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By -OUIDA'
Psoriasis, Salt
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CHAPTER' III j. ,:':;v'
T WAS Jnst sunset Camped on
one of the stretches above the
Mnstaptia road waa a circle of
send with It His men were almost an
half dead with the sun blaze. Ilia
(lance chanced to light In the distance
on a soldier to whom he bore no love,
Arab tents. The circle was Jr-! S? DUt Wtteri? " ?
- regularly kept, and, the Krumas were
oattered at will. Here a low one of
' canvas, there one of goatskin; here .a
white towering canopy of teleze, there
' . a low striped little nest of shelter, and,
loftier than allthe stately tent of the
ahetk, with his standard stuck Into the
, arth In front of it, with Its heavy folds
' lianglng listlessly In the sultry, breath
less air. In the central tent, tall and
'crimson striped, with Its opening free
to the night, eat the khalifa, the head
,of the tribe, with a circle of Arabs
-about him. He was thrown on his
-cushions, rich enough for a seraglio,
while the rest squatted on the morocco
arpet that covered the bare ground,
and that was strewn with round brass
1 Moorish trays and little cups emptied
of their coffee. Near htm was a guest
-whom the khalifa delighted to honor,
-only a corporal of chasseurs and once
A foe, yet one with whom the Arab
ionnd the brotherhood of brave men
and on whom he lavished In all he
conld the hospitalities and honors of
the desert.
The story or their friendship ran
"thus: .-.
The tribe was now allied with France
or at least had accepted, French sov
ereignty and pledged itself to neutral
ity In the hostilities still rife, but a few
years before far in the interior and
leagued with the Kabyles it had. been
one of the fiercest and most dangerous
among the enemies of France. At that
time the khalifa and the chasseur met
- In many a skirmish! hot, desperate
struggles, when the desert sand and
-the smoke of musketry circled in clouds
Above the close locked struggle, and
the leopard of France and the lion of
Sahara wrestled in a death grip.'
In these, through four or five sea
cons of (warfare, the sheik and the
chasseur had encountered each other,
till each had grown to look, for the
thers face aa soon as the standard
bf the Bedouins flashed In the sun
nine opposite the guidons of the lm
ferial forces; till each bad .watched
and noted the ' other's unmatched
ftrowess and borne away the. wounds
of .the other's home strokes with the
admiration of a bold soldier for a bold
rival's dauntlessness and skill.
At last It came to pass that the tribes
, trere sorely pressed by the French
troops and had to flee southward to
the flesert and. Incumbered by their
flocks and their women, were hardly
riven and greatly decimated. . Now,
-the sheik held above all earthly things
except his honor in war, a beautiful,
, antelope eyed creature, lithe and grace
ful as a palm and the daughter of
. ure Arab race on whom he could not
. -endure for any, other sight than his
own to look and whom be guarded
4n his tent as the chief pearl of all his
trnntmrMi! all rnvrt Yha tmnnr tf hla
- tribe, he would have surrendered
'rather than surrender Djelma. It was
passion with ' him a passion that
not evu the iron of his temper and
the dignity of his austere calm could
abate or conceal and the rumor of It
. ana or tne beauty or its object reacnea
the French camp till an impatient curi
osity was roused about her, and a raid
that should bear her off became the
favorite speculation round the picket
lres at night and the scorching noons.
u.ne neat was intense; tne water , was
4ad and very rare; dysentery - came
-with the scorch and the toil of this
-endless charge. The chief in command,
M. le Marquis de -Chateauroy, swore
tieavily as he saw many of his best
men dropping off like sheep in a mur
rain, and he offered 200 napoleons to
whosoever , should bring either the
dead sheik's head or the living beauty
..of DJemla. '.-.y .'VV-. -: :::-:-
' One day the chasseurs had pitched
their camp where a few barren, with
rtA trees earn n Remhlnnre of shelter
and a little thread of brackish water
oozed through the yellow earth. : Sud
denly the noon lethargy of the camp
- was broken. A trumpet call 'rang
through the stillness. . Against the am
eer, transparency of the horizon line
the outlines of half a dozen horsemen
were seen coming nearer and nearer
with every moment They were some
' cpahls who had been out sweeping the
country for food. The mighty frame
of Chateauroy, almost as unclothed as
.an athlete, started from its slumberous
panting rest His eyes lightened hun
grily. "Hah, they have the. woman!"
tie cried. "
They had the woman. She had been
netted near a water, spring, to which
he had wandered too loosely guarded,
and the colonel's face flushed darkly
with an eager, lustful wartnth as he
looked upon his captive. Rumor had
not outboasted the Arab girl's beauty.
