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Am Car & Fou'y am C & F pf... Am Cotton O11. Am Drug Synd ‘Am Hide & Leath Am Hide & L pi ‘Am Linaeed Oil pt Am Locomotive Allied Chem .. Am Bafety Razor Am Bhip & Com.. Am Smelt & itef ‘Am Smelt & T pt Am Stee! Fay Am Sugar .... Am Sugar pf. Am Sumatra Tob Tel & Tel .. Tobacco . Tob pt new.. Tob ots B.... SSSSS TEES Austin Nichols .. Am Wool Anaconda ....... Assets Realization Bales © pf Atlantic Fruit Baldwin Loco . 187% 136% | 102% 3% 122\ + 148% 101% 130 14 12% 97 12% 30% Low. Net om 1% 102% a4 122 m1 101% 107% 187% 18 1a cr) a 20 102% 1224 4 12% 96 20 + uh + + May + 2% 188% + 1% + + —1 1% + w/P8S ee. low, Last. 19% 71 18% 18% 119% 119% = High 21% 18% 120 Max M tet pf B Meintyre Mines. Ww] May Dept Midvale Steel 1%] Minn & Bt Louts “| Mo Kan & Tex.. | Mo Pacific %] Mo Pac pf.. Mont Ward ..... Montana Power . M]Min8 P48 8M % | National Acme .. SM] Nat ROR Mex 24 SD Nat Biscutt NY Central KEN ¥ Dock Fee sorters a] Northern Pacitic. ly Co. 1+ leteey 441 Nunn Oklahoma P & Orpheum Cireutt o ° ous Owens Bottling Ohio B&B... Poatum Cereal Deve Corp . itl Gas 4 % i+i+i 41 » % 20% 25% 2K + Th 1% 03% + 1% 1% 1 108% 106% 100% + 33% 83K 3K — 18% 43% 5a% 1% 118% Baldwin Loco pf. 112% 112% 112% + | Punta Aleg Bu 4H + % 4% 18% 4% 52% 1% 184 an 52h NT TK 47% 34%) — 1% % | Ray Copper 78% 7 + —2 4) Pitts &@ Weet Va + + 27% DH WOK + 23% 106% 42% TY 21% 22 105 137% ™M% Butte & Superior 30% 30 Butterick Co 118% 170% Ht be) Hin ue z f E i i 18% 7% 22% 0% 20% 28% a 13% 87 22M Wh 19% = 20 28% 8h 21% + %| Remington Type 100% + 1% | Replogie Stee! %| Rep Iron & Stool % | Tobacco Products +2 People's Gas 4 | Pere Marquette * | phita Company... 4S) ritips Pet ..... Pierce Arrow .... 6 | Pierce Arrow pt. Pittsburgh Coal . 4% Pitta & W Va pf. Pond Creek Coal 21\% Pressed Steel Car 80 Pullman Company 124 40% 40 Mm 83% my 8D 30% 87% +s 11% 101% 7% 6 16% Ta 48% 35% Pure O11 : Pub 8ér of N J.. Prod & Refiner bes Ps Ps Public utility shares were in process|stitute for Negroes, and residences and Transcon Oll . 4 | United Alloy . + % [United Drug . 4% | United Fruit . 60% — %] United Food Prod. 172 1 am ma + HEU - +2 Un Ry Inv Co. 4] Un Ri Inv Co pf. ‘Un Retail Stores, U B Ind Alcohol, U 6 Realty & Imp Bae — %| U 8 Rubber ist pr U 8 Smelters or 18% — “I Much greater attention was paid to “a + 2% 4 claimed fo 21% + M|rhe best indication of financial in- w+ % 1% 1 4] worth Pump .... 32% 52% 52% + 4] Worth Pump pf B 77% 17% TT — %) ops. dividend, Total sales, 1,172,600 shares. » 99.56 90.74 100.58 Sterling, demand, 4.44 3- 4.443-4, up 5-8. French francs, de- mand, .0917; cables, 9171-2, un- “Mi changed. Lire, demand, .0536 1- %) cables, .0587, up .00011-2. Belgian cables, Greek drach- Swiss franc, cables, 1933, off .0001, Guilders, demand, .3833; cables, .38: 0003. Pesetas, cables, .2580, Norway kronen, demand, Den- UP | Lutkehaus apartment 4 | While these stock: 32% + ‘klwhile the weekly condition of the THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 5, MRS. BAKER DENIES SHE WENT TO PARIS TO GET DIVORCE Retorts “Paris Is Getting to Be as tion as Reno.” Among the passengers of the Hol- While there appeared to be consid-|land-American liner Rotterdam ar- erable fresh buying in to-day’s|riving at Hoboken to-day was Mrs stocks market, it waas not sufficient | Ray T. Baker, daughter of Col. Isaac to offset the profit taking which de-|E. Emerson of Baltimore, She was veloped, and after swaying back and | greeted with the news that her friends forth in an Indeterminate manner|in this country had been informed during the greater part of the sea-|@he had undertaken to secure a di- sion prices turned heavy in late} Vorce from Mr. Baker, who was dealings. Net losses at the close | director of the Mint under President ranged from substantial fractions to} Wilson and who married her June 15 ‘more than 2 pointe, 1918, three years after the death her second husband, Alfred G. Van- ‘There were conspicuous exceptions to] deryit, in the sinking of the Lusi- the general trend. During most of Lai y a Map dave oe al the day the railroad shares were is not true, she said. “I went strong, with largest proportionate | \°,,;'arle in