_By Dr. Walter E. Traprock, F.R.S.S.E.U._ The Cruise of the Kawa My Northern Exposure Sarah of the Sahara SARAH OF THE SAHARA [Illustration: Super-Stars of Traprock’s Super-Feature Film “Sarah of the Sahara”] SARAH OF THE SAHARA A ROMANCE OF NOMADS LAND BY WALTER E. TRAPROCK AUTHOR OF “THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA,” “MY NORTHERN EXPOSURE” WITH SEVENTEEN FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1923 Copyright, 1923 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons [Illustration] Made in the United States of America To S. W. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I Love at First Sight 1 CHAPTER II Our First Interview 19 CHAPTER III Into the Great Unknown 35 CHAPTER IV The Wandering Wimpoles 53 CHAPTER V Love and Lions 67 CHAPTER VI A Desperate Predicament 87 CHAPTER VII The Escape 109 CHAPTER VIII Sheik to Sheik 121 CHAPTER IX Mine at Last! 139 CHAPTER X Death in the Desert 157 CHAPTER XI Antony and Cleopatra 167 CHAPTER XII The Tomb of Dimitrino 181 CHAPTER XIII Buried Alive 195 CHAPTER XIV Love Lost 207 ILLUSTRATIONS (From photographs taken for the Super-Feature Film of Dr. Traprock’s story recently released by the All-for-Art Production Co. of Derby, Conn.) PAGE SUPER-STARS OF TRAPROCK’S SUPER-FEATURE FILM “SARAH OF THE SAHARA” _Frontispiece_ LADY SARAH WIMPOLE 7 LORD HORACE WIMPOLE 27 AB-DOMEN ALLAH 47 AT THE OASIS OF ARAG-WAN 57 A DESERT DIANA 71 ALONE AT LAST 83 REGINALD WHINNEY 91 AZAD THE TERRIBLE 101 ZALOOFA 117 THE RESCUE 127 SHEIK TO SHEIK 135 TWIN BEDOUINS OF THE EAST 151 AN EGYPTIAN DEITY 175 ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ASSOUAN 187 IN THE SHADOW OF THE PYRAMID 213 SAD MEMORIES 221 SARAH OF THE SAHARA CHAPTER I _Love at First Sight_ SARAH OF THE SAHARA CHAPTER I “Allah! Allah! Bishmillah. El Traprock, Dhub ak Moplah!... Wullahy! Wullahy!”