Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-10-25
A HAREM COQUETTE.

When the department of fine arts sent
mo to Persia to write up the province Of
Irak-Adjcmi. began by taking up my
quarters in lspahan. AT the end oi three
months had finished my task, but if l
had returned home at once the depart
mcnt would never have believed that was
man of any depth. | was just about
bored to DEATH when luckily there was II
change of governors. The shah sent, in
place of the former governor, his cousin
Malcolm Khan He had travelled in
France, accompanied by Mehmcd. Aga, his
officer of ordnance Mrhmod. ga had the
rank of general, or rather, that of sertip,
to use the Persian term.
Remembered him well-a young man of
about 30, gcntlcmanly fellow, something
of "a swell who dined with me several
times i'm Paris You can appreciate my joy
in meeting him again away off there In
a week he aga and | were inseparablc.
One morning l was dreamily riding
through the city, giving myself up for the
hundrrdth time to the feeling that | was
in fairyland Imagine Immense avenues
bordnrad on the right and on the left with
arcldcs and shaded by gigantic plane trees
at who's" feet are streams of running wa
ter | was nearing the kiosk of Tchcchel-
Sutouu vnen | saw mt the street corner "A
woman i'm a litter. Asa general thing,
Persian women ON the street are like moth
ing 50 mach Il, bundles They are yelled,
of course. or rat.,r. they wear upon their
heads kind OF striped curtain, which
covers the face OuulN enough the Won-
an whuh 1 met did MOI entirely conceal
her Ggure which was sIcndcrand graceful.
and | could see her large eyes cleaning
like c,,,i, Of fire. NV horse was walking.
and made him follow very slowly the
beo,,,.... of he litter. 1t seemed to me that
The unknown looked back once or twice;
Inn, after all. as adventure, of this kind
inth,rl-, ag. somewhat unsatisfactory. |
paid ONLY sli.,.t attention to the matter.
had almost forgotten the occurrence
when. two day, after | again met the lit
for Vhi. time was not alone. Mchmcd-
Ara WI, walking with me. At the first
rIanco | rccouI,ilrd the yelled lady and
espccially remembered those extraordinary
owes AS before. She looked back. but this
tjmn the action was more pronounced. l
glanced at the aga but he pretended to
have noticed nothing. We walked along
in thi, way for about ten minutes when
tho litter suddenly turned toward tho
Dioulffa bridge. This bridge is one of the
tf,,1 Lotto l.,x h.,A
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90 ohorl.luu9 "rO,'s' 'iiu m ''''' nh
SlouS 9Vru''ii, .,io 'o" n',,'" ,,, f,.
nIluSo - aoi,i'" i'., Vi q" r'p"''t h'it,1i
evening Pr"iii'li"uea "n.' ." .',,.' V''
"po"V ioii'MlnE ins M''0U w. =" VP'n' ,oi
rear Vi o''iipr'''iIils ,ion nu' ''r We" i',
leaned half way out of the litter and drop
ned her handkerchief upon the pavement.
pickpJ II m.
DURING the rest of the walk the aga WAS
silent bitinu his mustnchc with a urcoc-
cunird air. When we reached the palace,
Inc said Come in. and when we were
alone in his study he began:
"Mydnar friend. made no comments "A
littlc while arn. but instead of keeping
thnt handkerchief dressed tcndrrly against
vonr Lnnrt vuu must throw if INTO the
fire -