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THE SEA-HAWK 1 vin^suuonu^ rid or*. p«rt Two By Rafael Sabatini. K._!_/ (Continued From Yesterday.) "Xot so, my son. The law Is above ti e Basha, who must himself conform to It so that he he just and worthy oi his high office. And the law l have recited thee applied even should the corsair raider lie the Basha him self. These slaves of thine must forth will he sent to the bagnio to Join the others that tomorrow all may lie sold In the sok. See it done, Sakr cl-Bahr.” The eorsair would have renewed Ids pleadings, but that his eye caught , the eager white face of Marzak and the gleaming expectant eyes, looking ■ so hopefully for his ruin. He checked, iml bowed Ills head with an assump tion of indifference. "Name thou their price then, and forthwith will I pay-it into thy treas ury.” But Asad shook his head. "It is not for me to name their price, but for the buyers,” he replied. "I might set the price too high, and that were unjust to thee, or too low, and that were unjust to others who would ac quire them. Deliver them over to the bagnio.” "It shall be done,” said Sakrel I'.ahr, daring to insist no further and dissembling his chagrin. \ Very soon thereafter be departed upon that errand, giving orders, how ever, that Rosamund and Lionel should be kept apart from the other prisoners until the hour of the sale on the morrow, when perforce they must take their place with the rest. Marzak ltngered with his father after Oliver had taken his leave, and presently they were joined there in i courtyard by Fenzileh—this woman who had brought, said many, the Frankish ways of Shaitan into Algiers. CHAPTER VIII. Mother and Son. Early on the morrow—so early that scarce had the Shelmd been recited— carne Biskaine-el-Korak to the Basha. He had just landed from a galley which had come upon a Spanish fish ing boat, aboard of which there was a voung Morisco who was being con ducted over seas to Algiers. The news of which the fellow was the bearer was of such urgency that for twenty hours without intermission the slaves had tolled at the oars of Biskaine's New York --Day by Day— -— By O. O. MeINTVRE. New York, May 10.—Ellis Island offers hundreds of daily dramas. It is the grist mill of human hopes for those who tearfully or Joyfully await • it the glittering gates of Manhattan. To every Immigrant America is the promised land. Tou see them walking up and down In the yards straining their eyes to sc® the New York skyline. There are shawled women whose earthly posses sions are encompassed in a shoulder i ag. There are bare-headed women v. mi suckling babies. Men In cordu roys and eashbelts. Men with rings In their ears. It Is a fusing of all races. Now and then there is a sagging figure in a corner whose world has suddenly telescoped. He or she Is being turned I ack at the very rim of the country from which so much was expected. Too, there is always a sprinkling nf those inarticulate tragedies with hearts of gold who cannot express themselves. Bewilderment has left them mute. But as a rule the Immi grants are light hearted. They look forward Joyously to being scattered to cabbage farms, wheat fields or tenement squalor. At eventide when the tun Js bath ing tlie New York harbor and the value of Liberty is a glinting glow they dance and sing. An old man with an accordian spangles the drab life of the island with wheezy tunes. \ fiddler squeaks a folk dance for the j children. The attendants at Kills Island are understanding. They have seen im migrants who have endured almost a lifetime of slavery arrive nnd, be coming suddenly overwhelmed, go stark mad. They are firm, but sym pathetic. They know the brusque word may stop tears. Many who arrive an expect to step off the boot into the metropolis are confused over being shunted to the barrack-like buildings of the island. They cannot understand English and they get the idea they are being placed in prison. Bellboys in New oYrk hotels who know how to get it" are reaping a big harvest. A reporter has found 15 who own their homes, have automo biles and patronize the best tailors. A Wall street broker whose cash was on the wrong side of the falling mar ket, is now head bellboy In one of the big hotels and he declares he has made more money In six months hop ping bells than he did In the two years previous in TVall street. The bellboy today Is not Interested In 55 ■ ent or dollar tips. He is after bigger i game. He can sell an JS bottle of Scotch for $20 so long as his supply 1 bolds out. Death lurks in them wddte spats, “V^ i.ien! A Broadway actor is recovering from