Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-03
HOBART PASHA.
A Story OF Real Life with the Plot Of >
Highly Sensational Novel.

A Story OF Real Life with the Plot Of >
Highly Sensational Novel.
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The news by cable of the death of Ho.
bart Pasha was the "Finis" to as roman
tic q career rs ever formed the subject OF
a story, and not the least romantic chap
ter OF il was the Pasha's second marriage
in 1874. 1t sounds like the plot Of an En-
glish novel, and the heroine of the third
volume still lives to mourn the loss of the
hero.
Hobart Pesha, 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 Of
hcer before he entered the Sultan's service
and rose to Mehometan honors and digni-
ties that no Christian had ever before OBJ.
tanned.
During the early part of his career,
while he was still in the English service, a
brother officer of his was so severely
'sounded that the surgeon announced to
aim the mortal nature of his injury. The
dying man sent for the future Pasha,
whom he was greatly attached, and con-
dded to him q secret. He had married a
girl who was of rather humble parentage,
and because of his family'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
10 his friend Hobart to repair his fault.
"If you will pledge your honor for the
truth of the marriage" he said, "tho
world will believe you, and you i'll
believe me when l swear to you that it Is
So"
When Hobart, now become a Turkish
officer, returned to England, he undertook
to comply with the request of his dead
fiiend, but the young mother under the
weight of her grief and the equivocal po-
sition she occupied had followed her hus-
band, and tho 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 be left
England, as be did soon after, he placed
her nj 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
though. no more about her except to send
an occasional letter full of good advice.
trinkets. When she was seventeen
years old he got a letter from
her full of passionate misery and
stained with tears. Some girl enemy
had discovered the mystery about her
birth and taunted her with It, and she
wanted him to come and take her some
where, anywhere, away from girls who
were cruel So the teRder-hearted old
soldier put himself aboard the next
steamer for home and got his little pro-
tege, though what he was to do with her
he didn't know. She was young, she was
pretty: she clung to hir1 with tenderest
gratitude and love, and the hearts of even
bronzed. gray-mustached old soldiers are
not proof againss that, and so, n that
after all seemed the quickest and sinplss.
solution of the trouble, and they roth
wished il, they were married. And now
At twenty mine, she is left TO mourn the
loss OF one of the most brilliant and dar-
ing commando: Englan evsr produced
Here are all the materials for three
} volume romance. with Turkish coIorinx
ready -made, and with the advantage ol
being strictly tus.