Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1920-01-08

neatn Iue SuelleTluB ieaNeo VI SpaSi'
ous beech. It had been Gavin's inten-
ton to put up at guest-house named
by the guide.book he had purchased
in Vienna; but when they came to
the place where the inn should have
stood, they discovered nothing but
charred ruins and cinerous relics;
and, "by all the gods," said Arthur
Kenyon, 1.-THE red cock has crowed
here before u.s." A romantic ear would
) have listened greedily at such time
| to the guides tales OF border pleasan-
tries-girls carried shrieking to the
mountains, roofs blazing, priests burn
ed in their holy oils, babes hoist on
bayonets-for such they would have
made a simple affair in which drunk
en- herdsman and paraffin lamp had
figured notably; but Gavin was in no
mood for narratives, and he sent them
TO the right about, one for wood. an
other for water, a third to hunt a cot
] or homestead, If such were to be dis.
| covered.
"The Hotel OF the Belle Etoile after
ALL he said gloomily; "well, it might
have been worse. Arthur"
Just SO. II had not stocked your
arder at Slavitesi, you would now be
doing what the amiable Foulon ad-
vised the French people to do hun
dred years ago-eating hay with rel
ish, my dear boy. Well, there's red
wine strong enough to poison White
Bull and maize bread tough enough
for guinea set Of ready-made grind
ers, to say nothing Of cheese. sausage,
and biscuits. Fall on, Macduff. and
eat enough!"
He frivolled on as young men will,
not without purpose, for Gavin's ankle
ty was potent to all about him. 1t had
seemed an easy thing in England to
visit the near East and learn for him.
self the simple truth Of Georges Odin's S
fate. Here on the slopes Of the noun.
tains he began to understand his diff.
culties, perhaps the danger, Of his
pursuit. For this, he remembered,
had been the scene of Robert For.
-esters youth, this the home of Zal.
lony, the revolutionary brigand upon
whose head three countries had set a
price. Time had not changed the dis.
position of the mountain people. nor
had civilization influenced its social
creeds. Beware of Zallonys gypsies
they had said to him at Bucharest
This night had brought him within a
post of his goal. 1t would be hard
enough II any mischance should send
him back to England empty-handed;
to say to Evelyn, II have failed; l can
tell you nothing"
Arthur Kenyon for his part, had
begun to enjoy the whole adventure
amazingly. Especially he liked the
four merry soldiers who ate and drank
as though they had been fasting and
athirst for week, and lay down
afterwards to fall instantly to sleep
In this the Greek muleteer and the
Turkish robber of all trades initiated
them without loss of time; so that by
of two English pipes and the sonorous
nasal thank-offerings of the sleepers
would have betrayed the camp or its
occupants. Such conversation as
passed between Gavin and Arthur was
in fitful whispers, the talk of mer
thoroughly fatigued and wistful fol
the day. They, too. dropped to sleeI
over 1t at last, and when they awoke
1t was to such scene as neither
might live.
Gavin slept without dreaming. the
first night he had done so since ht
left England He could remember
afterwards that his friends voice
awoke him from his heavy slumber
and that, when he sat up and stared
about him, Arthur Kenyon was thu
first person his eyes rested upon. In
stantly, as one sees picture in ;
vision. the scene Of the camp present
ed Itself to his view--the great trunks
of the oaks and beeches, the hollow
wherein the horses were tethered. th'
tangle Of grass and underground. Jus
as he had seen 1t when he fell asleep
so the reddening embers OF the camp
Are showed II to him now-unchanged
and yet how different! lie was. 70
this brief instant. as sleeper wh'
wakes In a familiar room and won
ders why he has been awakened. Then
Just as rapidly, the scales fell from hi
eyes and he knew.
Il Arthur Kenyon stood with his bacl
against the trunk Of beech. his re
volver drawn and about him such
motley crowd that only comic oper
could have reproduced 1t. Gypsie
chiefly. the fire.lght flashed unon sa
low faces which man might see 4
N evil dream; upon arms that med
eval age should have forged; upo
limbs that forest labor had trained t
nardiness. Crying together In not vi
pusical exclamations, the raiders n!
feared in no way desirous of injurin
p heir man. but only of disarm!ng hin
; One OF their number lay prone a
: ready. hugging wound thigh an
muttering imprecations which shohl
+ have brought the heavens ppon hi
'efd-a second had the Engll hma
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