Show had lived fol foi scars oars in un eventful peace she was nas still at tho the commencement of tile tho twentieth cen tuia tui at peace with mith fill all tile the world but elsewhere things had lia happened for ton ten long ears bears the god of unrest had stalked forth tinny litany landi land for ten long eais tile kingdoms of the earth hall had buffeted suf feied in ill a wholesale manner from little battle burdei imir dei sudden death arla unconsciously her turn it came lile like a thunderbolt out of a clear rk fik oner lit in the he baraton home one da john baptist iskian stood and looked doa down n upon anna S Si araton ruto as sho she stood beffie him aie 11 INO thought about it anna Baia Saia tov he asked anna looking neither to the right nor to the left came to him and clasped her anna ainis about his hig neck er thou boest said anna baraton Sa ratoN I 1 shall go where thou lods lodest test I 1 will lodee th people shall be ill people she stopped for an instant and tha god ni god john baptist dikran crushed her to his bis fieast it had leen been a laid haid fight lie ho had won ilo ile had well nell be begun gun t the h 6 performance of his lilt dut so far he had fulfilled his filist he had fought it good fight he had kept the faith down doan the road toward the cottage camo came cirzan ile he heild shouts behind him ile he looked stood stock still for an instant and then took to his heels and well nell ho he might for the emla emis sarles of the god of unrest were e behind him emissaries bent upon do de st ruction riot murder rec reckless kleRs of consequences filled with strong drink M with ith the craze for human blood upon them hein on the cattle came still fled hid had seen him hill ind lie knew it ile he know kllc hit hat it meant lie he hel hoail the muttering mut terin s of the ile ile he reat rented led the home of lie ile bt stratos ratos lie he looked ahead ahead WAS no SISSY tiff 5 3 A shelter nothing hardly knowing what lie dirt did lie ho crept around to the I 1 V pr ir meeting no one and entered the 11 small houge bouse inside he caught sight eight of a small dark jeness no ho entered it 11 II was nas cluttered up with han silk and linen lie ho breathed more easily tills this lie he said bald to himself was wa the best that lie he could do suddenly lie he became aware of cices the voices of dikran and the girl ho he loyed loved A great peace had come upon john t t and anna suddenly all this was changed suddenly they found themselves in the midst of wild me men 1 crazed with drink with ith re fervor with the desire for human blood diran fought like a tiger ile he had no weapon capon but he I 1 laed one ile he tou fou it t for tile the life and the love of anna and he fought well hut but the contest was unequal dikran was overpowered C 3 man laughed a high pitched lati lauh h and addressed ills his comrades I 1 know this dilkian ii he e veiled he a 5 a atilene at fetn bent ilent in the college the christian coliene lies iles a christian come on lie he must recant i enounce renounce alia aha shrieked ed this boisterous mur derai we shall lave have a meir meio time they laid him at full length upon the floor they pricked him with dagger points and twisted a strong bow boa stiling about his temples tem plea these dundei understood stood the art of torture it was in their blood suddenly one of them had bad an inspiration the girl cited this man we can reach him through the tha girl what then he said to those who protested it Is in a good cause causa she Is a good Alus sulman it through her this christian dog recants decants re cants it Is work ork rk avell ell lone done six of them aelred her tho the girl did not a sound dikran groined groaned mahomet Ala homet Is his trolliet prophet exclaimed one of tho the men no no cited dikran suddenly upon the ou outside tIde air there rank chilek upon of a woman in distie dl qs a woman at the doicy of sl six funds in human gulso the loen fainter and fainter for they seemed to come each time from greater distance dilkian dickian gave one glance at the faces of his and then littered a gioan mighty with nith despaul I 1 yield jae he cited with a loud A voice oice grod god Is god and ma ala hornet lionnet Is 19 its his prophet they s i earned with alth ghoulish laugh let they the undid his bonds bonda and set him diee ile he dashed them aside and darted out into the he fields they let him go they lad had had their fill they went along the road they sought other worlds to conquer A short time after dikran found what lie he sought sou lit what he feared was as there it was wa S a clump of trees it was nas the battened dishevelled dishevel led mutt thing t that bat once had been anna one of tile the first victims of the vague unrest lie he lifted her up tenderly can canted led her to the house laid her upon the floor ile he knelt up on the floor beside her lifeless form in the half hour that lie he staved there he boigot all that the college at beirut had taught him save only one thing an eye e e for an eve e e and a tooth for a tooth dikran knew gnei that from this time foith until ills his revenge wascom was corn tills this must be ba his creed in the meantime cirzan by an abs cure route had stolen from tho the house and made hla his dav A a to beirut where he could find safety two to days dass later ho he announced to the college at beirut that lie he cirzan had heard with ith his bis own on oars cars tho the renunciation made by john baptist dikran ten miles further than the home as the load winds there was aas a good goodla village of some fifty houses and some seventy seventh strong men this village was but a stones throw from the sex upon tills this village marched it 1 a 0 mob recruiting its numbers as it went nent along the mob travelled by the load suddenly into tile the tillage Il lage a man propelled himself a man covered V with ith blood inada maddened e tied nath with wounds it was A as dickian ile he had come through the fields while the mob was vas appi appio approaching caching aching W b the road that da dikran seemed as one inspired moio boic he ins plied the with vid his hla venom vengeance lie he told ills his story it was endue anouch h the fighters figh teis girded up their loins rion one didian there grew seventy dikmans crying cring aloud an eve eo for an eye ele a tooth for a tooth I 1 the adian advancing cing rabble of came up the load its laugh died from its face it saw in the eye of each man bearing down donn upon it a arim determination to kill to ext exter e r minate silently silent the well V ell armed force approached kilcran at its head then rhen came the struggle it was nas long and fielce it was only oni after many ilian had fallen on both sides that the Muss ulmen were nere vanquished but john baptist dikran was among the dead back in the drick brick church of boston the chairman of the missionary committee stated that ho he had a special six an no mo to make 1 I have hane just received a commini cation from the college in beirut lie said ahls I 1 lite letter states that th the e college has been informed upon ullon reliable relin ble authority au thorit that our pio tego tege john baptist dikran has renounced the christian religion and has again embraced the mohammedan faith they then have secured ho they then sav a very ner estimable young man in dikran s place it is said that tills this young man refused even under tinder tor ter ture lure to rero aero lit in a the cause of his le ie llalon the nanie of tills this oung man s 1 I 1 xander ander cirzan As for john thele la nothing 0 do but to folget him and foglia allm |