The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-06

ened him.
 What, think you, is the fate o1
 those, and of the family of those
 who thus offend great powerful ssheikhs, and kaids and sultans?'
 What happened?" asked Jules Maligni.
 "Ch, you know what Raisul is
 Cant leave any girl alone. Not that they want him to leave them alone That Sara! You keep hel , out of Raisuls way" E.
 Jules Maligni laughed.
 Hes great lad" he said again Yes, and he'll be a great sultan some day-and you can be a great prime minister, vizer, chief coun- Icillor :"
 Keeper of the kings conscience and treasury-w h a t ?" laughed Jules. The latter would be more worth keeping"
 yea; Governor of a great Province, a fat province, yielding twice the taxes that the governor has to send to the treasury" con- tinued Fl Isa Beth el Ain. All de- pendent on the countenance and favor of this Raisul-some day. And meanwhile, your wife must quarrel with him, insult him, threaten him. Would you believe that she came and asked me to lend her a knife to stick in him? Think of itl''
 But what happened?"
 Why a certain fool got drunk in front of the man whose respect he should keep. Got so drunk and in- Ieapable that his own father said it would be wrong to take him to |his wife's apartment and let her behold his shame. Thus was his wife left alone with none to pro- tect her, or to give her good coun- sel, or to keep her out of mischief. So she got into mischief. She in- suited and angered and threatened her husbands patron and employ CT, the source of his wealth, his honor and his future greatness"
 VIII you tell me what happened. before ?"
 T am telling you. The fools wife "a far bigger fool-unmindful of her husbands happiness and vel fare, behaved according to her fol- ly."
 T suppose you mean young Raj sul went to give her counsinly goodnight kiss, and overdid it, and got his face smacked?"
 Tt is all very well to put it like that. It's all very well to make little of it, but it's very serious matter--as you'll find out, my son. All very well to say, with laugh, that Raisul got his face smacked. but people of Raisuls sort don't like having their faces smacked, and they are apt to return a smack with thrust-or a knife; or with as bloW-of a. bullet; or with a jerk-of moose"
 "Morbidl Old-fasihonedl Victor lan!' laughed Jules.
 So don't get drunk again. my son. continued his mother "or if you must, see that your wife is in a safe place-where she cannot cause mischief and danger"
 iIts news to me, my mother. that Margaret is much of a mischief maker, or given to pursuing young men and leading them on, for the fun of turning them down-at the psychological moment"
 T did not say that your wife Raisul. Do not put false accusations against your wife into my mouth, my son. did not say that she led him on. I said that she threatened him.
 Threatened to do what?"
 She threatened to shoot him.
 ITO shoot him? What for?o
 What for? To get her husband and her husbands father and his mother put to death, I should think what do you suppose would be the result of zainub's hearing of the mere threat-the throat to L;l1 bau son? And here, when you are back again, and zainub's fears and sus- plclons dead, your own wife threat ems to kill Raisul. To kill her son Ralsul, whose heir you are!" Copyright, 1892, F. A. Stokes Col
 Jules mother succeeds in im-
 pressing him with har c4o,x,