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Show It fi jx M Vy La i. ..-. . . K - J V hUl II I IMMM ff L.. J YVfarfsVir Vommfcam. aaamaafaTt-amJ mm pinions of khi gignatia bird. Thsd they lurked there either is cancesi-ment cancesi-ment or In ambus was tut Plain, Above them circled a flock at seagulls sea-gulls noisy and Insolent. Sakr-el-Bahr looked oat to Mm, across the Btrxlti toward Tartfa and the faint distant European cout line Just visible through (he limpid Summer air. Bat his glance was sot concerned with that haay horizon; It went no further than a Ine white tailed ihlp that, close hauted, waa beating up the (tralta some tour miles off. A gentle breese was blowing from the east, and with every foot at canvas i Dread to catch It she (toed as close to It aa was possible. Nearer she came on her larboard tack, and not a donbt bnt her master mas-ter would be scanning the hostile African littoral for a sight of those desperate rovers who haunted it and who took toll of every Christian Chris-tian ship that ventured over-near. Sakr-el-Bahr smiled to think how little the presence of his galleys could be suspected, how innocent must look the sun-bathed shore of Africa to the Christian skipper's diligently searching spy-glass. And there from his height, like the hawk they had dubbed him, poised BYNorsre Sir Oliver TrntMan is betrothed betroth-ed to Rosamund Godolphin, but the marriage it opposed by Rosamund's brotXer, Peter, and K&r guardian. Sir John Killigrew. When Oliver's young half-brother, Lionel, kills Peter in a Quarrel suspicion falls on Oliver. A trail of blood is found leading from the body to his doorway. door-way. Even Rosamund believes him guilty. Desiring to protect Lionel, Oliver can only protest his innocence; inno-cence; but he obtains from the justices jus-tices a document, to be produced in case of trial, attesting to the fact that he bears no mark of recent wound; that therefore the trail of blood, obviously that of the murderer, mur-derer, is not his. A few weeks later trial threatens; and Lionel, crazed with fear that Oliver will reveal the truth, Hires a pirate sea-captain, sea-captain, Jasper Leigh, to abduct him and sell him as a galley-slave. With Oliver's disappearance it is assumed he has fled to escape trial. Out at sea Leigh offers, for a price, to take Oliver back to England, and is about to turn back when a great Spanish ship bears down upon them, her guns in action. The YN0P818 Sir Oliver Tressilian is betroth-' betroth-' ) to Rosamund Godolphin, but the ' yarriage is opposed by Rosamund's I brother, Peter, and her guardian, Sir John Killigrew. When Oliver's I young half-brother Lionel, kills ( Peter in a quarrel suspicion falls I 'em Oliver. A trail of blood is found leading from ths body to his door- may. Even Rosamund believes him guilty. Desiring to protect Lionel, I Oliver can only protest his inno-oeuce; inno-oeuce; but he obtains from the jus-tices jus-tices a document, to be produced tn jams of trial, attesting to the fact IdAel hs boars no mark of recent found; that therefore the trail of I Hood, obviously that of tits murderer, mur-derer, is not his. A few weeks later trial threatens; and Lionel ewaxed with fear that Oliver will reveal the truth, hires a pirate eea-i eea-i faptain, Jasper Leigh, to abduct ' him and sell him as a galley-slave. ' With Oliver's disappearance it is assumed he has fled to escape trial. Out at sea, Leigh tells Oliver of Lionel's part in the affair and offers, of-fers, for a price, to take him back to England. Oliver accepts and Leigh is about to turn back when I a great Spanish ship bears down ; upon them, her guns in action. The Swallow, unarmed, is tunic It waa a short, sharp fight Tat Spaniards in confusloa from the beginning, be-ginning, havlag been taktn utterly by turprlte, had never been able U order themaelvet in a proper manner man-ner to receive the onslaught 8011, what could be done they did. They made a gallant stand against this pitiless assailant But the corsairs charged home as gallantly, utterly reckless of life, eager to slay la the name of Allah and His Prophet and scarcely less eager to die it It should please the All-pitiful that their destinies should be here fulfilled. ful-filled. TJp they went, and back fell the Castlllans, outnumbered by it least ten to one. When Sakr-el-Bahr's galliot cam alongside, that brief encounter was at an end, and one of his corsairs was aloft, hacking from the mainmast main-mast the standard of Spain and the wooden crucifix that was nailed below be-low It A moment later and to a thundering roar of "Alhandollilah!" the