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HALSEY ES Ir.nrni-**., i i . w n . i , ~ ............. 2 2 ——- —— —- ^ T h e R ed R oad Uneasy Arabia A Rom ance of B raddock’s D efeat By Hugh Pendexter llltu tT u iw m by CHAPTER VI— Continued —1 6— — Repeating my Instruction*, and re minding him that he would be favor ably received as a scout tor the col onies, the Onondaga and I swung Into the path and made for the cabins. Having already been guests In the village, we did not go through the form ality of shouting our names. We went to the cabin set aside for strangers and were promptly served with meat and a coarse bread. It was evident that Queen Allaqulppa did not wish us to delay our departure. We did not propose leaving, however, until Cromlt had put In hl* appear ance. News forwarded from Du quesne would be useless unless the McDowell’s mill man was waiting to carry It to the army. Before depart ing for the fort, I bad to satisfy my self that Cromlt would not be re fused shelter In the village; so we ate onr meat leisurely and fought the minute*. Having finished and wiped our lin ger* on little bundles of dried grass I proceeded to mend my moccasin* After I had made my foot-gear as good as new I advised the Onondaga to take hl* time. When I believed an boor bad elapsed, I peered through a small hole at the end of the cuhln and beheld Cromlt striding from the woods. He baited and shouted the guest call and was promptly confronted by several warriors. They talked with him for a few moments and then gladly shouted: “ Ingellshman I Ingellshman I” They seized his hands and patted his shoulders and In a hospitable pantomime waved their arms and pointed townrd the cabins. He entered the village and the word was rapidly passed that he was ‘‘Ingellshman” ; and where we had re ceived scowls and frowns he beheld nothing but beaming countenances. He wandered about and passed our cabin and beheld us but gave no sign of recognition. A warrior must have Informed him that we were French In our sympathies for he paused and mude derisive gestures at us, whereat the savages laughed In great enjoy ment. 1 was afraid the audacious rus- cal would challenge us to a tight, or play some other trick. Now satisfied hl* welcome would be permanent I picked up my rifle and, with the Onon daga, stepped outside. That day we advanced with great caution and made slow progress, it was the buck trail that held our at tention. More than once we drew to one side of the path and waited to learn If we were pursued. All timber originally crowding against the fort had been leveled for a considerable depth. Vast cornfields stretched for a fourth of a mile up the Allegheny and the Mononguhela. In addition to these, there were many kitchen gardens along the Allegheny. On the Monongahela, there were a number of mills. We struck the clearing at a point opposite the eastern gate, a rather pre teutlous portal of ten feet In width, swinging on binges and having a wicket In the middle. Inside the stock ade were two storehouses, or maga sines, as many barracks, a guardhouse and prison, the commandant's resi dence and the chapel. All these were very stoutly built of heavy logs and backed up to within three feet of the Blockade, the Intervening space being packed with earth, nnd the board roofs at the eaves lying level with the ramparts. There were no pickets, nor pointed palisades, nnd front our post tlon It looked as If the whole enclosure was roofed over. We enwrged from the woods and made fo i^th e eastern gate, aud our coming seemed to be unnoticed. One of the Canadian m ilitia wns lazily guurding the gnte, half asleep because of the hot sun. After scrutinizing us for a few moments he said: “ 1 greet you, m’sleu. You would see Captain de Beaujeu?” 