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. THE SEA A Forthcoming n__f ^Flrst .National Picture. ran (Continued From Yesterday.) CHAPTER XVI. Tlie Pannier. He was still pacing there when an hour or so before sunset—some fifteen hours after setting out—they stood before the entrance of a long bottle necked cove under the shadow of the cliffs of Aquila Point on the south ern coast of the Island of Formentera. He was rendered aware of this and roused from his abstraction by the voice of Asad calling to him from the poop and commanding him to make the cove. Already the wind was failing them, and it became necessary to take to the oars, as must in any case have happened once they were through the cove's neck in the becalmed lagoon beyond. So-Sakrel-Bahr. in his turn, lifted up his voice, and in answer to his siiout came Vigitello and I.arocque. A Idast of Vigitello’s whistle brought his own men to heel, and they passed rapidly, whilst Jasper and a half-dozen Muslim sailors set about furling the sails that already were lieglnning to flop In the shifting and intermittent gusts of the expiring wind. Sakr-el-Bahr gave the word to row, and Vigitello blew a second and longer blast. The oars dipped, the slaves strained and the gnleasse plowed forward, time being kept by n boatswain's mate who squatted on the waist deck and beat a tom-tom rhyth mically. Sakr-el-Bahr, standing on the poop deck, shouted his orders to the steersmen in their niches on cither side of the stern, and skillfully the vessel was maneuvered through the narrow passage into the calm la goon whose depths were crystal clear. Here before coming to rest, Sakr-el Bahr followed the Invariable corsair practice of going about, so as to be ready to leave his moorings and make for the open again at a moment's no tice. She came at last alongside the rocky buttresses of a gentle slope i hat was utterly deserted by ail save a few wild goats browsing near the summit. There were clumps of broom, thick with golden flower, about the base of the hill. Higher, a few gnarled and aged olive trees reared their gray heads from which the rays of the westering sun struck a glint as of silver. Larocque and a couple of sailors went over the bulwarks on the lar board quarter, dropped lightly to the horizontal shafts of the oars, which were rigidly poised, and walking out upon them gained the rocks and pro /—-N New York --Day by Day \__/ By O. O. M’INTYRE. New Y'ork, June 3.—This is a blurb for Fred Stone, the actor. And I paid *12 for two seats to see his show. It Is the custom of New Yorkers to believe that those who do not like plays dealing with some sex complex or other clinical subject are still in the outer dakness. Stone has found It pays to present :. performance that children can bring their parents to see without the latter 1 ecoming suffused with blushes. He does not foster a single prohibition joke nor is there a line in the play t hat could not be incorporated in a bedtime story. Kn passant it might be added that Stone is America's richest actor. « Tn bis play Is his wife and 16 year-old daughter, Dorothy. And there are no ball and chain” jokes about liis wife. He shows the audience even in his ■ 'owning that lie is devoted to both * her and the daughter. The daughter sings a plaintive song, "Daddy, I Want You.” They i.ince and sing and mimic each other. ii is all wholesome and clean—so iuch so that when l left the theater I sent Stone a telegram telling him i f a new respect for the stage. If theatrical censorship comes to New York it will he because it needs i,. And Fred Stone should worry, one play that has been running sev eral months glorifies the effeminate man who rouges his lips. Another glorifies a runaway trollop who en snares a missionary in the South seas. In two others men are stealing to the bedrooms of their mistresses ns ike penultimate curtain falls. There : n't a burlesque show In town that !