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Ofrica (watts by Achmed Abdullah COPYRIQHJ-, NKA tlRVICC. INC, 1 i ft Li - 1 i I ja. m rm ji TUB RTORVl Llarola Elliot. Ar1c. Has ol aiada ' fnjlltarr a;varaor of a rwirt roloar la Oattal Africa. l.o ' a a.o all.t la fka Par. (ln ikIom (olloTta a aaarrfl irllk kla fataw orr a ae'er-do.wrll kalC-arolatr, Raoal. ad ala la laa rllmaz a kla rarrrr. Bot aa he alia ala kat iKkl. rnctlnt o tk laiaartant Jab akraA oC klia. Ike ! J taa Alrlraa. 4nua awakeaa old " ... ' , BI BASSANTIEH CHAPTER II K! remembered how, years ago, in thiB same town of Mounct--ville, promoted to sergeant and with quite a little free time on his hands, he had on occasion delib erately forgotten that he was an American, a Christian. Remem bered how he had mixed with the Moslem natives, often, when ie was on furlough, for days at a time wearing their clothes, eat ing their food, fearing their fears, hoping their hopes, dreaming their dreams and oh, yes sinning their sins. . Nobody, neither his comrades nor his Moslem friends, had ever known that Lincoln Elliot, ser geant in the Foreign Legion, and Terek el-Medjahiri, the young Arab from far-off Syria "Allah! Allah! What a queer accent these Syrians have!" who occasionally ; wandered into town, were one and the same. , Yes. He remembered. Remembered the color of it Color of gold. Color of blood. Color of passion. Remembered the scent of it, a mingling of musk and sweat, rose oil and garlic. .: Remembered the life of it, Shameless, untrammeled, savagely, gloriously free. And, as he remembered, he felt in his heart an unrest that set his nerves to tingling. He had already poured a gen erous two fingers of whiskey, when, drowning the chant of the drums, there came from a near Arab house a confused symphony of voices, unrestrained Oriental laughter, high-pitched yells, the tinkle-tinkle-tinkle of a woman's glass bracelets, a Negro's clicky, jungly talk.' The sounds leaped up like fragments of some half forgotten melody; they mocked him and tempted him . . . and, suddenly, he laughed. . He laughed, perhaps, at Africa. Perhaps at his own self. .Tree!" he thought "Free, once more, for the last time! To the devil with duties and responsibili ties for the space of one night!' And he left the veranda and, walking on tiptoe, went to his bedroom. TIE listened. " " The" house was quiet The servants were asleep. His second' in-oommand ' and good friend, Capt Robert PeUetier, also of the Legion, who had the room next to his, vas snoring heartily. He locked the door, pulled down the window blinds, lit a lamp, undressed. Feeling very much like a con spirator, in some screen melc . drama, he opened a trunk which ': held some of his more intimate belongings. He looked at the con tents, smiled, went to work. Studying his face in the mirror, he found it burned a clear ma hogany by the tropical sun of many seasons. Given the right costume, he could pass anywhere for a desert Arab. Only his mus tache was too military, too long. So, in the proper Moslem style, tie clipped it away from the lips and shaved trie corners. Then, with agile fingers that had sot forgotten the trick of it he crowned his head with a white cotton skullcap and tied over it the kuilah, the large, square silk . Bomber Crash Kills . Seven, Injures Two BAKERSFIELD, Calif., July 5 OP) Seven men were killed and two injured, a sheriff's dep uty reported, when a heavy army bomber crashed and par tially burned near the banks of the Kern river about three miles northeast of here early Monday. The deputy, Phil Munding, laid one of the injured apparent ly was in critical condition, and FUNNY BUSINESS it Used to be fish, but rammer - M ... i? & f ' s " S fjjfajfjf fcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaKaa i Cautiously he lert tna room, tne nouse, waiKea out into the street, lost himself in the dense, trooping shadow cast by the Mosque of Swords. kerchief of dull red with a bright orange border from which dropped colored tassels that reached rus waist He fitted the fcuyioh close to the back of his head with the help of the askal, or twisted hair roDe. and pulled it out in a peak protruding