The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-09-24

S d Seeu tuaV Ills own ways were
more In accordance with the ways of
the black and half naked natives whom
TIE whites looked upon as so 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 M. and, being no fool, M had
come to the conclusion that the whites
themselves looked upon him as an in
1erlor, even before Curtiss' words con-
WINGED him CT the truth Of his srspi-
cions.
Evidently. though his skin was
white. he was now in some subtle way
dlfferent from the other whites. Pos
slbly 1t was in the matter Of raiment.
He had tried to wear the strange
body coverings they had given him.
but they were cumbersome and I'M
comfortable. and. though he was Sci.
dom 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 II 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 M from the
viewpoint Of her new friends-as an
inferior.
Such ~reveries made M very sad, for
he loved Nat-ul just as you or I would
l~ove-just as normal white men have
always loved-with a devotion that
placed the object of his affection upon
a 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
solemnizes the marriage ceremony with
a cudgel and eve places the woman
In the position Of an inferior and a
chattel.
Even as M pondered the puzzling
questions which confronted him his
eyes and ears were alert as he sped
along the now fresh trail Of the cara
van.
Every indication pointed the recent
passing Of many men, and the troglo-
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
fr0i II with n v,fnry 70 10nSf-~ 80 Al~~
Arabs.
1bn Aswad had taken q 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 a 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 to seek their assist
ance, had not been compelled to follow
the spoor of their quarry, but instead
had marched straight across country
In a direct line for a point which they
believed would bring them ahead of
the caravan.
Thus it was that M and Terkoz
and the party of whites and Wazin
from the ranch were closing in upon
1bn Aswad from opposite directions 81
simultaneously.
But M vas not destined to follow
the trail of the raiders to where they
were still engaged in repelling the saw
age attack Of the fierce Wamboli, for
as he trotted along with the dog at
his side his quick eyes detected that
which the hound, with all his Won
drous instructive powers, would have
passed by unnoticed-the well marked
prints of the hoofs Of two donkeys
that had come back along the trail
since the caravan had passed.
That they were donkeys belonging
to the Arabs was evident to NJ
through his familiarity with the dis,
tinctive hoof prints Of each. which dur.
ing the past three days had become as
we'll known to him as his mothers
face had been. But what were they
doing retracing the way they had but
just covered?
He halted and raised his head to
sniff the air and listen intently for the
faintest sound from the direction il
which the beasts had gone when they
left the old trail at the point that he
had discovered their spoor-
The wind. however, was blowing
from the opposite direction. so there
was no chance that M could scent
them. He was in doubt as to whether
lie should leave the trail Of the main
body and follow these two or continue
on his way.
From the manner of their passing
side by side-he was convinced thai
each carried a rider, since otherwise
they would have gone in single file
after the manner of beasts moving
along a none too wide trail, but there
was nothing to indicate that either
rider was Nat-ul.
For an instant he hesitated, and theI
his judgment told him to keep ON aftel