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"if & y4 -*. " i ' WVri-v $: *r A a<S| Pr:*-; THE 8HADOW OF DEATH m T. MABION Cbawhobb AUTHOR OflsmcmteeA," "ARnHUSA"£7CM jLLummmxf/: • \«* s^nmj>yjtj£ur /OOT my *~.s*A/uaAf o&Awnma ^>c£y CK-J ^ : W-T % "You Will Understand," She Said SYNOPSIS. Barak a, a Tartar girl, became enamored ef a groM^n bearded stronger who was iprospectinif and studying herbs in the vicinity of her home in central Asia, and jrevealfd to him the location of a mine ipf rubies hoping that the stranger would love her in return for her disclosure. They were followed to the cave by the firl's relatives, who blocked up the en-rapee. and drew oft the water supply, leaving the couple to die. Baraka's cousin Saad, her betrothed, attempted to cliinb down a cliff overlooking the mine; but the traveler shot him. The stranger was revived from a water gourd Saad car­ ried. dug his way out of the tunnel, and departed, deserting the girl and carrying •a bag of rubies. Baraka gathered all the ferns she could carry, and Btarted in pur- «ult. Margaret Donne (Margarita da ^•Cordova), a famous prima donna, became Engaged In London to Konstantln Lo­ gotheti, a wealthy Greek financier. Her intimate friend was Countess Leven, known as Lady Maud, whose husband !had been killed by a bomb in St. Peters­ burg; and Lady Maud's most intimate friend was Rufus Van Torp. an Ameri­ can, who had become one of the richest men in the world. Van Torp was in love with Margaret, and rushed to London as soon as he heard of her betrothal. He altered Lady Maud $5,000,000 for her pet charity if she would aid him in winning the singer from Logotheti. Baraka ap­ proached Logotheti at Versailles with rubles to sell. He presented a ruby to Margaret. Van Torp bought a yacht and sent it ro Venice. He was visited by .Baraka in male attire. She gave him a ruby after the American bad told her of having seen In the United States a man answering the description of the one she loved. The American followed Margaret to the Bayreuth "Parsifal" festival. Mar­ garet took a liking to Van Torp, who pre­ sented her with th« rabv Baraka > had Slven him. Count K ralinsky, a Russian, -arrlyed at Bayreuth. Van Torp believed him to be the one Bxraka was pursuing. Baraka was arrested in London on the charge of stealing fr^m Pinnev, a jew­ eler, trie ruby she haj sold to Logotheti Two strangers were > he thieves. Ladv Maud believed that logotheti's associa­ tions with Baraka w*re open, suspi­ cion, and so informed Margaref. Van Torp relieved that' K>alinsky was the cowboy he had known ;n his young man­ hood. Ixtgothetl secured Baraka's re­ lease, nnd then, with ier as his guest, 'went to, ana. on his > acl.t Urlao*. • ~ CHAPTER X-- Continued. He had been on d&ck a long time that day, but Baraka jiad only been established in her chair a few min­ utes. As yet he had hardly talked with her Of anything but the neces- eary preparations for tte journey, and «he had trusted him entirely, being so worn out with fatigue und bodily dis­ comfort that she was already half asleep when ho had at last brought her aboard, late on the previous night. Before the yacht had sailed he had re­ ceived Van Torp's telegram informing him that Kralinsky was at Bayreuth; for his secretary had sat up till two In the morning to telegraph him the latest news and forward any message that came, and Van Tory's had been amongst the number. "I have something of Jto tell you," Logotheti said." Tl Baraka prepared liefSelf against' be­ traying surprise by letting her lkEs •droop a little, but that waa all. "Speak," she answered. "I desire Imow ledge more than goij." "You are wise," said the Greek .gravely. "No doubt you remember the rich man Van Torp, fur whom I gave you a letter, and whom you had seen on the day you were arrested." "Van Torp." Baraka p<onounced the name distinctly, and nodded. "Yes, I -remember him well. knows where the main is whom I aoek, and 2be wrote the address for ire. J hare ft. You will take me there In your xhip, and 1 shall find him." "If you find him, what shall fou say to him?" Logotheti asked. "Fnw words. These perhaps: *You left me to die, but I am not dead. I 4un here. Through me you are a rich, great man. The rubles are my mar- liage portion, which you have taken. Now you must be my husband." That is all. Few words." t "II Is your right." Logotheti an­ swered. "But he will not marry you.