The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-08
Chapter 45 THE TRAP IS SPRING

Ka1d, Haroun Abd-allah Karifn stood in the doorway. He entered the room, and like a following shadow, the giant negro Ibrahim the Lion, stopping through the six-foot doorway, followed his master. Behind him came ths Kaid's confidential scribe.
 Softly the door closed behind him, and Le Sage suppressed a sigh of relief.
 Intent upon his victim, the Kaid noticed not the absence of his trustworthy Vizer, and, in the noise of his booming speech, the faint almost inaudible sound of a turn ling, well-ofled key, was lost.
 Seating himself upon the throne his bodyguard and secretary be- hind him, the Kaid smiled again.
 "ASelamu, aleikuml" he boomed How is your health? Well? That is well. We would have you get the fullest enjoyment from such life as may remain to you by the Grace of Allah, the Merciful, the Compas- sionate."
 Le Sage bowed and seated him. self.
 T trust that Allah, the Merciful the Compassionate, will not only give the Great Kaid many long years of health, but to me at least an equal number in which he is er-safe where no enemy can reac him, and :"
 Leaning back upon his throne his great jewelled sword across his knees, the Kaid gave vent to his humor in his great roaring laugh, for which he was not only famous but feared.
 And scarcely had that leonine roar of dreadful laughter begun be- fore there was another roar, a shout, cry in Cockney English.
 My Gawd! It's i'm! It's inn" as Sailor Harris sprang to his feet. Flung my chum on the 'ooks!'
 And, leaping the settee as he shouted. Sailor Harris, his fixed bayonet at the charge, rushed upon the Kaid.
 Even as Le Sage sprang to his feet, the madman lunged and drove the long lean bayonet through the heart of the Kaid
 Take that, you bloody torturer, 3 shouted the mad Harris, as he drew forth his bayonet and stabbed again.
 Ready" shouted Le Sage, strik- ing Ibrahim the Lion on the side of the head with all his strength. as the latter stopped to seize the Kaid's sabre.
 As Ibrahim staggered and almost fell Otho leaped upon him, bringing him to the ground, while William BosSum, with excess of zeal, gave ithe unfortunate scribe so heavy a right-hander on the point of his jaw that he crashed to the ground and lay as one dead.
 In moment Ibrahim the Lion sighed, relaxed, closed his eyes and lay still.
 Well, my man." said Le Sage, turning to the panting Sailor liar ris, you solved a problem-with the bayonet. What were your or ders?"
 Il forgot mesef, Sir" panted Sailor Harris "'E laughed like that when e killed my chum and tor tured me. Ed have 'ad you on the ooks, Sir"
 What were your orders?'
 T see red, sir. I went mad when I card i'm laugh"
 "Well call it that, then; mad ness. All right. now?"
 "YeS, sir
 Suddenly there was a swift, tre- mendous swirl of struggling hu- manity.
 Ibrahim the Lion had suddenly drawn up his legs, flexed his mighty arms, shot out his feet, sent flying the man whose bayonet was at his throat, crashed together the heads of the men who held his arms and struggled free.
 Leaping like a man of india rubber to his feet, he snatched his masters sword and sprang at Le Sage. Ere the great shining blade could descend and cleve Le Sage's skull, Otho struck.
 With his bare fist he drove a tremendous well-timed smashing blow between the giants eyes, driv- ing him staggering back.
 Springing in, Otho crashed in left and right, drove tremendous right at the negro's mark, and, with his left seized the wrist of his sword-hand-and fell as his foot slipped on the marble floor.
 Ibrahim the Lion wrenched free his sword-hand, and whirled up the sabre, once more to try to de- lcapitate a man.
 Otho flung up his arm to guard his head, and Sailor Harris again sprang.
 1brahim, a lion to the last, fell unconscious beside the master for whom he had lived, and from whom he had received nothing but-permission to live.