The Red Cloud chief., 1893-09-15
FORCING AN ENTRANCE At FEZ.
Passing Through the Gate Of q Morocco
Town at Midnight.

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Town at Midnight.
While Mr.. Bonsal, the author of
Morocco as it is,"was in Fee, he went
out Of the city one evening iodine with
the members of the English mission
and returned at midnight with Boazza,
n servant. Mr.. Bonsal was on his horse
Hassan, while Boazza went before him
on foot with a lantern. the night being
pitch-dark. When they reached the
gate Of the city it was shut, though il
was still an hour before closing time.
They knocked for ten minutes, but no
one appeared. Then they raped at
the guard house In the palace of the
bashaw, about fifty yards from the
gate. Here the keys were usually
kept. The guards came out, about q
dozen in number, and after examining
the faces Of the two men with lanterns,
went back into the guard house and
slammed the door. Mr.. Bonsal thus
narrates what followed:
1--WE knocked again and soon the
whole ~neighborhood was aroused and
denounced us in unmcasured terms
from the windows. Finally the guards
again threw open the doors, and this
time, as they came up, I noticed that
they were armed. Six of them ut least
had rifles, three or four presented piss
tolls, and the rest carried bludgeons.
They told us II We did not 20 away
they would shoot.
Z "Boazza, my muleteer, stood his
ground manfully. At last, as the men
continued to gather around me in q
most threatening manner, I drew my
pistols and covered them. 1t must
have been amusing To look at, but it
was not amusing to live through. For
fully three minutes not a sound was
heard.
II am afraid I lost my temper, and
certainly the provocation was great, I
remembered riding up to the caid Of
the guard and giving him q sound box
on the cars.
''Boazza and I were shouting for the
key all the while and tho guards were
loud in the expression Of a wish to SEQ
my grandmother burned. Suddenly
they made unanimously for the door.
as l thought; to get the key. Boazza
vas quick-witted, and as they turned
W ClOSC III uOOT III our luCco iC pun Ills
foot on the threshold and got it we'll
smashed for his pains.
"Seeing that their IDEA was to let us
spend the night in the dirty street, I
put my horse against the door, which
Boazza had succeeded in keeping n few
inches open. The next moment the
door gave way, and to the unspeakable
surprise of the guards, my horse and I,
closely followed by Boazza, were pa
rading in the most magnificent manner
inside the guard house.
"Hassan was as much surprised as
his rider, which is saying a good deal,
and prancing and kicking about, con-
trived to do no little damage. Two
beautiful tiled tables, upon which the
caid was taking his midnight tea, were
kicked into smithercens. Cups and
saucers were broken, and he prnnccd
about on the Iimmoor rugs as il those
beautiful carpets were his nightly
ding. -
"The guards, myself and Boazza =.
sented arms again for about five min
utes, somewhat aftor tho mcnucing
fashion of rival armies In italian opera.
! o o discovered that the old caid In
charge of the night guard was it's weak
est member, and so, catching him Ivy
the ear, giving il a good tug, I placed
my pistol close to his temple and cx-
planned that unless the keys Of the gate
were Forthcoming in very short order
there would DO bloodshed.
"Thc caid was much Mustered. IIo
swore that 40 insult had been intended;
that the keys were under tho bashaw's
pillow and could not DO got. I rc.
manned obdurate and finally he sent "
soldier upstairs utter them. Meanwhile
we stood in statuesquo pose, the Moori
covering me with their rifles, and I
with the shining barrel of my revolver
within six inches Of tho old caid's bald
Uranium.
"Thcn the soldier returned, and with
him came the most rcpulsive looking
old %reprobatc that I had ever seen. IL
was the bashaw himself. lie had been
disturbed in his sleep; his eyes were
bl~oodshot, and his under lip hung over
like Il hounds. lilo carried O candle,
which he held up, and studied my face
with an expression of concentrated
hatred such as I hope l may never ex.
cite again.
MY attitude of murderous menace
was growing wcarisome, when tho ba-
shaw terminated the trying situation
by saying: Bring the keys In q mo-
ment the gate was opened, and we rode
through amid the curses Of the angry
crowds that had now assembled."-
Chicago Times.