The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-03


a conjuror's gesture 10 u well. placed
on the side OF n sudden activity; a
wide expanse OF hoof-trodden dust be-
fore IL. and two rough-hewn. common
orative pillars before its wide. walled
pool On a crosbeam. resting on these
square columns. were these words in
the Mullah's hybrid Arabic: What
father closes his door-even at night
to his sons? or which fathers heart
even in sleep-but pities them?" This
was recruiting station OF Islam.
where men are won to war by words
OF fervent tenderness.
Baltuk tapped the knees OF his camel
on the dusty space before the pool. and
the beasts knelt. athirst and docile.
Sybil and Calvin dismounted. stiff and
Keeling. and Baltuk babe them heed:
"Over the hill to the right" he said.
"is the N'gambo OF Bandi. My place
y with these camels. who must drink"
They moved ever stifly. numbed hand
in numbed hand. up the hill rosetted
with low scrub. drinking from their
TASKS as they gained n painfully-won
resting place on the summit of a sud
den illogical hillock. about whose min
or base a city of huts rested. like a
dirty crescent OF kennels. under the
bright full moon. Beyond this make
whirled amid the premeditated plenty
OF feast. The great round moon i'm
personally and dispassionately lighted
each spare. active figure. until Il stood
out from the blackness of its back
ground.
1T can't he a religious feast" Gal
win muttercd. know their damned
calendar and there isn't the pretext
for 'pigeon-wing' in all this empty
month WhGt Is ~ for which they
dancer" He STROBE on down-hill. They
came suddenly on a precinct where
camels were tied 10 pegs driven deep
in the earth. Their legs were fastened
together with cruel thongs and there
were hoTdes OF them thus picketed on
that hillside: they raised their ugly
heads on long and writhing necks.
seeming like snakes about to bite poi
sonously II was hard TO tread ones
way among them. but Calvin pushed
his road through long aisles OF muZzles
unsymmet really chewing. coming out
at the far end OF the crescent formed
by a strangely struggling town. and
sitting down on a stone. still radiating
heat-for all II was night-catching
SYPHILIS hand and his breath at the one
moment. while he considered his next
step. roofiess stone house yawhed
/ .
yards below them-ten yards which
, stretched in sheer clay exuding damp
from the overflow of n well close at
hand which rippled audibly down the
/, steep 10 the town troughs.
"Sybil." Calvin commanded, stay
: here More people than Bandi con.
; tains ordinarily are Teasing and dane
, ing Before ] take YOU within the
, town. ! want TO know WHY"
Don't be long" che answered rather
! family as h" started down the sheer
2 hank lie kissed her a. he left her
! and with his lingering handclasp came
, the sense Of parting. the night seemed
. 10 close over her and choke her with
= IT, hlarkncss she saw him plunge
downward into the towns neither dark.
> ness and she knew that riot was
abroad there or some evil. patsnt 20
p HE deciviiized facu'ties and undiscern.
! iliie 70 hers n VAS awful 70 lie alone
2 there where q moment before ~ had
been good 10 b" with him
when sh. dared 20 look below her
) che moon showed him 60 he- - he
p -ra'eI ta~ VaI o. The roohess house
. furiousir once within q he lighted
j. maur raffhrs lending over what
scanned fu POI N dead animal Bur n-cs
Fl srfv D. s'irred she saw ifs niars huls
D sflf uhle chains riarAef diztlnrtly
2 an Calvin trlrls1 o. when if stirred
r. aFl.r r.ta -a- sane cherries noise OF
q iorfsEr
? 'f-.r fLraa sr.1rf sounds no ki-aed
2 unnIfr four IN 'ls least LIGHTED
Il ..-rfr .f tfn rarrrss ru' firE ant tf'
boar f.. ava. rom their farferfnr'
a. opened Vs. Cuf. sic called %
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