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Newspaper Page Texti if PXGE. EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJ17E, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1933. - -3 3 1 SI i i-1 j 1 s an Bnaiu Valiant Dust by Percival Christopher Wren "beau gestE Margaret jlalit Ctrl, hat Ulted 6 BelHme tor Julee Ualigni. ton a Hot.. Oth Ptdra ifalioni bulineiM agent tor the Kaid ot Uekaeeen. Otho'e Commander Uaior Napoleon Ato . coli of the Foreign Legion vlote treachery to France in the deeert near Mekaeeen: Uargaret on vieit to Uekaeeen with Juice, eeee her hueband grow eteadilv more Moorieh and more drunken, at Raleul, eon ot the Kaid. grotoe eteadilv more attentive to her, Margaret coneidere the tragio elU nation ot Juice' mother. El let Beth el ita. Chapter 11 TRAGIC DAUGHTER nrUT a tlullUnc uls EI Isa Bath ! Ala had told Margaret, In her curious English Interspersed with French phraaea and Spanish and Arab words, about the faithful sUve-woman and her brother Baa- Ma el Mlskeen, who had taken the child Jules from Mekazien to Tan gier, and handed him over to his father, Pedro MallgnL Bad they been less faithful or lea fortunate In their journey, she, Margaret, would not be sitting there In the castle ot Mekaszen at that moment. For Sefior Pedro Ma llgnl would not bare been able to Band the jot over to bis mends. Doctor and Mrs. Mayklngs, her par cats, to take borne to England with them. What ghastly llrea these native . women led, eren those of the ruling classes. Something of a heroine this poor Lady El Isa Beth el Aln. Vancy seeing one's adored husband two or three times a year, and one's dored child once In two or three wears and that, after a separation In which he bad changed from a hhlld to a youth. How bad she refrained from kill' fag this Zalnub who had killed her happiness i Doubtless her English descent would hare something to do with it That and fear of the terrible Abd'allah Karim. Does not the Koran say that wo- fcien, camels, and cattle are Allah's guts to men? And there were those two women sitting side by side. In apparent am. Ity and peace, with all that behind them; sitting like two European lsters-ln-law at a garden-party on the rectory lawn. - But, after all, their mutual atti tude was but an exaggeration ot that of Mrs. Brown and Mrs, Jones when the former says ot the latter: "Here comes that appalling cat Bow I do loathe the woman," and, rising, kisses her fondly upon the cheek, ... Poor El Isa Beth el Aln, tragic daughter ot a tragio mother, with Iter thin lined face a record ot a life-time of suffering and sorrow. How pathetically happy she was In this brief Interlude, this rare ex perience, of having both her hus band and ber son. Margaret glanced at Sefior Pedro Mallgnl, 'at sallow and no, she must be strictly Just It she couldn't be generous not greasy. He didnt look greasy at all, but he most cer tainly looked what be was, distinct ly cosmopolitan, not to say cross bred. She must conquer this unreason ing distrust of Sefior Pedro Ma- ' Ugnl, and accept bis paternal kisses - with . . , with , , ,T Well, endeavor to "suffer them gladly," or pre tend to. At the moment he was obviously more Interested In the girl Sara than In herself or his wife who watched him m hungrily, much aa Sara watched Jules, What a family circlet Did ever an English girl drop straight Into stranger one or, Indeed, Into a stranger placet The Lady El Isa Beth el Aln paced the Trim stone cell that waa ber boudoir like a caged tigress, as she bad done almost dally for more years than she could count more years than she wished to remem ber. In that gaunt room which, volun tarily, she had made her prison, she bad grown from girlhood to middle age and, for a quarter of a century, bad wrestled with devils and fought with beasts; the devils ot murder, treachery and vice; the beasts of cruelty, savagery and hate. With amaslng oourage she had fought her half-brother for himself, fought to save him from himself; bad fought for the life of her baby against Zalnub, bis wife; had fought against Intrigue unceasing, tor the success of ber husband. For years, during the period of Ealnub's insane Jealousy, she had tasted no food that a faithful slave woman had not cooked there In that room. Life bad been hard after the brief delirium ot her marriage with Pe dro, and the golden Joy of mother hood those glorious days before the coming of th Lady Zalnub when ber baby had filled ber life, and she bad been mistress ot Mekaszen and the Kald'a food angel, her baby, his plaything and his heir. Pedro bad come more often then, before busi ness in Europe and Tangier had be come so ever-Increasing and impor tant Yes, those had been hard days, be fore Zalnub had aged and mellowed, and before she had come to realize that neither she nor her son Ralaul bad anything to fear from the Lady El Isa Beth el Aln, or- from her child. The woman had been an incar nate Jealousy In those days, and It was a marvel that she had not suc ceeded In one ot her many attempts to kill both Jer and the child Jules. And here was Jules returned, child grown Into a man, and bring ing, to see bis mother, the English girl, his wife. Her husband, ber son, and her self, together under the same roof the roof beneath which she and Pedro had spent their honeymoon. and Jules had been born. Why had Jules brought this Eng lish glrlT she had done so many thou sand times before, the Lady El Isa Beth el Aln stood still as a statue. looking, with unseeing eyes, across the desert plain which three