Major Blake Assured that it was "The Will of Allah" father thought to provide against a dénowement of this sort by educnting both the boy and girl in Europe. He chose a bride for his son from the right shelf of orthodoxy, and having betrothed, or firstly' married these children, hho sent the boy to England, the girl to Paris, 'When they were about 18 they wore fetched back to India, and there was a great second marriage,' the marriage proper, in which they walked the seven steps round the sacred fire, and began their life as man and wife.
"The girl had come back a trans-lotion into French. She spoke nothing but French; she dressed French, even to hat and shoes. She found herself an inmate of a zenana with women of all generations, from great-grandmother downwards, with none of whom had she a word or thought or ambition in common. The women in their turn were horrified at her. She had none of the attributes "of a Hindu bride proper. True, they could re-translate her into the vernacular, They could make her put away her French Sripperies and dress in sarees and wear bare fect, which they delighted to dye with henna; they could put the black absit omen ointment un-
Ger her eyes, and oil her hair till it clung in close, sticky strands to her forehead. To all these things she submitted like one from whose body the soul has fled; but they could not make her speak their language ina day, nor ina day could they teach her the worship of her husband—how to cook his food end wait upon him, or the wifely etiquette, how to hide her face in Major Blake, the "Daily News" Aviation Correspondent, ho has just returned from an adventurous. Journey through the desert, came across an island which the superstitious natives suggest actually Take jo hid itself below the surface of the the island last year and that this year it had vanished.
"There were seven in our party Major Blake yesterday, "and we made the journey to the Senussi country around Siwa, on the borders of Egypt and Tripoli, in four Ford cars. One woman, Mrs. Stubbs, was in the party, and the journey' was made by way of Mersa, Matruh and Sollum. Among suspect that her tragic little wan face and her silence, and the impression she gave as of a light put out by some rough, careless hand were her best advocates with the women of that zenana. At last the oldest of the women spoke. "Tell us what we can do,' she said, to make you less unhappy."
"And she, poor child ever solitary while ever companioned, pining for privacy and for the sound of the Innguage of happier days, for the touch of familiar things, begge: Let me have one hour a week to myself: to do as I will. I will break no rules."
"And when this wish was granted, she dressed herself in her French clothes, hat and all, and walked up and down the room talking French loud to herself!" ited without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.