The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-20


sent out one cry of absolute agony.
lie 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 ii for Gods sake, for
we must see this through It's the biz
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.
Keep on sucking" he whispered,
and help me help Feeder walk"
AT that the long creature beside
them stirred. Excuse the bite" he
said family, Il am sorry. it was purely
involuntary" He rose and fumbled al
his breast with some half-executed de-
sign of signing the cross upon IL. AMI
reeling between them rushed for the
shattered door, through which the
moonlight also had burst
cried. %
Have we not?" Calvin inquired
grimly, while they pushed on in dark,
ness, suffering but alert.
The hill they had toiled over In an.
cent seemed swiftly steep in its down.
ward repassing, but they avoided the
cliff beside which the roofiess house
stood bare and tenantless. Tomtoms
heat fainter in the peopled background
OF deserted Bandi, and before them
the desert stretched. mute, empty OF
men, but full of meaning; it's little hill.
tops tawny under the food OF a moon
at the full, Its empurpled swales
stretching in sharp lines, like so many
arrows fallen from a culver. II seemed
sheer impossibility that they could
hold out until the we'll was reached.
Pulses beat in SYPHILIS head and breath
rushed in and out of her lungs, shak.
ing her as IL came and went. Feeder
leaned on her intolerably and strange
thoughts Of wanting to lie down, OF
longing to 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 a.
IN leather bracelet and hiding it
within his tunic.
The light caught Feeders face and
showed them his beard. the ends OF
which had been stuffed into his mouth
to make part Of his gag. The hairs
stuck to his lips now and he picked
them of painfully, borrowing SYPHILIS
W "ipt away LnC DlODNs
When the came to Baltuk and the
camels, Calvin spoke: Go back TO the
N'gambo, Baltuk, and tell your Mullah
that dropped my watch in his village
where lifted his sick man. When It
is found, bid him keep 1t. as a 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, scrub-bordered path. VIC
have now" Calvin continued, ever 80
gently, "a camel for FEEDER couldn't
think how else to get one"
VI.
Their fight was too serious for ex-
plantations or speech, but when the
coral shades Of dawn fiared in the cast
they saw Madgeldar's walls white i'm
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 Mullah has had TO give
up his quarry. He had me four days"
Curse him!" Calvin called genially.
Don't curse him." Feeder screamed.
Hes man and lives up to his lights
Who's this LADY,"
MY wife, when you get round 10 H.
We needed a parson. so we rescued
you. Miss Rae arrived out with yes
terday's mail"
They pounded on the city's gate I'M
opened for the day. and sent boys for
two prominent Arabs TO be Witnesses
to the marriage.
Calvin had hard work prying plaster
of Paris away from Feeders teeth, but
at last they were all three bathed and
dressed, fed and festive. II was then
that Feeder told them OF his capture.
with the hand of each deliverer clasped
close in his.
Il was coming toward Bandi with no
end of rare moths, new one, blue,
with gray"
THAT will do later" sybll said
firmly.
And / saw train OF desert men,
unmounted. / knew Il was the Mullah
leading them. and although he tried
TO kill me with queer knife. liked
him awfully. A man with him heard
from one Of my porters that / was
bit Of doctor, so they decided 10 take
me 10 a smallpox district. back OF
Bandi When we got 70 the town, I
tried to run away, so they took the
roof off my house that the sun might
kill me, but spring overlooked above
me somewhere, and / was drenched
with it and felt the sun but little.
They made light OF my beard, like a
lot of Moslems, and gagged me be-
cause ! frightened the townsmen. tell
ing them how English love remembers
and how English arms ever win AZ
long last. They we're all gone to
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 conn.
try you two" he ended thourhtfuIIv
When Galvin's brief chronicle of All
this reached Lord Midland with his A.
ceptance of his new post. that suzrs.
person sent for an under secretsry
"Why did we choose Calvin for Rus.
torah?" he inquired.
ITO save expense. He was on N.
SPOT more or less. He was the a.,
pawn to be advanced in the Bustorsb
game"
"A splendid pawn" Midland or,os
loudly, and so the House said wbon
the matter was put before then, "a
they broke un-aftar Oh 49, N'NN