The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-14
CHAPTER 5 a THE LITTLE JEWELS,

I AiC etdOCo, Oul lll1lS " OtllOt LIldl day at the fair"
 I'm not likely to forget it. agreed Otho, nor your message about Save the little Jewels as I thought you said.
 "'Save the little Jules'," mur- fmured Otho again, with a short and bitter laugh.
 "Wot was that, 'Arris?" asked William Bossum "You bin ere be- fore, why couldn't you say so be- fore?"
 ''Ho, yus, before and be'ind. I didn't say before that I'd bin ere before becos we come some other way. But been to Mekazzen be- fore, all right" replied Sailor Har- ris. '.s' Well, go on, get it up,' request ed William Bossum, and don't be so bloomin' 'aughty and mysterious. Anybody'd think you was a missin' heir or somethink."
 You'll be a missin' Legion heir \all right, in a moment" replied lSailor Harris with unwonted bril- lance. "If you could close your cad for half a second, I'd tell you. Before I 'ad the misfortune to meet you in Tonbury, I goes ashore from off my ship in Marseilles and gets drunk. So drunk gets that I joins the Foreign Legion, or else the Foreign Legion joins me. . I dunno. :. Any'ow, my Section was garrison of a fort, and my es- couade was doind' a patrol and got mopped up by some Beddoo blokes. Me an my chum, ole Peer Legrand, is what they calls ths sole survivors of the bloomin' ship wreck. r
 An these Beddoo blokes takes us along to Mekazzen an gives us to this Kite for a Christmas or a birthday present or some- thing. f
 Cor lumme Rough! E was als ole buzzard. We soon wished we was back with the Beddoos. One day he took my poor chum Peer Legrand, an 'ad him chucked off a tower on to some sharp ooks,- 'arf-way down the wall An there e 'ung till he died. 'Ooked. through the leg. '. Upside-down. :. like sheep in a butchers shops Kite Harem Abduller Kareem. The dirty dog I'd like to ;. :"
 Well, how did you come to get away them" asked Joe Mummery, as Sailor Harris paused to think of exactly what he'd like to do to the Kaid Haroun Abd'allah Karin of lMekazzen.
 'It was his sister done it. Come down in the middle of the night to the dungeon place, she did, where was chained up like dog. Sez she can get me out and guid- ed to place called Tangier if I'd give a bloke there a message from 'er. Then the bloke would give me two 'undred and fifty francs for meself and see me on my way. Likewise she done it too. A dumb bloke, an an ole 'ag, an black piccaninny. An me in one O their big cloaks like a great blanket with a hood to it. Well, the dumb bloke gets me out all right and guides us to Tan gier And all the way I keeps Irepeating the message to meself, not knowing but what me life de- pended on it, yer see. The mes ] sage from this girl to the bloke in i Tangier, Seenyor Peteroh Null leeny"
 Yes" murmured Otho. "Senor Pedro Maligni." esHi What was the message?" asked Joe Mummery.
 Save the little Jewels" re- piled Sailor Harris, Gibraltar.
 England. Don't trust my brother
 any more. His wife has won.
 Give this man two hundred and q | fifty francs and send him over
 the sea. Peteroh's gazelle Eliza
 beth Ellen speaks. Save the lit l tie jewels
 Yes, that was the message ant I'll remember it as long as I live, Elizabeth Ellen was the girls name-the Kites sister. Only she pronounced it like Fl Isa Beth Fl Am. Like that. Y. A lovely piece. she was, too. Cor lumme! E. An spoke some English with 'er French and Arabic"
 ] Her mother was an English woman-Elizabeth Elaine Torson ,, said Otho, captured with her hus- band Captain Torson, a gunner from Gibraltar. The tribesmen who captured them killed him and sold her in the market-place of Mekazzen as slave. This Kaid,s father bought her-and the woman 1 of whom Harris is talking was their daughter. Sc she is the half sister of the present Kaid. Also alf-English. .. Poor soul. nl
 How d'you know, Bob?" asked Joe Mummery as Otho fell silent3 ! Because the black pickaninnv, who went with Harris and inc dt,x,.t o.@I