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Te 4/ im "Have mercyâ€"ah!" His strangled voice died away in a moaning cry as Julian struck him on the head with the butt of the automatic. He lay and rollâ€" ed on the sand, and Julian, in what seemed to the watching Hyat to be an ecstacy of rage kicked and kicked again at the dim figure on the ground. Half conscious. Haffi begged incoherently for mercy, but the infuriated Julian kicked and struck at him until he lay still and silent. "You think you can play a game lik® that with me? I‘ve heard all about you from Miss Ormond. You little thieving swine, you were going away with those camels! Did you think you wouldn‘t haye me to reckon with, when you inâ€" zsuited my sister?" His voice rose high and threatening in the stillress of the evening. Haffi began a lowâ€"voiced, sneering protest, which quickly changed to a note of fear. "You seem very particular. You talk about the gameâ€"then what game is it you have cut here, you and the one you call your sister. â€"It is good, indeed yes, you are smart to call me a thiefâ€"Stop! Do not shoot have mercyâ€"I mean noâ€" thing _ It is a jokeâ€"sir!" His cry of fear rang out in the empty night, as Julian‘s hand closed on his throat, forcing him down on his knees,. Haffi tumbled hurriedly down off his camel; Julian dismounted too, still covering him with the automatic. He cut short the Armenian‘s protests. Breathless, Julian stood back and wiped his forehead with his handkerâ€" chief, and some of the savagery ebbed out of him, leaving him trembling and full of a weak disgust and hate against the man on the ground. After a moâ€" ment or two he shifted Haffi with the toe of his boot, and seeing"him stir,â€"was sure that he had rot actually killed him. "Come along!" Silently, awed by the scene he had just witnessed the Ilyat gathered the camels together and they mounted. With Julian leading one begst, and Zoani the other two, they turned and headed back to the village, leaving Haffi stretched on the ground under the dark and clouded sky. When they got to Memshi the IHyat porters had unloaded the camels, fires were burning, and tents set up. Lynne came running to meet Julian out of the darkness, wanting to know what had happened. The three recaptured camels told her that Julian had overtaken the fugitive; she looked, half expecting to see Haffi with them. "Just brought back the camels!" said Julian. "Where is he?" she said. ‘"What did you do." His nonâ€"committal manner, someâ€" thing tense and sullen in his face in the glow from the fires as he swung himself down off his camel made Lynne uneasy. and she asked again: "Where is he? You haven‘ tâ€"â€"you didn‘t hurt him, Julian?" She realized as she said it that perâ€" haps she was displaying too much anxâ€" lety on Haffi‘s behalf in the circumâ€" stances; but she could not have exâ€" plained the fear which Julian‘s manner inspired in her. Lynne felt that any further questions would 5¢ unwelcome, and she asked non#*: in a few minutes, in fact, the inâ€" cident of Haffi was forgotten when the scout whom Julian had sent to watch Guthrice‘s activities arrived in camp. "My dear girl, don‘t worry about the wretched little brute! 1 let him off very lightly, in the circumstances," said Julian, a trifle impatiently. ‘"He‘s all right! What we wanted were our caâ€" mels, and we‘re jolly lucky to have got them back." He brought the hopedâ€"for news: Guâ€" thrie, with all his tents and stores had moved out of camp that afternoon, and the scout had followed them until they arrived at Kelâ€"elâ€"abir. "Well," said Julian. ‘"Praemnon is ours! If the cups of Alexander are mally ‘ where they are supposed to beâ€"in the bottom of the well at Praemnonâ€"there‘s nothing now to prevent our getting. them!" | He stood up in the red light of the fires, and his bearded face was alive with excitement, greed and determinaâ€". tion. To Lynne it seemed that there was something different in his triumph to her own; some alien quality that she did not understand. But she fancied that it was because she was tired after two exhausting days. "We‘ve got to go very carefullyâ€"very quickly and carefully," Julian said. "We‘ve got to start before daylight toâ€" morrowâ€"and we haven‘t got to let all M m know M anything speâ€" This was triumphâ€"the proof that Lynne‘s tactics had brought about a victory. A MURDEROUS ASSAULT ‘"Well, at present they think we‘re collecting stonesâ€"just mad Englishâ€" men, like all other archeologists.: We‘ll have to be clever enough never to let them see the cups at all, supposing they‘re there." on the subject that the archeological journals will publishâ€"not mine. Guâ€" thrie will be the man who found Praemâ€" mon, not a~poor devil called Ormond who