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Il THE SEAL OF SECRECY
By EDWIN B aIRD
WHEN THE NILE
CROSSED RED SEA
FEAT ACCOMPLISHED BY
GEN.. AI ,I .ENBY.
Age . Old Prophecy Fulfilled
When Arabia Regained
Her Freedom.
"When the Nile shall cross the Red
Sea, then, and not till then, will
Arabia be free."
This is a saying which in Arabia has
come down through many centuries,
But could anything seem more ins -
possible of fulfillment?
Surely not. And yet the miracle has
been brought to pass. The waters of
the Nile have crossed over to Arabia
and that country, so picturesquely in-
teresting to students of history, has
been freed of the Turkish yoke.
Look at the map. Arabia is separ-
ated from northeast Africa by the
Red Sea. 'Until recent years the
CHAPTER IIF. r like steel. "You mean you could get separation was not complete because
'Warning! fl along if 1 helped you. Well, you're of a land strip at the north end can-
" g headed straight for disappointment. nesting Africa with Asia, Through
Judge Blackburn's stud} was on the 'ltarjoxie, as you ki:ow, ha4 nothing of this s#rip was clog the Suer Canal,
hied Boor—a Ise I from room, r:itlakher o��;za; and shaauld she be so unwise joining the waters of the Iced Sea
three se WElaio fa openedde street. mall' as to marry you, she will get nothing with those of the Mediterranean.
of these to *nclo:vs upon « s:nitallfront me—not one cent:" During the War one of the principal
verandah which seldom if ever :vas
used. I Quinn felt his face flesh hotly. For objectives of the Tullis was the Suez
The judge, ea tall, po seatedbuilat aingryyriresentmentsince
stirredentering
withiin heim., to destro they
usefulness toy would
ge it as
man az advanced age, was seated at a;
huge mahogany desk, his back to thea "If you do that, Judge Blackburn," thez`eby Millet a deadly blow upon the
door, when Quinn appeared on the he declared, striving hard to speak
over
l old. He looked up inquiringly! obstacle "you
t now as ands ove the
between uideationifar troops and lsupplies be»
us er his ehaezie.er. Recognizing Quinn, • tween Europe and the East.
his protruding, gray eyebrows drew a Marjorie and nae. IFlarjorie'a wealth,
together in a ;:;;owl. , or her praspe,;t of inheriting wealth It was of utmost importance to pre•
"I've nothing for The Star to-4from you, has been the one thing that vent them from doing this. According -
right," he said, and turned been to has often restrained me from asking ly, the British maintained a tormidable
i lies to share my life. army there with its base at Kan#era,
his Unbidden. eeitm , Quinn entered the! "Naturally-," remarked the judge, in on the east side of the canal. It vas
room, snang easily. ia sarcastic tone, "you haven't con- from Kentaro, that, late in the con-
sideredanything her. You haven't reflected on tlict. Allenby, the last of the crusaders.
Star to -night. I er:inat something for,
what .t will mean to her to give up a made his victorious march into Arabia
myself. • fortune for the sake of marrying you.
I You have thoarglit. only of yourself,, and through Palestine to Jaffa and
Judge Blaeklearn, vaithoet :oc.kingi
around. asked with coi.i moel ery: Isn't t that so?" Jerusalem.
"•Well.:;last do y‘rd want, for roar He permitted the young Haan no Water for the Troops.
@ chance to reply, but continued, with a Enemy opposition apart, the main
`elf • „ I touch of saidonee humor:
'I :stat Fees' nie�t�. sem Queen.; „ —.-,_ _ -.: _
eozning straight to tI»e Poirot. •'i %vette! This fortune x,1ay come to her-- "Ohl Now—I begin to see—what you
to marry her." 9
that i-'. if she doesn't marry you—
The judge ::venlig round in his r:: ive1 somewhat .eaonel• than she probably mean,"she said slowly, in. a dispirited
chair and eyed the outing man in a expects:' He took from the desk a voice, and quietly withdrew her hands.
strangely di contert:ing, cur:Qus way `sins et of pale blue note -paper and held Oh, Douglas! I never supposed ---I
His ragged ._eentenanco, his iron -gran t in his fingers as he tcaatinued: "Of nthan dreamed—you
u t told me you could
iris and
hrtir. hie entre being, in feet. seemed g 4aurse you know, a, every newspaper Ibelieved—" She left the Menten d
tfa xeilert a hard animosity; and his man in this city sloes, that 1 reeezve
reit*. always severe, was unusually .many anonymous letters, threatening` unfinished. Suddenly she turned and
'ani=tier when he said: ,. my life. Almost every federal judge swiftly entered her room.
