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Kabyle's chant had upon Sundance and
me. 1t got underneath our cuticle like the
strange music played by the Aisawans at
their festivals. II touched some respOn-
sive chord in the back of our heads, and
we were made drunk from the thrill which
his words produced. The French doctor
understood when Sundance told him Of our
feelings, but the French doctor had been
in the desert for twenty years, and he had
learned lot He had felt things that the
dwellers in cities know knOthing OF, and his
black eyes sparkled with Joy when Halli-
day started to tell him what that old man
chanted to the empty desert.
am not mad-not yet. If Sundance was
here he would say that every word ! write
is the truth. Yes. he would. Afterward
when he spoke about that afternoon, we
knew that we had both experienced the
same sensations when that wiZened an
Cient chanted to the desert south of FL
Oudaghir. Here I will write down the
words that he spoke, but / cannot bring
the background that helped so much to stir
the strange emotions that gripped us.
Those wind kissed sands looked like the
backyard of Sheol. and the spectre OF lone
illness rode on the hot puffs that licked
our faces. Now, these are the words he
cried into the silence:
What comes 10 me IN thc ddyS ana IN
the nights. and drdICS me like the hcnnd-
stained fingers of a beIOred OHe""
And after minutes pause he answered
himself by saying:
"The FIolCing Sands Of KedSh! The
FIoiUing Sands Of KeaSh!"
By the hawk-head of Horus! those words
stabbed us to the centre of our being.
They made us madi AS we stared at that
listening Kabyle our minds ran before our
eyes a picture of the marabout cropping for
his prayer rug as he told us what hap
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Keash. and the night seemed full of mys-
terry TO us as we listened.
The far OF the tent was pu5 led aside
after a while and the light of a swinging
lamp fell upon the Kabyle. The Bronze
Hathor stepped out and touched him on
the shoulder, and her touch seemed to
bring him to life He stood up, thrust his
hands out toward the horizon, where the
eyes of a few sky wolves were just be-
ginning to blink in the deep purple. and
then he chanted again. Ay, he chanted
this:
Who came in dnSICGr tn the prayers OF
the Red Priests lohen the desert had
SdDped their strength. and the UnbeliCrCrs
tccrc riding hard in their tracks,"
And once again he made the response:
The FIoloing Sands of KeGSh! The
FoWiHg Sands of KedShr'
Slowly, very slowly. the old man and the
girl walked toward the tent. the flap fell
behind them, and Sundance and | were left
alone in the night And it was a wonder
full night. 1t seemed to me that the world
stood still that night, so that the centuries
that it had left behind had chance to
catch up. The Past was prowling round
those sand dunes. and the darkness was
that thick that had an idea was shoul-
dered and pushed by invisible hands.
We'll, ! muttered, turning to Halliday
ARE we going with them?"
I'VE are going with them il they 90 to
the end of the EARTH" cried Sundance
"Ay. to the end of the EARTH"
That is all we said to each ether We
went back to the sick camel, ate a few
dates and stretched ourselves on the sand.
II was a night when one did not like to-
break the silence that stretched like pail
over the desert. Our brains were bubblirg
like champagne, and as | lay and watched
the milky way. where the stars bobbed in
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blind man. My. didn't We stare! We
would look at him, then at the empty
deserts stretching out to the horizon,
where the wesIering sun was smearing the
sand dunes with molten gold, and our
mouths opened as we watched him.
Glory be! what a funny feeling that old
kabyle, in his dirty camel-hair burnouse,
gave to Sundance Halliday and me as we
watched him that afternoon! We felt GER
tain that he heard nothing. We were GER
tain that he did. Our straining ears could
only catch the rustic of a sand lizard, but
the wizened ancient, who looked as old as
the step-pyramid of Sakkara, seemed to be
listening to the music OF the planets!
"Gee!" muttered Sundance. Watch
him, will you? Just watch him. Oh, geei"
l wet my lips and turned to Halliday,
but just as ! opened my mouth to speak
the Kabyle Strengthened himself up and
commenced to chant in Arabic. May the
.Gjinns Of the desert get me If ! do not
speak the truth! He started to speak in
Arabic, md the words seeped into us like
water thrown on the Red Sands of Figuig.
We listened with mouths agape and star
ing eyes. Ay. We did.
I've sat here on the roof day after day
and pondered over the effect which the
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Tell me-" he cried. does he really hear
them?"
