New-York tribune., 1920-03-08

the American transport sailed for this
country.
"For three months we searched in
Turkey. Sari's mother died of grief.
Then her father. We had established
that she was not dead. We knew all
too surely that 1t was a love affair that
had caused the virgin Of Stamboul to
disappear.
Retain Many Detectives
I'VE have retained many detectives.
In this country the Burnses and Val
OFarrell are aiding US.
ut Is for my brother we do this. He
Is twenty, and what is the word SOL
And the Sheik held up FIVE digits.
An, yes, he is twenty-five years of age
ana 80 handsome, so generous, and, yes
powerful. For he is the richest man
in Arabia and could be king did he
care about such things. But, no, he
spends his time and his gold In char
liable undertakings. He has sent me
to your beautiful country to find this
girl Of his heart. Spare no expense,
he told me. have limitless money at
my command. I offer now reward of
$4,000 for information that will aid
me. Somewhere here is Sari. Unless
she is found my brother will die. The
English governess who was with her
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drowned in the Bosporus."
The Shiek stopped for breath and
the reporters scribbled furously, max
ing notes of details of his costume,
Tor the maroon burmese only partially
concealed a robin-egg blue tunic
braided with lavendar. Across his left
shoulder Che must be lefthanded) was
q baldr1c Of raspberry cord suspended
from which was silver mounted scim-
itar with ebony hilt. More there was.
Beneath the blue garment could be
seen the tight sleeyes Of a purple
Jacket lined with vermillion silk and
striped with many bands of gold braid.
Under that was a starched, cuffeed shirt,
q q, o3t Ut solled, which may have been made
IN Troy-N. Y. The Shiek's undershirt
was fleece-lined garment, if the testi-
mony of his wristbands may be &C.
cepted. But to go on with the story:
Would Dine With Morgenthau
"You know some Americans? 2" he
was asked.
The shiek beamed. He knew all the
prominent ones who had gained entree
to official and royal circles. Henry
Morgenthau, former Turkish Ambassas
dor, perhaps? Ben Mohamed's hands
were raised to finger the delicate ends
OF his gray and black mustache, curled
in tiny circlets, but his lips could be
seen to part in a pleased smile He
stroked his beard, q small imperial that
revealed his pro-Ally sympathies.
YES" he said, II am to have dinner
very kind man. He is a fine man"
Behind the shieks chair Mr.. McIn-
tyre seemed to be in distress. His ap-
pearance as he watched the elderly
Arab suggested the creator Of a Fran
kenstein watching his monster func-
ton. A moment later he hurried from
the room with a strange disregard of
Near East ceremony. The reporters
were more deliberate in their depar-
ture. First they accepted the shiek's
blessing, which invoked Allah's watch
fulness over them, their heirs and as
signs forever. Then they were intro
sduced, in Arabic, to the four effendis
his advisers, Shafkrat, Rafkhat, Hame-
dan and Houssein, while the eunuchs,
Jamil and Abdul Halsh, strained the
texture of their sea green trousers in
a wondrous salaam that caused the
algret feathers on their turbans to
brush the pom pom tips of their silken
shoes.
Mcintyre Disappears
When the door closed behind them
reporters fell into each others arms
IKE stacked rifles, recovered, and hur-
ried for the lobby in search of tele-
phone. Mcintyre was waiting for
them. A telephone? Use the man
ayers Office. Right this way. Then
ne heard the call for Henry Morgen-
thau's telephone number. AS he
listened he might have posed as the
bloody white man who is pictured as
the final victim in that Anheuser-
Busch print of "Custer's Last Fight"
Finally, just before Mr.. Morgen-
thau's statement that Sheln ben
Mohamed was blasted liar had been
echoed, Mr.. Mcintyre disappeared. Mr.
Mn,orgenthau said more. He said tho
Sheik's costume was too good to %
true. He made a solemn statement
that he wasn't going to have tho Sheik
dine with him, and was unkind enough
to call him fake.
But that won't interfere with the
early release of that thrilling nine
reel movie "The Virgin of Stamboul."
Bus Lines Will Adon+