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New York’s combined railway tick et office requires 00 ticket clerks. i unsatisfactory I suppose you moke I a change from I +u'' r.!d-+ir^<* beverage to the 1 | snappy cereal drink .You'll be I surprised at its cheering, satis- 1 fyinrt qualities de\hifuj I 1 III THE ? TEETH OF THE TIGER MAURI CELEBLANO * I TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS ~ ' CH.A I*XER SEVENTEEN (Continued ! ■ “And if I give you my word of honor, Monsieur Ie President, to return the moment iny task is done and give myself upt” i Valcnglay struck the table with his fist and, raising his voice, ad dressed Don Luis with a certain genial familiarity: | “Come, Arsene Lupin,” he said, “play the game! If you really want to have your way, pay for it! Hang it all, remember | rhat after all this business, and 1 especially after the incidents of last night, you and Florence Le vasseur will be to the public what you already are; the responsible actors in the tragedy; nay, more, the real and only criminals.And it is now, when Florence Levassenr has taken to her heels, that you come and ask for your liberty! Very'well, but damn it, set a price to it and don’t haggle with me!” “I am not haggling, Monsieur I President,” declared Don Luis, in 'a very straightforward manner ! more extraordinary and tremend j ous than you imagine. But if it were twice as extraordinary and twice as tremendous, it would not count onee Florence Levasseur’s life is in danger. 'Nevertheless, I was entitled to try for a less ex pensive transaction. Of this your j words remove all hope. I will therefore lay my cards upon the table, as you demand, and as T had made up my mind to do.” He sat down opposite Valen glay, in the attitude of a man treating with another on equal terms. “I shall not be long. A single sentence, Monsieur le President, will express the bargain which I am proposing to the Prime Min ister of my country.” And looking Valeuglay straight in the eyes, he said slowly, syll able by syllable: I 4 4 1 .. _ .1. __ i* . 44 .1 1 t I • 1 I 40 [that matter is how [ employed my time, or, rattier, how Arsene Lupin employed his time during the last three years of his service with the Foreign Legion.” “These inquiries were made by my orders,” said Valenglay. “And they led^-?” ‘ To nothing.” “So that you do not know what I did during my captivity?” “Just so.” » “I will tell you, Monsieur le President. It will not take me long.” Don Luis pointed with a pencil to a spot in Moiocco marked on the map. , “It was here that I was taken prisoner on the twenty-fourth of July. My capture seemed queer to Monsieur le Prefect de Police and to all who subsequently heard the details of the incident. They were astonished that I should have been foolish enough to get caught in ambush and to allow myself to be trapped by a troop of forty Berber horse. Their surprise is justified. My capture was a deliberate move on my part. “You will perhaps remember, Monsieur le President, that I en listed in the Foreign Legion after making a fruitless attempt to kill myself in consequence of some really terrible private disasters. I wanted to die, and I thought that a Moorish bullet would give me the final rest for which 1 longed. “Fortune did not permit it. My destiny, it seemed, was not yet fulfilled. Then what had to be was. Little by little, unknown1'to myself, the thought of death van ished and 1 recovered my love of life. A few rather striking feats of arms had given me back all my self confidence and all my desire for action. “New dreams seized hold of me. 1 fell a victim to a new ideal. From day to day I needed more space, greater independence, wider horizons, more unforeseen and-personal sensations. The Le gion, great as my affection was for the plucky fellows who had welcomed me so cordially, was no longer enough to satisfy my crav ing for activity. k.A. 1 * 1 . a 1 • 1 • In exchange lor 24 hours lib erty anil no more, undertaking on my honor to return here tomor row morning and to return here either with Florence, to give you every proof of her innocence, or without her, to constitute mvself a prisoner, t offer you-'f He took his time and, in a ser ious voice, concluded: ‘1 offer you a kingdom, Mon siour le President du Conseil.” j The sentence sounded bombas tic and ludicrous, sounded silly enough to provoke a shrug of the shoulders, sounded like one of those sentences which only an im becile or a lunatic could utter. I And yet Valenglay remained im , passive, fte knew that, in such circumstances as the present, the man before him was not the man to indulge in jesting. And he knew it so fully that, instinctively, accustomed as lie was to momentous political ques tions in which secrecy is of the utmost importance, he cast a glance toward the Prefect of Po lice, as though M. Desmalion’s presence in the room" hindered him. ‘‘I positively insist,” said Don Luis, “that Monsieur le Prefect de Police shall stay and hear what I have to say. He is better able than any one else to appre ciate the value of it; and lie will bear witness to its correctness in certain particulars." “Speak!” said Valenglay. llis curiosity knew no bounds. He did not much cure whether Pirn Luis's iirnor-'t < i t .. any practical results. In his heart i he did not believe in it. But what ! lie wanted to know was the j lengths to which that demon ol” audacity was prepared to go. and on what new prodigious adven ture lie based the pretensions which he was putting forward so calmly and frankly. Don Luis smiled: “Will you allow iue?t” he •sked. 