South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-20
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9 1919 NEA Service Inc

.1ontleDF donu ue.le, the Perfect OF
Police OF Paris. told me this story
we were on The deck % his YACHT n
the Mediterranean. the coast OF
Africa was I'm the q stance We had
been talking o. thai strange. fam
Gus Engl shmau whose tragic death
IN the North Sea had stirred the
world
WHY had ho never ied-the
greatest Eng shman of hls tlmee
We did no- name him Monsieur
Jonquelie called him sir Henry" N
the story.
The Perfect o. Police OF Paris pre-
scented the story as though &c were
q detached tale OF an oriental story
teller In a bazaar OF Cairo And I
listened with my eyes closed. on the
cool deck. moved slowly By the long
swelis- listened 10 the tragic
love story OF ,h.s strange. reserved.
famous EngIishman who had lived
in mystery and died In mystery.
The man who rode north from the
citadel. along the Boulevard Mo-
hanmed al. was no longer young.
lie sat firmly In the saddle. and to
the distant eye, ne was hard and
lean ike a hunter fin condition. bur
his face discoIored by wind and sun.
in repose. was tired. Il was an I'M
usual face. scanned and crossed with
lines. the mouth firm. almost harshs
with the muscles developed along
the Jaw. But il was not these fea-
lures that impressed me.
1t was mans extraordinary eyes.
They were large and set far apart
The color yoJ immed ately saw-a
dark metallic blue-the blue Of GER
tain remote spaces IN the tropic
SKY. The lids dropped. Civ ng the
man an expression at once OF sereni-
~ and menace.
He rode a gray Arab. and his
clothes were evidently the best rro-
duct OF a Bond Street taD0r He
rode ike a sol1ier-Iike one ac-
customed TO live days and nights IN
the saddle
The vast. eternal unchanging as
pect Of Egypt oppressed him. Here
all human effort seemed equally
futile Here. as in Ind n, one grew
only old and acc0mpl shed nothing.
And. on this evening. he felt acute
~ the menace Of Egypt.
England had only extended fng-
ers on this great desert running
south into impenetrable mystery.
She had only the peace of the bay
onet. and behind the Incidence, the
nstIess res gnation Of these desert
peoples. there seemed TO lie a vast,
inherent hatred Of the invader that
never Iessened. and that waited al
ways with an unfailing patience. In
India. this thing skUlked in .he dis
lance but here u seemed TO ap-
proach-to be at hand.
PERHAPS what the man knew
staged this impression The whole
world OF Islam was uneasy. She
had been despoled in Turkey and
shamed. She felt that weak rulers,
for gain or the love OF life. had held
her I'm leash when she ought TO have
been loOsencd with a great shout TO
"a holy war. The heads Of Islam
were quiet. but the tribes were rest
less.
England. feeling always with her
delicate antennae knew this and.
always wise. moved firsts She had
withdrawn this man from India and
sent him here to set the butt OF the
lee Endheld q little hrmer in the
sand south toward Khartum.
He had a fortnight n Cairo be-
fore ne took up this tremendous Ia
bOr. and ne used it to be free, to be
alone. to ride when he liked W tn
out an orderly always at his heels.
It was great honor that England
did him. He might in the end. be-
come Viceroy Of India or Sirdar of
Egypt But on this evening he was
impressed with the value of what ne
pa'd-his youth had been required
Of him. When he should come up
out of this desert he would be old
And what had he got-what would
he set out these great houors2
The man rode slowly holding the
nervous Arab in. The strange. in
congruous current of the city passed
him. but he was thinking Of some
thing else. and ne gave it no at
tentOn.
There was another thing. He
unused vaguely. Tie had seen on
this very day IN the shade of a mag
uifceut lowering vine, a young sol
i Ter and an English e RI. They we're
sitting on a bench, neither moved.
and only their hands touched. They
did not speak. and vet their faces
were like the faces OF angels.
This was a thing that he had al
ways hated. T. was not the enemy
in the front that threatened the
army. It was these loving creatures
IN the rear Ruthless and determin-
cd. he set his face against it. The
army should be ceNbate And he had
broken and eIbowed out the men
who would cucumber themselves
WITH a loving heart.
Wen. ne had lived by the rule
rfr,selft There had been no woman