The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 13

AE Sn NNR, > nee STOR —— a mmc i The Evening World Dail. Magazine. Thursday. September 2. 1915 Dedidbtadhdidatniel By Maurice Ketten MrT Wan's COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING ey Seen] ~ [The Avengers DON'T Drink © To THe COUNTRY Wi The War Romance of an BREATHE Toe FRESH Ay American in Algie LoTs of WATER “THAT WATER 1 = WALK. Pick FLOWER ane (T'S FULL OF By EADON HILL = ‘EAT MUSHROOMS aw TY Pw Geer \ ‘You'Lt GFT we A : Y | ause Blanton wae what he was be man tired of her, if he tow delicate for the (rinie @! ve to endure, the girl's bi would 8 the desert would be terribly. bi ‘ = [tle Monn toate Max dared not think whet it mien | (\ \ . He bad felt that it would tear / y - loose uf baud wn t me hai sre ber #, un. /f , ber father, and all the world would be © ee mt Fanatic, te y ; . down on me jum at the time tim td. with bright once wee to anythin Mt for ite appianae If Bands fll his head with fumes of whiskey AN Mas @aeted was to be neer her! ‘ aN | me, schethor she lives When Handa, riding vehind her our be were needed could never ‘eae i nol. ashe 4 e , ” “4 aioe cheng wel beard justify himesif to € reLiale or to / . rane, auvacw, i be yt Fe any one olen im the world by tellin “~ \\ * - ther well enous (4 net know uth; but because it was the in O a - fer J hat he was drunk. but the men be ruta, in his en eyes perhaps he) | La ‘ staan , I may think f'@ knew what shed end, being suber by religion, to _ ty oro Jo,” Max flune back at the otter “ut inemaeives they rm Nanda you decide and ma Got aera oo Lakers, Menten, A yg HS Hert lark from, th aia a ——"| | Mademoiselle De re mt wm of © teak Siem "es, cuploring’ iy 'bnd wt Ea her toe (we Peed mese = =\ | THROW THEN AWAY I mean by keeping that woman in Toming fais im Tait t tsee tak MUSHROOMS MOTHER m LETS HAVE Tuer _/ | QUICK! ey ARE 1," Max said “if as his wife hem wntll after the ve deck avan, | believe Id kill you!” THAT FIELD ( Mr. Stanton will let a deserter join! Stanton stared. “Good Lord!” pe “erful hidden caste he sought, the came . though be ks f { c 4 ( © « od | f of look. peopled by rich Keyptians who had i pe yh wf bis caravan I will 6 | le soba Fo> DINNER \ PoIlsoNous _ _ exclaimed 14 change of mood. Joh aitied he deer nape ee ergs “4 | / iS a 5S Regihoy arreis' ‘ott secution after the Sint! nasty CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. ie sie ‘" < faluing toe friend, | Was aa king YOUr | Araba and negroes said tt must be ‘ . — saeares advice, and you turn on me li rue, after all, that the x (Continued Sanda’s Wedding. advies, ane F*. "Eee Us Se: ma and they had been mad to tres . | to bite the hand I you'd - themselves to him or to believe im the + George, Deserter HAT areuments the explorer me ie ihe ene mysterious alty lost beyond whe hid her face in her used none save himself and |. Max was sluggered, He mountains and shifting dunes, ; the priest fro m1 | ove. He could not re but shrouds for dead men. sega tl ati voile arte haaw, Ber toe a falee move, could met EY limes was, etther, Gebbensteiy aan oc Lota srenaghesoi ean une wt pile hore, Banda needed a friend and all to death, for the insane " 4 yo D ¢ ‘ he was the only one within reach. of it, or else he had some ‘aps he could not always help, but Making his own fortune by he could at least py near, Only these escort 49 slaves, Men began to uneapected contd ‘on fro! ‘tant wert whenever they came to an a@t- could have made him so lose grip upon tractive stopping place wi himself; and it must not happen Was food and water, They 4 again nese or fled in the night thetr “Tye just given you my advtes,” camels into the vastness of the eer my father hoped for! Sanda to Stanton according to the ore at Bel-Abbes he'd save you. But ites of the Church. In his eyes, as in far away in the dese ‘The girl the eyes of the girl, it was enough: fted her face and brushed away the for Wax she not, in the sight of ‘ars. “Soldier, if you don't go now, heavem, a wife? on't go at all! Don't offer yourself Stanton professed himself not only a t he other more quietly, their faces turi 7 p to punishment for what is not your &lad, but thankful, to have Max ae M ogee 1 more @ vo he Sa ee pw ee ault, but mine, the fault of your 4 reeruit for his expedition He Then dont We'll leave tt at would pass wr Fed nown 1 BI it erm agreed wit and ha ul ; that Toop, eunesen, ‘ , 4 win wl ica ithe (hie may "Guinstlo ta the ane Maihan We