pneumonia. In an absent mind ■ d moment he left the Lambs for the theater without donning his sreus inrned spats. A heavy cold developed do pneumonia. For many years a man In Arlsona has been sending me anonymous w arnings. The postmark of the town ' s indistinguishable. His latest one leads: ‘‘Watch out for a dark haired I man with thick ear lobes. He is after | our fortune." If this comes to the I attention of ‘‘the dark haired man" I Just want him to know that I’ll be erfectly content with a 10 per cent refund. I've been needing a tooth brush lately. — There is another* religious zealot who sends me Biblical quotations! from time to time, lie addresses me! is ‘‘Miss,” I-Ils last one was Dent, j .2: 5: "Tlie woman shall not wear ihat w hich pertaineth to a man . . . for all that, do so are abomination ( unto the Lord thy Ood.” The only anpnymoua letter I ever wrote was to th» lady who Is now my wife. I was Wr. It woe after a tiff and I wanted her to have the Impres slon I was gnlloplng to the bow wows. Ro the letter told her how rccklcsH 1 was becoming with life and hinted that drink might he my ruin. The lei ter came hack addressed to me with this quotation: " Keep sway from those wild soda water places." (Copyright. 1124.) t' vessel—the capitana of his fleet—to bring her swiftly home. The Morisco had a cousin—a New Chrtstian like himself, and like him self. it would appear, still a Muslim at heart—who was employed In ihe Spanish treasury at Malaga. This man*hud knowledge that a galley was fitting out for sea to convey to Na ples the gold destined for the pay of !lie Spanish troops in garrison there. Through parsimony this treasure gal ley was to be afforded no escort, but was under orders to hug the coast of Europe where she should be safe from all piratical surprise. * It was judged that sho would be ready to put to sea In a week, and the Morisco liad set out at once to bring word of It to his Algerine brethren that they might intercept and capture her. Asad thanked Jhe young Morisco for his news, bade him be housed and cared for, and promised him a, hand some share of the plunder should the treasure galley be captured. That done he sent for Sakr-ol-Bahr, whilst Mar zak, who had been present at the in terview. went with the tale of it to lils mother, and beheld her fling into a passion when he added that it was Sakr-el-Bahr had beeri summoned that he might bo entrusted with this fiesh exiiedltion, thus proving that all her crafty innuendoes and insistent warnings had been so much wasted labor. With Marzak following at her heels, she swept like a fury into the dark ened room where Asad took his ease. "What is this I hear, O my lord?" she cried. In tone and manner more the Euroiiean shrew than the submis sive eastern slave, "Is Sakr-el-Bahr to go upon this expedition against the treasure galley, nf Spain?" Reclining on hi® divan lie looked her up and down with a languid eye. "Dost know of any better fitted to succeed?" quoth he. "I know of one whom it is my lord’s duty to prefer to that foreign adventurer. One who is entirely faith ful and entirely to be trusted. One who does not attempt to retain for himself a portion of the booty gar nered In the name of Islam.” "Bah!’ said Asad. "\Vilt tliou talk forever of those two slaves? And who may be this paragon of thine?" "Mnrzak," she answered fiercely, flinging out an' arm to drag forward her son. "Is ho to waste his youth here in softness and idleness? But yesternight that ribald mocked him with his lack of scars. Shall he take sears in the orchard of the Klsbah here? Is lie to be content with those that come front the srratch of a hram hie. or is he to learn to he a lighter nnd leader of the Children of the faith that himself he may follow in the path his father trod?" "Whether he so follows." said Asad, "is as the sultan of Istamhul. the sublime portal, shall decree. We are but his vicegerents here." "But shall the grand sultan appoint him to succeed thee if thou hast not equipped him so to do? 1 cry shame on thee, O father of Marzak, for that thou art lacking in due pride in thine own son." "May Allah give me patience with thee! Have I not said that he is still over young." "At his age thyself tliou wert upon the seas, serving with the great Ochiali.” “At his age I was, by the favor of Allah, taller and stronger than is he. I cherish him too dearly to let him go forth and perchance be lost to me be fore his strength is full grown." “Look at him," she commanded. "He is a man. Asad, and such a son as another might take pride In. Is it not time he girt a scimitar about his waist and trod the poop of one of thy galleys?" "Indeed, indeed, O my father!” begged Marzak himself. “What?” barked the old Moor. "And Is it so? And wouldst thou go forth then against the Spaniard? What knowledge hast thou that shall equip thee for such a task?" "What ran his knowledge he since, his father has never been concerned to school him?” returned Fenzileh. "Dost thou sneer at shortcoming that are the natural fruits of thine own omissions?” "I will be patient with thee," *s!d Asad, showing every sign of losing patience. "I will ask thee only if in thy judgment he is In case to win a victory for Islam? Answer me straightly now." "Straightly I answer that he Is not. And, as straightly. 