South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-21
THE LAUGHTER OF ALLAH
Regfn Here Today.

strange and famous Eng.lshman
and tells Il without giving the
mans name. But the conquerOr
Of the Soudan. who later met his
death so tragicany IN the North
Sea, was known to all
Il was the love story Of the man
who lived and died IN mystery. The
great man was riding through
Cairo. his thoughts on native trou-
bies IN Khartum. Suddenly he no.
ticed a white woman, accom-
panied by the resident doctor and
her maid. enter a hotel
He learned she was once a great
beauty n the United states who
had been unhappily married. she
looked exhausted and IN her face
one read the tragedy Of failure.
Go on with the Story.
CHAPTER II.
Meanwhile. the doctor after a
word OF direction left the woman az
the second floor. and she entered her
apartment with the maid She took
of her hat. went over 10 the window
and sat down. She leaned on her
elbows. looking out her face IN her
hands. her heavy hair failing over
her thin blue-veiued fingers
The maid came with excited re-
monstrance. Madame must go at
once 70 bed. The doctor had order
ed Il. Madame was taking a chance
with her life. Her lungs would con-
gest. Shp would die Immediately
In spite OF the dry atmosphere. Z ere
was a certain dampness from the
Nile at evening
But the woman gave no attention
She sat quite motionless. looking
down at the man on the gray Arab,
az the edge Of the Place Esbekiys-
She could see only the white helmet,
the firm shoulders. the nervous
horse. and the sun in the street be-
meath g. she could not see the
mans face but she knew the fea-
lures OF II.
For some days he had been a dis
tinguished figure in the city Under
the visor Of the helmet she could re-
construct the face. with those domi-
mating eyes Of sword blade, and the
features that in repose seemed mod
eIed over iron.
And there arose in her an appal-
Ing sense Of loss-a ghastly sense
OF having been trapped and cheated
Here was the destiny for which she
was born into the world. and she
had been turned another way into
the pit. All. Cod, II she only. had
this bronze wall behind her, how faI
H. e..fr - ~r-4frTI !,
gonei
Meanwhile the riot OF sound and
color poured along the Street Kane
Pasha. drifted across the Place Esbe-
kiya. and entered the Rue Musk or
the way 10 the Tombs OF the Caliphs
Now and then. one. exhausted
dropped out OF the mad current and
fell in the street. swathed in his
burnoose like a corpse.
The whole square OF the Place
fsbekiya was sown. With these mo-
tionless figures
Suddenly. far off in the border OF
the garden Of the EsbeSiya a gaunt
figure arose from among these ghast-
IS groups. as in a garden Of the
dead creature infinitely old. mat
ted with hair and naked under HE
Eurnoose. He extended his arm. and
his voice drifted with the vague wind
northward as from the desert. Ii
came 10 the man sitting the gray
Arab as from a remote distance; a
voice carried on the wave crest OF
innumerable sounds; a long, wailine
desert cry. weird. eery, the words
slurred and blurred.
20 Sirdar! I will give II TO you.
] VIII give II 10 you. And may il
cruelty YOUR souli"
The voice trailed or IN a thin. in
distinguishable whine. and the ema'
ciated creature sank down under his
burnoose.
The man looked up and about him
like one who hears a whispering in
the sky. Then he turned his horse
and rode on slowly In the wake OF
the procession He followed it east
into the Rue Muski
The horse picked its way along
careful to avoid the exhausted mad
men who lay everywhere. The rider
gave the horse no aJtention. He rode
with the relns slack IN his fingers.
- the rue AAEAA enter NN Tx
Neuve the horse. 10 avoid q camel
stepped on the caftan OF an exhaust
ed dery1sh. lying IN heap Ike q
relaxed dead man. The hoo' barely
touched the garment. but the drug
Crazed creature beneath IL suddenly
rolled over and buried his teeth IN
the horses leg above the fetIock. II
was the quick. savage lunge OF ar
Infatuated dog. The horse bored
and 10 keep him from going head
lcng into the crowd. the rider turned
him into q side street.
But he could not master the mad
dened horse. The beast was wild;
the iron DIT clamped into its iaws as
y cemented into . stone. AS though
Infected BY a virus. the horse was
now as orazed as the drug-drunkeT
derv4sh. Nevertheless. the horse did
not get away.
lie fought down the narrow street
and our through the native quarte-
OF the city, but the rider controlled
him and. but for an accident would
have go; him in hand A water-
skin had broken en- the street. and
when the plung.ng horse struck the
wet earth he fell
The thing all happened IN a
lash. and the man was thrown out
81 the saddle As he arose a nativt
servant IN livery. handed him his
helme: which had rolled into a
ueighboring doorway A motor-caI
had Stopped and woman was ou'
!n the street beside him.
~Oh." she cried. "are you hurt 80
The voice had the s5ft liquid tones
81 some southern country.