1 ezpressed that desire, and he ynwued and called a soldier nnd told him to take my name to the com uinndunt. Very soon the messenger returned ami said I wns to follow him The Onondaga dropped behind to stroll about the enclosure. I was conducted to the commandant’s house between the guardhouse and the western gate. All the way from Allaqulppn’s town 1 had been schooling my nerve* for this meeting. There could be no par tial success; either I would retnslu unsuspected, or go Into a Huron ket tie. I realized that some tongue might have wagged since my former visit for news travels fnst In the forest All doubts vanished however when Captain Beaujeu ran from the bouse and embraced me warmly. In dress and apia'nrance. I was only a coureui de hols, but on onr first meeting I had given the name of an old family whose fortunes were ruined, but whose blood held good. Captain Iteaujen was forty foui years ot age. a native ot Montreal Ills father hud been a eaptuln at Three R iv e r* and forest fighting ran I d the blood. The son already wore tbs cross of a Knight of St l.oule and hart served us commandant at Niagara He was absolutely Ineapabte ot feat and possessed a soul rourag» that went well with his heart tlthei Frenchmen who did little In m nipari ■on with Ids supreme accomplishment I r w in M y e r s O *p y rl< h t by H u <b Paadextaff. W N U BszrrtM are registered on the printed page but few In these latter days know the deeds of Beaujeu We had some wine and he pressed me for oew* I gave him a part ot the Information Cromlt had brought me. It was correct so far as It went, but I made no mention of the general sickness among the soldiers, nor of the uneasiness among the regulars and provincials, nor of the Jealousies and bitterness among the officer* In so far as I talked. I spoke truthfully for his spies bad been, and would he. keeping him Informed, and I had no desire to be proved a liar. When I had finished, I eagerly asked: “ We w ill fight, eh?" “ We w ill fight. I find there are some things a Chevalier of S t Louis cannot do—run away without making a fig h t” “ Good I” 1 exclaimed. “ Then rein forcements have arrived?” “ We are weaker In regulars and mi litia than we were In the spring," he calmly replied. “ But we have In creased our Indian force a little. Monsieur, you are devoted to France. You have cast your lot with u * You ; V»1’ IfAv'Aj ' He Was Absolutely Incapable of Fear and Possessed a Soul Courage That Went Well With Hie Heart are entitled to the truth. The Indians are uneasy. Nay, they are frightened. They may refuse to make a fig h t I make myself believe they w ill lift the ax and dispute Braddock's progress. But 1 have dreamed of waking and finding their huts empty, of finding tny red allies returning to their north ern villages. There have been no re inforcements from Canada. I have sent messages to describe our des- pernte plight, but no men come back. “ And, my friend, I have some news that Is later than yours. A runner nrrlved yesterday, saying the army has reached Jacobs' creek and Is waiting there for provisions to be brought up. So the English are hav ing their troubles. I only pray that they come by the easy crossings of the Monongahela. If they do, I pro pose to lay an ambuscade Jnst before they reach the river. B.v Our Lady's help we may surprise them. But If Braddock chooses to march across Turtle creek, twelve ntlles from Its mouth, there will be no chance for an ambuscade; for the country, although rough for travel, has no good cover for a surprise attack. If he comes along that line, then all we can do Is to die fighting." "Let us hope for the best,” I said. I was devoutly sincere In saying It. only my "best" was not his. He Inughed softly and replied: "Monsieur Belaud, what Is there left for us to fight with except hope? Still It Is good to show these stolid English how a Frenchman can die. I w ill attack even If the army cotnes by the Turtle creek route; and I shall W orld ’s G reat H ad to Not an Individual living Is absolute ly free from handicaps. Some of us are physically disabled, others are mentally harassed, hundreds suffer both, writes Louis E. Blsch In the American Magazine. We struggle with deform ity; we light disease; we wres tle with doubts, feelings of Inferiority, overscnsltlveness, uncontrollable tem per, all sorts of distressing disabilities Even the greatest among us are hand! capped tike th a t Every human being Is prevented somehow from fulfilling his highest destiny. Many of our greatest men were handicapped hy disease. and somehow surmounted IL Milton and Handel were blind. Beethoven was deaf and Keats had tuberculosl* Pop* was de formed Caesar suffered from epilepsy l.amb and Ills sister were subject to repeated attacks of Insanity. Fielding