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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
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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. The Hedjaz railway, connect
Some of our great men have been
verts wrecked the elaborate tomb ot ing Damascus and Medina, runs
inimorsllsed In biography.—S t Loots Moslem teachers and eveu went so far | through the town.
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