green crescent floated out upon the breeze. Sakr-el-Bahr thrust his way through the press In the galleon's waist; his corsairs fell back before him, making way, and as be advanced ad-vanced they roared his name deliriously de-liriously and waved their scimitars to acclaim him this hawk of the 6ea, as he was named, this most valiant of all the Bervants of Islam. True, he had taken no actual part in the engagement. It had been too brief and be had arrived too late for that But his had been the daring to conceive an ambush at so remote a western point and his the brain that bad guided them to this swift sweet victory in the name of Allah the One. The" decks were slippery with bloed, and strewn with wounded and dying men. whom already the Moslems were heaving overboard dead and wounded alike when they were Christians, for to what end should they be troubled with maimed slaves t About the mainmast were huddled hud-dled the surviving Spaniards, weaponless weap-onless and broken In courage, i Sakr-el-Bahr stood forward, his tight eyes considering them grimly. They must number close upon hundred, adventurers in the main 8YN0PSIS Sir Oliver Tressilian it betrothed betroth-ed to Rosamund Godolphin, but the marriage is oj)posed by Rosamund's brother, Peter, and her guardian. Sir John Killigrew. When Oliver's young half-brother, Lionel, kills Peter in a quarrel suspicion falls on Oliver. A trail of blood is found leading from the body to his door way. Even Rosamund believes him guilty. Desiring to protect Lionel, Oliver can only protest his innocence; inno-cence; but he obtains from the justices jus-tices a document, to be produced in case of trial, attesting to the fact that he bears no mark of recent wound; that therefore the trail of blood, obviously that of the murderer, mur-derer, is not his. A few weeks later trial tJireatens; and Lionel, erased with fear that Oliver will reveal the truth, hires a pirate sea-eaptain, sea-eaptain, Jasper Leigh, to abduct him and sell him as a galley-slave. With Oliver's disappearance it is assumed he has fled to escape trial. )ut at sea Leigh offers, far a price, to take Oliver back to England, ind is about to turn back when a treat Spanish ship bears down ipon them, her guns in action. The Swallow, unarmed, is sunk. From ambush Sakr-el-Bahr, the Hawk of the Sea, directs his own wo galleys in an attack on a Span-, ish ship which has drifted into a haven on the northern coast of Africa. The Spaniard, unprepared, turrenders after a brief engagement. engage-ment. CHAPTER IX (continued) Of the others Sakr-el:Bahr made Bhort work. He offered the privilege priv-ilege of ransom himself to any who might claim It. and the privilege was claimed by three. The rest he consigned to the care of Bls-kalne, Bls-kalne, who acted aa his kayia, or lieutenant But before doing so he bade the ship's bo'sun stand forward, for-ward, and demanded to know what slaves there might be aboard. There ' were, be learned, but a dozen, employed upon menial duties du-ties on the ship three Jews, seven Moslems, and two heretics and they had been driven under the hatches when the peril threatened. In the cbroniciet of ixrd Henrif Coade. Sir Oliver was one of s score of men who were rescued from the sea by the crew of the Spanish vessel that had sunk the Swallow; another an-other was Jasper Leigh, the skip-, per. All of tbem were carried to Lisbon, and there banded over ta the Court of the Holy Office. Since they were heretics all or nearly, all it was fit and proper that the' Brethren of SL Dominic should undertake un-dertake their conversion in the first place. Sir Oliver came of a family that never had been famed for rigidity in religious matters, and he waa certainly not going to burn alive4 If the adoption of other men's opinions opin-ions upon an extremely hypothetical . future state would suffice to save him from the stake. He accepted Catholic baptism with an almost contemptuous Indifference. As for Jasper Leigh, it will be conceived that the elasticity of the skipper's conscience was no less than Sir Oliver's, and he was certainly not the man to be roasted for a tsifle' of faith. No doubt there would be great rejoicings in the Holy House over the rescue of these two unfortunate souls from the certain perdition that had; awaited them. It followed that as converts to the Faith they were warmly cherished, and tears of thanksgiving were profusely shed over them. So much for their heresy. here-sy. They were completely purged of it having done penance In proper form at an Auto held on the Roclo at Lisbon, candle In hand and san-benlto san-benlto on their