Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-09-25
)NT FREDERICK COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1913.

leaped aside. She whispered in the
elephants ear and motioned to 1t to
rise Then, standing some distance
away, with folded arms she quietly
surveyed Paul as he stood waiting
the ouset of the great numbering
beast
The elephant stood watching him.
Another word from the woman and
1t broke into shrill scream of fury
raised its trunk, and bore down upon
the American. He stood, appalled, by
the terror of the spectacle, until II
was within five yards of him; then
he sprang to one side and let the
monster careen past him. A shout
of delight went up from the throats
of the encircling multitude. This was
the finest man-baiting sport that they
had seen.
The elephant turned and charged
down upon Paul again. Again he
sprang to one side, but this time the
beast was warer. 1t turned also
missed him, but the sweep of its
trunk was so near that Paul felt
thrill of terror go through him. The
stoutest nerves could not endure that
long. 1t was a question of moments
only. He looked w.; in front of him
the guards had ranged themselves
with drawn swords, before their SOW
ereign; hostile wall of Moors ringed
him; in the center of the market
place Mademoiselle Guepin stood
watching, smiling, anticipating her
triumph Paul turned and ran blind
ly, painting, his fingers clenched at
his sides.
They closed on something in his
hip pocket and, as he ran, he drew it
forth. He stared at 1t without corn
prehension. The monster was close
behind. He turned the elephant
turned too, and there ensued again
that hideous fight and that pursuit
But Paul was staring at the thing in
his hand now, and beginning to re
member how it had come there. He
had absent-mindedly pocketed 1t
while in the apartments of the Sui
tan. 1t was a clockwork mouse.
Again the swish of that fail of q
trunk went through the air. Pau
turned This time the elephant was
prepared for his manoeuvre, but 1t
did not know which way he would
turn. 1t stopped still, swinging its
trunk and watching him with its little
evil eyes. Paul lodged backward,
gained twenty yards-and set down
the mouse upon the ground. 1t
whirred and rushed straight toward
the monster.
The trunk went down. The beast
stood still A shrill scream broke
from it-and suddenly it turned tail
and bolted away. terrorstricken,
across the marketplace It's bulk
between Paul and. Mademoselle Cue.
pin, she had not seen the cause of its
confusion. But as it rushed toward
her she looked and saw and with
piercing shricks, the Honeycomb OF
Paradise and Footstool Of Gabriel
cast her cloak over her head and
ran also-ran through the clusters of
laughing, bowling Moors out of the
market place and up the long street
toward the palace of the Sultan, cry
ing for aid, her skirts drawn taut.
But far in front of her, roaring with
fear and dsmay, numbered the bulky
form of Mahmud, the rogue elephant.
seeking the safety Of it's cemented,
walled mouseproof enclosure.
Paul Lane drew from his pocket the
draft of the treaty Of protectorate
and went up to the place where the
Sultan sat
allah has decided" he said to the
Interpreter, and held out the docu-
ment
And In big, painted Arabic letters
the Shadow of Allah affixed his sig
nature