The National tribune., 1897-06-03


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Basil Kanaris saw at once that with Ida
in the citadel all hope of rescue by land
was at an end. Intense feeling some
times gives rapidity and sureness 10 judg-
ment ard he had determined upon his
plan while still unable to move. Dis
missing all but sailors among his COM
panions, he besought them to send any
sea-goipg volunteers they might find to
an appointed rendezvous, and, mounting a
messenger on one of the ponies freely ten
dered by by ssyGicpathizing acquaintance, sent
him off % 20 TTiiere his comrade, Michael Ia
eros, boldest of contraband traders, lay, with
his swift Tartan, securely hidden in a small
land-locked bay upon the eastern coast
Next afternoon, while the Ag2's crew of
reckless mariners. trained in many deed of
hardihood and heart-stirrng experience,
were idling on board or resting under lofty
cliffs that shaded a strip of grassy beach,
they heard the shrill Sphakiot signal cry,
and saw Kanaris's courier climbing down
towards them with the agility of mount
ain goat.
His tale was soon told, and met with a
ready and fierce response. Not man hesi-
bined, with nothing to risk but life. None
on board the Chumpa knew them. and if
any witnesses should be there they had their
knives. Curses on the Turks and thanks
be to the Saints at whose shrines they had
offered. Away! Away! Thus they shout
ed in the same spirit with which their Cor
eair ancestors had boarded their galleys.
No delay was necessary. The beautiful
little vessel was in perfect trim for run to
Negroponte, and while come sharpened
swords or loaded firearms, Others manned
her long sweeps and she soon moved out to
sea- But it was almost dead calm even
when they had got an nffing. and the Tartan,
light as she was and with everything spread
crept slowly towards the point where Kama
ris had appointed to meet her. What Ho-
mer calls the infinite laughter of The
sparkling Egean Knocked their impatience.
Finally, when the sun was low, that same
eoutheaster which waited Mehndi Ais ship
away filled their Ted-browp sails, and bear
ing up from her outward board the Agla
few onward along her course.
Ia was long way round the eastern end
of Gambia, however, and hours before the
awaiting party were on deck; but then Ia
gros himself steered his ship, and she swept
over the white-crested waves like some dark
plumed swooping sea bird. sailing four feet
TO the Chumpa's two, and certain to over
haul her whenever the pursuers chose.
Marcus Kallimakis was with the rescuing
crew. The young men urged him to stay
behind and trust them to The work. but he
declared that he could not live without his
daughter, and he must know her fate at
once. So the old man thrust long dagger
into his girdle and was assisted by Zagros to
Chamber mp the Aglae's side to her deck
Papa Demetrios, also, would be of the
party, though still weak from the crushing
blow of the sword of the kavass.
Meanwhile Mehndi and Suleiman sat on
deck putting chibouques while the latter ex-
planned 10 his morose companion what had
kept him SO late. 1t was the Pashas Gus
tom, he said, to get drunk privately on most
evenings reprehensible habit worthy of a
Gaiour He had done so on this occasion,
and being asleep nobody dared wake him to
sign their sailing orders. Tken Suleiman OBJ
served that the siege of Ksrs had ruined
his stomach. and on account Of this, q holy
Moolah advised an occasional dose of that
liquor which those cbaitering, dancing
devils, the French, called eau de rie Pulling
out a small flask they shared its contents,
and then as both felt perfectly secure, now
that the ship was on her way towards SIAM
ooul, these worthless went TO sleep.
Within the deck-house, family lighted by
swinging-lamp, their captive slumbered
also, thralled in the death-like Oblivion of
perfect rest. The rose-tinted pillows i'm
parted no tinge of color to Ida's pallid face,
a1i, but for the slow, soft heaving of her
breast, she might well have been taken for
asculpiured form-some fair young goddess
of that earlier day when Hellas realized en-.
t<.a - :
feet types.
Her women, lanai and Ayesha, sat
drowzily on watch, for they had been
warned with direful threats that Greek girls
often killed themselves rather than embrace
fortune aud pleasure. These sensuous crea-
lures were rs incapable of plying Ida as
they were OF approaching her lovliness; for
20 them, as TO most Turks there could be
nothing attractive In figure not overloaded
with flesh. Therefore they wondered at the
Pasha's perverted taste. compared Ida to a
lean camel just back from the pilgrimage to
Mecca, and prophesied that she would fail ia
End favor al Consiantinople; but consoled
themselves with visions of its gorgeous
bazars and busy streets, with anticipated
picnics in the valley of sweet waters,n and
those delightful intrgues, scandals and gor.
mandiziDgs which the Seraglio would surely
provide.
Days without events succeeded The
Chumpa sailed that s,oried sea, and in none
whom she carried did its scenes revive q
single memory. Zagros, his own less lofty
ship invisible TO those who kept no lookou,
sloft, perched himself on the yard, and
studied her through good old-fashoned
English glass until all that was unseaworthy
In this ocean tramp" he was chasing fully
revealed itself Then he and Kanaris def
nitely determined 10 rescue Ida off the
coast OF Skyros They knew that Mehnd
Ali must have too little confidence in hi.
vessels weatherly qualities not to keep it.
western shore close aboard, now that tn,
sirocco was blowing itself out and leyante
seemed to be brewing. Therefore wher
towards nightiall an easterly wind began Il
blow, The Aglas wings were spread unde
the murk and gloom of threatening six v
sne passed the chase unseen, and bore up TO
where Skyros sprawls upon the sea, lis ont
stretched promontories horribly resemblip,
the extruded body substance of some might,
protoplasmic monster lying in wait for brew
There they lay concealed behind littl,
islet close TO its southern extremity. PLACED
q lookout on the cliffs, and possessed thei
souls with such patience as each could com
mand.
Open sea rolled around, except wher
across narrow channel The waves brok
on Psara's dangerous reefs. SkyTos, neanin,