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THE SEA-HAWK n»t°"hauo™lu‘ PUrtar*. Part Two By Rafael Sabatini. V______j (Continued From Yrttrrday.) "Ay, what now? What are we to do? Are we to lie crushed under his rage until we are ruined indeed? He Is bewitched. That jackal has en chanted him, so that he must deem well done all that is done by him. Allah guide us here, Marzak, or thou'lt he trampled into dust by Sakr el-Bahr.” Marzak hung hie head; slowly he moved to the divan and flung himself down upon Its pillows; there he lay prone, his hands cupping his chin, his heels in the air. "What can I do?*’ he asked at last. "That Is what I most desire to . know. Something must be done, and soon. May my bones rot! If he lives thou art destroyed." "Ay," said Marzak, with sudden vigor and significance, "if he lives!" And lie sat up. "Whilst we plan and plot, and our plans and plots come to naught save to provoke the anger of my fattier, we might be better em _ ployed in taking the shorter way." She stood in the middle of the cham ber, pondering him with gloomy eyes. "I, too, have thought of that," said she. "I could hire me men to do the thing for a handful of gold. But the risk of it. . .” "Where would be the risk once he / is dead?" "lie might pull us down with him, and then what would our profit he in his death? Thy father would avenge him terribly." "If it were craftily done we should not he discovered." “Not he discovered?” she echoed, and laughed without mirth. "How young and blind thou art. O Marzak! We should he the lirst to he suspect ed. 1 have mado no secret of my hate of him, and the people do not love me. They would urge thy fatlier to do justice even were he himself averse to it, which i will not credit would he the case. This Sakr-el Bahr —may Allah wither him!—is a god In their eyes. Bethink thee of the welcome given him! What Basha re turning in triumph was ever greeted by ttie like? These victories that fortune has vouchsafed him have made him divinely favored and pro tected. I tell thee. Marzak, that did thy father die tomorrow Sakr-el-Bahr would he proclaimed Basha of Algiers In his stead, and woe betide us then. And Asa del Pin grows old. True, he does not go forth to tight. He ulings to life and may last long. But if he should not, and if Sakr el-Bahr should still walk the earth when thy father's destiny Is fulfilled, t dare not think what then will he thy fate and mine.” , , “May his grave be denied!" growled Marzak. "His grave?" said she. "The difll cuplty is to dig it for 1dm without ^ —--—-\ New York --Day by Day V_-^j By O. 0. M'INTVBE. New York, May 13.—New York going to work in the morning raises a monotone of 1,000.000 tramping feet. It can be heard Works away from the beaten paths. It is com parable somewhat to the incessant swish of the sea. Workers fairly gush but of sub ways, railroad terminals, elevated railways and surface cars. To most of them breakfast lias been a glacial repast. They must fly away to be on time at the office. It is a rush ing army that rarely smiles. All the varying shades of hu manity me splotched in the patch quilt of metropolitan life. There art slick and accurate nun born to figures. Prim ladies who drip sec retarial efficiency. Pretty steno graphic fluffs who are interested in the luncheon date more than work. old men who feel themselves slip ping but must carry on. Natty counter clerks and seedy types of the shipping room and hack stairs. The most impresive thing Is their aloof ness. They plod along looking neither to the right nor left. There is no talk. I.ips appear sewn together in a firm line. Withal it is an arrogant and cock sure procession. New \ orkers do not fear the job as do workers in other cities. iTo lie fired is no dis grace. Nobody knows and there is another job around the corner. The future rarely stretches farther than two weeks ahead. The high tide of the procession is on Forty-second street around 8:30 o’clock. They walk westward to Fifth avenue and scatter everywhere —to the garment district, big and lit tle stores, office buildings and a hun ' dred and one other places of employ ment. It is all quite different at 6 in the evening when the workers sweep to their homes. It is the end of another day and the safety valve of restraint lias popped. There is laughing, good natured elbowing and quick stepping to the evening pleasures to come. Manhattan workers, too, have a dozen dialects. There is the patois of the east side which bites oft the "r" such as “thold," “bold” and ‘skoit.” Then there is ttiat strictly New Yorkcse which adds the ’’r" such us “I sawr him before he left for Cuber.” Also the broad "a” of the intellectuals that pronounce ’’can't ■’cawnt.'' Broadway has its infusion of slang which makes speech ellipti cal and swift. A phrase is used to answer almost any question. Up In the Bronx there Is a dragging cadence to speech—a half nasal twang. Brooklyn worries less about work than any other section of the town. The actor who works a week and lays off seven is never worried. Many New Yorkers will work for six months and loaf the other six along the White Way. Indolence Is a mark of dlstinc lion. It Indicates one Is "putting something over”—a wise guy. Almost any cafe has its I o'clock in the after noon breakfast crowd. They hay*- no fear of the morrow. The hardest workers are those who come to New York from the west and middle weet. A pawn ticket to them Is a sign of failure. They have rome to New York with Main Street’s ac colade ringing In the ears: "Podunk’s loss Is New York’s gain." If they fall, they are disgraced and so they work hard and as a ride climb. There are many employers who will not hire the born New Yorker. Perhaps the above Is unfair to the rara avia—the born New Yorker, hut 1 can nt the moment think of aix na tive New Yorkers among my acquaint ances. Their occupations are as fol lows: A taxi starter, a capable dra matle critic, the head of a silk house, a theatrical producer, a quick lunch proprietor and a hotel clerk. <Cop>-rl»ht, hurt to ourselves. Shaitan protects i the dog.” "May he make his bed In hell!” said Marzak. "To curse him will not lidlp us. Up, Marzak, and consider how the thing is to be done.” Marzak came to his feet, nimble , and supple as a grayhound. "Listen now,” he said. "Since 1 must go this voyage with him, per chance upon the seas on some dark night .opportunity