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Mxoss aft The PI ains of Abraham By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD nEAD si V by PoubUJuy Poran Co, In. CHAPTER X Continued 20 But this happier spirit coulJ not endure long with th people. Death had settled on thera heavily. No word had come from Tlaoga and his war riors. There were whisperings that they had been annihilated In battle and would never return. Anxiety grew Into fear, fear Into certainty. The grlmness of a tragedy darker than the sable robes of the priest hov ered over Chenufslo. In their happiness, Jeems and Tot netts did not feel the undercurrent of change about them. Their abiding place became a home whose roots spread so securely that death could not have torn theui up. The cloud of the tragedy through which they had passed was a curtain vaguely soft and distant behind them; they thought of It, they talked of It. and dreams some times awakened Tolnette to find com fort In Jeems' arms. But Its memories did not wound so deeply. The spirits of Tonteur and of Jeems' mother drew nearer to them each day, strengthen ing with Invisible chains the love which bound them. It was the Thrush who first made them see what was happening about them. As days and weeks passed without word from Tlaoga, the fear that Shlndas was dead clutched her with an evil hand. She began to avoid Tolnette and kept to herself. The hardness which had settled In the faces about her came Into ber own. She was a changed Mary Paghlen. She was Opitchl the Seneca. It was this change In the one she had come to regard as a sister which startled Tolnette Into a realisation of the situation which was gathering about her and Jeems. and she was now destined to witness In all of Its sav agery that streak In Indian character which arouses hate and the desire for verges nee In the face of adversity at the hands of human enemies. Jeems marked its rising symptoms. He was no longer greeted with friendliness. Men were sullen and aloof, and women tolled without thsir usual chatter. Death end misfortune bad ridden too hard, and human nerves were at the breaking point- Chenufslo was like a handful of powder ready for the touch of fire. Then came the lightning Cash. It was an afternoon late In May when Shlndas appeared In Chenufslo. He was alone. His arms and shoul ders were hacked and cut and sotne of the wounds were scarcely healed. A scar lay across his cheek. His moc casins were In tatters, and his eyes held the ferocious light of a wolf that had been hunted. He made no effort to soften the news of which he was the bearer. He had come from the border of the Cayuga country as a messenger from Tlaoga and was many hours ahead of his comrades. Tlaoga was returning with nine of his thirty warriors. The others were dead. This tragedy was a cataclysmic one even for a tribe of the most warlike of the Six Nations. Nothing had equaled It In Seneca history for gen erations. Twenty were dead out of thirty the flower of Chenufslo the very sinew of Tlaoga 's people! 8hlndas waited until his words sunk like barbs of Iron Into the hearts of the men and women about him. He waited until there seemed no relief from the despair which settled over them, and then slowly gave the names of those who had been slain by their enemies. A white man had killed three of the twenty warriors. He was a prisoner now with Tlaoga. They bad put out his eyes so that he could not see. They had built a Are around htm In which It had been their Inten tion to see hlra die. Rut In the last moment when the flames were scorch ing him Tlaoga had pulled the blueing fuel away with his own hands In order that the people of Chenufslo could witness his wrlthlngs at the Are stake. After this one might have thought that mad men and women and not a grief-stricken people filled Chenufslo. For hours the lament of the women did not die out. Still Tolnette saw no tears. Her horror Increased ss she observed the preparations fr ven geance; the rigging of a hole and the setting In It of a tall stake, all by women's hands; the gathering of pitchy fuel by little children and their moth ers; the transformation of friends she had known Into fiends whose eyes filled with hatred when they looked at her. She tried to hide from these things In their home and to keep Jeems with her. Shlndus came to them. He had a command from Tlaoga for Jeems. It was that Jeems should go to the village of Kanestlo seventy miles distant and bear news of a war party from that town. Shln das gave him the message and saw that he deported with It lie was no longer a brother. He disclosed no sign of pleasure when he learned that Tolnette was Jeems' wife. Mary Daghlen found blm so grimly changed that he frightened her. Tolnette remained alone. No one came to see her except Wood Pigeon, and the afternoon following the day of Shlndas' arrival the child ran In with wide eyes to toll her that Tlaoga ' was approaching. They were standing at the head of the watting lines when Tlaoga and the remuant of his band came over the hill and across the fields. Shindns had sold there w as to be no physical demonstration against the prisoner, who was to be kept strong for torture at the stake. Tol nette shivered. It was a different homecoming this time. The people were like tigers holding their pssslona In leash. There