hun dred feet below the little stone bal cony that clung like a swallow's nest to the wall of this great castle built upon the edge of a great rock stretched shimmering to the far horizon. Why had he brought this plnjc- and-whlte, beautiful English girl, who so reminded her ot ber own mother, Elizabeth Blaine TorsonT Could not Jules have come to see his mother the mother who bad cut ber very life In halves 'o save him, and who bad so yearned for blm all these years without bringing bt-other woman with hlmT Why bring her here at all, In any caseT But doubtless young headstrong love would account for that But had be told the girl every thing? Did she know why he was here! How much had Jules told the girl of Pedro's business? And ws she to be- trusted t Was she such a one as would deny herself; suffer; give np everything; run every risk; in trigue and plot and lie and kill; In the Interests ot her lord end mas ter, as she herselt had done tor Pedro t 1 And suppose the girl knew noth ing at all, and were merely Jules' dolir What would she do, as reali zation dawned upon her that the date ot her return to England In deed, her return to England at all was vague and problematical. A thousand pities that the boy should complicate matters and add to bis difficulties, not only by marrying this girl, but by bringing her with blm. And did he quite or Pedro either for that matter understand young Ralsul T She thought not She feared not That young Ralsul, It her opinion were worth anything and It cer tainly ought o be- worth something on that subject was a young devil. If Indeed, he were not the Devil himself, Incarnate. She might be an old woman (ot fortyl) who had practically lived ber life In the castle ot Mekazsen, but she knew what she knew, and It her knowledge were not wide, it waa deep; and one of the things she knew was the character, Intelligence, mode of thought and future line ot con duct of these people among whom she had lived and In whose handa her life hv. precariously been. This Ralsul she had watched from babyhood until he had gone away to France, and she knew him for what be -as, the cleverest wicked eat and crudest Moor ot them all, utterly unscrupulous, utterly con solenceless, and utterly without fear of God or man or beast or devil. He was bis father's son in oourage and cruelty anc strength; his mothers son In force and sub tlety; and with a cleverness all his own, polished and sharpened and enhanced by education, travel, and experience. Let Jules beware ot Ralsul, and when the time came for the Kaid to be gathered to his fathers, let Pedro beware of Ralsul. From babyhood his mother, Zal nub, bad poisoned bis mind against Jules and Pedro, and though Ralsul had tar outgrown his mother's nar row teaching, and was outwardly and apparently the good friend ot his cousin Jules, what Is engraved upon the mind of the child remains upon the mind ot the man. Ralsul would remain the good friend of Jules and ot Pedro, Just as long as they were useful to blm. fOogyright, tut. F. A. Itokee Ot.) Tomorrow, the Lady Zalnub further poisons the mine ef the ktld. Phoenix Grange Meets Tuesday PHOENIX. Feb. 28. (8pl) Regu lar mi-monthly meeting of the phoenix Orange will be held on Tuesday night. Four members will be Initiated In tbm third and fourth degrees. Practice on Initiation work will be held Monday night and all members of the team are urged to be present For Fuel Oil delivery. Phone Ma. Relnklng Trucking Oompany. We give 8. at R. green stamps. TEN DOLLAR PRIZE T! Tea dollars In cash will b9 award ed aa first prize In the advertising writing conteat which closed Friday at the senior and junior high schools, according to the announcement made by Gates fe Lydlard ol the Economy Groceteria, sponsors of the move. A total of $25 In cash awards will be made on March 1 by the Groce teria with the "next best ad" re ceiving $5, the next two rating $3.60 each, and for the most original Idea a special prize of 96 Is to be given. "Ideas count," W. A. Gates of tihe Groceteria said, and penmanship Is not a deciding factor. Judges for the contest are Herb. Grey, advertising manager of the Medford Mall Trib une; Lee Bishop, manager of KMED; and -A. H. Ban well, secretary of the Chamber of commerce. F, OF IMPEACHMENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (AP) The house today overrode Its Judiciary committee and voted the lmpeacn- ment of Judge Harold Louderback of California for "misdemeanors In office." The ballot was 163 to 142. The S'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE f lSrt)K-r.rr A vwiuVum.'y'To . -Ham A lsMit-i-VuM -tie. J fcs It If A IS. (Copyright, 1933, ty The BeU Syndicate, Inc.) Judiciary committee nad voted 10 to S that the evidence did not warrant Impeachment proceedings, but the majority agree, to censure the Jurist "for conduct prejudicial to the dig nity of the Judiciary In appointing Incompetent receivers." The case now goes to the senate for trial, where a two-thirds vote is needed to convict. Action there be fore March 4 Is unlikely. GEORGE STAHL DIES AT ORE. UNI EUGENE, Feb. 38. (AP) George Homer Btahl, for three years s member of the Oregon basfcetbaU squad, died here late Friday after noon. His death was the result ot double bronchial pneumonia andj nothing but his unusual vitality hadv kept him alive during his two days struggle with death. Btahl 's home was In Portland. He was a senior In the university and was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 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