Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

OF the ULLeE Idl1uIo VI sAo
important mission which
had been entrusted to him,
roamed through the streets
Of Delhi.
The powerful League of Lost
Causes had sent him upon an under.
taking involving the destruction Of
highlands power in India. He had
failed miserably, and, at the moment
IT his failure, had encountered the
Eyes of the mysterious woman who
had induced him to leave America
Ind to devote his millions to the pur'
poses Of the League. She had seen
his disgrace and read and reflected
> abatement in his eyes.
He loved her, this beautiful un-
Town lady of lofty rank, though. III
obedience to the command which she
bad laid on him, he had never sought
10 discover her identity. He was ig.
aorant even of her name. He had
believed her q parsonage Of title at
the Austrian court; behold, she was
in India, an unsupported watcher OF
the way in which he carried out his
mission and her mandate!
A food Of anger and resentment
swept over him; anger against him
self, that he had been blind enough
TO allow himself to be used as tool;
resentment against his friend Rosny,
The Leagues Paris secretary, 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.
ae 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
II every American, and stand or fall
BY her answer.
1t seemed madness, but it was q
s. ious madness that enwrapped him,
leshing spirit and senses until
ling seemed longer impossible to
Pa !. Imagining that Mademoiselle
"a ,e only name by which he knew
u.r-was q visitor at the Durbar at
the invitation Of some ambassador,
ae haunted the railroad station for
lays until the last of the visitors had
departed, searching and scanning ev-
cry face eagerly in hope of seeing
aer again. But all his efforts were
% no purpose, and at last, sick at
heart, he resolved to abandon his OBJ
ect, to sever his alliance with the
League, to see Rosny no more, and
% return home to America again.
He took ship for Egypt; thence he
embarked aboard q French steamer
.or Marseilles. The sun was, warm,
the sky bright and cloudless. The
vessel skirted the low sand-dunes of
he Tripon coast preparatory to head.
ng north for Malta
On the second morning the white
sides Of a warship appeared some
niles astern. AS the hours wore on
she began to draw nearer. At last
The watchers, through their tele'
scopes, could make out the Italian
Gag at her foremost. The French
turned northward, being then
in half mile Of the Trpoli
/, q; as she shifted her course, how
~ gun roared from the Italian
ell It was a blank shot, signify
.ue that the liner was to heave to
lntil her papers could be examined.
Tie coast being blockaded, this or.
Ter excited much comment. but no
harm, among the passengers, who,
providing the liners decks, watched
With interest the approach of the pur.
suing warship. She anchored about
,alf mile distant and cutter left
aer side, containing a boats crew
With an officer in charge.
But IN astonishing effect was pro-
duced by this maneuver among a
small fleet of Arab fishing vessels,
which had been placidly sailing be-
:ween the liner and the shore. AS
he warship hove to they turned and
began to scurry toward the beach.
One. which had been caught between
he liner and the battleship, passed
close under the Frenchman's bow as
ii. beat her course landward. Paul,
watching idly from the taffrail. saw
: .WO OTOxlZ0V Od1oWCA puAAA6 W guy
plement the power Of their Tapping
Iail, and then
Seated in the bow, yelled, attired
h white from head to foot, a woman
Arab garb guided them, issuing
r9g-t, curt orders as they tugged al
ssss, ars. All the blood in Paul's body
Z ID through his veins furiously Al
tight Of her. It was the woman
= ought. He had no doubt OF 1t
Loves intuition would have told hin
that, but apart from it there was M
mistaking that trim, slight figure, tha
lmperious mien, displayed even under
the desert veil.
As the boat passed under the liner''
bow and scurried toward the shore
Paul hesitated no longer. Withou
thought, actuated solely by tina
,verpowering impulse which pos
sessed him, he vaulted over the tan
rail and leaped into the sea.
A cry of horror went up from tn
liners decks. The Arab dhow, a
though fearing some hostile design II
this maneuver, redoubled its effort
Ia.