The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-03
A Turkish Romance

one who would paint the manners O.
Constau.inople IL sat adorn h!~ them.
with m2ay a. -cio.es char c.ef.st!c o.
q condition. 81 sac!ety WhieA j. foreign
10 oar exp=Fleice ! select one whlcl
has the merit ot brlDg literal.v true
You a ho l~.leve that modern romance
exist, only IL. 'a'es e fiction. listen l.
st7ry ot b.sufy n Con.tautInopIe
the slc..s.;uies = Is hose l,i- e4g.l il
variety, ii rot IL i.npagtAuce. tAusy. oi
Theodora ard Atbenai-. For obyiou,
reasons saal. mention no fanes
+ There now lives OF tie banks os the
Bosphoru- al English physician, who.
at the entreaty of Lori Byron. wen. 10
oreece IN 1928 Is a vgfuntssr srrseos
III the war q IND pendcnce. He ar
rived only ia time 81 see the poet ex-
pire AZ Mlss9lJ. g!ii Ia the course of
the war be WAS taken prisoner by the
Egyptian tioopa who III their great
heed If surgeons, key. Alfu actively en-
ployod III his profession. lie did not
regain bis freedom untll aftc. the war.
and then Only on condition that he
should reside in Conpt4ntinopIe as one
os the physicians cf the ~alt4n. No
lsammei H.
We may suppose that Oriental life
was bot un.iea-ant, Tor the position
rksome % hun. fer Ec soon 50 far Weld
ed to the temptations o! the capital as
10 fall Ia love with II very pretty face
which le saw daily IN 1, hay y indow of
the street hc trayarse,l on the way u
to the seraglio. Acquaintance. which
sometimes precedes love, in thi. case
followed IL; the doctor declared his pas
sion and was accepted By the willing
maid. But an Oriental bay window is
the opportunity OF the world, and the
doctor, becoming convinced that his
Aiilanced was desperate firt. and
yielding - the cntreatlcs Of his friends,
broke oil the engagement ard left her
free. In her eyric. 10 continue her OBJ
seryations upon mankind This. how
ever. did not suit the plans of the love
ly and tickle gifl One morning, short,
ly after, he was summ0ue Il 10 see two
Turkish ladies' who awaited him in his
office When l,e appeared the Greek
girl for 1t was She and her mother
threw aside their disguise, aud declared
they would not leave the house until
the Doctor married the daughter. for
the rupture of the engagement had
made It impossible - procure any 9th
er husband Whether her oan beauty
or the terrible aspect of the mother pre- +!
vailed, ! DO not know, bat the En-
glish chaplain was sent for; Le refused /
TO perform the ceremony. and Greek /
priest was found who married them
THIS marriage. which took the ap-
poarancc OF dnress. might have been
happy II the compelling party to it had .
risties let cs at the Weidinag" H;;fireashofd' but
her constancy was only assumed, like /
The Turkish veil, tor an occasion; lovers .
we're not wanting. aud attor the birth of .
three children, two sons and daugh /
Ter, she deserted her husband and went
10 live with young Turk. who has
since held high office III the Govern /
ment of the Sultan, II WAS III her /
character of Nine Mehcmet Pasila that I
she wrote lor one of her sons wrote for i
herr a book we'll known III the West.
sntried Thirty feus ut Wfrcm But !
her intriguing spirit was not extinct I
even in a Turkish harem: She attempt
Il to palm off on the pasha. as
her child. a child that she .
had bought, her device was detected !
by one oil the palace ounuchs. and at
he same time her amour with Greek +
Of the city came to light. The eunuch /.
incurred her displeasure for his otfi
ciousness. and she had him Strangled
and thrown into the Bosphorus Some
say that the resolute woman even "a
sisted with her own hands. For these
breaches of deeorum. however. she paid
lear The pasha banished her TO kuta
yah. with orders In the guard who at
tended her 10 poison her an her way,
but she So won upon the affections of
the officer that he let her escape n
Broussa There her beauty, If not h,r
l,cty. recommended her to an Imam OF
enc of the mosque aul she married
him. and -rrul~ tor time Ia have led a
quiet lfe. at any rate nothing further
was heard If her until just before tie
famous cholera season, when news came
e the death Of her husband. the Mos
lem priest. and ,h.t she MAS living in
extreme poverty. all her beauty gone
forever, and consequently bar ability Ia
procure another husband.
The rashs. Mehemet, lIsei IN a bead
t,fuI palace ou the eastern shore oi the
near kandih Daring the
grea, cholera epidemic ot 1865. the Pa
sha was taken Ill One day there ap
pearvd ~ ;he gate All unknown wonlau.
W ho said she had come - cure the Pa
sha No one knew her bat she spoke
with authority. ana was Admitted. IL
WAS cur adventures. She Durseti the
rasla witt, the most tender carSaasssid
watchinl skill. so that he reCo aand
in gratitude fer the preservat.1 OF i'>
life. h permitted her and her daughter
to remain In the rslaoe. For sohle
time they were cantertod with the luN
ury II such home. bu. one ,lay--:t
WAS the cveuing ot Wednesday. neither
mother pur daus hter WAS Ia bc found
ana upon examination lt waS dlscnv-
ereel tas, i large collection Of precious
stones and some ready money had lis
appeAred wita them. They had is.
parted or ,Ae French steamer IN order
- transfer their talents - the fields of
Europe The fste e the daughter do
uo, know. Fog some time she ana her
mother Wcre censplcnou~ ~ the dss>iIAi-
tlcn If faf.s Ate Subsequently, the
mother lived with SOL ia London.
AMI. ~iurg | heard heg >;ory a Constan-
t,uuple. >ae l..~ dsel IN misery and
want