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Show i , rTJlAmw Cbawtord the 6Yn AfAAOM CAAWfOXO SYNOPSIS, became enamored ,,TbeardJd itranar who was ' - ..nnl tM I A HI H.. I1U an; 10! t location t of h mine 10 ",lm. : 11.. mranKor would a disclosure, l.u lh blocked up the off the water supply. Z die. Buraka'a cousin th'X attempted to climb "iSro Tvrloukln the mine; but ""P"1?,,.,. in return. V,r.i.T CO him. and suddenly slipped Into ,n where the fanhouse irinH , .. 5 "e. BhestoodstUl'dbrrn: flight. ranged himself ftantly beside her. They were quite out of sight of the ui iub oriug... and even If Emma Sji,' ma oeen Ue deaJ.J daylight they could not sirannr w . .l7ot him. "wn suen excent hv he'dbujv) fr.m "... ,.f of tlie tunnel, and coming from aft. ' ,,7.,g the girl and currying "I want to speak to vnn" .t. ..1.1 Is," tali n In a low. steady voice. "Pinna tiD.-' terj and 4, ??Imou prima donna, became quite quietly, for some of them may begin to walk again." span of w l'"J5B7oriVk financier Her Krallnsky bent his head twice, and i!!.nri was Countess ilsely tat 'n?.. whose hUHband then Inclined It towards htr tf linns In St. feter.Mti iTi'hv bomb better what she was going to say. Maud' moat intlmat bt one, iidy k hub Van Torp. an Amerl-K- .i S pieaaea you to keep up this iald Mri.; one ot the rlcheat for 24 hours," she began. 'hi Van Torp waa In love comedy ited air, He made a slight movement, which r?aret. and ruhed to London aa heard of her betrothal. He was natural under the circumstances her Sk Maud t5.U.UO for the way "I do not understand," he said In would aid him In winning iltta' MU'i -Baraka ap..f ,he from Logothetl. wun ma ouy voice, what comedy? I real mded and Ilfothetl at Veraalllea lie prcaented a ruby to ly have ( wll "Don't go on," she answered, interL Venice. He wa vlalted by ihe'd hears ,! l.t. uttire She cave him a rupting him sharply. "Listen to what told her of I am jw she'iw I'? he Anv rh an had going to tell you, and then dem the I'nlted Statea a man e Into thtj cide what you will do. I don't think m the dewrlption 01 me one ana he American followed Murgarel your decision will make very much Idar-consider! .vreuth ttllfa, festival. difference to me, but It will make a liking to Van Torp. who preJ rt, Emm. with the ruby Uaraka had difference to the world ir and to yourhi Count lYraim". :omlng np tw Van Torp believed self. I saw you from a window when t'Bayreuth. Sfouth'a (W L the one Baraka waa puraulng. you brought Mr. Van Torp to the F.... arrMted In Ix)ndon on the If itealtng from Pinney. a lew-- I notei in Uayreuth, and I recognized lout DiW ruby ahe had sold to Logothetl. you at once. Since this afternoon I vorki on kngeri were the tnievee. uiay have no doubt left" nan,"haikJ to auepl- h Baraka were open "I never saw you till last night," Li Van n Informed Mariraret. d he snetfc Euvrd that Km Husky waa the said Krallnsky, with some little sur- iur times 1 In bis tone, and v. lth perfect as e had known In hla young aecured Baraka'a re- - prise ind then surance, k.l fhn. wnn Ilia KUfat. v la your a on his yacht Erlnna. Baraka "Do you really think you can del hap n am Tor revenice on inn are feeling "I jo had deserted her and lft her ceive me any longer?" she asked. ie comes M .ogothetl succeeos in moaeraung- told you this afternoon that If you ijidv Maud arrived In Bay- could come back from work ajahi the dead, and Lfinraret and Van Torn entered know the truth, we should probably igreement to build a tremendous us In New York. The thief who works on it forgive each other, though we had ruby from Mr. finney was ;n married York and the stone re-l-dr many differences. Shall we?" She Maud confided to Van the telepbos paused a moment, and by his quick ah holleved Krallmkv to be ind thenlW (and "he had believed dead. Van change of position she saw that he braised hla help to unravel the was much moved. in't posjIbliM "I don't mean that we should ever go back to the old life, money,' aaii g desk all n for we were not suited to each JAPTER XIII. Continued. lien I hear w other from the first, you and 0 on I 40.1 nor Mra. . Rush' You wanted to marry me because I pr Margaret n't know tw ii ever seen Leven, and they was pretty and smart, and I married ay a bachelor the least idea of what was you because I wanted to be married and you were better looking than Jolng on under their eyes. They Lavish. k that Lady Maud was making most men, and seemed to have what s trying to I thought was necessary fortune and set at the count, and If Mar ilslikes of k fondered whether she had mis a decent position. No, don't Interrupt be learned to tier friend's character, the el me. We soon found out that we did V bad no doubt as to what was not care for each other. You went pie for brus your way, and I went mine. I don't ear child," she said to Mar- - mean to reproach you, for