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Margaret jlalit
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BelHme tor Julee Ualigni. ton a
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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.
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TEN DOLLAR PRIZE
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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
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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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