was something de moniac In the faces of the children. Even the eyes of trose whose loved one had escaped dentil held only the deep-seated fire of hatred. Tlaoga came. His face was like a mask of rock as he passed so near that Tol nette might have touched him. The prisoner followed. His clothes were torn from the upper part of his body. He was a powerfully built ninn with great hands and wide shoulders. On each side of him walked a war: lor, for he was blind and needed guidance. Ills empty eye sockets, hidden by drooping lids, gave to his round red face the appearance of one walking In a ghastly sleep. let he was not overcome by the enormity of the catastrophe which bad befallen him, nor did he betray fear of what lay ahead. He sensed the presence of the people and held his head high as If trying to see them. It was a bald head. Tolnette swayed backward and struggled In a moment of darkness to keep herself from falling. The prisoner wus Hepsibah Adams. CHAPTER XI No one but Wood Pigeon observed the falntness which came over Tol nette. Some force had drnwn a smoth ering curtain about her making It dif ficult to see or breathe. When the shock passed, they were standing alone with the mob closing In behind Tlaoga and his single captive. Its pent-up emotion burst loose In a pandemonium, and amid the excitement Tolnette went back to the cabin which Jeema had built near Tlaoga's tepee. At first she had regretted the ab sence of Jeems, but now she was glad he was gone, for the Increasing tumult In the village, the chanting of death songs by the women, the screaming of children, and the yelling of savage who were working themselves Into a freniy of rage about the fire which would soon receive Its victim terrified her with the growing conviction that nothing could save bis nncle. If Jeems had been there, she knew he would not have seen Hepsibah Adams put to death without a struggle fatal to him self. This thought, together with the reflection that It was a fortunate chance which had sent him away, strengthened her determination to help Hepsibah, and she watched with Wood Pigeon until she saw the chief enter his tepee. Then she hurried to him, with Wood Pigeon and Odd following her. Tlaoga's greeting held no promise. The Seneca folded his arms scross hla breast and regarded her calmly, re vealing no gentle aspect as he spoke a few words In acknowledgment of her visit That his prisoner bore the same relationship to Jeems which he bore to Shlndas and that the man about to die was loved by Silver Heels brought no surprise or hesita tion to his face. He waited patiently for her to finish, then shook his head and pointed through the door to the shadows gathering In the path of the setting sun. He stated coldly that the prisoner must die. His people de manded that the spirit of the white man who had slain three of his war riors be destroyed In flames. They would wait until It was dark, which was the tribal custom. Then the pris oner would be brought from the tepee In which he was lying bound, and the fire would be lighted. If It were her desire, she might talk with Jeems' uncle, Tlaoga said. He was looking Into the twilight when he made this concession. The Indian women at the farther end of the vil lage were chanting more loudly as darkness came on. Tlaoga spoke again. She must hurry. It was growing late. The captive was In Ah De Bali's Tricky Criminals Keep Crowing a beurd, dyeing the hair, and staining the face and hands with a mixture of butternut oil, nutgall, and permanganate of potash, are old time dodges that have often been very useful to the hunted man. Stained with the above mixture, a fair skinned man becomes as swarthy as a Spaniard or Italian; It once made a burglar "on the ran" so confident that he actually had the audacity to sell Ice cream wlUiln a stone's throw of Scotland Yard. Perhaps the most recent dodge for criminals who are anxious to give a wide berth to the police Is going on the sick list. Hospital authorities In London and the provinces are much perturbed by this new and deplorable form of trickery. At one London hos pital the suspicions of the doctors were aroused by the arrival In the course of one week of several Individ WNU Strvlc. tepee, near the river, and the Tall Man and Shlndas were guarding him. , He watched her depart with Wood Pigeon and Odd. Then she might have seen a change In hlra, a change which came when he knew he was alone. Tolnette was breathless when she came to Ah De Bah' home, which the hunter had set apart from the others. The Tall Man stood motionless before the door with a rifle In the crook of his arm, and Shlndas sat on the gronnd near him. Both saw her coming. Rh paused a few paces from them with her mind struggling against a chnx of uncertainty and dread. What could she say to Hepsibah Adam? How could she help him when Tlaoga and Shlndas and Ah De Pah were eager for his death? Shlndas spoke a word to the Tall Man and advanced toward her. He seemed to have expected her, and pointed to the tepee. Ah De Bah did not look at her as she entered. Neither appeared to notice Wood Pigeon or the dog. She found like a dead earth at his conscious of touched him. cords nt his Hepsibah stretched out man, and knelt on the side. He was scarcely her presence until she She felt the buckskin wrists; then her hand found his