Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
"A Son of the Sahara
A Modern Story Of the Desert
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All at once, she Tell OF and stayed
in the sand, half stunned by her fall.
conscious Of nothing except that she
had escaped from the Sultan Casim
when she fell the horse stopped.
He stretched a long neck and sniffed
and shifted az her. But since she did
not get up, he did not leave her. He
waited until she was ready to start
OFF again, quite glad Of the rest him.
self.
However, there was not to be much
rest for him.
A shrek OF diabolical laughter rang
out at his very heels. With a snort
OF fear and rage. he dashed out. The
laughter turned into a howl of pain
three legs. with q broken shoulder.
But there were twenty or more of
them now, against one old horse and
girl too utterly exhausted to know
even that her life was In danger.
strength of jaw that could break the
thigh OF an OK. and a cowardice OF
heart equaled only by their strength.
For some time they circled round.
watching their prey with ravenous.
and again one of the other made a
forward rush. only to find those iron
heels between it and it's meal. The
horse understood being baited in this
manner by foes just beyond his
reach; It had been part OF the hell
from.
As time went on the hyenas grew
holder.
Once they rushed in a body. But
they retreated. One with a broken
jaw, one with a mouthful Of live flesh
torn from The Suitan's' flank, and
one did not retreat at all. It lay with
it's skull smashed in. it's brains be-
scattering the horses hoofs-hoofs
over which now red stream oozed,
A desperate battle ragged in the
lonely desert under the white light
Of the moon. A battle that filled the
night with the mad mirth Of hyenass.
and the wild shrieks of frightened,
hurt, Infatuated horse-The Sultan
fighting as he had fought that day
in the east end of London when Pansy
had first come across him. But fight
ing for her life as we'll as his own,
CHAPTER xxx
The sound OF that desperate conflict
rang through the stiffness of the
night, reaching the ears Of a man
who was riding at breakneck speed
along the sandy track leading in the
direction of the oasis. Those diabol-
icai shrieks OF laughter filed him
with a torture of mind almost past
bearing. In them he heard the voices
Of hyenas mangling the girl he loved.
lie Breton had always known Pansy
would run away IL an opportunity
occurred. But he had imagined that
he had made escape impossible.
After dinner he went TO the gilded
room, TO pay an evening visit to his
prisoner, since business affairs had
kept him from dining with her.
However, she was not there.
Experience had taught him that IL
the moonlit. rose scented garden. She
never went there after sunset for
fear he should come across her, and
the beauty and romance OF II all.
combined with his presence. should
force the surrender he was waiting
for.
Not finding Pansy in her own pri-
vate quarters. he went into the big
hall OF the harem, only to be told
she had not been there since well
On learning this he set the women
searching in every corner OF the
harem. But Pansy was nowhere to
be found.
\ to escape. For a moment the news
dazed him. He did not waste time in
| trying to discover how she had es-
| capped. or who was responsible Tor
her getting away, She had gone.
That one fact glared at HIM No one
know better than the sultan himself
| the dangrs awaiting the girl once she
| strayed beyond his care.
Within a few minutes all his serv-
ants and soldiers were out lookin
| with threats of the dire fate awaiting
| any one who dared either hide or In
| jure the sultan's wife.
| A hasty search brought no trace OF
| the girl, but one Of the search parties
| learned that a horse was missing
| from the royal stables.
| On hearing this the sultan went al
| once TO the stables. looking for q
/ clue there. The missing horse was
I Pansy's The discovery sent a sudder
/ glow of hope coursing through him
4 1t argued that somehow or other she
had managed to reach the stables anc
had set out into the desert
The sultan understood horses, ever
better, 1t seemed to him now, than h,
understood women. Left to Its owl
way 1t knew the best; the way h
generally took it And left to itsel
It was almost certain to be, since III
rider had no knowledge OF any of tn,
| sandy tracks that lay around tn
city.
the swiftest of his own horseB riding
with all speed toward the oasis: blu
not before leaving orders with hi
officers to scour the desert in ever.
direction.
He had ridden perhaps five mile
when into the stealthy. hiss of tn
sand another sound came. At frs
so far away that it was but a dis
tant moan in the night. AS he tor
on rapidly 1t grew louder. developing
cry of hyenas bowling round thei
Desert reared, instructive he knew
there must be at least twenty o
them.
When. above the melee he hear,
the terrorized screams of a horse.
deadly fear clutched him. Where tn
horse was, the girl was. And tn
sound told him the two had been at
Around Pansy the CHASTITY conf1ic
was raging. Around her mangle'
He suffered all the tortures of tn
damned, as with spur and crop n
urged the great stallion onward, un
til the animal was a lather Of swea
and foam.
| The hyenas heard the throb o
those approaching hoofs, and fea
gripped their cowardly hearts.
The disconcerting noise grew speed
lily louder. On the wilderness of tn
lonely desert dark patch appeared
| a. patch that rapidly became bigge
and headed straight toward them.
It was one thing to attack a tire
old horse and q half-Stunned girl, blu
another to face q huge black stallion
and the big man in the white bur
moose who rode It.
The hyenas did not face the com
bination. With g. weird howl Of dis
appointment, they turned tail sudden
L " and scllfflpd AWAY infn the desert