H is Celebration
ULTIMATUM IS SENT
MEXICAN REPUBLIC
PROGRESSIVES ENDORSE HUGHES;
ROOSEVELT GIVES SUPPORT
Chicago- By a vote of 32 to 6, with
nine members declining to vote, the
National committee o f the Progreaaive
party Monday, at the end o f a stormy
Bession, indorsed Charles E. Hughes
for President and the Bull Moose party
practically went out o f existence as a
National political organization.
The fight in the committee to in
dorse Hughes was led by George W.
Perkins, of New Y ork ; Jsines R. Gsr-
fleld, of Ohio, and Chester H. Russell,
o f California.
The radical element in the commit
tee, represented by Matthew Hale, of
Massachusetts; Bainbridge Colby, of
N ew Y ork ; Henry F. Cochema, o f
Wisconsin, and John M. Parker, of
Louisiana, vigorously protested against
the indorsement o f any candidate for
President and fought the m ajority at
every step of the proceedings. The
m inority's first move was to insist on
Washington, D. C.— A demand for an open meeting of the committee,
the immediate release o f the American which it won after a number o f the
troopers taken prisoners at Carrizal,
coupled with a stern notification that
M ay Be Attorney General.
the United States expects an early |
statement o f the purposes o f the Car
ranza government was telegraphed to
Mexico C ity Sunday by Secretary Lan
sing.
The note discloses that the State de
partment received Saturday a commu-
| nication from the de facto government
\ stating that the Carrizal fight was the
| direct result o f orders to attack Am er
ican soldiers moving otherwise than
toward the border, personally issued
by General Carranza to General T re
vino and by the latter communicated
to General Pershing.
In reply. Secretary Lansing requires
that the de facto government transmit
a definite statement "a s to the course
o f action it has determined upon”
through the usual diplomatic channels
“ and not through subordinate m ilitary
I officers.”
The Mexican communication is con
strued, Secretary Lansing states, “ as
a formal avowal o f deliberately hostile
action against the forces o f the United
| States now in M exico and o f the pur-
|M>Be o f attack without provocation
whenever they move from their pres- j
ent position” despite the friendly mis
sion on which they are engaged and |
which is reaffirmed in the American
rejoinder.
wtlNI
General Carranza is required to i
Immediate Release of Captured Negro
Troopers Demanded.
CARRANZA ORDERED ATTACK
President, Following Conference, In
dicates He Will Address Joint
Session of Congress Soon.
Fkoto b»
rriak Fournltr,
K ing’s Mountain and Yurktown are
dimly remembered.
Yet we may be sure that of tbe mul
titudes of recent arrivals In the
United States there are many whose
steps have been guided by the Ideals,
symbols and names which to us are
vague or forgotten.
Tho valuable
things that young Europe Is learning
here are acquired not from young
America, but from old America. The
landmarks of liberty which young
America falls to see or ignores are
still plain enough to the young Eu
rope transplanted Into America.
There are fading emblems In the
IKE a firecracker that smolders case of young Europe also, but they
quietly and filially explodes are of crowns and coronets, thrones
long after the rest of the bunch and scepters, divine right and priv
have banged and slzzed their ilege, a shackled press and stifled
T o those who hunger and
way Into oblivion, comes tardily the speech.
story of the man to whom we owe thirst for liberty and opportunity the
our Fourth of July. Those who have old American emblems blaze afar. To
not heard the story and who endeavor those who are surfeited with liberty
to recall some chapter of American or unappreciative of it they fade and
place himself on record form ally and | John W. Davis, at present solicitor
history telling of this great man will die.
the plain intimation lies behind the re general of the department o f Justice,
search their memories In vain.
So
strained language o f Mr. Lansing's it is believed in Washington, w ill be
Duty
of
Citizens
of
Today.
obscure has ho remained In the an
i communication that force w ill be met appointed attorney general by Presi
Tho
busts
and
portralta
of
Wash
nals o f those times that even his
with force. Apparently, however, the I dent Wilson i f he should nominate At-
name Is unknown, there Is only one Ington and o f Jefferson, draped with
Washington government is determined torney General Gregory for the United
tho
Stars
and
Stripes,
appear
In
the
glimpse o f him, as a rider hurrying
that the de facto government Hhall not States Supreme Court. Mr. Davis is
through the night with a message that windows always on the eve of the evade responsibility before the world regarded as a very able lawyer. He
was to bring us our Olorlous Fourth. Fourth o f July. W e do well thus to if war ¡ b forced upon the United has the conduct o f government cases
honor the futhors, but there Is a sug
The Chicago Post tells the story:
States.
before the Supreme Court.