January for my children advances being shown by the low | to be an gosnipy & destination as Reno, ‘ ? I do not wonder the French are of- Hee Cavan pe percha ee fended b ythe assumption that Ameri- tose to the high tmark for the year} Can® only visit them for divorces." | mat and pedantic congratulations with stg Ln Pere "Marquette “maa| Mrs. Baker had her three children| Which the lawyer had concluded his Southern Pacific w Snd|with her—Alfred Gynne and George] yusiness statement. She was not louthern Pacific were also Com-i vanderbilt, nine and seven years old,| aware that she was an object of con: spicuously strong. and Gloria Baker, two years old. She} gratulation. {tall _ seemed mH said she was taking them to her coun-| stupid and uninteresting. Of real life Wall St. Gossip By R. R. Batson. CHAPTER II, (Continued.) HE long list of figures that had veen so boring during the tedious hours that she had spent with the lawyer, grudg- ing every second of the glorious September morning that she had to waste in the library when she was longing to be out of doors, had con- veyed nothing to her beyond the fact that in future when she wanted any- thing she would be put to the trouble of writing out am absurd piece of paper herself, instead of leaving the matter in Aubrey's hands, as she had done hitherto. She had hardly understood and had been much embarrassed by the for- A few days ago a short interest was ballt- up in raile on. the Sepett ELL ue te, Lh oe she knew nothing and of the ordinary Mr. Baker {s in California, where|tics and attachments of family lif the Interstate Commerce Commis- ‘i jes welsh? septs doe pad he has extensive mining interests.| jess than nothi Aubrey’s cold, sion will soon announce a reduction| Mrs, Baker was miet by her fath ma oe ; ih fralght eaten, | BOVINE teaky, dead Lek wot er] loveless training had debarred her based on mor edefinite information ? FE ate Lave. ait eae eeat as to the nature of the 4 i . waco ng maar of the impending 4g DEAD, 40 INSURED _ |‘: trom even ine inoue of ‘e passion she shrank instinctively wit what their effect 1s likely to be. IN TEXAS “TWISTER” | the same fastidiousness as she id . from actual physical uncleanliness. It is now understood that rates on * . it base comimedities, atch as cou) | Deal, Dumb and Blind Instis| operetta es: weateene horeur ta steel, coke, sand ,etc,, and quite iikely grain, will be materially re-| tute for Negroes Wrecked | ftit"\ta'pecome more intolerable with duced, but that there will be no by Tornado. repetition, She had hated them and horizontal reductio nin all classes of herself impartially, and she had rates such as has been’ AUSTIN, Tex., May 6.—The tornado} scorned them flercely. She had never feared) which late yesterday struck the west side] een so gentle and so human with in re-| of Austin and swept down to Oak Hill rates on basic commodities will act | Sy, Peoeen’ of the deaths necitrel gi | Was 80 radiantly happy that night that as a stimulant to business; that the] Oak Hill and Manchaca, eight miles} ot even the distasteful reminder that earning power of railroads will be south. she was @ woman whom a man cov- helped rather than hurt, and that] About forty persons are known tojeted was able to.disturb her happi- the way will be paved for a ma-| have been injured in various localities. |ness. But here there was no need terial reduction in wages by the ° 0 the! to dwell on annoyances or distasteful plant of the Woodward Manufacturing Labor Board at a very early date. |Gompany at Penn Wield, and to fd. |'eminders. oF wards College, the deaf and dumb in-| | Diana dug abies jee tre et grot w! le wriggle of con- of accumulation throughout the ses-|buildings in the south and southwest|tent; here she would be free from sion and maintained a strot tone |parts of Austin. The central portion] anything that could mar her perfect ng while the rest of the market was|of Austin was unharmed. enjoyment of,life as it appeared to Accompanied by a downpour of rain] her. Here there was nothing to and hail two funnel-shaped clouds| spoil her pleasure. Her head had preme Court handed down its de-| struck the capital clty shortly before} drooped during her