Show 2 e Light lit I hat Failed Jr aile B By RUDY RUDYARD ARD KIPLING I II I I Continued from Com Y Yesterday Morning 1 i in n Beyond yona the lines limies of ot f the dead a stained blood 1 Arab cast a spear a aside in In the retreat lay across a cm slump stump of scrub and beyond this again the illimitable dark dalle levels hovels of the desert The sun sumi caught the and turned it ft Into a n. savage red disk ls Some one behind him was saying Ah Aim get away you yuu brute Dick raised his hh revolver and amid pointed toward the desert His lBS eye eve was held by the red lell splash In the distance and the time clamor him lim seemed to lo die down to a 0 very sely fur fur- Y whisper like lIlie the whisper bl pel o of a n level sea There was the thc revolver and the he red rd light and nail the voice of some ome one scaring something away c exactly as had fallen somewhere before be lie- probably fore probably In a past life Dick waited for or what should happen after aCtor ward vard Something seemed to crack inside e his head and for an Instant he stood In till the dark a lark a darkness that stung He lie him him-ed at random an and tho ho bullet went out across the lie desert USh aslie as US ashe aim There Thero h he lie muttered Spoilt my arent aren't any mOIe more cartridges We Ve shall to run home He put his hand to his head an and brought It awa away covered covered cov coy ered with blood Old OM man youre you're cut out rather badly said I owe you ou somethIng something something some some- thing for this business Thanks Stand Standup up I sa say you ou cant can't t be lie ill Hi here Dick had fallen slimy on Torpenhow's Torpenhow's Torpenhow's hows how's shoulder and way was muttering something about aiming low an and to tolie the lie left len Then Ihen he hc sank to the ground and amid was silent Torpenhow dragged raS' raS e him off ocr to a do doctor tor anti and set down to work up his account o of what he ho was pleased to call a sanguinary battle In which our arms had acquitted themselves themselves them them- selves 8 etc All that night when n the troops vere encamped by the lie whaleboats a o black figure danced In the strong moonlight on the time sandbar and shouted that I Khartoum the accursed one was dead don was wae was dead that dead that two steamers were rock on the Nile 1 outside the city anti and that of all their crows crews there remained not one and Khartoum Kha was dead was dead was dead wa waS lend was dead dMd But Dut Torpenhow took toole no head hend lie He lo lowas was watching Dick who was calling aloud to the restless Nile for Malsie- Malsie and again Maisie a n phenomenon said Tor- Tor rearranging the blanket Here is a man presumably human who mentions the name of or one woman only And Amid Ive I've so soon seen en a good 00 1 deal ol 01 delirium too loa Dick heres here's some fizzy 7 Thank you Maisie Malsie said Dick V CiL PPl l III Ill So Su he thinks he lie shall take to the lie sen sea again For one more mome cruise with his buccaneers buc buc- cancers To io singe e the thc tl of tho the King of ol Spain V An And capture another dean of or And sell him in I Algiers len lenA A A Dutch Picture The Soudan campaign and arid Dicks Dick's broken head had been some sume months ended and amid and aHl the thc Central i l th t c p. p had uH paid Dick a u um m li I 1 C t iI ule suie him himas was as not lot altogether up to thou Lh standard Dick heaved th the letter let let- tel ter em into time the Nile at Cairo cashed the time draft in III the tIme same town and ba bade e a n. warm I farewell to at the tile station V I am going to tu lie up for awhile I dont don't and rest said lId Torpenhow know where I r shall live in London tout but if God Goll brings us to meet we shall meet meet- Are you staying here herc on the lie chance chanco of another row Then will willbe willbe willbe be none till the southern Soudan is by our troops Math Mark that Good Good-by bless you OU come back when whon your youl monc money is spent and give S me your ld Address Dick loitered in Cairo Alex Alex- andria and Port Said Said Said- especially Port Said There Is iniquity in man many parts of or the lie world and vice In all aiL but the lime concentrated essence of or all the Iniquities and nil all the vices Ices In lii all aJ the tho continents finds itself at Port Said And Amid through h the time heart henrt of that sand bordered hell where the time mirage e flickers nil all day long lOlls above the Bitter Lakes move mo if Ir you 1 0 will only wait most of the men and women you I have known in imi this life Dick Die o tah- tah himself In quarters more riot riot- ou our than respectable He lie spent Silent hi his lV evenings on vim time quay and boarded man many ships and taw saw very friends gracious Englishwomen with will whom he lie had hind talked not nut too wisely ii in inthe inthe the veranda a of or Shepheard's hotel hurrying war wal correspondents skipper of or the contract ships troop employee employed cd In iii the lie C campaign army ammy meers I IJ by the time score an and amid others of less reputable trades lIe He had choice of or all the time races of the time East Elt and anti West Vest Nit for studies am and the time advantage of seeing his subjects un under cl the time influence of r strong uong excitement excite