Hear what?" asked the girl. speaking
back to him in the same tongue
The Flowing Sands of Keash?" cried
Sundance. suffering sinners he looks as
If he really does!"
The blind man never altered his pose
while Halliday and the girl were speaking
He never moved. He sat like a statue
tEat Rodin might fashion of Adam listen
ing for the voice after he had sinned, and
our ears ached as we waited to hear that
which we felt sure he heard and which
we did not.
The girl stepped out on the hot sand,
her bangles and anklets jingling like the
little silver bells of the Mosque El Oularn.
Her ears were weighted down with circles
of gold that were set with moonstones, and
her breasts were covered with a flagree
net work in which rough-cut gems were
caught like many colored spiders in a web
Of silver.
Behind the Bronze Hathor came an old
slave woman, a Senegambian woman,
black as the bottom of Sidi Hassan,s well,
and nearly as naked as Mother Eve. The
two let their gaze rest on our one sick
water, and the old woman whispered to
the girl in gibberish that was strange to
rs. Then the Bronze Hathor turned to
Halliday and spoke.
I'VE have no water" she said quietly.
1--WE have had none since yesterday
But Sundance Halliday was looking at
the listening Kabyle, and he wanted an
answer to bis question before he could
sympathize with any one.
What does he hear?" he roared, still
speaking in French. "TeH me, does he
really hear the Flowing Sands Of Keash?"
The girl hesitated a moment. then she
nodded her head "He says that he has
heard them for three days." she said. He
has heard them through the days and the
nights, and we are moving in the direc-
tion from which the sound comes"
Mother of God!" cried Halliday.
Mother of God!"
I'VE want water" said the girl. I'VE
have none to drink"
"You shall have some," said Sundance,
and there was a curious light in his eyes
ss he spoke. "You shall have half what
we carry, but | have a bargain to make.
We are going with you wherever the blind
man leads"
The Bronze Hathor looked for a long
time at the slave woman, whose lips were
cry and cracked, then she looked at Halh-
day, You may come with u.s." she said,
"give this woman a drink She has gone
without water for three days so that /
should not thirst" She turned when she
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pened to the Roumis when the Red Priests
had prayed. The Roman Legions, so he
. said, had been swallowed up in the Flow
ing Sands of Keash, and we had stumbled
across a blind man who was chanting a
litany to the Flowing Sands as he thrust
his head out toward the west. For a mo-
ment / thought that the white glare had
driven us insane, and that the djinns Of
the sand wastes, who make the mirages to
madden the thirst stricken, had thrust his
ghostly shape in our path.
HE is not real!" / muttered.
He is, he isl" whispered Sundance
Look at his shadow on the sand!"
Then | looked and saw his shadow upon
the sand, and / knew that he was flesh
and blood. The djinns can do many things
to torment those who are lost in the great
wastes, but they cannot make a shadow.
Allah has willed it so, and the thirsty Arab
can tell in this way If it is a sand devil
that tries to coax him from the trail by
picturing an oasis to the right or left.
Ay, he was realI We sat there looking
at him, and had the same feeling that l
had experienced when the marabout told
us the story. This Africa Is too old for
white man. There are strange poisonous
odors on the winds that have prowled
across the desert from Benz SAT to Bir
Ahmed for tens Of centuries. The Berbers
think that the winds have eyes so that
they can find the traveller and chase him
with the sand clouds, and the Berbers are
wise:
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"Listen!" whispered Sundance. "He is
going to speak again"
"Ay," gasped, "listen."
The blind man lifted up his voice a sec
ond time. and his words went out into the
waste. This is what he cried:
What guards the Thing that is Sdcredy
What holds the robber and the thief at
bGyy'
And once again he answered himself by
crying out:
THE FIoping Sands of Kcdsh' The
FIoloing Sands of KedshE'
"Gee," murmured Halliday "Oh, gee,"
The Kabyle remained silent and thrust
his head forward as If the sounds that he
heard had increased in volume, and as We
watched him the flap of the tent was
drawn back and Sundance Halliday and
turned our heads to look. That was when
we saw the girl that Sundance named the
Bronze Hathor Body O. me, that name
fitted her She wasn't a Kabyle, though
the Kabyle girls are lovely. She was ora
breed that we could never label, and she
had the beauty of Isis. Ay, and more!