thoughts, and for claion in Which'It wan hela th dark. Seven of the eight large build-| the last few minutes her eyes had was held that the New York 80-cent gas law was|ings at Penn Field were demolished] been fixed on the dusty tips of her confiscatory, public securities not]@nd the eighth seriously damaged. |riding-boots. But she raised them only of New York but of practically] Students at St. Edward's College||ow and looked up with a great con- ail other cities have been in strone| Were rushed into the concrete base-| tent in them. It was the happiest day investment demand, Tocday many|ment by priests, Five were injured| of her life. She had forgotten the of these recorded new highs for|@nd college buildings were badly dam-| quarrel with Aubrey. She had put the year. Consolidated Gas touched} aged. The gymnasium was demol-| from her the chaln of \deas tRgested 1201-2 for a gain of more than 3] ished. ig TeeSraal te Leinte sata oeunbne Ges and'Ta| North of the city, one of the two[Pothing discordant to disturb tite clede Gas also touched new. high twisters dipped into the State School] Perfect harmony of her mind. for Colored Deaf, Dumb und Bilind.|, A shade benide her made her turn speculation continued in| TWo were injured and several build-| °°" i hes Brooklyn Rapld ‘Transit, induced by| ings damaged. Hundreds watched the eee ys TE Eas ee the highly favorable comparative] twisters from the State Capitol Build- showing the company is making|ing. Both were in motion at the same], Diana looked bid 1h WU priae and then back over her shoulder at the in current earnings, It touched a] time, about six miles apart. Debris} ooo The men had alread new high at 271-4. Last January|could” be seen lifted and hurled : i: pew Binh Neecugh the ale mounted. The smile faded from her t sold at 6. ne t eyes. Mustafa Ali was guide, but ar she was head of this expedition; if PIMLICO ENTRIES. her guide had not realized this he would have to do so now. She persistent demand steel stocks were PIMULICO RACE TRACK, Md, glanced at the watch on her wrist. pressed for sale by the professional]May 5.—Following are the entries for “There is plenty of time,” she said element evry tim they showed a dis-|t0-morrow's ray position to rally. Motor shares like-| .,KiRST RACE—The Hikrid sa iTroma, er, 188: ind a few miscel- laneous industrial specialists were in Club st " coolly. wo rn wise encountered considerable profit] Foyle, 139; {Lough eee, 139, ‘ : Gren nterbury Mustafa Ali salaamed again. ‘Tt Is taking. Rubber and tire shares| ti; tRerklomen, med for a long ride to reach the oasis where g we must camp to-night,” he insisted moved in sympathy with the motor|F na peg aint e stocks, Oils failed to display {Ten pounds claimed for rider. strong tone at any time. COND RACE—Three-year-olds and up- urriedly. Diana crossed one brown boot over ward claiming: one Fae ane a Sixteenth the other, and sovenine up some sand a Soreeeery ir}in the palm of her hand trickled it Mittartha Tucker tol;| through her fingers slowly. ‘Then we can ride faster," she replied quiet- ly. looking at the shining particles glistening in the sun, Mustafa All made a movement of Federal Reserve Bank issued late qa ne? ei eae yeaterluy showed a drop in the re-| 14; Beaverkill. 108. serve ratio of the system as a whole] yesritic: ca miles Claim from 78.8 to 16.7 per cent., and a[ Me, 10; *Grace Foster, 95; ‘Plucky, drop in the ratio of the New York tanec Dick Deadeye, 101 impatience and persisted doggedly, institution from 86.5 to 81.9 per ‘The Pimlico Home Bred cent., the market paid not the for two-year-olds; four, furlon Gute Heer moiselle would do well to Alightest heed to these reductions, JOvn, 115; Bolder 24, 115; trolly, y Soldier 24, 115; tJolly, 115; St.