The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-04-06

exquisite hair, began to surround her with !
snares and perils.
Ia Rome, her guardian, Emilia, had the
JOY ct once mere meeting Salmoni. The
man who had been stabbed beneath the /,
seraglio wall had not been he, but the !
turkish cersair, through whom he had
first traced her there, and who had hoped
to make profit out of the intended escape |
by treacherously revealing it to the Sui |
tan, and for this purpose he had plotted |
with a female slave attached to the palace.
IhIs woman, through whose hands the
important billet passed, had artfully erased
the hour OF twelve, fixed by Salmoni, and
substituted eIeUen. Hence, though the
sailor had full lime to make the attempt,
he failed in the execution of his purpose /;
So now, after all their periIs. Salmoni and
Emilia were married in the Eternal City,
where the love affairs Of LA belle Turque''
speedily began TO attract notice.
First, we are told that duke fell in love
with her; but she made him her friend,
assuring him that he could never be more
to her, as she had already become inspired
by passion for handsome young Knight
from his VOW of celibacy. While waiting
for this, the knights father, old Prince
----, As mischance would have it, be-
came enamoured of her, reckless that he
was the rival of his son and, to avoid
his opportunities, she and the Salmonis
set out suddenly for Paris, where, by the
knavery of banker, she lost much of the
proceeds of the jewels brought from Cons
stantinople so that her fortune was re-
duced from sixty thousand Iiyres yearly TO
about ten thousand.
In cUffte-house at Paris, Cecile
chanced to see in the Gazette de France
an account of the misfortune that had
overtaken her father, Achmet ILL., This
was in 1880, when that weak and imbe-
cile voluptuary, who had viewed with in
difference the Hungarian troubles and the
wars of the North after being Involved in
| a contest with Russia, by which he lost
in succession the cities of Asoph and Bells
grade, and the provinces of Temesvar,
Servia, and Wallachia, on the discount
| ture Of his arms by Persia, had an insur-
rection among his own subjects, and was
compelled by the JanizarIes to abdicate
in favor of his nephew, Mustapha III
| who threw him into a prison where he
passed life of modification and shame.
''afler he had as Vultaire has it. sac
rificed his vizier and his principal officers
in vain, to the resentment Of the nation"
| On reading of all these things, Cecile
registered VOW that she would visit Tur-
| key, seek out her father, and endeavor to
! console him in his misfortunes and the
death of her guardian, Emilia, about this
time, together with the annoyance she ex-
perienced from the old prince, who, pre-
Stunning on her friendIess, dubious, false
position, daily ''became more urgent and
less respectful" hastened her departure.
Alone she set out fog Fontainobleau TO
return thanks for the protection afforded
her by tie court of Louis XIV. but in
returning to Paris, ber carriage was stop-
! ped at night in the forest, which then
covered thirty thousand acres of hill and
valley, and there ensued an episode,
which, by its condolences, seems too evil
deHtly romance, though truth at times is
stranger than fiction.
A handsomely attired chevalier-who
proved to be the Prince her to
there with siA horses, PIe"dinss that sho
would do so "without compelling him TO
use violence"
On this she uttered cry for help; and
ere long another rO:ture dashed up, and
there leaped out gentleman, sword in
hand. He proved to be young Duke de
-, her Roman admirer, and he had
barely time TO recognize Cecile, when her
betrothed appeared in the scene, which
thus becomes 50 meIo-dramatic as to throw
ridicule on the story.
''The Duke is about to deprive you Of
your mistress" said the cunning old
Prince to his son ''let US Jointly use our
swords against him in defence of your
dearest interests
80 thereupon the cavalier of Malta ran
the poor duke through the body in the
most approved fashion bore off the
fainting Cecile to Paris, and placed her in
the hoIel of his father There the renew
ed but secret addresses of the latter so
greatly alarmed her that on one occasion
she had To protect herself by an exhibit
ton of pistols. after which she escaped
with Salmoni and The knight, who urged
that she should in fulfillment of her vow,
visit her captive father, while he once
more strove, at the feet of Pope Clement 5
successor, to get his oath of celibacy abb
solved.
In Turkey, some unruly Janizaries slew
Salmoni, and were abeut to offer some
violence to Cecile, despite her French
passport, when she displayed before them
the .tetfa. This we are told, was piece
of yellow silk on which were embroidered,
in golden letters, the names of the Sultan,
OF her mother Ask, and herself, with the
day and hour of her birth, together with
certain passages from the Koran 'sThe
children of the sultans are bound with the
: fetta Immediately after birth and thi,