He is
"T h e friends of a Declaration o f In gestion In these solemn representa
The note and the m ilitary situation forty-three years old and was born in
tions of the giants of the past that the
dependence were afraid that they
of the United States were talked over West Virginia.
might not be In a m ajority In the great duty of devotion to the country's high at the White House by the President,
est Interests, or at least the greatest
Philadelphia gathering. It Is affirmed
constructive task of statesmanship, with the senate foreign relations com- j committeemen> led by John M. Parker,
that they counted noses ami were fear
mittee.
was somehow finished up In the per
bolted the meeting.
ful that they would fall short by one
A fte r the conference, which lasted
A fte r Secretary Oscar K in g Davis
sons of tbe founders, and that all we
or two votes. Then It was that they
more than an hour. Senator Stone Baid read Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's let
need do Is to look at their marble
determined to send a messenger Into
the situation was "exceed in gly acute.” ter, in which he finally declined the
effigies now and then, and once a year
Delaware to bring back an absent dele
President Wilson has fe lt it necessary
Presidential nomination of the party
commemorate their achievements. Hut
gate who It was known would vote
to acquaint congress with the state of and urged that Charles E. Hughes be
Is this true?
Has everything been
I affairs and the action taken, through
right If he were present They looked
supported in order to defeat President
done and settled in the foundation and
the foreign affairs committee. It was
for a hard rider with the cause at
Wilson, the committee voted to accept
upbuilding of the American republic?
j indicated that he might desire to ad the Colonel’ s declination and took a
heart, a man who would ride the race
dress a joint session o f the house and
for liberty and count fatigue a pleas
recess for luncheon.
senate in a day or two, but would not
ure. They found him In a man whose
take this final step until the Mexican
name Is unknown to posterity, but who
government had been given an oppor
deserves well of It.
tunity to reply.
“ T h e unknown rode on his mission,
l ie tore away, as one of bis contempo
raries bore witness, as If tbe devil
were at his heels. He broko existing
'
u
T u
n
n •
I'Ondon — A t last the lon^-heralded
records and sent the absent delegate
and much-delayed grand offensive of
back in a hot hurry and In time to
.
i the allies seems to be at hand.
If
vote.
The Declaration debates and
events rather than official announce
Field
Headquarters,
Mexico, via
proceedings were secret, but there was
ments mark its opening, it is already
wireless to Columbus, N. M .— Twenty-
a story well bolloved that the resolu
well under way.
three American soldiers are known to
tion carried by one vote. W o huve
Paris and London have said nothing
have lost their lives on the battlefield
Paul Rovere's ride In living verse, but
regarding the important operation de
at Carrizal, according to a report to
veloping.
It has been le ft to admis
no one has sung tbe song of the un
General Pershing Sunday night from
sions from the central powers to es-
known rider, 'The Man Who Made
Major Jenkins, commanding the E lev
j tablish their existence.
the Fourth.'
enth Cavalry column ordered to scour
Thus as against the silence o f the
"H ere's to h im !”
the country in that vicinity for surviv
British war office, Berlin chronicled
ors. M ajor Jenkins said he had evi-
the opening of “ important battles” in
I dence that nine American troopers, in
EMBLEMS MUST NOT FADE!
the sector held by Sir Douglas Haig,
addition to those previously reported
j Vienna supplements this with the
i dead, had been killed.
Major Jenkins
admission of a 20-mile retirement in
Duty of Americana to Hold High For
reported that he had found Captain
j the Trentino. “ T o retain our freedom
ever the Glory Handed Down by
Morey hidden in a house nine miles
o f action,” is the tribute the Austrian
Their Forefathers.
from where he was abandoned, and
war office pays to General Cadorna’ s
that his wounds were not dangerous.
offensive, which observers expect to
Serve
the
State
First
.
T W AS the practice of Americans
spread rapdily to Isonzo front.