shoulders. Ths Church dismissed them with her blessing and an Injunction to persevere per-severe tn the ways of salvation. Now this dismissal amounted to a rejection. - They were, as a consequence, con-sequence, thrown back upon the secular authorities, and the secular secu-lar authorities had yet to punisb them for their offense upon the seas. No offense could be proved. It Is true. But the courts were satisfied that this lack of offense was but the natural result of a lack of opportunity. Conversely, they reasoned,' it was not to be doubted that with the opportunity the offense would have been forthcoming. forth-coming. Their assurance of this was based upon the fact that when in the cobalt heavens to plumb down upon his prey, he watched the great white ship and waited until she should come within striking strik-ing distance. A promontory to eastward made something of a lee that reached out almost a mile from shore. From the watchers' aerie the line of demarcation was sharply drawn; they could see the point at which the white crests of the wind-whipped wavelets ceased and the water wa-ter became smoother. Did she bnt venture as far southward on her present tack, she would be slow to f o about again, and that should he their Opportunity. And all unconscious un-conscious of the lurking peril she held steadily to her coarse, until not halt a toil remained between her and that inauspicious lee. Excitement stirred the mall-clad corsair; he kicked his heels In the air, then swung round to the impassive im-passive and watchful Sakr-el-Bahr, Swallow, unarmed, is sunk. From a promontory above the bay Sakr-el-Bahr, the Hawk of the Sea, the terror of Christian Spain, directs his own two galleys in an attack on a Spanish ship which has irifted unsuspectingly into a haven on the nothern coast of Africa. CHAPTER IX (continued) The suddenness of the attack flung the Spaniard Into confusion. There was a frantic stir aboard her, trumpet blasts and shoutings and wild scurrying! of men hither and thither to the posts to which they were ordered by their too reckless captain. In that confusion her maneuver man-euver to go about went all awry and precious moments were lost during which she stood floundering, with Idly flapping sails. In bis desperate haste, the captain cap-tain headed her straight to leeward, lee-ward, thinking that by running thus before the wind .he stood the best chance of avoiding the trap. Bat I CHAPTER IX I THE CAPTrVB I Sakr-el-Bahr, the hawk of the I sea, the scourge of the Medlter- i ranean and the terror of Christian ' paln, lay prone on the heights of ' Cape Spartel. j ', j Above him on the crest of the I , i cliff ran the dark green line of the ii orange groves of Aralsh the rs-i rs-i j ,Buted Garden of the Hesperldes of ! i j the ancients, where the golden ap- ,i plea grew. A mile or so to east--' ward were dotted ths huts and I tents of a Bedouin encsmpment-on Iths fertile emerald pasture land i' (that spread away as far as ths tyt iswuld range toward Ceuta. Near er, astrlds of a grey rock, an al- I snott naked goatherd, a lithe brown , j , stripling with a cord of camel-hair rv About his sbsven head, intermittently intermit-tently made melancholy and un-ctnelodlons un-ctnelodlons sounds upon a reed pipe, j i 'From somewhere in the blue vanlt ' rl of heaven overhead came the Joy- Vuti;tiiri1ifrTJj" Sh will come! She will cornel" he cried 1b the Prankith Jarcon the linpn true of the African littoral, lit-toral, 1nh Allah!" was the laconic &2.8W61 "if God will." A tense silence fell between them again as the ship drew nearer so that now with forward heave of her they caught a glint of the white belly under her black hull. Sakr-el-Bahr shaded his eyes, and concentrated con-centrated his vision upon the square ensign flying from her mainmast. main-mast. He could make out not only the red and yellow quarterings, but the devices of the castle and the lion. "A Spanish ship, Blskaine," he growled to his companion. "It is very well. The praise to the One!" "Will she venture In?" wondered the other. j "Be sure she will venture," was ; the confident answer. "She suspects sus-pects no danger, and it is not often that onr galleys are to be found so far westward. Aye, there she comes In all ber Spanish pride." Even as he spoke she reached that line of demarcation. Site crossed it, for there was stil? it moderate breeze on the leewanT side of it, intent no doubt mtom making the utmost of that aovtiV ward run. "Now!" cried Birtalne ESa-kaine-l-Borak waff be calle from the lishtnlnf-lik impetaonnew im which he waa wont to rtrtkt: "Not yet," was the cmlm, rtvtraint-ing rtvtraint-ing answer. 