Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-13

CTS. From the windows anu doorways
 of every house, from tue bazaars and
 cafes. from the side streets and
 mosque approaches. the gaze of the sullen populace fastened itself upon the little procession. The town seemed ominously silent.
 At last they came to the end of the
 sunlit street and plunged into the | shady road that ascended the slope | through what seemed to be an abso- lutely unbroken though gorgeous jun gle. The cool green depths looked most alluring to the sun baked travellers. They could almost imagine that they heard the dripping of fountains. the gurgling of rivulets. so like paradise was the prospect ahead. Lady Agnes could not restrain her cries of delight ed ainazement.
 Its like this all over the island, your ladyship." volunteered Mir. Bowles. mopping his brow in a most unmiitary way, except at the mines and back there in the town
 Where are the mines?" asked Dep bingham.
 "The company's biggest mines are seven ar eight miles eastward as the crow flies, quite at the other side of the island It's very rocky over there, and there's no place for landing from the sea. Everything is brought overland to Arafat and placed in the vaults of the bank. Four times year the rubles and sapphires are shipped to the brokers in London and Paris and Vienna. It's quite neat and reg ular arrangement. sir
 But l should think the confounded natives would steal everything they got their hands on"
 What would be the use. sir? They couldn't dispose of a single gem on the islnnd. and nothing is taken away from here except in the companys chests. Besides. my lord, these people are not thieves. They may kill people occa- sionally, but they are quite honest, be- lieve me. And. in any event. are they not part of the great corporation? They have their share in the working of the mines and in the profits MT. Wyckholme and Mir Skaggs were hon. est with them. and they have been just aS honest in return"
 "I should think they'd be terribly tempted" said Lady Agnes. They look SD wretchedly poor"
 My lady" said Bowles. there are but four poor men on the isand-my- self and the three EngIishmen who op- crate the bank There isn't a poor man. woman or child among the na- lives. This is truly a land of rich men. The superintendent of the mines is a white mana German-and the three fOremen are Boers. They work on shares. just as the natives do. and save even more. think. The clerical force is entirely native. There were but ten white men here before you ranie, including two Greeks. Being part owners. the natives have decided that four hours constitute days work. They pay themselves accord | ngly. as it were No one works after sir"
 Fl say. wouldn't this he a paradise for the English worklngman:" said l Deppingham. ''That's the kind of | lays labor they'd like Do you mean 10 say that these fellows trudge eight miles to work every morning and back igaln at nOVn?"
 Certainly not. sir They ride their thoroughbred horses to work and ride hem back'agaln."
 You take my breath away" said the other. lapsing into stunned silence.
 The road had become so steep and aborious by this time that Bowles was very glad To forego the pleasure ,f talking. He fell back with MT. and proceeded to give the nquisitive lawyers clerk all the late Jews of the island.
 prompt to protect themselves in a le- ,al sense. They had engaged the sery- ces of eminent solicitors in London. vho were to represent them in the lnal settlement of the estate. London
  vas 10 be the battle-ground in the oming conflict. A committee of three lad journeyed to England to put the natter in the hands of these lawyers nd were now returning to the island with a representative of the firm, who vas coming out to stand guard so to peak. Won Blitz, the German superin- endent, was the master mind in the lative contingent. The absent com nittee was composed of Ben A,ii, Alb allah Ben Sabbat and Rasula, the Iratat lawyer. They were truly wise ien from the east-old. shrewd. crafty nd begotten of Mohammed. The mines continued to be operated s usual pending the arrival of the ex- cutors' representative, who. as we now, was now on the ground in the erson of Thomas Saunders. The fact hat he also served as legal adviser to .ady Depplngha was not of sufii- tent moment to disturb the arrange rents on either side As for the American heir Robert