The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-03

"At Fl Brudja," replied Riccoli eyeing as though it hypnotiset him, the revolver on the table. l "Ah, hal A little sop to my vanity" laughed Le Sage. M good Riccol, you've seen me daily since you came to Mekazzen. Yol talked with me for an hour al the post from which you marched here"
 You're not the Moor who came to the post with message from the Kaid. He had fat face, anc a great beard" expoStulated Ric- coli.
 He had. So had I, an hour ago And I have a fat face when ! think will"
 And you came to the post from the Kaid?"
 T certainly came from Nick azzen.'
 Then you came from the Kaid No one could go to and from from here without his knowledge and consent"
 Or that his trusted and all- powerful adviser and Vizier, the Senor Pedro Maligni"
 "Oh, ho. You got at him that way, did you?"
 T did. As you got at him through Raisul."
 Then the Kaid is fooling you, Le Sage.
 No The other way about, I'm afraid, Major Riccoli. Now if you had said that Raisul and the Kaid are fooling you. ,"
 Nonsense, Le Sage. It is who am fooling them. Talk sense. l hold the Kaid in the hollow of my hand. He thinks I am here to join him, to support him, to fight for him. I and my men are to serve his ends, the fool He and his men are to serve mine"
 And France?" inquired Le Sage softly.
 France? She will be glad and proud to make terms with me be- fore long--when I am the invin- cible Sultan of Morocco, head ot the vast Pan-Islamic. ."
 Yes. yes, know it all, Major Riccoh. You're still riding that horse, are you" Riccoli smiled.
 Join me-" said he. Join me and have a career worth having Have a destiny, something finer than retiring as a fat Colonel, tc grow cabbages in a French viii lage. Join me, and I will make of his Murats and Bernadottesf If he could make walters, hoStlers private soldiers, into Kings, wha could not I make of you?"
 Why, damned traitor. That lis what you could make of me Major Riccoli, if I put myself un- 4 reservedly in your clean and hon. est hands"
 Still riding that horse, art you?" sneered Riccoli.
 "Yes, for France"
 And what will France give you Le Sage? A cabbage patch. Well well, you've had your chance"
 I've got it, Major Riccoli, anc I'm taking it quite soon," ane again Colonel Le Sage consulted his watch.
 Well, I won't bore you for long Major Riccoli, I shall be going ir a minute"
 Might one ask where?" ITO interview the Kaid. By tht kindness and courtesy of the help. full Senor Pedro Maligni, I have Ian interview with the Kaid in hi own private audience chamber Private and personel, secret ane confidential.
 For France?" sneered Riccol.
 Well, in point of face, I go ir my Teutonic manifestation or in. carnation, in the name and rolt of Herr Schlacht.'
 But you are quite sure it i. for France?" asked Riccoli witt a suggestive half f-sneer.
 "Oh, quite. The Kaid thinks ht is going to talk to melt is cur. Iious you should have mentioned 1 'cabbages' once or twice, Riccoli, and Le Sage broke into English
 "'The time has come, The Kaid has said,
 To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing | wax
 l And cabbages and Kings. and more particularly as t whether the time hasn't also come for the German equivalent of 6 quarter of a million francs tC turn up, together with certain guns, rifles, ammunition and men