New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY Is. 1910
The Garden of Fate
Continued from page 7

promising. Surely a Kings word ought to be
good. I've won OtIti
The Kaid smiled and the American OBJ
serving it. asked:
What are you laughin' att"
Because promises are the cheapest thing
with his Majesty and-well, we shall see!''
CHAPTER X
THOSE who lived in the Garden of Fate had
a season of inaction which extended over
in Fee and his proposed trip to the turbulent
interior was deferred. 1t was a time. however.
filed with subtle changes and little events
which. although outwardly OF no importance.
destined to decide many things. The
kaid's face was less grave than it had been; it
had softened in some of its lines and his eyes
smiled more frequently than before. The Con-
SulS daughter. on the contrary, had become
less radiant than of Old laughed less frequently.
told stories with less zeSt. and found the rIdIc
ulous or humorous side of happenings more
rarely. A certain seriousness had crept into
the lines of her forehead and she appeared TN
usually thoughtful.
Dick Whitney noticed the change in the
others but little. having become obtuse through
his own brooding He had taken to spending
more time away from the garden, and had
rarnbled through the old city and the new
until it seemed to him that he knew every
alleyway, every path, and every street and
could chart them.
He passed whole days in mastering the
Arabic tongue. and. having a natural facility
for languages. had come to understand nearly
all that he heard.
The English girl made the situation more
difficult for him by bestowing new confidence
and serene trust. reading in him those charac-
teristics which her brother. the peer. had so
admired. Her reserve had melted as his had
grown, until she had no hesitancy in letting
him have long glirnpSeS into her mind. reveal
ing day by day great depths and lofty ideals.
Accusing himself of neglect and unysorthi-
ness, he strove to be more attentive to Char
lotte. giving her attentions he had never be-
fore thought OF and being more solicitouS for
her happiness than ever before. And all
these she accepted in the belief, more securely
established. that she alone could make him
happy. Once she had gone careieSSly along
believing that he had no more than brotherly
affection for her; but now she was convinced
that she had been mistaken in her estimate of
his regard. She did not divine that his mind
was III such turmoil that could he have done
SO he would have fled from Fee to try and
Scourge his affections into submission nor
did she know that he regarded Morocco. as a
volcano on the eve of eruption and felt bound
to stay tor the protection of those he loved
and to tight for them if need be. And so. of
them all, the two who went ahead in the GREAT
est happiness and most biSsful ignorance were
the Hon. Bob and the Kaid the former feeling
that his important statecraft was being reward
ed. and the latter reveling in the companion
snip or the only girl he had ever met who could
q =
nent he had never known.
The other actor in the slowly culminatinp
drama was none other than Buha1nrnei. who
more and more. despite their feeling toward
nm. had encroached upon the stage with an
inSidouS persistence that was disarrninp
Never day passed that the Moor did not
call at the Consulate. and usually with some
Pretext that made it almost impossible To
deny him audience in the Garden of Fate. 10
whose history he had never referred since
that night when he had told its tragic story.
invariably the morning found his drapornan
the stately Arab who had accompanies him
on that excursion to Mount Zalag, ar their
door. Now it was with a bouquet of rare HoIy-
erS' now with package of Moroccan sweet
meats, or again with package of magazines
from that outside world which seemed 90 far
and yet with which he had incomprehensibIa
communication. -'''o''
frequently ne brought presents to the Com
SUI daughter; but they were of such nature
that she could scarcely decline to receive
thein. quaint amulet from beyond the Atias,
the gay clasp of womans govr, w;tb -.
pea and Old silver bangles which shone in
Tue uuSk IKE pearls. an antique ring with a |
curious history. tiny carved box that had ba,; |
eosiiietlcs Tor some beauty of a forgotten ha-