The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-24
w. G. Chapman.)

Paul, you will have cause to exercise
diplomacy, for the Frenchmen are
| utilizing the services of a very no
/ torious character-none less than
Mademoiselle Guepin."
'Of the Moulin .Rouge?" cried Paul
In surprise. .'
Precisely. 1t will not be the first
time that France will have made use
OF her women for the accomplishment
of her purposes. The Sultan Is no.
toriously susceptible to the charms OF
the other sex, and 1t Is said that
Mademoiselle Guepin has already
reached Fee, installed herself In the
household of the Shereefa, the Sui.
tan's principal wife. and begun to &C.
quire an unbounded influence over
her and him. So you see. Paul, that
you have a hard problem to solve.
Waste no time, then, but take the
next steamship from Marseilles to
Tangiers, and then-good luck to
you'll" ~ I..... lid --.. ... ...
Two days later Paul Lane sailed
for Morocco. In his pocket he car
ried bills and gold coin to the value
of $4,000 1t was q case in which,
as 1t seemed to him, the possession
of money would play considerable
part. He longed to acquit himself
well of his mission. All the way
across the Mediterranean he dreamed
of the beautiful unknown Austrian
whom he had met only to lose so
swiftly upon the shores of Long ISL
and. That was two months ago.
Then he had been nothing but glori-
fed clerk in the huge industrial mill
of New York-now he was playing a
mans part in the world, as he had al
ways longed to do. When the purple
hills of the Atlas range doomed into
sight behind the quiet little Spanish
town he felt a curious confidence in
his success. A new sense Of strength
came to him; he would show that he
was a man to be reckoned with, he
would prove, his mettle and demand
that he be taken fully into the conf
dence Of the league, Of whose mem
bership, so far, he knew nothing ex-
SSpI "hdI ltOOuy tOlu
At Tangiers he Spent several days,
famlliarizing himself with the condi-
tons of the country. Then. purchas-
ing camels and the necessary outfit,
he Joined a caravan which was pro-
ceeding into the interior under the
protection of a bodyguard of French
troops.
He was amazed to find that the
presence of the Guepin woman was
already known to the men, and even
the purpose of her mission. Her life
had been an adventurous one. Born
on the road, into a company of stroll
ling players, she had acquired a repu-
tation second to none among the ad-
venturesses of olden times. Minis
tiers Of state, publiCists, leaders of
France had fallen victims to her be-
| fore 1t occurred to some high digni-
tary of France to utilize her for the
conquest of the Moorish Sultan. She
had arrived in Tangiers month or
two before, and had gone into the in.
terror with circus company, then
parading throughout Morocco with
it's trained lions and performing ele.
plants, to the intense delight of the
natives. After a week in the capital
! the circus manager had withdrawn TO-
ward the coast, loaded with honors-
but Guepin had remained, the pro
tegee of the Sultan's principal lady
in her magnificent house in Fee.
So much Lane rearned; further de
| tails came to him Unexpectedly on the
tenth morning, when there came
struggling along che road the rem
nants of the very circus which had
| taken Guepin to Fee. A few miser
able, lean camels, ham-strung horse
troupe of starved and anxious mer
and women were all that remained
of the trappings and the tinsel. The
company had been attacked by
tribes along the course, the horses
carried away, the best of the camel:
also, and the lions and leopards hewr
to pieces for the delectation of the
natives.
Never again do enter Africa
monsieur" said the proprietor to
Paul as they sat that night over the
campfire Had l not gone to Fee
should now be In possession of my
animals-the finest lot that ever lief
France, and all imported by me from
Monsieur Hagenbeck's menagerie a
Hamburg and of my own training
Now-see what is left! Assuredl!
France must recompense me for m.
losses"
But his majesty's presents" in
terrupted Paul.
Gone. all gone, monsieur" erie,
the owner. wringing his hands. "Stol
en- by the accursed Moors. And tn
star of my collection, the beautiful
and unrivalled Mademoiselle Guelph
even she Is lost to me. All, mon
, sieur. worshipped that woman wit
J blind devotion. And she left me 70
| what? For a Moor, monsieur, nd
gro-for what else are these Arab
but negroes masquerading as
branch of the white race? For
black man and a handful of jewels
1t Is a treasure house, that palace 4
rCL' SUN dS LiSht luiu INC hOou
any woman. The marvels, monsieur
} There are moving picture display.
, the crowns of gold. rubies and sal
, phires and pearls as large as eggs
mechanical toys and guns Of gold an
silver-it is the wonder of the world
3 o, for an hour inside and q stou
wagon in which to pack my choice {
plumber, drawn by Mahmud. my oil
elephant"
: But why the elephant" aske