Cs ee) ask no better, Do you want to tery, charted by no man, @ tay with us Y . ‘umstances, to go | go or stay" where, it was said, the sun bad dried ather gave you, watching over me. back to Sidi-bel-Abbes. j 1 want to stay.” up all the springs of water, he said THROW THAT STAY in THE HOUSE “Ver #ill you do that? Will you, inate. “You'd be a fool, my bo: well, then, Tneed aman ke go the caravan dwin Y on I { going back straight to prison and emphatically, “to go and offer your. ‘ you, and | want you to stay, If you'll painfully it moved the ¢ jelling your life? Join us and help eelf a lamb for the sacrifice!” bs pe " SONNY ~ YOu'LL GET Imina Your gmt DURING es ently, ANd ven while ‘he ‘hated ‘him, 8 to find the'Lost Oasis.” It did not occur to him that Max Ou & MALARIA IF You Go ? Dity for, But aa to what his business W8% hurassed leader. ‘Sethe p 4, ° ‘The young man’s blood rushed to his wa there might be different opinio: gard ag the desert clebes'te offering himself on the altar of QuT THE COUNTRY IS tad. He could not speak, He could another temple of sacrifice, He Ee A and the MMM and bis disaffected followers; but ie lo d pas! tne aly look at her. ; thought the young man was “Jolly Fun oF SWAMPS s hs, tt ang dave passed ond Ine Anere were days when, instead of eye. “You say that already you've made Jucky" to escape from the mens he cikalt deserts and strange, hidden explorer fora brute, and cursed dureelf @ deserter,” she went on. had tumbled into and to get the a ikaNtaininnds, it: was hard to keep be- for saving the brute's life. There Then desert to us, | wanted you to chance of a glorious adventure with in the Legion, and you did join; 80 Richard Stanton, It had been @ blow ve called you ‘my soldier.’ Now | and even a humiliation to the ex- ant you not to go back to the Legion. plorer that all the Euroveans he bad would be a horrible injustice for d to accompany him had refused, pu to be punished as you would be. 1 either on the spot or after delibera. yuldn't be happy even with Richard, tion, He believed in himself and his Mnking of you in prison.” vision so completely ” * al ly and had snatched “The world is a prison, if it Comes 4 many successes out of the jaws of that!" laughed Max. disas that it was galling not to be “For some people. ‘ot for @ man balleved in We Senate i ag the igen cog Crowning venture of his life. if he & you! Besides, some of the cells couig find the Lost Oasis he would be | the world's prison are so much more the most famous man in the world, | rrible than other Come with us, or so he put it’ himself; id any: id by and by, if we live, we shail European with him would share the | ach Egypt. There you'll be free, as Fl0TY: It had been almost madden- i ing to combat vainly, for once in bis Touarege and TIDYY took again: Stanton @noel Valdez will be free outside Ale Cisem : : course, SUGn ened The whi an ‘that. “the 7 4a and France.” Seretiis ve creer enue lena; Gepers oC ter of regret or apology. He “No,” she sald. “Nothing, thank “You are good. Could 1 go to your nating creature since Cleopatra. A brixands. She made Max swear Wht. The whisper ran that the My colonels daughter asks me to “TROCK had said that if Eu- Was a deserter, and to excuse himself you. Nothing any one can do.” tent now?” gorgeous wom man on earth if they were attacked & id shoot Meman had brought bad luek to ¢ this?” Max muttered, half under popeah not aver a di no Eu for deserting would be un insult to | The voice Was not like the volce of “Of course 111 take you there, and “not if he were an emperor or king danger for the wontea. iit Would shoot expedition for so long as she was wita 8 breath, Rin Ik Big mea en Eee JOIN the Legion. Nobody except DeLisle Sanus, which Max had once com- fetch your luggage myself. But but would his head over her if her with hisown hand, That would Wit the caravan; whereas, if fortune were “Yes, beacause I am his daughter a in his “mad mission,” be would couiq possibly understand, and Max pared in bis mind to the ripple of & you're sure you won't go back to she tried to make him. No treachery be a bad solution And there to come, it would come th well us your friend, Do you think be forced to give it up. But he had 1 even the best way of “minding gava when Stanton shot or [ore hip ree tne Bee way oe way for Mouhaness ter an intmedem Sanda, That which was highest in ordered a forced him prayed for peace between her and Sanda had sent to Stanton, That which was lowest some wretch