over his forehead so that it shaded his eyes and gave to his countenance that truculent expression on which true desert men pride themselves. He dressed his body ' a simple white cotton shirt, tight-sleeved, open in front which covered him from head to foot and was girt by handsome shawL He struck a crooked, silver-handled jambuiah dagger into its folds. Over it all he threw a voluminous burnoose of camel's hair ''good against cold, good against heat" say the Arabs and inserted his bare feet into yellow leather slippers. He was about to leave the room; slopped suddenly on the threshold. Something he thought was missing from his costume. He frowned, wondered. Then he knew what it was. . TN former years when, for the A sake of the adventure, the thrill, he had mingled with the Moslem natives, there had been one thing which had acW as a talisman. It had been important, had opened certain doors. Today its value was merely sentimental. Still, just because it .wis senti mental, he wanted it So again, he groped in the trunk and found a broad bracelet of hammered iron, silver-inlaid with Kufic characters. He took it out, looked at.it a boyish, rather self-conscious smile curling his lips. He remembered the first occa sion on which he bad worn it Remembered how, as Terek el Medjahiri, the Syrian Arab, he naa joinea me aervisn ioage ul the Bi Hassanyieh, passing with aching limbs and fear-chilled I that the other seemed suffering mainly from shock The pair evidently were thrown, clear of the wreckage when , the ship crashed, he said. . No names were available. Army authorities immediately took charge and declined all comment. The plane was be lieved to have been from the Salinas air base, and to have taken off from Kern county air port a few moments before the crash. now it's the cucumbers he'a heart through the initiation ordeal of fire and water, of steel and rope, of scorpion and snake; had thus become a member of the Lodge and learned its secret pass words. It was or, rather, had been a Moslem society, admitting both men and women. For years it had been powerful in Central Africa; had, finally, become too powerful. For its leaders had begun to mix politics with the religious and mystio rites. Relying on the su perstitious awe with which the Negroes regarded them, they had taken an active interest in anti European intrigues. So the French government had stepped in. The Lodge had been declared illegal. Many of the members had been jailed and more exiled. And when, soma weeks earlier, on the eve of his departure, Lincoln had conferred in London with General de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, he had been given a mass of confidential information in regard to the equa torial colony which he was to rule whom to trust and whom not to trust, whom to flatter and whom to threaten, whom to bribe with gold and whom with honors and whom oh, yes! to liquidate, if need be the Bi Hassanyieh had not even been mentioned. The Lodge, no doubt of it, had been dispersed. Its power was gone. It was today no more than a pale memory. Still, here was its talisman, the iron bracelet; and why shouldn't he wear it? So he slipped it on his. wrist He extinguished the lamp. Cau tiously he left the room, the house, walked out into the street lost himself in the dense, trooping shadows cast by the Mosque of Swords. Once more, for the last time, he would dip into the secret river of Islamic life; would forget for the space of a few hours, the crushing burden which Fate had put upon i his shoulders. (To Be Continued) - A school teacher says all schools should teach the art of talking pleasantly. She believes that a . cheery "hello" is a good buy. .Drunk Monk 'F&V-aT """" A sniff, a swallow and Jocko becomes the "monkey who got irunk." There being no ele phant's trunk handy to run up, Jocko falls flat and gazes into the empty glass at a New York : . waterfront bar. tor Jl ftV" Out Our Way '. By J. R. Williams Our Boarding Houio With Major Hoopla; M SSZ rXl KISS Tmdeplor ! wr& i) GET THE BEST JL-Xi PLACE. THERE jrmmllllfr , COOKING., V) FEK.TIUZBR X 'M. (( WlAEW Yy 1) . OFX)f . 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