The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-11-05
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The sea is as fiat as a board. and we
will land there. You can go on to the
Mediterranean without coaling. can
you not?"
The captain said he could coal az
Gibraltar, if necessary.
Then take her TO Naples. please.
and wait tor Instructions"
/ Baraka understood nothing but
within two minutes she saw that the
yacht was changing her course. for
/ the afternoon sun was all at once
pouring in on the deck. just beyond
the end of her chair She was salts
fed, and nodded her approval
When shall we reach chat place."
she asked Iazily, and she turned her
/ face to LOgOtheti.
allah knows" he answered gravely.
She had been so well used to hear
ing that answer to all sorts of ques-
tons since she had been d child that
she thought nothing of it, and waited
awhile before speaking again. Her
( eyes studied the mans face almost
uncOnsciously. He now wore a fez
/ instead OF yachting cap, and it
changed his expression He 10 longer
looked in the least like a European.
The handsome red felt glOwed like
blood in the evening light and the
( long black silk tassel hung backwards
with a dashing air There was some
thing about him that reminded Ba-
raka of Saad, and Saad had been
handsome man, even in her eyes, UNI
til the traveller had come to her IA
Tiers house with his blue eyes and
golden beard But Saad had only
seen her unveiled face once, and that
was the last thing he saw when the
ball from the Mauser went through
his forehead
q mean she asked after some
time, Shall we be there tomorrow?
or the next day? 7 see no land on
this side: is there any on the other?"
No Logotheti answered, there is
no land near Perhaps, far of. we
might see a small island"
rs that the place." Baraka began
to be interested at last
The place is far away. You must
have patience. All hurry comes
from Satan
81 am not impatient" the girl an
swered mildly I am glad to "est in
your ship, for I was very tired, more
tired than I ever was when ! was a
child, and used to climb up the foot
hills to see Altai better 1t is good
to be in your ship for a while, and aft
er that, what shall be, will be 1t is
Allah that knows"
That is the truth" responded the
Greek. Allah knows I said so just
now. But I will tell you what I have
decided, if you viii listen"
Il listen"
1T is better that you should rest
several days after all your weari-
ness, and the man you seek Will not
run away, for he does not know that
you are so near"
But he may take another woman"
Baraka objected, growing earnest at
once. Perhaps he has already, Then
there VIII be two instead of one"
"Spiro," said Logotheti with perfect
truth, would as soon kin two as one,
I am sure, for he is a good servant.
It will be the same to him. You call
me a great man and a king: I am not
king, for | have no kingdom, though
some kingdoms would like TO have as
much ready money as l. But here. on
the ship, | am the master. not only
because it is mine. and because I
choose to command, but because the
men are bound by English law to
obey me: and if they should refuse
and overpOwer me. and take my ship
where | did not wish to go the laws
of all nations would give me the right
to put them all into prison at once,
for a long time. Therefore when I
say, Go to a certain place they take
the ship there, according to their
knowledge for they are trained TO
that business and can guide the vessel
towards any place in the world,
though they cannot see land till they
reach it. Do you understand all these
things?
Il understand" Baraka answered.
smiling But 7 am not bound to obey
you, and at least I can beg you to do
what I ask and think you viii do it.
Her voice grew suddenly soft and
almost tender, for though she was
only a Tartar girl, and very young
and slim. she was a woman Eve had
not had long experience of talking
when she explained to Adam the
properties of apples
Logotheti answered her smile and
her tone
4 shall do what you ask me, but I
shall do it slowly rather than quick
ly, because that will be better for you
in the end. If we had gone on as we
were going, we should have got to
land tonight, but to a wretched little
town from which we should have had
to take a night train, hot and dirty
and dusty, all the way to Paris. That
would not help you to rest, would it,"