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“Placé no excess of faith in appearances, — re) my father!” he said. to thy tongue, Marzak, and may Allah the ge All-knowing smile upon our expedition, lending strength to our arms to smite the . - infidel to whom the fragrance of the garden is forbidden.” ~~ To this again Sakr-el-Bahr replied “Amen,” but an uneasiness abode in his heart summoned thither by the questions Marzak had set hith. Were they idle words calculated to do no more than plague him, and to keep fresh in Asad’s mind the memory of Rosamund, or were they based upon some actual knowledge? on that same score. He was leaning that afternoon upon the rail idly bserving the doling out of the rations to | ee HIS fears were to be quickened ‘soon e the slaves, when Marzak came to join him. For some moments he stood silently be- side Sakr-el-Bahr watching Vigitello and his men as they passed from bench to bench _ ing out biscuits and dried dates to the rowers—but sparingly, for oars move slug- gishly when stomachs are too well nour- ished—and giving each to drink a cup of vinegar and water in which floate@@a few drops of added oil. : Then he pointed to a large palmetto bale that stood on the waist-deck near the main- mast about which the powder barrels. were stacked. _ “That pannier,” he said, “seems to me oddly in the way yonder. Were it not ____ better to bestow it in the hold, where it will cease to be an encumbrance in case of action?” Sakr-el-Bahr experienced a slight tight- ening at the heart. He knew that Marzak had heard him command that bale to be borne into the poop-cabin, and that anon ____ he had ordered it to be fetched thence when - Asad had announced his intention of sailing with him. He realized that this in itself might be a suspicious circumstance; or, rather, knowing what the bale contained he was too ready to fear suspicion. Never- theless he turned to Marzak with a smile of some disdain. “T understood, Marzak, that thou art _ sailing with us as an apprentice.” — “What then?” quoth Marzak. “Why merely that it might become thee better to be content to observe and learn. Adventure — | Ae ae Thou'lt soon be telling me how grapnels should be slung, and how an action should “No more!” growled the Basha. “Peace ® be fought.” Then he pointed ahead to what seemed to be no more than a low cloud-bank toward which they were rapidly skimming before that friendly wind. ‘“‘Yonder,” he said, “are the Balearics. We are making good speed.” 3 “neem, Although he said it without any object other than that of turning the conversation, yet the fact itself was sufficiently remarkable to be worth acomment. Whether rowed by her two hundred and fifty slaves or sailed under her enormous spread of canvas there was no swifter vessel upon the Mediter- ranean than the galeasse of Sakr-el-Bahr. Onward she leaped now with bellying lateens, her well-greased keel slipping through the wind-whipped water at a rate which perhaps could not have been bettered by any ship that sailed. “Tf this wind holds we shall be under the Point of Aguila before$tinset, which will be something to boast of hereafter,” he ~ promised. Marzak, however, seemed but indifferent- ly interested; his eyes continued awhile to stray toward the palmetto bale by the main- mast. At length, without another word to (©) ANIC KOKO KS Com