Only DJemla was as Innocent as the
gazelle, whose grace she resembled,
and loved "her lord with a great love.
Of her suffering her captor took no
more heed than if she were a young
. !rd dying of shot wounds; but witb
. triumphant admiring glance at her,
c-rote a message la Arabic to send
' -vfilira ere her loss was dlscov-
T-e core cruel than Iron.
1 a second where he lay at
cf 1 '3 tent whom he sLouIJ
He had him summoned and eyed him
with a curious amusement Chateau
roy treated bis squadrons with much
the same familiarity and brutality that
a chief of filibusters uses to his,
. "So, you beed the heat so little you
give. up your turn of water to a drum
mer, they say."
The chasseur gave the salute with a
; calm deference. A faint flush passed
j over the sun bronze of his forehead.
I He had thought the sacrifice had been
nnobserred.
I "The drummer was but a child, colo-
! neL"
i "Be so good as to give us no more of
those melodramatic acts," said the mar
quis contemptuously. "You are too
, fond of trafficking In those showy fool
eries. You bribe your comrades for
i their favoritism too openly. I forbid
j tt. Do you hear?"
i "I hear, colonel."
i. The assent was perfectly tranquil
and respectful. He was too good a sol
dier not to render perfect obedience
I and keep perfect silence under any
goad of provocation to break both
"Obey, then!" said Chateauroy sav
agely., "Well, since you love heat so
well, you shall take a flag of truce and
my scroll to the Sidl Ilderlm. But tell
me first what do you think of this
capture?" ; .' .
"It Is not my place to give opinions,
colonel."
"Parblen! It is your place when I
bid you. Speak, or I will have the stick
cut the words out of you!"
"I may speak frankly?"
"Ten thousand curses, yes!"
"Then I think that those who make
war on women are no longer fit to
fight with men."
For a moment the long, sinewy, mas
sive form of Chateauroy started from
the skins on which he lay at full length
like a lion starting from its lair. His
veins swelled like black cordsX Under
the mighty muscle of his bare chest bis
heart beat visibly In the fury of his
wrath. s
"By heaven, I have a mind to have
you shot like a dog!"
The chasseur looked at him careless
ly, composedly, but with a serene def
erence still, as due from a soldier to his
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He thought the vengeance Just -:v
The sheik raised his sword and sign
ed them back as he pointed to the
white folds of the flag. Then his voice
rolled out like thunder over-the still
ness of the plains: V
"But that yon trust yourself, to my
honor I would rend you limb from
limb. Go back to the tiger who rales
you and tell him that as Allah llveth I
will fall on him and smite him as be
hath never been smitten. Dead or liv
ing, I will have back my own. If he
take her life, I will have 10,000 lives to
answer It - If be deal her dishonor, I
will light such a holy war through the
length and breadth of the land that his
nation shall bo driven backward like
choked dogs Into the sea. and perish
from the face of the earth for ever
more. And this I swear by the law
and the prophet!" - , ; ?
The menace rolled out. Imperious as
a monarch's, thrilling through the des
ert hush. ; The chasseur bent his bead
as the words closed. His own teeth
were tightly clinched, and his face was
dark.' - - :-y:iS
Emir, listen to one word," he said
briefly. "Shame has been done to me
as to you. Had I been told what
words I bore they bad never been
brought by my hand. You know me.
You have had the marks of my steel.
as I have bad the marks of yours.
Trust me In this, sidl I pledge you
my honor that before the sun sets she
shall be given back to you. unharmed.
or I will return here myself, and your
tribe shall slay me in what fashion
they wllL So alone can she be saved
uninjured. Answer, will you have faith
In me?" . :
'You are a great warrior.- Such men
do not lie. Go; and if she be borne to j
me before the sun Is half way sunk
toward the west all the branches of
the tribes of Ilderlm shall be as your
brethren and bend as steel to your
bidding. If not as God Is mighty--not
one man In your host shafl live to
tell the tale."
The chasseur bowed his head to his
horse '8 mane, then without a word
wheeled round-and sped back across
the plain. When he reached his own
cavalry camp, Je went straightway to
his chief. Whatpassed between them
none -ever knew: The Interview was
brief; ; it -wns possibly as stormy,
Tregnont and -decisive it assuredly
was, and the squadrons of Africa max-
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chateauroy m his lair came forts with At the Head of all Tobacco Fertilizers.
