The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-12-28
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER 1.-The story opens az
Monte Carlo with Col; Terence e;,t o'Rou ,rks
lance and something Of a, gambler is
dressing for appearance In the restaurant
below when the sound of girlish voice
singing attracts his attention Leaning
g1rl who suddenly disappears. He rusheS
to the corridor to see neatly goWned
form enter the elevator and pass from
CHAPTER II-O'Rourke's mind is
Allied with thoughts Of the girl, and when
Iemarkable winnings to accumulate IN
ing him One is the Hon. BERTHE Glynn.
Ehile his companion 4 is wis Visc9Tpt Des
leaves the table the viscount tells him ne
represents the French government and
that he has been directed to O'Rourke as
. man who would undertake secret
mission.
CHAPTER I11-At his room O'Rourke.
who had agreed to undertake the mission.
tine st{ep m his Tho
vascount arrives, hands sealed package
to O'Rourke. who is not to open It until
ON the ocean. He says the French gov
Dor his services. 4 pair Of dainty slip
Ders are seen protruding from under q
doorway curtain and the viscount charges
QRourke with having spy secreted
there.
CHAPTER 1v.-when the 1rishman
9oes to his room he finds there the own
er Of the mysterious feet It is MS Wlte :
year previous. They are reconciled, ana
opening the letter he had received. he
Ands that a law firm in Rangoon, India.
jsWe eS known 1 1' as the Pool Of Flame and
left to him by a dying friend. O'Rourke
tells his wife that it is in the keeping
Of a friend named Chambret in Algeria.
CHAPTER v.-o'Rourke is forced to
Aght a duel with the viscount. The brag-
cart nobleman is worsted in the combat
and acts the poltroon.
CHAPTER VI.-The loyal wife bids
0'Rourke farewell and he promises to
soon return with the reward offered TOR TOT
Giynn and the viscount on board the
ship which takes him to Algeria.
geria and O'Rourke has to gain mill.
tary detachment going across the desert
b reach his FRIEND AS he finds the latter
there is an attack by bandits and
Chambret is shot.
O'Rourke, refining In desperately.
swung his camel wide to avert the
threatened collision. simultaneously
The sharp "Qui vive?" Of q French
sentry rang out, loud and sweet to
hear.
THANK God!" said the adventurer
in his heart. And aloud, "Friends!"
he cried. driving past the sentry in a
cloud of dust.
! By a blessed miracle the man was
quick of wit, and swift to grasp the
iaituation-of which, however, he
must have had some warning from
the rattle Of firing. He screamed
something in O'Rourke's ear as the
latter passed, and turning threw him.
self fiat and began to pump the tr1g-
ger Of his carbine, emptying the maya
zine at the on-sweeping line Of Tou-
,aregg.
The alarm was hardly needed;
,O'Rourke and the guide swept on
over the slip OF depression In the
desert and halted in the midst Of a
camp already quickened and alive
with shadowy figures running method
acally to their posts, carbine and ao-
,coutrement cleaning in the moon
light: men of the camel crops, hard
tened to and familiar with their work.
They buckled down to it in bus1-
Iness-like way that thrilled the heart
Of O'Rourke. In trice they were
doubling out past lines Of tethered
mehara, past the white hillocks Of
the officers shelter-tents and, like the
sentry, throwing themselves down
upon the ground to take shelter of
whatever inequalities the face Of the
desert offered; and their firing ringed
the bivouac with fringe Of flame.
O'Rourke slipped from his camel
and turned to watch the skirmish.
Masscd, the Touaregs. in strength
greater than the adventurer had be-
Notwithstanding like two hundred
mounted men, in all-charged down
upon the camp as if to over-run and
stampede it.
F.: Yet at the critical moment, when
1T seemed that OF surety there was
mo stopping them, they divided and
swung round the camp In two wide
circles, scattering into open order and
firing as they scattered. Here and
there a horse fell. rider threw out
his hands and toppled from his sad
die, a camel seemed to buckle at full
tilt like faulty piece of machinery;
and so gaps appeared in the flying
wings.
For the men of the flying column
were picked shots. They had need to
he, who had such tasks as this to cope
with.
Nor-for that matter-were the Tou-
aregg the only. sufferers. Here and
there in the camp a man plunged for
ward In mid-stride, and on the firing
Mne beyond the tents now and again
q sharpshooter shuddered and lay still
upon his arms. Even at O'Rourke's
side an oflcer was shot as he ran to
the front, and would have fallen had
not the 1rishman caught him with
ready arms and let him easily to the
earth. Al he did 80 the stricken man
rolled an aSonized eye upward.
"C'Rourke!" he SAID between .