'Every inch r shore she creeps the nore- crrtaim is her doom. Time enowgh tovounft the charge when she e aAontt. ' Give me to drink, Ablatf." bv said' to one of his xregroea-, wIwbi im irony he had dubftedfl "Hie VJWbe:" The slave tamed wid, etwept. away a litter of ferns and prtrfuod an amphora of porous" red' civr. he-removed he-removed the palnleaiTea frcra the-mouth the-mouth of it and poor watcn into a cup. Sakr-el-Bahr rani eibwly, his eyes never learrta the veeeel;. whose every ratlin w cleataJfr defined de-fined by now tn the pello air;. Tey could see men, Brovinr & lien-decks, lien-decks, and the wajtcbsian stationed! In the foremaat Ocfrtintov Sh waa not more than nx2f a m3 away when suddenly csxa tbe tsaaetLTer i to ko about. tuere was not wiua enougo in mai sheltered spot to make the attempt successful. The galleys sped straight on at an angle to the direction direc-tion In which the Spaniard was moving, their yellow dripping oars flashing furiously, as the bo'suns plied their whips to urge every ounce of sinew in the staveB. Of all this Sakr-el-Bahr gathered an impression as, followed by Blskaine Bls-kaine and the negToes, he swiftly made his way down that aerie that had served him so well. He sprang from red oak to cork-tree and from cork-tree to red oak; he leaped from rock to rock, or lowered himself him-self from ledge to ledge gripping a handful of heath or a projecting stone, but all with the speed and nimbleness of an ape. He dropped at last to the beach, then sped across it at a run, and went bounding along a black reef until he stood alongside of the gal-'.iot gal-'.iot which bad been left behind by the other corsair vessels. She awaited him in deep water the length of her oars from the rock, and as he came alongside these oars were brought to the horizontal, horizon-tal, and held there firmly. He leaped down upon them, hla companions com-panions following him, and using them as a gangway, reached the bulwarks. He threw a leg over the tide, and alighted on a decked pace between two oars and the two rows of six slave that were manning each of them. Blskaine followed him and the aegroea came last They were still ! astride of the bulwark when Sakr-el-Babr gave the word. Up the middle mid-dle gangway ran a bo'sun and two of his mates cracking their long whips of bullock-hide. Down went the oars, there was a heave, and ' they shot oat in the wake of the ! ether two to Join the fight. Sakr-el-Bahr, scimitar in hand, stood on the prow, a little in advance ad-vance of the mob of eager, babbling corsairs who surrounded him, quiv- . erinx in their Impatience to be let loasa upon the Christian foe. Above, along the yard-arm and us the ratlines swarmed his bowmen JTom the masthead floated out hli standard of crimson charged witi By Sakr-el-Bahr's orders these were dragged forth from the blackness black-ness into which they had been flung. The Moslems, upon discovering discov-ering that they had fallen Into the hands of their own people and that their slavery was at an end, broke into cries of delight and fervent praise of Allah, than whom they swore there was no other God. The three Jews, lithe, stalwart young men in black tunics that fell to their knees and black 8kull-caps upon their curly black locks, smiled ingratiatingly, hoping for the best since they were fallen into the hands of people who were nearer akin to them than Christians and allied to them, at least, by the bond of common enmity to Spain and common suffering at the hands of Spaniards. The two heretics stood in stolid pathy, realizing that with them it was but a case of passing from Charybdis to Scylla. and that they bad as little to hope for from heathen as from Christian. One of these was a sturdy, bow-legged fellow, fel-low, whose garments were little better than rags; his weather-beaten weather-beaten face was of the color of mahogany and his eyes of a dark blue under tufted eyebrows that once had been red like his hair and beard but were now thickly intermingled with grey. He was spotted like a leopard on the hands by enormous dark brown freckles. Of the entire dozen he was the only one that drew the attention of Sakr-el-Bahr. He stood despondently despondent-ly before the corsair, with bowed head and his eyes upon the deck, a weary, dejected, spiritless slave who would aa soon die as live. Thus-some Thus-some few moments during which the stalwart Moslem stood recanting recant-ing him; then as If drawn by that persistent scrutiny he raised his dull, weary eyes. At once- they quickened, the dullness passed; out of them; they were