The Washington times., 1922-12-24

"Sais Of Cairo - Sais the
dancer"
The negro craned forward, his
eyes searching the Emir's face.
my lord has heard of her? She
Is known for her beauty from
Alexandria to Kodok. Sais! The
Effendi Marchurst is love to Sais
and II is said that Sais esteems
him above gold and jewelsr'
The cleaning, straining eyes
lost 1.-THE Of their desperation as
they caught the faint look Of in
terest on the cruel, narrow face Of
the man on the divan.
"Give me leave, Lord, to 60
secretly to .Khartum-it may be to
Luxor-and tell Sais that her
lovers life is between the finger
and thumb of the lord -of this
region, the Red Emir, who holds
him demanding a ransom paid to
him by Sais out of her own hands,"
His voice sank and grew sig
nificant.
"The most beautiful woman in
Egypt, lord" he said. "Sais, the
dancer"
He grew bolder.
"What do know, Of the future
glory and wealth Of the Effendi
Marchurst? I am not q man Of
words, and as my lord has said I
know not the customs of the
English in their own land. am
not a learned mani am only an
executioner lacking a patron. Yet
what l say is true, and"- he
gulped as he took the plunge, my
lord could demand no price for the
life of the Effendi Marchurst
which Sais would not pay Sais!
My lord has Eeard of her? Most
beautiful"--
The Red Emir motioned him to
silence.
y have heard of this woman.
Be silent"
He thought for a few moments,
his blue eyes cleaning coldly.
Far off in the northwest, a. =,
unknown, nameless and all but in
accessible oasis this white wolf had
l. harem, but among the wives
that filled it were none that could
companion him in the sense that
a cosmopolitan, travelled, quick
witted woman, such as Sais, could
do. He had heard of her and he
knew that her beauty paralleled,
even probably surpassed, the
beauty Of his favorite.
But what is another rose to a
man with a garden already over
flowing with roses. It was not the
lure of Sais's beauty, clumsily held
out by the Abyssinian, that at
tracted the raider. Rather was IL
the hope that in Sais he might dis
cover a beauty sufficiently worldly
wise, sufficiently civilized, to be
able to talk with him of the things
upon which he had turned his
back. That was task completely
beyond the powers of the sleek, in
dolent and unintelligent houris at
the oasis.
An ex-officer of the English
army, justly cashiered years be-
fore, he had gone south, becoming
a Mohammedan, and offered his
services to the Khalifa. Spurred
by blind, bitter and ever increas-
ing hatred Of the country which,
he considered, had rejected him,
trained in the craft of war and
only too anxious to impart his
knowledge and experience to those
who were enemies of his country.
tLls man mad found it easy to rise
under the Khalifa to high rank.
And when the despot he had serve
and by whom he had been r..
warded, was finally crushed, all,
the cleansing of the Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan, begun, the Re-;
Emir had found it as easy as
polite to avoid the death which
most of the fanatic Emirs ha,,
welcomed, and, deserting the los.
cause of the Mahdi, to ESTABLISH
himself with few followers in
the remote Saharan lair from
which he made his forays with hi-
band, or, on rare occasions, dar-
ingly visited Lower Egypt, Europe,
and once, even London.
Originally he had not been p