The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-26
Thursday, July &c, 1906.

guidebook he had purchased in Vienna;
but when they came to the place where
the Inn should have stood, they discov-
cred nothing but charred ruins and Gin
said Arthur Kenyon, 1.-THE red cock has
crowed here before us. A romantic
ear. would have listened greedily at
such a time to the guide g tales Of bor-
der pleasantries carried shrek
ing to the mountains, roofs blazing.
priests burned in their holy offs, babes
have made q simple affair in which a
drunken herdsman and paraffin lamp
had figured notably; but Gavin was in
no mood for narratives, and he sent
them to the right about, one for wood,
another for water, a third to hunt cot
covered.
"The Hotel Of the Belle Etoile after
have been worse, Arthur
Just so. If / had not stocked your
larder at Slavitesti, you would now be
doing what the amiable Foulon advised
the French people to do hundred years
sago-eating hay with relish, my dear
boy. Well, there's red wine strong
enough to poison White Bull, and maize
bread tough enough for a guinea set Of
ready-made grinders, to say nothing of
cheese, sausage, and biscuits. Fall on,
enough!''
~ don't care twopence about the
food, :, said Gavin savagely; cit Is the
delay I fret over. We may be within
riding distance Of the place for all I
know; They could have told us at this
"The boy on the burning deck grown
eloquent. We might have put out the
fire for them or comforted some of the
ladies. Are you really in such hurry,
"Judge for yourself. From the cas-
tie at Okna can write to Evelyn and
tell her the truth. Until it is told, she
will be the daily victim Of rogue's
plausible suggestions Why, the man
may have returned to Derbyshire by
this time-all that is possible and
more"
"And there was great square moon
in the sky and thereon the people read
the story of the Jabberwock. Tell me
: frankly, would Evelyn listen to the man
nowfs
Evelyn would not, but Eta Romney
might. Enigmas-I shall not explain
them Let us 90 to supper. The day
will come after the centuries
".Gavin. my dear fellow-this is the
wine and I'll drink to your enigma. We
are people of Importance and our escort
is royal one. It is also musical That
song suggests. Siegfried or is it the
belle of New York; Ny musical ed.
ucation was completed at Magdalen
college. within Cambridge and is incom-
p1ete''
He frivolled on as young men will,
not without purpose, for Gavin g ankle
ty was patent to all about him. It had
seemed an easy thing in England to
visit the near east and learn for himself
the simple truth Of Georges odin's
tains he began to understand his diff
culties, perhaps the danger, of his pur-
suit. For this. he remembered, had
been the scene of Robert Forester g
youth, this the home Of zallony, the rev
three countries had set a price. Time
had not changed the disposition of the
mountain people, nor had civilization
Influenced its social creeds. Beware Of
Zallony's gypsies, they. had said to him
at Bucharest. This night had brought
be hard enough if any misehance should
send him back to England emptyhands
ed; to say to Evelyn, "I have failed;
can tell you nothing
Arthur Kenyon, for his part, had be-
gun to enjoy the whole adventure amaz-
ingly. Especially he liked the four
tho they had been fasting and athirst
for week. and lay down afterwards to
fall instantly to sleep. In this the
Greek muleteer and the Turkish robber
of all trades initiated them without loss
Of time; 50 that by 9 o'clock nothing
and the sonorous nasal thankoffering of
the sleepers would have betrayed the
camp or its occupants. Such converse
ton as passed between Gavin and Ar
thur was in fitful whispers, the talk of
E. e a
the day. They. too, dropped to sleep
over it at last, and when they awoke
it was to such scene as neither would
ever forget, however long he might live.
Gavin slept without dreaming, the
first night he had done SO since he left
England. He could remember after
wards that his friends voice awoke him
from his heavy slnmher. and that whan