when I you." said & our friend Is going to console say you were beginning to be tired of mile. "Pitta Widows of that age general me I did nothing to keep you. I my e too much.' r dear. I myself could never self was tired of It already. Dut what e way I W nd how one could marry ever you may have thought, I was wife. Mr. Van Torp had I should heartily. "U always feel that dear a faithful lecesslty, ail given me a great deal of money for hmore was In the room. It n KnlcV.II kes me blush to think of It! my charity, and does still. I can ac IIIU V ""' Die for braiX an undeniable fact that many count for it. I never used a penny of alrsM on Idows marry again. ng Mark it for myself, and never shall; and it, Margaret, your friend Is he never was, and never will be. any console herself before long. more than a trusted friend. I don't know why you chose to disappear Ing Visible, not this one, it will be an ne tiaras, I when the man who had your pocket My dear, I am quite positive book was killed and n v wife." you were said to If ut what prtel the sun went down that even- - be dead. It's not my business, and 1 a price tit an on under to choose go living yacht had passed Otranto and you that woman and her course had been other name, now that you are rich I shall not betray you, and few y wife.' to head her for Cape Spartl again, will recognize you, at least in people ind the Straits of Messina, lione in 24 hours as much as England, so long as you wear that Luke. DaotW It when we were " Italian mail steamers do in beard. But you had and I knew you at once, and married, people whottj nearly half as much again as to be of the r money s w could have done at her when I heard you were pa here, I made up my mind at peed ny of them. As Mr. Van Torp had I P once that I would accept the Invlta i, his englues had "warmed and speak to you were beatlne their own tlon and come too. now. When I be I'm as speaking pe gale made by the vessel's lieved yon were dead I forgave you stronger than a woman could I was glad you lta any retard to her an- - everything, though but as the weather rnntln. w.ere gone; frankly, I did not wisn but since you are, calm It was from dead you alive again, I should wish you nd there waa nlentv of ahoi. God forbid that me two a things in ex Promenade deck abaft the dead. You owe First for my forgiveness: chance w. on condition of not going the rail. yours, If I treated you ungenerously diner Krallnsky and Mrs. or unkindly; and, secondly, you ought r back every word you ever sniu walked a little, as on the to take Mr. Van Torp. for there about me to evening, and Lady Maud sat in what raret and Van Torn. Hut was not a shadow of truth I that? do Will you thought. "two walkers went off to sit you else." 'W quiet corner thov liad ask nothing "Iudt ed I will, my dear Maud." said terday. Ijniv is uuu 1 uov ay aft, and Count Kralinsky. in a voice full of deliberately emotion. 'w" "'re they were obliged that ClOae to . hor Ml. at oooh Lady Maud drew a long breath, VfVU IUIU a llltl Hi heated her left it Bd as little a lranlnir trembled iroin,i ih 1. luu nfiniuoi She had done what she side of the fffiOCK- sky-- c lips again. 1 engine was as hii'ii nu tha most firmly to be right, and hu.i. believed tDi lr'ke In aft. where it had not been easy. She had not silence ""luting fans sitontad been surprised by his patient for Bhe 4 been talking; Ware corner inward. while she had and had felt that it wan hers to speak lalwltauli". " the Clear t ITn. blB to listen. "Thank you," she said now. "I shall orirrtw."'';VJ Passing that she fol- I have said, Miwl.loarwipt'J,,il " nor e'e8. turning never go back to what 10 allude to ever look need -.- 1.... At us 1,1... of 1 neither and lOHPtat'i . TiiicH no waa low this trip, it old times again during h back.hl'p' und turn,n8 11 I shall probabl for tiunln last long, not will ESSONSP a iH3 tamo , 11 home by land from the first port tlm w ....'; illlMS r ore y'clearlywnsan impossible go we touch, and it is not likelywe do invitation ,,riK)meitprtyiTJ If meet again. shall ever h " 'Wll UUU JUKI Count inn. Violin. O"', tho 1,lRt man ,n tne shall hehave as if you we re ""'UnderBtn...! 