The revelation of liberty has no
Protest Seen in Reply to Note.
for many years to observe the
In the east, the Russians, while still
validity
unless
it
is
a
continuing
one
El Paso, T e x .— Carranza’s reply to held up in their advance on K ovel by
Fourth
of
July
patriotically.
Carved
Into
pallid
marble
and
draped
Their celebrattous did not con
the last American note w ill deal main the Germans, are continuing their ad
sist of noise alone. Attending all the with a flag, it is chilled and dead. It ly with the old protest against the vance against the Austrians in the
must
he
renewed
each
day
In
flesh
music, cannonading, bell ringing und
presence o f American ^oops in M exi | south. Their flank now protected by
marching there was an intellectual and blood. In hearts and brains and can territory, according to a telegram ! the Carpathians, they have turned
Tho fathers served
feature that heartened the old and sinewy hands.
, northward in their sweep through Bu-
the state before they served them from Mexico City, published in the El kowina and are now approaching Ko-
Inspired the young.
Paso Del Norte, a local Carranza or
»elves
W
e
must
do
the
same.
In the uproarious festivities of ear
gan. The dispatch says a number Of lomea. They are already within 10
lier times the treasured emblems and
persons close to the government say miles of the town.
Nation's Debt to Almighty Gcd.
Thus, though the Germans succeed
trophies of liberty were all In sight
that the note will take for granted
Any celebration of Independence j
for one day at least, and by recurring
Secretary of State Lansing's assertion in preventing the progress from the
to the principles of the Declaration day which dors not give the place of that the American government desires north, the Russians may still force the
everybody's knowledge of and faith In prominence to Clod is Inadequate and neither war nor intervention.
It will evacuation of I.emhurg and Tarnapol
The words of the poet devote itself to the punitive expedition. by advancing from the south. Similar
the doctrines that gave this continent unworthy.
tactics were successful when the Rus-
a measure of freedom and justice were trace our liberties to the right source
j sians took the city before.
strengthened and renewed, says the and give the honor to him to whom
Engineers T o Be Enlisted.
General Brusiloff's main efforts are
New York World. If these emblems the honor is due.
Washington, D. C.— Tw 6 companies
|H>nd> id «• l l u t t ! IG uven's» nett
I now being diverted to overthrowing
are fading the fault Is due more to Hall* lnd< gin.
o f enigneers are to be recruited at the Germans in these positions. He
our
native-born
Inhabitants,
who To that «if Ilf« and the immortal aouM
Vancouver Barracks under orders from I hM brougfct his batteries which routed
think they have learned all the lessons
companies the Augtriang, to bear here.
General fu ns ton.
These companies
of liberty, than to the millions of new
A GIANT CRACKER
w ill he regulars and w ill form a part
comers, whose minds are «till open
o f the first increment to be added to
Food Shortage Impends.
and whose eyes are still keen.
the army under the new reorganization
Bandon, O r.— This city is virtually
What proportion of the rising gen
law.
eratlon knows or has accepted the
A few enlisted men now in engineer out o f all kinds of fresh supplies as a
"selfevld on t truths'' upon which the
companies w ill form the nucleus o f the result o f the longshoremen's strike.
republic rests—
two new companies and officers are Famine o f potatoes, sugar and fresh
'T h a t all men are created equal?
to be detailed from the available list fruits threatens unless the strike is
when the companies are recruited to settled within the next week or 10
"That they are endowed by their
their full strength.
days. The stores are lim iting sugar
Creator
with
certain
unalienable
sales to 50 cents' worth to each cus
rights?
tomer.
Except for
locally-grown
T w o Allied Warships Sunk.
"That among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
Pari*— The minister o f marine an strawberries there is no fresh fru it on
"That to secure these rights govern
nounced that the Italian
auxiliary the market.
The gas schooner Patsy, from Port
ments are Instituted among men. de
cruiser C itti di Messina and the French
riving their just powers from the con
destroyer Fourche have been torpedoed land, is now the only boat entering
sent of the governed" And
in the Strait o f Otranto. The C itti di this port with incoming freight.
