The Omaha morning bee., 1924-05-03
THE SEA-HAWK
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81 thee. and what ncenunt shan Thou
5enaef him Tot having imneflled the
lives - an ihese True believers upon
thc seas for ~ little nroftR'
aAie shall aak me what he rleases.
land / shall answer what I please aud
a. Aaah prompts me. on. | So
And on they won't. Sakh.ei ilnhr
conscious now Of little but tho warmth
Of that body upon his shoulder. aud
knowing not. 40 tumultuous were his
emo tons, whether IL fired him to love
or hate.
They gained tho beach; they
reached the ship whose very pres
enee had continued unsuspected. The
breeze was fresh and they stood away
at once. BY sunrise there was no
more sign of them than there had
been Mt sunset, there was no more
clue to the way they had taken than
| TO the way they had come. IL was as
liz they had dropped from the skies in
their swift. silent passage. but for
| the absence of Rosamund and Lionel
Tressilian. the thing must have been
accounted no more than dream OF
those few who had witnessed 1t.
| Aboard the carack, Sakh-el.Bahr
bestowed Rosamund In the cabin over
the quarter. taking the precaution TO
lock the door that led to the stern
gallery. Lionel he ordered TO be
dropped into a dark hole under the
hatchway, there to lie and mediate
upon the retributlon that had over
taken him until such time as his
brother should have determined upon
| his fate-for this was n matter upon
which the renegade was still unde.
cided.
Himself he lay under the stars that
night and thought of many things.
One OF these things, which plays some
part in the story. though 1t is prob
able that 1t played but slight one
in his thoughts, was begotten of the
words Othmani had used. What, In
deed, would be Asad's welcome OF
him on his return IL he sailed into
Algiers with nothing more to show
for that long voyage and the imperil.
ing of the lives of two hundred True
believers than just two captives
whom he intended. moreover, to re-
tain for himself? What capital would
not be made out OF that circum.
stances by his enemies In Algiers and
by Asad's Sicilian wife who hated
him with all the bitterness of ha-
tired that had its roots in the fertile
soil OF jealousy?
This may have spurred him In the
cool dawn to very daring and des-
perate enterprise which Destiny sent
his way in the shape of tall-masted
lDuICflIIldu nDiHtNdIu Douilus Iit EdNt
chase, for all that he was full con-
scious that the battle he invited was
one of which his corsairs had no ex-
perience, and one upon which they
must have hesitated to venture with
another leader than himself. But the
star OF Sakh-el-Bahr was star that
never led to aught but victory. and
their belief in him. the very Javelin
OF Allah, overcame any doubts that
may have been begotten of finding
themselves upon an unfamiar craft
and on a rolling, unfamiliar sea.
This fight Is given In great detail
by my Lord Henry from the particu.
lars afforded him by Jasper Leigh.
But It differs in no great particular
from other seafights. and It is none of
my purpose to surfeit you with such
recitals. Enough TO say that IL was
stern and fierce, entailIng great loss
to both combatants; that cannon
played little part in II, for knowing
the quality of his men Sakhel Bahr
made haste to run in and grapple.
He prevailed OF course as he must
ever prevail by the very force OF his
personality and the might of his ex
|ample. He was the first TO leapl
aboard the Dutchman, clad In mall
and whlrling his great scimitar. and
his men poured after him shouting
his name and that OF Allah In a
breath.
Such was ever his fury in an en-.
|gagement that II infected and In
spired his followers IL did 80 now,
land the shrewd Dutchmen came to|
perceive that this heathen horde was
as a body TO which he supplied the
brain and soul. They attacked him
|hercely in groups. intent at all costs
upon cutting him down, convinced
|almost by instinct that were he felled
the victory would easily be theirs.
And I'm the end they succeeded. A
Dutch pike broke some links OF his