Show KIN if V iva ik IE ata FORBESS F on UN NO BY BT RO ROSITA k aa k AJLA A JL A E kv THE STORY I 1 Rosc rosemary mary crofton lovely english girl Is visiting the governors palace in fez feit morocco with her aunt lady Tre earten garten A handsome frenchman de DC vries Is attracted by her ber beauty and makes ardent love one evening after a conversation dealing chiefly with a mysterious persona personage person aee e e known only as the kaid in the e servi service ce of the sultan of morocco abdel abde abd el e kalm M de DC grows importunate in his love milking making and Is repulsed next morning rosemary rides out early in order to forget her disquiet find and her horse throws her rendering her li un n conscious CHAPTER ll II A little party of rift riff comes upon her andi and unwilling to abandon her there takes her with the caravan through we hie famous pass papa behind which abdel abd el cl krlin and his gallant men are hiding here rosemary Ito meets tile the englishman about whom she has heard so much the genius behind the whole RIT riff cam the kaid a sunburned war absorbed soldier by sunset slie she vins nas ea exasperated rated be yon kroml endurance 1 I 1 shall have to bite my nalls nails or cry or go out slie she told herself with tin nn attempt at humor rosemary climbed a little way up the hill sat on a ho hohider bowlder bow wider lder and stared across the tumult of hills below the sky was molten in the crucible flames rippled across it touring tearing at the edges of banked clouds rather jolly it said a olce ofee and the girl looked up to see sea the kald standing ding above tier her lie he came town down with the lie agility of a goat you mind if I 1 smoke one of our few amusements ne lie had washed off several layers of 0 dust and brushed the straight wiry brown hair leair which resisted eely effort to make it look anything but a mat with even so much return to the normal aspect of mankind as slie site knowlt knew it rosemary was intrigued she voiced tier her curiosity ilow how did you get mixed up with these hoople po ople imy sly life history for boursell yours eli 0 o well its simple ive got no nn people to worry about me the war upset things made life pretty flat hunting and shooting were no sport after the ypres cypres salient so I 1 got into the foreign fo relin le ie i glon elon did III a hit bit of desert work it gets hold of you you know but my sympathy w was as generally on the side of the enemy so I 1 bought my discharge find went shooting in the mountains I 1 met abdel abd el krim by chance a good fellow but not up to date enough for the stunt hes fies running gm ile he asked me if id like ilke to fo organize tills this show for him film he has topp topping lii fig lighting biting material only wants a little modern strategy which you supply interposed the girl urn yes im going to see it through theres an adf awful of bunch of dagges round headquarters its rath er sport upsetting their game sell us nil fill and their own mothers if they so frightened for their skins the miffs riffs never been conquered and it going to be now if I 1 can help it 1 I sm see sacrifice everything ever thins for that not much sa its a great game for bouti you said raymary Roy mary and repeated repealed the alie words a little forlornly though that was ivas the last tiling thing slie site wished to appear I 1 the man looked fit at her sharply for the first time it dawned on him film that site she was young and a girl in a rotten hole as lie put it uc he wai was struck not lint by the firmness find and fineness of line which had characterized rosemary for de vries but by her helplessness slie site shivered in the rising wind and her companion wanted suddenly to wrap something any 1 thing round tier 1 I say its rotten luck on you it your fault retorted rosemary obdurate I 1 1 I wish it was you be here long if I 1 could help it I 1 cant you the girl made a last appeal clinging to his arm almost shaking it in her vehemence I 1 you know I 1 cant rn in silence they climbed down to the itie eaves caves j I 1 look here ill give you pete said the kald kaid feeling like his onetime one time orderly the need of making some oblation you can start for the village toru tomorrow orrow ive sent a messenger already to get hold bold of a house go co with will you and ses see joure youre all M right you can trust him up u p to the hilt rosemaryy Rose marys eyes widened arent you going back i not for a bit ive got a job in another direction me ile dropped the curtain and rosemary listening to his retreating footsteps felt that herlest her last link with the old commonplace life was severed cd two days later rosemary and pete with a guard of a dozen saturnine mountaineers approached the village of Tele lidl it etwas was a collection of two storied square huts hardly large enough to be called houses though some of them had several Fro rooms orns A number of women and achl cli idren ildren ran to their floors doors ns as tile the cavalcade clattered through the single treat street A few men dirk dark skinned with howk features turned to took look after them tins fins the lio kalil brought it wife it at dinst smiled a stalwart youth shirting shifting the sling of his rifle ride it Is time returned Illen ebblie the village headman hadman hut it ills his mind Is full