wrote his rollicking book “ Tom Jones," while melancholy. Florence die, as the Indians w ill not make a fight In that country, “ Walk about the fort, monsieur, and spirit up the men with a few word* I must he busy for a bit of rounding out my plans for ■ grand coup. But we w ill dine leisurely tonight. There w ill be several at the table whom you met on your former v is it There will be Lieutenant de Carquevllle, Sleur de Parieux and Lieutenant de la Pa rade. The brothers de Normanvllle are out on a scout and won’t come In un til the enemy I* very close. “ Poor Dnpuy has served his king < • and has gone to his reward. I do not think you met him. A brave simple soul who knew no fear. Nor was Lieutenant Beauvais here on yonr first v is it but be Is a most pleasing man, An Oasis in Kingdom of Hedjaz. and yon w ill rejoice In forming his ns to try unsuccessfully to destroy the (P rep ared by th e N a tio n a l O eographlo acquaintance." S ociety. W a sh in g to n . D. C.) dome over the tomb of Mohammed at "Lieutenant Beauvais," I repeated, RABIA has become the scene Medina, the two words ringing oddly In my of one of the world's latest Before his death Wahab converted ears. threats of war. In the past to his simplified faith a powerful sheik “ You have met him In Montreal, | few years the desert Bedouins. of central Arabia, Mohammed tbn pernnps?" “ The name sounds fam iliar. But 1 | under the leadership of the sultan of Saoud. He became both the religious recall do officer acquaintance of that Nejd, have gained control of all cen and political head of Wahabism; and tral Arabia, as well us Mecca w'th Its he, too, took a leaf from the funda name." “ Somehow you two Impress me as I state of Hedjaz, Asir, and large areas mental teachings of Mohammed and being much alike. The pleasure w ill j of eastern i|iid southern Arabia. Now began spreading his faith by the he mutual, I know. I only regret poor they are threatening to push their op- sword. Iraq, one of the areas threatened, Is | erations northward Into Iraq and Dupuy could not be here." the modern name for the traditional northwestward Into Trans-Jordan. The “ I regret to Infer from your words, j seriousness of the lutter threats lies Garden of Eden historically known as monsieur, that your friend Is dead.” “ Killed on a recent scout It Is the I in the fagt that Iraq and Trans-Jor- Mesopotamia. The cradle of civiliza i dan are both mandates of Great B rlt- tion, In the belief of many archeolo reward of the forest brave men." My mind was whirling. My words [ ain. Between them lies Syria, a man gists and historians. Is this very val ley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. seemed to come without any mental date of France. I Arabia has been figuring In world Iraq and Its King. volition and I did not realize what I was saying until I had said I t De 1 affairs since the curtain roqe on the Iraq lies between the Arabian des | first act In history, and yet It has Beaujeu, as he escorted me to the ert on one side and the Persian up I large areas about which we. kr.ow door, added: lands on the other. West lies the “ Like yourself Beauvais is a man of I practically nothing. Because of the French Mandate of S yria; north the ■ huge bulk of Asia, Its numerous pen- deeds. He loves to go alone Into the I Insulas are somewhat dwarfed, and Kurdish highlands of Turkey. The dangerous places." ! one may fa ll Into the error of classing Persian gulf forms a corridor 1,000 “ You flatter me, monsieur. And i Arabia with peninsulas nearer home, miles giving Iraq u waterway to the what hour do we dine?" open Indian ocean. Dates from “ the “ We w ill not wait for Lieutenant such as Florida. But 00 Florldas would Garden” come to New York by way of be lost In this great Asian projection; Beauvais after seven. He should be It Is, In fact, a third as large as the this corridor. Within Iraq live 3,000,- here today." 