The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

I trothed. when a foray Of the mountain
| eers had captured her caravan.
Fakredeen told the Queen who her fair
captive was The Queen. wild with jeal-
| ousy. ordered that she he killed.
Fakrsdeen asked permission 10 he the
eXeCutioner. An old feud, he said. had
| existed between his family and hers
Would the great Queen grant him the
| favor?
She would. But instead Of killing Eva.
Fekredeen managed her escape-and he
| escaped with her.
Explanations.
Tancred. not knowing that Eva bed es-
capped, sought AStarte to interCede for
| Eva. and found the Queen in the rock
hewn temple prostrate before a statue
! OF Apollo. An explanation ensued. and
| he learned Of the treaChery Of Fakredeen.
You will not desert me now?' said
Astarte. The Turks approach my
boundaries. l am in danger"
Il Will stay and fEht for YOU re-
piled the second crusader of his fam
So Ttncred went forth at the head of
the warriors OF the Ansarey. He
fought well and long. But he was
overcome and obliged to fee again TO
the desert Once again he found him
self in The camp Of the great Sheih
AmeIek.
"salaam, great sheik," said Tancred:
friends Of whom we must speak. and.
indeed. of many things"
The lamps CLEANED, fires hlaZed,
sheep wore killed. bread baked. coffee
pounded and the pipe Of honor placed
In the hands Of Tancred.
After the feast said the Sheik;;
we will talk. There is time for all
IthIngs-for eating and drinking. also
for prayers, and, also the time for ask,
ing questions.
TidiHEs of Eva.
When. according to the ideas Of the
Sheik, that time arrived TanCTed sad:
inquire. Before l speak Of myself, let
me know whether you can get me It'd
ings of Eva. daughter of Besso OF
Jerusalem.
is she not living in a room with
many divans?" replied AmaIek
Tancred told the Sheik the story of
Eva's capture: of the mysterious dis.
appearance of both herself and Fakre-
had told him when they had their ex-
planation-that she had commissioned
Fakredeen to kill Eva. II was all a
mystery.
il she be still alive"
Can an arrow find its mark re-
piled the sheik: In ten days you shah
7 have ridden hard for three days"
said Tancred; I am not, alas, a true
Arab; though love Arabia and
Ara blan thoughts. II Eva be safe, i
am contented. Indeed. great Sheik the
longer I live the more I think
And here the chiboUque fell from
the hand Of the exhausted young man
and he sank to the ground.
Back to Jerusalem.
All through these adventures, it should
be said, BaTOni had never left the side of
TanCTed. Also, in ten days, the Sheik
received news Of the safe arrival Of Eva
at her fathers house i'm Jerusalem.
When TancTed had recovered sufficient
strength he rode TO Jerusalem and dis
mounted at the house Of which he was
the nominal tenant for half a year-but
which he had never entered.
OF the suite with which his doting par
ents had sent him out to these strange
lands-those who were to watch over him
"a collection Of people to whom he had
given the slip the retired colonel was
dining with the British consul upon an
experimental plum pudding preliminary
to the authentic article which was to
appear in a few days.
The colonel had undertaken the super
vision OF the composition of the pud-