PA'GE TEN
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
arttorsIB: it Moor Woolm
Rlccoli ol the Foreign Wen lol
treachery to France in the deeert
near the Citadel of Uekaeten Har
caret etaltani eurveve the ecene in
the Citadel Iteelt. She hoe married
Julee Ualioni her lathere icard.
without loving him. Then have
' gone to Uekateen, where Julee
lather ie aid to the Bald on a vtelt.
The vieit lengthene precarioualy ;
Julee "goee native" with a venge
ance. Uargaret teele hereelt eur
rounded By elnleter intluenece. not
the leaet of them young Raleul. eon
at the Said.
Chapter 14
THE BACKGROUND
SIOHINO angrily ths anger at
hsrselt Margaret glanced at
the man who eat beside her hus
band. BalinL
First lntrodnced to her at Oxford
aa "Mr. Roell." Introduced to
her that da) at Jack's luncheon
party In Jack'a rooms at St Just's:
that day when Otho was so silly
and stand-offlsb and unlike himself
as though for the first time in his
life he wished her to remember
that he was Sir Otho Mandevllle
Belleme and not her childhood's
darling and hero, 'Tho of Big At
tic. When she had greeted blm as
?dear old 'Tho," be bad called her
Miss Mayklngs instead of Muggle or
some other pet-name of the days
when he approved her as a congen
ial playmate and comrade, a good
aha p.
Tea, that waa the day on which
"Mr. Russell" bad first met her. It
was also the day before that on
which be had declared his undying
passion for ber. ... The amazing
creature. He had never taken his
yea from her face throughout that
lunch; had inquired at which botel
she and ber father were staying;
bad Immediately transferred him
self from bis own botel to theirs;
tared at ber unwaveringly at tea
time, at dinner-time, at the boxing
match which followed; at breakfast-time
next morning, and then,
catching her alone In the lounge,
bad laid his heart and fortune at her
feet And demanded her hand In re
turn. How (he and Dad bad laughed,
and how Jack and Jules and Mother
had laughed, about 1L ,
"Mr. Russell,'' otherwise the
Said Rateul Abd'allah Karlm, son
and belt' to the great Kald Haroun
Abd'allah Karlm, the most power
fnl man In Morocco, greater tar
than the Sultan himself and able to
defy more than two or three Eu
ropean powers when be could not
play them oft one against the other.
"Mr. Russell,' late distinguished
alumnus of the Paris Borbonne, full
blooded Moor who spoke English,
French and Spanish as perfectly aa
he did bis native Arable.
Strange that the true pure-bred
Moor, a princely descendant of a
hundred princes, warriors, corsairs,
leaders and rulers of armies and of
fleets, should be the one who sat
there In a chair of European origin
and dressed precisely aa he would
have been at a bachelor dinner-party
SB Mayfalr atrange that It should
be he rather than Jules Mallgnl of
' Xton and Oxford.
. Old he, with hie subtle clever
ness, wear that dinner-Jacket, black
Je, those black silk socks and pat-
. eat shoes because be guessed or in
tuitively knew that she must bate
to see ber husband with his bare
test stuck into Arab slippers, squat
ting there in native dress? Strange
that the Etonian Oxonian English
man should dress and squat like a
native while the real Moor should
dress, look and behave like an Eng
lish gentleman.
Yea, almost certainly It waa cal
culated, for Ralsul did nothing
without a reason and a motive.
' For how long would he "behave
like an English gentleman bere In
Morocco? Hid she been fancying
things or was be going to make him
self a nuisance, and It so would be
be very difficult to manage?
Suddenly Ralsul, who had been
industriously picking a flower to
pieces, looked up, opened wide his
great dark eyes, gated Into hers
and, as though reading her thought,
smiled with a flash of brilliant teeth.
Mot a friendly pleasant smile of
kindness and affection, but a twist
ed smile, sardonic sarcastic enig
matic Ignoring blm, Margaret's glance
travelled on and rested for a mo
ment upon the fat, lolly, avll and
cruel face of bis father, the Kald
Haroun Abd'allah Karlm. Watch
ing him as ha sat chuckling and
whispering with Zalnub, bis aite,
whose lively sallies evidently
pleased blm much, Margaret found
It almost Impossible to believe the
tales of bis appalling cruelty, tales
tbat her husband's mother, the
Kald's own half-sister, had told bor
as Interesting anecdotes and fami
ly gossip.
