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ZARAH THE CRUEL


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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

    DESERT LOVE
    LEONIE OF THE JUNGLE
    THE HAWK OF EGYPT

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ZARAH THE CRUEL

by

JOAN CONQUEST

Author of “Desert Love,” “Leonie of the Jungle,”
“The Hawk of Egypt.”






New York
The Macaulay Company

Copyright, 1923, by
The Macaulay Company

Printed in the U. S. A.




    TO

    BETTY C—— OF C——

    TO WHOM I AM INDEBTED FOR
    SO MUCH OF THIS BOOK




ZARAH THE CRUEL




PROLOGUE

    “_Narrower than the ear of a needle._”—ARABIC PROVERB.


The Holy Man, motionless, gaunt, his eyes filled with the peace of Allah,
the one and o