Show k 1 kI 1 A A UI NEK NEKA I A Little Litt of e East EastBy I By VEX JO ES ESI s I After th Best Modes Mo ets I 5 r r 1 tl 1 I t tI l r i I I t ac r iP I II IL ILi i I I I I I 2 I Swayed and lei lite a motor boat in a gale LIE soft footfalls n of or a n THE T camel mel rang out noisily Uy ou on the desert air nir nirOn nl airOn r rOn On the camel was a n man mana a white man manAt At least he h had once been white but years i of life Ute under a n burning sun un had tanned Ids his skin to the hue line of or weathered rel oak anI Life Lire Lirey by y the way under a n burning sun suu must have hc some advantages n above life Ufe over Oer a u burning sun suu Where was nas this man going this man who rode alone across n ross the boundless s desert upon a camel 1 which unfortunately for his comfort was teas by b no means menus as us bound hound less lews le s as IS the tho desert Xo No the camel l bounded bounced Joggled bucked bucke 1 bumped swayed and like m c a n motor boat bont In Inn Ina a n sale le Ie leThe The rhe desert de e rt was In Its tt s grimmest mood m ocl To the thc scrutiny of the mysterious wander wanderer er e upon Its surface It told nothing rich Each separate grain of sand saud sau seemed possessed pO 9 cd of ot the saute same stubborn spirit They showed in ua expression e they said gald nothing they ther lay hay there In silent grim rim sandy sa d expectation What hilt did they expect aspect Ah who bo knows the thc deep depths of oC a n grain of ot sands In the meantime the man rode on heed heedIng ln In Ing not at fit all nil From the ne e steady stoa gait gRit of ot the camel one would have hav ha i said sal the rider was on his Ills way war wn somewhere MHo after mile was ari passed Ah Alt said saM the man manIt manIt manIt It was the till first thing ho he bad had said In 1000 milts miles s What had 1 stirred this silent traveller to surd such language Walt Wait alt SIMS See he alights nU He Ile examines an nn object on m the tIll ground round It Is IR a strange object to find In the mid middle middle middle dle of the Sahara One OUe might expect to find finet such things In Ina Inn Ina a n city perhaps in a n junk shop in a bakery even in an nn aquarium The man examines his strange discovery disco cry with great r t rare are He lie evidently fears some Bome strange t vii 1 Influence The object Is I Jn h tt barrel organ Ah Ail said the man lOin In a n tone that was ivas full of or meaning The monosyllable said titan than another man could have hate ex ez expressed pressed pr ea phonetically In 3 I days d s 14 hours and 10 minutes All Ah repeated the man Insistently as ashe ashe ashe he remounted the tho camel l with the aid of a n pocket stepladder His tone Implied that murder had been done don J Then be he struck the camel camel a Ii sharp blow Illow with an nn empty tomato to can cnn and rode roJe swiftly away It Only the tho desert knows k kno I |