The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-07-14

and how to behave the most civil POSI-
BILE, and so presented ourselves at his
gate, stating our business.
Presently we were admitted to an out
er office, and there received by very
bent, venerable old Moor, who, having
greeted us with much ceremony, says:
~ am Ali Oukadi. What would you
have of me?"
"My daughter Moll, )" answers Jack in
an eager, choking voice, Offering his let
ter. The Moor regarded him keenly, and
taking the letter sits down to study it,
and while he is at this business a young
Moor enters, whose name, as we shortly
learned, was Mohand GU Mohand. He
was, take it, about 25 or 30 years of
age and as handsome man of his kind
as ever l saw, with wondrous soft dark
eyes, but cruel mouth and a most
high, imperious bearing, which, together
with his rich clothes and jewels, beto-
kened him man of quality. Hearing
who we were, he saluted us civilly
enough, but there was flash of enmity
in his eyes and Tightening of his lips
which liked me not at all
When the elder man had finished the
letter he hands it to the younger, and
he having read it in his turn they fall
to discussing it in low tone and in
dialect of which not one word was intel
ligible to us. Finally Ali Oukadi, rising
from his cushions, says gravely, address
ing Dawson:
81 will write without delay to Sid
ben Ahmed in answer to his letter"
"But my daughter, says Dawson,
aghast, and as well as he could in the
Moorish tongue. ''Am 1 not to have
herr"
my friend says nothing here, an
swers the old man, regarding the let
ter, nothing that would justify my
giving her up to you. He says the mon
ey shall be paid upon her being brought
safe to Elche."
"Why, your excellency, and my
comrade here will undertake to carry
her safely there. What better guard
should daughter have than her father?"
"Are you more powerful than the ele-
ments? Can you command the tempest?
Have you sufficient armament to COM
bat all the enemies that scour the seas?
If any accident befall you, what is this
promise Of payment? Nothing"
cat least you will suffer me to make
this voyage with my child?"
81 do not purpose to send her to
Elche," returned the old man calmly.
IT'S risk will not undertake. I
have said that when am paid 5000
ducats 1 will give Lala Mollah freedom,
and will keep my word. To send her
to Elche is a charge that does not touch
my compact This I will write and tell
my friend, Sidi ben Ahmed, and upon his
payment and expressed agreement will
render you your daughter. Not before "
We could say nothing for awhile, be-
ing SO foundered by this reverse, but at
length Dawson says in a piteous voice:
cat least you will suffer me to see
my daughter? Think if she were yours
and you had lost her, thinking her
awhile dead"-
Mohand on Mohand muttered few
words that seemed to fix the old Moor s
wavering resolution.
II cannot agree to that" says he.
Your daughter is becoming reconciled
to her position. To see you would open
her wounds afresh to the danger of her
life maybe. Think, adds he, laying his
hand on the letter, "if this business
should come to naught, what could rec
ompense your daughter for the disap-
pointment of those false hopes your
meeting would inspire? 1t cannot be. -
With this he claps his hands, and a
servant entering at nod from his mas.
ter lifts the hangings for us to CO.
Dawson stammered few broken
words of passionate protest, and then
breaking down as he perceived the folly
of resisting he dropped his, head AND
suffered me to lead him out AS sa.
luted the Moors in going caught, as
fancied a CLEAN of triumphant glad
ness in the dark eyes of Mohand GU Mo
hand.
Coming back to the place where We
had hid our bundles, Dawson cast him
self on the ground and gave vent to hi
passion, declaring he would see hi
Moll though he should tear the walll
down to get at her and other follies
but after time he came to his senses
again so that he could reason, and thel
persuaded him to have patience ant
forbear from any outburst of violence
such as we had been warned against
showing him that certainly Don San
chez, hearing Of our condition, would
send the money speedily, and so We
should get Mol by fair means instead
of losing her (and ourselves) by foul
that after all twas but the delay of /,
week or so that we had to put up with
and SO forth. Then, discussing what W,
, should do next, I offered that we should
return to Elche and make our Cast
known rather than trust entirely to Al
Oukadi's promise of writing, for die
suspect some treacherous design on tn,
: part of Mohand GU Mohand, by which
Mrs. Goodwin failing of her agreement
he might possess himself of Moll, ant
this falling in with Dawsons wishes
we set out to return to Algiers forth
with. But getting to Algiers, half deaf