sightless face. Pending low over the doomed man she w hispered : "Hepsibah Hepsibah Adams I am Toinette Tonteur." Shlndas waited with Ah De Bah as the gloom thickened about them. After a time, they saw Wood Pigeon going toward the circle of fires. Shln das stopped her, and In answer to bis question she told him Tolnette wss weeping beside the white man and that the dog was with her. A fresn outcry told them that at last the time had come, and Ah De Pah went to the tepee and held back the flap. He spoke to Tolnette, call ing her Sol Yan Makwun. There was no snswer. He spoke again and en tered After a brief Interval, his voice rose In a demand for Shlndas, and the young Seneca answered It Ah De Bah was hunting like an ani mal In the blackness. The tepee was empty. Tolnette and Hepsibah Adams were gone. Shlndas did not speak. There wss no light to reveal his face as he went to the edge of the river and aaw that a canoe was gone. He granted his wonder when the Tall Man Joined him. The canoe had been launched within fifty paces of them, snd they had not heard a sound. Words of self abase ment Ml from Ah De Pah's lips. He and Shlndas were like two children, and every man and woman In Chenuf slo would tannt them because of the ease with which the escape had been made. But the missing canoe could not be far dlstnnt. The fugitive, one of them blind, could not possibly suc ceed In their flight. The night would see the white man given to the stake, and now that Silver Heels had proved herself a serpent in the tribe and a traitor to Tlaoga, she would probably die with hlra. Ah De Bah mad queer sounds In his chest as they ran to Tlaoga and the expectant peopl with him. He was not as calm as Shlndas when they arrived. It was Shln das who. announced the deception of the stranger whom they had accepted as the true spirit of Hot Tan Makwum. Tlaoga was coldly and terribly still. His fsce changed before their eyes. The furrows In It grew deeper, and It became as bard as stone In the fields. Then words tame weighted with the decision of death, rising until they swelled In a passion that was like a fire consuming everything In It path. He declared that his honor and the honor of his people lay In his bands. He called on Shlndas and Ah De Bah to go with him to recapture the fugi tives, for this was a duty Imposed on him first of all. Before the night was much older, the fire stake should have Its triumph. He had forgotten the blind man, for a man without eyes wss already dead. He would give to th flames the white girl who had be trayed them. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Law Officers "on Edge" uals who, according to their own story, were In terrible pain, but whose ail ments the medical men were quite unable to dlugnose. The surprising speed with which these mysterious "patients" recovered at the end of a few days convinced the doctor that there was "something up." Inquiries were made, and It was learned that at least two of them were badly "want ed" In connection with a motor car theft Indon Times. Fint Use of Telephone On Otcober 0, 1870, the first recip rocal conversation over a telephone was held over an outdoor line, two miles long, between Boston and Cam brldgeport, Mass. On March 10, 1870, Professor Bell had made himself heard by Watson in another part of the same building. k a. m w a: . .s t 1 - " wVl A Negro Family In th (Prrrl r ( Nt!nl 0.-rphl H.. Itr. Wiintu. I). 0 I ONK of the most outstanding ex plorations of recent year out side th Polar regions was mud rseeutly when Bertram Thomas, British traveler, Journeyed from south to uorta aero th Itoba el Khali desert of southeastern Arabia, in area never before penetrated by a Westerner. The world's geographers and map makers knew nothing what ever of the Itoba 1 Khali even by re ports from natives, for it Is doubtful whether Arabs have been able to peue trate the sandy wastes for many cen turies. The central part of the desert was found to be covered by mile upon mile of grout sand duties, blown Into gigan tic waves by the wind. Near the cen ter a slzuble salt lake was discovered. The Great Southern desert cover approximately a'"',1) square miles of territory. It Is a vat ellipse which Is roughly miles across from east to west ami fiu) miles from north to south. This area, since the penetra tion of Centrul Africa, the Sahara, and central Australia, has constituted the largest blank spot on the world's maps outside the Ice-covered wastes near the pole. All around this Arabian no man's land, the forces of civilization have played: steamers traverse the Bed sea, the Indian ocean, and the Persian gulf; airplanes plying between Kgypt and India have flown for years a few hundred miles to the north; great pil grim caravans and desert armies have crossed the peninsula near Its center but always north of the dread sandy waste. Loosely organized political units hem In the desert area, with boundary lines hazy. n the north and wet Is the territory of the great est Afsblan state, the kingdom of Hejat and Nejd. (in the southeast Is Yemen. The-lladrntiuint, a narrow costal strip under British protection, touches the desert on the south. The crescent-shaped, Independent state of Oman, also a coastal territory, curves around the eastern and southeastern edges of the desert. Both nature ami man have guarded