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touched the !wer half of tbe western
heavens the Sheik Ilderlm, where he
sat in bis sidesaddle, with all his tribe
stretching behind him, full armed, to
sweep down like falcons on the spoil-1
ers if the hour passed with tbe pledge j
unredeemed, saw tbe form of the chas-1
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Desert lay once more in the mighty,
sinuous arms of the great emir.
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Chateauroy crushed - a ' blasphemous
oath through his clinched : teeth and
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laugh, which hit
than his wrath."
t. tNo; T will end you Instead to" the
khalifa. He often saves me the trouble
f, killing my own curs. , Take a fia,T
of truce and this paper, and never
flraw rein till you reach him. !your
beast drop dead at the end.'
The chasseur saluted, took the paper.
bowed with ; a certain languid, easy
grace that camp life never cured him
of and went. He knew that tbe mau
ho should take the news of his treas
ure's loss to the Emir lidenm would,
thousand to one, perish by every
torture desert - cruelty could frame,
iespite the cover of the white banner.
Chateauroy : looked after him as he
tnd bis horse passed from the French
;amp in the full, burning tide of noou.
If the Arabs kill him," he thought.
"I will forgive Ilderlm five seasons of
rebellion."
The chasseur, as he had been bidden,
sever drew rein across the scorching
plateau. At last, ere he reached the
Bedouin tents, be saw tbe sheik and
party of horsemen returning from a
foraging quest and In ignorance as
ret of the abduction of Djelma. He
galloped straight to them and halted
across their line of march, With the
folds of the little white flag fluttering
In the sun. The Bedouins drew bridle;
isd Ilderlm advanced alone. II o was
i magnificent man of middle age, -with
the noblest type of the eagle eyed,
squiline desert beauty.
A glance of recognition flashed from
him on the soldier who had so often
rossed swords with him, and he waved-
back the scroll with digul&ed courtesy.
"Bead it me."
It was read. Bitterly, blackly, shame
ful, the few brutaT words were. They
netted him as an eagle Is netted In a
shepherd's trap. - ,
The moment that Le gave a sign of
advancing the captive's life would pay
the penalty; If he merely remained In
arms, without direct attack, she would
be made the marquis', mistress and
abandoned later to the army. The
only terms on which he could have
her restored were Instant submission to
the Imperial rule and personal homage
of himself and all his Djouad to the
marquis, as the representative of
France homage In which they should
confess themselves dogs and the sons
of dogs. So ran the message of peace.
The chasseur read on to the end
calmly. Then he lifted his gaze and
looked at the emir. He expected 60
swords to be buried in his heart.
With a wild, shrill yell the Bedouins
whirled their naked sabers above their
eads and rushed Cowa on the bearer
of tLls shame to tLcir chief and their
tribe. The chasseur did not setk to
defend himself. lie sat motionless.
it was in tne tent or lidenm now
that" he reclined, looking outward at
the night where flames were leaping
ruddlly under a large caldron, and far
beyond was the dark Immensity of
the star studded sky. From the hour
of tile restoration of bis treasure tbe
sheik had been true to his oath; his
tribe In all Its branches had held the
French soldier in closest brotherhood.
Wherever they were he was honored
and welcomed; was he in war, their
rwords were drawn for him; was he
in need, their houses of hair were
spread for him; bad he want of flight,
the swiftest and most precious of their
horses was : at his service; had he
thirst, they would have 4Ied them
selves, wringing out the last drop from
the water skin for him. Through him
their alliance, or, more Justly to speak, i
their neutrality, was secured to
France, and ths Bedouin chief loved
him with a greet, silent, noble love
that was fast rooted In tbe granite of
his nature.
'I wish I had come straight to you,
sidl, when I first set foot In Africa,"
the chasseur said at last, while the fra
grant smoke uncurled from under tbe
droop of his long, pendent mustaches.
Truly it had been well," answered
the khalifa, who would have given tbe
best stallions In bis stud to have had
this Frank with him in warfare and In
peace. "There is no life like our life."
"Faith, I think not," murmured the
chasseur rather to himself than to the
Bedouin. "The desert keeps you and
your horse, and you can let all the rest
of the world go." , v
(to be contikuid.)
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