Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-16
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINl
Published by Arrangement With First National Pictures
Inc. Copyrighted by Houghton- Mfflin Company

! with dignity whatever might await her. a
| golden-haired young man beside her, his face
haggard and stubbed with a beard of some
! growth, looked up in alarm as she was taken
from his side. Then, with a groan, he made
as if to clutch her, but rod fell upon his
ra Used arms and beat them down.
Asad was thoughtful. 1t Fenzileh who
had hidden him come look at the infidel maid
whom Sakr-eBahr had risked so much to
snatch from England, suggesting that in her
he would behold some proof of the bad faith
which she was forever urging against the cor
sair leader. Out of curiosity had he obeyed
the prompting But that and all else we're
forgotten now in contemplation Of this noble
ensample of Northern womanhood, statuesque
almost in her terrible restraint.
He put forth hand to touch her arm, and
she drew it back as if his fingers of
fire
He sighed.
How inscrutable are the ways Of Allah,
that He should suffer so luscious fruit to
hang from the foul tree Of infidelity!"
Tsamanni, watching him craftily, master
,ycophant profoundly learned in the art of
playing upon his masters moods, made an
swer:
even so perchance that Faithful of the
Prophets House may Pluck it. Verify all
things are possible to the One"
yet is it not set down in the Book to be
| Read that the QauSnefS OF Jne lnlluel are not
for True Believers?'
But Tsamanni, knowing full we'll how the
Basha would like to be answered, trimmed
his reply to that desire.
"Allah is great and what hath befalen
once may we'll befall again, my lord"
Asads kindling eyes flashed glance at
his WAGER.
Thou meanest Fenzileh. But then by the
mercy Of Allah | rendered the instrument
of her enlightenment"
1T may we'll be written that thou shalt be
the same again, my lord" murmured the in.
sidious Tsamanni.
There was more stirring in his mind than
the mere desire to play the courtier now.
'Twixt Fenzeh and himself there had long
been feud begotten Of the jealousy which
each inspired the other where Asad was con
cerned. We're Fenzileh removed the wazeer's
influence must grow and spread to his own
profit. 1t a thing of which he had often
dreamed but a dream he feared that was
never like to be realized, for Asad age
ing, and the fires that had burned so fiercey
| in his earlier years seemed now to have con
sumed in him all thought of women. Yet
here was by miracle, OF a beauty so
amazing and so diverse from any that ever
yet had Toasted the Bashas sight, that plainly
she had acted as charm upon his senses.
"She is white as the SHOWS upon the Atlas,
luscious as the dates of Tafilalt," he muir
INJURED fondly his cleaning eyes considering
her what time she stood immOvable before
him.
Suddenly he looked about him, and
wheeled upon Tsamann, his manner
! swiftly becoming charged with anger.
"Her face has been barred to a thous-
| and eyes and more" he cried.
Even that has been so before" replied
| Tsamann
And then quite suddenly at their elbow
| hot l1V
of accent but now rendered harsh, cut in
/ to ask
what woman may this be-"
Startled, both the Basha and his wazeer
swung round. Fenzleh, becomingly yelled
| and hooded, stood before them, escorted
! by Marzak. A little behind them were the
eunuchs and the litter in which, unperceived
by Asad, she had been borne thther. Be
side the litter stood her WAGER AyOub-el-
Samn.
Asad scowled down upon her. for he
had not yet recovered from the resent
ment she and Marzak had provoked in
him. Moreover, that in private she should
be lacking in the respect which his
due was evil enough, though he had toll
Grated it. But that she should make so
bold as to thrust in and question him in
this peremptory fashion before all the
world was more than his dignity could
suffer.
Never yet had she dared so much, nor
(
sudden anxiety had effaced all caution
from her mind Her hold upon Asad was
growing tenuOus To snap it utterly no
more was necessary than that he who OF
late years had scare bestowed thought or
glance upon woman should be taken
/ with the fancy to bring some new recruit
to his harem
! Hence her desperate, reckless courage to
! stand thus before him now for although
her face was yelled there was hardy ar
! rogance in every line of her figure OF
his scow she took no slightest heed
II this be the slave fetched by Sakr-el-
Bahr from England, then rumor has lied
10 me- she said. Il vow it was scarce
! worth so long a voyage and the endan-
fetch this yellow-faced, Iong-shanked daugh-
ter of perdition into Barbary.''
Asads surprise beat down his anger
/ H was not subtle.
4ellow-faced? Long-shanked?" ouoth
/ he
Then reading Fenzileh at last he dis
played a slow, crooked smile.
Already have | observed thee to grow
hard of hearing, and now thy sight is
failing, too, it seems. Assuredly thou art
growing old"
And he looked her over with such an
eye os displeasure that she recoiled.
! Tie stepped close up to her.
Too long already hast thou uueened
! 1t in my harem with thine infidel, Frankfsh
| ways he muttered. that none but
those Immediately about overheard his angry
words.
Thou art become a very scandal in
the eyes of the Faithful" he added very
srlmIy. 1T were well, perhaps, that we
amended that"
Abruptly then he turned away. and bv
a gesture he ordered Ali to return the
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