the Itoba el Khali agnlnst explorers. Mountains rim It on the east and south and secondary deserts hem It on the north. Before the main part of the Southern desert the vast waste cov ered with sand dunes ran be reached, a six-day Journey must be made In the sooth and east, at least over an llmost sterile sandstone steppe. Wa ter supplies are hardly anywhere In reach for a final dash Into the sandy desert All around the outer rim of the desert area are tribes that have had practlcolly no contact with outside clvlllzntlon, and that are even Inde pendent of control from the nearest states. They guard thisr few wells and water holes Jealously and In most cases look upon travelers from the out side world as meddlesome trespassers meriting death. Physical Characteristic. In physical character, flora, and fauna, Arabia as a whole Is more like Africa than Asia. In shape, It Is al most a triangle, and It runs from northwest to southeast, between .10 de grees and 12 degrees 45 minutes north latitude and between 32 degrees 30 minutes and CO degrees enst longitude. It Is bounded on the east, south, and west by the Persian gulf, the Arublan sen, nnd the lied sea respectively; on the north It Joins Syria. As Josephus of old wrote. "Arubla Is a country that Join on Judea." And Roman geog raphers drew a map of Arabia that In cluded Mesopotamia and the Syrian desert back of Palestine. The length of the peninsula from the head of the Gulf of Akabnh to the Straits of Bab-el Mandeb, near Aden, Is about 1,300 miles; Its greatest breadth, In Intltudn 23 degrees north, from the Red ea const on the west to Rns-al-IIadd on the east, Is about 1,500 miles. A one sails along the Red sea coast of Arubla, with the low 2,000 feet high dry and barren mountnln lying Just back of sandy, empty strip of country, he Is reminded of the Pa cific side of Iwer California above Cnpe Sun Lucas. Many small Islands, hot and dry and uninhabited except sr., , I , . 3. Outskirts of Jidda, Arabia. for half wild bands of tramp fisher men, dot the map along this const. One of thoe, called Pertm, near the mouth of Bah il Matideh straits, Is oc cupied by a British garrison. The southeastern coast, similarly empty and marked by sharp, Jjigged rocks thrust up from glistening sand beds, Is broken by several good har bors, like that at Aden. This loiter port Is a British possession, not unlike Gibraltar. It Is heavily fortified and Is the entrepot of commerce between India and Europe. Three Important Provinces, Along th Red sea coast II thre province, th most Important In Arsbl. Yemen, the most southerly and most populous, has many arable val leys, producing coffee, ffgs, spices, hides, and date. It bns two port cities. Mocha and Hodelda. A seer province lies north of Yemen, nnd north of Aseer and extrndlng to the Sues canal stretches the province of Hejaa, where in lie the famous Moslem cities of Mecca, and Medina. The ancients, for convenience, or from Inck of geographic knowledge, divided Arubla lute three parts th Stony, the Desert, and the Happy. Our knowledge of Its map shows most of Its high Interior plateau occupied (except for Nejd province) by four great deserts, the, Syrian, th Ncfud, the Ahkaf. and the Itoba el Khali. The Mahrnh and Hadramaut prov inces, stretching for hundreds of mile above Aden, are unmapped and prac tically unknown. Nejd. the great Interior provluc north of Itoba el Khali, Is declared by Arabs to be the birthplace of their most cherished Institutions and tra ditions. Nejd Is Isoluted from th outside world by a surrounding desert girdle. A confusion of plant life Is spread over Arubla' many rich wadl (vab levs) affording much "unfinished busi ness" for eager botanists. Besides th friendly palm, such tree a th syca more, almond, chestnut, pomegranate, the "gum Arahlc." the acaclns, and long llkt of hushes ami shrubs ar scattered up and down tho peninsula. Then there Is the MsamU" or oatmeal plant of the Arabs; from It small grain they make a porridge called samh, the national breakfast food or Arabia. But, with the exception of dates, Arabia produces few crop of any Im portance. Good coffee, In limited quantities, comes from Yemen. Millet, barley, and wheat are all grown, hut owing to drought the crop Is small and restricted to limited nreas. Wherever water and soil permit, such products as rice, melons, gourds, cucumbers, cabbage, gnrllc, and onions are raised. The Indian fig, the banana, the papaya (Imported from India), tho co count, and the betel nut are also grown In Nejd. Crude Agriculture. Agriculture Is crude, like that of our old American Indians. A crooked stick scratches the ground, and seed Is broadcast by hand. Such arts as fertilizing, rotating crops, pruning, and cultivating receive cnnt considera tion, lhind sickles are used for reap ing; oxen trend out the groin, nnd It Is winnowed by being thrown Into the breeze. In brief, Arabia's agriculture Is almost nil barely sulllclent to fur nish a meager supply of food to the sparse population. A peculiarly drab-looking desert grouse called "kata" lives on the edges of desert wastes. When fright ened they alight on the sand and sprawl out to hide, their color blend ing with the sand so perfectly as to render them unuotlceablo to a man standing a few yards away. 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