'Rising and going to the mantel-' piece, he took down from the wall a small map representing North west Africa. He spread it on the table, placed different objects on the four eornej's to hold it in position, and resumed: ‘ There is one matter, onsmur le President, which puzzled Mon sieur le Prefect de Police and about which l know that he caused inquiries to be made; and One day, without thinking much about it, in a blind prompt ing of my whole being toward a great adventure which I did not clearly see, but which attracted me in a mysterious fashion, one day, finding myself surrounded by a hand of the enemy, though still in a position to fight, I al lowed myself to be captured. “That is the whole story, Mon sieur le President. As a prisoner, I was free. A new life opened be fore me. However, the incident nearly turned out badly. My three dozen Berbers, a troop de tauhed from an important nomad tribe that used to pillage and put to ransom the districts lying on the middle chains of the Atlas Range, first galloped back to the little cluster of tents wdiere the wives of their chiefs were en camped under the guard of some ten men. They packed off at once; and, after a week's march which 1 found pretty arduous, for 1 was on foot, with my hands tied behind my hack, following a mounted party, they stopped on a narrow upland commanded by rocky slopes covered with skele tons iiiounldering among the isimi.'s and "r : i j French swords and other weap ons. “Here they planted a stake in |the ground and fastened.me to it. I gathered from the behavior of my raptors and from a few words which l overheard that my death was decided on. They meant to cut off my ears, nose, a ml tongue, and then my head. “However, they began by pre paring their repast. They...went to a well close Itv, ate and drank and took no further notice of me except to laugh at me and des cribe the various treats they held in store for me. . . . An other night passed. The torture was postponed until the morning, a; time that suited -them better. At break of day they crowded round ' me, uttering yell:, and shouts with jwhich were mingled the shrill ieries of the women. - . ' —'£ — “When my shadow covered a line which they had marked on the sand the night before, they ceased their din, and one of them, who was to perforin the surgical operations prescribed for me, stepped forward and ordered me to put out my tongue. I did so. He took hold of it with a corner of his burnous and, with his other hand, drew his dagger from its : sheath. “I shall never forget the fer ocity, coupled with ingenuous de light, of his expression, which was; like that of a mischievous boy; amusing himself by breaking a bird’s wings and legs . Nor shall T ever forgi t <he man’s stupefac tion vvelicn he saw that his danger no longer consisted of anything but the pommel and a harmless and ridiculously small stump of the blade, just long enough to keep in its sheath. Jlis fury was revealed by a splutter of curses and he at once rushed at one of his friends and snatched his dag ger from him. “The same stupefaction follow ed : this dagger was also broken off at the hilt. The next thing was a general tumult, in which one and all brandished their knives. But all of them uttered howls of rage. “There were 45 men there; and their 45 knives were smashed. The chief flew at me as if holding me responsible for this incomprehensible phenome non. He was a tall, lean old man, slightly hunch-backed, blind of one eye, hideous to look upon. He aimed a huge pistol’blank at my head and ho struck me as so ugly that I hurst out laughing in his face. He pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. He pulled it again. The pistol again missed fire. “All of them at once began to dance around the stake to which 1 was fastened. Gesticulating wildly, hustling one another and roaring like thunder, they leveled their various firearms at me: muskets, pistols, carbines, old Spanish blunderbusses. The ham clicked. But the muskets, pistols, carbines, and blunderbusses did not go off! “It was a regular nyracle. You should have seen their faces. I never laughed so much in my life; and this completed their bewild erment. “Some ran to the tents for more powder. Others hurriedly re loaded their arms, only to meet with fresh failure, while I did nothing but laugh! The thing could not go on indefinitely. There were plenty of other means of doing away with me. They had their hands to strangle me with, the butt ends of their muskets to smash my head with, pebbles to stone me with. And there were over 40 of them! The old chief picked up a bulky stone and stepped toward me, his features distorted with hatred. He raised himself to his full height, lifted the huge block, with the assistance of two of his men, above my head and