| Diana looked up swiftly with ang-y findlan: “112; Giay Bard, | oyeg, Under the man’s suave manner and simple words a peremptory ton» had crept into his voice. She sat quite still, her fingers' raking the warm sand, and under her haughty nds} stare the guide's eyes wavered and turned away. “We will start when I choose, Mustafa Ali,” she said By|brusquely. “You may give orders to your men, but you will take your or ders from me. I will tell you when the more liberal supply of call funds | ¢Thot mae Clyde entry. in the market, and shading in| FIFTH baad ages a locker, Club Handi- quotations for bankers’ acceptances, i Me ‘The rate for call money got down] tAlice to 81-2 per cent. in the last hour. J Sy" i 8i + 122; Carmand: Three tMinute Man, ling B.. entry. Spring Handi- ard; one mile terpretation, of developments at the | and Genoa Conference was found in the Knot, foreign exchange markets. Demand yor; sterling cose to 4.4438-4, a new high Pad ; *Biater Flo, 78. Louls-C.’ H. lowanct F lou of five panel and proceed with the trial. Henry C. Garey was under examination. After Me, Extermin- an Gone, Romeo. $a KIS CHUM WHO REFUSED To DIES AT LAKOTA, N. D. MELP WITH WORK, rs i taeet UB tag Tam ready. You may go.” for the current upward movement, Jenty. ne Mook Still he hesitated, swaying: irreso- and a gain of nearly a cent over SEVENTH Back ioe four-year-olds and} tutely backward and forward on his the close of yesterday. Hiean ‘cones tis. “eaten Pity, | °°? a oe tent, Birmday, 13: ] Diana snapped Legume over her :0U) FTS CHAR ; Wgweet | shoulder, a trick she had learned from va Re Si 4 GES wintrey a French officer in Biskra. “I said AGAINST SMALL JURORS pounds | #0!" she repeated sharply. She took ao 5 ee track heavy. no notice of hie going and did nut WAUKEGAN, Ill, May 5.—Charges a look back to see what orders he gave that two jurors already accepted in the the men. She glanced at her watch trial of Gov. Len Small, on charges of PIMLICO SELECTIONS, again. Perhaps it was growing late, steal perhaps the camp was a longer ridc passant State fonds, had} PIMIAGO, Ma. May 5—The BvealnSi fon ane hed thought: but Mustafa expresed opinions, were investigated by | World selections for to-morrow’s races} 41 must learn his leason if they rode thé court In private conferences to-day. |are as follows: Pe ee ant tp senantia eaee a FIRST RACE—Gold Foil, Perkimon, b Ene Trouble with the jurors developed just | oats: pushed her obstinate chin out farther SECOND RACE—Balustrade, Pha-] and then smiled again suddenly, She larias, Beaverkil. hoped that the night would fall be- THIRD RACK—Excuse Dick] fore they reached their destination. Dead are yy a -: eas There had been pore Svfa propliens FOU! t. Valentine, i tenies out from ra, and changed his mind and in answer to entry, Morrie entry. gp espa Pyeng he gpl | FTH E—Carman en- State then charged that one of|try, Alice C. ale, Roas one to Diana head. | This riding the Jurors already sworn in had ex-| SIXTH RACE—Boniface, Into. the unknown ‘Gwey from the pressed an opinion to a neighbor and|ator, Bungabuck. noisy, chattering crowd who had the defense countered with the claim] SHVENTH RACE— spoiled the perfect stillness of the night would be infinitely more per- fect. She gave a little sigh of regret an she thought of it, It was not really practical. Though she would walt nearly another hour to allow the fact of her authority to sink into Mustafa CINCINNATI, ©. May t—Ricara| AKOTA, N. D» May G.—Aale 3-1 Tora? ag univ atthe camp be: Abraham, four years old, son of George| FONDS former United States SeP-}'. garknens set in. The men were ¥, Abraham of the Cincinnatt Ice & Colg|*#F from North Dakota, died at HIS] unused to her ways and she to theirs Storage Company, was shot and killed| home here last night. He was sixtY-|she would not have Stephen's help late to-day, The police are look:ng for] four years old. to-night; she would have to depend Robert Lutkebaus, aged ten, who lives| Mt: Gronna recently returned from | on herself to order everything as she near the Abraham residence. Rochester, Minn., where he under-| wished it, and it was easier done in ‘The mother of the dead child sata] “emt 82 Operation Gaylight. One hour more would not German © ey asen 7,702.~ make mach disterence. The horses witnessed the shooting, told her 000,000 Marks In One Week: had more in them than been Droter was shot becuse he refused to| BERLIN, May 5.