The San Francisco call., 1905-05-14

rineS had become at length insupport-
able With q DerversiOn of reasoning
enthusiastically Asiatic. he had cho-
sen TO wipe IL from the slate and make
the favor naught. He went TO Leg
horn and to the amaze of Cassidy sur
rendered himself to the PyIades.
This. voluntary act. perhaps. made
vigilance lighter. He watched his
chance, leaped overheard in the foggy
morning, and would have got safe TO
shore but for one well-aimed muSket.
ACharce put the departing brig in his
way He had been delirious in the
forscastle for days from his wound,
and knowledge of GordOns presence
and mission had not come 10 him till
the Grecian shore was in sight.
In his durance on the Pylades his
hair and beard had grown; he fancied
himself unrecognized. Hour by hour,
watching Gordon covertly, seeing him
living and sleeping on deck in ali
weathers, eating the coarse fare and
enduring every privation of his sailors,
TrevanioD's blood inflamed itself still
more. He owed the other nothing
now! He ragged within himself at the
celebrity the expedition and it's leader
acquired at Cephalonia- In the pur-
suit OF Gordon's vessel by the Turks
he had hoped for its capture. When
she ran upon the rocks he deemed this
certain, and forsook her jubilantIy. He
MissolOnghi: strangely enough, years
before. during the Feast OF Ramazan.
he had fed over this same path to es-
cape MOhammedan vengeance. and
pursued by the memory of a Greek girl
abandoned to the last dreadful penalty
because of him-a memory that haunt
ed MIN still.
To-day. as Trevanion saw the vessel
that held his enemy. his eyes cleaned
with a sinister regard.
'Bah!" sneered a voice behind him in
the Romaic tongue An English
no5lei Who says so? Mavrocordato.
There are those who say ne Is a Turk
in disguise who viii sell the country
TO the Sultan"
The man VINO had spoken wore the
dress of a chieftain of lower rank. His
cOnrade answered with an oath:
"O- to the English. Kalon malubdii
Give me chief like Ulysses, In six
months he would have gained the
whole Peloponnesus, but for the COM
ing CT this foreigner-may good ball
end him.
To Trevanion the malediction was as
grateful as a(draft of cool beer to the
scorched palate of a waking sot. He
spoke in the veruacular: There are
English. too, who would drink that
toast, Who IS Ulysses?''
His faded sailors rig had been mis-
belts as. "One who will sweep this pup
pet of MavrOcordato's into the gulf!'
the first replied fiercely.
May 1 be there TO help" exclaimed
Trevanion. savagely. Take me to this
leader of yours,"
The two Suliotes looked at him mar
rowly, then conferred. At length the
chief came closer.
If you would serve Ulysses" he said.
meet me beyond the north fortihca-
tions at sunset"
Trevanion nodded, and they turned
away. as a shout went UP from the as
sembled people. a boat had swung out
from the briggs davits. 1t carried a
flag-a white cross on a blue ground
the standard of New Greece.
The man with the disabled arm
flushed suddenly. for his dark. sullen
gaze had fallen on the sea-wall, where
stood his HighneSs Prince Mavrocor-
ddto. with Pietro Gambia The latter
had followed Gordon TO Cephalonia and
from there had come on the Hercules
consort. sinking shame bit
Trevanion as he recalled the day
when his poisoned whisper
would have fired that young
heart to murder; he wheeled and
plunged into the human surge.
The couple on the seawan watched
eagerly. The lowered boat had been
=
scarlet uniform took it's place in the
stern sheets The crowd buzzed and
dilated.
The Prince lowered his feIdgIass.
Thank God. he is safe" he exclaimed
in earnest Italian. I'VE have been IN
desperate straits, PtetrO- With the
General Assembly preparing to meet,
when all the Western country is in
such disorder. with these untamed
mountain chiefs f1ockIng here with
their clans, with BotZaris killed IN bat
tie, and only my paltry five thousand
TO keep dissensions in check. have
been prepared for the worst Now
there is hope. Look"
He stretched his hand toward the
teeming quay They have waited for
him as for the Messiah. All the chiefs,
except Ulysses, who has always plotted
for cCntrol-and his spies are in the
town at this moment.-will defer TO
him. With a united front what could
Greece not do. The Turk could never
enslave her again. With no supreme
head her provinces are like the united
bundle Of stickS-easily broken one at
a time."
They watched In silence while the
rowers drew nearer across the shall
lows.
Il did not hope TO see you here,
Pietro," Mavrocordato said affection
ately. as they started toward head
quarters.
Gambia answered simply: She sent
me-to guard him IL I could
Ten minutes more and the boat was
at the landing.
The instant it's bow touched the ma
sonry before lines OF picked troops a
single bell rang out from the Greek
church. Other iron tongues took it up.
The walls shook with rolling salvos OF
artillery. the firing of muskets and
wild music, as the man In the scarlet
uniform, colorless and strangely COM
posed amid the tossing agitation.
stepped on shore to grasp the hand OF
Prince Mavrocordato. standing with a
long suite of European and Greek Of
ficers-
As his gaze swept over the massed
soldiery the frantic people. the women
on roofs and balconies. the houses
hung with waving carpets-a rainbow
motley OF eolcr-a great shout rolled
along the entertainments. a tumulr
mingled with handclapping like a silver
rain that drowned all words. Women
in rrrIN