bright and keen as of old. He thrust his head forward, for-ward, staring in his turn; then tn a bewildered way he looked about him at the ocean of swarthy faces' under turbans of all colors, and Isack again at Sakr-el-Bahr. -Ood's liaiit!" he said at last. In I 1 bus trilling of a lark from below - ' the silken rustling of the tldeless ' ea. 1 Sakr-el-Bahr lay prone upon a cloak of woven camel-hair amid :, luxuriating fern and samphire on the very edge of the shelf of cliff to which he had climbed. On ei- ther side of him squatted a negro : from the Sus, both naked of all save white loin cloths, their muscular mus-cular bodies glistening like ebony In the dazzling sunshine of mid-May. mid-May. They wielded crude fans 'j fashioned from the yellowing leaves of date palms, and their .duty was to wave these gently to and fro above their lord's head, to : give him air and drive off the flies. ' Sakr-el-Bahr was in the very ; prime of life, a man of a great ( length of body, with a deep Her-; culean torso and limbs that ad- vertised a giant strength. His j hawk nosed face ending in a black j forked beard was of a swarthiness j accentuated io exaggeration by the .j snowy white turban wound about r J his brow. His eyes, by contrast, ; -were singularly light He wore over his white shirt a long green .':! iunlc of very light silk, woven along its edges with arabesques in , i fold; a pair of loose calico breeches reached to his knees; his brown muscular calves were naked !) land hi feet were shod In a pair of .. .Moorish shoes of crimson leather, V ;-with upcurlinff and very pointed :.) ftoea. He had no weapons other - fttxsxa the heavy bladed knife with ,-a Jaweled hilt that was thrust into r his jlrdle of plaited leather. A yard or two away on his left lay another prone figure, elbows on ,: r: the ground and hands arched above his brow to shade hta eyes, ; faxing out to tea. He, too, was a tall and powerful man, and when Tie moved there was a glint of - , armor from the chain mail in '' which his sody was cashed and from the steel casque about which j ' the had swathed his green turban. . 'nlda him lay an enormous carved 1 r simitar in a heath of brown laath- that waa heavy with steel rna-! rna-! , cents. His face was haiidsom l and bearded, but swarthier far his companion's, and the Aacks of his long fine hands were the Spaniard fired across the bows of the Swallow as an Invitation to heave to, she had kept upon her course. Thus, with unanswerable Castillan logic was tbe evil conscience con-science of her skipper proven. Captain Leigh protested on the other hand that his action had been dictated by his lack of faith In Spaniards and bis firm belief that all Spaniards were pirates to be avoided by every honest seaman who was conscious of inferior strength of armaments. It was a plea that won: him no favor with his narrow-minded judges. Sir Oliver fervently urged that he was no member of the crew of the Swallow., that he was a gentleman gentle-man who found himself aboard her very much against his will, being the victim of a villainous piece of trepanning executed by her venal captain. The court heard his plea with respect, and asked to know his name and rank. He was so very Indiscreet as to answer truthfully. truth-fully. Ths result was extremely educative- to Sir Oliver; it showed him how systematically conducted was the keeping of the Spanish archives The court produced documents docu-ments emaiblrsg his judges to recite to him- Kuost of that portion of his life that had been spent upon the seas, and many an awkward little circumstance which had slipped his ; memory bong since, which he now ! recalled, and which certainly was i not calculated to make his sentence i lighter. Had he not been In the Barbados 1 in sueh a year, and had he not there captured the galleon Maria ,de la Dolores? What was that but an act of villainous piracy? Had he not scuttled a Spanish carack four years ago in the bay of Fun-chal? Fun-chal? Had he not been with that pirate Hawkins in the affair at San Juan de Ulloa? And so on. Questions Ques-tions poured upon him and engulfed en-gulfed him. He almost regretted that he had given himself the trouble to accept conversion and all that it entailed at the hands of tbe Brethren of St Dominic It began to appear to him that he had but wasted time and escaped the clerical fire to be dangled dan-gled on a secular rope as an offering offer-ing to the vengeful gods of outraged out-raged Spain. So much, however, was not done. The galleys In the Mediterranean were la urgent need of men at the time, and to this circumstance 81 Oliver, Captain