—The currency in- [taken out of them this morning: they help the Lutkehaus boy clean up the} crease during the last week in April, @& could be pused along a bit faster with after the latter's} shown by the figures lable to-day, rm happening to them. She parents had left the house, ‘was 7,792,000,000 marks, 4 her watch from time to time with SAP. ABOUT STORY IN TALL: MAYNARD U CO, PUBLISHIE & Pema SSO: CHARACTERS IN THE STORY. DIANA MAYO, nineteen, beautiful, aristocratic English girl, deter- mines to make an expedition into the Arabian desert from Biskra. Her brother, ANTHONY MAYO, by whom she has been brought up, virtually as a boy, tries to dissuade her. So does JIM ARBUTHNOT, who loves Diana and wants to marry her. Ata ball given to celebrate her departure she tells him she has none of the feelings of a woman, has never been kissed and can obey no man. Her expedition into the desert is led by MUSTAFA ALI, an Arab with a fine outfit of well-bred horses. “IT 18 THE PLACE OF ALLAH @ grin of amusement, but suppressed the temptation to look to see how Mustafa Ali was taking it, for her ac- tion might be seen and misconstrued. strued. When the time she had set herself was up she rose and walked slowly towards the group of Arabs, The guide’s face was sullen, but she took no notice, and, when they started, motioned him fo her side again with a reference to Biskra that provoked a flow of words. It was the last place she wanted to hear of, but it was one ‘ot which he spoke the readiest, and she knew it was not wise to allow him to remain silent and silk. His ill- temper ould evaporate with the sound of his own voice. She rode for- ward steadily, silent herself, busy with her own thoughts, heedless of the voice beside her, and unconscious of the fact when it became silent. She had been quite right about the capabilities of the horses, They re- sponded without any apparent effort to the further demand made of them. ‘The one in particular that Diana was riding moved in a swift, easy gallop that was the perfection of motion. They had been riding for some hours when they came to the first oasis that had been sighted since leav- ing the one where the midday halt was made, Diana pulled up her horse to look at it, for it was unusually beautiful in the luxuriousness and ar- rangement of its group of palms and leafy bushes. Some pigeons were coo- Ing softly, hidden from sight among; the trees, with a plaintive melancholy that somehow seemed in keeping with the deserted spot. Beside the well, forming a triangle, stood what had been three particularly fine palm trees, but the tops had been broken off about twenty feet up from the ground, and the mutilated trunks reared themselves bare and desolate looking. Diana took off her heavy helmet and tossed it to the man be- hind her, and sat looking at the oasi while the faint breeze that had sprupg up stirred her thick, short hair, and cooled her hot head, The sad notes of the pigeons and the broken palms that with thelr unusualness vaguely suggested a tragedy, lent an air of mystery to the place that pleased her, She turned eagerly to Mustafa Ali. ‘Why did you not arrange for the camp to be here? It would have been a long enough ride ‘The man fidgeted in his saddle, fingering his beard uneasily, his ey: wandering past Diana’ and ljooking at the broken trees, “‘No man rests here, Mademoiselle. It is the place of devils, The curse of Allah ts upon it,” he mouttered, touching his horse with his heel, and making it sidle restlessly—an obvious hint that Diana ignored, “T Uke it," she persisted obstin- oar ; ick gesture with his je a quic re Fegan is accursed, Death lurks beside those broken palm trees, he said looking at her curiously. She jerked her head with a sudden “For you, perhaps, but not Allah's curse rests only upon those who fear it, But since you are afraid Mustafa Ali, let us go on.” She gave a little light laugh, and Mustafa All kicked his horse savagely e followed. “ae distance before her spread out cleanly with the sharp distinctpess > EN YEARS sparkling eyes. They were neat enough now to see that the horses were beautiful creatures and that each man rode magnificently. They were armed, too, their rifles being held in front of them, not slung on their backs as she had seen im “ Biskra, They passed olose ,to only a few yards away—@ square, the orderly rank: isgesting training and discipline that she ha@ not looked for. Not a