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Show THE CITIZEN 43 For Mm and Bovs J ." Are most appreciated when bought from a Men and Boys Store where everything sold was bought with due consideration of the masculine wardrobe. Gifts of Every Description for the Men Folks Utah's Greatest Clothing Store & adams Gardner COMPANY KEARNS BLDG. 138 Main Street At a point within sight of the more barbarically lovely than that of own arbor beneath which I knew this soulless Egyptian so. adorned. ' My mirror, Safieh! My mirror! the gate to be concealed, my guide halted. she cried.. I must return, mother," she said And the girl placing a big silver mirror .in her hand, she stood there quickly. ' There is the gate, and Mahmud will open it for you. looking into its surface, her wonderful eyes swimming with ecstacy and Light of foot she sped away, and, her slim body swaying in a perfect my forebodings coming to a sudden rapture of admiration for her own climax. I crept forward with excessive caution, holding my clenched beauty. Then a subtle change crept over hand immediately in front of my face ' a device which experience of the her features; and ere 1 could utter the first of the honeyed compliments . horrible manners of the East had taught me. . ready upon my tongue ' It was well that I did so. Within Send Amineh to warn Mahmud that the old woman is about to de- three spaces of the gate a noose fell accurately over my head and was part, she directed her attendant; to me: .Wait and in the drawn tight with a strangling jerk! But that 'it also encircled my upouter room. Thy presence is loathraised arm, its clasp must have tersome to me, O mother of calamities. I hear and obey, minated my worldly affairs. I replied, O pomegranate blossom, and, .follow- ... My assailant had sprung upon me from behind; and, in the fleeting ining the direction of her rigidly extended finger, I shuffled back to the stant between the fall of the noose little octagonal apartment and .the and its tightening about . . . and masked door was slammed, ..almost thrust, ithe nose of my Colt repeater upon my heels. But I had not long (which! I grasped in that protective to wait in that weird half-ligere Upraised hand) fully into the grin-- ; my conductress, again muffled closening mouth of the negro There was a rattle and gleam of ly in her shawls, opened the door at ' the head of the steps and signed to falling ivory, for several of the bow-wab-s me to descend. In silence we went teeth had been dislodged by down the uncarpeted stairs and out. .the steel barrel. Keeping the weapon . into the trellis-covere- d ; walk. - The firmly thrust into the mans distended Jaws, I circled around him, whilst shadow s beneath" the high- wall had ' his hands relaxed their hold upon deepenedand v.. widened since we had ' last skirted the -- gardens,. anclT'felt" the strangllng-cord- , . and pushed him r,- backward'1 in the direction' of the my way along with my hands cau door; tiously - outstretched.-flower-gr- , . . . - t ht gate-keepe- -- . : . . . . - r! Open, thou black son of offal! I said, or I will blow thee a cavity as wide as thy blubber mouth through the back of that fat and greasy neck! When, a few moments later, I stood in the lane outside the gardens of Yussuf Bey, and felt- with my hand the fat wallet at my waist, I experienced a thrill of professional satisfaction, for had I not successfully negotiated a duplicate veil, embroidered with imitation pearls which the excellent Suleyman Levi by dint of four days of almost ceaseless toil had made for me? . . From the shadows of the opposite wall Abu Tabah stepped forth stately. Quick! I said. I fear pursuit at any moment! Is the arabiyeh waiting? You have it? he demanded, some faint sign of human animation creeping over his impassive face. I have! I replied. I will give it to you in the arabiyeh. Side by side we passed down the deserted thoroughfare to where, beside a solitary palm, a carriage was awaiting. After we had started .appreciating something of my companions natural impatience, I pressed into his hand the famous sandalwood box which once had reposed in the tarbush of All Mohammed. The carriage rolled around a corner and out into the lighted Sharia Mobodayan. Abu Tabah opened the sandalwood box, and, then reverently, the inner box of silver. - pair-hors- e Within shimmered the pearls of the sacred burko. He did not touch the relic with, his hands, but reclosed the boxes and concealed the reliquary beneath his black robe. I heard the crackle of notes; and a little packet surrounded by a band of elastic was pressed into my hand. Three hundred pounds, English, One hundred said Abu Tabah. pounds in recompense for the commission you returned, and two hundred, pounds for the recovery of the relic. I thrust the wad into the bag beneath my robe containing the other spoils of the evening. A second and even more grateful flow of professional joy warmed my heart. For in the reliquary which I had handed to Abu Tabah reposed the second product of the Suleyman Levis scientific toils; his four days labor having resulted in the production of two quite passable duplicates; although neither were by any means up to the standard of Messrs. Moses. Murphy & Co. Coming to the house wherein I had endued my disguise. Aba Tabah left in a de me to metamorphofv cently dressed Englishman suitable for admission to a hotel of international repute. Abu Tabah bade me good night, smiling upon mo very sweetly. 4 It was after midnight when (Continued oil lago 48.) I |