* "Then he shall die." replied Baraka, as Qtrietly as if sh« «*.ere saying that abouid * -:ppJfc ..v r, •_ 1 H .. - ' „•* • * "If you kill him, the laws of that country may take your life," objected the Greek "That will be my portion," the girl answered, with profound indifference "You only have one life," Logotheti observed. "It is yours to throw away, But the man ycu seek is not in that country. Van Torp has telegraphed me that he is much nearer. Neverthe­ less, if you mean to kill him, I will not take you to him, as I intended to do>" Baraka's faco had changed, though she had been determined not to be^ tray surprise at anythiug he said; she torned to him, and fixed her eyes on his, and he saw her lashes quiver. ' "You will tell me where he is," she said anxiously. "If you will not take me I will go alone with Spiro. I have been in many countries with no other help. I can go there also, where he is. You will tell me." "Not if you mean to murder him," said Logotheti, and she saw that he was in earnest. "But if he will not be my husband, what can I do, if 1 do not kill him?" She asked the question' in evident good faith. "If I were you, I should make him share the rubies and the money with you, and then I would leave him to himself." "But yon do not understand," Ba­ raka protested. "He is young, he Is beautiful, he is rich. He will take some other woman for his wife, if I leave him. You see, he must die, there is no other way If he will not marry me, it is his portion. Why do you talk? Have I nut come across the world from the Altai, by Samark­ and and Tiilis, as far as England, to find him and marry him? Is it noth­ ing that I have done, a/Tartar girl alone, with no friend but a bag of precious stones that ahy strong thief might have taken from me? Is the danger nothing? The travel nothing? Is it nothing that I have gone about like a shameless one. with my face uncovered, dressed in a man's clothes? That I have cut my hair, my beautiful black hair, is that as nothing, too? That I have been in an English prison? That I have been called a thief? I have suffered all these things to find him, and if I come to him at last, and he will not be my husband, shall he live and take another woman? You are a great man. It is true. But you . do not understand. You are only a Frank, after all! That little maid yon have brought for me would under­ stand me better, though she has been taught for six years by Christians. She is a good girl. She says that in all that time she has never once for­ gotten to say the Fatiheh three times a day, and to say 'el hamdu Ulah' to herself after she has eaten! She would understand." I know she would. But you, never!'" The exquisite little aquiline fea­ tures wore a look of unutterable con­ tempt. "If I were you," said Logotheti, smiling, "I would not tell her what you are going to do." "You see!" cried Baraka, almost an­ grily. "You do not understand. A servant! Bhall I tell my heart to my handmaid, and my secret thoughts to a hired man? I tell you, because you are a friend, though you have no un­ derstanding of us My father fe«ds many flocks, and has many bond me * and bondwomen, whom he beats when it pleases him, and can pat to death if he likes. He also knows the mine of rubies, as his father did before him. and when he desires gold he takes one to Tashkent, or even to Samarkand, a long journey, and sella it to the Russians. He is a great full of precious stones to Europe he could be one of the greatest men in the world. And you think that my father's daughter would open her heart to one of her servants? I said well that you do not understand!" Logotheti looked quietly at the slim young thing in a ready-made blue serge frock, who said such things as a Lady Clara Vere de Vere would scarcely dare to say above her breath in these democratic days; and he watched the noble little features, and the small white hands, that had come down to her through generations of chieftains, since the days when the primeval shepherds of the world counted the stars in the plains of Kaf. He himself, with his long Greek de­ scent, was an aristocrat to the mar­ row, and smiled at the claims of men who traced their families back to the Crusaders. With the help of a legend or' two and half a myth, he could al­ most make himself a far descendant of the Tyndaridae. But what was that compared with the pedigree of the lit­ tle thing in a blue serge frock? Her race went back to a time before Hesiod, before Homer, to a date that might be found in the annals of Egypt, but nowhere else in all the dim tradi­ tions of human history. "No," he said, after a long pause. "I begin to understand. You bad not told me that your father was a great man, and that his sires before him had joined hand to hand, from the hand of Adam himself." This polite speech, delivered in his best Tartar, though with sundry Turk­ ish terminations and accents, some­ what mollified Baraka, and she pushed her little head backwards and up­ wards against the top of the deck chair, as if she was drawing herself up with pride. Also, not being used | to European skirts, she stuck out one 1 tiny foot a little further across the | other, as she stretched herself, and ] she indiscreetly showed a pale-yellow silk ankle, round which she could have easily made her thumb meet her second finger. Logotheti glanced at it. "You will never understand," she said, but her tone had relented, and she made a concession. "If you will