The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-15

4 oAAi- hoNC OnC lie, l<DEOllGIl
observed. 1T is yours to throw away.
But the man you seek is not in that
country. Van Torp has telegraphed
me that he Is much nearer. Neyerthe-
less, II you mean to kill him, will
not take you to him, as intended
to do"
Baraka's face had changed, though
she had been determined not to be-
tray surprise at anything he said; she
turned to him, and fixed her eyes on
his, and he saw her lashes CULVER.
You will tell me where he is" she
said anxiously. eff you will not take
me l will go alone with Spiro. have
been in many countries with no other
nelp. can go there also, where he
is. You will tell me-"
Not if you mean to murder him."
said Logotheti. and she saw that he
was in earnest.
But If he will not be my husband,
what can l do, if do not kill him?"
She asked the question in evident
good faith.
If | were you, l should make him
snare the rubies and the money with
you, and then l would leave him to
himself"
But you do not understand" Ba-
raka protested. He is young, he is
beautiful. he is rich He will take
some other woman for his wife, if |
leave him. You see, he must die,
there is no other way. If he will not
ic
you talk? Have | not come across
the world from the Altai, by Samark-
and and Tif1is, as far as England, to
md him and marry him? Is it moth
ing that l have done, a Tartar girl
alone, with no friend but a bag of
precious stones that any strong thief
might have taken from me? Is the
danger nothing? The travel nothing?
Is it nothing that l have gone about
ike a shameless one. with my face
uncovered. dressed in a mans clothes?
That have cut my hair, my beautiful
black hair, is that as nothing, too?
That have been in an English prison?
That l have been called a thief?
have suffered all these things to find
MIN, and II l come to him at last. and
ne will not be my husband, shall he
live and take another woman? You
are great man, 1t is true. But you
40 not understand. You are only a
Frank. after all! That little maid you
have brought for me would under
stand me better, though she has been
taught for six years by Christians.
She is a good girl. She says that in
all that time she has never once for
gotten to say the Fatiheh three times
day, and to say eel hamdu illah' to
herself after she has eaten! She
would understand. l know she would.
But you. never!"
The exquisite little aquiline fea-
lures wore look of unutterable con.
tempt.
IF I were you" said Logotheti.
smiling, 81 would not tell her what
you are going to do"
You see!" cried Baraka, almost an
grily. You do not understand.
servant! Shall l tell my heart to nv
handmade. and my secret thoughts tn
hired man? l tell you, because you
are friend, though you have no un-
derstanding of us. My father feeds
many f1ocks, and has many bondmen
and bondwomen, whom he beats when
1t pleases him, and can put to death
II he likes. He also knows the mine
OF rubies, as his father did before
MIN, and when he desires gold he
takes one to Tashkent. or even to
Samarkand, long journey, and sells
1t to the Russians. He is a great
man. II he would bring a camel bas
full OF precious stones to Europe he
could be one of the greatest men in
the world. And YOU think that nv
fathers daughter would open her
heart to one of her servants? I said
well that you do not understand"
Logotheti looked quietly at the slim
young thing in a ready-made blue
serge frock, who said such things as a
Lady Clara We're de We're would
scarcely dare to say above her breath
In these democratic days; and he
watched the noble little features. and
the small white hands, that had come
down to her through generations of
cnleftains, since the days when the
primeval shepherds of the world
counted the stars in the plains of
KAT.
He himself, with his long Greek de.
scent, was an aristocrat to the mar.
row, and smiled at the claims of men
who traced their families back To the
Crusaders. With the help of a legend
or two and half myth, he could al.
most make himself far descendant of
the Tyndaridae. But what was that
compared with the pedigree of the lit.
tie thing in blue serge frock? Her
race went back to a time before
Hesiod, before Homer, to a date that
might be found in the annals of Fgvnt
but nowhere else in all the dim tradi.
tons of human history.
No he said, after a long nopss
u begin to understand. You had NOT
told me that your father was great
man, and that his slres before him
had Joined hand to hand, from the