Arizona republican., 1912-03-22
A SPLE N D I'D P A w N
 By ELEANOR STUART. Copyright, 1910, by the Pearson
 Publishing Co.)
By ELEANOR STUART.

| opout- Sht DiSStu ", StOUluG TOT | his mouth with sudden cessation of fear and hands which trembled from l the straining grip of her ride Calvin
 gruntrd. filing valiantly at the metal l link while Sybil's fingers pulled at a
 strange. stone-like thing between Fed. 1 ders parted burning lips.
 l Strange sounds. unlike speech, came
 from him while she worked, but at last
 she held something and dragged it l sharply away, when her hand was caught in jaw swiftly closed. and she ! sent out one cry of absolute agony.
 He has bitten my hand" she walled
 when she could speak, pressing herself | to Galvin's side.
 | 'I know" he answered, poor Sybil.
 dear girl. suck at it for Gods sake. for
 we must see this through It's the big
 gest days work we have ever seen. | Come. The chains are off; we must get | out of this quickly"
 | He groaned when he saw her hand l Keep on sucking" he whispered. and help me help Fedder walk" | At that the long creature beside
 them stirred Excuse the bite" he said faintly. "I dm sorry. it was purely | involuntary" lie rose and fumbled at | his breast with some half-executed de | sign of signing the cross upon it. and | reeling between them rushed for the | shattered door. through which the moonlight also had burst
 We have no camel for him" ," Sybil cried. Have we not?" Calvin inquired | grimly. while they pushed on in dark
 ness, suffering but alert
 The hill they had tolled over in as cent seemed swiftly steep in it's down
 ward repassing. but they avoided the clif beside which the roofess house stood bare and tenantless Tomtoms beat fainter in the peopled background Of deserted Bandi. and before them l the desert stretched, mute empty of men, but full of meaning: it's little hill tops tawny under the flood of moon at the full. its empurpled svales stretching in sharp lines. like so many arrows fallen from quiver. T. seemed sheer imposSibility that they could hold out until the well was reached Pulses beat in SybilS head and breath rushed in and ont of her lungs. shak- ing her as it came and went Fedder leaned on her intolerably and strange thoughts of wanting 10 lie down of longing 10 die, shot like lightning through her mind.
 Then Calvin paused in the shadow of an odorOuS locust tree. taking his watch from his wrist where he wore il in a leather bracelet and hiding it within his tunic
 The light caught Fedder's face and showed them his beard, the ends of which had been stuffed into his mouth 10 make part of his gag. The hairs stuck to his lips now and he picked them off painfully. borrowing Sybirs handkerchief 10 wipe away the blood.
 When the came t0 Baltuk and the camels. Calvin spoke: Go back 10 the Ngambo. Baltuk. and tcll your Mullah that I dropped my watch in his village whore lifted his sick man. When it is found. bid him keep it. as present for his kindness to me tonight We will stay here"
 BaltUk stood staring at them before he turned on his naked heel and ran up the steep. scruh-bordered path. We have now" Calvin continued. ever so gently, "a camel for Fedder I couldn't think how else to get one
 VI
 Their flight was too serious for ex- plantations or speech but when the coral shades of dawn dared in the east they saw Madgeldar's walls white in the distance. and saw each others faces white too. and livid with fatigue. and racked with the bitter pains of such a journey.
 Its the first time. old Calvin" Fed der shouted for their pace was still swift, that the MUllab has had 10 give up his quarry. He had me four days"
 Curse him." Calvin called genially.
 l,s,, ITnJ T He's a man and lives up 10 his lights. | Who's this lady?"
 My wife, when you get round 10 it. We needed parson. so we rescued you. Miss Rae arrived out with yes terday's mail"
 They pounded on the city's gate un- opened for the day. and sent boys for two prominent Arabs 10 be witnesses to the marriage.
 Calvin had hard work prying plaster of Paris away from Fedder's teeth. but at last they were all three bathed and dressed. fed and festive. It was then that Fedder told them of his capture. 1 with the hand of each deliverer clasped | close in his.
 II was coming toward Bandi with no | end of rare moths, a new one, blue, !
 
 That will do later" Sybil said !! firmly.
 And I saw train of desert men, | unmounted l knew it was the Mullah | leading them. and although he tried | 10 kill me with queer knife, I liked l him awfully. A man with him heard | from one of my porters that I was bit of doctor, so they decided to take | me to a smallpox district, back of l Bandi. When we got 10 the town. l | tried 10 run away. so they took the 1 roof off my house that the sun might 1 kill me, but spring overfiowed above me somewhere. and I was drenched l with it and felt the sun but little. They made light of my beard, like lot of Moslems, and gagged me be- cause I frightened the townsmen. tell ing them how English love remembers and how English arms ever win at long last. They were all gone 10 feast to celebrate some defeat of our men somewhere, when you got there. Well even four days in chains seem centuries. You're credits to your coun- try. you two" he ended thoughtf,Illy.
 When Galvin's brief chronicle of all l