may serve me.” "Wait! Let me consider it. Allah guide me to find some way!” She beat her hands together and bade the slave girl who answered her to summon her wazeer Ayoub, and bid a litter be prepared for her. “We'll to the sok, O Marzak, and see these slaves of him. Who knows but that something may be done by means of them! Guile will serve us betel- than mere strength' against that misbegotten son of shame." "May ills house be destroyed!” said Marzak. CHAPTER X. ( ompotitors. The open space before the gates of the Sok-el-Aljeed was thronged with a mptley, jostling, noisy crowd that at every moment was being swelled by the human streams pouring to mingle in it from the debouching labyrinth of narrow, unpaved streets. There wore broken skinned Berbers in black goat hair cloaks that were made in one piece with a cowl and decorated by a lozenge of red or orange color on the back, their shav en heads encased in skull caps or simply bound in a cord of plaited camel hair; there were black Saha rowi who went almost naked, and stately Arabs who seemed overmuf icd in their flowing robes of white with the cowls overshadowing their swarthy, finely featured faces; there were dignified and prosperous looking Moors in brightly colored selhams astride of sleek mules that were rich ly caparisoned: and there were Taga rcenes, the banished Moors of Anda lusia, most of whom followed the trade of slave dealers; there were native Jews in somber black djella bas, and Christian Jews—so-called be cause bred in Christian countries, whose garments they still wore; there were Levgntine Turks, splendid of dress and arrogant of demeanor, and there were humble Cololies, Kabyies and Biscaries. Here a water seller, laden with his goatskin vessel, tinkled his little bell; there an orange hawker, balancing a basket of the golden fruit upon his ragged turban, bawled his wares. There were men on foot and men on mules, men on donkeys and mdn on slim Arab horses, an ever-shifting medley of colors, all jostling, laughing, cursing in the ar dent African sunshine under the blue sky where pigeons circled. In the shadow of the yellow tapia wall squat ted a line of whining beggars and cripples soliciting alms; near the gates a little sjzace had been cleared and an audience had gathered in a ring about a Meddah—a beggar-trou ibadour—who, to tlie accompaniment of gimbri and gaitah from two aco lytes, chanted a doleful ballad In a thin, nasal voice. Those of the crowd who were pa trons of the market held steadilj amain, and. leaving their mounts out side. passed through the gates through which there was no admittance for mere Idlers and mean folk. Within the vast quadrangular Space of bare, dry ground, enclose^ by dust-colored walls, there was more space. The sale of slaves had not yet begun and was not due to begin for another hour, and meanwhile a little trading was being done by those merchants who had obtained the coveted right to sot up their booths against tho walls; they were vendors of wool, of fruit, of spices, and one or two traded in jewels and trinkets for the adorn ment of the faithful. A well was sunk in the middle of the ground, a considerable octagon with a low parapet in three steps. U|K>n the nethermost of these sat nil aged, bearded Jew in a black djellHba, his head swathed in a colored ker chief. Upon his knees reposed a broad, shallow black box, divided Into compartments, each filled with les ser gems and rare stones, which he was offering for sale; about him stood la little group of young Moors and one or two Turkish officers, with sev eral of whom the old Israelite was haggling at once. The whole of the northern wall was occupied by a long penthouse. Its con tents completely masked by curtains of camel from behind it pro ceeded a subdued murmur of human voices. These were the pens in which I were conlined the slaves to be offered tor sale thm day. Before the cur tains, on guard, stood some dozen corsairs with attendant negro slaves. Beyond and above the wall glis tened the white dome of a zowla, flanked by a spear like minaret and the tali heads of a few date palms whose long leaves hung motionless In the hot air. Suddenly in the crowd beyond the gates there was a commotion. From i.ne of tii" streets six colossal Nu bians advanced with shouts of; "Oak! Oak! Warda! Way! Make way!" They were armed with great staves, graeped in their two hands, and with these they broke a path through that motley press, hurling men to right and left and earning a shower of curses in return. , "Balak! Make way! Way for the Lord Asad-el-Din, the exalted of Al lah! Way!" The crowd, pressilig back, went down upon its knees and groveled as Asad-ed-Din on a milk-white mule rode forward, escorted by Taamanni, his wazeer, and a cloud of black-robed janissaries with flashing scimitars. The curses that had greeted the vio lence of his negroes were suddenly silenced; Instead, blessings as fevent tilled the air. "May Allah increase thy might’ May Allah lengthen thy days! The blessings of our Lord Mahomet upon tliee' Allah semi thee more victories'" |\vere the benedictions that showered Upon him on every hand. He re turned them as became a man who was supremely pious and devout. "The peace of Allah upon the faith ful of the prophet’s house," he wmuld murmur 1n response from time to time, until at last he had reached the gates. There he had Tsamanni fling a purse to the crouching beggars— for is it not written in the Most Per spicuous Bonk that of alms ye shall bestow what ye can spare, for such as are saved from their own greed shall prosper, and whatever ye give 4n alms, as seeking the face of Allah, shall be doubled unto you? Submissive to the laws as the mean est of his subjects, Asad dismounted and passed on foot Into the sok. He came to a halt by the well, and far lug the curtained penthouse, he blessed the kneeling crowd and com manded all to rise. He beckoned Sakr-el Bahr’s officer Ali—who was in charge of the slaves of the corsair's latest raid—and an nounced his will to Inspect the cap tives. At a sign from Ali the negroes hung aside the camel hair curtains and let the fierce sunlight beat in upon those pent-up wretches; they were not only captives taken hy P*! elBahr, but some others who w>?«* the result of one or two lesser ratdj bv Biskaine. (To be f'onttmied Tomorrow ) Easy Job. 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