'•Anti you expect my consent to . �� : does; but 1 seem to be espeeially1 After a momentary hesitation, he
,,,'marked for them since I sentenced followed her, tormented by the real-
s: marriage : izatian that to her he was only a
•'I hoped—both of us hoped—that that crowd of I. li . ii , to the federal `
ou r,a! ixt penitentiary in Leavenworth. 1 sordid fortune-hunter. Then, all at
.Ta, • +�„ i, 1 h • d ., • . This is the latest one It canoe dale once, this feeling was supplanted by
a. , t e au In el- another emotion. His restless gaze,
tel eel. "I'm sorry :o *Reappoint you. afternoon. and its author deliares I
thin:* is ab - is J preposterous " shall die before twelve o'clock to-' roaming about the pretty sitting room,. This method was pursued after the
••31:lrjt.ris t1Qe:rft think so --nor I, night." He glanced at his :watch. "It had encountered a dainty Tittle desk pipe line, which was carried. steadily
en iner; " , is now fifteen minute': pest nine. Ii ill a corner, and now his eyes became ahead through the desert, had been
"i'ion :you=t1 you support lies? what haven't much longer, have I?" Hei riveted there. On the desk was - a put into operation, for it was very de -
e i vee 1, r ui, i eta a n� ' small pearl -handled revolver. Like a sireble to. economize the . supply of
difficulty of that march was the water
supply, AIong most of the ratite
water that would serve for animals
was obtainable by sinking wells, but
it was too brackish for human beings.
In places there was water that Be-
douins could and slid drink, but it was
"too salty for Earopeaus..
At Kantara there was need of water
for many thousands of soldiers, and it
had to be fetched thither in tanks
from the "sweet water canal," which
runs parallel to the Suez canal, west
of the latter.
The lower. Nile, being invaded for
a long distance by the tides of the
Mediterranean, is salty But the
"sweet water canal' taps the river at
a point far up, bringing northward a
plentiful supply of fluid good to drie;-
It was Allenby who hit upon the
idea of tapping the "sweet w .ter
canal" and fetching its water I:y a
"siphon" across the Suez canal to Kan-
tara, whence it could be carried by
pipe line through the desert into
Arabia and as far as the army might
proceed.
The army engineers undertook the
business with great expeditiousness
and in a remarkably short time a
twelvennch pipe wen laid, connecting
the "sweet water canal" -with Kan
tara. It we,s of course, an iron pipe,
and the sections required for crossing
the Suez Canal were laid on the bot-
tom of that waterway:
It may 'be said here, by way of
parenthesis, that the British, to help
in the defense of the Suez canal, had
resorted to a very curious and interest
lug expedient. They dug out gaps in
its banks in a number of places and
therein put battiesbips, of obserete
pattern but formidably gunned, to',
Serve as forts.
As Allenby's army advanced a hail -
road was built, keeping pace with it,
to facilitate transportation, In the
beginning, before the pipe line was
constructed, water was carried by
camels to the workene and the troops
guarding them, in tanks of galvanized
Iron. As the railroad progressed, the
water was forwarded by rail and
siphoned into canvas reservoirs erect-
ed in convenient places.
These reservoirs were called "water
dumps," and were made of water-
proofed white or green canvas. their
average capacity being about 2,300 gal.
Ions. From them the water was si-
phoned into camel -borne iron tanks
for dig tribution to the troops.
"Cisterns" of Palestine.
The railroad was built in stretches
of five or ten miles and at the end of
each stretch wells were sunk to pro-
cure water for the horses and camels.
Then a small party of engineers would
go ahead, protected by mounted troops
and search for water.
prop' t ten you possil.ly offer her? chue2. ed gr mi. , l .n ,t ` bl d 1 ••r, ,. blotting -
Have ,sou thought of that'„ the anonymous Hite, and h,amletI it to thin, of evil, it lay on the blottin„
', ,• "Thu getting' pad,- beneath the green -shaded desk-
-Often. ..cd Quinn. Thu Quinn.Q
en a week on The Star, and—" 1 With horrified frstinat'on, Quinn lamp; and it brought back, in a flood,
That v:Qu:;in"t pay her dresshad been :=t. ring at the smell bit of all those harrowing thoughts of her,
r aa.e. s bills;" said the judge. ii:tie paper, scarcely able to believe She stood at a window, her shoa:l-
•'F.a+t.s of married led teuples laws on . Ills eye;; and now as his fingers closed ` tiers drooping, staring listlessly into
�. Besides, I'm due for a raise upon it, as he identified the violet odor the winters night. Presently, without
pretty seen, in. I think; and I'm fitting :;hash Clung to it, he had
a inrai dullsllif she
ae:t him and "Ther a said
no-
myselx; for the city editor's job, :vhicli! violentshock. His host sad not'm ked
fes ?n('Qti a year. Marjorie and I 1 him to sit down, so he had remained , thing
omore to be said—except good-
,ald feet along well enough." ; stand?nng throughout his call;'i bye."ut now,
Judge Blackburn, leaning back in"Marjorie--" uninvited, he sank into the nearest! he began passionately.
his bhth swivel chair,. lowered his mas- chair, the paper trembling in his' He took a step toward her, but the
: e head and regarded Quinn fromnervous fingers, his thoughts awliirl. expression on her face dismayed him.
lemon ath his shaggy eyebrows. Itis l The crude lettering, printed with a He murmured "Good -night," turned
eaze was pezuliar;y disconeertinr, i lead pencil, became only a blur be; and left the house.
