The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-05


ioea OF oefraying me at the next oppor.
tunity. AT that moment he was as sure
~ aiming at my life as X be had drawn
Ms dagger and stabbed me- 1t was then
tnat I disgraced my principles"
,,.., low nowT ] said, though truly had
little need to ask
We We're alone. tell you, In a blind
lane said the American. but I remern-
psisd stories the man had told me of his
children. Little Hoolia,' he called his
daughter. pretty. black-eyed mite of 6.
VINO always watched for him when he was
away" ""'
] was breaking irro Precipitation. "Do
insa"' 4 said, that YOU should
II mean that I should have killed the
scounnrei there and them" said the
God forbid it," cried. and nv hair
rose from my scalp In horror.
why not?" said the American. "I,
would nave been an act Of seif-defense
Inc man meant to kill me. He viii kin
me stu II / give him the chance what
Is the difference between murder In a no
ment ana murder after five, ten. fifteen
twenty DAYS? Only thar one is murder
In not blood and haste, and the other ia
murder In cold blood and by stealth. Is
u me- that you think 80 precious? Then
whv should value his life more than
l value my own?"
! shivered. and could say nothing.
fon think me monster" said the
american. but remember. since we left
England the atmosphere has changed
Remember. too" said, that THIS
man can do you no harm unless you In
trude yourself upon his superstitions
again. Leave the country Immediately;
depend 'oon 1t. he is following you.''
That's not possible" said the Ameri-
can. Tor ] am following him Until 1
come up with him I can do nothing, and
my existence Is not worth a pins pur-
chase
l shuddered and we parted My mind
told me that he was right but my heart
eiamored above the voice Of reason and
said you could not do IT. no. not to save
hundred hundred lives"
An. Father. how little we know our
selvss-how little. o. how little. When
think that he shrank back-he who held
life so cheap-while IL who held it so
dear. so sacred. so Godlike--
Bear with me: I will tell ALL
i met the American at Intervals dur
ing the next six davs. We did not often
speak. but as We passed In the streets
he alone. ] always with my ioauacious
fnterpreter-I observed with dread the
change that the shadow of death hang
Ing over mans head can bring TO pass
In his face and manner. He grew thin
and sallow and wild-eyed nervous and
gloomy and morosa. One dav he stopped
me and said, Il know now what your
Buckshot Foster died of" and then he
went of without another word
But about ten days after our first meet
Ing in the slave market he stopped me
again and said. quite cheerfuliy sHe has
gone home--f m satisfied of that now
Thank God" answered, invoiunta-
riiy.
''Ah." he said with a twinkle of the eve.
''who says that man must hang up his
humanity on the peg with his hat I'm the
hospital hall when he goes to be sur
geon7 RI the poet Keats had got over
the first shock to his sensibiiit,es ne
might have been the creates, surgeon Of
his day"
You'll he more careful in future" |
said. mot TO cross the fana.icisn of these
fanatics?s'
He smiled and asked IL know the Ka-
rueein Mosque l told him l mad seen H.
1T is the greatest In Morocco" he sald.
"rhe Moors say the inner court stands
on $40 pillars ! don't believe them. and
! mean TO see for myself"
7 found IL useless To protest. aud he
went his way laughing at my btanched
and bewillered face THAT man"
thought, sis iii to be the hero of "A trag-
edv. and he Is wasting himself on a
farce"
Meanwhile. had no. a shadow over my
own life which would not lift. That let
ter which I had received from home at the
moment OF leaving Tang!er had haunted
mo throughout the Journey. its hrevl,y
It's insufficiency, It's delay. and above all
its conspicuous omission of all mention Of
our boy, had given rise ~ endless spec
ulation. Every dark possibility that fan
cy could devise had ,ist n before me by
way OF explanation. / despised myself
fer such weakness but ssif-contempt did
nothing to ailav NV vague fears, The
child was III. knew IL. could swear
10 IL as certainly II my ears couid
~ ar the iabored breathing III his throat.
Nevertheless. ! went on. So mach did
my philosophy do for me. But when
get 10 Fex I walked straighiwsy to she
Engiish Dostofsice to see II there was "A
letter awaiting me. Of course. there was
no letter there. had not reflected that
had come direct from the port through
which the mails had to pass. and that IL
the postal courier had gone by me on the
road l must have seen him. which j had
not.
I was ashamed before my own con-
sciousnesx bat ntl the <arw~ ts.e postotffce
saw me every day. Whatever the direc-
ton that l took with my Interpreter. II
led toward THAI destination in the end.
Ana Whatever the ck NsS CNfSS-
less gahbie-~st very diarrhoea of words
II was forced to come refund az last TO
the times and the SEASONS o. the mails
from England These were hi-weehty.
with various possibilities of casual arrivals
besides.
k'ex b. a noble city. The largest and
fines, Oriental citv l had Vet seen. ct 20
Connsre IN IFS own much different way
Of e.<Saty ard sple ndoF with the gfeat
cities ct the West. the gres, cities az TN
earth. and OF all time; but for nue. Its al
fractions acre overShsdewed by tn
gloom Of nv ANXIETY The atmosphere
- an cider world the spirit of the East,
the sense Of being transported % Bible
times. tha startling INTERPRETATIONS whsHE
the BIBLICAL stories were receiving by TIE
clients at every dav~-th~se brought me
IN Measure AZ fer the constant re-
msnsets Of the presence OF Islam every
hour at every corner. the perpetual breath
OF prayer and praise. which filled thts
land that was corrupt 20 The core. they
gave me pain mere pcixnant iaaa dis-
gust. The call of the sssoodsfn II the
early morning was q daily agony. Siese$
three streets from the karueeta nina
retS but the voice seemed 40 float tnte
my ro~a IN the darkness ard coil rcssnd
NJ head Aad ring IA my ears. Always
Was AWAKENED AT the first sound Of ;he
Stentorisa "Allahuksssar." ar II ! swoke
fu lEe silence ana thought wgsS feeftns
- relief III IS exsr; have silent through
it," the bowling wall would suddenly
break 10 gpon nv saAaSsSisins-