struck down Wished for war, And it was war, Not whom she was nursing. lent battle, loud, open wartarss Hye ‘one hope. lett le men loat faith tn Stanton amd pe Ais vision of the Lost “4 lin Bande’s heart for her own future tached themselves {6 they, | Was death in the desert. She had de- wife of their Chief, fanaticalty ‘termined to go on, end she would £0 Moon,” who seldom 6 to | (ermpat binding, blessed sune of nood band save to defend ry a : orient atrike her dead; she might take ber from his Mts of . | might strial fever. in the swampy. with her olden hale and ‘her skier i walt petre deserts through which the snow that the flerce sun could ‘not caravan must travel. There were also darken, was lke the shining scorpions and vipers. These thinks who walks at the right ‘of « eerhad heard of as among the minor good Mohami ‘ hand — aytila of, Btanton’s expedition, and wrong in Ahi eee fF ‘The: there wore many more formidable, of wag Rennie Ae ence a gteaped i y ” i! . 4 / ther had said that nearly white girl who nursed and artes Zee, felond: Yo yeu tnInK found w fierce satisfaction in die Gid,Rex men, to, offer epi e NE evant weuk, almost like the voles Bure™ nn en to Banda in tho plan. ‘The child didn't ers. Her eer prophesied anninilatfon ad’ ‘smile’ or @ kind werd for th) dbes under a cloud, with mim far @Pbointing them and in showing the Sgnda’s father could ever secretly of @ little, broken old woman. But, ‘ , 5 f you're fll you can't ride on with “Oh, well, anyhow, to make a | for Sunton and his men. humblest porter. vay, not able to speak for you? 1 Work that he, unaided, could carry pardon a deserter it must be of his praise to heaven, she Was young, so the garavan” story shor! rd iar aie tate Pye | "The life she had undertaken would — This whisper reached Ahmara’s ears iow as Well as if you'd told me th through a project which daunted all own accord, not because of what that Very young that she would live this — “I’shall be better to-morrow God those black rages of the petted have been impossible for Sanda with- through the wives of the camel drivers they tried you by court-martial at Who heard of tt, He had triumphed Qeserter had to way on his own be- down and some day almost forget. will help me, and you will help me, dancer men have made a fuss over, out Max. If he had not been there. © and at first she was anxious to it “an, you wouldn't defend yourseif as Over immense obstacles in tune halt, If she would jet him take her back too. I shall be al to go on for A and a#be disappeared. Lucky for self-appointed watchdoy Ahmara, from Stanton lest it should a Would if my father had ordered together his caravan, for Arabs and "Stanton rode all day at the head of to Sidi-bel-Abbes after all! This while. Maybe it may not be for long. Sanda! If Ahmara'd been with mo would certainly hw ted Stan- him and put into his head 1 to give up the march, inst Soudanese had been superstitiously «16 caravan, with Sanda, on her me- marriage by a priest without sanction People die in the desert. I've always I'd have had to see Mademoiselle tou's white bride, or might even have of leaving her at one of the far king you to gu on 4 private depressed by the fact that the MIghLY puri tooking down at him, “like the Of the law need not stand. She was thought it a beautiful death. When wend her way to Touggourt with you, attempted to kill her, Hut Abm: ¢ the caravan r him with your friend, B Stanton could persuade no man of piessed Damozel,” as he had said, NOt a wife yet, but a girl—oh! thank you promise to marry a person it’s But as it was, in all good faith, I let was afraid of Max St. orge. She suppltes. But the more she turned over \ did an gular thing and trouvle his own race to believe in the Lost perween her curtains. Max, onastrong God for that! It was not too for better or worse. And I've never myself go--one of my impulses that had cauxht a murderous glint in hit the thought in her unenlightened mint Bee rather then, ist tt rir be Bi ictaraserttnne eantoada tise: pony which Stanton had bought as an If only he could say these things to said I was not happy, Soldier! Only carry me along. I attribute most of eye more than once, and knew that f the more impossible It seemed to he: 8 ‘ . (4 cad line which that Stanton would give hi Bo- : Pony icty’ tor his own larse, Kept her. But it seemed that he must a little homesick and tired. Muccesn in life to impulses; in- sbe crossed @ certain dead ( oF UD waged from you which might pedivion