Her body was as graceful as a Hubas lily,
and the mystery of the desert was in her
kohl-smeared eyes.
BY the girdle of Venus. she was lovely,
She had a mouth like Sappho OF Lesbos,
and teeth like the little baby pearls that
nuZzle out of the silt at Karak. But it
was her eyes that made her wonderful
They were like black diamonds in a bath
of golden wine, and we gasped as we stood
and stared at her
For three minutes we kept our eyes
upon the girl, then the mystery of the
blind Kabyle came upon us and dragged
our gaze back to the spot where he was
crouching. Sundance wet his dry lips
pointed to the man and spoke to the girl
in French.
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The marabout was feeling for his prayer
rug, but he stopped to answer the ques-
ton.
They prayed to Allah" he cried. They
prayed for protection, and the Roumis
were eaten up in the Flowing Sands of
Keash, from which rose the Red Pillar on
which the lizard sleeps. Woe to him whose
unclean hand touches the lizard upon the
Red Pillar. 1t is the Lizard of Death and
none but the clean of heart can look
upon it,"
The clean of heart?" questioned Halli-
day
"Ay," cried the marabout, 'it is only
the clean of heart that can touch the
Lizard of Death. The laying of hands upon
it made the great test. Men who had
purged themselves from all uncleanliness
came to El Eliel Ahmed in the centuries
long ago and touched the gold lizard in
the mosque. If they were clean they lived
and gave thanks to Allah, but if their
hearts were not clean they died when their
fingers touched the thing"
And did many dIe?" asked Sundance.
Thousands died." answered the mara
bout. Thousands whose hearts were not
clean"
Halliday wet his lips and looked at me.
l was wide awake then. Wide awake,
mind you! And yet seemed to see things
as if in dream. Up before my eyes rose
a picture of great golden lizard toward
which thousands of pilgrims were strug.
Cling in desire to touch it with their
h;nds.
Glory be! those fakirs Of the old days
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"aYe the order ana
went back into the
tent.
Sundance and l
gave the slave woman
water and hobbled
the sick camel; then
we squatted on the
sand and watched the
horizon. and the pur-
pie dusk crept across
the waters, but still
the old man sat out
side the tent and lis
tened. Ay, he lis
tened. S Som etim e S
when | would shift
my eyes from mis-
croucnIng figure {
would think that Sun
dance Halliday and |
we're crazy men, but
when my eyes re-
turned to the listen
ing figure ; knew that
we we're sane. BY
the bones OF the
Pharaohs. he listened
in a manner that
made every nerve in
our bodies ache.
The thick. rich
night rolled down on
lis. blotting out the
figure of the Kabyle.
but we squatted there
and waited. And we
didn't speak about
the matter to each
other. We were think
ing over the strange
feeling that had grip
ped us when the blind
man mentioned The
owing Sands Of
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The marabout shook his head 81 know
not" he answered
Sundance opened his mouth to put an
other question, but the holy man was
praying.
La Ilaha lila Ilahu!' he cried La
Ilaha lila Tlahu,"
We listened TO him chant those words
over and over again. There is no God but
one God! The lizards went back to their
crannies in the green tiles, and Sundance
and | tiptoed gently away. And | felt as
if | had been sandbagged as | went down
the little alleyway toward the Arab cafe
where we had room
Now, what | have written is but the
prologue of the story. The tale told by
the marabout put a germ in, the head OF
Sundance Halliday and he became a man
possessed. We went south from that
place, down among the troglodytes and the
ant-men, and everywhere we went Sun
dance Halliday asked questions He be-
came a human question mark threshing
through the hot sands. That is the fault
of our people. An American gets an idea
into his head, and the idea rides him. A
Frenchman or a German will pull up and
forget it when they see the Fates are con-
spring against them, but the American
has the "makegood habit" and he keeps
went with him because he was my country
man.
On and on we went with our one sick
camel on and on over deserts where a gila
monster wouldn't make his home, but that
crazy notion didn't leave the head of Halli-
day. He would cross-examine every lone
Arab that we met, cross-eXamine them till
! grew tired of listening to his questions
that brought dull look to the eyes of the
questioned. | had some crazy notions dur
ing these days. Once tried to turn north
ward toward FL Aliel Ahmed, with the in
tention of strangling the marabout who
told stories that made men mad and sent
them headlong into the desert in search of
things that never existed.
