The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-06-25

spSaA u Hfy aueniIatiou; Sue TepuISeQ IL,
as you would that of the meanest of your
slavesl If, then, I have had short
madness, and been unfaithful to you for
few brief moments, the folly is past and
gone. Now resume my allegiance, and
ask forgiveness from the most eehanting
of her sex. Well do you know, fear
never could move me or I never had
entered here, or, having once entered and
escaped, would never have returned"
Neither by word nor gesture did the
| princess interrupt him while he spoke,
but she drew a deep long breath when
he had finished, as though her patience
had been sorely tried, and again burst
forth In stormy wrath.
"Dog Of Giaour aud sou of line OF
dogs i' she screamed. Rightly haveI
been punished for STOPPING to defle my
self with the society and presence of
wretched Copt, lowest, meauest and basest
of the mongrel spawn of Nile, which my
great father trapapled under his victori-
Gus foot, and used as men use other rub
bish, to aid in building the empire
which his line rule to-day Was it not
enough that my condescension should be
abused and my kindness betrayed, but
that thou shouldst dare compare to my
disparagement,t thy Infidef fparamour from
the barbarous lands of the West, here to
my very face, and in my own palace ?
Dearly shall that insult cost thee! [ am
woman, it is true, but a woman of the
blood of Mehemet Ali and never did
man Or woman do him wrong, and
live to boast it Never again will thy
pale faced mistress, with her hair of with
cred straw, look on that girhsh face Of
thine, or kiss those dainty lips. The Nile,
from which thou rescued her but yester-
day, shall sport with thy graceful form,
and be thy bed to night. An Infdel
like thee, whose doom must be the fall
from the Narrow Bridge of Al. Sirat into
perpetual fire, needs no time for prayers,
as Mussulman might"
She paused again, exultant malice and
6erdish hate stamped upon every feature
of the face, which seemed suddenly to
have sharpened and grown old, under the
fiery heat of the simeon blast of passion
sweeping over her soul.
Her destined victim did not quail. He
felt his peril, but, like brave man,
braced himself to meet it worthily, if he
could not avert it. Yet he did NOT seem
desperate, as his eye glanced warily round
the room, it rested for an instant on the
open easement, and he drew nearer the
princess, who, pacing rapidly up and
down the room like an enraged tigress,
had now paused near the window. And
through it now softly came the first fresh
breath of the awakening morn.
"Khanum," said Askaros, Gare you
very sure your spies have not deceived
you that the things they have told you
are..not lies, coined out of their own false
hearts, to win gold and favor from you,
and to destroy me, whom they hate, for
many reasons known to you %
A cruel smile convulsed the lips of
Nezle.
/ s'There spoke the craft of the Copt !"
she snarled-'sever more resembling wo-
man than man, and striving to escape by
artiice, dangers he has not the courage to
avert, Know then, o wise youth! that
my informants were not my spies, but of
thine own household-ay, even supposed
to be of thy own household The girl El
Warda, whom the world deems thy sister.
was my informant She came to me !"
and derisive smile again curled the
cruel lips" to pray me for love philter
to win back the most precious affections,
stolen away by this Ingleez, as the silly
child believed. [ gave the philter to the
fool; but repaid myself by obtaining
all her secrets, and thine!"
This revelation fell on the young man
with a stunning shock. For the first
time, as by lie htning flash, he saw the
real state of the heart of his reputed sis
ter. OF this he had never dreamed.
But at the same time he saw how
the danger of his position was aggravated,
and how useless, after all she had heard
and knew, would be any attempt to con-
ciiiate or mystify the princess. Rapidly
he made his resolve, and prepared to
act.
Princess" he said. drawing still
nearer, until he stood close beside her,
"these recpiminations and explanations
are useless, and can only tend to make us
both say words we shall regret hereafter.
have made q confession of nay fault, aud
implored thy forgiveness. Give it to me,
by the memory oe our past love, which
will renew itself, warmer and fresher after
this short storm, and then let me go, for
the day already begins to dawn in the
East ?''
"That day thou shalt never behold !"
4 fiercely answered the princess. g Slave
dog Giaour thy blood be on thine own
head An hour hence, and thou shalt
feed the fishes of the Nile, and thy vile
name and vile treachery be Yashed away
from my memory, even as thy carcass
shall be washed. from my palace door by
those rapid waters"
Aud she pointed te the window to
where the rushing tide, swollen and tur-
bid, raced past in its sullen flow.
Swiftly she turned away from the win
dow, confronted the Copt, and raised her
two hands, as if to clap them together to
summon her slaves. But rapid as was
her movement, the young mans was
more rapid still Ere she could bring
the hands together, he had seized her left
wrist and held it, as in an iron vice, close
down to her side, preventing the medita-
ted summons. Her next movement was
as sudden as his had been. Her right
hand few to her bosom, and small keen