-- half as smutty as any one of a dozen plays that tiring the evening i lothed sophisticates with knowing winks. Fred Stone proves people can still Ir.ugh and have a good time without gutter Joke*. Instead of the jaunty Magdalene. Stone offers sweet and un spoiled womanhood. Instead of the hardened roue he offers a good-na tured candy shop clerk In baggy pan iuloon*. Young girls who chew gum and pea shooting boys who guard the outer gateways to the offices of important business executives are being replaced by elderly men who know the value of tact and courtesy. It has long been a wonder to those who had to make i alls to Important doors why ao much responsibility was placed on narrow and frivolous shoulders. Today the \ sitor Is being met by high-grade men and women who assume he or she has come on a buaineaa of importance This is as it should he. A New York sdvertlslng man offers unfailing method for the man out of job to secure work. lie says that must job seekers go after the Job in i shoddy fashion. He says If a man buys high class linen paper and en \elopea and writea a clean-cut letter to 100 flrina in a bnslneaa In which lie ia best qualified to serve he la bound to get a poaitlon—no matter l.ow' hard tlmea are. He aaya In 20 I st* that have been made there ha* not been a single failure. When TUchard Harding Davis was Dying to attach himself to the staff uf a Now York newspaper he tried a ii heme that worked. On fine station cry lie wrote to the managing editor of a newspaper, signing the name of a pseudo secretary. It said: “Mr. Diehard Harding Davis will rail on you at 3 Thursday afternoon to dis cuss a matter of great Importance.” Davis was Immediately ushered in. At first the managing editor was piqued, hut when Davis explained that n reporter st times must use the aame ingenuity he had shown the managing editor gave him the Job. I have always thought, the grestesi ■I, preaaion in the world follows the loss of job. Sickness, the loss ol i ione\ or scarcely any other trouble compares with It. And despite thl" most people who lose their Jobs flnf better ones and generally Jobs to which they srs better suited, . (Copyright, HI*.I I 4 T ./ Hill,I . UHAWK 1 Two By Rafael Sabatini. reeded to make fast the vessel by ropes fore and aft. tfakr el-Bahr's next task was to set a watch, and he appointed Darocque, sending him lo take his station on the summit of the head whence a wide range of view was to he com manded. Pacing the poop with Marzak the Basha grew reminiscent of former days when roving the seas as a simple cor sair he had used this cove both for the purposes of ambusli and conceal ment. There were, he said, few har bors In all the Mediterranean so ad mirably suited to the corsair's pur pose as tiiis; it was a haven of refuge in case of peril, and an unrivaled lurking place in which to lie in wait for the prey. He remembered once having lain there with the formidable Pragut-Iteis, a fleet of six galleys, their presence entirely unsuspected by tlie Clenoese admiral, Doria, who had passed majestically along with three caravels and seven galleys. Marzak, pacing beside liis father, listened but half-heartedly to these reminiscences. His mind was ail upon Sakr -el-Bahr, and his suspicions of that palmetto bale were quickened by the manner in which for the last two hours he had seen the corsair hover ing thoughtfully in its neighborhood. He broke in suddenly upon his fath er's memories with an expression of what was in liis mind. "The thanks to Allah," he said, “that it is ihou who command this expedition, else might this cove's ad vantages have been neglected." ' “Not so," said Asad. “Sakr-el-Bahr knows them as well as I do. He has used this vantage point aforetime. It was himself who suggested that this would be the very place in which to await this Spanish craft.” "Yet had lie suiled alone I doubt it the Spanish argosy had concerned him greatly. There are other matters on his mind. O my father. Observe him yonder, all lost in thought. How many hours of this voyage has he spent thus. He is as a man trapped and desperate. There is some fear rankling in him. Observe him, 1 say." "Allah pardon thee," said his father, shaking his old head and sighing over so much impetuosity of Judgment. "Must thy Imagination be forever feeding on thy malice? Yet I blame not thee, but thy Sicilian mother, who has fostered this hostility in thee. Did she not hoodwink me into making this unnecessary voyage?” "I see thou hast forgot last night and the Frankish slave girl,” said his son. "Nay, then thou seest wrong. I have not forgot it. But neither have I forgot that since Allah hath exalted me to the Basha of Algiers, he looks to me to deal In Justice. Come, Mar zak, set an end to all this. Perhaps tomorrow thou shalt see him in bat tle, and after such a sight as that never again wilt thou dare say evil of him. Come, make thy peace with him. and let me see hetter relations betwixt you