000 people, a slim population for soil : entire United States. There came a great surge of relief. which once supported more people per Tremendous desert wastes are not His speech cleared the situation some acre than does densely populated Bel what, Dupuy, killed by the Onondaga I alone responsible for the fact that the gium. j outside world is Ignorant of the Nejd outside the little cabin, had been re Great Britain has made her Meso ported dead by the French Indians. ! In the heart of Arabia. That country potamian mandate the Arab Kingdom i —If the area over which the Nejdlan Beauvais had been captured Inside of Iraq ruled by a Mohammedan the cabin and his three red compan nomads roam may be culled a country prince, the son of the former king of ions had died. So, there were no w it —has one of the most effective exclu Hedjaz. King Feisal reigns where sion laws known: the exclusion law of nesses to bis fate. the sword. These people do not care Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Then I remembered the Frenchman j to go Into the outside world, nnd they Persians, Greeks, Romans and Sara carrying u€» tg to Allaqulppa and In want no visits from Western traders, cens ruled successively for six cen parting from the commandant said: I diplomats, m ilitary experts, or mis turies. “ And Monslenr Falest? 1 trust to sionaries — (-specially Of the three principal cities, Mosul, missionaries. see him. Of course he has told you They are blood-thirsty fanatics on the the oil town, seems safely beyond of our meeting In Allaqulppa’s town. subject of religious simplicity. As reach of the Bedouins. Bagdad, In the I liked him much." Wahabis they are perhaps better center of the valley, comes by Its po “ Walt, wait, monsieur I If you known to the world than as Nejdtnns, sition o f capital honestly, Basra, in please, tell me about Monsieur Falest. I fo r the former name they owe to their the Far South, Is the end of what was He should be here before now. He religious associations. to have been the Berlin-Bagdad ra il carries belts from the governor ol way. Blue laws have never taken on so Canada. The belts were refused. A The sultan of Nejd seems to be deep a tinge of blue as tn the land of Huron, who carried belts from Pon the Wahabis. To drink or even to enusing history tg repeat Itself. Time tine. was found dead Just outside the smoke tobacco Is not merely a derelic- after time city ways have softened village. I am anxious to hear the ’ tlon In their strict code; It Is a capital city conquerors until a new barbaric details." 1 offense. It Is equally an offense, ac- horde swept over them. City Arabs Now for a surety was 1 nonpulse<L i cording to their views, to use rich have taken readily to civilization’s He was waiting for Falest, to come, | rugs nnd fine ve-ssels in mosques, nnd ways. They work In Ice and cotton and Falest had started twelve hours i they have made more than one effort cloth factories; upon public works ahead of me. But Falest bad not ar to Invade Mecca Itself to reduce the and engineering projects. rived. and yet the commandant knew I holy places there to Wahabi slmpllc- Much agricultural land has been re the belts were refused b.v Allaqulppa i lty. They even look upon other Mo- claimed hy Irrigation In an effort to and that the Huron was dead. I stole 1 hnmmqdnns not of their sect as unbe- revive the luxuriant Garden of Eden a glance at his dark face, wondering | lievers unworthy of life. Dates from the date palm are the If he were playing with me— If bis chief product. Wheat, barley nnd rice Their Capital a Forbidden City. are also grown. Experiments looking cordial welcome was but a piece of The capital of the Nejd, Rind, where townrd cotton growing have been pro- mockery. He detected something to I was horn the movement that threat my face, and further Inquired: moted. Vegetables nnd flowers thrive "You have kept back some bad ens to embrace all Arabia, has been In the protecting shade of palm fronds. I more' truly a forbidden city ttinn □ewe, monsieur?" Trans-Jordan Full of Nomads. tils tone was hard and brittle, that I Lbnsn, The only Westerner known to Trans-Jordan, the other threatened of a commandant rather than of a j have visited It tn recent years was an region, lies in the northwestern cprrier ' American physician, smuggled In that courteous host 1 told him : of Arabia adjoining Palestine. Per “ Your words have surprised me. he might save the life of a chieftain, haps It w ill bring the newly Independ 1 and It Is believed that even tills er- Monsieur Falest started for this place ent but very old country closer to early