excite- ment at the tile tables gaming saloons hulls dancing land ug and amid elsewhere For recreation there bert thereas was as time the straight isU isla of oC tIme the canal the blazing biasing J sands the time thelon procession lon of ut shipping ug and amid the tIle hite hospitals where the English sold soldiers lay hal Dick strove to tu p pen n down in iii black blac and amid white Hn and amid color lolor all that Providence Provi Provi- deuce dence sent I him and amI when that supply was wa m ended sought about for fOI fresh ma sun- It H was ivas a fascinating employment employ employ- ment but Jut it maui lan awa away auay with wiLhm his money and ancl he lie had drawn advance in the time hundred hun hun- lied dred an and twenty pounds to which he me meas was as entitled yearly Now uw I shall haJJ have ha to work anI and auml stai stilie ye e thought he lie and amid was all addressing r himself seU to this new ne fate Cate when a mysterious tele telegram arn arrived from Torpenhow I in a England which said Raid Come Cosmic back quick you rou have havi caught on Come Comae A large e hl his fac face So o soon I that's thal good hearing hearing- wild said he lie to him him- self There will be lie mm an nn orgy Olg Ill I'll stand or fall fail Li b by m m my luck Faith I its it's time It came mc lie He deposited half of if h s funds in the tie hands of his well well- I known o 11 friend Monsieur and amid Madame Bloat and unc ordered himself a I Zanzibar dance or of the finest Monsieur was Wt ln shaking with drink but butI Madame smiled stalled s sympathetically I Monsieur needs a chair o of mf course e Iud ind of course Monsieur will sl sketch eteh Monsieur amU amuses himself r raised l ed a white blue face from flom rota I la rot cot In the time inner humor a a. room I under under- I j lan stand he quavered all Wo 0 aIL know Monsieur UI Monsieur Is an artist a as I have been Dick nodded gum Jin the time enl wild said hi gravity lon Mon Monsieur sloth will alive Into hell as asI I r have de descended And he laughed V You must come conic loathe dance too said Dick I shall want you ou Pot For my amy face I 1 knew It be so 0 For FIJI my 1 face Cac My Iy God and und for formy formy my mi dC degradation no so U V tremendous I will mi not t. t Take Tal him aWO away He is a devil Or at nt least do thou Celesto demand of him more mote The Thc excellent l nt Blunt at begun began to kick an and scream All 11 things are arc for sale saho in Port OIt If rr hu husband Jand Said said Madame Ind mc m my may eunice comes It will be so much moro more Eli Eh h ow uw you ou cull call alf n a sovereign C llie The money wU VU wua I paid laid and anti the mad macJ dance ilance came CJ oft off that night In a n. walled court ard at the back bad or of Ma Madame herl lt in use Ill The rhe lad lady failed faded mauve mauves s silk alwa always 8 about to o oli slide li e from lom 11 her 1 yellow shoulder played the time piano and to the hc tin pot music of a n Western waltz the he nal naked nailed d dZan I Zan girls danced furiously by the tho light of lamps sat upon a chair an and stared with eyes eye that lint saw sav nothing till the lilt whirl of or the time dance an and th time the clang of or the lie rall piano stole into he drink that lint tool colt the lie place of blood in iii his veins on and his I face glistened Dick took him by the chin dun brutally lly and turned that lint face tace to the light Madame Blunt looked over her shoulder nn and smiled with mapy teeth Dick leaned n against tho wall t walland and sketched for an hour till the kerosene lamps began to smell and I the girls throw threw themselves 08 panting on onlie the lie hard-beaten hard ground Then he heI shut his bitt book with a snap and moved I nw away avay nal plucking feebly at his C elbow bow V Show me file he wh whimpered fI I too loo was once tin mimi artist emm n I Am An I that he screamed amed Will VIlI you take that away with you on and show all the world worl that it is I I lie He moaned and amid V Monsieur 2 has lists paid for tor all ili said Madame ladame To fo ro the pl pleasure asuro ot or seeing l I Monsieur again The court yard gate gale shut shul and Dick Dicle hurried up UI the sandy street t to the nearest hell gambling where he was WOJ well known Tf If the luck lucli holds its it's I f an omen If I lose ise I must stay slay here lie He placed place his hit money picturesquely Quel about the board hardly h daring to look at what ho did Time The luck hel held Three turns lurns of the left him richer b by pounds and he lie went down lown Lothe lo to lothe the tIme shipping to mule matte friends with the captain of or a decayed cargol cargo cargo- l si steamer lc earner amer who landed lal him in London with fewer pounds In his pocket than he care cared cam l to lo think about A thin gra gray fog tos hung hong over the time city and the streets were very vory col cold for lor V summer was In 11 England I Its a cheerful wilderness and it hasn't the knack of ot altering much Dick thought as he lie tramped from the tho docks westward Now what must mustI 1 I do The packed houses houes gave save no answer Dick looked down the long bug lightless l streets and at the appalling rush of traffic Oh you rabbit hutches said he hc addressing a row of highly highly- respectable semi detached