Neither the
wealth of her father and mother, or all the powerful resources of
the great republic were able to wrest the secret of her whereabouts
from the inscrutable desert that had swallowed her and her abductor.
A reward of such enormous proportions was offered that many
adventurers were attracted to the hunt. This was no case for
the modern detective of civilization, yet several of these threw
themselves into the search--the bones of some are already bleaching
beneath the African sun upon the silent sands of the Sahara.
Two Swedes, Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn, after three years of
following false leads at last gave up the search far to the south of
the Sahara to turn their attention to the more profitable business
of ivory poaching. In a great district they were already known for
their relentless cruelty and their greed for ivory. The natives
feared and hated them. The European governments in whose possessions
they worked had long sought them; but, working their way slowly
out of the north they had learned many things in the no-man's-land
south of the Sahara which gave them immunity from capture through
easy avenues of escape that were unknown to those who pursued them.
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