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_MREING Love STORY, TROT HONOR’S SAKE, Situ”
Cpe By BERTHA M. CLAY, .
o Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year ros, by Street & Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washinton, D. Ce Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second Class Matter.
ToL, 60. 238 Willinn St New York New York, February 18, 1905. Three Dollars Per Year. No, 19.
Two Copies Five Dollars.
A scuffling sound was heard just behind the place where the two sat. “More than once I almost gave myself up for lost.”
a connoisseur; which was just what the sadly | mosque, I'd don: to each and e sume another color, and it may be you have
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aah disorganized wide expected "and desired, above all| blind man he would have in line st the time F-quit| possession of, some. wonderful talleman’ lost” for
! 9 things, else had ig wooed the goddess of the| the holy place. centuries, and which is supposed to possess the
Thespians in vain “Well, sauntered inside when he announced | magle properti n
“Why. Larry, my dear- fellow, what trouble| everything as beng ready, ‘and what. T we hear abou which,
has rubbed shovigers ith you now? Was it the] fed the trouble and expense ‘hI bad been| believe, you once told me you had seen when’ ti
yi 6 @ | bigoted Keeper of a mosauo who rofused to, roll] put; for it ‘beat all my pre the disguise o ty ‘im.
, gside ‘the ‘sacred ‘mattin ed | hollow. uo jarnuing beyond T rath
| ect of an uubeliever DIght stray withit, allowing | descriptions Dut T spare ‘you the details, knowing] about wearing thls ‘amulet ‘on Your wate chulte
i : bin fo saatch a phoiograph of some exauisite Sare-| how you like to get’ dows to busines Dr. Jacl
: ‘woodwork—or “Thad really Galshed, and w
Ee heainst the bigb muck-a-muck king of ‘all the! der tovcive Whe wurden’ ar mood che
a By ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE reat bt ie Tages Fetinve, end bra faved the| bis Io ion of the halt and the blind. CHAPTER IL
: ° ’ Eantlet of their fingers? my, soul} recompense might seem ‘sufficient, when, wan i ,
F You look as though: v0 fad been setiou to w-] around the, mosque, it happened that f drew mea ee nek aa het vasee, bis 3
“ ree Yop rr 6 ” rn, maa, a'window just th ime to bear 9 voice Pronounce| Larry's last remar just passed bis lps
thor of “My Hibegarde The Spider's W eb, A Chase for a Bride, oe: for you Know Fm ever ready with brother!y| tome one's name in plain Englist-~and that name] when a scuffing squad was teard directly. behind
LO Dozey way yours. the place where they two sat. Glaneing hastily
q ch, Down in Dixie,” etc., ete. Larry did drop into the chair that was pushed| “““y not tell you that I was immediately| around; wise was mis surprise and consternation
; forward by. his sworn friend and ally" and. thea] igtorested, both or Four take and my own, andl to discover a couple of Werte figures iy turban and \, | «
ae with ructul Tace surveyed us dusty tabiliments| made out'ta, dlacover” who, the party might chance | Bourmouy fattened out on bands ‘and aves, either
{ ‘ “Weally,:'pon honoh, now, T'm dew to be—for was in his tone a spice of bite| getting in a late prayer after the babit of the
CHAPTER 1. Larry, already sadly winded by provious exor-| Beal, with’ a’ whole skin, dén't you “enow. “i pive| torgoos ‘that made me thisk ‘be. had’ litte love| falthfal, “or else quits overcome by the ashing
- Lions 'of ome cremendous acute,” Joytutiy “wel-| 794, my. slem here'was a {hne| for a certain gentieman of my acquaintance, of that’ quaint ‘and Usly little golden beast that
=. THE GOLD SCARABAEUS. comed the advent of an empty velielé om the seen When actually 'T thought you might find my auivs| | it seemed that two, persons, stood under, the) barry sti gr
ysterious Nile. of action, and oing in his directio ering “wemains in that “blossed. old in’ low but earnest conversation, en they. glanced. up de an involuntary
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His shrill falsetto brought the mative Jehu up| Khaleeg, with my lovely throat cut foros, OF per= Ts = aged, tn, 10m but earnest conver att] movewsent with the hang that held. the” gUttOrIOg
splash of te busy shadoof was no Pheer | with sipresently. snugly en Chance ‘the twademark of yataghan, kriss ‘or talk: arin every word he could hear of thelr| scarabacus, whereupon the two fellows once more
J trance snd. the monotonous squeak of the | seonced within, Larry was ablo to draw a leisurely | Moon scimiter on my. noble. bosom—ugh tsa licked. their heads most abjectiy, ‘and went to
A vaier wheel had ceased to torture the | Breath. @ las Enrry, “shaking ‘bis chale with, the force of bis| "Mon T made out, fram vartous hints dropped, | sroveling again.
