Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-15
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
Arrangement With First National Pictures
Inc Copyrighted by Houghtou- Iflin Company)
CHAPTER N-Continued

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hung above the bulwarks; through this
surged now the corsairs, led by tall lean,
elderly man with a flowing white beard and
| a swarthy eagle face. crescent of emer-
! aids flashed from his snowy turban; above
! it rose the peak of a steel cap, and his
body was cased in chain mail. He swung
| d great scimtar, before which the Spaniards
went down like wheat to the reapers sickle.
He fought like ten men, and to support him
, poured a never-ending stream of Moslems
! to the cry of:
DIN. Din. Allah, VALIANT"
! Back and yet back went the Spaniards
| before that Irresistible onslaught.
Sill Oliver found Yusuf struggling in vain
| TO rid himself of his chain, and went to his
assistance He stopped, seized it in both
hands, set his feet against the bench, ex-
| erted all his strength, and tore the staple
from the wood. Yusuf free, save, Of
course that a length of heavy chain was
dangling from his steel anket. In his turn
he did like service by Sir Oliver though not
quite as speedily, for strong man though he
was, either his strength not equal to the
Cornishman's or else the latters staple had
been driven into sounder timber. In the
end however, it yielded, and Sir Oliver, too,
was free. Then he set the foot that was
hampered by the chain upon the benth, and
with the staple that still hung from the end
of it pried open the link that attached it to
his anket.
That done, he took his revenge Crying
Dln! as loudly as any OIL the MOSiem
boarders, he flung himself upon the rear
of the Spaniards brandishing his chain. In
his hands it became a terrific weapon. He
used it as a scourge, flashing it to right and
left of him. splitting here a head and crush
ing there a face, until he had hacked way
clean through the Spanish press, which, be-
widered by his sudden rear attack made
but little attempt to retaliate upon the es-
capped galleyslaye. After him, whrlng the
remaining ten feet of the broken oar, came
Yusuf.
Sir Oliver confessed afterward to knowing
very little Of what happened in those mo-
ments. He came to a full possession of his
senses to find the fight at an end, a cloud
of turbaned corsairs standing guard over
huddle of Spaniards, others breaking open
the cabin and dragging thence the chests
that it contained, others again armed with
chisels and malets passing along the benches
llberatlng the surviving slaves, Of whom the
great majority were children of Islam
Sir Oliver found himself face to face with
the white-bearded leader of the corsairs, who
was leaning upon his scmitar and regarding
MIN with eyes at once amused and amazed
Our gentemans naked body was splashed
from head to foot with blood and in his
right hand he still clutched that yard of iron
links with which he had wrought such
CHASTITY execution. Yusuf Was standing at
the corsair leaders, elbow speaking rapidly
"By Allah, was ever such lusty fighter
seen!' cried the latter. The strength of
the Prophet is within him thus to smite the
unbelieSing pigs"
Sir oliver grinned savagely.
Il was returning them some of their whip
lashes-with interest" said he.
And those were the circumstances under
which he came to meet the formidable Asad-
ed-Din, Basha of Algiers; those the first
words that passed between them.
Anon, when aboard Asad's own galley he
was being carried to Barbary he was washed
ed a hlt ba
lock, by which the Prophet should lift him
up to Heaven when his earthly destiny
should come to be fulfilled. He made no
protest They washed and fed him and gave
him ease and that they did these things
to him they might do what else they pleased.
At last arrayed in flowing garments that
were strange to him, and with turban wound
around his head. he was conducted to the
poop where Asad sat with Yusuf under an
awning, and he came to understand that 1t
was in compliance with the orders of YuSuf
that he had been treated as if he were
True-Beiever.
Yusuf-ben- Moktar discovered as
person of great consequence, the nephew Of
Asad-ed-Din, and favorte with that. En-
allied of Allah the Sublime Portal himself,
a man whose capture by Christians had been
a thing profoundly deplored. Accordingly
his delivery from that thraldOm was a mat
ter foc rejoicing. Being delivered. he be-
thought him of his Oar-mate, concerning
whom Asad-ed-Dn manifested the greatest
curiosity for in all this world there was
nothing the old corsair loved much as
fighter, and in all his days he vowed, never
had he seen the equal of that stalwart gal
ley-slave never the like of his performance
with that murderous chain. Iusut mad IN
formed him that the man was fruit ripe
for the Prophets pluckng, that the grace
of Allah was upon him, and in spirit ALREADY
he must be accounted a good MosFem.
When Sir Oliver washed, perfumed, ana
arraved in white caftan and tuFban, which
gave him the air of being even taller than
he was came into the presence or ASad-ed-
Din it was conveyed to him that II ne
would enter the ranks of the Faithful of the
Prophet's House and devote the strength
and COURAGE with which Allah the One had
endowed him TO the UNFOLDING of the True
Faith and to the Christening of the enemies
of Islam great honor, wealth and dignity
were in store for him.
OF all that proposal, made at prodlsIous
length and with great wealth OF Eastern
crcumlocution the only phrase that TOOK
root in his rather bewildered NINA was
that which concerned the chastenlng OF
the enemies Of Islam. The enemies OF
Islam, he conceived, were his enemies; and
he further conceived that they stood in
great need of Christening, and that to take
a hand in that Christening would be
singularly grateful task So he considered
the proposals made him. He consldereo'
too that the alternative-in the event OF
his refusing to make the protestations OF
Faith required of him-was that he must
return to the oar of a galley, of Moslem
galley now.
Now that was an occupation Of which he
had had more than his fill, and since he
had been washed and restored to the nor
NAL sensations of clean human being he