Evening star., 1933-06-05
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his wife's sake, he dared not punish
Raisul
you'd like to. know
Like to!' cried Jules.
II mean you are burning to horse
whip him. jules: but your hands are
tied-while we are In the Meka6zen
country. We are absolutely in his power.
So don't talk about Furnishing him
don't even think about i"
Perhaps you are right" acquiesced
Jules "Of course, you're right. We are
in his power"
Don't think about Furnishing him."
repeated Margaret. Think about getting
away and about preventing anything OF
the sort to happen again. You mustn't
give him the chance Of drugging you
again and you mustn't leave me alone,
Jules"
Il don't see how can prevent
his :" began Jules.
But. of course. you can," interrupted
Margaret. IF you don't sit drinking
with him or eat with him in his own
apartments"
"And I'm afraid you'll have to be left
alone sometimes. my dear. Be reason
able. can't be inside the castle all
ways"
more"
"I may have-I certainly shall have
| to be away for days at time. perhaps
weeks at time, before very long"
"Julesi'
"Margaretl" mocked Jules.
Look here, Jules, If you've really got
| to 60 out of this place before We can
leave it for good I'm coming with you.
! I'm quite as strong as you are"
! "You are? Then you can manage
Raisul all right I should think. with
out all this fuss"
"What I meant was have as much
endurance as you and can ride as far
| and rough 1t as we'll Did make any
complaint on the journey down herea
! And We roughed 1t pretty well then.
THAT was different. We we're travel
| ing at leisure-like tourists-with
young caravan and in reasonable safety.
This would be different-without the
Kaid's protection and an escort ana
guides. We should be In enemy coun-
! try. among all sorts of trouble; raiders,
robbers. hostile tribesmen, Bedoui,
Touareg. II you fell into the hands OF
some of those birds you'd wish so Raj.
suls had got you"
"If YOU leave this castle. Jules, I'm
coming with you-unless Raisul goes
with you, that is"
"D'you suppose Raisurs going where
I tell him?"
mo, suppose you're going where
Raisul tells you to go. If he goes on
some expedition and you go with him
I don't mind staying here. provided a
definite date is fixed for our return to
England and that it is the earliest pos
Sible date.
But one thing is absolutely certain
I don't stay another night alone In this
room if Raisul is in the castle. You
wouldn't ask me to, would you, Ju1es?"
"Oh, Lord, don't make all the Atlas
mountains out Of mole hill Raisul
won't do it again And anyhow, you
can bolt your door in the future If I'm
But you're going to be here, jules
If am. can't sit here night and day
with the door locked"
Jules gave snort Of impatience.
Look, dear" urged Margaret, sup
pose you went away from the castle and
Raisul suddenly came upon me some
where in the daytime"
"Oh. try your pistol trick on him
again." snapped Jules irritably.
What! What did you say?"
Jules looked confused. Confused,
guilty and angry;
to have q pistol? How did you know
that Raisul - Oh, Jules. -
You knew, You knew about Raisul aB
the timel You were acting. You knew
when you came into this room. You
weren't really indignant at all, and you
hadn't the faintest intention Of punish
ing Raisul.
"of course, your mother told yo,
Don't you say anything against my
/ one Of those women who help their
| menfolk, not hinder them"
! And am hindering you, my gentle
Jules" asked Margaret, her voice low,
bitter and cutting, by mentioning that
your cousin slsAchaved to me last night,
here In my bee room, that I had to
threaten to ahnot him? Will you Just
tell me in pain English what you'd like
me to do next time? should be sorry
to do ANYTHING that hindered you'll Does
SwiIi You leave my mother alones
"Ah! Perhaps she did not tell you.
Perhaps Raisul himself boasted or con-
fided to you that while you were drugged
or drunk -
Hold your tonguel How dare you
insinuate things like that against gen.
tleman against your husband?
MY husband! That honorable,
| " 0oAAAAAs 4CAAdbAC SCAlblCllidu, lily .I1uc-
band. Do you consider my suggestion
| that you were drunk-as being on q par
| with my suggestion that Raisul him
| self told you that he had come to your
wife's room in the middle Of the night
Look here my girl, just now you
said you knew that I'd been drugged. I
thanked you for your kindness and said
| it was q virtue. I further remarked
l fhof yyfrf.ra nat ffr - -
| ward was that exercised equal kind
ness In judging you"
Judging me? What are you talking
/, about? Do you know, think I must
| be going silly here" :
"Going?"
"Gone. then Gone quite mad. What
d'you mean, Judging me?'"
What say. You heard I was blind
drunk and very charitably and very
rightly concluded I'd been drugged.
well. I heard that you'd had Raj
sui up here while I was-er-insensi-
"What?"' Margaret iinched, paled
and blindly extended hand for sup
port.
II say that, like you, was charitable
When heard that Raisul had been up
here said:
Wnat ABOUT II? Harmless Irritation.
We all know young Raisul I trust my
wife As said before, we were
both kind, both charitable"
Margaret. feeling as though her knees
would give way. sat down rather heavily,
and with some suddenness, upon her
bed. The cold tide of fear was rising
again, so fest, so high, that she felt she
must drown. She was going to faint.
No. that she would not do. Die she
might-and willingfy-but she would
not faint.
Margaret delivers an ultimatum, to-
morrow, to Jules.