FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.
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THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
-THE LIGHT OF
EL MEDINEH.
BY JAYE ROHMER.
(Continued from yesterday.)
(Copyour, 1916.)
•. Wherata, the guzèdian of the undrað -klipper, in" mysteriously, transpécted to the shots of Hassan, of Aleppo and
· receiros farther evidenie - of the ́atumi-- science of the Hasbiskin and the futi- lity of trying to conceal the relic from their vigilance.
Mr. Cavanagh,” he said, I have brought you here that I might warn you Your police are seeking me night and dry and 1.2m tally alive to my danger whilst I stay in your midst. But for close upon a thousand years the Sheikh-ai-jebel, Lord of the
and the relies of the Prophet (Salle "Habu aleyhi vasallam), 1, Hessan of Aleppo, am Sheikh of the order co- day, and my sacred duty has brought me here."
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the place, beyond, hot was able to perceive anything save a vague green-
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THE Steamship THE
And as I peered, tall bélieving that the whole episode was dreadful, Fevered dream, the abominable times
"KASENGA": of hashists grew or seemed to grow, having strived, Consignees of cargo ar suddenly insupportable.
informed that all goods are being With a gasping ay I fell back, landed at their risk into the Hamylou fighting for breath, for breath of and/or extra basurdom Godowna -of clean air polluted with hashish Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, whese delivery But every inhalation drew down into may be obtained.
I
my lungs the famés, from which 1: No shẩm will be admitted sitse: the sought to escape, and after a moment Goods have left the Godown, and mil I knew no more until, struggling again April 26th, will be subject to reat
•Goods remaining sndelivered after to my feet, surrounded by utter dark- ness I struck my head on the corner of my writing able...for I lay in my own stody 1.
the table beside me. The night was My revolver, unloaded, was upon very still. I think it must have been near to dis
dream it all? Did I dregur it all?”
"My God!" I whispered "did I
said Inspector Bristol, the next day, "There's no-doubé th my mind,*
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The piercing gaze never left my face. I was not yet by any means my own man and still made no reply.-
enough."
"
That I had been, drugged was siffi- ciently evident from my present con- dition, and that I had been taken away! had satisfactorily proved by an ex- from my chambers, Inspector Bristol amination of the soles of my slippers.
I shook my aching head.
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**You have been wise," continted Hassan, “in that you have never
*That accursed yellow room," touched the sacred slipper. Had you replied, "was fall of fames of hashish. kid hands upon it, no secrecy could It may have been some preparation of have availed you.
The eye of the hashish that was used to drug me." hashist in sees all. There is shaft of kight which the true Believer per- ceives ar night as he travels toward El-Medinch. It is the light which eprises, a spiritual fire, from the tomb white beard whom you assure mo to | DGAL, GENERAL ILIPORTE and BASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) wasellum). The relice also are radiis something we cannot very well of the Prophet (Salla abu aleyti be none other than Hassan of Aleppo
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"If you know where the slipper is," I said, more for the sake of talk ing than for anything else, "why do you not recover it?”
It was a nightmare business; Mr. Cavanagh," he said, "but it doesn't advance our inquiry a litle bit. The prophecy of the old ma with the
ant, though in a lesser degree." act upon and it is maddening," Bris- I managed to force words to my tol went on, "to know that Hassan lips.
& Company are sungly located soare- where under our very noses and that all Scotland Yard can find no trace of them. Then to think that Hassan of Aleppo, apparently by means of some mystical light, has knowledgò of the whereabouts of the slipper and con- "Because the infidel dog." be cried "segcently of the whereabouts of Earl loudly," who has soiled it with his Dexter is extremely discouraging ampleannouchi, defies us--rocks us¦ ¦ I feel like an amateur; I'm ashamed of He has suffered the loss of the offend myself!"
Hassan turned his eyes opon me again.
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ing band but the evil'geri, protect Bristol departed in a condition of him; he is inspired by efreets! But irritable uncertainty. God is great and Mohammed is his. My head in my hands, I see for long. only Prophet: We shall triumph; but after his departure, with the paten it is written, ob daring infidel, that characters of the ghoulish drama dan You again shall become the guardian ing through my brains. Predominant of the slipper!"
over all was the stately figure of Has He spoke like some prophet of old san of Aleppo, dat benignant and I stared at him fascinated. I was morseless being, a terrible guardian loth to believe his words:
of the holy relic who directed the mur When again, he continued, the derous operations. Earl Dexter, with shipper shall be in the receptade of his tightly bandaged arms, his gaunt, Which you hold the key, that key misi | clean shaveri face and daredevil smile,
given to the 1"
figured, too, in my feverish day I thought I saw the drift of his dream; nor was that other character F. Particulars, apply to words now,
whose beautiful presence I had come The key of the case at missing, the girl with the violet eyes;
would be the price of my life destruction, her appearance in the had prophesied the slipper's return. to dread; for like a 'sybil announcing Bur
drains had almost invariably presaged fresh tragedies.
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"In order that these things may be fulfiBed, he continued, "I must per mit you to return to your house. So i is written, so it shall be. Your life is in my hands; beware when it is demanded of you that you hesitate not in yielding up the key !!...
And now my door-bell was ringing" So certain was I of the identity of my visitor that as I walked along the pas sage I was endeavouring to make up my mind how I should receive her.
I opened the "door; and there, wear- ing European garuments but a green- urban-stood Hassan of Aleppo.
“Elendi,” said zay visitor, “đỏ not hesitate to act as I direct!"
He raised his hands before him, making a sort of obeisance, I doubt not in the direction of Mecca, drew aside one of the yellow hangings be hind bina and disappeared, leaving me alone again in that nightmare apart-
In his gloved hand he carried what ment of yellow and green and gold, appared to be an ebony cane. He I leaped forward to the curtain raised and pointed it directly at. me. which Hassan had raised and jerked I perceived that it was in fact a hol-
how tube
ir aside; it concealed a door. In this
"Death, is in my hand," he con-
door and about level with my eyes ainted; enter slowly and I will fol was a kind of little barred window
through which shone a dim green low you." light. I bent forward, peering into
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