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Show t ..'A By t. M. Hull Cpyr1tt. Bmall. Mamard A Co.) . . J CvhS f Th talt Lake Telegram ntning rlu Instalment Th he lie mar be he at The Telegram's bunntu sffice. le-s Jea lou ay and thr rage provoked by ftiioiil'a outsMk-n critici-m had recoiled re-coiled on the Itiiutct ut ( i4ii.c. Hhe. not Malm llulo.rt. I nd f - t Urn brunt of hu angt-r h th- ;iit..it- ciui ltv of hla nature, it hud m en him a aubll plea aura to w.ili h t he I i-wilder rtit-nt. alternating wrh flhk-llrig f-ar. Ih.it hud mum hark into tlic tbcp bine et-n thtt fur Im nidiilh hud looked inl'i hlM with fr-wik t onfld' i.c h.-id mmlc hr .icuie: ihi.c,ou i.f hla dta-plea dta-plea sure. Onlv last nig h. vhen his I'ich of ronilderatlon and his unwound un-wound IrriliibllHv hid iwlf her wince aevei a I times during the evening, land a'i-r Hmm liubeit had gon t hi w lent he h.-td looked up t find her eyri on h;tn with mi txpression that In h!" dun-igiTotis dun-igiTotis mood hud excited nil tbe t.ru-tdllt t.ru-tdllt .' of whic h was up tbb a'nl had filled linn with a ilesltv to lortute her Thn dutnb icpiouch in her rvn h.id exuipei.iied hliji. rousing th" f. ld-I ld-I lah temper Hrit hnl bveti h.idly k'pt In che k nil tha previous week. And yet, when he held hT helpless In h I arms, (jiilverlug and shrinking from jthw embnice ll.at was no caress, but merely tho medium of hia atigttr, and i tha reproach in hrr wtiveriiig ee changed to mute entreaty, the pleasure he had ant lei pat ed to her fear had failed him as It had hefoie. and hud irritated him further Tha wild leH(-Ing leH(-Ing of her lieurt, the sobbing Intuke of hi r brealh, the knowledgo of hia power pow-er oer her, tiuv him n- gt at ifi. at .on. and h hail flung her from hint cursing her suvugely. till she hud fled Into the other room with her hand over hT ara to shut nut tha sound of hla i'uw, dellher-ita voh. And thla morning ho had left her without a aign of any kind, no word or gesture that might hava effaced tha memory of tha pra-vloua pra-vloua night, lie had not meant to. ho had intended to go back to her )for ha finally rodt away, but Hulnt Hii-iM'rt'e Hii-iM'rt'e rfusnl to nrcotnpnny hlin had 'killed tha softer feellnga that prompt -i rd hint, and hla rag" had flamed up again. And now? Tha longing to hold her In hla arnia. to klsa the tears from her eea and thn color into hrr pii 11 pa, was almost unlwurahl. He would give his life to keep ei en it shadow from her path, and aha was In thn tin ltd uf Ittrwheltn Omalt-' Tn thought and all that It Implied was torture, but no algn escaped hint uf the hell ha was enduring. Tha unavoidable un-avoidable delay seemed interminahl. and h swung Into the saddle, hoping that tha waiting wound seem leaa with Th Hawk real lens, iiervoua body gripped between hla knees, for though the horao would atand quietly with hla master beside him, he fretted continually con-tinually at waiting onca tha Hhclk was mounted, and tha necessity for soothing htm wag preferable (o complete Inaction. Inac-tion. Halnt Hubert roar to hi feet at lat. and, leaving behind Henri and two Arabs, who were detailed to take the wounded man back to the camp, the awlft gaMop south waul wm reeumed. On, over tha rising and fulling ground along which Huston had stumbled, blind and faint with loss of blood and pain nf hi wound, past th dead body of Tha Hunter, ghotilv whit In tha moonlight, lying a lb tie apart from tha aemU'lrct) of Arab that proved tha efficiency of Haeioii'a shooting where IMana and ha had made their laat atand. The Hheik made no sign avnd did not check lite headlong gallop, gal-lop, but continued on. The Hawk taking tak-ing tha fallen bodies that lay In hla path In hla atrhle, with only a quiver of repugnance and a snort of diagust. Htlll on, past the huddled bodice of tumbled druperles that marked the way significantly, sig-nificantly, avoiding them whirs the moonlight tllumliiutfd brightly, and riding oer them in tha deep hollows, whera onca Haoul'a hora attiuibled badty and nearly fell, recovering hlm-aelf hlm-aelf with a wild scramble, and the Vi-comtt Vi-comtt heard the dejd man's skull crack under th horse's