Messina, which was being escorted by
"That whenever any form of govern
Big Cannon to Be Bought.
the Fourche, was the first victim of the
ment becomes destructive of these
submarine. The Fourche later attacked
Washington, D. C. — F ive million
ends It Is the right of tbe people to
the underwater boat, which submerged dollars was added to the fortifications
alter or to abolish It, and to Institute
and disappeared. Shortly afterwards bill as it passed the house hy a senate
new government, laying Its founds
the Fourche herself was torpedoed. committee Tuesday to he used fo r pur
tlon on such principles and organlx
Almost all o f her crew was saved.
Ing Its powers In such form as to {
chase and manufacture o f mountain,
them shall seem most likely to affect
Maryland Patriots First.
field and siege cannon.
Panama Election Riotous.
The patriots o f Harford county,
their safety and happiness."
The committee eliminated the $750.-
Interest In these propositions used Maryland, gathered themselves to
Panama Serious rioting occurred in j 000 provision for the purchase o f the
to be cultivated In various ways, part gether at Harford town, whl -h la now the C ity o f Panama Sunday on the oc John Hays Hammond. Jr., inventions
Eighteen per for wireless to control the torpedoes
ly as a pleasure, partly as a duty. T o railed Hush, on March 22. 1775. On casion o f tfie elections
There were no ' and $417,000 for installation o f one of
day the words are unfamiliar, the flag the same day they prepared and sons were wounded.
Itself Is Infrequently seen, and Lextng signed a Declaration o f Independent-«, foreigners among them, however. No j the Hammond plants, and substituted
One man an appropriation o f $30.000 for inves
ton. Hunker lllll. Saratoga, Valley probably the first one ever made by trouble occurred at Colon.
waa killed in the Province o f Chiriqui. I tigation o f the Hammond inventions,
i
Itorge, Trenton, Savannah, Coupons, the colonies, or any part o f them
L
k jo rtrt
T H E F L A G T H E Y LO V E
Ihirty-Ihree United States Troopers
Known lO HdV6 D66I1 Sldin
I
j
Big Drive by Allied Powers Begun
On All Sides of Central Powers
. J
" , , . ..
SYNOPSIS.
— 13—
Sylvia Omney, her lover. Richard Far-
quhar, finds, has fallen In love with Cap
tain Arnaud of the Foreign Legion. In
Captain Sowers room Farquhar forces
Sower to have Preston's I O L"s re
turned to him. Farquhar is helped to his
rooms by Gabrielle Smith. Sower demands
an apology, ltefused. he forces Farquliar
to resign his commission in return for
possession of Farquhar's father's w rit
ten confession that he had murdered Sow
er's father. Gabrielle saves Farquhar
from suicide. To shield Arnaud, Sylvia's
fiance. Farquhar professes to have stolen
war plans and tells the real culprit why
he dpi eo. As Richard Nameless he Joins
the Foreign i-eglon und sees Sylvia, now
Mme. Arnaud, meet Colonel liestlnn.
Farquhar meets Sylvia and Gabrielle, and
learns from Corporal Goetz of the col
onel's cruelty. Arnaud becomes a drunk
ard and opium smoker. Sylvia becomes
friendly with Colonel Destlnn. Arnaud
becomes Jealous of Farquher. Farquhar.
on guard at a villa where a dance Is In
progress. Is shot down by Arnaud. A r
naud Justifies his Insanely Jealous action
to Colonel Destimi. Arnaud goes to a danc
ing girl who loves him for comfort. G a
brielle meets I.owe, for whom she had
sacrificed position and reputation, end
tells him she Is free from him. Sylvia
meets Destlnn behind the mosque
A r
naud becomes ill but Sylvia will not help
him. nor Interfere for Farquhar.
Farquhar knows Sylvia to be
a vain, selfish woman. Yet op
portunity apparently com et to
him to take Sylvia’s love— such
ns It It— once more and bend
this wife of another man to his
purposes. Do you believe he
will succumb to the tempta
tion?
her handkerchief over bia bloodstained
lips. "W e must be very quiet," she
whispered. "N o one has seen me— no
one must see me. W ill they come to
see you again tonight ?”
"N o one will come to me again." It
was very still. H is hand groped for
hers and held It with feverish strength.
" I t was an act o f friendship,” he
gasped.
"I
understand— you were
tbluklng o f those other days— long ago
— and you were merciful.