head . turned in her direction as they by and the pace was not slackened, \}| Fretted by the proximity of the gale loping horses, her own horse reare@ impatiently, but Diana pulled him én, turning in her saddle to watch tha Arabs pase, her breath coming quilt with excitement. “What are they?" ehe called out ta Mustafa Ali, who had dropped some way behind her. But he, too, was looking back at the horseme! did not seem to hear her questto Her escort had lagged still furth behind her guide and were somé distance away. Diana watched the rapidly moving, compact square eagerly with appreciatory eyes—it was a beautiful sight. Then she gave a little gasp. The galloping horses had drawn level with the last strag« glers of her own party, and just bea yond they stopped suddenly. Dianw would not have believed it possible that they could have stopped so sud denly and in close formation) while travelling at ich a pace. The tremendous strain on the bridles ~ flung the horses far back on their haunches. But there was no time to dwell on the wonderful horsemanship or training of the men. Events moved too rapidly. The solid square split up and lengthened out into @ long line of two men riding abreast. Wheeling behind the last of Mustafa’s men they came back even faster than they had passed, and circled widel round Diana and her attendants. Be. wildered by this manoeuvre she watched them with a puzzled frown, striving to sootife her horse, who was nearly frantic with excitement, Twice they galloped around her little band, thelr long cloaks fluttering, their sifles tossing in their hands. Diana was growing impatient. It waa ‘|very fine to watch, but time and the DEVILS. THE CURSE OF 1S UPON IT.” that precedes the setting sun. She rode on until she began to wonder if it would indeed be nightfall before she reached her destination. They had ridden longer and faster than had ever been intended. It seemed odd that they had not overtaken the bag- gage camels. She looked at her watch with a frown. “Where is your cara- van, Mustafa Ali?” she called. “I see no sign of an oasis, and the darkness will come." ‘If Mademoiselle had started ear- "—he said sullenly. If I had started earlier ‘it would still have been too far. To-morrow we will arrange it otherwise,” she said firmly. “To-morrow—" he gyowled indis- tinctly. Diana looked at him keenly. ‘What did you say?” she asked haughtily. His hand went to his forehead me- chanically. ‘To-morrow is with Al- lah!" he murmured with unctuous piety. A retort. trembled on Diana's lips, but her attention was distracted from her annoying gulde to a collection of black specks far off across the des- ert. They were too far away for her to see clearly, but she pointed to them, peering at them intently. See!" she cried. “Is that the cara- van? “As Ailah wills!” he replied more piously than before, and Diana wished, with a sudden feeling of irri- tation, that he would stop relegating his responsibilities to the Deity and take a little more active personal in- terest in his missing camel train, : Very soon Diana saw that it was not the slow, leisurely camels they were overtaking, but a band of mounted men who were mov- ing swiftly towards them, They had seen nobody since the traders’ cara- van had passed them in the morning. For Diana the Arabs that were ap- proaching were even more interesting than the caravan had been. She had seen plenty of caravans arriving and departing from Biskra, but, though she had seen small parties of tribes- men constantly in the vicinity of the town, she had never seen them as they were here, one with the wild picturesqueness of their surroundings. It was impossible to count how many there were, for they were riding in close formation, the wind filling their great white cloaks, making each man look gigantic. Diana's interest flared up excitedly. It was like passing another ship upon a hitherto empty sea, They seemed to add a desired touch to the grim lonéliness of the scene that had begun to be a little awe-inspiring. Perhaps she was hun- gry, perhaps she was tired, or per- haps she was only annoyed by the bad arrangements of her guide, but before the advent of the mounted Arabs Diana had been conscious