Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09

purity good Muzzl,man, ard it costs
dear to beat him.
When | LAD wiped myself off a little,
our first care was, IS you may well i'm
agire. to 20 to the sack and open it,
we found quite a pretty woman, tri-
le fat, with beautiful black hair, and
having for clothing nothing but blue
wColen chomise, a little less trarGpar-
ent than the scarf of William de Cha
Verny.
She drew herself skillfully from the
sack and, without seeming greatly en-
barrassed, address, us with a very pa
thotic discourse, no doubt, but OF
whiGl we understood not one word, at
the END OF which she kissed my hand
This is the only tins, ladies, that wo-
man has done me that honor.
However, We rogained cur compos-
IRE. We saw our Gragonan tearing lis
hair like a man ii dispair, | bound up
my head as best | could with my hand
kerchief. Tyrrei said
What the devil shall we Do with
Tat woman there? # we stay here,
tie husband win cone back ra-enforc-
ed and overWheln Us. If We return to
Larnaka with her in this guise, the
ra5ble will stone ra without fall
Then, Notwithstanding his peTplexity
at these reflections, he recovered his
British phleg,n ard srowled:
What the devil was your idea in 60
ing out to sketch to-day?"
His exclamation made me laugh, and
the woman, who had understood moth
ing, began to laugh also.
Still, ii YVES necessary to decide upon
Eomathing / thought the best thing
we could do would be 10 put ourselves
under the protection of tie French con-
sui, but the greatest difficulty was the
return to Larnaka. The Cay was draw
Ing to q close, and that in itself was a
fortunate circumstance for us Oar
Turk made us take a great tour, and,
thanks to the night and this precau-
ton, we arrived without llindrance at
/ tie house al the consul, which is out
siGe the city. 7 forgot to tell you that
we had contrived fairly decent cos
tune for the woman out Of the sack
and the turban CT our interprel er.
The consul received us very ungra-
ciously, told us we had been fools; that
the usages and customs Of the country
where one was travelling should be re-
spected; that you should net put the
finger between the bark ard the ,ree.
II q WI a, he reprimanded Us
r0unGly, and hi NOS right, for we had
done enough to occasion a violent riot
and a massacre Of all the French on
the Island OF Cyprus.
His wife was more humane She had
read many novels, and found cur con-
duct most generous. In fact, we were
treated like heroes Of romance. This
excellent woman was very devout. She
thought she could e3cily convert the
infdel we had brought her; that this
conversation would be mentioned in
lie Moniteur, and that her husband
would be made consul general. All
this plan passed through her mead iii
che instant. She embraced the Turk
ish woman, gave her a dress, shamed
the consul for his cruelty and sent him
to the Pasha to arrange the affair
The Pasha was very angry. The
jealous husband was a parsonage, and
was raging and cursing. 1T was an
abomination, said he, that the dogs
CT Christians should prevent such a
man as himself from throwing his
slave into the sea" The consul was
greatly perturbed. He spoke much of
the king, his master; still more Of a
frigate Of 80 guns which had jus APP
reared in the waters OF Larnaka. But
the argument with which he produced
the greatest effect was the proposition
that he made in our name to pay a fair
price for the slave.
Alas, if you knew what it was. the
fair price Of Turk. 1t was necessary
tic pay the husband, pay the Pa1ha, pay
tie SIS driver, as Tyrhel had knocked
cut TWO Of his teeth, pay for the scan
dal, pay for everything.
And how many times during all this
Tyrrel cried dolefully.
why the devil so out sketching on
the seashore?"
what an adventure, my poor Oar