The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-04

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separated by the thin wall only. II
fail follow them lay
asleep their the but the
slave girl unveiled eyes gaze
upon She was beautiful indeed. but with look OF utter
wild despair young
appeal in her big black imporingy
last resource fancied a misery.
She wished to have her threatened fate,
think over in cold blood would have given great deal
that escape thing impos-
was holding my life by thread but she very beauti-
full If of them awoke-the shek the women-they
would kill me where lay look at
Would she risk great peril for mere intrigue?
The girl raised the pencil wrote in Arabic
again: If not Mussuman heavens sake tell
me So will not betray you will keep confidence
didn't hesitate for to take the pencil
paper from her and write in return It Mussulman,
am chrstian-an Englishman Treat friend What
your"
The girl reeled. almost tainted, when
she answer, saw hardly
hold the pencil Alright rapidly few lines in
ply She held the paper up to me in dead silence with
white face looked at the unspeakable
constituent! sudden mist seemed to dim eyes!
strange It ncredible She had written IN English!
For
in Then by slow degrees the meaning her dwned
dimly across my bewdered mind read the words and
the strange English girl
from India. They taking pres
ent to the governor If really Englishman for
honors sake help me! If nothing else
least be merciful, and kill this night here"
Heaven gave me strength to the of surprise
and horror that spontaneously to lips read.
seized the pencil and rapidly English, of
II will help you, 1 I
to in the same caravan with YOU No more
It's too dangerous will go back my~own part
of the tent for the present AS think of
Of will lift communicate
again with you
The tears rolling fast down the girls cheeks,
and she caspd her white hands speeches. but
she uttered neither Interchange
spoken word with the other dropped the of
the tent steathiy turned revove the matter
leisure in quarters.
AS turned terrible disconcerting sight my
glance The sheik sitting his facing
me with wide and of the erces and
resolute hatred all his savage
at that all discovered His body bent slightly
forward in the attitude of who watches ntent and he
held his right hand the scmar- knife his
side already from it's curved wooden scabbard
The rustling of the curtain woke him
he doubt with
short and speeches. cooquy Strange
in spite of this pressing that in the
face, feeling only lay in mind and that
feeling not of but of curiosity Come what
might, mystery
of this English avegr the Shereef
Of Mecca to his brother in Islam the Of Keronan.
eye another glared
at each others silence knew it
the knife. And the knife must settle it. At
single word at the sound OF pistol at one cry from the
shei the the whole would
be alive with angry, My
remorse1essy sleeps, my
ferrous companion might share the fate if not
for cruel at
in
fierce and band of armed zealots. It
time reflect, plan. decide My whirng
brain never stopped to deliberate must act at once or die
unsatisfed
Without seconds hesitation drew short Kabyle
knife from my sheath in grdle and sprang noseessly
like a beast of that glowerng old Arab.
If he but Shrek it all with. I it
nstinctivey and eaped him in silence with all
weight. leaped at his cluched
old wretchs throat with the other dug knife deep and
remorseessly into his left bosom chance
and the slave-gr's. The sheik strong and
wiry old had lots of life in him. He struggled hard
against unexpected assault but happily, youth and
agility side. By miracle Of luck I
throttle him tight and hard with maddened
before he had time fully his long knife
it's Persian scabbard. My straight that in
fnitesmal difference in the life and the
Eglshwomans depended that moment. drove it home to
hlt his fell heavily with gurgling
his rafting throat. felt loud,
it convuse him. but hand for ndivsble
time relaxed its wild his
windppe. No forth. choked that desperate
lungs. thing
noiselessy and quietly the lifting of the
womans curtain had minutes earlier.
What eternity it seemed those minutes,
while watched formed plans hastily with
the still bleeding in red pools the
but the regular breath of the Arab
compartment break the silence
awful death chamber.
At last collected scattered thoughts and deter
still possible