slipping hoof Th distant howling of jackals cuine closer and closer until, topping one long rise and descending into a hollow hol-low that wm long enough and wide enough to be fully lit hy the moon. thy came to the place whrr the ambush am-bush had been laid. ItiHtluctivt ly Ahmed Hen H.tssd n knew l hat (Continued from yesterday ) Kven lbrnhaiin Htnalr had Inherited Inher-ited a feud that was largely t traditional, tradi-tional, nly onca during the lifetime of tha laat Ahmed ltn Hassan had he dared lo rom Into open conflict, and tha memory of It hnd lasted until now. Hktrmlahee there had been, and would always ba. Inevitably, sufficient to keep the tribesmen in a state of perpetual expectancy, and for this Ahmed Hen Haaaan preserved the rild discipline which prevailed In his trine, Insisting on th high atandard which had kept them famous. Tha llfewurk J that hla predecessor tiad taken over from hla father the preaent Ahmed lien I Haaaan had carried on and developed with autocratic perseverance. The in- I born I ova of fighting had been rare, fully foa tared In tha tne; tha weapon wea-pon with Which they were armed were of tha newest pattern. Haoul Knew with perfect certainty that to tha , picked men following them thla haatv i expedition meant only one thing war, I th war that they hud looked forward j to all their Uvea, precipitated now by an accident that gave to a handful j of I ham tha chanra that hundreds of, their fallow tribesmen wer longing for; a ohanea that Bent them Joy-. j fully boblnd their chief, carele.s whether tho relnfcrcementa that had been sent for arrived In tlmo or not. Tha email neaa of their nutnMrs waa a aourc of plea sura rather than otn erwiee. If they won through, to them would ba the glory of victory; if they wero annihilated, with them wvuii rest tha honor of dying with their leader, whom they worahiped; for not on of them doubted that Ahmed Hen Haaaan would not aurvtva hla bodyguard, body-guard, the flower of hi tribe, the narefulty choeen men from whoaa ranks hla pergonal scort waa alwaya drawn. With them he wont Id crush hla hereditary enemy, or with them he would die, Th abort twilight had gone and a brilliant moon ahona high In the heaven. Illuminating tha surrounding surround-ing fNiuntry with a clear, whit light At any other ttm th beauty of tha cns, tha glamor of the Kaatern night, lh headlong gallop In company with thla band of flerc fighting men, would hive stirred Halnt Hubert profjundly. Hla art tat lo temperament and hla own abanlut fearleaaneaa and lov of adventure ad-venture would hav combined to make the expedition an exciting experience which h would not willingly hav foregone. But th reaaon for It all, th peril of tha girl whom ha loved ao unexpectedly, changed th whole color of th affair, tinging It with a gravity and a augpena that left a cold fear in hla heart. And If to him, what, then, to th man best da him? The iiueatlon that Ahmed Hen Hassan had negatived ao acorn fully a week before had been answered differently In th awlft look that had crosd hla face thla evening. H had not spoken sine they started a id Halnt Hubert had not felt able to break th alienee. They had left th level country and wer In among th long, aucreaatv ranges of undulating ground, the aummlta standing out silver whit In the gleaming moonlight, th hollows filled with dark shadow, like black pools of deep, still water. And at the bottom of on of th alopea the aheik pulled tip suddenly with a low, hissing reclamation. A whtt shap waa lying f ac downward. apreadagled on th and, almost under th Hawk' feet, and at their approach two lean, slinking slink-ing forma oan tared away Into th nlghu Th sheik and Henri reached ; the still flgur simultaneously and ; tfalnt Hubert almost as quickly. He1 mad a hurried examination. Th bullet bul-let that had stunned Oaaton had gianced off, leaving an ugly cut, and other that had hit him at tha earn tjm had ploughed through his shoulder, shoul-der, breaking th bone and caualng, be-aides, be-aides, wound that had bled freely. H . had staggered mor than a mil before be-fore ha had fainted again from loaa 3f blood. H cam to under Paint Huberts Hu-berts handling