The Press., 1912-09-25

side of the edifice to guide us on the way.
 "'Let us get off here and see if Pro lessor Georges is inside
 "'That is great idea of the master,' assented Haf1a eagerly, and he slipped from his camel and commanded mine to kneel In another instant l was on the ground and stumbling down into an excavation, at the end of which was an oblong of light. It was the open doorway to a passage leading into the pyramid.
 "As I entered the passageway put my hands to my lips and uttered our old college yell in order to apprise Georges of my arrival. What hap pened afterward seems as dreamlike as the shadowy caravan l saw in the desert.
 Around corner of the passageway A long brown arm shot out and extin- guished the swinging lantern that had lured me there. Then a score of lean fingers attacked me in the darkness' and I was aware that I was being robbed of watch and money and what ever else of value I possessed. But. quick as lightning, my hand had snatched at the revolver at my hip, and managed to free my right arm and fire it among my enemies.
 "The flash and the echOing report threw the robbers into panic. The wounded one yelled terrible curses upon me unto the twentieth generation
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 "I groped my way into the open air and beneath the stars found my camel. Hafia and his beast had disappeared. I wonder If any of you ever tried to mount a camel when he was standing bumped before you and you didn't know the password that would make him drop on his calloused knees. Well. I tried every way I could think of to make that camel kneel. prayed to him, and swore in seven languages, but he stood there in the moonlight, with sulky, protruding lower lip and obstinate boise. Once l essayed to climb up by the gorgeous trarpings of leather that served as harness, but he turned and snapped at me viciously.
 "I was quite in despair when sudden ly out of the shadow of the pyramid there came single word hOarSely whispered but quite audible. word of command that brought the camel to his knees in trice. l scrambled upon his back, turned him about nS he arose to his height. and away We went over the track we had come. ] trusteI en- tirely to the camel to take me back to Cairo, and we reached there just as day was dawning. My camel chose his own way. and we entered the city by way of the citadel, and inquired of soldier concerning the pyramid of Naua, and told him of my adventure of the previous night.
 "He laughed and assured me that had never been within twenty miles ot Naua-that Hafia had deliberately led me to a small tomb which was ren' dezvous for d gang of robbers, and he said that the shadowy caravan Was l without doubt the villainOus band who had robbed me.
 "'Your guide was Hafla, the albino? 1 he asked skeptically.
 T nodded assent.
 ""Then it is wonder that your throat was not cut he said dryty and turned his back. placed the matter i'll the hands of the police, and toward evening they returned my watch, but the money had disappeared beyond re call.
 l "I was preparing for bed when q servant informed me that a dragoman awaited my coming in the veranda oi the hotel. suspected it was Hafia anC went down. There he was, his cloak drawn closely about his face quite dis guising his features and complexion but I caught the gleam of his pale wicked eye.
 "'Master,' he whined cringingly, my camel ran away with me, and l re turned too late to be of assistance tc you. Shall We start again for the pyra mid el Naua in the morning?
 "'You may start now l said rudely and then it was that Mrs. Hanford saw me administer a well deserved kick te Hafia, the albinO. That is the end Ot the story"
 "Oh. James. I would have died oi fright if I had known you were in suct danger!' cried his wife.
 "Not much danger in such pack ot towards" reassured her husband eas lily.
 The ladies of the party separated from the group and chatted together The four men grew closer.
 "Is that the reason you had a sud den attack of rheumatism in your lef arm, Hanford?' asked Arthur Clayton "What was it-a knife?"
 Yes" grinned MT. Hanford ru fully.