merely happened to get there cial is afoot. If they knew we were after gold, any sort of gold, Lynne, they‘d go mad!" "And supposing they‘re not there?" said Lynne, with a faint smile twitchâ€" ing her lips. "Good Godâ€"don‘t speak of it!" said Julian, violently. "All this for nothing! If they aren‘t there we might as well cut our throats, both of us, and be done with it!" : "‘Then how are we going to do it? when we actually find the cups they may make trouble," Lynne said. Lynne looked at him in so troubled ard surprised a fashion that he modiâ€" fied his tone, and said, half apologetiâ€" cally with a smile and a sigh: : "Ah, Lynne, youâ€"can take it calmly! You haven‘t put three years thought and effort into this thing as I have. It‘s worth my life to me at present, to get those cups!" "But still, after all,"" Lynne said. "Even if the cups aren‘t there, and it‘s only a chance that they will beâ€"â€"you and Professor Shaley found Praemnon. You can‘t say that that is nothingâ€"it‘s a discovery!" "What? Oh, yes, of course. Of course it is," said Julian hastily; and added after a moment with a return of moodiness. "But you don‘t suppose Guthrie would allow nme to get any of the kudos for that? He‘s in with the archeological people, and you‘ll seeâ€" they will ‘be his articles, his opinions Lynne felt the world‘s injustice toâ€" wards her stepâ€"brother very deeply. It was no wonder, she felt, that sometimes he seemed a little ‘bitter, a little preâ€" judiced in his attitude. Poor Julian, she ‘thought, as she saw him pacing nervously in front of the fire. She was very tired and she crept into the tent and lay down on the camp bed very soon after they had eaten. But Julian stayed up and directed the portâ€" ers, getting everything ready to make a start for Praemnon before daylight, and not even the heavy downpour of rain drove him in to shelter before everything was in order. first!" "After he had gone in to sleep, and the rain began to extinguish the fires, zoani went to the hut of the Kekhoda. the headman, and there had a conferâ€" ence with him. They spoke of the feringhi who was lying hardly two miles away from the village, and was likely to die if he remained outside in the rain. It apâ€" peared to be the intention of the ferinâ€" ghi Ormond to leave him out there to live or die as might be. But as Zoani said to the headman, there had been inquiries made by the government into such things. Who knrew but what lame might not fall upon Zoani, or upon the village itself, if this Armenâ€" lan were allowed to die, and the thing were discovered. He might be an Arâ€" menion of wealth and influenceâ€"no one Not long after this, a little troop of Ilyats set off on donkeys and on foot through the black night and the rain. An hour later they returned to the camp bearing the inert and groaning body of Haffi; they took him into one of the huts, and daubed his bruises with oil and dung; they gave him a drink of the harsh spirit which they distilled from purple herb which grew on the The headman asgreed, after some talk with Zoani that it would not be a safe thing to let the man die; or if he was dead, it would be as well to bury him quickly. It seemed that Haffi was merely stunned and severely bruised by Julian‘s brutality. Towards daylight, he began to recover full conscicusness. The Ilyats kept him quiet. and would not let him speak; they left him in the hut atâ€" tended by an old woman. and thought it wiser to say nothing to the feringhi Ormond about it. about Haffi. What lay ahead of him mow was the most difficult task 6i all. To find the cups of Alexander, and having found them to get out of Persia without a ‘soul knowing that he had It was a prodigious task,. And with Lynne at his side he set off, while the slopes, to accomplish the first step in his taskâ€"the excavation of the well at He set them to work to dig up the ground about fifteen feet away. on that side of the well where the spring tricklâ€" ed in. He took a pick himself, and set to work vigorously, while Lynne found a spade and helped to shovel away the cearth. CHAPTER XVI FEVERISH WORK In the first fresh early sunshine the little cavalcade rode down from the ridge above Praemnon, into the now deserted camp. The fallen stones of the fort lay half »uried in the eternal sands, and only the trampled ground remained to show where the camp had been. Lynne and her stepâ€"brother went to the well and examined the water. It was still a deep, dark brown. "YÂ¥ou certainly did the job thoroughâ€" ly!" Julian said. He was tense with excitement, and paced about the well as he considered the best method o1 excavation. _ But Lynre stood gazing at the old stones, and was awed for a moment by a realization of what thousands of years had