The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-02-22

plaything and his heir. Pedro had
come more often then, before bust
ness In Europe and Tangier had be-
come so eVer.increasing and impor-
tant.
Yes, those had been hard days, be-
fore Zainub had aged and mellowed.
land before she had come to realize
that neither she nor her son Raisul
had anything to fear from the Lady
Ell lisa Beth Ell Ain, or from her
child.
The woman had been an incar-
nate jealousy in those days. and It
was a marvel that she had not sue
ceeded in one of her many attempts
to kill both aer and the child Jules.
And here was Jules returned.
child grown into a man. and bring
ing, to see his mother, the English
girl. his wife.
Her husband, her son. and her
self, together under the same roof
the roof beneath which she and
Pedro had spent their honeymoon.
and Jules had been born.
why had Jules brought this Eng,
lish girl?
As she had done so many tho.
sand times before. the Lady Ell lisa
Beth ell Ain stood still as q statue.
Hooking, with unseeing eyes, across
the desert plain which-three hun,
dred feet below the little stone bal.
cony that chung like q swallows
nest to the wall Of this great castle
built upon the edge OF a great rock
stretched shimmering to the far
horizon.
Why had he brought this pink
and-white, beautiful English girl.
who so reminded her Of her own
mother. Elizabeth Elaine Torson?
Could not Jules have come to
see his mother-the mother who
had cnt her very life In halves 10
save him, and who had so yearned
for him all these years-withont
bringing arother woman with him?
Why bring her here at all. in any
case?
But doubtless young headstrong
love would account for that.
But had he told the girl every.
thing?
Did she know why he was here?
How much had Jules told the girl
OF Pedro's business? And was she to
be trusted2 Was she such q one as
would deny herself: suffer: give M
everything: run every risk; e.
trigue and plot and lie and kill: in
the interests Of her lord and mas.
ter. as she herself had done for
Pedro?
And suppose the girl knew moth,
ing at al. and we're merely Jules
doll? what would she do. as reall-
zation dawned upon her that the
date Of her return to England--in.
deed. her return to England at all
was vague and problematical.
A thousand pities that the boy
should complicate matters and add
to his difilculties, not only by
marrying this girl, but by bringing
her with him.
And did he Quite--or Pedro either
for that matter-understand young
Raisul?
She thought not. She feared not.
That young Raisnl. II her opinion
were worth anything land II GER
tainly ought TO be worth something
on that subject--was q young devil,
IL indeed. he were not the Deyil
himself. incarnate. She might be-
an old woman (of fortyl) who had
practically lived her Life In the
castle Of Mekazzen. but she knew
what she knew. and II her knowledge
were not wide. It was deep: and
one OF the things she knew was
the character. intelligence. mode OF
thought. and future lins Of con-
duct Of these people among whom
she had lived end IN whose hands
her life haN. precaxiously been.
This Raisul she had watched from
babyhood until he had gone away
to France. and abe knew him for
what he vas, the cieyerest. wicked
est and cruelest Moor Of them all.
utterly interruptions. utterly con-
scienceless. and utterly without fear
OF God or man or beast or devil.
He was his fathers son in
courage and cruelty and strength;
his mothers son In force and sub
tlety; and with q cleyerness all his
own. polished and sharpened and
enhanced BY education. travel, and
experience.
Let Jules beware OF Raisnl, and
when the time came for the Kaid TO
be gathered 70 bis fathers. let Pedro
beware OF Raisul.
From habyhood his mother, Zai.
nub. had poisoned his mind against
Jules and Pedro. and though Raisnl
had Ear outgrown his mothers mar.
row teaching. and was outwardly and
apparently the good friend Of his
cousin Jules. what Is engraved upon
the mind OF the child remains upon
THE mind Of the man.
Raisul would remain the good
friend OF Jules and of Pedro, Just
rs long as they were useful TO him.
fcopgrieAt. 1853. ,. 4. Stokes Col