You bad
Judged and passed sentence— and then
you forgave. I aui glad— It was like
you— like tuy dreams of you— ”
"In your dreams did I pass sen
tence?'' she interrupted In the same
low tone.
"Y es— you remember— out there In
the churchyard. What you said then—
It has haunted me like a curse. ‘ I
wish to God I bad never met you,
Itlchard!' ”
“ The woman who said that was cruel
and foolish," she said. "She didn't un
derstand.”
“ And now?”
" I f I do not understand everything,
at least I have still my faith.”
"Faith? In whom? An outcast
»¡(b o u t name or honor?”
"Y o r are not without name or honor.
You may have strained both In that
first defeat— I do not know bow or
why— but you have not lost them.
They are yours still. I believe that
they will be yours always."
"You know that? You believe that?”
" I know.”
H er arms were about
him; she held bis exhausted, tortured
frame In a strong tenderness. " I f I
had not known I would not have
re come
coi
here to you. Only the best o f us ci
can
fall from great heights.
Only the
bravest can pick themselves up and
begin tbe long, heart-breaking climb
back."
She lifted her white face to the sky.
biding tbe blinding tears. All was still
again. The black grotesque shadow of
the sentry crossed the fading line of
campfire«, and she crouched lower. He
passed oil Indifferently.
“ You are right.” Farquhar went on
at last. “That was what I prayed that
you should understand. I had failed,
utterly. Ignomliilously, hut not Ignobly.
I can't explain. I shall never be able
to; but I meant to go out o f your life
and leave you happy.
It was all I
thought of. Can you believe that?"
“ I do believe It," she answered
hoarsely.
"Thank you.”
He smiled a little.
As though overtaken by a sudden ir
resistible thought, he dragged himself
up and his eyes, sightless and yet
tragically conscious, sought her face.
C H A P T E R X III— Continued.
'‘Comrade, In a few days we shall be
going south— four hundred o f us and
thirty officers. Tbe devil goes, too. We
a r« to build bis road for him, so that
one day someone w ill give him a little
red ribbon for bis buttonhole. It Is
amusing. Is It not? It makes one Inngh.
They will bo uble to use our skulls for
mlle-stoues.
I always laugh when I
think o f It. Yours will he among them.
H ave you thought o f that?”
Farquhar smiled to himself.
“ I shall uot go with you,” his brnin
answered.
“ Merde!
You will not desert us,
comrade? W e need you. W e count on
you. Four hundred men and thirty o f
ficers I H ow simple! W e shall go so
docilely. W e shall march on and on.
forty kilometers a day. right to the
edge o f tile desert, and then one fine
morning you shall blow tlie reveille
and tbe thirty officers w ill go on sleep
ing. and we shall leave them there—
and follow you wherever you lead,
against the Arabs, against the devil
himself, right through Morocco— to
freedom ! Comrade, you are a brave
Englishman. W e trust you. W e will
hear and suffer anything i f you will
lead us. I f only a dozen o f us gel
through we shall bless you. No evil
can he worse than tills. Death Is for
all o f us sooner or Inter, and we would
rather die us free men under you than
as rats— ”
Farquhar struggled to free himself.
"D u ty !" be said sharply and clearly.
He thought he heard a sigh and a
curse— fnrther away now— and the
shadow lifted. There were the stars
once more, their pure sereulty un
changed, and the white-glowing min
arets lifting (heir lace-work o f dreams
high up Into the light as o f their In
spiration. It was then that Farquhar
saw her. He grouud Ills teeth together
to that he should not call her, and In
stead prayed—
"God keep her—oh, God help her!”
It had not been more than a breath,
tbe first utterance o f an anguished
sens« o f failure, but site heard It. for
•he came to him and knelt beside him.
He felt her hand touch his forehead
aud glide sw iftly over his helpless
limbs.
"S ylvia!”
H er hands touched his wrists, and In
answer tbe dull glowing fire hurst out
afresh and shot up along bis limbs,
burning deep Into his brain, so that for
a moment earth and sky became an
endless blazing furnace
Then when
tbe flame died down again be knew
that her touch had set him free. He
lay still, the cramped half-paralyzed
body stretched out In the exhaustion
o f relief, and she bent over him, peer
lng Into tbe quiet face with passionate
anxiety
"Richard!*’ she whispered Impera
tively
"Osn you hear me? Do you
know m « r
n e looked up at her. I d the pale
supernatural twilight which hovered
over tbe plateau bis features bore that
look of white tran.spsr.-ucy wh'cb be
longs to death, but his eyes, h.ack un
der tbe straight resolute brows, were
deliriously alive. They were lifted to
>era. but gated beyond her latently
and without recognition.