take me to him, and if he will not be my husband, I will let SpirO kill him." "That might be better/' logotheti answered with extreme gravity, for he was quite sure that Spiro would never kill anybody. "If you will take an oath which I shall dictate, an^i swear to let Spiro do it, I will take you to the man you seek." "What must be, must be," Baraka said in a tone of resignation. "When he is dead, Spiro can also kill me and take the rubies and the money." "That would be a pity," observed the Greek, thoughtfully. "Why a pity? It will be my por­ tion. I will not kill myself because then I should go to hell-fire, but Spiro can do it very well. Why should I still lire, then?" "Becr.use you are young and beau­ tiful and rich enough to be very hap­ py. Do you never look at your face in the mirror? The eyes of Baraka are like the pools of paradise, when the moon rose upon them the first time, her waist is as slender as a young willow sapling that bends to the breath of a spring breeze, her mouth is a dark rose from Gulistan--" But Baraka interrupted him with a faint smile. "You speak emptiness," she said quietly. "What is the oath, that I may swear it? Shall I take Allah, and the prophet, and tfhe Angel Igrafit to witness that I will keep my word? Shall I prick my hand and let the drops fall into your two hands that you may drink them? What shall I do and say? I am ready." "You must swear an oath that my fathers swore before there were Chris­ tians or Mussulmen in the world when the old gods were still great." "Speak. I will' repeat any words you like. Is it a very solemn oath?" lied, and nodded her approval. "When shall we reach that place?" she asked lazily, and she turned her face to Logotheti. "Allah knows," he answered gravely. She had been so well used to hear ing that answer to all sorts of ques­ tions since she had been a child that she thought nothing of it, and waited awhile before speaking again. Her eyes studied the man's face almost unconsciously. He now wore a fez instead of a yachting cap, and it changed his expression, lie no longer looked in the least like a European. The handsome red felt gtowed like blood in the evening light, and the long black silk tassel hung backwards with a dashing air. There was some­ thing about him that reminded Ba­ raka of Saad, and Saad had been a handsome man, even in her eyes, un­ til the traveler had come to her fa­ ther's house with his blue eyes and goiden beard. But Saad had only seen her unveiled face once, and that was the last thing he saw when the ball from the Mauser went through his forehead. "1 mean," she asked after some time, "shall we he there to-morrow? or the next day? I see no land on this side: is there any on the other?" "No," Logotheti answered, "there Is no land near. Perhaps, far off, we might see a small island." "Is that the place?" Baraka began to be interested at last. "The place is far away. Yon must have patienc*. AH hurry Pontes from Satan." "I am not Impatient,*" the girl an­ swered mildly. "I am glad to rest in your ship, for I was very tired, more tired than I ever was when I was a child, and used to climb up the foot­ hills to see Altai better. ' It is good to be in your ship for a while, and aft­ er that, what shall be, will be. It is Allah that knows." ".That is the truth," responded the Greek. "Allah knows. I said so just now. But I will tell you what I have decided, if you will listen. "I listen." "It is better that you should rest several days after all your weari ness, and the man you seek will not run aw&y, for he does not know that you are so near/' "But he may take another woman," Baraka objected, growing earnest at once. "Perhaps he has already! Then there will be two instead of one." "Spiro," said Logotheti, with perfect truth, "Would as soon kill two as one, I am sure, for he is a good servant. It will be the same to him. You call me a great man and a king; I am not a king, for I have no kingdom, though some kingdoms would like to have as much ready money as I. But here, on the ship, I am the master, not only because it is mine, and because I choose to command, but because the men are bound by English law to obey me; and if they should refuse and overpower me, and take my ship where 1 did not wish to go, the laws of all nations would give me the right to put them all Into prison at once, for a long time. Therefore when I say, 'Go to a certain place,' they take the ship there, according to their knowledge, for they are trained to that business and can guide the vessel towards any place in the world, though they cannot see land till they reach it. Do you understand all these things? I "I understand," Baraka answered, smiling. "But I am not bound to obey you, and at least I can beg you to do what I ask, and I think you will do it." Her voice grew suddenly soft, and almost tender, for though she was only a Tartar girl, and very young and slim, she was a woman. Eve had not