hereafter.” And raising his voice he called Sakr e! Baiir, who immediately turned and came up the gangway. Marzak stood by in a sulky mood, with no notion of doing his father's will by hold ing out an olive branch to the man who was like to cheat him of his birthright ere all was done. Yet was it lie who greeted Sakr-el-Bahr when the corsair set foot upon the poop. "Dost the thought of the coming fight perturb thee, dog of war?" he asked. "Am I perturbed, pup of peace?" was the crisp answer. “It seems so. Thine aloofness, thine abstractions . . ." "Are signs of perturbation, dost suppose?” "Of what else?" Sakr-el-Bahr laughed. "Thou’lt tell me next that I am afraid. Yet I should counsel thee to wait until thou hast smelled blood and powder, and learned precisely what fear is.” The slight altercation drew the at tention of Asad's officers who were Idling there. Biskaine and some three others lounged forward to stand be hind the Basha. looking on in some amusement, which was shared by him. "Indeed, Indeed." said Asad, laying a hand upon Marzak's shoulder, "his counsel is sound enough. Walt, boy, until thou hast gone beside him aboard the Infidel, ere thou Judge him easily perturbed.” Petulantly Marzak shook off that gnarled old hand. "Dost thou, O my father, join with him in taunting me upon my lack of knowledge My youth is a sufficient answer. But at least.” he added, prompted by a wick ed notion suddenly conceived. “at least you cannot taunt me with lack of address with weapons." "Hive him room,” said Sakr-el Bahr, with ironical good humor, "and he will show us prodigies." Marzak looked at him with narrow ing, gleaming eyes. “Give me a cross bow,” he retorted, "and I'll show thee how to shoot,” was his Grazing boast. "Thou'lt show him?” roared Asad. "Thou’lt show him!” And his laugh rang loud and hearty. "Ho smear the sun's face with clay, boy.” "Reserve thj» judgment, O my fath er,” begged Marzak, with frosty dig nity. “Boy, thou'rt nmd! Why Sakr-el Bahr's quarrel will check n swallow in Its flight.” “That 1» his boast, belike,’’ replied Marzak. “And what may thine be?" quoth Sakr-el-Bahr. “To hit the Island of Formentera at this distance?" "Dost dare to sneer at me?" cried Marzak ruffling. "What daring would that ask?" wondered Sakr-el Bahr. "By Allah, thou shalt learn.” “In all humility I await the lesson." "And thou shalt have it,” was the answer viciously deliver^. Marzak strode to the rail. "Ho There! Vigi tello:” A cross-bow for me, and an other for Sakr-el-Rahr.” Vigitello sprang to obey him. whilst Asad shook his head and laughed again. “And it were not against the proph et's law to make a wager . . he was beginning, when Murzak Interrupted him. '“Already should I have proposed one." "So that," said Sakr-el Bnhr, "thy purse would rome to match thine head for emptiness." Marzak looked at him and sneered. Then he snatched from Vigitello's hands one of ihe cross-bows that lie bore and set a shaft to it. And then at last Snkr-el-Bahr was to learn the malice that was at the root of all this odd pretence. “I.ook now," said the youth, ‘‘there is on that palmetto bale a speck of pitch scarce larger than the pupil of my eve. Thou’lt need to strain thy sight to see It. Observe how iny shaft will find it. >\mst thou better such a shot?’’ His eyes, upon Sakr-el Bahr's face, watching If closely, ohserved the pal lor by which it was suddenly over spread. Rut the corsair* recovery was almost as swift He laughed, seemingly so entirely careless that Marzak began to doubt whether he had paled Indeed or whether his own imagination had led him to suppose K. "Ay, thou'lt choose invisible marks, and wherever the Arrow enters thou'lt say 't was t^ere! An old trick. O Marzak. fio cozen women with it." "tSeii," said Marzak, "we will take instead the slender cord that binds the bale. And be leveled his t< <. Hut Sakr-el Bahr s hand clotted upon his nrm in an easy yet paralysing grip. (To Be f’onfimi*d Tonwmml St. I isiila Graduate* 1 1. York. Neb . June 2 -Kourteen graduates received diplomas at St. Ursula academy. Kev. Kdgar Hchmeid. ler of Atchison, Kan., made the graduation addros.^ .. ■ ■« 1 O Ilf THE NEBBS flOOK W TwAT MOB! IVJQmDER If mfWANlT WKTER OR If TMW ShR'MP AADVERTISED ^ roR MORE HELP ONE AT A TIME. --—————■ -—-- — Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hes* Barney Google and Spark Plug EXTRA DON MEnt>oIA . 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