ws ¢t cho a 4 their |. Stilt ‘he seemed nervous and suspicious, casting shydder. to havi beaa a hadji who had made the, pilgrim: Jove! that goes to prove there may be some-
ant the wearled fellahin, who deserted thelt| numerous fiances back toward theesccthing quare| "The deuce you say! Then take it this has| age to ‘Mecca, ‘and was entitied tow eeu | thing’ in it; the ‘poor devils seem to fear. this
| jaw with the dipping of the day-god ‘below tho| fer'whence iis late Wight had sprung. as though |@ more serious meaning than I fancied when toms| {arban he seemed avo tO have had some eaperi-| barmioss image as Satan docs holy waver.
| Wiza beyond the massive pyramids. bis escape might have been trom some threaten-| ing my rude Joke at you. | Korgive me, Larry, and} ence as the leader of a caravan, for T heard him) raising bis volce, the little dude cried, out, “smme
laintive yoico of Ing calamity’ of no mean dimens! let's know the game. Sitting here, I was Just 'won-| proclaim himself a krebir, with few equals and] she!” just as he might have called “s 80
ito the. sweet, plaintive voice of And there were also times wea he chattered to| dering whether the, time hadn't arrived for some| no superior; he also spoke of the desert, and what/ many ‘feline disturbers of the nlght—and | the
matin was heard in the land, calling the faith. himself in the magple way was one of| new deviltry, to spring, afoo fate isn't] ho had helped do to poor Gordon at Khartoum.”| word may be taken to mean the same thing, “Get
Me ayer, after the manner of the Prophet,| Larry’s well-known Rharacteristies ° 4a inclined to” Ice me try ‘an idle tite et, fuxurious| °°pr'“yaew “ateered, ah exclamation for he ‘had | Ou tt
7 a ta | eccentricities, uttering ghastly threats venting ale gaso-yery long at a stretoh, even in this land of the} taken ecullarly keen interest in everything. was a ferceness tn his tone, and those
alaeanormrerand spires and minarets} surprise at what strange things he bad learned, of, | fabled lotos eater: that "pertained t9 the fallen hero of the Soudan—=| ben nied ‘sons of Egypt made haste to obey. bis
Gs sommons pul etna ee Datel of Con eee ee ee ee ae a ears, or | eC would bo hard to say whether the tone in| fete emisn Gordo had been tus most gallant sol-| mille vanisbing among’ the. gathering shadows of
tit arse from the streak ‘of luck that had opened this amazing jack-| whlch this was spoken vibrated with keen regret; tier of the cent ary. the 'square as though swallowed up in a. san
Twas just at this se eee nour, when the} Pot, t him. gometbing like the engerness with which a bold" ‘Par storm of the desert,
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Samo at length to the wall of the “quar-| and self-reliant spirit welcomes the advent of new| “What T'heard next gave moa shock. ‘They| “Proceed,” said Dr. Evans, quietly, as bo again
dows wero begining to creep atuwart the| ter'=thet aates were Tucklly not Yet but, so\that| and extraordinary, conditions that may call out bia} spoke of Hirbedan, Abu eien and “Abu Kree have | wrapped the gmail image, in the tissue Baner which
hiner streets lying behind the grim citadel, that| Frank, Copt and Jew rty to mingle| best efforts in order to bring success. fg been fought in vain, sinco Gordon was lost be: | had previously it, and replaced it in his i
