The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-03-17

love OF beauty and the beauty OF
love-"
Margaret, untruthfully stating
that the pleasure would be entirely
hers, led the gallant and ardent
officer to her favorite and private
spot upon the battlements. and to
the subject of France Bordeaux and
the remarkable son OF that city.
Monsieur Aureille de Tounens who
became KinG Of Arauco.
Then indeed were the fiood-gates
opened. and what had been bah.
bling brook-that had reminded
Margaret OF Men may come and
men may go but | go on for ever
became a torrent In full spate.
After the uttering OF that name.
Margaret had no need OF further
speech, nor any slight anxiety al
to Major Riccolfs attitude and con-
duct.
While thar subject occupied his
mind, no room was left for thoughts
of love or love-making.
"Ah. that was man indeed" he
unused. but mad. you know. mad.
A megalomaniac. Through his own
ambitious schemes he fell like Van.
roi again--if he did fall--and II
not at this very moment great
ruler in his own right. a king. an
emperor. In the great and unex.
pIored interior of this mighty and
marvellous continent"
"And who was Monsieur Vauroi?"
asked Margaret. anxious to keep
the mind OF this amorously enter.
prising officer to the one subject that
she Judged 20 be more powerful in,
interest than even love,
'Vauroi? You know not OF the
brave Captain vauroi. and his bid
for power and wealth and fame7
No. being English. suppose You
would not have heard Of him. The
military authorities. whom he de-
fed. defeated and outwitted. did
not exactly advertise his name to
the world.
".Ahi that was q man--such an
other as Aureille de Tounens OF
whom you have just spoken: such
another as voulet and Chanoine. but
not so mad.
"Vaur0il A simple captain Of
artillery. and now perhaps an EN-.
peror. But as to the truth OF that.
no man knows. No European.
that lie, to say, although the mill
tary authorities and the French
government pretend to know. No
European knows for certain. but
IL is my opinion laid believe me.
Mademuiselle. my opinion IL worth
having-that millions upon millions
OF Africans know; Arabs. Negroes,
Touareg. and possibly races Of
whom We have heard nothing.
"OtheFWise. tell me this. Why IS
there to thia day throughout the
Southern Sahara. q persistent and
widely prevalent rumor OF a White
Sheikh? Yes. OF Great White
Sheikh whose orders all men obey,
and whom they fear and reverence
as the Sennssi fear and reverence
their great religious and political
leader. the Sheikh q Senussi him
self.
"What did vauroi do? I'll tell you.
Maaemoiselle.
FINDING himself stuck in the
desert. buried alive. forgotten. neg.
lected, lost IN q wretched hoie
called Mescheria. he determined to
carve out career for himself. Why
should he, a man Of courage. abil-
ity. brains and ambition. be doomed
to rot In Mescheria. while in Paris.
gnttsrsnipe politicians made them
selves figures OF international I'M
portance, masters OF Europe-and
made generals OF their worthless
military proteges. panders and
toadies?
"Why should her A man mentally
as great as they. and indeed far
greater. why should he consent to
grow grey in ohscurity. poverty and
misery while these DOGS carved ont
careers Cor themselves7
"Ife woald not consent 20 Il.
ASince no brilliant career to
fame and power lay open to him.
no would carve out one for him
self.
"SkiIfully and cunningly he
opened negotiations with a great
Arab sheikh. paramount ruler OF
the Beni.Amama and allied tribes
and when his plans we're made ana
tho time was ripe. he departed
from Meachuria with the whole OF
his battery complete and entire.
guns, limbers., ammanition-column.
men. horseA mules and camels.
He was. Of course. received with
open arms BY tho Arabs. who led
him deep into the desert where per.
bars No white man had ever been
before.
deep and ever deeper into the
desert. until they came 70 the CAPT.
al of Reni-Amama. . native city
whIch--as the French military au-
therilies afferwarda discovered 10
their e0st--ha turned into . great
fortress. = real citadel.
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