•'I know you," he said. " I saw you
coming
I tr!.«d not to call, hut you
must have heard my praying for you.
Did you knew I needed you?"
"Y es," she answered
Very gently
the raised bis dark bead, so that it
ruatfel against her knee, and paaecsl
above him. as though It was from
thence that her voice came to him. “ It
Is not likely that we shall meet again,"
she went ou rapidly, “ aud I want yon
to remember what I am saying—a*
long as you live. I am not unhappy,
Richard— remember that. I have gam
bled away my heritage In a mad bour,
and I have no right even to sorrow. I
love you. I thank God that you cams
Into my life. Remember that!” She
bent over blm and with her handker
chief brushed the sweat o f breaking
fever from his forehead. “Can you
bear me still, Richard— can you stU
understand me?”
“ I understand," be answered.
“ You must live— for my sake. I am
ouly a poor human being— I cannot do
without you on my earth. And then—
you cannot throw down your weapons
now.”
He started, as though at sonje far-
off, fam iliar sound.
“ That Is what the little gray lady
would have said. ‘ W e cannot throw
dowu our weapons In the first skir
mish.' I have often thought o f th at
Tell her— I have not forgotten.”
“ I w ill tell her.”
He was silent a moment. Then his
eyes opened fully, aud a smile o f bril
liant hope, ns o f a man who has laid
strong hands on an adverse fate,
flashed over his wan features.
"W e must go on— at whatever cost—
we must go on.” he cried hoarsely. And
with a s w ift change o f tone. Infinitely
pathetic in Its sheer Joy and gratitude:
"H o w beautiful you are, how beauti
ful— ”
That wns all. His voice, roused for
that brief moment In the strength of a
reborn happiness, passed like a ripple
on the face o f the deep silence. Very
gently she slipped the lung cloak from
her shoulders and laid It over blm. H e
did not move.
The loDg-drawn-out
seconds became minutes, the minutes
— hours. One hy one the great host of
watchers above them flashed out, leav
ing a blank waste o f darkness. A chill
wind, sand-laden from the soufh.
brushed against her face.
Still she
knelt there, with the man's uncon
scious head agalust her knees, her eyes
fixed in proud strong patience on the
western sky, where slowly, almost Im
perceptibly, the dawn was breaking.
In all the glory of reawakened life the
pale-gold heralds o f the morning rose
above the distant horizon and, gather
ing warmth and deeper fire as they
swept the desert, broke in one mingled
flood agalust the topmost minarets,
which glowed back In splendid an
swer. The bivouac fires had long since
died out, and the sickly ghost o f night
crept hack Into the groves of olive.
I Tom the high tower of the mosque a
white-robed figure greeted the one God
In solemn thanksgiving—
“ Holiness to thee, O God, praise be
to thee. Great Is thy name!”
Then came the gay, joyous call o f a
bugle aud the clatter o f arms.
The woman rose slowly to her feet.
She stood for a moment facing the
grandeur o f rising light; then she bent
dowu, and with s w ift strong hands
bound the unresisting figure Into a
semblance o f its first helplessness.
Stern Indignation blazed In her eyes
as she lifted them for a moment, hut
she neither flinched uor hesitated. Ouly
as a stilled groan broke from tbe blood
less Ups she bent lower and kissed
him.
"F o rgiv e me. God bless you, dear.”
He smiled faintly, as though In apol
ogy, In weak unconscious gratitude,
then, sighing, passed from stupor Into
a peaceful dreamless sleep.
C H A PTE R XIV,
iV»
“ W e Must Go on at W hatever Coat—
We Must Go on.”
The End of Ramazan.