residences Do you know what youve you've got to dehater do de later hater on You have to supply me mc with men servants an and maid mal servants servants' here here he smacked his lips ups ups- p and an th the peculiar treasure of Icings kings Meantime V Ill I'll get clothes and boots and presently pres I will return and trample or you lIe He stepped ed forward energetically cally he saw that one of or his Ins ShONI shoes ShON I was burst at the side As s he lie to make In Investigations Investigations' atlon a n man jostled him him into the time gutter All rl right ht lu Ill said Flints another nick In tho time score scole r Ill I'll 11 jostle josUe yon ou In later latet tel on Good clothes and boots are ale not noL cheu cheap full and Dick left lell his last shop hop with time the certainty that he would be Je respectably arrayed ed for UI or a 11 but hut a Iii tAhil hI pocket Cl 11 tuu t U I II tot ti t fM b Jetty and I o ii h I I i In n on one Olle e iou room iii wh where t time the sheets heets on th the bed lied wen were almost audibly marked marlell In case of or theft and where nobody to Lu go to bed nt at all When his clothes arrived am he lie sought the time Central Southern cate for fOI address and got it it with the intimation that there thele was still some sOine money owing to him JIow much said Dick as one who habitually dc dealt lt in millions Between thirty and forty ort pounds I If it fL would be any convenience cun to you of ot course we could let Jet you ou have hl haveit it at once but bill we usually settle accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts COHOS monthly V If re I show that I want tant anything i ow Im I'm lost los he a slid said III to Lo hims eJ All 11 I need Ill I'll take later on Then aloud Its hardly worth while and ammi Im I'm going g into the country for tor a n month too Walt aft till I come coma back and amid Ill I'll see about it ft But nut we trust Mr tIr r. r Heidar Heldar that you do tic not intend to sever your our connection connection tion ion with us Dicks Dick's business In life liCe was the lie study of if faces and he lie watched time the speaker keenly That Thal man moans something some sonic thing So he jie departed snaking making no promises to his one little room b by the Docks s. s And IH that da day w wa s seventh enthof of the thu month and that hunt month he lie reckoned with awful distinctness ha hind had one thirty days das in It It is not easy caS for COl oi a man of lIf Catholic tastes nn and healthy appetites to exist 1st for twenty four days on oum nfl fifty shillings Nor NOI is it cheering to begin the ex- ex i alone in all nih the lie loneliness of London Dick Did Jl paid seven se shillings s a n week for bum hi his lodging ln which left him rather m less legs than a shilling shillIng- a n. day a for tom food nn and drink Naturally his hl first purchase was of or the time materials of or his craft h ho he had been hoen without them too long Half Hale a lays days investigation and comparison ou h.-ou brought ht him to time the conclusion conclusion con con- elusion that sausages an and amid mashed potatoes po po- a plate were lh time the best fou food Now Xo sausages S once or twice a n week weel for om breakfast are not mint unpleasant A As lunch even ven with mn mashed potatoes thc they thel become mono mono- As 13 dinner thc they are hopes Irnel nl At time the end emid of three tin days Dick loathed sausages es and amid going forth pawned ed hl Ills watch to revel rc on sheep's sheepshead sheepshead sheepshead head which is not miot as its cheap as as' It looks hooks owing to the bones an and the gravy Ia Then Thou he lie returned to sausages ages and ma mashed potatoes Then rhen h he confined entirely lo IO mashed potatoes for fOI a day U and was unhappy because of pain In his inside Then he pawned his and his tie tic and thought le regretfully of oC money thrown away in times l past st. There are alp few eu things more edifying edifying- unto art amt than the time actual pinch belly of f hunger hung and amii Dick In his few hew walks abroad he he mild did riot not care tom for exel exercise it raided ed desires desire t that could coul not be found r himself elf divid ing lug mankind Into Inn two tivo classes those those os-those those who ivita looked as ag If Ie the they hey might give he him something om to eat cat and those thos who iho looked 1001 otherwise I r never micro knew k what I had to learn about the human face race bufore he lie thou thought ht and amid a us as a reward e for ii his humility Providence jt J cah river at a shop sausage where heme Dick fed ed that night to leave half eaten a a. great rent chunk of or bread Dick took u would It-would would have ha fought Jit ill all the time world for Cor its possession and It t cheered him u The month dragged ud through at last and fairly prancing with impatience he went to draw his mono muno money Thou Them i he hastened to Torpenhow's address amid i tumult the time smell of ot along 1011 the corr corridors ors cooking of the tho chambers chambo rn meats is all aU I I was wall on the time top floor Hoor ami Dick burst Into his room t arid and s with to be ie a hug huS which hl his ribs a RH which nearl nearly re el him to the tho f nh H H light and H I things In tl reath tho c Tumi nut But youre |