Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-11-14

roamed through the streets
Of Delhi, 1s+
o.naos had sent him upon an under
O ,"niug involving the destruction of
~ ssr power in India. He had
t aTS miserably and, at the moment
20 his failure. had encountered the
'roa of the mysterious woman who
"a induced him to leave America
80. -. n devote his millions to the pur-
.oooo of the League She had seen
~ disgrace and read and reflected
,ho abatement in his eyes.
He loved her, this beautiful I'M
s,own lady of lofty rank, though, in
obedience to the command which she
Sod laid on him, he had never sought
~ discover her identity. He was ig-
Grant even of her name. He had
Solipved her a parsonage of title at
tbo Austrian court; behold, she was
IN India. an unsupported watcher of
tho wav in which he carried out his
mission and her mandate!
food of anger and resentment
sVept over him; anger against him.
,pf that he had been blind enough
IN allow himself to be used as a tool;
resentment against his friend Rosny,
tbe Leagues Paris secretaryA that he
should have duped him so many
times by the promise of some day
meeting the girl again.
Now he would be fooled no longer.
He would seek her out, find her,
though he searched Delhi for days:
he would speak face to face with her,
plead his own cause, as was the right
Of every American, and stand or fall
by her answer
It seemed madness, but it was a
glorious madness that enwrapped him,
enmeshing spirit and senses until
nothing seemed longer impossible to
Paul Imagining that Mademoiselle
the only name by which he knew
heT-was visitor at the Durbar at
the invitation of some ambassador,
he haunted the railroad station for
days until the last of the visitors had
departed, searching and scanning ev-
cry face eagerly in hope of seeing
her again But all his efforts were
to no purpose, and at last, sick at
heart, he resolved to abandon his OBJ
Jet, to sever his alliance with the
League, to see Rosny no more, and
70 return home to America again.
He took ship for Egypt; thence he
embarked aboard a French steamer
for Marseilles. The sun was warm,
the sky bright and cloudless. The
vessel skirted the low sand-dunes of
the Tripoli coast preparatory to head
Ing north for Malta.
On the second morning the white
sides of warship appeared some
miles astern. AS the hours wore on
she began to draw nearer. At last
Inc watchers, through their tele-
scopes, could make out the Italian
nag at her foremost. The French
snip turned northward, being then
within half q mile of the Tripoli
shore; as she shifted her course, how
ever a gun roared from the italian
vessel 1t was q blank shot, signify
Ing that the liner was to heave to
untll her papers could be examined.
The coast being blockaded, this or
uer excited much comment, but no
alarm, among the passengers, who,
cO|ding the liners decks, watched
WIN interest the approach of the pur-
sung Warship. She anchored about
laH mile distant and a cutter left
leF side, containing a boats crew
"IlA an officer in charge.
But an astonishing effect was pro-
OUced by this maneuver among a
slalI fleet of Arab fishing vessels,
sa'ch had been placidly sailing be-
sSsen the liner and the shore AS
,le Varship hove to they turned and
C'sdn TO scurry toward the beach.
"1e which had been caught between
Is inner and the battleship, passed
IOSe under the Frenchman's bow as
sus oeat her course landward. Paul,
,s@scnlng idly from the taffrail, saw
wv Oronzed oarsmen pulling to sup
n sa the power of their Tapping
Nll, and then
:, seated IN the bow, yelled, attired
!. %Aite from head to foot, woman
- Arao garb guided them, issuing
~ 80 curt orders as they tugged at
~, vars. All the blood in Paulis body
~ sSuea through his veins furiously at
~ sght Of her. It was the woman
sought. He had no doubt of it.
,S. intuition would have told him
ma ~a. out apart from it there was no
Im S'aAlhs that trim, slight figure, that
t1 a mien displayed even under
NC desert veil.
ho1 W Tue boat passed under the liners
p. s and scurried toward the shore
a ~ nesltated no longer. Without
ovo .uOught, actuated solely by that
sass pSS%ering impulse which pos
rail 'su MN he vaulted over the taft
@na Ieaped into the sea.
lina.,sf y of horror went UP from the
tbon,s aecks. The Arab dhow, as
this tearing some hostile design in
to ma mlaneuyer, redoubled it's efforts
b. aa the land. AS Paul came up
nc saw tho :,