On the outskirts o f Hldl bel-Abhes
half a dozen Arabs stood and waited
patiently. They had stood on the same
*pot since the hour o f sunset, watch
ing the pale emerald change to deep
est sapphire, and bad neither moved
nor spoken to one another. In their
spotless burnoose« they had looked like
statues placed there as sentinels over
the gayly lighted, hustling town behind
them. Now, as slowly, gracefully, the
thin circle o f the new moon rose above
the distant line o f palms, the foremost
Arab bowed himself to the ground.
"The fast Is over. Fralse he to A l
lah. the all-merciful."
From the distance came the dull reg
ular thud of horse's boofB. A moment
later a spahl, mounted ou a foam-
flecked, blood-stained horse, which
reeled In Its gallop, burst through their
midst aud swept on toward tbe gates
o f the fortifications. As he passed be
dragged himself up In his saddle and
whirled Ills flint lock In a semicircle
about bis head.
"Ram azan Is over!” he gasped.
"Ouled Nall hae risen— ”
Tbe last words w ete lost In tbe
swirl o f wind which clung to his
horse's beels. Tbe half a dozen Arabs
turned their glance for a last time to
the sky.
Behind the brooding. Im
penetrable gravity there burned up a
controlled
half-smlllng
exultation.
Then, still silent, they dispersed s w ift
ly In the direction of the town.
"That night—nt the Villa Bernotto’s.”
he stammered— “ was It for me that
you risked so much?"
"Y es,” she answered simply. " I t was
for you.”
“ What had you come to tell me?”
"That the woman who had made
you suffer was unjust and unworthy
o f you. She knew nothing o f life or
pain or temptation. She Judged like a
child.”
"H a v e you learned so much In these
few weeks?”
“ At least 1 know now enough to
Judge more gently.”
He groaned In 1-IUer recollection.
"That Is the worst— to know that
was all useless. Oh. Sylvia. It was all
a terrible mistake.
1 should have
fought for you— 1 never should have
yielded place lo that poor scoundrel— ”
“ No, no, Richard, not a scoundrel,
hut a man tempted nod suffering and
maddened like yourself.”
Ills head dropped hack against her
shoulder.
"M y God— what Irony that I should
Judge— ” He seemed to drag his
fevered thoughts together with a su
preme effort. "W h at are you doing
H
M
B M
—
here?" he demanded with the old Im M —
periousness "IIo w did you come here?
A
T h e A r a b s a r e r e a d y f o r re -
It Is not safe. I f they found you— ”
K v o lt
T h is
g iv e s
th e
L e g io n -
"They will uot flud me." She bad
taken something from tbe pocket o f S s ir e s • n o p p o r t u n i t y t o s u c c o m -
S f u l l y m u t i n y a g a ln e t t h e i r off!-
tier mantle and held It to his lips.
t
c ir t .
A s t r o n g m a n l i k e R ic h -
"Drtuk th l*!" she commanded tersely.
A a rd
N a m e le s s
can
le a d
th e
“ I t ’s o f no good."
9
m o v e m e n t a n d d r a w to h im a
" I wish It. You mutt have strength
S la r g e f o r c e .
W ill he do a o f
to listen to me." He yielded and lay |
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still, bis bright delirious eyes fixed to- s a a s a s
teutly on tbe long white track of stars
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
COSTLY FLOWER LIVES ON AIR
It's Not the Orchid's Board Bill That
Makes Aristocratic Bloom 8 «
Expensive.
call them epiphytes. Other orchids
gets their nourishment directly from
the ground. They are called terrestrial
orchids.
Aristocrat» of the flower kingdom—
People don t understand, either, why
and probably the least understood. orchids cost so much. They fall to
You hear them called parasites, which see why a tiny plant Is sold for— say
Is only one of the common mistakes *1,000. If they realised that rare o r
made about the orchid You see s hun chids msy have cost a long trip Into
dred different shapes and a dozen dif a tropical Jungle to obtain, and that
ferent colors grouped together, each It takes from eight to ten years to
shape, perhaps, a distinct fam ily and raise a plant from the seed, with pa
tient care and treatment, they could
each with a separate name.
In the flrst place, orchids are not see why these flowers remain tn the
parasites. A parasitical plant Is one aristocratic class.
which gets nourishment from another
Only the orchid grower can undar-
plant
Certain orchids live on trees, ttand all the details o f his art. but
but they get their food snd drink from the flower lover can easily learn to
the air by means o f aerial roots. W e distinguish the various typos.
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