passed since they were set in their places. â€"And now, perhaps, they were to bring to light the cups of wrought gold which history said thatl Alexander the Great had given as a prize to the men of his legions. Her heart beat hard, and all her pulses quickened as she turned to Julian. "First of all we‘ve got to get rid of the water," Julian was saying. He poirted out to her how the trough of the well was fed by the water of a slow running spring which trickled into the side of the basin; then he sprang up, calling impatiently to the men as they approached with their picks and spades. An hcur‘s digging did not bring them to water; they extended this hole just north and then south, in a long trench, and at the end of another two hours came to the course of the underground stream. The water welled up and filled the hole; and Julian ordered the men to deepen the trench at right angles, and so drain the water away. Meanâ€" while the next thing to do was to fix hand pump he had brought to the side of the well, and pump out the water which was already in the basin. Lynne, who had had no idea that the pump was among their equipment, commented on the way in which Julian had thought of everything. "I have been waiting for this moâ€" ment for months!" Julian said, through his teeth. “Sq I ought to be ready for it." : Sweat stood on his brow, and his face was grim; there was a fever about the way in which he worked, that comâ€" municated itself! to Lynne. «The wish and hope that the cups would be in their hopedâ€"for hiding place, became a gnawing anxiety, as the day wore on and the business of draining the well seemed to take an interminable time. Julian laboured with a hurried dogâ€" gedness himself, urging the other men on ; he cursed Zoani for a fool and pushâ€" ed him away when Zoani‘s method with the pump had failed to produce the best results. EXCAVATION BY EXPLOSION The brown water poured from the pump and made a pool of mud in the dirt beside the well; and with every of water and squeak of the pump handle, Lynnre‘s heart seemed to hasten it‘s already suffocating beat. At last there were but a few inches of thick purple slime on the bottom of the pool. Dripping sweat, the NMyats went to and fro‘ to the water bags they had brought with them and Julian, noticing the frequency with which they were doing it, told them roughly, to quench their thirst less often. ‘"We may be here for two or three days, and we can‘t lose time going back to Memshi for water," he said. "If you want water, drink the mud in the trench!" The Ilyats shrugged their shoulders behind his back, and it seemed to Lynne that her stepâ€"brother might have adopted better tactics with them, for after this incident she noticed that they did not put so much energy into their work. However, as she was herâ€" self, in a fever of impatience to get the job dorne, it was only natural that Julian should have been even more overwrought, Julian jumped down into the basin of the well, and examined the inlet to make sure that there was no more water coming in. ‘"Now!" he said, climbing out of the well again, with a deep, shaking sigh of relief. ‘"Now we can get ahead!" He set the men digging the earth away from the side of the well, laying bare the stone wall of the basin; he went over to the pack where it lay as it had been unlpaded from the camel, and produced a box containing some wads wrapped in cotton wool. Lynne wondered what he proposed to do next, and his impatient, almost desperate manner, made her afraid to ask too many questions. It was a moment or two before she realized that the length of rod he held in his hand as he lowerâ€" ed himself into the excavations of the well, was a stick of gelignite. She waited breathlessly; in a moâ€" ment he climbed out of the hole again, and they all retreated hurriedly. "What are }ou' doing?" ‘cried Lynne, "It‘s the only way!" Julian tolid her impatiently, glancing at her, and then gazing in tense expectancy towards the well, where the heaps of sand and rubâ€" ble bore witness to the extent of their excavations. ~ "But we ought notâ€"we cught not to destroy it. It is so old !" Lynne‘s conscience would not be stilled. She felt that this was really vandalism. "If the cups are there, they may be blown to pieces tooâ€"â€"1" And while Lynne was divided beâ€" tween the pangs of her conscience, and an involuntary admiration for his fierce determination. they saw the stones and dust fly up in a great burst above the well and the dull detonation of the gelignite numbed their ears. "We‘ve got to take the risk!" said Julian in a low harsh voice. Try The Advance Want Advertisements is they hurried to a safe distance ‘Jullanâ€"you can‘t blow it up!" . 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