! tigre might have been seen hurrying along the| WR Arab, Turk and EByptian. Sudden change bed also taken place in the] fore Gen. Berle’ toum ; but| packet—perhaps Met th’ more ‘reverence than ‘be
um mel ying along And Larry, bold tile soul ‘hat, he had proven| outward, appearance ofthe man. o dcvert declared that Gordon’ was| bad given tt botor
} Newt, from the direction of the many bazaars, | himselt ‘occasion wi Dr. Jack was aroused, hls languor cast aside as| pot slais, as the world believed-—that he remained Histened intently, since it ts not every day
wri then indulging in a-queer iittle bop | Wana needful” adjunct—Larry actually Baal ono might carclossly dispose of a sucked orange | prisoner in the hands of the ho is] @ fellow cam oar so much that is, interesting:
hands with himself over the fact. tha ‘haa fis eye glowed with fire, ‘and Larty knew full well] attve e as French,
s Row reached a place of comparative safety. the period of joking was! past, | tbat sounds ineredtble—tmposstbe, in tho tace| weil kaows Tasominate abofe ali, others. “There
‘be proportions ; and anon subsiding into a more en his impressed vehicle deposited him‘in| He, too, had his moods, \d,, singular to state,| of the evidence we have, It may bave been sald seemed to’ be something awfully familiar about woe
we gait, through the fear of attracting un-| front, of the famous caravancary that, as ““Shep-| could, when he chose, 6p. ale as excellent, English th thing that stir
jeard’s” has long oceupied a tender ‘spot in as anyone would wish—even his drawl, exasperat-
Enlutentlon trom those who crowded the Popw-| memories of hordes of Nile fourlts, smal atten-| ing in its quaintness, was.an assumed quality that
thorooghtare. tion dia fe pay to, the nondescript ‘attractions of] he dropped at si sien
Kennedy it was, nig sbebiveh Square, Interesting though the penora-| “Ill sive you. the particulars ag well az
tha 1ypetranees the dees Se she INde| mao} y ‘dragomans, ne, ean able, Jack. Tt Remtunny at Beet glance < bo other than an old and dearly beloved friend
» native New Yorker had] Saas recy COT oreane tellers uae have| bul“pon my word it was a serious business with| Pie ours.” “4
u an exper nthe im in. the past, great lover of the an-|& fellow of my, size, Eive a guess a: “Abdallah Pasha!” burst from the lps of Dr. :
| Maitky; for his usually immaculate clothing was tigue and bizarre that Larry ws “Twas ‘Hither that magnificent “old ‘prayer ‘ug 1|Jack like a shot from a pistol,
ul ee He slapped an unknown number ‘anes thousand and one little *aoagles ¢ of he ‘wonderful c mt it was astonishing pow the mere mo ention of a e ‘f
fhe Jtching palm of the driver, and then plunged| town, for the deeper, 1 dip into that business ibe ald 2 his mental vision uch
; Ma one of those dainty tufts of yellow down that| headlong in the direction of a 'gentleman who sat|steater grows the uractlon~and. a, hav \t 2'panorama of “ex (ing. Seenes, connected
fmanented his checks, and which he proudly de-| i" @ comfortable cane chair close by, smoking | ered some beauties, too, It I do 18 lite table which has always struck me as| bis adventurous past
tainted “whiskers,” stood out at an awful an-| SiH" made trom the cholcest tobacco grown in| | “There was that attracted me above all gone Some secret, ancient order of the| Again he seemed to be leaping into the aren!
