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THE SEA-HAWK | terUSSS&wt*^ Part Two B> B"fwl Sabatini. ____>» (Contlnned From Yesterday.) But she was still ■cornfully reluc tant. "It Is too desperate a remedy even tor so desperate an ill,” said she. and thus drove him Into a frenzy of im patience with her. "You must, I say,” he insisted, al roost angrily. "You must—or else con sent to be borne this very night to Asads harem—and not even as his wife, but as his slave. Oh, you must trust me for your own sake! You must!" "Trust you!” she cried, and almost !aughed in the intensity of her scorn. "Trust you! How can I trust one who is a renegade and worse?" He controlled himself that he might reason with her, that hy cold logic he might conquer her consent, "You are very unmerciful," he said. "In Judging me you leave out of nil account the suffering through which I have gone and what yourself con tributed to it. Knowing now how falsely T was accused and what other 1 litter wrongs I suffered, consider that 1 was one to whom the man and the woman I most loved in all this world had proven false. I had lost faith in man and in God, and if I became a. Muslim, a renegade, and a corsair, it was because there was no other gate by which I could escape the un utterable toil of the oar to which I had been chained." He looked at her ■sadly. “Can you find no excuse for me in all that?” Jt moved her a little, for If she maintained a. hostile attitude, at least she put aside her scorn. "No wrongs," she told him, almost with sorrow in her voice, “could Jus tify you In outraging chivalry. In dis honoring your manhood, in abusing vour strength to persecute a woman. Whatever the causes that may have led to it, vou have fallen too low, sir. to make it possible that I should trust you." He bowed his head under the re buke which already he had uttered in his own heart. It was Just and mos* deser\ed, and since he recognized its justice he found it Impossible to re sent it. "I know," he said. "But I am not asking you to trust me to my profit, but to your own. It Is for your sake ■ lone that I implore you to do this.” 1 pon a sudden inspiration he drew the heavy dagger from his girdle and proffered It, hilt foremost. "If ion need an earnest of my good faith,” he said, "take this knife with " ' \ New York --Day by Day __) Ily «. O. M’INTVKK. New York, May 28 —The other li.ght in a hospital while New York ttas enfolded In sleep I was an In conspicuous actor in the greatest drama of life—Birth. The wife of one of my very closest friends was dipping into the shadows. In an anteroom I sat with him In breathless suspense. As the com placent nurses tip toed back and forth he watched, white faced and tense, for some sign. The minutes dragged into interminable hours. The faint Hush of dawn eatne with no word. Church chimes were sounding when In the doorway appeared the doctor who In close-clipped style of profes sional brusqueness said: "It s a^boy!" And the father slumped in his chair in a half faint. Twenty minutes later across the hall there was a lusty veil—a yell, It seemed to me, of tri umph. In the same hospital that night 2fi other lusty yells were heard. Upon leaving the hospital it seemed Incon gruous that people could he going about their petty affairs. It seemed ot me the world should halt to pay brief respect to t lie women crowned v ith the priceless diadem—mother hood. Birth, ft stems to rru>. should make us think more of death. It Is the greatest of all mysteries. And yet we pass it over as succinctly as the doctor with "It's a boyi" or "It’s a Kiri!" Death makes us pause to weep or to mourn and yet the greatest heartaches have started with birth. Most of us are inclined to gloss over Hie glorbs of motherhood with a few platitudes. Or a handclap for the mother song. Or a carnation on Mothers’ day. Twenty-seven women in or.e building were from dusk Until dawn facing death with sublime for titude. Unsung heroines nil—greater by far Ilian heroic generals who gird them Ives for death In battle., Writers are ofttimes as supersti tious as theatrical folk. There Is a - itccessful magazine writer who eon 11 acted for his first series of stories with George Horace Unrimer. It. so happened that day he was wearing a gray suit and a black tie. He has never had an appointment with an e ditor since that he does not appear 10 keep It wearing a gray suit and black tie. It seems out of pace with New Vork to hear a New Yorker Inquire: "What Is going on at the town hall tonight?" And yet the town hall on Forty-third afreet Is crowded almost nightly by those who want to hear a free and open discussion of public questions. The town hall was slow taking on, hut today It Is an nr tual center where the diverse con sclousness of New York Is being uni find and made articulate. When the city became unwelldy in size neigh borhood ties were weakened. There waa need for the old neighborly dis cussion of civic matters. The town hall has supplied that need. It 1« nonpartisan end nonsectarian—vole ing every shade of opinion. Any group of eitlzens, any organization or Institution may obtain the use nl the town hall free In addition to thi auditorium proper, the town hall houses the officers of the I.eague fin Political Education, the Civic Forum the Economic club and the Town I|al club. It Is a new rivic renter in thi very heart of the city. A Broadway comedian received the following letter: "Hear Sir: T took m\ wife to see your show last night am she laughed herself sick. Thank ym very much." A theater advertises a group ot midgets as "Bigger nrul better thar evei And every newspaper column 1st has fashioned an appropriate wheeze. I often wonder If peopli know how really Inleresllng midget! are I number several among my no quaintanoe. They are droll eonversa tlonahwts—and me adroit In turning lakes on themselves. Because the: / are more or less Isolated th".v an great readers. . . iCupyrlsht. DA) which tonight you attempted to stab yourself. At the tlrst sign that I am false to my trust, use it