Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14

whom the emir had spoken. and shudder-
ed al thought of the dreadful death with
which the emir had threatened him. His
guards cruel faces grew still more watch
full apd grim as he fastened, limpfng a
little, toward the couch, while they were
still salutng its occupant.
Sallie had risen from it and was stand
ing with one arm around the other girl
heaving shoulders, adjusting her veil.
The cough had ceased again, but its vic
tim had not yet recovered her voice. The
man in the mask glanced most unhappily
at her and then at Sallie But 1t was not
concern on his own account that his
steady gray eyes expressed.
He was about to speak. when the emir g
wife held up a thin, transparent hand
Wait she begged, weakly. ihere -
so little time-and my strength
He pulled glass tube from one OF his
pockets and gave her tabloid. She
swallowed it down, with a mouthful OF
water, indifferently. but it soon did her
good. She signed her women aside and
looked imploringly up at Saiiie.
Il can't live through another night"
she said. ''and-neither will this man. un.
less you help me to help him. You Will
do that. won't you? He's an English
mana doctor-he has done all he pos
sibly could for me-and cannot die
while i know that his life hangs on mine
It's too horrible"
Sallie sat down again and clasped the
wasted, writhing body closely to her In
her strong, young arms.
I'll do all possibly can to help him,
she promised. in a quick whisper. The
gray eyes behind the horrible scarlet hood
hold her responsible for any promise
given to tighten that poor creatures last
hours And the enir's wife lay back
against her shoulder with an exhausted
sob of relief.
I'm really an American" said a pleas
ant and very grateful voice from behind
the mask, which was gazing down at
them inscrutably now, land no doctor at
all He was speaking to sallie; the
emirS wife was still gasping for breath.
.'But-yOu can see for yourself how very
harmful this nervous excitement must be
to her.
I'VE must humor her-whatever may
happen his glance seemed to add. and
sympathy.
She had been wondering what she, SO
helpless and uncertain herself, could pos
sibly do to reassure the dying girl and
help the man who was doomed.
IF could get back on board the ship,
she said, somewhat uncertainty, in an
swer to the appealing look with which
the emirs wife was once more regarding
her. Il would bring or send boat
The other girls wan face displayed re-
newed life and animation.
Soon after midnight" she whispered.
eagerly. You must give me till then to
do my part. But soon after midnight he
will be waiting beyond the outermost of
the guards at the shore end of the ravine
which leads from our camp. He'll be
wearing that wOman's cloak and veil, and
carrying bucket sometimes send her
to the beach for sea water to battle my
feet" She pointed to one of her slaves,
but at that the man IA the mask inter-
vened.
Il couldn't do that. Your husband
would
She held up a hand again. and he said
no more. only shaking his head. He
seemed to have forgotten that she was
not to be contradicted.
The woman Is mine," said the emirs
wife. land my husband will not hurt
hair of her head while she obeys me. He
has sworn that on the cross. He Will
keep his oath-and you have my word as
well that she shall come to no harm.
You need have no scruples. them
She looked impatiently up at the scarlet
mask bending over her. not to be salts
fled until 1t bowed in submission to her
authority there. But Sallie could read In
the steadfast gray eyes behind IT dumb
that the slave girl should
run no such risk. and she did not think
1t needful at that moment to say any
thing about the other difficulties to be
overcome She had promised that she
would do all she possibly could to help
the man in the mask, and believed she
could help him best in the meantime by
keeping her own troubles to herself.
She did not even know as yet what
Capt Doves immediate intentions to-
ward her We're. or whether she herseif
But-she would know before very long.
and 1t would be time enough to explain
her own plight.