The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-11

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 As he brought up against the wall beside the balcony, his arm shot forward as he flung his knife -too hurriedly.
 Again Otho struck. and as Raj sul side-stepped to his left, Otho smashed home a crashing right that drove Raisul heavily against the lew balcony wall.
 With a loud cry he threw out his arms, clutching wildly at the rope, and before Otho could seize him. fell backward across the cop ing. turning and turning in mid air to strike the jackal-haunted rocks beside the shattered body of his victim. Jules Maligni.
 After a nasty instinctive glance over the balcony at the still fall ing body, Otho whirled about, to find Margare, running to him with cutstretched arms.
 Tho darling. Oh, Tho"
 Are you hit? Are you hit?" cried Otho
 NO, no," laughed Margaret shak- fly. Oh, darling I thought I was, and I'm not I thought I was dead, and I did want to live long enough to see you kin 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 me? Why did you join this awful Foreign Legion?"
 Didn't you know? Why, so as to come down that rope at the psychological moment. Obvious, isn't it?"
 Again they kissed.
 "Oh, Margaret, love you so ut terly Do you know I have never lain down to sleep without think ing of you-since I was boy"
 They clung together, then sprang apart as heavy blows sounded on the door
 Drawing the bolts, Otho saw the aged slave who had guided them to the battlements. Seizing Otho's arm, Hassan el Miskeen dragged 1im across the room, and out on he balcony. Looking upwards, Otho saw several heads silhouetted against the sky, as their owners craned through the emorasures.
 "Ohe, Belleme, was that Raisul?" salled Le Sage.
 Yes, sir. He's-er-on the rocks. Le Sage laughed grimly
 Come up" he called. I've sent the guide for you"
 Motioning to Hassan to lead on, Otho kissed Margaret once again.
 Wait for me, Margaret" he said. Wait for me"
 Yes, she would wait for him. She would wait lifetime for him.
 
 In the absence of the Kaid, Rai- ;ul, Mahommed Ali el Amin, and every other leader of executive au- sf1ority, the organization of the Citadel of Mekazzen went to piec- ,s; what should have been the garrison of Moorish soldiers became an armed rabble (quickly disarmeO md the castle fell of itself. The loosely knit native life of the cita- iel swiftly disintegrated, and the work begun by the betrayal of the password was completed by the is- suance of orders and instructions n the Kaids name, by the Kaid's Vizer, the Senor Pedro Maligni.
 Until the tricolor flew at the masthead on the Sultan Tower, and Colonel Le Sage was in fact Governor of the Castle, the orders f the Vizer were cepted and 5beyed, for want of better.
 "The longer we can conceal the tact of the deaths of the Kaid and 2aisul, the longer we can use your authority as Vizer," said Le Sage. Not that we shall need that for ong, Senor MaHgni."
 And the other half of the re- ward, promised me after the con- summation of your work here?"
 Tt shall be paid to you person. ally, at Tangier, as soon as possible after I receive letter from your daughter -law-in her own hand writing-fro Yelverbury. The 5ooner she gets there the sooner you will get the other fifteen piec- as."
 Fifteen pieces, Colonel?"
 "Oh, I beg your pardon, Senor