fetes compared ith this sunny and highly favored Jand, and apparentiy| others, “and fo for some time I've. been trying my | Beypt at Wie pull ‘aghe in Maurid--after the matador
Masten compared with its mate Only killing. dull eace by watching the ever-chan- fovel ‘best to gain admirsion. “You sce. they hed | “Frou his Dr, Jack took a wad of tissue] bad been tossed over the barrier by that ferocious
1 aeincted io ove hand Larry dangled a mysteri-| ging Kaleidoscopic show in the square, about which | no old red oF yellow slippers at the door ‘which for- ager uasoied the aatuey sud extracted ‘somme| black devil of a toro—spurred by. dare tha
GREE dor, which might be a modern camera;| witch Hghts were beginning to ‘ash into existence. | eign doxs could slip on over thelr shoes, in order pitecins Sbiect, which he placed in the other's| lay ina pair of bright eyes of the Spanish beauty,
eis as nehed in a truly’ tero cious man: | "That “resolute yee. kindly “countenance, whien| not tov dehie the sacred” Mattia it appears | ban Mercedes. Once more he contemplated the wild
wench le tinted his bead around, as if sa} once, seen, Impreseod itself absolutely ‘tipo the that ‘strangers, seldom hanponed’ upon this ttio| To’ al) appearances it was only a golden fac-| night ot the carnival—te experienced anew that
we,seareh of panting pursuers, mind, marked the lounging old and] gem of a hidden mosaue, which fact only, made me| mile of a beetle common In the sands of Bsypt,| ride through the mountains, whore the traln Ww
ltt? 20 clreumstances may a foreigner pass| favorite friend, none other ‘han Dr, Jack vans "| fhe more cager to get a snap at Wes intetion, which | the. scar est dup by the revolutionists, who only, desired to
streets of Cairo unassalled by the| A few weeks in this country of the lotos eaters, | I ‘magined ‘must ‘be ‘especially rich in aecora- ar7o, the jtnctents it was emblematic of tmmor-| lay hands on, bie and last, eh least,
ing for almsi and is mild 7 tehea i. nee wih ity, and "fenrocontadons of ‘the same may bel he could not Utonget wae ashing exploits had fat-
" a es, even fetched a pair of babouchas with me, found upon thousands of tombs; indeed, it is har in es
gilts to the usual, howling chorus of ‘“back-| manipulator of fortune around to his usual good but the uly, Cerberus who stood guard at the por:| to find i fn the land ‘of the Pharaohs a, sarcophagus fin) be loved an Svar how ‘ble adored wife,
Here ON hone, .gceasions| state of health, lately Impaired to some extent] tals frowned Tme down, and tmuer-| which, does wot have this sacred mark somewhere] Avis, from the, dungcons of this same Abdallah
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‘That Bed ‘seo me in the hoorhach everlaste| upon 1s rocky. w asha, ‘near Constant inople. 3
endeavored to down| ingly before such a desecration could be allowed. was now tarry turn to utter an exclamy Suc he mere mention of a name,
fe ~ | Howevi 3 Indicative, of deep, emotion. onjuring UD all, that tas perchance been con?
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el this as well as other countries, and rarely new apartment we discovered when we
Sere d'to' a man, leaving the| tient to. New refuse any offering Intended for. their. beneats | did a ithe private digging in the old pyramid of fesh, our Pata nadversary
porarily free. ti he aiiapidatea Lari truck a 2 drama tic] knowing which, I flung out a proposition to the ef-| Sakkar ‘Yes, and how the Arab fell down ia In Egypt, t perhaps
yet ait question as to whether the] attitude in front of Dr. Tack’. the other, surveyed] fect that if be would only roll the confounded pisht ‘of Mi, groveling on the ground, We thought be design; but hi
small silver would hold out, so that! him from hea a to foot with tbe air of a critic] matting aside, and give me half an ‘hour in the|be had a fit at the time, fee things begin to e Dr. Jack a debe. that has slumbered for
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