1 tell thee that it is full time he wei *. Thy duty is to let him go vipon this expedition that he may learn the trade that lies before him." Asad considered a moment. Then ’ Be It so," lie answered slowly. "Shalt set forth, then, with Sakr el Bahr, my son.” "With Sake ei Bahr?" cried Fenzi leh aghast. "I could find him no better pre ceptor." "Shall thy son go forth ss the servant of another"" "As the pupil," Asad amended "What else?" "Were I a man, O fountuin of my soul," said she. "and hail I a son, none hut myself should lie his pre ceptor. I should so mold and fash That Guiltiest Feeling By Briggs r Wflwll tf<£A N>‘t K*eP4'2v4tye? OP£Nl ' Jf<3us-S5L IHlT«An.#OFP/A LtyTU«t-SWOOZ€ For raVvSC'-P /4 TH«wf Cua' mo&tXtakcII j'lOTOlCOMSt DCR ATI OM \ Xh6/ACt^->The PACT. | TwAT*OVJf* <3POSS i^COME. 'C/^m NOT/exceep.rue' I net overhead - fop. / '~^T«._s.VYe«2i wovjj7mv: I »Thin»*.' V( Th ts\ ^TAt Fu»jriJ^t r\'*-fr? ' +■+** NJO'Aj DoM'T YoO I \|/ElC^LCl Ihink]>o‘~ wjhaT / , liwc-^t ti Your iDcaj^ lpJ i5ome . C)P- IT J-/ \,^AY3 *AMO J \ ThihaJ ^OME. "i f Kjusys i oom'i ( ILL MAUEL^To I CjlL/l£ IT A ' little Thought ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield Let the Future Take Care of Itself. _ OV uere c.omcs n't u S.U tvtLV haoooos UHERe 'V & vkCA,Nie.\es‘.'.’ r -J~* err - 1 I ■ v' ° l _ . - 7 NES, A&E - I HEART) "THEYRE Lookup For \ A MAN) AT THF \ CjIHSBERc* COMrAKiV. OVtK Ft) 'THEM*. « J / I E _ - I —I----'.. -I. ■ -— ■■——.. . —-Jl rl HOPE TOUTL Uke THE JOB " FERSOKiAV.O' \ t>OkT THIkk THEBES jVMUCH *UVufit ^ * : 'THEBE'S EXOJQH MOkPv Ik YX'.'. 0 (*> inft him that he should he anothet me. That. C) my dear lord, is thy duty to Marzak. Entrust not his training to another, and to one whom despite thy love for him I cannot trust. Go forth thyself upon this expedition with Marzak here for the kayla." Asad frowned. "I grow too old,” he said. “I have not been upon the seas these two years past. Who can say that 1 uiu.v uut have lost tl e ut oi' victory. Xo. no." He shook his head, and his face giew overcast and soft ened by wistfulness. "Sakr-el-Bahr commands this time, and if Marzak goes, he goes with him." “My lord . . •" she began, then checked. A Nubian had entered to announce that Sakr-el-Bahr was come and was awaiting the orders of his lord In the courtyard.’ Asad rose instantly and for all that r< indl'di, greatly daring as ever, would still have detained him. lie shook her off impatiently, and went out. She watched his departure with anger in those dark lovely eyes of hers, an anger ‘that went near to filming them in tears, and after he had passed out into the glaring sun shine beyond the door, a silence dwelt In the cool darkened chamber— a silence disturbed only by distant | trills of silvery laughter from the les ser women of the Kasha's house. Thej sound jarred her tuut nerves. She moved with an oath and heat her hands together. To answer her came a negress, lithe and muscular as a wrestler and naked to the waist; the slave ring in her ear was of missive gold. "Bid them make an end of that I screeching.'' she snapped to tent some of her fierce petulance. "Tell them I will hate the rods to them if they again disturb me." The negres“ went out. and silence followed, for these other lesser ladles of the Bashn's harem were more olce dlent to the commands of Fenztleh than to those of the Basha himself. Then she drew her son to the fret ted lattice c ommanding I he court \artf. a screen from behind which they could »cc and lmar all that passed out yonder. Asad waa speak ,uk. informinK Sakret Hahr "f wliai he had learned, and what there was to do. “How anon const riiou put to *«*a airain?” he ended. "As soon as the service of Allah and thyself require," was the prompt answer. (To lie Continued Monday.! THE NEBBS me, myself and i.__ Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess 1 *»-■’' Tv4C W'NNtf? 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