The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-21
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lives, tells this story of a strange
and famous Englishman and tells it
cttbout giving the mans name. But
d., ,onoueror Of the Soudan, who la
49, r,et his death so tragically in the
%,-sh Sea, was known to all.
+, was the love story of the man who
lived and died in mystery. The great
ma. was riding through Cairo. his
thoughts on native troubles in Khar-
,.m suddenly he noticed a white wo-
man. accompanied by the resident doc
t.r Ard her maid, enter a hotel.
Hs learned she was once a great
ba7Yty ia the United States who had
been uuhappily married. She looked
srhag,ted and in her face one read
ths tragedy Of failure.
GO on With the Story.
CHAPTER II
va1rwh!le, the doctor after a word Of
5,-a,.aa. left the woman at the second
C.,~ and she entered her apartment
with the maid. She took off her hat,
,rs-t over TO the window and sat down.
She leaned on her elbows, looking out,
var face In her hands, her heavy hair
ealing over her thin blue-veined fingers.
The maid came with excited remon-
STRANGE. Madame must go at once to
he'd me lJNADl 4leh4 OluGi GU IL A1dudIQ6
was taking q chance with her life. Her
lungs would longest. She would die i'm
vr4diatsly. In spite Of the dry atmos-
rasrs, there was a certain dampness
rom the Nile at evening.
Eut the woman gave no attention. She
81, quite notionless, looking down at
the nan on the gray Arab, at the edge
Of tao T'loo EsbeSiya. She could sse
only the white helmet, the firm should
e~s. the u-rvous horse, and the sun in
the street beneath it. She could not see
the mans face, but she knew the fea-
lures q t.
FIR some days he had been a distin-
g4.shed figure in the city. Under the
visor q the helmet she could recon-
srl@ the face, with those dominating
eyes Of ord-blade. and the features
taa. IN repOse seemed modelled over
iron.
And there arose in her an appalling
sense Of Ioss-a CHASTITY sense of having
been trapped and cheated. Here was
ike destiny for which she was born into
Iao world, and she had been turned an
other way into the pit. All, God! If she
lad only, had this bronze wall behind
her how far and how wonderfully she
would have gone!
Meanwhile the riot of sound and
c,ar poured along the Street Kamel
pash2. drifted across the Place EsheIziya
and entered the Rue Nusl1i on the way
Ii the Tcmbs of the Caliphs. Now and
then. one exhausted, dropped out Of the
pad current and fell in the street, swath-
I'll IN his burnoose like n corpse.
The whole square of the Place Esbe-
tya was sown with these motionless
figures.
Suddenly, far off in the border of the
garden q the Esbekiya a gaunt figure
tross from among these CHASTITY groups,
H. IN "a garden of the dead-a creature
infinitely old matted with hair and
naked under his burnoose. He extend |
ed his arm, and his voice drifted with
tro vague wind northward as from the
desert. 1t came to thu man sitting the !
gray Arab r. from Il rcmote distance; a |
voice carried on the wave crest Of in |
numerable sounds; long, wailing desert |
cry, weird eeyy, the words SIurred over |
and blurred
80 Slrdar! will give it to you /
! VIII give it to you, And may it cruelty |
your soUl"-
The voice trailed off in n thin, indis- |
iHgushable whine, and the emacia led |
crottuge sank down under his burnoose |
lAe man looked up and about him like |
one VINO hears q whispering in the sky. |
Then he turned his horse and rode on /
slowly in the wake of the procession. |
lie followed 1t east into the Rue Muski. |
The horse picked its way along, cara /
I'll. 10 avoid the exhausted madmen who |
lay everywhere The rider gave the horse
no attention He rode with the reins
sack IN his fingers.
SIS fla Tg,,o
l.1 morse, TO avoid a camel, stepped On
,'9 cattan Of an exhausted dervisl, ly-
..s IN heap like a relaxed dead man.
inc hoof barely touched the garment,
'+l me drug crazed creature beneath it
suddenly rolled over and buried his
EsiA IN the horses leg above the fetlock.
vas the quick, savage lunge of an
"".''4ted dog. The horse boIted. end
~ Keep him from going head-long intel
, , crowd the rider turned him ILto
o-' h9 could not master the maddsnsd
r .1s' Ia9 beast was wild; the iron bit
', 1.I. INTO It's jaws as if cemented into
~ s'5'-9' AS though infected by a virus,
S w., morse was now as crazed as the
E.-s laANen dervish. Nevertheless. the
"2Js9 did not get away.
,n '0Ua"t down the narrow street and
r-, through tho native quarter of the
br o1' the rider controlled him and,
t i2E an accident, would have got
n d" Aand. A water-skin had broken
ba,s .,' street, and when the plunging
Ts, 81 +eH the wet earth he fell.
Il. ' .,. '"as all happened in a flash, and
A, IL, ''' was thrown out of the addle
A,@.s ".oSe q native servant, in livery,
s.. nun his helmet which had rolled
c., &, d ,0elehboring doorway. A motor
b ~, .'1 stopped and a woman was out
W.. ,.s street beside him.
r,a II" Sao cried, are you hurt" The
l.,b.. VA" the soft liquid tones OF some
hr..|.ss was not in the least hurt and he
T.ed to say it.
4 Wy r WAS new and smart-the sort
ta p,'. ,Iui thing one sees at eleven in
t.rag. 10 10 PaiN. The woman was ex-