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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
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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
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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.
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