1. I have met abund, whom Krallnsky. x "slitnoi J 111 w 'It BBIU IA neither more nor loss. I uiiu no t to ""'Idered lu, enough hi.., conscience Minh.MFHtbah ' " "OI1 1,110 will have t another I 'U?.J u have, a.Ut L his own marry. Perhaps, if though on It. 1 I orMorphln"'., depended woman's happiness rrea iri.1. -- -, i hut ou remadiea 8hp Ba,d b,andly' would consent to divorce you, J .it. M. 4W " shall never divorce me." me wish to , -No power could make n!11 now and aenv answered, still detPV nnlK" Sk rour walk Krallnsky niad in wm "l go and sit with moved. "I myself, between beaUe w I Maud; im,r. H" learinj, with of him, Almost as soon as he was beto touch your shoes. side her, she turned to go forward It all since. Tht h t,if with her leisurely, careless grace. reastm why I chose to "We've been standing a long time," disappear from she said, as if the conversation had .v .uuio one erne: swear to been cbout the weather. "I want to n..my luothe''" oul In heaven, sit down" Bat I thought of "I am In earnest," he said, very nothing but that-- to set you free and begin life over low. as again another man. No thoucht of "So am I," answered Lady Muud. has ever crossed my mind! Jurying They went on towards the wheel-hous- e you think I could be aa had as side by side, without haste, and that? Dut I'm not not near together, like two ordefending myself very -h- ow could I? A the right Is on dinary acquaintances. your side, and all the wrong on mine. And now I would give heaven and CHAPTER XIV. , earth to undo It all and to come back to you!" While the Lancashire Lass was raLady Maud d reW AS tar aa aha MAS till cing down to the Straits of Messina n o he corner where the fanhouse the Erinna was heading for tho same Joined the engine from the opposite direction, no skylight. She had not expected this; it was too much re- point , longer dawdling along at pentance; it was too like a real at- but going her full 18 knots, after coaltempt, to win her ajaln. He had not ing at Naples, and any navigator who seen her for more than three months; knew the positions and respective she knew she was very beautiful; his speeds of the two yachts could have fleeting passion had come to life calculated with approximate precision again, as he had. Dut her old repul- the point at which they would probsion for him was ten times stronger ably sight each other. man wnen tney bad parted, and she Logothetl had given up the Idea of shrank back as far as she could, withDaraka to if he had ever out speaking. From far below the taking entertainedParis, all. He asIt at really noiseless engines sent a quick vibra- sured her that Naples was a great tion up to the Ironwork of the sky-city too, and that there was a first-clas-s B"i. ssne felt it, but could French establishtell it from the beatings of herhardly own ment there, and that the Villa de heart. He saw her shrinking from Lyon would turn her out almost as him and was wise. smartly as the Rue de la Palx itself. B0 it :"'"in ve seen He left her with .. Mnr,. Torp and went back o Lad " who moved as he came up to .nadetwo steps 1 fa hnu 1 no" half-speed- dress-makin- g k ui 1 ar-Ne- w it 1 -A I ' 1 DKrP lift CTS 11 " atm-ltirh- " 2 iPl" i E niece, ' who spoke only French; but that was none of her business. When would the young lady try on the things? On any day Mme. Anna chose to name; hut In the meantime her uncle would take her down to Sicily, as the weather was so wonderfully fine and It was still so hot. Mme. Anna therefore named a day, and promised, moreover, to see the s best and seamstresses herself, and to provide the young liuVy with as complete an outfit as if she were going to be married. She should have all things visible and Invisible in the shortest possible time. Logothetl, who considered himself a stranger, Insisted on putting down a thousand franc note merely as a guarantee of good faith. The dressmaker protested almost furiously and took the money, still protesting. 80 that was settled, and Daraka was to be outwardly changed Into a beautiful Fer-inglady without delay. To tell the truth, the establishment Is really a smart one, and she was favorably Impressed by the many pretty frocks and gowns that were tried on several pretty young woman In order that she might make her choice. Daraka would have liked a blue satin skirt with a yellow train and a bright green silk body, but in her travels she bad noticed that the taste of Ferlnght ladles was- - for very sober or gentle colors, compared with the fashionable standards of Samarkand,. Tifils, and Constantinople, and she meekly acquiesced to everything that Logothetl and Mme. Anna proposed, after putting their heads together. Logothetl seemed to know a great deal about It It was nearly" larkwhenthe naphtha launch took them out to the yacht, which lay under the mole where the big English and German passenger r are steamers and the moored. Logothetl bad at last received Mar garet's telegram asking htm to rueet her at once. It had failed to reach him In Gibraltar, and had been telegraphed on thence to Naples, and when ha read it he waa considerably disturbed. He wrote a long message of explanations and excuses, and sent It to the prima donna at Bayreuth, tripling the number of words Bhe had prepaid for his answer. But no reply came, for Margaret was herself at sea and nothing could reach ber. He sent one of his own men from the yacht to spend the day at the telegraph office, with Instructions for finding him if any message came. The man found him three times, and brought