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THE CHINA MATE MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1935
FOR LOVE OF A HORSE
(Continued from Page 10.).
to them, to question them and fand the Jong nakedness of his to tell them that a Fehjiri had nervous calves and the large And Ibn Rashid had spoken to stolen the Emir's horst. Then bare feet that gripped the
not as one sheikh speaks to they went an. Kinder crawled ground.. other but as a sheikh speaks to back into the care
Sali to vagabond. The The mare had not touched her
had sat on his horse while grass. Packing to him. A hundred pairs.
eyes had been looking at hin
The spoke Pawar A hundred pairs.
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And
She was only 17, hat a hundred suitors, princes and sheikhs, of pear and far lands, had wooed When the Emir's men were her. Not one of them was like f gone from sight the young Arab that Febjiri Bedouin.
stepped out boldly to greet the The Emir was alarmed, seeing shepherds and to ask them for the "bastle Mezina had caused and one pair from behind the lattices food When he had eaten and the preparations she was making of a window. He could not have sat sadly amongst then, the "And what if he doesn't dane otherwise than as he did. He alder of the shepherds asked: |come?" he asked. Iwas Zolog's son...
“Are you that "Zolog's 300 Mezina paled. Her hands fell As a horseman the Emir should whose mare has been taken by to her sides. have understood. But he was no the Foukara **
Then I shall pour ashes over borseman. He was a man who "That very same.”
my head and never look at had received a fine horse as a gift!
"Well, then, why are you so man," she answered. "But see* Kinder looked at the Nejd mare sad now, my son Isn't theshe added joyously. "Am I not No. Ton Rashid was worthy of Emir's own worthy of yours?the most beautiful woman in the her. On the morrow, after she
And then Kinder told them desert? And how world one, as had eaten, he would ride her again how fast she had zidden and bold and youthful as he, not see and then she would forget her how she had refused to eat. The that?" former, master.
Fold shepherd listened to the end.
Ibr She would feel the sand under then he said laughingly:- her boots and the rider on her bare Another day and the Nejd back and the hot wind in her nos-mare will eat. Even my wife trils, and she would forget the would forget me if I did not re-sang my beauty for years now.”
home from this grazing padded stall, the foul air of the tum
...
"Has he ever seen you?” Rashid asked.
She blushed.
"He has. And the Zamirs have
And what he doesn't
fearful of the shame that would
city, and be a Bedouin's horse month. Ride her hard Go, ride come the Emir asked· again, |
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Having eaten, Kinder felt well follow. When Kinder awoke the
moon and strong. He had no desire to "He will come.” Meža an- was vanishing in the blue and the return
to his people. He was swered. morning sun was raising "ber thinking only of one thing; and that When Kinder hadn't shown golden hear on the green-blue hori-iwas that he must make the Neid himself on the sixth day the mare eat. He was a horseman Emir sent out still another hun-
Arab. Any horse should dred horsemen Kinder jumped to his feet The
to spread Me- rose slowly to zina's offer over the whole de grass he had left close is the obey him. She mare's mouth was still there. Sheher feet. He thought she had sert. But on the eighth day the had not touched a blate Her big weakened considerably. The glow palace of the Emir became #3 jeres looked sadly at him.
hushed as a of her cost was gone. Her eyes still and as Again
tomb. under the exaldrons he wondered what was happening were sad. Yet, when he swung The fires
himself on her back she was at that time to his
as were put down. The irun gates:
every- Was she refusing food from the eager as a well-fed colt to take were clanged closed to
body. The wreaths were taken hands of the Fonkaras who had the wind by storm Marseilles Havre, London, Hamstolen her?
On the fourth day, when riders off the doors and windows. burg, Rotterdam; Antwerp &
returned to say they had seen-no] And on the eleventh day `an H-IL
A sharp, low wind was sweeping trace of Kinder and the horse but emaciated young Bedonin; beard- Bombay, Marseilles & Londor, the desert Mounds of sand rose, had found the velvet coverleted with hair and earlocks mast- Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-sprayed the air and feel like waves and the saddle, the Emir cried ted to the skin, in mags, stooping don, Rotterdam Antwerp & on the sea. Kinder unbobbled the like a child. Broken-hearted, and stumbling and leading a
horse. She rose to her feet. disconsolate an old man
now, starved, limping horse behind Bombay, Marseilles & London. neighed and stood ready and Ibn Rashid walked from room to him, approached the gates of the Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon-Sant before him. He swung him-room and an to the window Emir's palace. And even Ibn
don, Hamburg, Antwerp, Bot-self on her back, and they were every time he heard hoof beats Rashid's eunucha terdam, & Hell,
soon gliding in the air at a swifter at a distance.
nise either, the Nejd mare or Marseilles & London
and swifter pace.
