Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19

how strongly my adversary had assailed
ne. Now, know too well his opinions
sank deep into my soul. Only too well
know it now-now that
We arrived at Gibraltar the following
morning, and going up on deck in the
empty void of air that follows on the
sudden stopping of a ships engines,
! found the American. amid group
of swarthy Gibraltarians, bargaining for
boat to take him to the mole. 1t
turned out that he was going to Mo-
rocco also, and SO we hired the boat to-
gether.
The morning was clear and cold; the
great broad rock looked whittier and
starker and more like gigantic oyster
shell than ever against the blue Of the
sky.
There would be no steamer for Tan
gier until the following day. and we
were to put up at the Spanish hotel
called the Calpe.
Immediately on landing l made my
way to the postoffice to despatch a tel
egram home announcing my arrival,
and there l found two lettelk which,
having come overland, arrived in ad-
vance of me. One of them was from
Wenman, telling me that he had called at
Wimpole street the morning after my
departure and found all we'll at my
house; and also enclosing a resolution
Of thanks and congratulation from my
colleagues of the College of Surgeons
in relation to my recent labors, which
were said to be memorable in the cause
OF humanity and science"
The other letter was from my wife,
a sweet, affectionate little note, cheerful
yet tender, written on her return from
Tilbury, limiting that the dear old house
looked just trifle empty and as if
somehow it missed something, but that
our boy was up and happy with new
toy that had left for him as consola-
ton on his awakening-a great ele-
plant that worked it's trunk and roared.
II have just asked our darling wrote
my wife, what message he would like
to send you. Tell papa he answers,
I'm all right, and Jumbos all right, and
is he all right, and will he come home
very quick and see him grunting.'"
That night at the Calpe I had some
further talk with the American. Young
as he was he had been q great Eastern
traveller. Egypt, Arabia, Syria, the
Holy Land-he knew them all. For his
forthcoming sojourn in Morocco he had
prepared himself with elaborate care.
THE literature of travel in Barbary is
voluminous, but he had gone through
the best of it. With the faith of Islam
he had long been familiar, and the cor
rupt and tyrannical form Of government
of Mulai ell Hassan and his kaids and
kadis he had an intimate knowledge.
He had even studied the language of
the Moorish people-the Moroccan Ara
bic, which is a dialect of the language
Of the Koran-and so that he might
hold intercourse with the Sephardic
Jews also, who people the Mellahs of
Morocco, he had mastered the Spanish
language as well.
This extensive equipment, sufficient
TO start a crusade or to make revolu-
ton, was meant to do more than to
provide him with adventure. His in
tention was to see the country and its
customs, to observe the manners of the
people and the ordinances of their re-
Iigion Il shall get into the palaces
and the prisons Of the Kasbas," he
said; yes, and the mosques of the
saints houses, and the harems also if
it is possible to play eunuch or mid
wife,"
Little as l knew of the Moors and
their country, foresaw the dangers Of
such an enterprise, and | warned him
against it. "You will get yourself into
awkward corners" l said.
EYES," he said, land l shall get my
self out of Them
/ remembered his doctrine PROFOUND
ed on the ship, and saw that he was
man Of resolution, but said, 'Remem-
Der, you are going to the land of this
people for amusement alone. 1t is not
necessity that thrusts you upon their
prejudice, their superstition and their
fanaticism."
True" he said, "but if 1 get into
trouble among them it will not be my
amusements but my liberty or my life
that will be in danger"
Then in such a case you will stick
at nothing to plough your way out?"
Nothing"
l laughed, for my mind refused to
believe him, and we laughed noisily
together with visions of bloody dag
gers before the eyes Of both.
Father, my heart believed. Silent
ly, secretly, unconsciously, it drank in
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