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the thongs in a frenzy.
"Here, bay Produce him at once, you |wretched - double-croeser-and the
"The girl!" moaned the Sheikh, the nursing his left eye, in which Ab- dul, had inserted a probing thumb.
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For answer the Sheikh merely Turk, thy knife." spread out his hands in a deprecat- "With pleasure, Sheikh, but Tm girl as well". ing gesture. I kicked my camel in no Turk, I'm a Kurd.” : the ribs and started, the sack, with "A wha-a-t?" bellowed bay complete, bobbing at my rear. Sheikh, "a Kurd did you say?"
We hadn't gone half a mile when "What's the matter?" I asked "I can give you the boy, but there's that infernal young limb of Sheitan | lamely...--
no girl here."
"You began to make such a hubbub that "He asks what's the
"“Liar," -I'" said quietly. I was compelled to stop. He yelled screamed Abdul "Look, dog, see pinched Abdul's daughter, yesterday like a stuck pig, but what he said the black flings??
and had it put about last night that| 1 couldn't hear, for the sack veiled
"Less of that dog stuff." I growl-I had done the job. So that's why his words.
ed, drawing my Browning. "You're you giggled in your sleep last night, eht Now bring them both here be- "Look here, my young friend," I behaving like a fool, Sheikh.
|fore I start shooting." shouted, vigorously ahaking the don't get you at all." "
Fortnightly salings— Sulkily the Sheikh ambled to his bundle in which he was tied, "stop "The black flags," murmured one
Pres. Wilson...Jan 16, midnight that song and dance inside there, or of the suite," "mean that the tent, and after fumbling in the quarters, pre-appeared,
Pres. Coolidge ...3an. 26, midnight Pres. Lincoln Feb. 13, midnight I'll chuck you off and leave you to Sheikh's beautiful daughter was women's
abducted yesterday. Unhappily, driving before him a boy of some be eaten by the vultures."
Prem Hoover. Feb. 23, midnight Pres, Cleveland .Mar. 13, 'midnight' This speech drew a louder how the abductor chanced to be a Kurd." seven years and a girl about sixteen.
EUROPS “And if one camel bites you, do They at once ran to Abdul, who en
E NEW YORK than ever, although never a word could I make out of what the brat you thrash another cainel?" I asked braced them rapturously. Then he
But re-sententiously.
turned to the Sheikh; Bald-I knew why later. solving to take no notice, I rode on.
"Jinn of the sand-hills," he hissed, ["where are the camels I sent you?” leagues to the mouth of the pass. for by this time the Sheikh had un lamely aid you send camels? "The camels," said the Sheikh which,, as the Sheikh had assured bound the mouth of the sack and
covered the two or three drowned in a series of maledictions. But my old-time Illustration was
me, seemed to have not a single ban-had drawn forth its occupant, whe Well, I suppose they'll be with the dit left in its bounds, and came, had been gagged. Howls rent the herd, I must be going. Business
is slack about here." rather too suddenly, for me, on the air.
Take this with you,” I said,
home.
And only then did it strike meļa dolt that I had been-how queer it was that I should have to deliver him in a sack!
Ains, it was too late to retrace my
"village" of the local big-wig Abdul "By all the fiends in Eblia," yelled whose son and heir I was conveying the Sheikh, "this is not Karim."kicking him in the proper place with "Not......your son!" I cried in my heavy riding-boot, "And please understand that next time you meet strangled voice. "That spawn of a spavined drome- Kurd you can't do him down as
you tried to do me." dary my mon!" spluttered Abdul
As we rode off, a bullet or two "Seize that robber of children."
whizzed part, I replied with my "Look Here, Sheikh," I said,
soon tracks, for just as the oddity of the brandishing my pistol, "I can make Browning, but the firing thing struck me, a round dozen of every allowance for your grief and
The Shefich turned to Araba suddenly appeared as if from disappointment-as a father, but if
"Kurd," he said with a noble air,] you try on any funny business, the sand, and surrounded me.
you are a hero. How I have mis- "What do you want here, Effen'?"you're apt to swallow some sand.|
If you'll return judged you! But, to make amends, naked one, who evidently took me Now, look here.
I shall bestow upon you my daugh- 'ter's band.”
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for a Turk. "You can't collect taxes with me to the home of your kid-
napping neighbour, we'll soon put, ""Nothing doing in that way things to rights." brother," I said as cheerily as I
"I'm going there at once," replied
'at once?"
ceased.
me.
"Sorry, Abdul," I replied, "but I am already married."
"But do the Kurds not have more
ment.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Harve, London, could, "I've brought the Sheikh's the Sheikh with horrid calm, "as
Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp & son home. Can I see His Worship soon as I've impaled you and this than one wife?” he asked in amaKE-
devil's offspring here."
"Not if we can help it," I assured I said "Oh, if it's like that."
him. "It's kind of you,' very impaling thoughtful Indeed, but I must be
getting on to Baalbec."
Hull. Bombay, Marsilles & London.
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It wasn't necessary to inquire further. At that moment the sternly, "let's begin the Sheikh Abdul came running out of now. But there'll be some plugging his tent. I introduced myself with first,"
all the formality suitable to such an Abdul looked somewhat alarmed. occasion, and told him my errand."Be it as you say," he croaked an-| In another ten seconds he was pull-grily, "but if I do not recover my.
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To Baalbec! .But there's nothing doing there.**
**There's the ruins--nice quiet spot."
.
"The ruins[" murmured the bound up the mouth of the sack, We mounted, with the yelling brat Sheikh, "Allah be good to him, for blaspheming lustily the while and before me, and sped up the pass the poor Kurd is crazy after all!” muttering endearments.
again......
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"Karim, jewel of the desert," he In little more than an hour dur cried, "hast thou then returned to fast-trotting camels carried us over thy father at last? And wherefore the rocky road. We were just in has this monster of cruelty brought|time, for the Sheikh and his bench- thee back to me in a foul sack, men were in the act of striking amelling of the produce of the camp. Feringhees? Rest sasured that he "Accursed," yelled Abdul, "where shall suffer for the affront, my little is my son?”
Alexandria. atar, my lambkin."
"Produce. that boy," I shouted, Now this didn't sound any too handing him the counterfeit monkey, "May Allah prolong your days on reassuring, and I began to finger my "or, by Sheitan, it's your last morn-fearth!” cried Khalaf Mohamed Os- Browning,
Ing, you dirty kidnapper.”
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Ito do whatever with the affair, Iamazement. "I don't know what) Khalaf had surrendered himself you're talking about. Put away to the police in the hope that pri- "Hold thy peace,” cried Abdul in that gun, Kurd. I don't like the son would cure him of his addictión. a white tury. "Do you see those look of it.”
;
After a month in prison pending black flags fluttering on the sand-} Abdul hurled himself upon the trial Khalaf_claimed to feel much Thilla yonder?"
Sheikh and seized him by the throat. better. but he wanted to remain In: "Aye, Sheikh, I see them. What The pair rolled over and over in the prison for another 6 months,
. The ... Santhia left Kobe on the [aund.
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1934. 3rd Feb. Brd Mar.
NELLORE
TANDA
7,000 7,000
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7,000
NELLORE
7,000
4th May.
80th Mar. Manila, Rabau), Brisbane, Sydney &of them?"
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"What of them! He asks "What
TANDA
7,009
2nd June
NANKIN
7,000
30th June
NELLORE
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3rd Aug.
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· RAWALPINDI 17,000 26th Jan.
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