last evening. Intending to make | rand of mercy would not have saved realize that Its capital, now Amman. I him from summary execution save for a night trip of IL He was accom was once Philadelphia—the grent- panied by a young Englishman who ' a little group of defenders who for a great-great-grandfather of the half I brief time stretched thetr standards has a French heart" dozen or more I ’lillifdelphlu* great After the World war Great Britain "Sacre bleu I Do you rave, or are and small, that are to be found In cur paid the ruler of the Nejd a huge sub my ears lying to me?” he fiercely de postal guides. But It was only a mere sidy—$400,000 a year, an “ honorarium” manded. matter of twenty-odd centuries ago "Monsieur de Beaujeu!’’ I exclaimed. j four times ns great ns the salary and that the city took the name Philadel The bewilderment reflected In my j allowance of the President of the phia from its new lord, Ptolemy I'hll- thin face must have Impraared him United States. The young sultan look ade-lphus. It had existed as Rabbath as being genuine, for he hastily cried: the cash nnd let his followers go about Amman, chief city of the Ammonites forays pretty much as they "A thousand pardons If 1 seem to he | their wished, with the result that Great almost from the days o f Lot, ftom rude, Monsieur Upland. But here Is a whom the Ammonites are said to have mystery. Ila I Perhaps a bloody mys 1 Britain had to spend much more tbnn sprung. It was after a victorious bat tery. One that bodes til for Du j the subsidy defending the kings of tle with these same people of Amman ltedjaz, Trans-Jordan and Iraq against quesne." that Jephthah, according to the B ibli Incursions. (TO BE C O NTINUED.) cal, story, returned to the fatal meet Since the sultan of Nejd became ing with his daughter. king of Hedjaz and ruler of most ot When Trans-Jordan Is described as Arabia, ttie movement lias been much stretching from the Jordan and the too great for a subsidy to affect, and Dead sea toward the Inte-rlor of Arabia O vercom e G rave Ills now Great Britain has found It neees one Is likely to call up the picture of snry to mobilize armored cars and air a hopeless desert. But much of the Nightingale did some of her best exec planes at the head of the Persian gulf region Is steppe land, a high plain utive work while bedridden. The ItsL to protect Iraq. supporting some flocks nnd even capa Ihn Saud. the sultan of Nejd and Indeed. Is a long one. These people ble of tlllnge, Nomadism has long king of Hedjaz. has combined his polltl achieved tn spite of a hardship. held the region In Its grip, however, cal and military drive for a unified nnd It is as a sort of “ chief of no Arabia with n revival of Wahabism. H a rd ly W o rth W h ile mads” that Abdullah Ibn Hussein finds The Wahabi sect was founded enrly Fault finding Is an easy habit to ac I tn the Eighteenth century by Abd el It necessary to rule. He holds his “ court” ’ not In a palace but In a quire. No ta le n t no brain* no char I Wahnh. who might be termed the Cart acter, no education Is needed to estab 1 wright of Mohanitneilanism, for he group of tents which he moves with lish yourself as a grumbler, and the was essentially a Moslem Puritan the seasons. Amman is not Inaccessible. Five rewards are usually commensurate t seeking to turn his faith back to what hours by automobile over reasonably with the Investment—G r it I he considered Its simple fundamen good roads through the sizzling valley tats. Feeling that .Mohammedanism of the Jordan suffice fo r the trip from Fashion Defined should be uncompromisingly mono Jerusalem to the capital. The Jor- Fashion Is the science of appear theistic, he was particularly disturbed | dan forms the boundary line and ances, and It inspire* one with the hy the tendency to worship Mohnm ' across It Is an Iron bridge. Amman desire to seem rather than to be.— med, who claimed to be only a mortal ' Is only nhont th irty miles from the ns well as Allah. He also found his Chapin. co-religionists invoking Moslem sa'nts I river, nnd ns the crow tiles Is hardly and preached against tills practice. 1 more than than sixty miles from Jeni O u r G re at M en After Wahab died his fanatical con snlem. 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