three telegrams; and each time as he tore open the little folded brown paper he felt more uncomfortable, but he was relieved to And each time that the message was only a business one from London or Paris, giving him the latest confidential news about a government lean In which he was largely interested. When he reached the yacht he sent another man to wait till midnight at the office. The diva was angry, he thought; that was clear, and perhaps she had some right to be. The tone of her telegram had been peremptory in the extreme, and now that he bad answered it after a delay of several days, she refused to take any notice of htm. It was not possible that such a personage as she was should have left Bayreuth without leaving clear Instructions for sending on any telegrams that might come after shevleft At this time of year, as he knew, she was beset with offers of engagements to sing, and they had to be answered. From eight o'clock In the morning to midnight there were 16 hours, ample time for a retransmitted message to reach her anywhere in Europe and to be answered. Logothetl felt a sensation of deep relief when the man came aboard at a quarter-pas- t midnight and reported himself empty handed; but he resolved to wait till the following before definitely evening leaving Naples for the ten days which must elapse before Daraka could try on her beautiful Feringhl clothes. He told her anything he liked, and she believed him, or was Indifferent; for the Idea that she must be as well dressed as any European woman when she met the man she was seeking had appealed strongly to her, and the sight of the pretty things at Mme. Anna's bad made her ashamed of her serges and simple little ready-madblouses. Logothetl assured her that Krallnsky was within easy reach, and showed no Inclination to travel far. There was news of him In the telegrams received that day, the Greek said. Spies were about him and were watching him for her, and so far he had shown no Inclination to admire any Feringhl beauty., Baraka accepted all these Inventions without doubting their veracity. In her eyes Logothetl was a great man, something like a king, and vastly more than a Tartar chieftain. He could send men to the ends of the earth Jf he chose. Now that he was sure of where Krallnsky was, be could no doubt have him seized secretly and brought to her, If she desired It earnestly of him. But she did not wish to see the man, free or a prisoner, till she had her beautiful new clothes. Then he should look upon her, and another linen-draper- 1 men-of-wa- L F x my debts and my entanglements aPlw Z.riJT J907 " ' Then Suddenly Slipped Into the Recess. "Don't be afraid of me!" he cried. In a low and pleading tone. "Not that! Oh, please not that! I will not come nearer; I will not put out my band to touch yours, I swear it to you! Hut I love you as I never loved you before; I never knew how beautiful you were till I had lost you. and now that I have found you again you are a thousand times more beautiful than In I my dreams! No. I ask nothing! I have what for ask to no have right thrown away! You do not even pity me, I think! Why should you? You were free when you thtwight me dead, and I have come back to be a burden and a weight on your life. Forgive me, forgive me, my lost darling, for the sake of all that might have been, but don't fear me! Pity me, If you can, but don't be afraid of me! Say that be satiI you pity me a little, and shall too!" and grateful, sfied, few secLady Maud was silent for a towards turned stood onds, while he In a dramatic hands clasped his her, her comgesture, as if still imploring miseration. "I do pity you." she said at laHt. she did quite steadily, for Just then to touch would he try not fear that are even her hand. "I Py you, if you I pity me with again. love In reallv this Is a passing you still more if hold of you taken has that thing think me still merely became you take handsome. Cut I will never husband again. be my to you back and Never. That Is flnlnhed, for good ill." ' me "Ah, Maud, listen to slipped out of already had she nut slowly was walking and the corner towards the othnot him. from away Join her ers. 