Leigh, and some others of the luckless crew of the Swallow awed their lives, though is to be doubted whether any o them found the matter one for congratulation. con-gratulation. Chained each man U fellow, ankle to ankle, with bat short length of links between, they formed part of a considerable herd at unfortunates who were drives across Porta gal Into S pain a4 thai southward to Cadiz. "Sakr-el-Bahr thrust hfs way through the Dress in the Qatieon'o waist." who had set oat from Cadiz In high hope of finding fortune in the Indies. In-dies. Their Toyage had been a Terr brief one; their fats they knew to toll at the oars of the Moslem galleys, or, at beat, to bs taken to Algiers or Tunis and sold there into the alarey sf tome wealthy Moor. Sakr-el-Bahr's (lane scanned them apprsislngly, and rested finally final-ly on the captain, who stood slightly slight-ly In adranee, his face llrM with rage and grief. !Te was richly dressed In ths Castillan black, and his velret thimble-shaped hat was heavily plumed and deaked by a gold cross. , Sakr-el-Bahr salaamed ceremonl-onsly ceremonl-onsly to him. "Fortuna de gnerra, senor capi-tnn," capi-tnn," said he In fluent Spanish. "What Is your name 7 ( 'I am Dos Paulo de Gasman.'' the man answered, drawing himself , erect and speaking with conscious ; pride Is himself and manifest contempt con-tempt of his Interlocutor. to go about. Sakr-el-Bahr ea7e4 Insssottry to his great height asd wand a long green scarf. Froze one el the galleys gal-leys behind the screen ot rocks a trumpet rang out tn tmxoediata answer an-swer to that vignal; It was followed by the shrCl whistles of the bo'suns and that again by ths splash and creak ot oars, as ths two laq:er galleys swept out from their ana-bash. ana-bash. The long armored poops were a-awann with turbaaed corsairs, cor-sairs, their weapons gleaming la the sunshine; a doses at least wars astride of the cross-tree of each mainmast, all armed with hows and arrawa, and ths ratlines on each tide of the galleys vera blaak with t mem who swarmed tkere oka lo-ents lo-ents ready to envelop and saota-, saota-, er ttslr prey . a green crescent. The naked Christian slaves graanad, strained and sweated under un-der the Moslem lash that drove tnsat to the destruction ot their Christian brethren. Ahead the battle was already Joined. Ths Spaniard had fired one ataxia hasty shot which had gone mm: and now on at the corsairs' sjranallag-trons had seised her aa Ike Wrtoard amarUr, a withering han af anwws was pouring down Baa her decks from the MosUrs mmm Ii m. op her sides crowded mm eager Moors, ararmoat eager wea U waa a Question of tackling tmm Spanish dogs who had driven (ham from their Andaluslan Call-asjaasv Call-asjaasv Paler bar cuartar sped the tassw fa&aT to take her aa the anartsssH aWke, and wvas at she Paul met arenars and sOngers LcZA to.! 'm'f fitf .. "Sol A gentleman ot family! And well nourished and sturdy, I should Judge. In the sok at Algiers you might fetch two hundred philips. Tou shall ransom yourself for five hundred.1 "For las Entranas da Dlost" swore Don Paulo, who. Ilka all pious Spanish CathoUca, favored the oath anatomical. What alas ha would have added hi hit fury la not known, tor 8akr-al-Bahr waved him coatnaptuously away. Tor your profanity and want ot courtesy we will maka the ransom a thousand philips, then," said he. And ta hla followers: "Away with html Lot hint have eourtaous entertainment enter-tainment against the coming ot hla ransom." Bd was borne away cursing, 4 TTh, to vent hla infinite amaze-Btoat amaze-Btoat Than reverting to the cynical cyni-cal manner that he had ever affected af-fected and effacing all surprise: tjood day to you. Sir Oliver," aid he. 1 suppose yell give your-aatf your-aatf tho pleasure of hanging me." -AUak Is great!" said 8akr-I-kahr rsTBarstvaly. CHAPTER X TOT RJEKBOAD How II coma to happen that Sakr-el-Bahr. the Hawk ot ths Sea, the Moalssa rarer, tha aeonrga of the Medflarranean. ths terror of Chrts-tJaaa Chrts-tJaaa and tha beloved ot Aaad-ad-Ma. Bank ot ilgiers, would bo eaa ad tho aaaaa as tUr Oliver Traoal-pan, Traoal-pan, tao Garnish (eutleanaa ot Poa-bftr, Poa-bftr, fa at long length set tacQ V olmoit black. Sakr-el-Bahr paid little need to 'him. Lying there he looked down the tlope. clad with stunted cork-i cork-i troes and svergreen oaks; here and UeTe was the golden gleam of bream; yonder over a spur of r . and living scarlet ot a WnTabout th. cave, of Hen lTrrom the deep 1 f-jdto an the eolort of the 4 TSr. Attl. trt oft bosiaa a smaller gnlMot of thirty rode 'rtTueut heave ot the iKTeert otaa-at bostaoatany from |