The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-12

- NAies 10 8oA3S bdck diDHt, &OtUS
BACK 10 his shop, to his house, to his
wives. TO his little daughter Hoolia- Allah
seno Isarby safe return. Not following
Us sidi No. no. Larby is going back the
same w5y-thaf is all"
The answer did not content me, but !
Could say no more. Nevertheless my uu-
easiness at the mans presence increased
hour by hour. i could not think OF him
without thinking also OF the American and
OF the scene of horror near to the Ka-
rueein mosque. / could not look at him,
put the blood down my back ran cold. so
called my guide again and said: Send
tnat man away, Will not have him in our
company
Alec pretended to be deeply wounded.
Sid" he said, TASK anything else OF me.
What will you ask? VIII you ask me to
die for you? I am ready. / am willing. I
am satisfied. But Larby Is my friend, Lar
by Is my brother. and this thing you ask
OF me cannot do Allah has not written
IL Sid, 1t cannot be-
With such protestations-the common
cant OF the country--T had need TO be con-
tent But now the impression fixed itself
upon my mind that the eyii-faeed scoun-
drei who had betrayed the American to his
death was not only following u.s. but ma.
Oh. the torment of that idea In the irnpa-
thence Of my spirit and the rscking fever
OF my nerves. To be logged day and night
as by a bloodhound, never to raise my
eyes without the dread OF encountering
the mans watchfui eye-the agony OF the
incubus was unbearabie.
My first thought was merely that the
rascal meant robbery. However far I
might ride ahead OF my own people In the
daytime he was always close behind me,
and as surely as 7 wandered away from
the camp at nightfail was oyertaken by
him or else I met him face to face.
"Aiee," l said at last, that man Is a
thief"
OF course Alec WAS Mortified .sYa Al
lah," he cried. What is my lord saving
the Moor Is honest. None so true and
honest as the Moor. Wherefore should
the Moor be n thief? To be a thief In
Barbary is to be a fool. Say rob Chris
tian-good. / Kill hic1 and take all he has
and bury him In a lonely place-ail right.
What happens? Behold Sidi, this Is what
happens. Your Christian consul says.
Where Is the Christian you took to Fer?
! cannot tell. lie. deceive. / make ex-
cuses. No use. Your Christian consul
goes to the kasbah. and says to the Ba-
sha. Cast that Moor into prison. he Is a
robber and a murderer Then he goes 10
the sultan at Marrakesh. In the name OF
your queen. who lives in the country Of
the Nazarenes over the sea. Pay me
the life OF my Christian. who Is robbed
and murdered Just so. The sultan
Allah preserve our Mulai Hassan.-he
pays the dollars. Good all right. Just so.
But Is that all. Sidi? No, Sldi, that is not
all. The sultan-God prolong the life OF
our merciful lord,--he then comes to my
people. to my hasha TO my bashaiic, and
he says. Pay me back my forty thousand
doilars--do you hear me. Sidi forty thou
ha ie
right. But We cannot pay. Good. The
suitan-Aliah save him.-he comes, he
takes all We have, he puts every man OF
my people 10 the sword. We are gone we
are wiped out. Did not say. SidI, TO be
thief in Barbary is to be fool?''
IL was cold comfort That the man
Larby was following me j was confident
and that he meant to rob me ] was at first
convinced. Small solace. therefore. In the
thought that II the worst befeil me. and
my boy at home died for want of his
father who lay robbed and murdered in
those desoate wastes. my government
would exact a claim in paitry dollars.
My next thought was that the man was
merely watching me out of the country
That he was aware that | knew his secret
was only too certain: that he had be-
trayed my knowledge to the authorities
nj tho capital after | had parted from
them was more than probable. and IL was
not impossible that the very men who had
taken brides of me had In their turn brfhed
him that he might follow me and see that
l did not Inform the ministers and con-
suis or foreign countries OF the murder
OF the American IN the streets of Fey
That theory partly reconciled me to the
mans presence. Let him watch, His
constant company was in Its tormenting
way my best security. | should go to no
minister and no consul sho.ild see me.
j had too much reason 10 think OF my own
living affairs TO busy myself with those
OF the dead American.
But such poor JUNCTION IA this reflection
brought me was dissipated by a second
thought What security for the man him
self OF for the authorities who might have
hr.eed hlm--or perhaps menaced him-to
watch me would lie In the fact that had
passed out OF the country without reveal
ing the facts of the crime which I had
witnesseds Safely back In England,
might tell all with safety. Once let ME
leave Morocco with their secret in my
breast and both the penalties these people
dreaded might be upon them. Merely to
watch me was wasted labor. They meant
10 do more. or they would have done
nothing.
Thinking so. another idea took POSSE ssioa
OF me- with a shock Of terrcr-the man was
Following me to kill me as tina sole CARTS
fisn WITNESS or the crime that had DeeH
committed by the Hight ~ that theory
everything became plain. When visited
the kashah nothing Was known IT my re-
quaintanca with The murdered man My
hrtbes were taken. and I was allowed 20
leave Fez In spite OF puo.!c orders. Bat then
came Iarby with alarming intelligence, I
had been n friend ~ the American, and
had sesn seen "a speak With him n the pub
lie streets. Perhaps Isrby himself had
seen me- or perhaps my own guide. Alec.
had betrayed me 20 MS friend and broth
err Al that the ksid or his ksieefa had
raised their eyebrows and sworn =; each
other for s,rupletons and fools. To think
mat the very nan WHO intended TO 6ssray
them had come with an innocent face and
= tale of a SICK child in England! To tank
shat they had suffered him 10 slip through
their fingers and leave them some pa5try
hrihe~s OF atty pounds Fifty pounds taken
BY stealth against twenty thousand dollars
70 be pumped down after the Christian
rad ,sla his story. These NaxAgeaez were
q, subtle. aud ;Ae Sosls % lslsnaes were %
simple. But diamond cut diamond ~
erVfhiy4r Was not yet lost. One hundred Snd
tweu;x-gtve miles sAis Christian had stu
- travel before ne could sail from Bar
harry and not another Christian cossla he
ens-eanter en- that Journey. Tier ap. lar
az, ana after h.na, God make y0IT way
AaSvf Remember. LARRY remember. good
sar,4w II Is nos only the pockets or fEE pee
ola ,f ryg TIA. are IN danger II mat cars
ftsp should escape. Let him leave tAe
C.hnra alive. and yoksr cwn meek Is IN peEta.
Yea! were sAe spy. yea were the anEofsaar.
vaa, were the hof-heaici fnadasan Mo led