'but aft. so that he might them. He to back quietly before going world and under-Blof the was if. and did what was expected ,d h o e Ht Sent Another Midnight at Man to Walt tht Office. Till He took Baraka ashore and placed her for half a day In the hands of Mm.: Anna, who undertook to do all that money could do In about a fort night. He had the effrontery to say that Pnraka was a niece of his from Constantinople, whose mother was on board the yacht, but bad unfortunate ly sprained her ankle In falling down the companion during a gale, and could therefore not accompany her daughter on shore. The young lady, Mme. he said, spoke only Turkish. Anna, grave and magnificently calm under all circumstances, had a vagus recollection of having seen the handsome oriental gentleman already 'with t' Judge whether he had done well te despise her love, and to leave herte be done to death by her own people and her body left to the vulture thai had waited so long on a Jutting point of rock over her head three years ago. It was a dreamy and sense compelling life that she led on the yacht, sur rounded with every luxury she had ever heard of, and constantly waited on by the only clever man she had ever really talked with, excepting the old Persian merchant In StambouL The vision of the golden-beardeglanl who had left her to her fate after treating ber with stony Indifference was still before her. but the reality was nearer In the shape of a visible "greatman," who could do anything he chose, who caused her to be treated like a queen, and who was undeniably handsome. She wonderel whether be had wife. Judging marriage from her point of view, there probably had been one put away In that beautiful house in Paris. He was an oriental, she told herself, and he would not parade his wife as the Feringhis did. But Bhe was one, too, and she considered that it would be an insult to ask hlro about such things. Splro knew, no doubt, but she could not demean herself to Inquire of a servant Per haps Gula had found out already, for the girl had a way of finding out whatever she wanted to know, apparently by explaining things to the second mate. Possibly Gula could be made to tell what she bad learned Without belnff directly ouestlnntul. But after all, Baraka decided that It did not matter, since she meant to as soon as ah marry the had her pretty clothes. Yet she be came conscious that If he bad not existed, she would think It very satisfactory to marry the great man who could do anything he liked, though If he had a wife already, aa be probably had, she would refuse to be the second in his bouse. Tho Koran allowed a man four, It waa said, but the Idea was hateful to her. and moreover the Persian merchant's wife had told her that It was old fashioned to have more than one, mainly because living had grown so expena sive. fair-bear- d : Logothetl sat beside her for hours) tinder the awnings, talking or not. aa she chose, and always reading wbeo . . I. 1. 1. Mn . A mra a o.icui, iiiuugu un uiien inoaea up to see If she wanted anything. Ho told her when they left Naples that he would show her beautiful Island and other sights, and the great fl of the south, Etna and Stromboll, which she had heard of oo her voyage to Marseilles, but had not seen because the steamer had passed a 111 them at night. The at Naples had been quiet only sending out thin wreaths of smoke, which a Insisted came from fires made by shepherds. she said, as they "Moreover," watched Vesuvius receding when they .-I .lot Vanloa .imc., juui uiuuuiaina are noi mountains, but and I do not care for them. But yor sea has the colors of many sherbets, rose-lea- f and violet and lemon and orange, and sometimes even of pale yellow peach-sherbe- t, which Is good. Let me always see the sea till the fine dresses are ready to be tried on." "This sea." answered Logothetl, "Is always most beautiful near land and amongst Islands, and the big flre-... hinnnl.ln tan as ...uuii. uif OtutuI ! .. tiuukb as .... Kasbek, because It rlBes from the water's edge to the sky." "Then take me to it. and I will tell you, for my eyes have looked on tho Altai, and I wish to see a real mountain again. After that we will go back and get the fine dresses. Will Gula know how to fasten the fine dresses at the back, do you think?" "You shall have a woman who does, and who can talk with Gula, and tho two will fasten the fine dresses for you." Logothetl spoke with becoming gravity. "Yes," Baraka answered. "Spend money for me, that I may be good to see. Also, I wish to have many serv" ants. My father has a hundred, per-uhjjo a IIIUUBUIIU, UUl DOW 1 DtiVt OUlf two, Gula and Splro. The man I seek will think I am poor, and that will be a shame. While I was searching for him, it was different; and besides, you are teaching me how the rich Franks live In their world. It is not like ours. You know, for you are more like us, though you are a king here." She spoke slowly and lazily, pausing between her phrases, and turning her eyes to him now and then without moving her head; and her talk amused him much more than that of European women, though It war so very simple, like that of a gifted child, brought suddenly to a new country, or to see a fairy pantomime. "Tell me," he said after a time, "it It were the portion of Krallnsky to b gathered to his fathers before yoa saw him, what would you do?" Baraka now turned not only hei eyes to him but her face. "Why do you ask me this? Is it because he Is dead, and you are afraid to tell me?" na-rak- ant-hill- ! (TO BID CONTINUED.) |