|"THE THIEF. OF BAGDAD" On the stairway they. met the van- the invaders; were pulled a guard heard the Mongol Prince's iro- pic command to his warriors as he Caliph, 1 shudder at the sacrilegious thought of killing my future-father-in. law. Ana as to the descendant of Hin- stan's impotent gods and the descen- "of Persia's grease pots--why"-- ~ "before I kill them I shall harnessed like horses to my jot of victory, tomorrow, when I 3 » in triumph through the . 'of ; 19 To the Persians greater glory be it said that, in spite of his fear, he broke into a flood of abuse, calling the other al name he could think of: itor! Pig! Dog-faced Mongol bart | Seller of hog's tripe! Des- cendant of monkeys." . More of the sort. Nor did the Mon- gol intersapt him. He waited until ck of breath caused the Persian to 'sausage |" he replied. "Very well otir tortures tomorrow shall be leng- , novel, and exquisite--to let me see how brave you really are!" 1 Then, at his order, they dragged the away, while he returned to his glosing the door. the outside, strident cries and. itt as the Mongol swords to grim work. Then he frowned." He to be alone, quite alone 'with his de and coiling thoughts. So he d the windows and the heavy iron e noises from the outside a dim memory of sounds in gliding, vibrant tone waves soft, very far away, not at all the echo of battle and death. There was now in the room a cloak ormous, breath-clogging stillness. : unhuman stillne For a few seconds he stood quite motionless, ights flashing and zig- Hegng > Ais brain, deeply fur- his , stark. devil's-mask "of a face. d to a taboret on nafrow, square package of imperial yellow, em- oidered dragon. dozen tiny, very thin jablets i Sher reen, transparent aid in a succession of Mandarin 3 tablets were the tablets of his clan, reaching 3 dim mists of antiquity hers were still wild "near the shores of Central Asia. Genera- for victory, i the Mongols were dri- ack into the steppes; thence to is- "He bowed before the tablets with s! Props ceremony. He filled a ad 'with black incense powd. ing the prominent cheek bones, blique, heayy-lidded eyes, the thin eighte: the expression , too, strangely, incongruously, ng to them something akin to spi- ual ecstasy. He stared at the coil- : : clouds. Through the whirl of his ancestral tablets; saw is own aim and the aim of his a blood-red, challenging] the history of 'all the with hands clasped Then he spoke, It to his rac "his tribe, his. * Too,'a grim: $ as water runs and the wind the luring jewel of dominion. Time and again we returned to the attack; we shivered the fetters; we enslaved the enslavers. Time and again, in the future, the. Mongol power shall go down before the gathered strength of other races, snatching at and taking the luring jewel of power. Time and again we shall return to the attack; we shall shiver the fetters; we shall enslave the enslavers." His voice rose shrilly triumphantly. "Yellow, toothy wolves we, of our mothers' bearing! Never shall we eat dirt to stay our craving! Ours is the greatest ambi- tion, the greatest call, the greatest mis- sion on ecarth. We cleanse with the swish of the sword when it is red. And the end is not yet; will not be for many centuries; never will be. For ours is the only pure race on earth. Our race is undying, eternal. The Emperors of Germany and of Russia, the Kings of Poland and Hungary, the kes of Lithuania and the Volga Tribes, the Chiefs and Khans and Princes of half the world gone down before the shin- ing Mongel sword. Thus, in the fu- lics shall Kowtow before our curved scimitars and kiss the shadows of our horses' feet. Time and again! Time and again! For ours is the vigor and the energy and the subtle brain and the harsh, ruthless will. Ours is for- ever the mighty, ever resurgent 'resur- rection oiffce. All that is welded to- gether by the rest of mankind we shall again and again tear asunder. All that has been built by the rest of mankind we shall again and again overthrow. All the weak deities invented and worship- ped by the rest of mankind we shall again and again send down to oblivion and ridicule, For we are the Scourge of God!" He bowed once more before the jade tablets; then turned as the door open- ed to admit Wong K'ai "Tomorrow morning," he said, "I shall elevate the Princess Zoncid to the dragon throne. is of foreign race. I know. But Mongol race is stronger. My great-grandfather married a German Princess captured in war, but the son of this: union, my grandfather, was pure Mongol. ~My grandfather married an Indian Prin- cess stolen by Tartar raiders, but my father was pure Mongol. My father married a Persian Princess, sent to him as a tribute by the Shah-in-Shah, but I am pure Mongol. I shall marry an Arab Princess. But my sons shall be pure Mongol." He paused; went ont 3 "Tell d to prepare for the wed- ding. Let it be a wedding after the Mongol manner. Bestow on every one of my soldiers a horse, a slave, and three gold pieces. Bestow on ev- ery one of my war captains nine time nine white stallions, nine times nine precious pearls, nine time nine crim- son robes of honor, nine times nine pieces of gold, nine time nine rolls of silk, and nine times nine female slaves. Have all the astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, and witch-doctors fed at my expense. Let there be a tinkling of bells and burning of incense and chanting of songs throughout Bag- dad. See that all the Moslem priests crucified at the altars of their im- tent Allah. Have afl the Christian ind Jewish merchants' teeth pulled one by one, so that their cries may make sweet music. Give to the Prin- cess Zobeid, as my wedding present the Kingdom of Tartary, the Chief tainship of Outer Mongolia, the Vice- toyalty of Manchuria, the Island of Wak, and the revenues from nineteen thousand villages and cities in Russia and Siberia. Tell her that I shall con- fer upon her the charming and elegant title of the Model of Ten Thousand Female Generations to Comel" "Listen is obey, O Great Dragon!' murmured Wong K'ai and withdrew, while the Prince of the Mongols walk- ed over to the window and opened it. He looked out. Gradually the loom of the night Jift- ed; the fires set here and there by the looting Mongol warriors had died out: and the smoke veil which had covered the town twisted up in baroque spirals and tore into gauzelike arabesques. He fave a sensuous, throaty excla- of triumph. (To Be Continued.) Monoxide gas killed three men in of a garage at Holly, Mich. 1 ' ture, Kings and Nations and Repuby | Jones | Miss Helen Talcott, Queen's Univer WHY THE WEATHER 7 Secretary, American Meteorological} ty, Tells How. Almanac Forecasting. The versatile old fashioned alma- nac was expected, among other things, to furnish general weather forecasts throughout the year. as not even the U.S, Weather Bureau is yet ready to enter the field of long range forecasting, it is evident that these almanac forecasts were pure guess work, often obviously absurd when they attempted to be definite. But they were often so vague, both as to time and place, that It was easy to claim verification for the predic tions. » In a modern almanac, Prof. C. F, Talman says "The absurdity of such prognostications must have always been recognized by intelligent peo- ple; and, in fact, as far back as 1664 we find both of the above-mentioned | traits of the almanacs burlesqued in | Poor Robin, the first of the comic almanacs, in such predictions as the! following: | January--There will be much] frost and cold weather in Green- | land, . 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