POLICE RADIO SOUGHT
FOR SALEM SAFEGUARD
WASHINGTON, Feb. at (API The
Balem police department has applied
to the radio commission for a con
struction permit for a municipal po
lice station. It waa announced here
iseshVsiijala
Valiant Dust
by Percival Christopher Wren -beau geStE"
Amazing to think that that middle-aged
gentleman sitting there,
enjoying his Turkish cigarette and
coffee, was a human monster, a
brute who had always delighted not
merely In savage war, but In Its af
termath of slaughter and actual tor
ture. And yet why wonder at this If, as
one waa taught, heredity and envi
ronment make thi man? What else
should this descendant of pirates,
bandits, brigands and raiders be,
living aa be did In this robbers'
stronghold, dominating a wild land
known as "The Country of the Gun"
because It produced nothing else
but the gun and its people lived and
died by the gun?
Was there as much difference be
tween this cruel blood-stained me
diaeval baron and his twentieth
century son as there was between
their respective dress? Was there
as untamed and unchanged a sav
age Moor in Ralsul's Savlle-Row
dlnner-klt aa there was In Haroun'a
silken garments?
Why on earth had she been such
a fool as to come Into tbls horrible
country, among these Incredible
people, Into this fantastically Impos
sible, fantastically real Moorish lite
that they led today as they led It
two hundred and three hundred
and, for all ahe knew, Ave hundred
and a thousand years ago?
Margaret had thought It a simply
splendid idea and a unique oppor
tunity of seeing not as the tourist
sees It a uniquely Interesting coun-
try. -
And there, awaiting her arrival,
had been Ralsul, a little too insist
ent on the fact that they were now
cousins and he endowed with cous
inly privileges.
Had the Kald any Influence and
power over his son, or. did be love
him with too besotted a devotion to
thwart or cross him in anything
whatsoever?
According to Jules' mother, El
Isa Beth el Aln, the child bod ruled
the man fromV babyhood and, far
from ever denying blm anything,
the Kald had turned his murderous
wrath upon any man, woman, child
or beast that bad ever refused,
thwarted, hindered or angered the
boy. .
Had ha not stabbed with bis own
band the favorite horse from which
Ralsul, as a child, bad fallen? Had
he not consented to the death of
his own nephew, Jules, because of
Ralsul's mother's bare suggestion
that Julea might grow up to be an
enemy and a usurper? No, proba
bly the JCald's Influence over Ralsul
was nil while that of Ralsul over
the Kald waa paramour".
From the iald, Uargaret glanced
at bis wife, the once lovoly Zalnub,
who, according to El Isa Beth el
Aln, bad been reputed the loveliest
woman In Morocco, the desired of
the Sultan himself the autocratic
all-powerful .jultan whom the Kald
had first defied and then defeated.
Evidently a woman of character,
torcefulneaa and determination, aa
proved by the one fact alone that
she bad retained her power and In
fluence over -iur ferocious, autocrat
ic and untrammelled husband. Evi
dently, too, a woman of fascination
and charm, In that the Kald appar
ently enjoyed her society today aa
he had done 20 yeare ago.
What was the secret of ber power
that she should retain and, accord
ing to El Isa Beth el Aln, augment
and atrengthen It, even as she
changed from lovely girl to tat old
woman. For a Moorish woman In
her forties la old.
Probably she and the Kald wore
"two mlnda with but a single
thought" on most subjects, and he
admired her ruthleasness and
strength as much as ha had once
admired her beauty.
What a pity one could not talk to
her, get ber point of view, attitude
and outlook on Ufa and current
events if talk she would, to a hated
and despised outsider.