and lifted hla heavy ye to tha enelk, who waa kneeling beld him. "Monaelgneur madam 1 bra helm Omatr," h whispered weakly, and re-lapsed re-lapsed Into unconaclouaneaa. For a moment the shelk'a eyea met Kaoul's acroaa hla body, and then Ahmed Ah-med Ben Haaaan rose to hla feet. "He . aa quick as you ran," h aald. and went back to hla horse. Ha leaned against th Hawk, hla fingers mechanically mechan-ically searching for and lighting a cigarette, hla yea fixed unaeelngly on th ground around Oaaton. The valet's broken words had confirmed th fear that ha had striven to crush Sine h discovered Plana' absence. Ha had ony seen Ibrahelm Omalr enc when, ten years before, h hd Ton with th elder Ahmed Hen Haaaan Haa-aan to a meeting of th more powerful power-ful chiefs at Algiers, arranged under th auspices of the Krone h govern -ment, to confer on a complicated boundary queatlnn that had threatened threat-ened an upheaval among the tribe, which th nominal protector of the country wer afraid would h preiudt-clal preiudt-clal to their own preattge, as It would hav been beyond their power to quell. H had chafed at having to meet his hereditary enemy on equal terms and only the restraining Intlu-enc Intlu-enc of th old aheik. who exacted an unquestioning obedience that extended ex-tended even to his heir, had prevented! a catastrophe that might have nullified nulli-fied th meeting and caused Infinitely more complications than tha original boundary dispute. Hut the memory of th robber sheik remained with hlin always, and th recollection nf his bloated, vicious face and gmaa, unwieldy un-wieldy body roe clearly before Mm now. Ibrahelm Omalr and th slender daintiness that he had prised ao lightly. light-ly. Diane! Hia teeth mvt through th cigarett In hla mouth. His sense- amongst t ne jnstlng lu np.i of coi paen and dead hot see lay the bodies of his own men. IYrh;ips amoiuxt the atlll forma from which the jackaJs. whim hideous yelling they had heard, had slunk away, there might be on left with life enough to giv soma news. On of hla own men who would apeak willingly, or one of Ibrahelm Omatr'a who would be made to apeak. Ills lips ceiled back from his whit teeth In grin of pure cruelty. The alienee that had prevailed amongat his men broke auddenly aa they searched quickly among the dead Th riheik waited Imimaaively. sib nt amdla: the muttered Imprecation and litrcaiM of venu nce of his followers ha i hey laid beside him the six remains of whut h.id been Dlana'a escort, subnet and mutilated alinoat twynnd recognition recogni-tion But It waa ha who noticed that the last terrible figure atlrred slightly aa It waa laid down, and It waa Into his face, grown suddenly strangely gentle, gen-tle, that the dying Arab bmked with fust dimming eyes. The man smiled, the happy smlla of a child that had Obtained an unexpected reward, and raised hla hand painfully in salute, then potnied mutely to tha aouth. The Mi elk caught hla follower's nerveleaa fingers as they fell In his own strong grtip, and with a last effort the Arab drew hla chiefs hand to his forehead and fell back dead. Slowly and painfully, through wave of deadly nausea and with the surging of deep waters In her ears. Diana struggled strug-gled back to consciouaneaa. The agony in her head was excruciating, and her Itmba felt cramped and bruised. Recollection Recol-lection waa dulled in bodily pain, ana, at first, thought was merged in physi-' cat suffering. But gradually the fog Cleared rrom her brain and memory supervened hesitatingly. rhe re mem, be red fragmentary Incident of what had gone before the oblivion from which ah had just emerged. Oaston, and the horror and resolution in hta eyes, the convulsive working of hla mouth aa he faced her at th laat moment. mo-ment. Her own dread not of th death that was imminent, but lest th mercy u offered ahould b snatched from her. Then before the valet rmiM effect hla supreme devotion had come the hall of bullets, and he had fallen n gainst her. the htctod that poured from hla wounds saturating her linen coat, and rolled over across her feet. Sh remembered vaguely the wild figures hemming her In but nothing mora. (Continued Monday.) |