Mezina tried to console him. Kinder who had crumpled down He wondered that she should But neither what she said nor at the foot of the wall Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lon
have so much speed despite her the quotations of the Koran she And at that moment two cries: Bbay, Mars. Havre L'dom, Hbg|not having eaten. She was all in reminded him of diminished the were heard. One from. Ion. Ras
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a lather, yet she carried him with sorrow of his loss. That sorrow hid and the other from Mezina- terrific bursts of speed faster oven was so great he had completely He had recognised his horse. She San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal than the day before.
forgotten the indignity he had had recognised the man. At noon he came upon some suffered.
"He has come! He has come?” hobbled she-cameis. He milked And when the riders that were Mezina cried running through * Cargo only + Calls Casablanca.
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When Kinder Ali opened his palm. He milked another handful, them to her room and said to eyes Mezina was at his side. [refreshed himself once, twice, then them:
Why are you here?” he asked. tried the mare again, tempting her "Mount your fastest horses, and “Why are you here?" Mezina jand talking to her. She wouldn't camels. Ride unarmed, and asked, looking into his eyes.
taste it Yet she was willing to whomsoever you meet on the "I couldn't see the mare die of way, of whatever tribe and in a broken heart because of her After he had ridden her another whichever direction, tell to him love for Ton Rashid I have done bour, and she had not shown any that Mezina, the daughter of The everything to make her love me weakness, he began to think that Pzabid, promises herself in mar-as she loves him. It was all in the Emir was not such a bad horse-riage to Kinder Ali, Zolog's son,vain So man after all, or the Neid mare if he return the Neld mare would already have forgotten him. her father.”
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Oratory was among the many gifts of the singularly gifted
I have brought her he had checked His spiteful old Clive, and he made full use of it
Mezina gave a piercing shrieky Sulivan was marshalling in a reply which closed upon the against him an army of the mal dignified and memorable phrase: en-But Kinder Ali wouldn't have contents upon whose abuses he "I have one request to make to sat beea Zolog's son if that one shiek had made war, and the mavish this House that when they come and hadn't told him all that he didn't Johnston, whom he had forced to to decide upon my honour, they
know; and he wouldn't have resign from the Council in Bengal, will not forget their own been the bold Bedouin he was f he hadn't whispered quickly and hotly in her earr
Ya Habibi, oh my beloved' 1
was among these
Broken In Health --
detractors
At the end of the debate the in- famous motion was rejected with-
his
"If only a small particle is At sundown they reached the foot of the blue necklace of Hara true of me of all that the poets
He was broken in health and out a division, and the decision mountains. Kinder was broken, have sung, then you shall have haven't told you yet who embold-constitution and driven to the use reached on the motion of Wedder tired, and had only had a mouth your mare back soon. Rejoice ened me to take the Nejd mare of opium, as an anodyne for the purn was that Robert Clive did {ful of camel's milk, since he had Ibn Rashid raised his eyes and from under your father
I have pains by which he was tortured at the same time render great
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what not come to claim you as a prize in its strength when, in January immediately
But his indomitable spirit rose up Charge for Deck Cabins.
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His defence was a der the cauldrons. More sheep
counter may have been rendered inadver- Branch Service of stemmers to Lendon, via Suez The New Zealand Shipping Company's stezmers for South Young Arab's heart shrank at Mezina called in all her ser were slaughtered. The wax attack so devastating that his tently excessive in an attempt to sight of the horse's deep suffer want-maids and with them she dies were lit A thousand thereafter to shift their ground, lieved to have been deliberately ете constrained stifle great pain, is generally be- ampton and London via Panama Canal,
ing "Why hadn't Ion Rashid began to prepare her wedding people sat down on their heels, and to seek material in the taken. done what was right? Was garments and to decorate, bez in the Emir's stone paved count earlier periods of his service The heartbroken because of the TOOIZR...
Shortly before his end, when yard, for the wedding feast on Eat all that they could find, which affairs in the American colony loss of his mare, or was he only Mezina was not doubting the Eashid, though worried, was hap skilful seasoning with false had assumed so threatening su angry at the indignity he had suf-outcome. She had but to look in pr because the Nejd mare had al- hood might be made the subject aspect that war seemed unavoid- fered?
her mirror. She had but to Hs-most died longing for him. At dawn of the following day ten to one of the sons about Three days later Kinder All, far he had received Kinder heard troops pass by beber, which her maids were now Zolog's son, sheikh of the Fth-Jaffer after Plast tween the sand mounds and the singing as they went to and fro, ir Kinder Ali, in his bare duplicity he had Shanghai, Moft Kobe & mountain The wind had to know that Kinder Ali would feet, still in the same cloak he the blackmailer
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2 high crag and look her his
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