Evening star., 1933-05-12
NJ 1y PercisaI Chrisfopher Wren stsU czsrt.

right, in moment" replied Sailor Har-
ris with unwonted brilliance. If you
could close your 'ead for half sec
fortune to meet you in Tonbury goes
ashore from of my ship In Marseilles
and gets drunk. SO drunk gets that
I Joins the Foreign Legion, or else the
Foreign Legion joins me I dunno.
-, Any'ow, my section was garrison
OF fort, and my escouade was doin'
a patrol and got mopped up by some
Beddoo blokes. Me an my chun, ole
Peer Legrand. Is what they calls the
sole survivors Of the bloomin' shipwreck.
An these Beddoo blokes takes US
along to Mekazzen an gives US to this
kite for Christmas-box or birthday
present or something.
Cor lumme! Rough! + was an
ole buzzard. We soon wished we was
back with the Beddoos One day he
took my poor chum Peer Legrand. an
'ad him chucked OF tower on to some
sharp 'ooks. arf-way down the wall.
An there e. 'ung till he died. 'Ooked
through the leg Upside-down
like a sheep in butchers shop.
Kite Harem Abduller Kareem The
dirty dog :. I'd like to :"
We'll, how did you come to get away
them" asked Joe Mummery. as Sailor
Harris paused to think of exactly what
he'd like to DO to the Kaid Haroun
Add allah Karin of Mekazzea.
1T was his sister done 1t. Come
down In the middle of the night to the
dungeon place, she did, where I was
chaned up like dog Sez she can
get me out and guided to place called
Tangier II I'd give bloke there q mes
COZ SYrsua pn~ IT.
give me two 'undred and fifty francs
for mesef and see me on my way.
Likewise she done It, too. A dumb
bloke. an an ole 'ag. an a black pic
caninny. An me in one o. their big
cloaks like great 'orse- blanket with
hood to 1t.
We'll, the dumb bloke gets me out
all right and guides us TO Tangier. And
all the way 1 keeps repeating the mes
sage TO msself, not knowing but what
me life depended on it, yer see. The
message from this girl to the bloke in
Tangier. Seenyor Peterch Mulleeny"
yes. murmured Otho. "Senor
Pedro Maligni"
What was the message2" asked Joe
Mummery.
Save the little Jewels" replied
Sailor Harris, Gibraltar. England.
>OAA ~ koL 12Ay U4OlIlGI any more. Ills
wife has won. Give this man $50 francs
and send him over the sea. Peteroh's
gazelle Elizabeth Ellen speaks. Save the
little jewels
Yes, that was the message an I'll
remember 1t as long as I live.
Elizabeth Ellen was the girls name
the Kites sister. Only she Pronounced
IL Ike Fl Isa Beth Fl Ain. Like that.
lovely piece. she was, too. Cor
lumme! An spoke some English
with 'er French and Arabic"
Her mother was an Englishwoman-.
Eilzabeth Elaine Torson," said Otho,
captured with her husband, Capt Tor
son, q gunner from Gibraltar. The
trlbesmen who captured them killed
him, and sold her in the market place
OF Mekaz1en as slave. This Kaids
1ather bought her-and the woman of
whom Harris is talking was their
daughter. So she is the half-sister of
the present Kaid. Also half-English.
Poor soul :"
How d'you know, Bob?" asked Joe
Mummery as Otho fell silent
Because the black pickaninny' who
went with Harris and the dumb man
and the old hag was her son, disguised
he was the little jewels (as Harris
tnought she said)-his name is Jules
and 1t was to escort, and to save the
little Jules that she sent Harris to Tan
gler And the little Jules Malieni
Deing safely handed over to his father.
feIo Mallgni. by the dumb guide. was
sent to England in charge of a DR..
Mayklngs and his wife, friends of Senior
PEDRO Maligni whom they were visiting
IN Tangier. DR.. Maykings, as you know.
Joe, was my fathers friend and doc
Tor And tho T,,Ia
rled his daughter, Margaret Markings.
who, as you also know, was my-er-
friend"
Otho Belleme fell silent.
Rum world" soliloauized Sailor Har-
us. Rum 60. Fair ole pantermime.
girls kidd"
Yes" continued otho. .It was
Jules Maligni. And I have known him
1or nearly as long as I can remember.
-. met his cousin, too-chap named
Raisul-son Of the Kaid Haroun ADD
allah Karin. He was educated in
Paris and Madrid, and he used to come
to see Jules Maligni at Oxford. when
ne visited England The Senor Pedro
Ma!lgni was the Kaids agent-fnan-
ciai and political In general and gun
running in particular, ! believe. I ex-
pect Jules looked after the English end
OF 1t for Pedro-and Raisul looked
after Jules
Il used to hear a good deal about
Mekazzen, but I never thought I'd see
the beastly country"
A curious stranger arrives at the post,