For ! did not believe that marabout!
Body O. me, no! | thought that it was a
crazy dream that had come to him one hot
afternoon. when he had gone to sleep after
staring at the curious little lizards that
thrust their heads out of the crannies
when he made the peculiar noise with his
mouth.
And then. one afternoon about nine
weeks from the day we had left FL Aliel
Ahmed, we came upon the blind Kabyle
in the desert far away to the south of FL
Oudaghir. Yes, a blind Kabyle He was
sitting outside his little tent, and when
Sundance Halliday and ] first saw him
his head was pushed forward as if he was
listening to some extraordinary noise that
came from the west.
That seems a poor way to describe the
position OF that Kabyle He was listening
as we never saw a man listen before. He
was listening with his ears and his skin,
and as we stood and looked at him we felt
certain that he was listening to some won
derful sound that our ears couldn't catch,
That was a curious idea for us to get
into our heads, wasn't It? But Sundance
and / had the same feeling Holy ST
Agnes! yes! We knew that il wasn't our
footsteps that he was listening to. because
we had approached from the north, so we
halted our sick camel and stared at the
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TNDANCE HALLIDAY
and the little French
doctor of La Legion
Etrangere gave me per-
mission to tell this story
if they did not return
from the desert inside
six months. May the
Curse of Allah rest upon
the little doctor! 1t was
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Those Red Priests
Of El Aliel Ahmed
had m a d e that
thing as a test, and
W h e n excitement
and fear killed a
few score of the
poor devils who
touched the thing.
the priests told the
praying pilgrims
that it was the
wrath of Allah that
had fallen upon
them. 1t was a
great game. l fan
cied ! could see
those Red Priests
winking at each
other as the slaves
carried away the
dead.
"And where are
the Flowing Sands
of Keash ?" asked
Halliday
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IDIRECT0RY--- AUTOMOBILES, AUTO SUPPLIES, REPAIRS
To Yuma and Imperial

The road from Phoenix to the Imperial Valley by way of Paoma Welton Yuma and Nand good shape by any stretch of the imagination but entirely passabe by cars of any weight The stretch from Phoenix to Arlington over the valleys dirt roads good condition after the light rams o week ago. Beyond Arlington before reaching Auga Calente encountered diversity of roads, The mountain roads in fine hard condo though there are number of steep short and downs and many sharp Part desert road IS in good shape though there long stretches ruts and chocz-holes.
 Beyond Agua Calene the desert road excellent until approaching Paoma where of checks and ruts encountered
 Beyond Paloma possibly third of the distance to Welton the road in fine shape and twohrds of the distance is bad because of chocboles and rts and sand At Weton stretch of mile two the road has been filled with straw to make 1t more substantial The portion hard pulling but the rest is good
 From Weon to Yuma probably half the distance is paved and excellent while the other half is paved and in bad shape Beyond Yuma the road Nland full of sand arrow small washes and choc hoes Most of them can be nego
 ted gh nearly bad stretch on second and very few places will require low.
 The trip requires at least two days of driving using all the day from dawn to dark and better judgment might require three days The bad parts of the require slow driving from to 10 miles per ho and there not many stretches where spurt of 30 miles per hour can be maintained
 Water obtanabe ranches and towns along the road at distances from b to 35 miles apart except on the Yuma Nand stretch where the distances greater Gasoline may be procured any of the Salt River Valley towns at Aqua Caliente, Dome Yuma and Niand.
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jewelry. A purse containing S15.00 in one of the dresser drawers was over looked. The contents of the drawers was scattered about the room. The family especially regret the loss of one diamond ring and a la valliere set with three diamonds for they were gifts to Mrs. McAbee. The officers have sev- eral suspects on the list and will no doubt recover the property and punish the thief
 Dewey Little has purchased the Pan- tatorium from Robert Saulman. Mr. Little was the original owner of the Pantatorium, selling out to MT. Saul man about months ago and went to Miami He finds he prefers Glendale and came back. Mir. Saulman will not leave the valley and will probably go into some other business.
 Harry LeWellen is very i'll with pneu- monia at his mothers home. The Modern Woodmen of America Will give program and public install lation in the near future to which they will invite their friends
 The Royal Neighbors held their reg ular meeting last night at Irelands | nall. There was good attendance. The II directors elected Friday night | at the meeIng of the Red Cross will meet tonight at Miss Chamberlin's on Fourth street. The executive board for the year will be appointed
 Mrs. George Walters is i'll with se- were attack of la grippe.