Watching her as she sat with un
covered face, Margaret thought of
an ageing Lucresla Borgia, a Cleo
patra in middle-life, of Catherine da
Medici and Catherine of Russia. Of
suoh waa the Lady Zalnub, wife of
Abd'allah Karlm and mother of Ral
sul. And that equally. It differently,
amazing woman who eat next to
her, the Lady El Isa Beth el Aln,
Jules' mother, halt-sister of the
Kald. How could ahe have found
life bearable and contrived to live It
beneath the same root, however
vest, as the woman who had tried to
kill ber baby, the little Julee, and
who had put the oblld's life In such
danger tbat ahe, the child's mother,
had sent It away, with little hope of
seeing It again.
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Ths Lidv II In Btlh tl Aln
asks htratif a qutttlen, tomorrow. ,
today. The station would operate at
from SO to 120 watts power. The
wavelength was not specified.
WALL PAVER
All new leas patterns of an ex
clusive Una Just received.
K. D. Rcxsa oo.
22 So. Qrape Bt.
ATLANTIC DEEPEST
OFF PUERTO RICO
BAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 34.
(AP) An ocean depth of nearly nine
miles, discovered 78 miles north of
this Island, was claimed today to be
the lowest point In the bed of the
Atlantic.
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WELL, COSBY. 1
WANT TO SAVE
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ACTIVITIES .
THE NEBBS The Rival?
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Th siucovary was reported by Or.
Paul Bartsch, leader of am oceano
graphlc expedition.
He claimed a depth of 44,000 feet
was found near Nares Deep, where a
record of 37937 feet was discovered
SO years ago by Commander George
Strong Nares, British, explorer.
LEWISTON, Idaho. Feb. 34. (AP)
Glenn E. Scott, 46, operator of the
largest wheat ranch In north central
Idaho,, took his life by shooting him
self with a revolver yesterday, au
thorities said, In a barn at bis farm
10 miles east of here. .
Skeeter's Idea Of Quelling Piracy
so vouf 1 Dosrr knowXI roH.coNie "Slookie herg-lyle vjilson, I Tpipe down, cosby save th PiT soal Ivou expect metoW take hini bhpk t
E A LOT VWHAT YOU MEW" ON, COSBY J AN' THIS GOES FOR YOUTOO, N STUFF TOR THE JURY 7, YOU'LL NEED VT7 - HELP -OLi ARREST WTO HIS CELL.LYLE Ml
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-W3 X VEnTIRE UFEJAd KSSigSgl TO THE DEAREST, ' ONE ?WE KNOW THERE ARE FOUR OF. YOulisij FI KNEW I WOULDNT AFTER FORTY-EIGHT I
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STRONG FOR TRUTH
BAT CIT7, Mich., Peb. 34. (AP)
Orrln w. Butts Is glad now that he
can put a "retired" before his title
of "champion liar of the United
States "
Setting out for a club meeting last
night, he ended up In general hos-
By C. M. PAYNE
pltal with a sprained leg. and be
want bis wife to believe thet be fell
down the stain at Tralnman'e ball.
Butte relinquished bis champion
ship at the last liars' contest held in
Burlington, Wis.
Remember the ' American Legion
Auxiliary Benefit Card Party, Monday
afternoon, February 27; 29c pereoo.
Phone reservations to Belva Aiken.
441-M, as soon ae possible.
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
PJTTSBTOa, Tb. 34. (AP) John
Weir Tripp, first casualty la the
W0MDERW6, WHrTN VM)R FATHER, WW HAS
WARNED SOO WrtAT WILL HAPPEN IF HE EVER CATCHES
V0) C0ASTiN6 ON BREAKNECK HliL, UNEXPECTEDLY
APPEARS AT THE CORNER, WHETHER To UPSET
IN A SNOW 8AWK OR WHETHER VOU
CAW 60 BV HIM FAST EK0U6H SO HE
' . . WOhlV REC06WIZE YOU
(Copyright, 1333, by The Bell Syndicate, too-)
American exjydltlonary forces, was
burled today.
While aiding In construction of a
narrow guage railroad for the British
army on tbe Cambria front near the
Somme, Tripp was wounded by shrap
nel September 27, 1917.
Tripp was a member of a New Yora
engineer regiment. He died Febru
ary 15 In Redding. Calif., and waa
brought bere for burial.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
Uy GLENN CUAFFLN
and UAL FORUE8I
By EDWIN ALGER f
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