The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-02-18

erown there time out OF mind without causing
injury but, Benetto. if it so pleases thee 20
trcuble myself, cut it down.
90 Benetto did this as fast as he conveni-
entity could, and looping off the leafy branches
he left stump here and there, and then threw
il carelessly into the corner of the garden
That evening Benetto again attended on his
royal master, and began the air of the night
preceding, to which the fair Angelina again
responded.
81 have been thinking" said the Sultan,
suddenly, that 1 will have merry air."
Benetto fastened to comply, and, chanting
lively canzonet, informed the lady that
though there were no rope-laddeIs to be had,
still a putty tree, with many branches, might
be laid against a high wall, and if placed
against ladys prison, vision of an angel
might descend The lady responds in the
same canzonet. expressing her delight, and al
ready feeling like bird with wings.
The Sultan was so delighted with this mer.
~ duet that he made them repeat it several
times, At last, as they were about to com
rnence fourth time, having contrived to give
to each other many additional scraps of in
formation, he exclaimed "stop!' He turned
his face with such an awful frown on the lady,
that she also stopped short in the middle OF
the first note.
81 understand nothing of this language,
said he, "but perceive that each time you
use different words. Madam, you must not
take it ill but the next evening the interpre-
ter shall partake with me the delight of hear
ing YOU"
The lady and Benetto both suspected from
this sudden change that the Sultan entertained
some mistrust of them and the next song.
therefore, was performed with more quavers
than originally belonged to the composition.
Il ~ ho
Sultan intending secretly on the morrow to
reward him with two hundred strokes of the
bastinado.
Benetto, however, resolved to take advan-
tage of the cloudy night, and soon succeeded
in moving his tree ladder to the apartment of
Angelina. He eagerly mounted, and, peepins
in, what was his horror on seeing lovely wo-
man, making most earnest supplcatlons with
her raised hands to two or three cruel
Moors, who were about to place her in an
enormous sack the mouth of which was gap
ing to receive her. Her mouth was gagged,
so that no cries could be uttered. The terri
fled Benetto was so horror struck that he
scarcely knew how he descended his frail lad
der With heavy heart he now placed his
means of escape against the wall of the gar
den, next the water, gained the top, and with
the assistance of long headed hoe, let him
self drop on the ground on the opposite side,
and made for the landing place, half consider
ing whether he ought notin etiquette to drown
himself and thus share the fate of the unfor-
tunate lady. Whilst he was thus wandering
and rejecting, the three black slaves having
tied up the lady in the sack, repaired with
their burden, as they were directed, to a Sc.
cludsd part of the Bosphorus, in order to place
her in her last bath with the greater privacy.
Now it happened that there was ship-of-
war lying off at anchor. having brought out an
ambassador to the Sublime Porte, and some of
the sailors and junior officers desiring frolic,
had put off and landed about the same spot.
These jovial fellows encountering the black
slaves, insisted upon knowing what they had
in the sack, and the fair Angelina, though un-
able to cry out, managed to move about SO
much, that the sailors deserved the motion,
and soon, with great indignation, discovered
the nature of it's contents. The cowardiy
blacks, not waiting for the Bullets of justly
incensed company of tars, took to their heels
and were out of sight in an instant. The lady
was speedily released in limbs as well in
tongue, and failed not to use the latter most
energetically in thanking her kind deliverers.
They rowed back to the ship, where Angelina
was treated with every kind of tenderness and
attention. Benetto had remained concealed
near the landing place, until the night was a
little further advanced, his thoughts still rest
ing on the unfortunate lady and her oriental
mode of death; the moon, however, suddenly
appearing, he caught sight Of the English ves-
sell and though scarcely believing his eyes,
stripped off his jacket and turban, and plung
ing into the water, was not long in joining the
ship. 1t would not be easy to describe the
transport he felt when he came on board and
discovered Angelina. Suffice it to say, that
the ship setting sail Immediately for England,
during the passage the liberated sonssters
agreed to perform matrimonial duet for life,
and very harmonious one it was. Benetto,
by his skill in singing, acquired an immense
fortune in few years, and, returning to Flo