The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-06
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1894.


what this means first"
Hastily glancing over the letters con-
tents with SententiOus More trouble,
Harry! ne tossed the note to his friend.
We'll, Jack, I'm ruined if those Man
ley women get here before I've accom-
lished something. Let's see Why,
Jack. 1t IS postmarked a month ago at
Luzerne. Ten to one, they're here some
where at this moment"
Mighty kind of those little wretches-
pretty lively sisters-in-law Emily and
Cecil Will make,-to disclose the inten-
lions OF the party to test our loyalty to
Harriet and Edith. after we served the
youngsters that trick at Paris, isn't it,
now1"
Grand but I'd rather contend with
the Old One than lot of mischievous
women with plenty of money, nothing but
merry ma king on hand, no end OF inven-
| ton, and perhaps half convinced that we
are really flirting with these sheeted
mummies around US. I'm for slipping
away to Blidah, or even escaping as far as
! Biskrah.' -
Never Wen remain right here Harry.
Let them find US if they can. Wen work
| away like little men meantime. Perhaps
we may turn their humor upon them
selves. Blow off now, Ben, the Lazy!
| What's the matter anyhow"
Allah smiles on the Inglesy," replied
the servant solemnly
We'll, that's Jolly, Jack - and Good
for Allah - rejoined the artists.
AT this sacrilege Mohammed Ben Lazi
| SAID prayer into the palms of his two
hands, rubbed his hands over his face,
and. as Harry observed, This is really
! getting serious" proceeded:
| "A sheik makes pilgrimage. He is
already gone. Inglesy shall paint his
wives, who are little little wicked for
once, like Inglesy!"
They snranur r,por, him II, mol y l6o;o,,-
ness with over the garden wall you go
this time, Ben, if this is another of your
fine tricks!'
But Mohammed Ben Lazi still greatly
| concerned, half dragged them to
corner of their roof and pointed to
the far terrace where they had
| recently observed the group with the
lOrgnettes. They now saw the same
| Moorish women regarding with the great
est attent iveness the little plan with
their captive servant; but the moment
Ben Lazi pointed toward them, they all
! disappeared precipiJously with peals of
laughter within their abode.
See, see!" said Ben Lazi triumphantly
Allah has so willed ="
Casselearth was nearly beside himself
with excitement and expectancy, but
Nader busted himself with essential
diplomacy.
Well, Ben, if this proves true, what
| dEt you 10 9eb t'
''Inglesy shall pay Mohammed Ben
Lazi only one hundred francs for the
great fortune"
Good but what are the absent sheiks
naughty wives to receive?"
mot one soldf from Inglesy. They
venture all for Jest Thrice divorce
awaits them if the sheik discovers. Their
woman servant might reveal. Fifty
francs to her would not be much to pur-
chase her silence"
Done! When are we to Gomez"
Tomorrow three hours after first
prayers of day. But Inglesy must make
yows.n .
"Jehosophatl More trouble. jack
groaned- Casselearth despairingly. Give
it name, you willy Cerberus! -
"Inglesy must enter the house of the
sheik no further than hidden. They must
speak no word to the women of the
harem. They must work only and go
away, Six times shall they come-no
more. When the picture is done, the
great lady (the first wifel shall have its
likeness for her venture.
Duplicate, or photograph, he means,
Harry. All right. Fly, Ben, to your
hours and tell them we accept gratefully
all their miserable conditions ~ exclaimed
Nader as Ben AIazi disappeared 'evi-
IDENTIFY remorseful at not having driven a
harder bargain
III bAAC hdLuC VI pdlu1 anu CduNdS,
how am l to do anything under these
conditions? We're to do nothing, say
nothing, be nobody but couple of peep
ing Toms How can | compose a study
under such circumstances It's impossi-
BILE"
Remember the old adage about beg
gars and chOosers, Harry Well go,
ready for work and trust to luck You
catch everything possible in form, color
and expression pertaining to the women,
, in whatever outlandish posture we may
find them. III work IN the ARCHITECTURAL
detail all around you. Well do the light
ming artist act that way; and may be
get more than our moneys worth after
: all from these captious and sinful
, women
, Jack Madder's prophecy was happily
more than fulfilled.
On arriving at the glaring white and
tombllke walls of the absent shiek's
abode, they were admitted behind the
| grated street door into lofty vestibule,
where the master of the house transacted
business and received his male friends.
| The light was Immediately excluded
by rich hangings being drawn across the
grating. From the vestibule they were
! brought through other grated doors to a
Z little corner of the inner court. This had
: evidently been cut from the remainder of
? the interior by curtains which fell in
= heavy folds from the ceiling to the floor
In this close and shadowy place Mo-
hemmed Ben Lah proceeded to unpack
| their easels, arrange their paints and
, brushes, and fasten in place their large
: canvas; all in such a manner that the
artists, as they could Judge from the
structural relations Of what they had
already seen, should be given a diagonal
} perspective of what the court might
eventually disclose
Making the best of their enforced situa-
tlon, but still with much suppressed grum-
: bling and protest, they at last professed
themselves ready for work. Ben Lazi
disappeared, and in moment more, as
If in response to the musical tinkling of a
bell, the curtain sin front of their canvas
were swiftly and silently parted, when
the two'artists stood in amazed admiration
before the most gorgerous picture their
eyes had ever beheld
1t was genuine Moorish patio or court
, Slender spiral columns. onyx beneath eX-
quisitely carved marble horseshoe arches,
, formed a cOlonnade extending around the
entire quadrangle These supported a
| gallery of precisely similar pattern,
save that where the arches reached the
quaint thing of the roof, an entablature
of marvellous fret-worK, as dainty as lines
of driven foam, was set in dazzling white
ness beneath the ends of the red, pro-