possible at last; that and his qur'in'the rear, . PL land like a block of wood and ‘wait " "Come to my tent,” Max said, real- aplrations I call them, 1 honestly that look defined he would not Sen aldes, he was vary brave, even braver * o mic, “ a v \° n vain, “Come quietly now, , cat. laughed yea. Parish rane ihinee Ava desert dialects, his eloquence in the 4 save it to the priest who TArnied tioete he dkiee Tonys ties home Fi seen tonne eit ow, an woul reabe far cay hacanase eat Re asec it ane aver ihanaat einen wn he ast | se hy, raid nott Once l tad you Teese OF Choke who hesitated, ‘ination, and there were things in tt “Homesick?” Her voloc broke an, «fim nnowe 1.t0el Ill! she anewered. Hands to my tent an hour, ego, if IPE Antara Te mrL on ecard aie (ae ara ease even Weiaion “I told him, He will understand.” th y cht when Max was off guard, sho the professional charmer at you were one of those mei enthusiasm. by descriptions of what Which would make Colonel Delisle instead of being like an old, wore: : Es wasn't Ahmara waiting for night wen ey ne did not‘care.’ Bhs for the next few days, will she ink too little of themselves and he believed the Lost Oasis to be: a happy. Sanda believed there would it was like @ litle child's, “Yes, fold new usuth ae the one way out of herself whether to tall what crifice themselves for others. Lonly jand of milk and honey, with wives be tender romance for him, as for that's it, I'm homesick! And—and I CHAPTER XI. He stopped an instant, as if ex- : ‘0 while learned or ‘were wiser. itthen, know ic now. I'm 80 0d Of me Ao gh forall, even the ber. in the thought of the marriage think I'm not very well, I want my pecting Max to speak, Dut when only {he cage into whlch she had foollanty When Pgh ER uch better acquainted with you, MY humblest. ; near Touggourt, where his love had father, 1 want him so much!" The Only Friend. dull silence answered he hurried on. wich a prayer were not to her mind had made herself more Haier! You promised, if you'an- "Y0Se ith Sanda seamed to come to him from half across the The heart of the man who was not “She hadn't got the news of my SiCreiedous. Sie was too young to than ever, Ahmare put the , a is to , Banda into the form that seemed aly, Would you explain in a court, 14" Geserted him in a fury, because . Not a rap did the girl care for the | “Shall I take you back?” he punted. tent and found It empty he pleasant surprise by forgiving me, elle eM eae that something good. She reg ers natataes Artial that my" father took you oft had deserted him in a furs, becdls® yarduhips tn front of her. She laughed “We're not far past Touggourt, ‘To- went out quickly again and and coming out here secrotly, ahead Was, tiwaye Hope [Ml wii: passed in the caravan posiy | ity, and told you, whatever DAPPER” ing HeLisie's visit, he had been in a and thought 1 great adventure morrow it will be too late, but now— . Bhe disregarded pre- hers Because the lite of the .. black rage. Days had been lost in that she had no “trousseau,” but only ROW ——— utions which others took against was her life, She wished to nod in a let- itching for her, because she had the few clothes which were wearable | “Now it’s already too late. sunstroke, lf there came up a him like @ lighted candle set ot. disappeared, He’ had dreamed at after her long visit to Djazerta, And Soldier! to have yesterday again sandstorm, she stole away and faced it door of his tent, the fame her night. of choking the dancer's life if they were never to find the Lost | He did not ask what she mi sandstone rest sheltered, longing to be Which spirit, ered my questions, to answer the) granton a good omen. Since Abmara World. her father yearned toward the girl. W HEN Stanton returned to his maria) She wanted to give me a of the caravan, to hide in my tent. called for Bt. Geor Her arma were round my neck befors When Max heard Stan- 7 knew what was up—and the smell ton’s call he was not far from the tent of ‘ambre’ that's always in that long he had lent Sanda. She, and every- hair of hers—Lord, what hair!