The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-24
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THE ADpENTURE OF
: A PERSIAN BEAUTY.
BY A. DOCTOR.

IS u year younger. 'kcja Rashi' said
his majesty. addressing the principal
guardian Of The fair. Let the lady be ssat
10 Mooi.ah Adams house immediately I
Was graansd. q Hakias, at as majesty's
condescsESson. my head waS exalted 10
the skies. said the little man. proudly,
but when | left my duties At the court.
and returned home. ] was cruelty Gnde-
ceiFed. Tfis lady was not enc Of us Ha-
Kim Sahi5.' he added. ia 1 solemn soae
she was a Swapping young woman os
proposes sstus appearance. rather above
than below the ordinary height His maj
esty had eoEadeseended To perpe;fate a
scurvy jake upon the mast faithful. OF his
servants l hurried 10 the house of my
friend, the Nojs Basa4, and he commaai-
Gated 20 ME the true state OF the case,
The lady who had heen sent TO my house.
and who is here now. alas he added.
with sigh. was ambitious as we. A.,
BEAUTIFUL. The ke3a Bashi told me that
but six months ago she had entered the
royal hsarem among the SIX beautiful re-
erults who regularly arrive there once
year. l have said she was ambitious and
she Immediately conceived the wicked idea
Of suppianting the royal favori,e In his
matestys affections She went so far, only
a week ago. as TO administer love phil
ter IL the Asylum OF the Ua.verxe Ii
made his majesty very i'll indeed. and 10
punish her. aud not TO honor me-. added
the indignant dwarf. II have been ordered
TO marry her TO one Of my sons AID
now. 10 make matters VERSE they are
both violently in love with her. and my
eldest son kabyi. who is of a fcroc.ous
temperament. has stabbed the unfortunate
Habyl. as YOU see. aud all for the sake Of
one OF the diversified"
And then he waited anx!ously for any
suggestion that might fall from me.
Couldn't you return herr said l. in
nocentiy
impossible" said the dwarf. sadly
It's quite contrary to etiquette. You
alone can help me ou; OF this ails NINA. y
talented foreign .nfidel.''
| expressed my establishment. and wait
ed for Mooliah Adam to explain himself
more fully.
'-Hakim Sahib.' he said, In a bnarse
whisper. 1.-THE woman is a very tigrsss,
she is furious at being banished from the
seraglio OF the king OF kings. she threat
ened TO tear my hair out By the roots
when l informed her tina, it was his
majesty's pleasure that she should marry
the Lord Habyl. And when my oldest
son. KabyI. forgetting the dignity of his
own position. attempted To make love 10
her she iaushngiy declared that she would
punish him as mothers are accustomed 10
punish children of tender years.
IT WIS with difficulty that I could keep
my coansenance. but 1t was evidently no
laughing matter. 10 Moollah Adam.
''Hakim Sahih.' he said. AID he rolled
his eyes in a hypocr!t.cal manner. ''she IS
TOO good for this world and she IL very
wretched indeed; could you put her out
of her misery?'
/ pointed out 10 him that the poisoning
of beautiful odallsaues was not at all In
my line. but he was In no wise abashed.
''i'll make il worth your while he said
But I shook my head.
At that moment ne!ghborng window
was suddenly flung npgn with considerable
violence. A few seconds afterward a silver
tea urn and "a quantity of valuable porce-
lain was hurled from the window with a
crash.
ITS the lady" sad Moollah Adam
''She has awakened. Alas poor Hahyl
But II Is the will OF heaven"
And then a gorgeous vision made its ap-
pearanee In the court yard
A healthy. strapping young woman Of
about seventeen. wearing a crimson velvet
Zouave jacket embroidered with gold lace
a white gauze vest covered with silver
stars and having heavy bullion fringe
OF the same material. and voInninuus
Skin, Of amber satin embroidered with seed
pearls which reached TO her knees; her
lower extremities were bare and her feet
were thrust into little red slippers. She
wore a little skull cap of cashmere shawl