The Prescott daily news., 1915-02-16

ye gift enough t take care Q th' child, eddicate it, an all that"
 Whats the name of the mine?"
 Same as the kiddies-Zudora."
 The two separated, never to meet again.
 The years passed. Keene dabbled in all manner of shady trades and finally set up as a Hindu mystic, swami.
 He told fortunes, did crystal gazing, resurrected souls and as a byproduct played detective with more or less suC- cess. He rarely practiced this latter game except among his favored gulls.
 It was a simple matter to instruct some of his confederates to rob certain of his clients. It was equally simple
 matter to recover the stolen objects for a suitable reward Keone eventu- ally became known to the cult as Has sam Ali, and under that name his fame grew. The checks from the Zudora
 were now applied wholly to the vel fare of his niece.
 The child grew. Her education be gan She gave promise of great beau ty. even in the lank and gawky age.
 Hassam Ali had begun to love gold, the bright shining metal-not In the abstract, but in the concrete. To touch it with his fingers was transport. No symphony of Bach's was half so fine as the chink-chink of the coins, the eagle and the double eagle as they fell upon each other, slipping from his hands
 From her fifteenth birthday up to her eighteenth Xudora noted subtle change in the manner of her uncle
 He became coldly aloof. rarely touch cd her affectionately, was moody and taciturn Familiar as she was with all the paraphernalia of the mystic, 1 she still retained unbounded faith in
 her uncle's powers. Indeed, he was hypnotiSt of unusual power and was roughly skilled in the science of medi- cines Iudora had practiced' the for mer art until she was almost as prof. cient as her master. It never occurred to Ter that her uncle's means of exist ence were Inethical and generally those of q cheat. Famous actresses and society women visited him. and not few notable bankers and finan- ciorS came to hiiL for advice. But the general public held Hassam Ali in tol- l erant contempt and the police with no
 little suspicion.
 The inner shrine of this equvocal temple was draped with black velvet, and there were secret doors about which even Zudora knew nothing. There was the inevitable dais and be- ! fore this a huge crystal globe in which HaSSam Ali saw the past and the flu turc as revealed by his victim. IL
 was easy to draw the past, and it was not difficult to draw the future. The future in this globe was nearly always
 what the victim wished: hence the popularity of Hassam Ali. late of the | Eclipse circus. faker and card sharp. chief of band of most clever and in genious criminals. And Zudora wan | dered in and out of this iniquitouS maze as q wild Gove might have flown over presidential swamp. untouched i and unknown.
 As the miser grew stronger in Has
 
 referred to became more and more in- sistent. Zudora must die. When he faced this inevitability for the first time he was genuinely mortified. He
 was her uncle; her mother had been his sister; the girl was his flesh and blood. But the constant recurrence of an evil desire gradually lessens the
 adherence of it. Today in Hassam Ais mind there remained no shreds of compunction, only a desire to ac- complish the deed without in any manner directing suspicion toward him. So to this one object he now turned the brilliant powers of his ab-
 normally evil mind. Zudora must die.
 But how?
 In few days she would be eighteen. On that day she would become enor- 1 mously rich. He must rid himself of her before she had time to appreciate what the power of money meant. But l how? In what subtle. cunning man 1 ner that would make it impossible for ! the law to trace the deed to him? And 1 there was another obstacle rising slow 1 ly, but surely and formidably. over the l horizon-love. Youth and the neces- l sity of love. these menaced the plans ] of HaSSam Ali He had tolerated this keen eyed, clean lived young lawyer, l John storm. because he had ill a way ! relieved him of the trial of finding en
 tertainment for Zudcra The time had 1 r0me for storm to be sent about his 1 business.
 i One night while he was dreaming