Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-05
HOBART PAsHA's ROMANCE.
How He Carried Out Dying
Friends Request.
From the Neeo York World.

IRON t6e Ne1o York W0rtd.
The news by cable last Sunday Of the
death of Hobart Pasha was the ''fnis"
to as romantic career as ever formed
the subject of story, and not the least
romantic chapter of it was the Pasha's
second marriage, in 1874. 1t sounds like
the plot of an English novel, and the
heroine of the third volume still lives to
mourn the loss of the hero.
Hobart Pasha, as the papers told when
the story of his death came across the
wires, was the fourth son of the Duke of
Buckingham and a distinguished naval
officer before he entered the Sultan's SER
vice and rose to Mahometan hOnors and
dignities that no Christian had ever be-
fore obtained.
During the early part of his career,
while he was still in the English service,
brother officer OF his was so severely
wounded that the surgeon announced to
him the mortal nature OF the injury. The
dying man sent for the future Pasha, to
whom he was greatly attached, and con-
fded to him a secret. He had married a
girl who was of rather humble parentage,
and because of his tamily's opposition the
marriage had been kept concealed and
the girl rested under a stigma. A child
had been born to them Just before he left
England, and now that he was about to
die he was anxious that it and its mother
should be righted in the eyes of the world.
Complications as to its proof had arisen
by the death of witnesses, but he trusted
to his friend Hobart to repair his fault
eft YOU will pledge your honor for the
truth Ofthe marriage" he said, 1.-THE world
will believe you, and you Will believe me
when l swear to YOU that IL is sO.'
When Hobart, now become a Turkish
nffinar n n ole nd bn 10
to comply with the request OF his dead
friend, but the young mother, under the
weight of her grief and the equivocal pO-
sition she occupied, had followed her hus-
band, and the dead mans relatives, when
he at last discovered the child, refused to
acknowledge it.. Nothing was left to him
but to take care of the little orphan him
self, so he accepted the charge with what
grace he could muster, and when he left
England, as he did soon after, he placed
her at famous school for girls in the Isle
OF Wight, where so many English women
of rank have gotten their training and
education.
Then he went back to his duties and
thought no more about her except to send
an occasional letter full of good advice,
with boxes OF Turkish sweetmeats and
trinkets. When she was IL years old be
got letter from her full of passionate
misery ana stained with tears. Some girl
enemy had discovered the mystery about
her birth and tainted her with it, and she
wanted him to come and take her some
where, anywhere, away from girls who
were cruel. So the tender hearted old sol
der put himself aboard the next steamer
for home and got his little prOtege, though
what he was 10 do with her he didn't quite
know. She was young, she was pretty;
she chung to him with tenderest gratitude
and love, and the hearts OF even brOnzed,
gray -mOusJached old soldiers are not
proof against that, and SO, as that after
all seemed the quickest and simplest So
luton of the trouble, and they botn wished
1t, they were married. And now, at %,
she is left to mourn the loss of one of the
most brilliant and daring commanders
England ever produced. Here are all the
materials for a three-volume romance,
with Turkish colOring, ready-made, ana
with the advantage Of being strictly true.