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II wish the general's Inspection day.
mid Ids remark was heard all over
Hi ' Mjusire. “Splendid **'• he exclaimed,
as V company passed the flagstaff.
TWO you hear that, Bill?” said a
ranker, Just after passing the saluting
Ilsur.
“Yon stand fast In the ranks after
iciruoc,” snapped a sergeant, "for talk
ing dirlng Inspection."
Next ihty he was brought before the
mUulant.
"Prlviite So-and-so, you are chargeil
with InJlting In the ranks during an :
inspection parade. What excuse have !
>*ui to offer?"
“Well,” replied the ranker, “as we
were imvslng the saluting pole 1 heard
the genemI remark. ‘Well done, lads!
Splendid!’ and, of course, me being
elevated over hearing such praise, re
i i:'i-l#sl. ‘Yes, mill you've got the
snmrfwd oflleer In (he ’whole army to
th nk for making us splendid, and
ihs’t'-: our adjutant!'”
“!>■—I say, sergeant, dismiss this
ms1*! ut once, mid don't bring such
t';v!: Ions complaints before me again!"
Forewarned.
lJffle Dorothy adored her oldest
JyirjotUi'!" Jcl'.u; It) fact, was Ids abject
'; 'st-jtlflk .Dbl otic day John was guilty of
’ojeanor for wlhcli Ids fa
ther iliiatghi a spanking was the only
_ iitVnimfe punishment, and proceeded
In aih ii’iistcr It.
DmlMhy witnessed It with her little
'bunds -tightly clenched; then she
Minted to her mother, and between sobs
•oxHfdnnd: i
“Oh. mother. I'm so sorry that cross
man is going to be the grandfather of
my children.”—.Harper's Magazine.
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1 III THE
? TEETH OF THE TIGER
MAURI CELEBLANO
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TRANSLATED BY
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
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' 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.”
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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. But all
went, well; the favorite was not
I jealous, far from it. And then, as
i l have told you, her submission
| was absolute. In short, I had five
! staunch, invisible friends, re
! solved to do anything I wanted
(and suspected by anybody.
(OtntiiScd Next Week.) 4
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