—was to look after me? ‘have already exp ft to the deputy commanding fer. Probably the — colonel each plained, too—more or less, as much P , t elves were to He did not need to ask. $ in my nose pik 5. blotted out of exist- ening his safety. ‘The men who necessary.” out and shooting the a who had Qait, oF. “ ey ramen amare ne “It can be yesterday for you," he ‘hing of hers which she could need “Unfortunately Sanda had been °Y Lad vagal 2 3 pt DONE ore Mit. the Chief for te Souan an ae $1 don’ eve father would have sole Nar Trove em her revenge hed same tintroudled heart. urged, for the night, was already there, but picking up Arabic; 80 she understood ficult to die, And then, there was al- he bad punished them hated ber Pught it necessary 10 way mi \ taken, In the end he had decided to As Max helped pitch camp at the No. Yesterday 1 was Sanda De she had not lighted the candle he had some things Ahmara blurted out be- ways Max. Unfailingly he was on the because she was true to him as the Be me. ee old fashioned iP iit put her from ‘hix mind, persuading stopping place he saw in the distance Lisi, To-day I'm Sanda Stanton given her, The little khuki-colored fore I could stop her he got on to spot to ward off danger or to save her biggd that bens in his beags, whe had no reason to dream himself that he was sick to death of the form of 4 woman, Standing as Nowing can change that”) | tent was an inconspicuous object in {hn fet that, there'd heen & rows from the etfects of what he called ber ., Those ap Ore, coanes ond Sas Fite could go wrond He Aube tne St or cores ite Rica's ie aS Hie pee Free ba Te Uh ee change it. You sev, it's only the sand of the same color, Making & hadn't been for a misunderstanding, iuctet™ the’ insane underneath al- great for them, now they Save ee ed that you would arrive 9A tim frauen er bee ew bid Horinon, ahe Was & noble and com CDUrch that = excuse of settling a dispute between Abmara would have started out with joved imprudences. hardship, mutter in secret against much did you explain in your gtd oo td Ras amused Stanton, {f manding figure, slender and tall ke ‘Only the ehur two camels which disturbed the p me in her place—practically in her ~ Max made coffee and tea for Sanda. Ahmara said. are r? t woul a 5 ye ow P tly . “Rorgive me, But the law would place. No need to tell you more @x- Ho tended the camel she rode in order 80me Who mean to band together and said I had been unavoidably de- the idea had pre-ented itself, to think & daughter of the palms. — “ cena Max had kept near the tent, cept that Sanda and I had a few that it might be strong and in good refuse to follow thee past the " din finishing my official er- of a love-sick young man pelple ly fhe woman'é gure vanlahes and he ““!1e doesn’t matter to me what the intended, unobtrusively, to play sen- words, after she'd refused to seo the health. When the caravan came into known oasis which is marked on watching him teach an uninstructed ent no mn z law would say. It's the thing that tinel all night situation in the right Nght. 1 was the cou of the Touarees h > Maps. They say that from what ay if you were you irl the art of becoming a — Later h and woman . nel all nig the eounta ¢ F aaregt Be ae 4 hat would you say if you ounk & a e wa man you don’t think matters that matters ” sure she'd appeal to you. I am glad pear her day by day, and at night lay have heard thou art indeed mad te t-martialled for losing Manoel woman. But the den aid net geomet come out of Stantoms tent, But the entivcly to me. And even if it were He answered the “Chief call on yoy thought of offering her your tent. 2S tiose to her beep tog Be 8 | Be cee think that @ caravan can live in wn a five day late youreeley on (a Minatle, ena in (rvinR Ch ANAK HOW "REAR reGiiged this with e shock. Ho SP otye. dt saitire, ANMMEDL GAOHIOd “nat cate as yon Kure whore my Juice Waenichir nad ‘carer lawty "co pines we uctond that Bteaton. $09 Water Oman tay eae iat rf .Gi doy 60 to » and col y se niel : 5 ved baa ae Pee eee te EPEr TA dite gatetgt eR Matran tac ca labree malirie. Sie CiitememnanL eee pomencw Il F eorge, do you know where my juice to-night, and come slowly to jim cynically when he performed un- Water. Once they believed in ¢! J vite ia?" her senses. She's too fond of me not Mi" ntntio 60 firmly adat bet eet ores answer in any way like Kanda to @ creaturé of tho ed in blue-black against the light, written to my. father, And that Wife is?” Stanton asked. te lde thas wasera eo ee MONIALOUN Or vIneN -for EATEE WES flog eouldst_ asso oh or te oneal ro fu arm'te my father, oF Abmara type. He ‘wished savagely Knaki-colored canvas. The woman priest from Touggourt will have told "She told me eho folt ill, and that “.When' you've. sent that woman outwardly the only two white men 0% doy sand they Weed hove Hien eee se crifice vourseif again that Ahmara might hear—when It Was was very tall, ag tall as Stanton, and the Ainaranthes,. Everyone knows, You wouldn't object to my lending ber away to-morrow"--Max began, But wemed glad of Max's companionship ‘hy word for truth. But the Phim’ ana tor mot too late=-of his marriage within ® on her head was something high, like 1; would he a dingrace to"—— my tent,” answered Max promptly nton cut him short ree eee oe ene cad’ necamects White Birl, Whe le toe geeue te bo wouldn't be a sacrifice.” a e pi c 4 crown set wit plumes, anton “No! Not to you.’ . na ” I shan't send her away to-mor- . wife od Do vou think you could save your- When the wedding ceremony was Jed her away, Walking quickly. They «| think it would. And to Richard I felt sure she'd go to you,” said 0), ¥ with him, asking his SAyise same: Wise, Peceuee, theo st Cae. 4 If from prison?” over the caravan started on at once. in went toward the low, black tents of y jaye taken him by storm Stanton, without the signs of anger 7°! Umea; O06 Once WHE The Sxthe ut I shouldn't car ‘What? You"-— was attacked by a Soudanese mad- Witched the men. They think she te ; sho ¢ Jer to reach, not too late, a certain the guardians of the oasis orced’ him. to. marry me. | Max expected. ‘Then still greater was “Sanda had the childish impudence Gened by. th 4Stanton’s bru: 4 Marabouta, a saint endowed 4 ;. small oasis on the route where Stanton rs ith aa most force 7 7 b E had the chitdian impudi dened by the sun an nton’s bru with oO eae etal vou ka Wished to. camp “Me ‘described tho sation of ‘being dazed after: a. stua- Feud ie aegis ett seaco’ tin in coe younger man’s aurprion when the to tell me to-night that noshing could tality, Max struck up the Black man’s magic power, and that her epirit. “ Seed °imerest in yourto ve eure Re,town there, he said, only afew tents ho remained without moving he could ine oyt onthe crowning expedition of arrassed laugi, but not Wi-natured. was partly my fault, for 1 lost my Nanda'y husband to the place where the known way at his heart he would wish it, than come back to Sidi-bel- and find you in the prison. not have told. Then Sanda came out jijw jife of the tent, “Who put She did not speak, but stood with head “What else did se tell you?” Stanton head far 4 minute Whee she Rooused such an idea into yo 4 me of tricking her into marrying me, uch an idea into your wanted to know. arrying me tribe to Ben Raana's, The men there “Why did Ido it?” he asked himself ends, if he will promise to lead them guarded an artesian well whose water afterward, Yet he knew some strange straight to Egypt, without wander- : ! vat you'd take nm by storm, 4 or words to that effect, “ ould c a Ing across the open ‘seek Maxiwas silent fora moment, think. ee eT A eiitand the eronn of iat) 600 her face, After the first eagerly ; mind, It is my head, and “J ae you've drawn your own con- thrown herself at_me~saken ine Un~ " Her man 1. creumstanc echoed Stanton, d Sanda watched his face in ' ‘spreading branch-» Questioning glance ne turned nis eyes jt's true trees with their 1 know it. moldier, tm ciuniv Fact is, ot, George, im in ‘ Stanton, at mis best, was vivvd suilfusiug bie aiseady viovdsnet wing light. It was haggard Was like a green temple set in the &Way. She did not wish him to look glad, oh, so glad, that you're here! a deuce of a scrape, and the only bit 4, pie rt Caught in the eader of men. Many @ Torlore op eyes as in an instant It reddens thi for a face so young, DUL THEE Midst of the desert. Altorether, Sian &t her oF break the silence. He held Will you help me of luck Js having © sensible chap of antund ut Throw ie up to her it Ne had led and brought to success of aa angry Bt. Bernard. “What in. the which stared ton remarked, it was an ideal spot D8 tongue, but he was afraid she "You know 1 w Max said, his am Me OAV IDE Hee eee edit said ‘things Bo filly thut a tiroUKh sheer self-confidence and be- you meant’ across desert, the for the beginning of a honeymoon. might hear the pounding of bis heart heart bursting he had needed ™Y OWn color, a friend of both sides, vadn't said things so silly that 4 : ould’ wee 1 lief in his star, But whether the fail- "Thou knowest without my telling, that had once ‘"Bhfore starting inte the unknown and his breath coming and going. {t payment for what he had d he gentleman and a soldier like you, to Saint Would have beon wild. The wir! ire of his mad marriage had disturbed my Chief, ‘Tho man whose idol her of the man's herole Max bought from the leader of his