The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-14

lug the clOucS WHICH the WlnO chased
across the sky of Castillo, while her fancies
flew with them. Yonder, in the country
toward which the ever changing clouds
were flying, was the home of the young
queen, her loved parents, the garden which
held the sweet memories of her infancy, the
temple where her girlhood prayers were
voiced to the Eternal, the friends of her
early years. the Christian gentlemen who
had treated her With all nobleness and re-
spect. And she was here, to be forgotten
and disdained by the man she had prefer
red to all Others. True, she was a queen;
but was Crown at such cost of pain worth
the price?
While so dreaming, suddenly the door
opened, and, without ceremony or form of
respect, q woman entered and threw her
self at the feet of the sultana. With sur
prise and shadowy presentiments, mingled
with terror, the latter recognized dame OF
the court who passed for an intimate friend
of the complacent All Kanic.
What wishes this woman? She was i'm.
piled BY hate and tormented by the de-
sire of vengeance. She had suffered the
disjain and cruel SCOTS of that high and
noble dame who now was the mistress OF
Hsfrun. She had fonnd out all from ALI
Kanic, who had imprudently contided to
her the royal secrets. She came to be re-
vengrd.
Then, before the offended wife If Hafrum,
she disclosed the rendezvous of love, the
clandrstine appointment, the ambitious
proposition and intrigue 10 realize them
all which ranc0r in tie heart fashions
upon the lips.
The indignan: sultaus did not listen to
The end of the story. The hurricane Of
jealousy shook terribly her heart and brain.
She had been able to tolerate the infidelities
Of the husband with women of the humber
class, but could not tolerate them with a
dame of lofty rank who might usurp in the
heart of Hafrum q great part OF the place
herself ought TO occupy. She heard now
only the voice of passion, which FASTENED
her footsteps to the house where the guilty
lovers were not expecting such a visit. She
met with defiance all who would have per-
susded her against the trsnsgressiOn of the
laws OF etiquette. She passed loftily BY all
who sought to detain her, and to the COM
placent All-Kanic, who at the Threshold
opposed her entrance, cried:
SECT thee gone, wretch! What receivest
thou from my husband for such services?"
The amorous p.ir were surprised almost
in fagrante d.lictO.
The tempest was unloosed The sultana
cast in the face of her spouse all his faults !;
reminded him of his promises and his
oaths; invoked the justice Of heaven, and
declared she would 90 to take refuge with
her sorrow among the chistsins, and leave
the field free to her triumphant rivals. Un-
abe TO deny the truth, hairum took the
robe of silence. Z.
The woman in the case disappeared as BY
euchantment, thanks to the completely of
Ali-kanic. Bat quickly the noise of the
adventure spread thr ughout the court,
and all the world was in CONSERVATION.
Hafrum tried in vain to calm the sultana !;
his words only strengthened her resolution
not to hear them.
For high reasons Of state, her agony was
obscured for some days, but it soon broke
out with greater violence. The kings rela-
tives joined in the endeavor 10 quiet Ter
but their efforts were vain.
Nothing can prevail against jealousy.
BY mesns of his gallantries. Hafrum at
tempted to reconquer the heart Of his in
Iuriated spouse, but could gain nothing
Then unforeseen ferrors laid siege to him.
How would hs subjects receive the scam
dalous atfair? What would say the chris
tian princes when the sultana should go to
beg their protection? Could he find any
possible means to coun,ervail the prblic
knowledge of the scandal? One,
possibly, and that was the sons
Here occurs a vacancy in the chronicle.
In the hope of being able to I'll it, we pause
here for the present, and go to search fur
Their the ancient archives in order to con-
tinue the relation of the sad struggles of
the sultana and the extreme determination
which her jealousy inspired.