The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-02-21


coffee, was a human monster. a
brute who had always delighted not
merely In savage war. but in its af-
termath of slaughter and actual tor
ture.
And yet why wonder at this Il. as
one was taught. heredity and envi-
ronment make thu man? What else
should this descendant Of pirates,
bandits. brigands and raiders be.
living as he did In this robbers
stronghold, dominating q wild land
known as "The Country of the Gun"
because It produced nothing else
but the gun and its people lived and
died by the gnns
Was there as much difference be-
tween this cruel blood-stained me-
diaeYai baron and his twentieth
century son as there was between
their respective dress? Was there
as untamed and unchanged q saw
age Moor in Raisul's Savile-Row
dinner.kit as there was In Haroun's
siiken garments?
Why on earth had she been such
a fool as to come into this horrible
country, among these incredible
people, into this Enthusiastically impos.
sible, Enthusiastically real Moorish life
that they led today as they led it
two hundred and three hundred
and. for all she knew, five hundred
and thousand years ago?
Margaret had thought Il a simply
splendid idea and o unique eppor-
tnnity OF seeing-not as the tourist
sees TIA uniquely interesting coun-
try.
And there, awaiting her arrival,
had been Raisul, a little too insist
emit on the fact that they were now
cousins and he endowed with cous.
inly privileges.
Had the Kaid any influence and
power over his son, or did he love
him with too besotted a devotion to
thwaft or cross him in anything
whatsoever?
According to Jules mother, Ell
fsa Beth el Ain. the child had ruled
the man from bahyhood and, far
from ever denying him anything.
the Kaid had turned his murderous
wrath upon any man, woman. child
or beast that had ever refused,
thwarted, hindered or angeFed the
boy.
Had he not stabbed with his own
hand the faVorite horse from which
RaisuL as q child, had fallen? Had
he not consented to the death of
his own nephew. Jules. because of
Raisul's mothers bare suggestion
that Jules might grow ND to be an
enemy and Q psurper? No. proba-
bly, the Kaid's influence over Raisul
was nil while that Of Raisul over
the Kaid was paramount.
From the kaid, Margaret glanced
at his wife. the once lovely Zainuh,
who, according to 81 lisa Beth Ell
Ain. had been reputed the loveiiest
woman in Morocco. the desired Of
the Sultan himself-the autocratic
all.powerful .,ultan whom the Kaid
had first defied and then defeated.
Evidently . woman OF character.
fprcetnlness and determination. as
proved BY the one fact alone that
she had retained her power and In
lluence OYer Aer ferocious. autocrat.
10 and untrammelled husband. Evi.
IDENTIFY. too. woman OF fascination
and charm, In that the Kaid appar.
emily enjoyed her society today as
he had done 20 years ago.
What was the secret Of her power
that she should retain and, accord,
Ing 10 81 lisa Beth ei Ain. augment
and strengthen It. even as she
changed from lovely girl to fat old
woman. For q Moorish woman In
her forties Il old.
Probably she and the Kaid we're
''two minds with but q single
thought" on most subjects, and he
admired her ruthlessness aud
strength as much as no had once
admired her beauty.
What pity one could not talk to
her, get her point Of view. attitude
and outlook on life and current
eYents--if talk she would, to q hated
and despised outsider.
Watching her as she sat with I'M.
covered face. Margaret thought ot
an ageing Lucrexia Borgia. q Cleo
patra in middlelife. Of Catherine de
Medici and Catherine OF Russia. OF
such vas the Lady zainnh. wife OF
Abd'ailah Karin and mother Of Raj.
sui.
And that equally. II differently,
amazing woman who eat next 70
her. the Lady 81 lisa Beth ell Ain,
Jules mother. half-sister Of the
Kaid. How could she have found
life bearable and contrived to i've it
beneath the same root. however
Yast. as the woman who had tried to
kin her baby. the little Jules. and
who had put the child's life In such
danger that she. the child's mother.
had sent &c away. with little hope Of