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ton that he hastened home to bear the
good news to D'Arnot. At last he was
to be of some value in the world. lie
was to earn money, and, best or all, to
travel and see the world.
He could scarcely wait to get well in
side D'Arnot's sitting room before he
burst out with the glad tidings. D'Arnot
was not so pleased.
1T seems to delight you to think that
you are to leave Paris. and that we shall
not see each other for months, perhaps.
Tarzan, you are a most ungrateful
beast! and D'Arnot laughed.
mo, Paul: 1 am a little child. l have
new toy, and 1 am licked to death"
And so 1t came that on the following
day Tarzan left Paris en- route for Mar
seilles and Oran.
CHAPTER VII.
THE DANCING GIRL OF SIDI AISSA.
TIARzAN'S first mission did not bid
i fair to be either exciting or vastly i'm
portant. There was certain lieutenant
OF spahis whom the Government had rea-
sen to suspect of improper relations with
great European Power This Lieu
tenant GernoIs, who was at present sta
toned at Sidi-bel-Abbes, had recently
been attached to the General Staff, where
certain information of great military
value had come into his possession in the
this information which the Government
suspected the great Power was barterins
for with the officer.
1t was at most but vague hint
dropped by certain notorious Parisienne
in a jetJlous mood that had caused sus-
poion to rest upon the lieutenant. But
General Stats are Jealous of their Sc
crets, and treason so serious thing that
even hint of 1t may not be safely neg
lected. And so 1t was that TarZan had
come to Algeria in the guise of an Amer
lean hunter and traveller to keep close
eve upon Lieutenant Gernois.
He had looked forward with keen de-
light to again seeing his beloved Africa,
but this northern aspect of 1t was so
different from his tropical jungle home
that he might as well have been back in
Paris for all the heart thrills of home
coming that he experienced. AT Oran he
spent a day wandering through the mar
row, crooked alleys of the Arab quarter
enjoying the strange, new sights. The
| next day found him at Sidi-bel-Abbes,
| where he presented his letters of intro
duction to both civil and military authori-
tles-letters which gave no clew to the
| real Significance of his mission.
Tarzan possessed a sufficient command
OF English to enable him TO pass among
Arabs and Frenchmen as an American,
| and that was all that was required of 1t.
When he met an Englishman he spoke
French in order that he might not betray
himself. but occasionally talked in Eng
lish to foreigners who understood that
tongue, but could not note the slight Inn
perfections of accent and pronunciation
| that were his.
Here he became acquainted with many
of the French officers, and soon became
a favorte among them. He met Gernois,
whom he found to be a taclturn, dyspep-
| tic-loolSing man of about 49, having little
or no social intercourse with his fellows.
For a month nothing of moment oc-
CURED. Gernois apparently had no visit
| ors nor did he on his occasional visits 10
the town hold communication with any
who might even by the widest flight OF
| imagination be construed into secret
agents OF a foreign power. Tarzan was
beginning to hope that after all, the
rumor might have been false, when sud
denly Gernois was ordered to Bou Saada
in the Petit Sahara far TO the south.
A company OF spahls and three officers