Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-03-20

playing for a week or two" said
Captain Kettle Nov, stand exact
ly in your tracks. BY James, /
wish I'd been able to get at gun
quick enough and shot the pair OF
you. You'll be up to mischief II
leave you alone here for ten min
utes. Well, you must be attended
to further"
He hauled off the mans jellab,
and tore from 1t half a dozen strips
which he knotted together.
Hold your sound arm against
that branch" he commanded. up,
UP, you swine. Now keep 1t there"
He jumped into the magnolia
tree, made fast the end of the line
to the mans wrist, and drew him
fathom out from the trunk. The
branch was stout one and would
not bend under two mems weight,
and Kettle lashed the Moor's wrist
to 1t with a seaman's skill, and then
dropped lightly to the ground.
"As you can't lift your other arm
to cast that adrift, you'll have to
stay there till called for. l expect
you'll stand at some considerable
personal inconvenience, but that'll
give you time to ruminate over your
bad taste in trying to assassinate an
innocent tourist. And now, as your
fellow cutthroat mayn't have been
put as soundly to sleep as appear
ances seem to indicate, I'll attend to
him ALSO"
He dragged the other Moor to the
foot of big cottonwood, thought
for a minute, and then eased him of
his jellab, dagger, powder-horn, and
head-gear. Then he sat him down
face to the tree with his legs strad-
died round the roots, and making
fast one end of jellab rope to one
wrist, hauled up the other to it as
close at it would draw, and made
fast again, so that the man sat muz-
zling and cuddling the tree and per-
fectly impotent to release himself.
you Also" Captain Kettle an
nounced, "have my free permission
to mediate on the evilness of your
deeds until l return to interrupt the
chain of thought. Now l wonder
how l am going to dress"
The ropes of twisted white woolen
fabric which the lower class Moors
(and their neighbors the Berbers)
wear wound in coils round the head
are insecure even on themselves,
and the present writer can testify
it to be the most exasperating wear
for the ordinary white man. Either
it is too tight, in which case the
skull, baked by vertical sun, seems
visibly to swell; or it is too lose,
and it's snaky coils begin to slip
adrift almost from the first moment
of their readjustment.
Captain Kettle took off his coat
and put on the jellab The Moor
does not wear trousers, or for that
matter American boots, but the jel-
lab was long and covered these, and
the little sailor decided that he
would feel lonely without them.
Then came the turn for the elabor.
ate head-gear
He examined with care that of the
Moor who was triced up to the
branch of the magnolia, and pro-
ceeded to initiate it's adjustment
Being sailor, and therefore an ex.
pert in the handling of ropes, he
made a far better attempt at it
than might have been expected, but
the end slipped before he had gone
mile on his way, and between slip
ping and readjustment was a con.
slant torment to him.
But it is characteristic of the man
that throughout all the stormy time
that followed he stuck to it patient.
ly till he mastered the trick. He
refused to admit that an inferior
race had skill which he could not
acquire, and he refused also to ap-
pear abroad, even in the wilds OF
the Atlas foothills, otherwise than
Immediately neat.
There were pockets inside the jel
lab and for a while he stored uni.
form jacket and cap in these. But
as the desperate nature Of his er
rand was more and more borne In
on him as he climbed the steer
paths and got farther and farther
into the mountains, he recognized
that he would need every ounce OF
his wiry strength if he was to wiz
out in his enterprise So, with @
sigh at parting with them, he step
ped aside into the bush and hid
them under a convenient slab o.
limestone
But it presently began to appea,
that Sidi Mahommed Bergash hat
not spent time on the Wangaroc
without forming a pretty shrewd es
innate of her captains capabilities
Captain Kettle walked briskly up t.
the top of rise. looked down int
the valley which lay between 1t and
the next spur of the mountains ant
10, scattered as far as the eye coulC
reach each way were men In ones
in twos, and here and there II
groups of five or six, guarding the
marches.