of war and tin politics there Is not place in it for women she Is white and of big own race ejaculated a third lie ile has never cared for our women at lint moment a tall lor borso te jointed fl flotre ure came swinging down the street ilip muttered the lie villagers and silent as the lie man greeted them ISain salaam arri alel alei kurr kurn there was fi a frown for no moslem likes to receive tills lifts rell religious ious greeting from a christian junn juan was a basque from the Py renes but for thirty lears bears he had called no country home ills his dual lods were money and women lip ile hm hat the typical courage or of the antin hot hoi in realization cold tn in anticipation at al moments when he could forget the ole passions and the failures fiti lures of years he was charming ills smile ironed out the linos lines graven by raw pleasure and still cruder labor and in spite of every kind of fight with life with will sense with what little he had once giunn 1110 vin of honor tie he could speak with conviction on such subjects ns as rifle rides and horses honses as well of course its as of love affairs I 1 this was alie individual who arrived it the door of the balds guest house scarcely half an hour after rosemary no reluctantly had entered it she was seated on n rope couch covered with the he admans best car pet she had taken off her hat and ruffled her hair into a mop under it dereyes he her reyes eyes were sun gilt pools reflecting a gamut of beill derment the spaniard caught tits ills breath on oil tile threshold this was rot lint at all 1 l the sort of woman he had expected 1 I beg your birdin pir din I 1 heard there was a stranger here I 1 cattle came to offer my services in the lib sence of West wyn who Is Vest West wyn asked rose many ignoring tile the rest dont you know the kaid 1 I thought he sent you here oil I 1 see rosemary alv ing anything away site the remark about the dibois at headquarters at least you will let me do anything I 1 can for you who Is leoung after you A faint smile curved the girls lips illis the apparent pliability of tier her visitor was encouraging after tier her escorts grunts and Wes twins thank you site she replied pete I 1 dont know tits his other name lins lias gone to procure food and water chiefly the latter I 1 had a bath for ages I 1 cant remember how ninny many lays days or years it Is since I 1 left fez diosi dios you come from fez pardon my curiosity but it Is an unusual route yes said rosemary and remained mute J juan an was too wise to press the point L at least I 1 can lend you a bath he said sat and laughed what a gift to offer a lady ne ile bit back bach the compliment on his tongue 1 I should be g grateful rate ful said rose nose mary pete seemed to doubt there being any suitable receptacle ft H seems most people use the stream not L I 1 exclaimed mart martenho engo 1 I pol gol arun I 1 run I 1 but I 1 shall return in a minute 11 in truth he did hurry most ly IY but then tor for years he bud not soon seen anything so lovely as the alie vision in tho the leather coat and muddy riding boots when he returned with a sl by canvas bath a pillow and various other objects he be had caught up at random he found pete in possession nothing doing said the australian blocking the doorway hut but rose marys voice came from within dont be absurd she pushed past the X aads henchman and smiled on juan when she saw ills his burden A t thousand thanks I 1 am so grof grateful I 1 but you must need so many things lings ti tell me what can I 1 do it was wal impossible to enter the two roomed stone house flattened against the hillside for the australian bulked in the yard tomorrow said rosemary at last in answer to the basques multiple offers of assistance 1 I ant am tired dred now I 1 must rest at site she was uncomfortable under petes eyes and even the woman seemed to glance disapprovingly nt at martenho Mart engo she looked up nt at I 1 lie hie dark heavily lined face there was menace in the overbold iain aon lint but the voice was kind and voluble vol ulila sympathy impregnated it IL when juan loft left the impression ol of considerate friendship he had tried so EC hard to establish was riot not wholly re plad ted by rosemary llo lofe be stirred himself or on bill he half finally having hut but efteni h dy fIr arranged ranged everything sary sar r tn fit tier her comfort ho he set n hurricane lamp on tile solitary table prop propped peI 1 under its l leg Is find nil in formed rosemary in n minimum or of words hint Z irlea the riff sir would sloop sleep on tier her threshold and that mat I 1 lie ia himself was going to camp in tile frit gatehouse chowe a cubbyhole cubby hole above the wall youre sure safe lie added and wont went out rosemary was still sitting on the couch contemplating the preparations of who was removing one or of the coverings from tier her herta before rolling up on a mat to sleep when rotes petes hond bead reappeared round tile the door that martenho Mart engo Is ii wrong nn fin I 1 he said dont you have anything to do with him keep clear I 1 say find and with a final grunt runt lie ho disappeared for three days days rosema rosemary ry f followed the australians counsel site stayed indoors rend read a motley mol aey collection of old papers which rote pete produced for tier her find mended