The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-04-01
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and agile as cat; slippery as 90


Raisul ducked beneath It, and
flung his arms about Otho's waist.
Down together.
A cry from Margaret.
1.-THE knife. Ohio! The knife!s
ByaJove, he'd got it. Raisal leapt
to his feet. and stabbed.
Ohio, rising. struck with his right.
The blow sent MIN staggering back.
ward.
As he brought up against the wall
beside the balcony, his arm shot
forward as he flung his knife too
hurriedly.
Again Ohio struck. and as Raieul
side-stepped to his left. Ohio
smashed home a crashing right that
drove Raisul heavily against the
low balcony wall.
With a loud cry he threw out his
arms. clutched wildly at the rope.
and before Ohio could seize him,
fell backward across the coping,
turning and turning in fnid-air, to
strike the gackal-haunted rocks be.
side the shattered body of his VIC
tim, Jules Maligni.
After a hasty Instructive glance
over the balcony at the still falling
body, Ohio whiried about, to find
Margaret running to him with ont.
stretched arms,
Tho darling. oh. Tho.
"Are you hit? Are You hart?"
cried Ohio.
mo, no." laughed Margaret shaki.
iyg "ph. darling. | thought ! was.
and I'm not. thought / was dead,
and did want to live long enough
to see you kill him.
Her arms were round his neck.
He was holding her tightly to him
and stroking her hair.
Neither ever knew how the next
minutes passed. At length,
"otho. It's incredible. It's too
wonderful. Oh, Tho. why did you
go and leave me2 Why did You join
this awful Foreign Legion?'
Didn't you know? Why. so as to
come down that rope at the psyche.
logical moment Obvious, isn't it?'
Again they kissed.
"Oh. Margaret, love you so utter.
~. DO you know | have never lain
down to sleep without thinking of
you--since | was a boy
They chung together. then sprang
apart as heavy blows sounded on the
door.
Drawing the bolts. Ohio saw the
aged slave who had guided them to
the battlements. Selling 0tho's arm.
Hassan Ell Miskeen dragged him
across the room, and out o. to the
balcony. Looking UPWARDS. Ohio
saw several heads silhouetted
against the sky as their owners
craned through the embrasures.
"0he, Belleme. was that Raisul?a
called lie Sage.
Yes, sir. He's--er--on the
rocks lie Sage laughed grimiy.
"Come up" he called. 1--WE sent
the guide for you:"
MotionIng to Hassan to lead on,
Ohio kissed Margaret once again.
"Wait for me. Margaret" he said.
"Wait for me-
Yes, she would wait for him. She
would walt 4 lifetime for him.
In the absence OF the Kald, Raisul.
Mahommed Ali Ell Amin. and every
other leader or executive authority,
the organisation OF the Citadel OF
Mekazzen went to pieces; what
should have been the garrison OF
Moorish soldiers became an armed
rabble Quickly disarmsd). ana the
castle fell Of itself. The loosely knit
native life Of the citadel swiftly dis
integrated. and the work begun by
the betrayal OF the password was
completed by the issuance of orders
al instructions in the Kald's name
by the Kald's visier. the Senior
Pedro Maligni.
/ Until the tricolor few at the mast
head on the Sultan Tower. and Col.
unel lie Sage was In fact Governor
OF the Castle. the orders OF the vixier
were accepted and obeyed, for want
OF better.
The longer We ean conceal the
fact OF the deaths OF the Kaid and
Raisul. the longer we can use your
authority as vizier,. said lie Sage.
~Not that we shall need that for
Ions, Senior Maligni."
"And the other half OF the re-
ward, promised me after the con-
summation Of your work here9'
1T shall be paid to you person.
ally, at Tangler. as soon as possible
after | receive q letter from your
daughterIn.law- her ow hand
writing = from Yelyerbnfy. The
sooner she gets there the sooner
you win ret the other fifteen
pieces"
Fifteen pieces. Coloneil''
.oh. I beg your pardon. Sefior
Mallgni. I was thinking OF thirty
pieces OF silver
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