she did she Would guess uur ue know had it in full measure, She was glad talk it out with, You'd like to help, wife, Well, [shall hold Ahmara asa his faith in his own persistent luck, or is. Thero 4s but one man—the for self-sacrifi He is own camel-men some garments which sumething which, perhaps, she did he was with her! Wouldn't you, for the father's sake if threat over her head till she seas the Whether Ahimara’s influence made for Who watches over her by day and always gives,” she thought, Khadra had washed for her husband not mean to let him know. At last, — “Well, I've told you that I'm fll not the g or of he! , " o: { degeneration, in any case a blight Bight, and makes himself her slave.” dining within her said that Ai Hen Rauneedowar. Thay were to however, he could bear he strain it's my: head—it aohes horribly. i "tygun ‘ned’ Max, after a halra todo an i 1ook at T's the one thing ‘eomed to have fallen on the once "You're a fool Ahmara,” Stanton was not one of those, He be ready for his return to Touggourt, DO longer; besides, Stanton might hardly know what I'm doing or say- dth of hesitation. He was so ta pack Ahma: k to Touggourt Feat man’s mentality. It had been said roughly, “Don't you suppose I've born not to give, but to and were still as clean as the brack- come back. If there were anything ing.” taken back by Stanten's attitude that. #he'll_acreach like a hen with her head & boast of his that, though he drank got sense enough to see why you veut 1 how glad ev must ish water of the desert could make he could do for her, if she wanted “You shall have my tent,” Max a%- he feared the other man might be cut off freely when “resting on his laurels” in to put such ideas into my head? le was, to gi them. Dressed as an Arab, Max made him to take her away-—how his blood sured her quickly, “It's a good | drawing him out in some subtle way i won't be made a laughing stock Europe, he was strong enough to You're jealous of my wife. Bt. Ge as greatly surprised and a parcel of his uniform with {ts sang at the thought of it—there was tent, got for the French doctor Stan- detrimental to Sanda my men at the start before “swear off” at any moment. ,He had and she are nothing to each other uched by Hunda'x care for treaaured red stripes of x corporal: No more time to waste ton was telling us about, who de- [| was sure you would, Well! I'm I've shown them what sort of a a i himself to taking tea and for the men, hike as not they growl , ch a time. And he was al- pnd having add. ' ssed it for the post, His tone sounded flat and ineffect- cided at the last minute not to come." going to tell you the ts loader thes've got. Abmara comes Water only in blaging African heat; your hearing because they hope yo ildered by the strange paid the camel-driver to send it off wal In his own ears as he spoke. The "Oh, thank you @ thousand times, " “You're a inan of the world, I ex- from the south, If Sanda decides to aid since the serious illness that fol- repeat their nonsense to me and give at had come to his self for him from Touggourt to Sidi-bel; effort to keep it down to calmness But you?" pect, or you wouldn't have found behave hers@lf I'll drop the dancer at lowed his sunstroke he had been for- mea fright. That's all there ts in tt! He had felt a passionate Abbes. The unpardonable sin of @ made it almost absurd, as it would “| shall rig up something splendid. your way into the Legion Before | her own place n route, Meanwhile bidden to touch alcohol anywhere, in “L know that you are a lion to leave her with Stanton, deserting Legionnaire is to rob have been to mention the weatier in They've got more tents than they had any idea of marriage | thought of I'll hav: rguining over her any circumstances, For a time he had fearest nothing.” Abmare ause he himself loved and France of the uniform lent him for that tingling instant. He asked sim- know what to do with. Several men carrying along a~companion, only an with my wife and Ahmara can travel been frightened into obedience to doc: answered. | Bu but because her marriage his soldiering, But returning her ply: “Is there something—something fell out after Stanton had bought Arab dancing girl, but I'd with the other women, Several men tors’ orders; but adually be had that Sane only balf @ marriage, and property to Republic, Mex eont I can do?” ‘ bis supplies,” oath there hasn't been a maMfasci- with thelg wives have agreed to go drifted back into old habits; and after next day she jee dt