the reni remnants nants of tier her stockings zarifa constituted herself watch log dog nond carried liter mistress excuses to tn martenho Mart engo but the spaniard was persistent si ite ile hung about nebout the path which was the lie sole mein means s of egress from the lie guat house until his un fin usual patience was rewarded rog how mary impatient of solitary confinement broke bounds to go for a walk with wilh a long stride she swung away from the village up toward the pa pas pais s Mait ongo let tier lier go half n mile before lie he caught tier her up now deft delightful fitful he fie greeted her too wise to make any comment on tier her seclusion may I 1 walk with you I 1 have to cross tile sli shoulder w he gestured lure up to tile the crag above theril them rosemary did not know how flow to refuse did not even know that slie site want pd to to talk with anybody would he a relief are you yon fairly comfortable at the guest ginise li nise inquired martenho Mart engo and was careful to keep heep the subsequent conversation on so cien a basis that before they were finif way up tip the slope Rosell rosemary iarY was responding not only naturally nilly lint but with will animation find and at last reassured by liis ills detachment site she explained how she came to the amazement tin and sympathy holh both im per simil wera lobious in her corn com pani ins free rut but I 1 dunt dont understand you wore were only two days journey from pez surely some of the lie berga mm men could have hare talen taken yau you back rosemary explained further your kad imn imagined ined I 1 should give away the p pass Is dios dins exclaimed the spaniard bitterly bitter lv lie does riot not know women the kill gill was a little touched a little rui rui ant w would sou have done site flied blied j sent ani ou back as near vw pez ns as I 1 darcol one his has no rihl right to mix women up in this sort or of aff afenir nir studied bill A et 1 wis I as slig slinging ping in if liar F r brilin na as at t Alir lengo birk of if her atze would ouli lie help nw me peculated clcil rosemary arid ans nut not so aide a in her ail as a dinard din ird tile of aney sol so rift for a iclet of two iwo played nt at cross life HIP gill planned jl enned escape es cipe wondered 11 the thoren tori tool would prove reliable allore liiv to ille hie t the illan purposed indispensable wid later inter iviry tit ti fice irl flip one di da on a rik alcove the flange aind lint llie ilip girl rolled lie fildes anlo fit 11 i in 11 II id like to to alt blui out DI tile hie wllie slie bile A 10 i af I 1 VJ I 1 I 1 MII I 1 ika t t 1 I hate fie place there thare was vas such passion in the curt words cords that the man elan started sald said 1 I hate tile lie place there was such tn IsI till in tile curt curl words that hint the man mall started stalled its a poor sort of sett lift fur for you its dot lint but ae 7 to dol im a virtual prisoner willied hy by and pete alic sit turned to alln impetuously 1 90 g ifland ineil if I 1 cit es escape elpel I 1 Martet go gneier gnel nr onu one glime glance be tween narrowed lids are ninny many atys of or esef illel he fie said mille that specialized brain of liis ills consid ered aroi and readjusted int but no flo one to help bell me file to take thum ventured tile girl tier her heart in it tier hor throat site she hakl not nd meant to reveal tier purpose so ro brusquely her flat hands nt fit tier her sides site she held herself anlin I 1 le and felt the hie blood rising to tier alln ailt to in tier r in biond arll it was dune done bowl iw boum vu tic lie illige qa it I 1 the us prolonged marten alnuten 1 n I il 1 I saw lila ills way dour clear in a see sec nd id to think lie fie was re let III 1 I will lid 1 I aou ail lie ho said i jn if ii if binic restrained voice A 41 sigh escaped front as r will 1011 coif really ire re miu inu sollon sd lons qT I 1 1 I mein me in it returned kou tic a liven b cn considering conJ dering it since ni told ine file your story you voil shall get iway just jost us as on it us I 1 can call manage it ina mw il rosemary aliw ll iw fler cume unevenly II Iwen exit V chant I 1 lips I 1 S liw orcil ills ces he fie wa was it it itilia so sura of ns as have to ile he planned can you vt il i l halil of A intine dress iJ oli if yes easily easl ly im busy now mak lug a barrac nit into a skirt I 1 to spend the rest fest of my lire life in there slie slid flicher tier her worn rid ing fig breeches brei cries expressively the sun IV ans as sinking sin liing behind me hills rosemary Ito pointed to the lie rim ram of light which imm barred d the lie west ivest iery night aben hat disappears di I 1 feel its a door shut on oil my iny prison she exclaimed and for of moment her face was haggard well open the door returned the spit 1 I must think it out come lets go huk bak the girl sprang to tier feet whirled to race the sunset flung out tier her arms anus impulsively thank god slie site cried thank godl god the light was reflect ed on tier her its as site she turned flushed field leiff hilf h ashamed but still throbbing with elation you cant think wilt it 11 means to me miff bengo met tier her gladness realized her young unawareness lor for a min via he was on onlie the heights lie ile saw the 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