 Mrs. Frank Lohman visited her sor Tn Phoenix yesterday. Mrs Lohmar mas two sons in the navy and the third is called to the army William Bartlett has been surveyins in the Russian colony the past 10 dayS
 Mrs. W. E. Crawford and childrer left last night to join MT. Crawford ir Los Angeles.
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EXTENSION SCHOOL
 STARTS NEXT WEEK

MESA, Jan. 22.-PrincipaI Alma Davis of the Alma school is in re- ceipt of the program for the "Ex- tension School in Agriculture and Home Economies" which will be held at the Alma school on Monday and Tuesday. January 2S-29. This ex- tension school, which is held by the agricultural department of the state university, offers to the people of this section, a splendid opportunity to hear experts in the various lines of agriculture and live stock The home economies naturally will appeal to women of the town as well as ranchers wives Emphasis is laid on the fact that the Alma school is located just across the road from the state experimental farm, which is under the management of H. A. Woods and visits will be made to the farm for the purpose of illustrating the various subjects under discussion. This will be the only extension school near Mesa and ranchers of Lehi and elsewhere in the visinity will doubtless avail themselves of it's proximity. The following is the program as sent in from the uni Versity:
 Program of Extension School in Agriculture and Home Economics to be held at Alma School Monday and Tuesday, January 2S-29. Under the auspices of the Alma Parent-TeacheI association, by Agricultural Extension service, University of Arizona and United States Department of Agricul- ture cooperating.
 Monday-Silos and Crops Day Call to order by A. NJ. Davis-Princi-
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He cites the case of a Russian banker who had a penchant for rising In his sleep and looking over his papers. This banker became much in terested in a new oil company and considered buying a share in the en- terprlse. After long deliberation he came to the conclusion that it was of doubtful character and decided not to invest.
 Imagine the bankers surprise. few days later, when he received word rom his agents that they had carried out his orders and invested a very large sum of money in the company. He, of course, knew nothing of the transaction, but they showed him letter written in his own hand author izing them to go ahead In fear of Delng taken for madman, the banker acknowledged its correctness and pre- tended suddenly to remember the in- cident.
 But in reality he almost feared for his sanity himself By no possible means could he remember the letter, and he became doubly convinced that the oil enterprise would fail In less than two years it had earned him S2,5O0, ,000-all because of a letter he had written in his sleep.
 Another incident IS recounted of a man who could not swim in his waking hours, but who arose at night and swan river two miles wide. He was in the habit of doing this two O, three times a week.
 A young man much given to horse back riding got up one night, dressed himself, climbed out of his bedroom window and mounted the garden wall He wore spurs, and proceeded to ga through all the maneuvers of a man riding at full tilt.
 A young girl was confronted with the necessity of winning a scholar ship or abandoning her university course. On taking up her books one morning the girl found that she al- ready knew the lessons for that day She was wholly unable to understand as she had not looked at them before When this happened several times the girl told her mother about it. and the latter watched the girl closely. In a night or two she saw her arise. gel her books and begin to study.
 There was another student, a voune man, who had an obsession for risine in his sleep and wandering about the school dormitory. His fellow student. began to throw pillows at him afte, this had been repeated a good many
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Mammoth Cooked Food Sale

The greatest cooked food sale ever pulled off in Mesa or probably in the Salt River valley will be held Sat urday at the Red Cross room for the benefit of the local branch and will last all day or until every toothsome dainty is sold. Mesdames W. J. Clemens and M. L. Gibbons, to- gether with Mrs. Emma Rollins and Mrs. Eliza Peterson of the Maricopa Stake Relief society, have taken the lead in the enlisting of every house. wife in Mesa, all women members of the Red Cross in Lehi and Alma, and in fact every woman who will contribute some article of cooked food for the great sale. It is a stupendous undertaking, and there will be such an aggregation of chicken. salads, pies, cakes, home made bread, etc., as will offer to the hungry public temptations beyond resistance. One thing, so say the women who are at work on the plan, is to be re- membered, namely, that those who donate the foods, should also pur- chase other foods, as this will serve to aid in getting rid of the great quantity of edibles that will be brought in. By the way, there is to be no expense account. Every cent taken in will go to the Red Cross.