had long experience of talking when she explained to Ad«un the properties of apples. Logotheti answered her »miit and her tone. "l shall do what you ask me, but I shall do it slowly rather than quick- Rwnarkablf Recovery «f * Wasting ton Woman../ Mrs Enos Shearer, Yew and Wadt* tngton Sta., Centttlia, Wash., with om' . kidney gone, f- the other badly diseased^ and five doctors ttt consultation, w as thought to be in a hopeless state. Tie story of Mrs. Shear­ er's awful suffering^ and her. wonderfnl cure through using Doan's Kidney Fills, is a long one, but will interest any sufferer with backache or kidney trouble, and Mrs. Shearer will tell it to any one who writes her, en­ closing a stamp. "I am well and actiml, though 65 years old, and give all U|sb credit to Doan's Kidney Pills," --W Mrs. Shearer. Remember the name--Doan's. 9ar sale by all dealers. 50 cents a honi, FOster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. X 3 SCANDAL IN BIRDLAND. MMher IHrtf-~Tes, yowr lfether ha* deserted us! Eloped with one of thnpf new flying things! 5 --1-- t Doubtful. A teacher was telling a class pi. school on a recent Sunday about tile deluge, remarking: "And then it rained for 40 days and 40 nights." P 3 Then a little boy asked: "Were the farmers satisfied then, miss? "-T&- Bits. The family that eats plenty * v*.: i 'V t i-' o." 1 ̂ ' Quaker Oats is a healthy, rugg family, j "You Are Wise as Well aa Great," Baraka 3aMfc* "It is the most solemn that ever I ly. because that will be better for you was sworn, for it is the oath of the gods themselves. I shall give it to you slowly, and you must try to pro­ nounce it right, word by word, holding out your hands, like this, with the palms downwards." "I am ready," said Baraka, doing as he bade her. He quoted in Greek the oath that Hypnos dictates to>> Hera in the "Iliad," and Baraka repeated each word, pronouncing as well as she could. "I swear by the inviolable water of the Styx, and I lay one hand upon the all-nourishing earth, the other on the sparkling sea, that all the gods below may be our witnesses, even they that stand round about Kronos. Thus 1 swear!" As he had anticipated, Baraka was much more impressed by the im­ portance of the words she did not un­ derstand than if she had bound her­ self by any oath familiar to her. "I am sorry," she said, "but what is done is done, and you would have It so." She pressed her hand gently to her left side and felt the long steel bod­ kin. and sighed regretfully. "You have sworn an oath that no man would dare to break," said Logo­ theti solemnly. "A man would rath­ er kill pigs on the graves of his fa­ ther and his mother than break it." "I shall keep my word. Only taW. me quickly where I would be." Logotheti produced a whistle from his pocket and blew on it, and a quar­ termaster answered the call, and was sent for the captain, who came in a few moments. & "Head her about for Jersey and Carterets, captain," said the owner. "The sea is as flat as a board, and we will land there. You can go on to the Mediterranean without coaling, can you not?" The captain paid he could coal at Gibraltar, if necessary. "Then take her to Naples^ plf%se, and wait for instructions." Baraka understood nothing, but within two minutes she saw that the yacht was changing her course, for the afternoon sun was all at once pouring in on the deck, just beyond tajUL n he would bring a aamel hagj the end of her chair. She was satis- * 1 1 ' Jl" ~ •* • ^ *, , « * •'**: ... 'A*,'-4 in the end. If we had gone on as we were going, we should have got to land to-night, but to a wretched little town from which we should have had to take a night train, hot and dirty and dusty, all the way to Paris. That would not help you to rest, would it?" "Oh, no! I wish to sleep again in your ship, once, twice, till I cannot sleep any more. Then jrou will take me to the place." "That is what "you shall do. To that end I gave orders this afternoon." "You are wise, as well as great," Baraka said. They left the rail and walked slowly forward, side by side, without speak­ ing; and Logotheti told himself how utterly happy he should be if Baralta could turn into Margaret and be walk­ ing with him there; yet something an­ swered him that since she was not by his side he was not to be pitied for the company of a lovely Tartar girl whose language he could understand and even speak tolerably; and when1 the first voice observed rather drily that Margaret would surely think that he ought to feel very miserable, the second voice told him to take the goods the gods sent him and be grate­ ful; and this little antiphone of Ormuzd and Ahriman went on for some time, till it occurred to him to stop the duo by explaining to Baraka how a European girl would probably slip her arm, or at least her hand, through the arm of the man with whom she was walking on the deck of a yacht, because there was generally a little motion at sea, and she would