of ‘a feeling of oppression, as if the silent desolation of the desert was weighing heavily upon her, but the body of swiftly moving men and horses had changed the aspect utterly. An at- mosphere of life and purpose seemed to have taken the place of the quiet’ stagnation that had been before their comin The distance between the two par- thes decreased rapidly. Diana, intent on the quickly advancing horsemen, spurred ahead of her guide with i HE black specks were moving fast across the level plain. —— light were both going. She would have been glad if the demonstration had occurred earlier in the day, Manet there would have been more time t enjoy it. She turned again to Mus- tafa Ali to suggest that they had better try to move on, but he hed gone further from her, back towards his own, She wrestled with her nerv~ ous mount, trying to turn him to joim her guide, when a sudden burst of rifle shots made her start and her horse bounded yiolently. Then she laughed. That would be the end of the demonstration, a parting salute, the decharge de mousqueterie be- loved of the Arab, She turned her head from her refractory horse to look at them ride off, and the laugh died away on her lips. It was not » farewell salute. The rifies that tl Arabs were firing were not poigting up into the heavens, but aiming straight at her and her escort. And as she stared with suddenly startled eyes, unable to do anything with her. plunging horse, Mustafa’s men wei blotted out from her sight, cut off by, a band of Arabs who, rode between her and them, Mustafa Ali himself was lying forward on the neck of hig horse, who was standing quiet amides the general confusion. Then there came another volley, and the guide slid slowly out of his saddle on to the ground, and at the same time Diana's horse went off with a wild leap that nearly unseated her. Until they started shooting the’, tile had not crossed her mind. imagined that they were merely ) thought that the Arabs could be hos (7 She) showing off with the childish love of | display which she knew was charac teristic. The French authorities had been right after all. Diana's firat feeling was one of contempt for am administration that made such an at« tempt to near civilization. Her sec~+ ond a fleeting amusement at the thought of how Aubrey would jeer. But her amusement passed as tha real seriousness of the attack came home to her. For the first time it occurred to her that her guide's de+ scent from his saddle was due to a wound and not to the fear that she had at first disgustedly attrtbuted ta him, But nobody had seemed to putt up any kind of a fight, she thought wrathfully, She tugged at hes horse's mouth, but the bit was be4 tween his teeth and he tore on fran~_ tically. Her own position made het furious. Her guide’ was wounded, his men surrounded, and she wad ignominiously being run away with by a bolting horse. If she could only turn the wretched animal. It would only be a question of ransom, of that she was*positive. She must get back somehow to the others and arrange terms. It was an annoyance, of course, but after all it added a cer~ tain plquancy to her trip, it would be an experience. It was only a hold-up." She did not Arabs had even really meant to ‘hurt » any one, but they weré excited and some one's shot, aimed wide, had | found an unexpected bullet. It could only be that, It was too near Biskra for any danger, she argued with herself, still straining on tho reins. She would not admit there was any. danger, though her-heart was beating in a way that It had never done be- fore. Then as she hauled ineffectually at the bridle with all her strength there came from behind her the sound of a long, shrill whistle. Her horse pricked up h's ears and she was con- scious that his pace sensibly lessened. Instinctively she looked behind, A’ solitary Arab was riding after her | and as she looked she realized that his horse was gaining on hers. The thought drove every idea of stopping || her runaway from her and made her | dig her spurs into him instead. There was a sinister air of deliberation the way in which the Arab was fol. lowing her; he was riding her dowa,/ (To be Continued, s sala] aioe apres 9 | uppose the! fF