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Pltn STORTt Urol Billot,
Anrrirna, derides 1a hnT oas
final Ulna- before seminar anwa. to
Ml Important dalles an tko
Mewlr-appolnted Military Borer
ttor of a Frenea colonr In fn
tral Africa. For tka last time no
dtsanlsss almsell aa tko Arab,
Terek el-MrdJahlrt, aad oea off
In aearrh of adrenrare. Cariosity
takes klm to tko loaadlsbanded
derrlsk lodso of Bl Hasssaytrn.
of wklek ko ksd oaeo been a
member. Aa Impulse prompts him
to aire tbo aljraal knock. Thcro
la kaoeklBB la reply.
8 ITT FOSIHA
CHAPTER iy ;
TTE stood quite still. I
Had It been his Imagina
tion . . .7
No, no)
For he saw the door opening
warily for the width of half an
Inch, and, without seeing the;
speaker, he heard the ancient rit
ual words of the Lodge:
"Who Is the one that cometh
knocking?"
Instinctively, he gave the right
reply:
"A pilgrim!"
"Where do you travel, O pil
grim?" "Toward Allah the One, the
All-Merciful, the Lord of Day
break!" "With whom do you travel, O
pilgrim?"
"With Mohammed, the Prophet,
the Adored on whom the Peace!"
"Where is your strength, O pil
grim?" "In the Iron about my wrist!"
"Where is the iron, O pilgrim?"
"Here!" as Lincoln put his
wrist through the slit of the door.
There was then silence. Silence, ;
queerly waiting; and the purple
rush of the night. !
Then words came:
"Enter with God, O pilgrim!" !
The door opened wide. It closed
behind him a few seconds later
with a dry, dramatic little click
of finality.
TT was a woman who had asked
him the password and let him
in. She stood there, sharply out-;
lined in the lemon rays of the!
candle which she was holding.;
She was very small, very wizen
and bent, her dead-white face I
mass of finely etched wrinkles, yet;
with highly rouged cheeks and.
her lips painted a bright crimson.:
"Horrible old hag!" he thought !
Who might she be?
One of the Bl Hassanyich. :
(surely. But who?
He had no Idea.
Yet she knew him. For shei
called him by name his Moslem,
name.
' "Terek!" she said, hi a trem-i
ulous voice. "Terek el-Medja-1
hiril"
: Her eyes the only thing about
tier of any beauty, immense, deep-'
Ibrown, gold-flecked gazed at
Ihim with a sort of pleading ex
pectancy. He did not speak, still
rwondered who she was; and she
continued:
"Don't you remember me? Oh
t don't you, don't you, don't you?"
He did not He told her so.
"You see,". he suggested apolo
getically, "there were so many of
us in the days gone by."
"But to quote your own words."
Ishe rejoined slowly, "there was
Only one like met Aye only one
like me in all the world!" (
'- "Who " he demanded "who:
iore you? Won't you tell me?"
I She came a step nearer.
"I," she said, "am Sitt Fosiha."
! He regarded her incredulously.
"You " he stammered "you
i are . . . ?"
Her laughter rose shrilly, trag
ically. "Yes!" she cried. "Sitt Fosiha!
'Do you remember now? Do you
remember how you swore upon
i the Koran that you would never
forget me never, never, never?"
He swallowed hard. He was
conscious of remorse and, too, of
pity.
"We," he whispered, "were
young then. So was our love
young."
"During youth," she countered,
!love Is a flower. And when we
grow old, it withers into hay
and then the oxen eat it" '
. Again he swallowed hard.
Sitt Fosiha he said to himself
f this wizen, painted old hag . . .
o
ICHE had been a member of the
Bi Hassanyieh: and he hail met
her at a time when he had re
ceived six weeks' furlough for
"distinguished service," and had
spent it all with his native friends
and most of It with her.
His first love it had been and
how profound it had seemed, leap
ing all barriers of ethical and re
ligious inheritance. A deep, true
passion that ho had been sure
could never end.
Well it had ended.
His furlough had been over. Ho
had been promoted to second lieu
tenant; had been sent to Dakar.
He gave a little shiver, almost
of repulsion, as he recalled how
once she had been dearer to him
than the dwelling of kings, how
she had lain in his arms, how on
her lips he had tasted life's most
amazing beauty and glory and
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t sweetness; and, a second later,
obeying an impulse, perhaps to
I make up for the ugly reaction, he
bowed and kissed her hand.
She jerked it away.
: "Is it my hand this day?" she
exclaimed. "Ah by the Prophet
Mohammed the Adore d! and
years aso it was my mouth."
She was silent.
"I hnto you, Terek!" she went
on, with a hysterical catch in her
voice.
"You oh . . .?"
"Yes. And do you know why?
Not because you have forgotten
me? For lives there a man in
Allah's seven creations who does
not forget? I hnte you because age
has come to me, dimming my
eyes, shriveling my breasts, wrin
kling my skin. And you you are
still young ..."
tTo Be Continued)
Japan has virtually everything
she needs, raw materials, man
power, peoples that can be forced
to labor. All she needs is time.
We must not give it to her.
Joseph C. Grew, former ambas
sador to Japan.
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on those officials who do not
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man of Columbia U. .
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11 Little perfo
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12 Compass point
13 Contorted
IS Diminutive of
Timothy
18 Point
17 He wearf
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19 Quoted
21 Sancta Virgo
(abbr.)
22 Whirlwind
24 High hill
26 Expunges
29 He is a
33 Royal Italian
family name
34 Small bubble
in glass
39 Speaks
37 Cubic meters
39 Royal Navy
(abbr.)
40 Symbol for
erbium
41 First woman
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46 Smell
48 Notions
50 Pair of horses
52 Also
53 Girl's name -
54 Spinning toy
56 Amount
(abbr.)
57 Onward
58 Chafe
59 Silkworm
61 Ells English
(abbr.)
tlons to favor
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2 Reach a
destination
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rubidium
4 Still
5 Layman
6 Permits to
enter
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8 Wife of Ge
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suffix f
18 Device for'
toasting
20 Toward
23 Compound
ether
25 Scoff
27 Expose t&
moisture
28 Ever (contr.)
30 Devotee
31 Microbes
32 Dutch city
35 Neglected -38
Composed
37 Sitting
38 Warp thread .
39 Turbine wheel
42 Votre Emi
nence (abbr.)
45 Poker stakes
47 Hawaiian bin
48 The same
49 Rail bird
51 Father
53 Limb
55 Deep hole -.
58 Folio (abbr.)
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sloth
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