like to steady herself, and when there was none, there ought to be, and she would do the same thing by force of habit But Baraka looked at such be­ havior quite differently. "That would be a sort of dance," she said. "I am not a dancing girl! I have seen men and womec dancing together, both Russians in Samarkand and other people in France. It is dis­ gusting. I would rather go unveiled among my own people!" "Which may Allah forbid!" an­ swered Logotheti devoutly. *^But where there are Englishmen, Allah does nothing; the women go without veils, and the boys and girls dance to- ' . f ' ..r "I have done worse," said Baraka, "for I have dressed as a man, and if a woman did that among my people she would be stoned to death and not buried. My people will never know what I have done since I got away from them alive. But he thought he' was leaving me there to die!" "Surely. I cannot see why you wish to marry a man who robbed you and tried to compass your death! I can understand that you should dream of killing him, and he deserves to be burnt alive, but why you should wish to marry him is known to the wisdom of the blessed ones!" "You never saw him," Baraka an­ swered with perfect simplicity. "He is a beautiful man; his beard is like the rays of the morning sun on a ripe cornfield. His eyes are bright as an eagle's, but blue as sapphires. He is much taller and bigger and stronger that you are. Do you not see why I want him for a husband? Why did he not desire me for his wife? Am I crooked, am I blinded by the small­ pox, or have I six fingers on both hands and a hump on my shoulder like the Witch of Altai? Was my por­ tion a cotton shift, one brass bangle and a horn comb for my hair? I gave him the riches of the world. to take me, and he would not! I do not un­ derstand. Am I an evil sight in a man's eyes? Tell metthe truth, for you are a friend!" "You are good to see," Logotheti answered, stopping and pretending to examine her face critically aa she stood and faced him, "I do not desire you to speak for yourself," returned Baraka. "I wish pou to speak for any man, since I go about unveiled and any man may see me. What would they say in the street if they saw me now, as a wom­ an? That is what I must know, for he is a Frank, and he will judge me as the Franks judge when he sees me! What will he say?" "Shall I speak as a Frank? Or as they speak in Constantinople?" "Speak as he would speak, I I**?- But speak the truth." "I take Allah to witness that 1 speak the truth," Logotheti answered. "If I bad never seen you, apd if I were walking in the Great Garden in Lon­ don and I met you by the bank of the river, I should say that you were the prettiest dark girl in England, but that I should like to see you in a beautiful Feringhi hat and the best frock that could be made In Paris." Baraka's face was troubled, and she looked into his eyes anxiously. "I understand," she said. "Before I meet him I must have more clothes, many beautiful new dresses. It was shameless, but it was easy to dress as a man, after I had learned, for it was always the same--the difference was three buttons--or four buttons, or a high hat or a little hat; not much. Also the Feringhi men button their garments as the Mussulmans do, the left over the right, but I often see their women's coats buttoned like a Hindu's. Why is this? Have the women another religion than the men? It is very strange!" Logotheti laughed, for he had really never noticed the rather singular tact which had struck the bom Asiatic At once. (TO BE CONTINUED.) v . , K * I The niost po f food in the world be-t.v cause it does and costs least. AGENTS COMPOSED OF MANY ISUNOS. Monroe County In Florida Is Probably ^tlis Host Unique In the ' i j - W h o l e C o u n t r y . Monroe county is the most unique county in the state, if not in the United States. The larger portion of the county is made up of a group of islands or, as they are called, keys, both on the east and west coasts. The only part of Monroe county on the mainland is the Cape Sable country, the extreme south end of the United States on the mainland. The larger portion of fhis land is what is known as the Everglades, and but a limited number of acres are now under cultivation. What effect the proposed drainage of the Everglades, will have in Monroe county is not _ known, but it is doubtful If any large ; Krt2»SE£^ areas will be drained because of the flatness of the country and being so near sea level. In the vicinity of Cape Sable there are large bodies of rich alluvial land and a considerable quan­ tity has been under cultivation for several years past. All kinds of tropical and semi-tropi­ cal fruit trees grow luxuriantly on the keys and bear full crops of fruit each year. Every key is surrounded with water and the great portion of them have clean white sand beaches with bluffs varying in height above high water mark. 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