Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-23
BURROUGHS

" am sorry" she said quite simply.
But 1t was not love, did not know
what love was until knew that Korak
lived" end she turned toward the
Killer with smile.
Lady Greystoke looked quickly up
into the eyes of her son, the son who
one day would be Lord Greystoke. No
thought Of the difference In the sta
tons of the girl and her boy entered
her mind. To her Meriem was fit for
a king. She only wanted to know that
Jack loved the little Arab waif.
The look in his eyes answered the
question in her heart, and she threw
her arms about them both and kissed
them each dozen times.
"Now," she cried, Il shall really
have daughter I"
1t was several weary marches to the
nearest mission, but they waited at
the farm only few days for rest and
preparation for the great event before
setting out upon the journey, and after
the marriage ceremony had been per-
formed they kept on to the coast to
take passage for England.
They had been home but a week
when Lord Greystoke received a mes
sage from his old friend D'Arnot. It
was in the form of letter of intro
duction brought by one General Ar
mand Jacot. Lord Greystoke recalled
the name, as who familiar with mod
ern French history would not? For
Jacot was in reality the Prince de Cad
renet, that intense republican who re-
fuses to use, even by courtesy, title
| that had belonged to his family for
400 years.
'There is no place for princes in a
republic" he was wont to say.
Lord Greystoke received the hawk
nOsed, gray mustached soldier in his
library, and after a dozen words the
F., two men had formed a mutual esteem
| that was to endure through life. And
| the soldiers words laid wildly before
| his host scenes ana events nearly two
| decades old. He told his host how hi
| had been a captain in the Foreign lie
! gion Of France stationed at that time
| In Africa. He told how he had hunted
/ down marauding bands of Arabs ant
! blacks in the heart of the great desert
| OF Sahara. He told how he had IL
/ camp with him his little four-year-olG
daughter and how he came back to
camp one day to find that she had
mysteriously disappeared.
Neither the wealth of her father and
/ mother nor all the powerful resources
Of the great French republic were able
| to wrest the secret of her whereabouts
from the inscrutable desert that had
swallowed her and her abductor.
| A reward of such enormous proper
tons was offered that many adven-
turers were attracted to the hunt,
! among them Jensen and Malbihn.
/ This was no case for the modern de-
I tective of civilization, yet several of
these threw themselves into the search.
The bones of some are bleaching be-
meath the African sun upon the silent
! sands of the Sahara.
II have come to you" explained
( General Jacot as he concluded, "be-
cause our dear admiral tells me that
| there is no one in all the world who
is more intimately acquainted with
| Central Africa than you.
/ eve did all that love and money and
| even government resources could do to
discover her, but all to no avail.
"a week since there came to me in
Paris a swarthy Arab, who called him
self Abdul Kamak He said that he
! had found my daughter and could lead
/ me to her. | took him at once to Adj
miral DArnot, who | knew had trav-