Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12
CHAPTER XVIII.

@TEVER until he witnessed that morning prayer
IN had Dick fully appreciated the grandeur Of
ceremony with which the Mussuman sancti-
fes his alteration. Wherever he looked below, the
figures of men bent forward and back, and all
came the call of faith Where yesterday had been
empty plain now an encampment OF fifty
five hundred which the yellow current of the
little river seemed to have cut off from its opposite
bank. 1t was spotted with gorgeous coor,-here
division whose predominant tone vermion
red there forming a green splotch; in the
distance were men half clad in blue and beyond them
others striped with orange flame. AS if to accen-
tuate the difference between uniforms, the whole
encampment bordered in white where fierce
nomadic warriors farmers, and nondescripts had
Joined the force of battle their steel against
the mountain hordes. These were the men who had
sworn to bend no neck to Berber rule.
The American felt much alone in the midst of
this warlike preparation, in which he felt he had no
part. He entered his tent, to find that sometime
in his absence the Kaid had risen and disappeared.
The orderly who had been assigned appeared soon
after with a smoking breakfast which he ate hurried
1y his thoughts being centered what might happen
outside, event of which he wished to miss.
For full hour after he had finished his meal he
watched the movement, regretting that he could
visit that other camp, and annoyed that SO far
this day he had not seen Sid Suleyman, who he
felt certain would conduct him the plain below.
AS if in answer to this annoyance, voice spoke
n so unexpectedly at his rear that he swung round
with start, to face the kaid's Captain standing
behind him.
Would the Captain like for to go to them camps?"
Dick ignoring the broken English to which he had
become accustomed, admitted that his desire led
that way and accompanied by Sidi Suleyman,
made his way down the hill. On entering the out
posts he had expected nothing less than the fierce
questioning look that the followers of the Prophet
invariably bestow upon the unbelever. What was
his establishment to be met by two officers, who
promptly saluted him and, he advanced, the
soldiers invariably stared at him respectfully and
lifted their hands to turbans punctiliously
they could have done had Kaid Clarke himself
passed between their lines.
He observed the evident pride with which his
fhor,c1 ,,cod
that Sid Suleyman advance agent had ex-
planned to the arrivals that Allah was with them,
inasmuch as second Kaid Clarke, another great
foreign Kad and master of war, had been brought to
the scene to fight for the honor of the Prophet.
Everywhere he observed that the men, although
displaying no rigid discipline, were wry clean, and
well kept, and that their arms were fairly modern.
There of alertness about them which
indicated that in time of necessity they would prove
concluded that the religious spirit coupled with
accouterments, should make them formidable SOL
diers.
In passing through the batteries he shook his
head in dubious way. He had never such
mixture of guns. Some of them were very anti
quated. two mortars suggesting the Civil
War in the United States. Farther on he came to
two other mortars which were undoubtedly relics
of some Spanish campaign inasmuch as they were
made of bronze and profusely decorated and en-
graved. In all that of artillery he discovered
bare half dozen truly modern guns of the death
dealing quality to which he as an officer of an in
tensey modern army, was accustomed. He came
to the conclusion that the small infinitely
more efficient than the artillery, and under
stood the peculiar formation of Hamilton Carke's
camp.
HE had passed through the division comprising
- the Mekinez troops, skirted the base of the
hill where the headquarters detachments sit
uated, and well into the heart of the Marrakesh
reinforcements when his attention, with that of
others, directed toward the river front. Mount
ing cannon that he might see above the heads of
the intervening soldiers, he stared the others
stared the little river. There, coming down