American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-05-16

What was it that they saw in the sky.
I In the direction of Hadhaz, high aboy
the sea of the mirage, there was the imas
l OF horseman, which appeared suddenl
, upon the pale sky. A horseman, not I
be mistaken, of colossal proportions, wit
; a culver over his shoulder, with pointe
turban on his head, and with the reins
his hand, rose in one instant above til
J broad ocean. The feet of the horse di
not touch the earth; the whole was like
light-blue shadow of phantom throw
across the yellow heaven.
"Jesus Christ, do not forsake us.' erie
out these poor frightened folk, as the
saw this shadowy phantom pass by
phantom not terrible to us with all GU
science, but which they had never see
nor heard of. This form of IA warrior ia
away moved across the heavens as larg
as the cloudy ghost of giant; in the mex
moment crowd of new forms passe,
across the sky-all armed giants. Som
stood resting against their horses over tn
mirror of the deeeitful sea; of some yo,
could only see the heads and ioul&ers
but there were some where you could SCI
the whole body, and these would b.
fastened to other bodies. You would SCI
two shadows sticking together, and tn
heads, arms, and weapons stretching VI
and down from the point where they
united. Suddenly all this disappeared
| and nothing was left in the heaven sbu
two broad rays of light and two light blu,
strips of ribbon upon the cloudy back
ground, extending down to the very
| horizon.
"Turks and Tartars are on the watch
for us!'
This was the cry of the crowd of women
as they huddled all together, without
help and without counsel, there in the
midst of the great desert
The mothers clasped their babies in
their arms and rushed with them to the
wagons. The maidens scattered on the
road even their beloved scarfs and their
earrings, thinking that while the robbers
stopped to collect these they could be
fastening on their flight: for they all
knew that the troop must be watching for
them.
Away, away! To Bossormeny Haste,
haste! We must leave the track: Haste ~
So the poor army of women, in terrible
fear, turned aside from their way. All the
line of wagons followed at the risk of the
very lives of the beasts, as they went over
the prairies where there was no track.
Nobody sang any more; but many a
psalm came to them as they rode; and
many heart sighed to itself as they
looked back upon the frightful distance,
and would cry out to Heaven:
40 merciful God above, protect us
from our cursed enemy, as Thou hast re-
vealed him to us so wonderfully; save
Thy poor handmaidens from his pursuit;
for we have no one but Thee to rest upon,
o Lord, God of Heaven!'
And the Lord had indeed another mira
Gle in store for that day.
AS the frightened women looked back
from moment to moment, the whole sky
behind them grew black where they had
seen the terrible phantoms. Instead of
the giant ghosts which had been chasing
each other, the whole horizon between
the heaven and earth, and all the birch
wood of HadhaZ, were dark as night in
the distance. First the mountains of
clouds stood sharp against the sky; then
the wind hurled them up higher and
higher; in a moment more the great
black pile stretched as far as you could
see; then there moved across it other
masses of dead blue gray; and you
could hear the muttering of giants
voice, which said, Rr-r-un! r-r-unr'
The wagons rumbled on with the horses
at gallop till they found rest at the vii
lage of Bossormeny.
Badrul Bey waited two days in his am
bush in the Hadhaz woods He had done
TO the letter all that Kuzuk Pacha had
hidden him do. If he asked the way
from anybody he sabered him at once, by
way of thanks, SO that he might tell no
tales. Every troop kept the very place
appointed to it; and, if any unwilling
wayfarer stumbled upon them, Badrul
Bey and his men made an end of him in
no time. For this they used their silent
arrows, not choosing to risk the report of
their noisy muskets.
Nobody could discover them; and no
body could warn the girls and the women
Al, ft,nf HOY n
And God2 He saw them; and in the
mirror o f the Delibab He revealed them
to the poor women rushing on their de-
and stretched out the whole
display of this hidden treachery before
them. Praised be His holy name!
At noon of the third day the scouts of
Badrul Bey came into the thick of the
wood to announce TO him that in the dis
lance, on the prairie, there was a long
train in sight, which threw up perfect
cloud of dust, as hundreds of wagons,
one after another, came trailing on.
Badrul Bey himself rushed to the top
of little hill to look around him. Was
he, perhaps, the enormous giant whose
shadow appeared on the heavens, with his
CULVER on his back and the pointed tur-
ban on his head?
THAT is they! Let them come near.
can put them on their guard
nobody"
OF sudden the dust cloud that was
wavered for moment, and
then, instead of approaching leisurely, as
before, turned hastily on one side; and
the carriages could be seen, with the poor
beasts, gallOping away from the morass.
Badrul Bey looked on in rage. "WhO |
could have betrayed us?'
Then, as if in answer tt his question, a
rustling swept through the wood, the high |
beech-trees all bent, grooming, down; and
a most terrible gale swept bowling over |
the plain; and IA cloud of thick yellow |
dust envelopcd all the country.
Badrul Bey was not used TO be afraid of |
storms. He had studied in Kuzuk Pacha's |
school.
"Up with your lances!" he cried to his
horsemen. The points of the lances |
will scatter the storm. We must after the |
Out on the plainr'
All! there was another commander on |
The plain. Straight across the prairie |
cutting right through the train of the |
pursucrs, there rode the wild Whirlwind, |
the bride of the storm. The 1.-the spirit |
proudly dances over the whole plain, |
losses her locks in the clouds, SO that ali |
her hair futters Tree; while on her deli |
cate feet hidden in the dust, she is twirl- |
ing faster and faster. Now she bows to
The right, and now to the LETT; now
stretches up, fine by degrees, and losses !
her proud head higher and higher. Woe |
10 anything mortal or earthly that comes |
in her wayi she skaters IT in pieces, and |
scatters it to all the winds. Roofs, and |
hay-ricks, and trees, torn up by the roots, |
dance round and round, like chips in IA |
whirlpool.
After her comes her bridegroom, the |
He is driving his fierce |
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