The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-06-22
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Selim understood of all this only
that his revenge was banked, that the
world, grinning or Indifferent, was all
against him. He went back and sat
for long time in his little shop with
odt motion, almost without thought, a
crushed man. Then, in little cool
interval, when he could think, he made
out that the returned gift was his only
Professionalism he must have bread
and too's-that he had better take the
perfume holder to the merchant who
had bid so high for it.
He wandered out into blurred con-
fusion of sights and sounds, and his
thoughts only came clearly to him
again when he was facing the mer
chant, and unwrapping his handiwork
TO show it TO him. The place he was
in looked rich; on shelves there were
pieces of delicate brass work, like his
own, rich tiles, srmor, and slken fab
1 RIGS abounded. Other faces looked at
him that were coarser than the mer-
chants and as unscrupulous; servants
well fitted with a master. Poor Selim,
of the little that he could think, thought
again that all the world was against
him. For this MAJ, who yesterday
was so eager to buy, was deliberate
now. He disparsgcd the piece of
work, and, asking Selim's immediete
necessity, suggested that he might
provide him and take the brass vase as
pledge. Selim told him sadly that
his want was tools and materials for
his work. Watching him, and with a
sinister smile, the merchant brought |
out bundle, which, unpacked, proved |
to be q rass-bcaters paraphernalia. |
Selim started and clutched; the things !
were his. The dimness seized upon |
him again in a different manner; he |
felt very cold; everything seemed, not
blurred, but very far away. He could |
not be sure if he were telling the NOR
chant quite calmly how these tools had |
been stolen from him and whom he |
suspected; or if he were standing |
stupid, frozen and dumb. Suddenly |
the merchants face came near him, |
huge and terrific; two great hands |
seized the perfume-holdcr bore it |
away into the distance, and placed it |
on shelf with the other works like it. |
Then the hot fit came again, red rage |
famed in Selim's veins, and the mer-
chants servants fought with him.
After space he heard people, whose
faces he knew though they were 80 far
of, tell some one in authority one after |
another that the perfume holder could
not be Selim's-that they knew all his
works, and this was not one of them
that, only yesterday, he had affirmed
that he possessed nothing of the kind.
Then he was seized and dragged away
struggling, raving and fighting; and
everything was blurred but dust and
pressure, anger and despair. Blows
foil IN hin, fhof I-indlaA Eoon
tions of pains and one heavier blow
that seemed to end it.
She whom Selim had called the Star
of his Heart passed into the silken Sc
clusion of Pearsian wifedom. She was
the second wife of the prince whom
the Sultan called the Shadow of his
Hand, and for awhile she reigned un-
rivalled over the heart of that fierce
fighter. In the zenana she received
full homage; the preceding wife, not
yet past her beauty, showed her all
of fortunes favors.
Whilst unoccupicd The-Shadow-of
the-Sultan's-Hand was courte Gus and
devoted, but the soft-eyed girl soon
found that he had many thoughts that
he had no care to share with her. He
expected as tribute a devotion whose
depth he could not sound. The pre-
parat ons for lion hunt occupied his
interest with an entirety that her
charms and affections could not equal;
the thought of raid into Afghanistan
would absorb him to the forgetting of
her existence. Tender-hearted, she
pondered that if her love had been
Cd c6n sorhf |
in all to him, instead of a part,
sometimes, TO this son of a king. The
life of the zenana did not agree with
her as with the more tranquil Great
ures who chartered and squabbled and
grew plumply comely about her.
Her distress eliminated when the
Prince brought back from an Afghan
foray a captive who became the favor
lite of the hour The poor superseded
wife, whose husband hardly realized
her regret at his neglect, pinned and
grew pale. 1t was partly by the wish
have the wisest advice, and partly by
that might make her life more pur.
poseful, that journey was planned
for her to renowned astrologer who
abode two days journey from Naisha-
pur, past the turquoise mines and
across the dreary desert.
Poor lonely Star of y lonely heart
whose love she never thought of.
though the longing for such devotion
filled her soft dark eyes with wistful
sadness.
She was glad OF the few days change
from the routine of the zenana, and
not without hope that wise word
might make smoother the rough places
of her young life.
At nearly nightfall the company
started that escorted her. There were
tents and servants and neccssaries on
strong baggage camels, and score of
warlike guards-each sitting kink-like
on the throne that the camel bears on
his back for man; each carrying his
weapon like the rod of q primeval
king, at once mace and scepter.
The camel train soon reached and
passed the city gates and journeyed by
the side of range of hills out into. the
open waste, over which hung large
lemon hued moon. The guards chal-
lenged from time to time little knots of
plodders to the city, who proved when 1
to be foot-weary workers
in the turquoise mines. Once, after !
the mines were left behind and the
desert track was lonely, the encounter /
with a clump of men caused a mo-
ment's halt, and some imperious de- [
mands from the head man of the es-
cort that were humbly answered. The
lady lay reclined in one of two filters {
which, poised with every continuance {
for smooth convey, were slung on each '
side of steady-footed camel; a female
slave filling the other. When the chief
guard next approached her side he ex. !,
planned that the men they had passed
had borne out into the desert the body
of man who had died raving mad in ]
the prison, and that, having stripped
him, they were returning to the city
with his wretched spoils.
After that the journey was unevent-
rul; at daybreak they encamped, to re- s
sumo their pilgrimage when the cool I
ness of night came. Towards the i
close of the second nights travelling I
they came to hills and an end of sand,
and found the village where the astrol {
,peI. lived 4