Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-04
copr,th.. 1914. ~ W. 6. Chapman
CHAPTER 4.

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The experience Of his other life as
sured him that she must be a prison
ar, yet at the same time he realized
that such might not be the case at all.
| for had he not thought Of her a pris-
oner among the others who had held
him prisoner, only to learn that one of
them claimed her as sister?
| was quite beyond him. Nat-ul could
not be the sister Of Custer, and yet he
had seen her apparently happy and
contented in the society of these
strangers, and Custer unquestionably
appeared to feel for her the solicitude
Of brother.
Curtiss, it was evident, loved Nat-ul
that much he had cleaned from con-
versations he had overheard between
him and Custer. How the man could
have become so well acquainted with
Nat-ul between the two days that had
elapsed since NJ had set forth from
the caves beside the restless sea to
hunt down 90 and the morning that
he had awakened following the mighty
shaking of the world was quite as
much mystery as was the remarkable
changes that had taken place in the
aspect of the world during the same
brief period.
NJ had given much thought to these
miraculous happenings, with the result
that he had about convinced himself
that he must have slept much longer
than he had believed, but that hun
dred thousand years had rolled their
slow and weary progress above his un-
conscious head could not, of course,
have occurred to him, even as the re-
hottest Of possibilities.
He had also weighed the sneering
words Of Curtiss. and with them the
attitude of the strangers with whom
he had been thrown. He had quickly
appreciated the fact that their man
ners and customs were as far removed
from his as they were from those Of
the beasts Of the jungle.
He had seen that his own ways were
more in accordance with the ways of
the black and half naked natives whom
the whites looked upon as 80 much
their interiors that they would not
even eat at the same table with them.
He had noted the fact that the
blacks treated the other whites with a
marked respect which they did not ex-
tend to NJ, and, being no fool, M had
come to the conclusion that the whites
themselves licked rnnn him as IN In
ferior, even before Curtiss' words con-
WINGED him CT the truth of his suspi-
cions.
Evidently, though his skin was
white, he was now in some subtle way
different from the other whites. Pos
sibly it was in the matter Of raiment
He had tried to wear the strange
body coverings they had given him,
but they were cumbersome and un-
comfortable, and, though he was SCI
dem warm enough now, he had never.
theless been glad when the opportuni-
ty came to discard the hampering and
unaccustomed clothing.
These thoughts suggested the posi-
bility that If Nat-ul had found recog-
milton among the strangers upon an
equal footing with them that she, too,
might have those attributes Of superb
GRITTY which the strangers claimed, and
II such was the fact it became evident
that she would consider NJ from the
viewpoint Of her new friends-as an
inferior.
Such reveries made NJ very sad, for
he loved Nat-ul just as you or would
love-just as normal white men have
nj vIynv
placed the object Of his affection upon
pedestal, before which he was hap
py to bow down and worship. His
passion was not Of the brute type Of
the inferior races, which oftentimes
solemnixes the marriage ceremony with
cudgel and ever places the woman
In the position Of an inferior and q
chattei.
Even AZ M pondered the pushing
questions which confronted him his
eyes and ears were alert % he sped
slong the now fresh trail Of the cara
van.
Every indication pointed the recent
passing Of many men, and the troSlo-
dyte was positive that he could be but
a few hours behind his quarry.
A few miles east of him the rescue
party from the Greystoke ranch were
pushing rapidly ahead upon a different
trail, with view to heading OF the
Arabs.
Ibn Aswad had taken a circuitous
route in order that he might pass
round the country OF the. Waziri, and
with his slow moving slave caravan
he had now reached a point but a
few days journey In direct line from
the ranch. The lightly equipped pur-
suers, having knowledge of the route
taken by the Arabs from the messen-
ger who had come 70 seek their assist-
ance, had not been compelled to follow
the spoor Of their quarry, but instead
had marched straight across country
in q direct line for point which they
believed would bring them ahead Of
the caravan.
Thus It was that M and Teekos
and the party Of whites and WaaiIi
from the ranch wsre closing IN upoa
Ibn Aswad from opposite directions q
multaneously.
But Nm was not destined to f0llow
the trail Of the raider. to whess they