dropped it— in front of me, on the stake! It was a staggering sight for the poor old man. I had, in one sec ond, unfastcred ray bonds and sprung backward; anti I was standing at three paces from him, with my hands outstretched be fore me, and holding in those out stretched hands the t\\*o revolvers which had been taken from me on the day of my capture! “What followed was the busi ness of a few seconds. The chief now began to laugh as 1 had laughed, sarcastically. To his mind, in*the disorder of his brain, those two revolvers with which I threatened him could have uo more effect than the useless weap ons which had spared ni.v life. He took up a large pebble and raised his hand to hurl it at my face, llis two assistants did the same. And all the others were prepared to follow his example. ! “‘Hands down!’ 1 cried, ‘or l fire!’ The chief lot fly his stone. At the same moment three shots ram? out The (*♦»'»o‘‘ 1 his [two .... u fell dead to the ground. I‘Who’s next?' i asked, looking i round the band. “Forty-two Moors remained. I : had eleven bullets left. As none J of the men budged, 1 slipped one of my revolvers under uiy arm aiid took from my pocket two small boxes of cartridges contain ing 50 more bullets. And from Piny belt I drew three great knives, all of them nicely tapering and ipointed.' Half of the troop made j signs of submission and drew up in line behind me. The other half capitulated a moment after. The j battle was over. It had not lasted four minutes.” - CHAPTER XVIII. Arsene I Emperor of M&nret&nia. • _ Don Luis ceased. A smile of ^amusement played round Iris lips. The recollection of those four minutes seemed to divert him im mensely. V'alenglay and the Prefect of Police, who were neither of them [ men to be unduly surprised at courage and coolness, had listened to him, nevertheless, and were now looking at him in bewilder ered silence. Was it possible for a human being to carry heroism to such.unlikely lengths? Meanwhile, he went up to the other side of the chimney and pointed to a larger map, repre senting the French roads. “You told me, Monsieur le President, that the scoundrel’s motor car had left Versailles and was going toward Nantes?” “Yes, and all our arrangements are made to arrest him either on the way, or at Nantes or at Saint Nazaire, where he may intend to take ship.” Don Luis Parenna followed with his forefinger the road across France, stopping here and there, marking successive stages. And nothing could have been more impressive than this dumb show. T lie man that he was, preserv ing his-composure amid the over throw of all that he had most at heart, seemed by his calmness to dominate time and circumstances. It was as though the murderer were running away at one end of an unbreakable thread of which Don Luis held the other, and as though Don Luis could stop his flight at any time by a mere movement of his finger and thumb. As he studied the map, the master seemed to command not only a sheet of cardboard, but al so the highroad on which a mo tor car was spinning along, sub ject to his despotic will. He went back to the table and continued : “The battle was over. And there was no question of its be ing resumed. My 42 worthies found themselves face to face with a conqueror, against whom revenge is always possible, by fair means or foul, but with one who had subjugated them in a super natural manner. There was no other explanation of the inexplic able faets which they had wit nessed. I was a sorcerer, a kind of marabout, a direct emissary of the Prophet.” Valenglay laughed and said: “Their interpretation was not so very unreasonable, for after all, you must have preformed a slight-of-hand trick which strikes me>also as being little less than miraculous.” “Monsieur le President, do you know a curious short story of Balzac’s called ‘A"Passion in the Desert?” “Yes.” “Well, the key to the riddle lies in that.” “Does it? T don’t quite see. You were not under the elaws of a tigress. There was no tigress to tame in this instance.” “No, but there were women.” “Eh? How do you mean?” “Upon my word, Monsieur le President,” said Don Luis gayly, “I should not like to shock you. But I repeat that the troop which carried me q£f on that week’s march included women; and women are like Blazac’s tigress, creatures whom it is not impossi ble to tame, to charm, to break in, until yqp make friends of them.” “Yes, yes,” muttered the Pre-j mier, madly' puzzled, “hut that needs time.” “1 had a week.” “And complete liberty of ac tion.” “No, no. Monsieur le President. The eyes are enough to start with. The eyes give rise to sympathy, interest, affection, • curiosity, a wish to know you hotter. And that merest opportunity-■” “And did an opportunity of fer?” “Yes, one night. I was fast ened up. or at least they thought. * was. ! knew that tiie chief’s favorite was alone in her tent close by. I went there. I left her an hour afterward.” “And the tigress was tamed?” “Yes, as thoroughly as Bal zac's: tamed and blindly suhmis ! sive. ’ ’ “But there were several of them?” “I know. Monsieur le Presi dent and that was the difficulty. I was afraid of rivalry. 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