Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-29
Roy, The Royalist.
By WILLIAM WEsrALL.

l understand passably we'll"
 This was eminently satisfactory. l could get along now; but, being partic- ularly anxious to impress Miller with a due sense of my cleverness at Ian guages, I blundered on in Arabic, though well aware that was making an awful hash of it. But Djezzar was too polite to laugh. He listened atten- lively, smiled pleasantly, and even when l was most unintelligible made as If he understood me perfectly.
 Why, you speak Arabic as we'll as the pasha himself," put in Miller, land | yet you were never in these parts be- | fore. Cad! you make me quite envious; md if it were not so internally difficult l would learn it myself But, as I can not join in the conversation, don't See | the use of staying. Besides, am wanted on board my ship. Say so, and make my excuses"
 It is hard work talking in language | of which you know next to nothing; and when Miller was gone 1 fell back on French, which Djezzar understood much better than I understood Arabic, | and spoke fairly. He also spoke Sla- vonic (his mother tongue1, Italian, Syriac, Turkish and lingua franca, knew something of history, and was so far from being a typical Turk" that he liked to class himself as European, and was as free from religious prejudice as Noltairian Frenchman.
 Jesus Christ is the Mohammed of | Christians; Mohammed is the Jesus Christ of Moslems. Voila tout!'' This was his idea of the two religions | In other respects, however, he was a true Oricntal-a man of strong passions, | fatalist, fond of adventure, and with | faith in his luck that made him a | stranger to fear. The vicissitudes of his life had been more extraordinary than those of hero of romance. Born | of Christian parents, he was made q Mohammcdan at fifteen. He had been beggar, cabin-boy, sailor, slave, Name luke, eXccutioner, or bravo, to an Egyp- | tian bcy, then a bey himself, and finally, after long years of strife and intrigue and bloOdshed, pasha and scrasllier. We had been talking perhaps half an hour, when one of the attendants whis- pcrcd something in Djezzar's ear, where | upon the pasha said something In reply that l did not catch, and waved his hand. The next moment the curtain | of tine dOOr-way was drawn aside, and | the Quccrest crowd l had ever bcheld | came pcll-mcll into the hall-the halt, | the lame and the blind, of both sexes | and all ages, with bare legs and ragged garmcnts-some with hardly any gar mcnts at all-and every one carrying a | wooden bowl.
 My bcggars," said the pasha. "I feed them once a week. This is the | day"
 The bcggers then squatted on the | floor, and servants brought them bread and meat and rice, which they either ate on the spot or carried off in their wooden bowls. When the meal was fin ishcd, each of them received coin, and, as they hobbled away, prayed Allah to bless and reward their benefactor. As | soon as the mcndicants were gone, | Djcz2ar invited me to accompany him to the Notifications; he wanted to see | how the work of mounting the guns and | strengthening the walls was progress ing. As the old man stood up, he looked every inch man of war, and, with his uN (which he put in his belt), his pis- tols and his poniard, formidable one. EvcrybOdy made way for us as we passed through the streets-cxccpt the ' ed him with laughing familiarity | Djczzar appeared to know them all by name, patted them on the head, and gave them sweet stuff and money
 Good hcavcns!" l thought, land yet people can call this man butcher!" We$went first to the old tower, q | binding with enormously thick walls, | llating from the third year of the | Argira. The guns were beng shifted | &ram the sea side of the Notifications l NNherr they would be of no use) to the | aanu side; and Colonel Phelippeaux, who was directing the operation, ex- l plained to the pasha what he had done | and what still required to be done, the l pasha on his part making suggestions | which showed that, though he might not be a scientific engineer, he was at any rate a shrewd and observant soldier. l By the time the conversation and the l inspection were over it was getting dark, and hinted a desire to return tc
 my ship, on which Djezzar said he
 would accompany me to the water gate
 where should have to take boat.
 We had not gone far when a man, | whose head and face were enveloped ir
 a burnous, glided furtively past us, a:
 if he wanted to escape observation | Djczzar, who missed nothing, saw this
 and called to him Gin Arabic) to stop
 The man obeyed. Whereupon Djezzal
 asked hi1n who he was, and ther
 another question, the answer to whicl
 was hardly out of his mouth when tho
 pasha seized him by the throat witf
 one hand and with the other stabbed | him in the heart.
 It was done so suddenly that tho l victim had not time to utter a cry, anC
 only when I saw him roll on the pave
 ment did realize what had happened
 Just then some Albanian soldier!
 came up.
 Take it away" said Djezzar, point
 ing to the body.-"Shan we go on
 Capt. RoyP You seem surprised"
 More than surprised. I am stupe
 fed"
 That man was one of Bonaparte'
 spies"
 You knew him, then?"
 HI never saw him bafOreo