as you will— upon hie or upon yourself.” She pondered hhn In some surprise. Then slowly she put out her hand to false the weapon, as he bade her. She pondered him in some surprise Then slowly she put out her hand to take the weapon, as he bade her. "Are you not afraid,” she asked him, "that I shall use it now, and so make an end?" "1 am trusttngfl you," he said, "that In return yay may trust me. Fur ther. 1 am Rrming you against the worst. For If It comes to choice be tween death and Isad, 1 shall approve your choice of death? But let me add that It were foolish to choose death whilst yet there Is a chance of life.” "What chance?" she asked, with a faint return of her old scorn. "The chance of life with you?" "No,” he answered firmly. "If you will trust me, I swear that 1 will seek to undo the evil I have done. Listen. At dawn my gftleasse sets out upon a raid. I will convey you secretly aboard and find a way to land you in some Christian country—Italy or France—whence you may make your way home again." "But meanwhile," she reminded him, “I shall have become your wife." Ho smiled wistfully. "Bo you still fear a trap? Can naught convince you of my sincerity? A Muslim mar riage Is not binding upon a Christian, and I shall account it no marriage. It will he no more than a pretense to shelter you untit we are away." "How ran I trust your word in that?" "How?" He paused, baffled: but only for a moment. "You have the dagger,” he answered pregnantly. She stood considering, her eyes upon the weapon's lividly gleaming blade. "And this marriage?" she asked. "How Is it to take place?" He explained to her then that by the Muslim law all that was required was a declaration made before a kadi, or his superior, and in the presence of witnesses. He was still at Ills ex planatlon when from below there came a sound of voices, the tramp of feet, and the flash of torches. “Here Is Asad returning In force," he cried, and his voice trembled. "Bo you consent?" "But the kadi?” she Inquired, and by the question he knew that she was won to his way of saving her. "I said the kadi or his superior. Asad himself shall he our priest, his followers our witnesses." "And if he refuses? He will re fuse," she cried, clasping her hands before her in her excitement, "I shall nnt ask him. I shall take him by surprise." "It ... it must anger him. He may avenge himself for what he must deem a trick:” "Ay." he answered, wild eyed. "I have thought of that, too. But It Is a risk we must run. If we do not prevail, then—", "I have the dagger." she dried tea rlessly. "And for me there will he the rope or the sword." he answered. "Be calm! They come!" But the stepR that pattered up the stairs were Ali's. He flung upon the terrace In alarm. "My lord, my lord! Asad ed Bln Is here In force. Me has an armed fol lowing with him!” "There is naught to fear.” said Sakr-el Bahr. with every show of calm. "All will lie well." Asad swept up the stairs and out upon that terrace to confront his re bellious lieutenant. After him rame a dozen black robbed Janissaries with scimitars along which the light of the torches rippled in little runnels as of blood. The basha carne to a halt before Sakr-el-Bahr, his srms majestically folded, his head thrown back, so that his long white beard Jutted forward "I am returned," he said, "to em ploy force where gentleness will not avail. Yet I pray that Allah may have lighted thee to a wiser frame of mind.' "He has. Indeed,' my lord," replied Sakr-el-Bahr. "The praise to him?' exclaimed Asad In a voice that rang with Joy. "The girl, then!" And he held out a hand. Sakr-el-Bahr stepped hack to her and took her hand In his as if to lead her forward. Then he spoke the fateful words. "In Allah's holy name and In hi" all-seeing eyes, before thee, Asad Pd Bin. and in the presence of these wit nesses. I. take this woman to he my wife by the merciful law of the prophet of Allah the all wise, the all pitying." The words were out and th' thing was done before Asad had realized the corsair's Intent. A gasp of dls may escaped him, then his visage grew inflamed, his eyes blazed. But Sakr-el-Bahr, cool and undaunt ed before that royal anger, took the scarf that lav about Rosamund's shoulders, and raising It, flung It over her head, so that her face was covered by it. "May Allah rot off the hand of lim who in contempt of our l.ord Mahomet’s holy law may dare to un . ell that face, and may Allah bless :his union and east Into the pit of Gehenna any who shall attempt to Jissolve a bond that is tied in his all seeing eyes." Jt was formidable. Too formidable for Asad ed-Din. behind him his jan issaries like hounds in leasli stood eagerly awaiting his command. Rut none came. He stood there breath ing heavily, swaying a little, and turning from red to pale in the bat ile that was being fought within him between rage and vexation on the one hand and his profound piety on the other. And as he yet hesitated per haps Sakr-el Bahr assisted his piety to gain the day. "Now you will understand why I would not yield her, O mighty Asad," he said. "Thyself hast thou oft and rightly reproaehed me with my cell baey, reminding me that it ie not pleasing In the sight of Allah, that It is unworthy of a good Muslim. At last it hath pleased the prophet to send pie such a maid as 1 could take to wife." Asad bowed his head. "What Is writ ten," he said in the mice of one who admonished himself. Then he raised his arms aloft. "Allah is all-knowing." he declared. “His ilI be done'' "Ameen.” said Sakr-elBahr very solemnly and with a great surge of thankful prayer to his own long for gotten God. The basha stayed yet a moment, as If he would have spoken. Then abruptly he turned and waved a hand Ito his janissaries. "Away!** was ell he said to them, and stalked out In their wake. (To Bo Continued Tomorrow) St. Louis aviation searchlight car ries 20 mil's and would b* a fin# thing for hunting a collar button.— Aurora Beacon News. _ a a S'# « * * THE NEBBS ' THE WATER WAVE. 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