The Washington times., 1919-01-12

Her tone was so confident that Amneh
raised fearful face in wonder and
curiosity.
mo one knows that you were with me
that you planned TO go. There are no wit
nesses. IL was dark in the corridor. The
watchman at the door did not see. And
the other witnesses-seei they sleep"
That Is true" said Amneh hopefully.
as easily reassured as frightened
Go. Remove all traces Of your prepa-
rations, and then, like them. feign sleep.
must take the consequences of this fail
ure. You shall tell them you were
drugged. There is no need for you to
suffer-"
Amneh sprang up and threw her arms
around the neck of the American girl.
You viii not tell?' she asked eagerly.
mo. Why should I? Besides have
not lost hope. We shall succeed later
Amneh looked at her dubiously. but IN
moment obeyed her and disappeared
into her own apartment, while Constance.
newly impressed with the retributive con-
sequences Of her attempt to escape, sat
nopeiessiy, her hands clasped about her
knees, staring at the lamp and listening
to the heavy breathing of Zeyneb.
There was a sound Of shutting footsteps
on the stone Tagging of the corridor and
a black woman entered, another whom she
nad not seen. Without a word the woman
handed her a slip of paper and then
silently retired. wondering, Constance
turned the paper over and read:
III Is useless. You cannot succeed I
pray you to be careful or I cannot answer
for your safety. Tomorrow hone for INV
answer. Will you not be kind to me?
Good night. C. Won H."
For long while Constance sat. her
hands clasped about her knees. the slip
OF paper In her fingers, staring into space
There was no hope. She was HELPLESS
The courage, the hope of escape or rescue
faded with the gleam of the sputteripr
lamp, and at last she sank upou the
deewan and lay quiet.
III the sunlight. of the morning brought
new strength and courage, It brought no
new hope. Instead Of opportunity, she
realized that the Gordon was being drawn
more closely about her. Before she had
awakened the story Of her attempt 70
escape had already passed through the
house. and Zeyneb was always sitting
near, with Kahdeegeh close by in the cor.
ridor. IL Amneh was suspected of having
share In the escape there was nothing
In the manner of Zeyneb to Indicate she
TACT. But the Armenian girl. arousing
with difficulty, as though from deep slum.
Der, avoided Constance and simulated an
air OF suspicion and enmity, which Con-
stance understood. But this attitude dc
nothing to cheer the prisoner. who now
felt that the only prop to her failing hons
had been Withdrawn and that unless
rescue came from without she was now
entirely at the mercy OF Conrad Won
Hengel
She tried throughout the intermiuable
lay to analyze the conversation she had
had with Won Hengel There were fea.
lures OF their new relationship Of captor
and captive that were not quite clear TO
her. Won Hengel was playing a desper
ate game. The slightest miscarriage of
his plans meant his elimination from the
Eastern problem and his death as a spy
Alan and she had crossed him. He had
tried to Kill Alan. Why hadn't he killed
her! 1t would have been easy there I'm the
silence and darkness of the corridor of
the mosque. Why had he spared her
then! Ii the quality of his mercy had
been strained, she could not deny, in view
Oh tne menace to his success, that he had
been merciful
There had always been something An the
keenness Of her intelligence that had at
uacted him to her. He had often told
her that she was like no woman he had
ever known. He had been on the point of
proposing marriage to her more than once
but she had managed with some skill each
time to evade him. She had never had
mucn sympathy with the Prussian idea
But love-of a sort-surely sentiment of
kind, he must have had for her The re-
naming vestiges of this attachment (he
had called it friendship had doubtless so
lar saved her life. But she had no hope
that any love that he had had for her
could weigh for a moment in the balance
against his stroke for Germany
To the Prussian questions of sentiment
or Of sex would be ruthlessly set aside
III considerations affecting the safety of
himself or Of the Kaba Stone required her
removal, she believed that he would still
be capable of killing her out of hand. She
knew that until his plans were consum-
mated and he was safely beyond the Red
Sea she was an impediment to his success.
an object Of danger and of suspicion. Why
had he spared her unless he cared for
her? He had asked her TO go with him.
Had all that was decent in him revolted at
the idea OF leaving her a prisoner to the
mercies OF an aroused fanaticism? The
alternative to that-the real reason he had
asked her to 60
The night fell and with IL a settled de-
spondency that saw no alienation. She
had no hope of Alan now. She seemed TO
be growing indifferent-like Amneh. Alan
had discussed her with Conrad Won Hengel
had told him that she had refused him
She would rather have had another last
memory of Alan than that. The JOYOUS
visions she had had OF Alan faded. The