The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05

| 'Al right said Werlock, pOhhihb "
a big package on the deck. Just tel
| some of vour men TO shove that case
down into the boat. and I'm ready.
Kettle eyed the bulky box with disfavor.
| whats in ~" ne asked, A present
| We'll, If you must know. captain IT'S
/ occurred to me that Teresa is probably an
| occupant of somebody's harem, ana that
| L shall have TO buy her off from her nus
| band. Hence the case of rifles.
! queer look came over Capt. Kettle 5
| face "and you'd still marry this woman
/ II she had another husband living
| 'fOf course. Haven't I told you that
| I've thought the whole thing thorough
| ly over already. and am not inclined TO
stick at trlfes?"
Very well" said Kettle. Now let me
| tell YOU sir for the last time that I don't
like what you're going to DO To my
| mind it's a dirty thing, marrying a wo-
man that you evidently despise, just for
| her money"
WeuIock flushed. Look here" he said,
Get down into the boat 20, and your case
| Of rifles"
For the moment Weniock started and
| hesitatea He seemed 20 detect something
| ominous an this order. But then he took
a brace on his courage, and after cou-
| pie of deck hands had lowered the rifles
into the dancing boat, he clambered gin
eerly down after them, and sat himself
beside the white-robed man In the stern
| sheets. Kettle followed, and the boat
headed off for the opening between the
reefs.
The boat passed between a cluster of rag
ged shipping swaying at the anchorage,
and Wenlock might have stared with cur
ious eyes chad he been SO minded on real
shows which had even then got real slaves
ready for market in their stuffy tween
decks. over the arch Of the water-gate
for which they were heading, was what
at first appeared to be a frieze Of small,
rounded balls. But a nearer view resolved
these into human heads in various stages
of dessication. Wenlock stared at the gate,
with its dressing of heads, as though they
fascinated him.
and Teresa will have been brought up
within sight of all this" Wenlock muir
INJURED to himself land viii be accus-
toned to IT, Fancy marrying a woman
Who has spent twenty-four years of her
life in the neighborhood of all this saw
agery."
They passed In through the gate, the
sentries staring at them curiously, and
once inside, in the fun heat and small
of the narrow street beyond, WenIock
said Look here, skipper. you're re-
sourceful, and you know these out-of-the-
way places. How had we better start to
find the girl?"
Kettle glanced coolly round at the
grim buildings and the savage Arabs
who jostled them, and said with fine
| sarcasm. well, sir, If you'n take the
tip from me, you'u crowd back to nv
steamboat as fast as you can go. You'll
find 1t healthier
I'm going on with it," said Wenlock
doggedly. And I ask you TO earn your
$50 and give me help"
Then, II you distinctly ask me 10
| help you on into trouble like that. of
| course the best thing to do~is to go
straight on to the palace"
Show the way, them" said WenIock,
CURLY.
Kettle gave the word to the whiterobed
| pilot, and together they set off down the
narrow winding streets, with an ever-in-
creasing train of Arabs, and negroes fol-
! lowing in their wake Wenlock said moth
ing as he walked but it was evident from
| the working of his face that his mind was
very full. But Kettle looked about him
with open interest, and thoughts in verse
about this Eastern town came to him with
| pleasant readiness.
The royal residence was the large build
| ing encinctured with gardens which they
| had seen from the sea, and they entered
| with little formality. There was no trouble
either about obtaining an audience. Armed
! guards to the number of some forty men
We're posted round the walls, and at the
| further end apparently belonging to the
| civil population were some dozen other
men squatted on the floor. In the center
| of the room was a naked wretch in chains
| but sentence was hurriedly pronounced on
| him, and he was hustled away as the two
| Englishmen entered, and they found them
| selves face 10 face with the only woman
| in the room, the supreme ruler of this saw
| age South Arabian coast town.
| She was seated on raised divan,
propped by cushions, and in front of her
was huge water pipe at which she occa-
sionally took a meditative pull, She was
dressed quite In oriental fashion, in trouser.
1 f.,.l nch oil Tho, ,Rg .
but she was Enthusiastically English in
features though strongly suggestive of
| the Boadcea. She was a large, heavily
boned woman, enormously covered with
| flesh, and she handled across her knees
that very unfeminine sceptor, an English
| cavalryman's sword. But the eye neg
lected these details, and was irresistbly
drawn by the strongness of her face, Even
Kettle was almost awed by it,
But Can't. Owen Kettle was not a man
who could be kept in awe for long. He
took off his helmet, marched briskly up
| toward the divan, and bowed
Good afternoon, your ladyship," he
| said II trust see you well. I'm Capt.
| Kettle, master of that steamboat now iy-
ing in your roads and this is Mr.. Wen
lock, a passenger of mine, who heard that
you were English, and has come to put
you in the way of some property at home -
The lady sat more upright. Il am Eng
gaiour faith, Teresa Anderson
That's the name" said Kettle. "Mr.
Wenlock's come to take you away to step
into a nice thing at home"
II am Emir here. Am l asked be Emr
in your countryg'
"Why, no." said Kettle. THAT Jobs
filled already and we arn't thinking of
making a change. Our present Emir in
| England (who, by the way, is a lady like
YOURSELF seems to suit us very wen''
II do not understand said the woman.
''I have not spoke your language since
l was a child. Speak what you say
again"
I'm leave it to Mr. Wen.ock your ma
jesty, il you've no objections, as he's the
party mostly interested. l see you don't
mind smoke" he added, and lit a fresh
cheroot.
Now. IL was clear from the attitude of
the guards and the civilians present that
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