Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-01-11
uN TWO PARTs-PART Two)

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= (copyrizht: 1sss: BY Achmad AbdaIIahl
.. GIN TWO PARTs-PART TWO
= he ordered another bottle. He dram
deeply; and-being q dreamer as We
as 3 hard doer, q poet as well as
r0bber and scoundrel-he added:
~CattIe-sHre enough-and horses
. and shimmering loot and, belize,
o pretty slave girl for a warriors hour
! Of rest. But that Is not all want on
! OF life. For-by the teeth Of the Pro
: phet Mohammed-I want empire ang
; dominion and the acclaim Of man
Yes. Thus, unsmilingly, spoke tht
. lawlezs bandit whose very shoes hac
y been pilfered from another mans feet
Empire and dominion and the &C.
claim OF mankindi And how can
fatl-with Lads like you by my side
not TO mention the other heroes who
are waiting for me outside the Western
Gate? Seventeen men-T don't mind
telling you-who love me, who stick to
me like ticks to a sleeps back. And
together we shall cut through this land
as knife cuts through cheese. With
each victory we shall gather more
hardy men to our stands. A surprise
attack then-Samarkand taken by
/ storm-the Grand Khan on his knees
before us, swearing fealty. What next
q. Alive turn against Persia
catch the shah unaWaFes-clip his ears
and send him unbreeched amongst his
women, where he belongs. Then" he
drank deeply, I'VE go riding into the
west We humiliate profoundly the en-
peror Of the infidel Franks, force him
to pay enormous tribute and" here
spoke the poet in him, the sentimental
ist, kiss his youngest daughter under
an apple tree
Again he hiccoughed; then. the prac-
tical man coming TO the front, stead
led himself with a:
Gently does It'll First let us go tol
that viii fit our legs :"
The man, you can plainly see, was
given to bOaStful rodOsnontades. Yet |
It had not been Boosting, had been the |
truth, when he had claimed he would i
pun the Grand Khans beard.
Indeed, by the end Of the month, he /
had plundered homeSteads and vii
lagos everywhere. He had defeated three
Of the Grand Khan's patrols. He had
even invaded the outskirts Of Sam
arkand itself-and a wild night it had
been, with swords and dirks to the
fore, the torches flaring red against
the TALL black houses, the bandits fit
ting away, gorged with loot and blood,
and the Grand Khan in a towering
rage, ordering his troopers to gallop in
pursuit.
aBoots and saddles at oncel" he
reared. For when a snakes head pops
put Of hole you must crush it i'm
the tail viii be more {
Than you can manage"
Here was a sound adage, although {
If mighty little value since the snakes
head was not to be found. 1t disap-
1eared. And 1t popped up again 10 I
lays later, many miles away, with the
Red Hawk and his followers over /
-ambushing the richest caravan Of
he year. A caravan bringing silks and
eWelS, raw gold and rugs, and spices
md costly rarsties from China and the
ndies. and the merchants, to whom v
he goods had been consigned, filing
he Grand Khan's audience hail. clam
ring for redress, yammertng that C
III vail yail-they were ruined men. 2
nd one of them relating that among :
he attackers he had recognized All II
nd Mehmet, and the Grand Khan &c
xclain1ing:
LET their fathers be bastinadoed and cl
ut on bread and water rationsl"
What good win that do2" mildly r
lquired priest.
mo good at all, except that it win Ia
lease me-personally :" 81
Samarkand buzzed with the news. Il
fen and women, when they met In
azar or mosque or at street corner, 81
fled the gossip through the sieve Of si
iger, pursued lips. M
AS to the two girls-for long days su
ley had been wondering and unhappy
bout the boys absence. Now they of
aew; and, at first, smiled.
Trying to prove to us they are" was
lleikas right guess, that they are m
IT towards"
A silence. Her smile vanished. So
d Fatima's, who said duly:
Nov we have lost them"
"Our fault. We drove them from
,Ene with our naggtng and haunting. fes
They blamed themselves bitterly.
ley worried. And their worry turned
bleak despair when, presently, 1t be- sill
me known that the Red Hawk had
en- killed-had been killed most tn-i Z
oriOusly, in spite of his tail Boosting, ou
the Scythe of an irate peasant whose .
are he had stolen; that Ali and Meh- fal
t were now the leaders Of the ban
IS who, with Iawless nomads riding
from the seven hills and the seven
aims, were steadily increasing IN num- .
rs and making the whole west coun- pa.
: unsafe for peaceful trade and traf- ha'
/; that the Grand Khan-his patrols for
'eated IN skir1nish. after skirmish- the
decided he would see this thing wa,
rough at once and for all, was send to
! the pick Of his regiment against the Z
1bers and had sworn a solemn oath VIII
it All and Mehmet would receive Tn,
n gris1y punishment as never before ]
d been known in High Tartary. tro
me afternoon, camel rider came ms
Of the west with news to break her
Irts and humble great pride. News of but
ok disaster that had overcome the cap
Tiers. steI
ne latter had felt secure In their bar bar
ely power Perhaps too secure Gross XIII
the Green Salt steppe, they had pris
de bivouac; carelessly lolling round on
camp fires; unaware that the ban Jun
|. by circIiitoug trails known only q n
them, had circled the army-ruSh- a q
out suddenly on It's flank roll
he troopers, taken by surprise, had a b
time to rally, to marshal a coun- grey
charge, while the free hooters, who lanG
I'd have been smashed IN orderly rhyi
lie, had for ally the steppe itself, 81
dust OF the steppe, the heat and Rhs
st. 'fY'ellahl Y'ellahl" peaked the *
lge cry, as the. salt smell Of new thef
n hFn4rgf7f a qi1fx1oys IN sufY1a ord ~4<nsx