed a sigh of relief. Intent upon his victim, the Kald no- ticed not the absence of his trusted vizier, and, in the noise of his booming the faint, almcst inaudible a turning, well-oiled key, was speec! sound of lost. Seating himself on the throne, his bodyguard and secretary behind him, the Kaid smiled again. | “Aselamu, aleikum!” he boomed “How is you health? Well? That is well. We would have you get the full- est enjoyment from such life as may | remain to you by the Grace of Allah, | the Merciful, the Compassionate.” Le Sage bowed and seated himself. “I trust that Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate, will not only give the | Great Kaid many long years of health, | but to me at least an equal number in which I may know that he is—er— safe where no enemy can reach him, anff =T | Leaning back upon his throne, his great jeweled sword across his knees, | the Kaid gave vent to his humor in his | great roaring laugh for which he was not only famous, but feared. And scarcely had that leonine roar of @readful laughter begun before there ‘was another roar, a shout, a cry Cockney English. ‘My Gawd! It's ’im! It's 'im!” u‘ Sailor Harris sprang to his feet. “'E *ung my chum on the 'ooks!” And, leaping the settee as he shouted, Take on Your Vacation— AnExtra Pair of ’ | eard 'im laugh.” Sailor Harris, his fixed bayonet at the charge, rushed upon the Kaid. Even as Le Sage sprang to his feet, the madman lunged and drove the long, lean bayonet through the heart of the Kaid. ‘Take that, you bloody 'torturer, shouted the mad Harris, as he drew forth his bayonet and stabbed again. “Ready,” shouted Le Sage, striking Tbrahim the Lion on the side of the head with all his strength, as the lat- ter stooped to seize the Kaid's saber. As Ibrahim staggered and almost fell Otho leaped upon him, bringing him to the ground, while William Bossum, with | excess of zeal, gave the unfortunate scribe so heavy a right-hander on the | point of his jaw that he crashed to the ground and lay as one dead. In a moment Ibrahim the Lion slgllmd, relaxed, closed his eyes and lay still. “Well, my man,” said Le Sage, ing to the panting Sailor Harris solved a problem—with the ‘What were your orders’ | “I forgot muyself, sir,” panted Sailor | “'E laughed like that when ';‘ 'E'd | Harris. killed my chum an’ tortured me. have 'ad you on the 'ooks, sir.” “What were your orders”” “I see red, sir, I went mad when I| “We'll call it that, then; madness. 1 right, now?” “Yes, sir. Suddenly there was a swift, tre- endous swirl of struggling humanity.” Ibrahim the Lion had suddenly drawn up his legs, flexed his mighty | arms, shot out his feet, sent flying the | man whose bayonet was at his throat, | crashed together the heads of the men | who held his arms, and struggled free. Leaping like a man of india rubber to his feet, he snatched his master's sword and sprang at Le Sage. Ere the great shining blade could descend, and | cleave Le Sage’s skull, Otho struck. ‘With his bare fist he drove a tre- mendous well timed smashing blow be- tween the giant's eyes, driving him Al me staggering WoODWARD & LLOTHROP THE EVENING 8 g in, Otho crashed in & left and right, drove a tremendous right at the Negro’s mark, and with his left seized the wrist of his sword hand— and fell as his foot slipped on the mar- ble floor. Tbrahim the Lion wrenched free his sword hand, and whipped up the saber once more to try to decapitate & man. Otho flung up his arm to guard his head, and Sailor Harris again sprang. “You, too, you bloody beast,” he roared, as he lunged. Ibrahim, a lion to the last, fell un- conscious beside the master for whom he had lived, and from whom he had received nothing but—permission to live. “Thanks, Harris,” whispered Otho as he rose. Le Sage gave directions for the scribe, who still appeared to be uncon- scious, to be bound and gagged. “We'll come back here afterward,” | said he, and then struck four double knocks upon the door with the butt of the pistol he had taken from Riccoli. “All's well,” said Le Sage, as Maligni stood. in the doorway. But with the Senor Pedro Maligni obviously all was not well. ‘Trembling from head to foot, with tears streaming down his cheeks, with| shaking, clutching hands and broken * | voice, he implored Le Sage's instant help. “What's wrong, man? together.” urged Le Sage. Has Langeac . . . ? “My son, “Come quick] Something ter- rible has happened. Hassan al Miskeen Pull yourself “What is it? is trying to tell me something about | Jules and Raisul. One of them has killed the other, and I fear it is my son who is dead.” And so great was the grief and horror of Hassan el Miskeen that he, too, even dared to pluck at Le Sage’s sleeve. “Raisul, the Kaid’s son? 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A plot, a plan to show Raisul, the Rising Star, how the clever and faithful Mz: ligni had fooled and caught the French officer who pretended to be a German friend and ally? “Lead on in front of me, Maligni,” he said, and gave the Senor Pedro Maligni a gentle push—with the muzzie of his cocked revolver. “Yes, yes, come on,” cried Maligni and Le Sage decided that the man's state was genuine and that he was in the grip of a most powerful emotion— | sweating, weeping, trembling with hor- ror. fear and grief. Hassan el Miskeen at length brought | the party to a low horseshoe doorway, from which a stone stair wound up in the thickness of the wall and ended in| another low doorway which gave upon | a lofty battlement, bathed in brilliant moonlight. Rushing forward, Hassan el Miskeen ! dashed, pointing and gibbering, to where a rope, looped 'round an em- brasure upright, dangled down the wall. Craning through an embrasure, Peterman’s Discovery kills at mini- mum expense. 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Here's your chance. Down you go, man, and get him for me. | get him, alive or dead, .rs ...~ “Yes, sir, alive or dead,” and whipping | his bayonet from his rifle, Otho sheathed it, stood his rifle against the wall, and, gripping the rope tightly with hand: ;n‘d legs, slid down it to the balcony | elow. A sinister poison further complicates, | tomorrow, a twisted plot. All knowledge and all philosophy must | be based on experience. | JUNE 21, 0. C. R. R. PEACE PROGRAM REFUSED BY WELLES Cuban Secret Bociety Opposing Machado Drafts New Plan Fol- lowing Non-Acceptance. 1933. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, June 21.—American Ambas- sador Sumner Welles refused, Cuban newspapers said yesterday, to accept the conditions imposed by the secret soclety O. C. R. 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All this activity is in the face of advancing prices on woollens and cottons —There is an acute shortage of raw materials for making clothing. —Labor costs are increasing, and clothing makers are having to employ doub'e -’ —The factories are finghing it difficult to fill dealers’ orders. —Every day we are receiving cancellations of existing price lists. —Replacements are having to be made, in many instances, at higher price levels. —Many factories are now without materials to make up, because the original orders they placed were too meager—they did not anticipate the tremendous increase that has come to the clothing business. 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