The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-25

as one was taught, heredity anc environment make the man? What else should this descendant of pi- rates, bandits, brigands and raid. CTS be, living as he did in this robbers stronghold, dominating 6 wild land known as The Coun- try of the Gun" because it pro- duced nothing else but the gur and it's people lived and died by the gun?
 Was there as much difference between this cruel blood-stainec mediaeval baron and his twentieth century son as there was between their respective dress? Was there as untamed and unchanged a say age Moor in Raisul's Savile- Row dinner-kit as there was in liar oun's silken garments?
 Why on earth had she been suct fool as to come into this horri- ble country among these incredible people, into this fantastically i'm. possible, fantastically real Moorisf life that they led today as they led it two and three hundred and for all she knew, five hundred and a thousand years ago?
 Margaret had thought it a sim ply splendid idea and a unique opportunity of seeing-not as the | tourist sees it-a uniquely inter- esting country.
 And there, awaiting her arrival had been Raisul, a little too in- sistent on the fact that they wers now cousins and he endowed witt cousinly privileges.
 Had the Aaia any influence anf power over his son, or did he love him with too besotted a devotion to thwart or cross him in anything whatsoever?
 According tc Jules mother, E 1sa Beth el Ain, .Ul.3 child had ruled the man from babyhcod anG for from ever denying him any thing, the Kaid had turned his murderous wrath upon any man woman, child or beast that hae ever refused, thwarted, hindered or angered the boy.
 Had he not stabbed with his owl hand the favorite horse from which Raisul, as a child, had fallen? Hat he not consented to the death O. his own nephew, Jules, because of Raisul'S mothers bare suggestion that Jules might grow up to bt an enemy and a usurper? No probably the Kaid's influence ovc Raisul was nil while that of Ralsu over the Kaid was paramount.
 From the Kaid, Margaret glanc. ed at his wife, the once lovel zaiub, who, according to Fl Isa Beth el Ain, had been reputed tn loVeliest woman in Morocco. the desired of the Sultan himself-the q utoera tic all-powerful Sultan whom the Kaid had first defiec and then defeated.
 Evidently a woman of character forcefulness and determination. as proved by the one fact alone thal she had retained her power and Influence over her ferocious. auto. cratic and untrammelled husband Evidently too, a woman of fas. clnation and charm, in that the kaid apparently enjoyed her so. clety today as he had done 2C years ago.
 What was the secret of her DOW ed that she should retain and according to Fl Isa Beth el Ain augment and strengthen it, ever as she changed from lively girl tc lat old woman. For Moorish woman in her forties is old.
 Probably she and the Kaid were two minds with but a single thought" on most subjects. and he a d m 1red her ruthlessness and strength as much as he had once admired her beauty.
 What a pity one could not talk to her, get her point of view. at- titude and outlook on life and current events-if talk she would to a hatred and despised outsider
 watching her as she sat with uncovered face, Margaret thought or an aged Lucrezia Borgia. a Cleopatra in middle-life, of Cath crime de Medici and Catherine of Russia. Of such was the Lady lalnub, wife of Abd'allah Karin and mother of Raisul.
 And that equally, if differently amazing woman who sat next to her, the Lady Fl Isa Beth el Ain Jules mother, half-sister of the kalo. How could she have found life bearable and contrived to live IL beneath the same roof, however vast, as the woman who had tried to Kill her baby, the little Jules ana who had put the child's life III such danger that she, the child's mother, had sent it away, with lit-