"I think I see what you mean," he # fore his eyes. In his chaotic brain a
fend. nrel the measured syllables Cut flaming thought stood out in clear-cut
!relief:
^•--^� - I Marjorie had written this!
}s % l;" teres 1 CHAPTER, IV.
► i The Broken Betrothal
Like a man dazed, Quinn started
down the quiet thoroughfare toward
the next corner, where he intended to
catch a street car. When half way
there, he heard two revolver shots ring
out sharply. He .stopped short in his
tracks, electrified, his senses suddenly
PAYABLE HALF YEARLY Qu:nn returners the note to Judge1tense and alert. In another moment
Allowed cn money Ieft with us for Blackburn. He murmured something he was running back in the direction
from three to ten years. ; indistinetly —he scarcely knew what—, of the Blackburn home. As he ran
while struggling to regain his lost he glanced, instinct vely, at the third -
Write for Booklet. floor front windows.
i Composure. A light still shone in Judge Black-
, The Great West Permanent 1 At this juncture a servant (a new
Loan pomp y, 1 arrival in he Blackburn household,burn's study, and one of the windows,
Toronto Office 20 King St. wast I named Zuttermeister) came to thwhich opened on the balcony, was
f door and announced: •lir, licKinloelc oP • An instant later he saw a dark
is calling. sir."
Judge Blaekburn looked surprised.
"MeKinlock?" he echoed, puzzled.
-Are you sure it is he?"
"Yes; sir; the same gentleman who
called before, sir."
"Very well. Ask him to come up." girl scream, piercingly. Then all was
The servant departed, and Quinn still—except for his tumultuous noise
arose. Judge Blackburn stopped him
as he moved toward the door, and his at the door.
After what seemed an interminable
utterance, unlike his prior speech, was length of time, the door was opened
almost kindly: by a frightened maid servant, whose
"Think over what I've said, my boy, face was as white as her linen collar.
and I believe you will agree with me. Speechless with fear, she pointed
If you care for Marjorie's future hap- hounded up the stairs. ultoward the study, and he
piness—and. I hope you do'—you will
give her up. Good -night, my boy."
Scarcely hearing what Judge Black-
burn said, nor caring to hear, Quinn
left the room and started downstairs,
his thoughts still swirling madly
around a baffling enigma: Had Mar-
jorie threatened her uncle's life? room, telling the..maid who trembling
He passed MeK,inl.ock on the stairs, ly had followed him, to sunnmon edos-
and spoke to him absently. So pre- .tor. He then returned to the study.
occupied were his thoughts that the
peculiarity of McKinlock's returning
passed unnoticed.
When Quinn reached the second -
floor landing, Marjorie stood in the
doorway of her sitting room.
"Well?" she asked eagerly, as he
moved toward her. "What did he
sen?"
Holding her hands in his, gazing
,into her eyes, young Quinn experienc-
ed great difficulty in.bringinghimself
to say:
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form, presumably that of a man, climb
up over the cornice of the roof above
the balcony and disappear.
Quinn quietly rang the door -bell and
pounded frantically on the thick glass
panel. Somewhere, inside, he heard a
drinking water for the soldiers. and
the animals could get along well
enough with the somewhat blackish
fluid derived from wells.
Experience proved that the most
likely place to look for water was at
the foot of one of diose high sand
dunes which, driven by wind, are per-
petually though slowly travelling over
the desert. Such a dune has a steep
side—which is the side away from the
prevailing wind—and at the bottom
of this sand cliff was a good place to
dig.
It was found that a horse would
drink water with six parts of salt in
1,000. A camel will acept water with
fifteen parts of salt •in 1,000.
When Allenby's forces got as far as
the Judean hills, the problem of water
solved itself in an .entirely different
way. It was still the rainless season
and the country was so rocky as to
offer little opportunity for well dig-
ging. But, happily, during the march
to -ward Jerusalem much rain water
was found stored from the previous
winter in curious "cisterns" hollowed
out of the rock. These are in many
cases natural, having been merely im-
proved by the natives. They are like
gigantic jugs, many of them twenty
feet or more in diameter, but,invari-
ably with only a small opening at the
ground level—a sort of • bottle neck
which, to prevent evaporation, is cus-
tomarily corked with a boulder. •
The most interesting part of the
story, however, is the bringing of the
Nile across. the Red Sea. For that, in
effect, was' what was accomplished, in-
asmuch as the Suez canal is a don-
tinuation, though artificial of that
body,of
of water. And when the miracle
-was actually performed,, Arabia, in
obedience to the age-old prophecy,
regained her freedom.
The study door was open; Marjorie
lay, face down, across the threshold,
and her uncle sat in the swivel chair.
His massive head was bowed and his
waistcoat stained with blood.
Quinn lifted the, unconscious girl
and carried her into an adjacent bed
"I'm afraid, Marjorie, we'll have to
break off our engagement:. I can't
marry you," '
He felt -'her hands tighten •oonvuls-
Judge Blackburn was dead: On the
floor, beside the chair, lay Marjorie's
pearl -handled revolver!
(To be continued.)
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"What did he say?" she insisted,
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"I a said he •would disinherit you."
A disquieting Change came over her.
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