Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-22
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rNE WOMAN'S WISDOM.
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generate between the philosophic puffs
from his hookah No, sir. She more
wise than two serpcnts. and when she
1--we she more gentle than NohammcT 5
own dove. Bissmlldh. listen.
icn-twclve years agu one English
steamer struck one Frcnchman there. -
With the stem of his pipe he indicated
The entrance 10 the canal just ahead of
ti> 'Ze French boat was going to sink,
ai,i ze captain run it on shore by re sig
u;li house. Well" he continued, drop
! ri.is >"nc Of his Frenchman's style of
/ speaking English, which came Of his bet
ter knowledge of the cross channel Ian
-iiH..2 ''ze men were sent home, but ze
officers. engineers and zc c;tTpentair was
keep hy zc damaged ship, and some came
from Port Said 10 mend zc broken place
! OF course Ze steamer was here weeks.
! Well. ze French signaman i'll re house
there (again pointingJ had one servant
girl-very tine-what you call good for
re eyes. All. beautiful, Eyes like re
moon. face same as houri, tall and soft
to ze fingers. Her mother was Circas-
sian-Slave. ! think-but the master give
his child freedom cause her mother ask
it. Well, she had lover, Mussulman, in
/ lsmailia. but she soon love ze carpen-
| tair-he live in tent on shore there with
his shipmen. Ze signalman had one fine
/ cow-pleRty milk-and Alphonse, re car
| rentair, 20 many times to buy milk.
lie was young, kind and pleasing to see.
/ Il was what you call taxman here, and
/ | learn all
''Well. Alphonse and Joyce Goyce not
! her name, l..'t he call her So and she
called that ~. they meet many times
after re sun - down-So many that Ben
/ Ali come two, three times catch them
OF course he make trouble Love makes
re coward brave. Think she care? Not,
| She speak some French. and she tell
| AipEonSe that she what you call afti-
anccd to Ben Ali. Alphonse not care
| He love her. he say; she love him, she
say: so what for care? All, Ben Ali
come soon to claim her, then she must
go, Ze signalman and French people
about take sides with .AIphonse and tell
him take Joyce to France. But lovers
wis,lum is fools knowledge They bet
| ter know their own business best.
''Thc snip was nearly ready; then she
20 to India and come back to Marseilles.
One night Joyce creep out of ze signal
/ uUtiSc ASl SHt run bi Ze ldhe "
where it deep. There she reave her
her what you call dress and shawl; then
she go quiet back to re ships boat,
where Alphonse lie wait for her. Her
mothers sister live other side of ze
lake there, and he was to take her there
| till his ship come back; then she would
go with him in it to France. OF course
re people on this side re lake was to think
she had drown herself cause of Ben Ali
making trouble. So was her plan, and
re lover always say his houri's plans are
good 1t would take Alphonse most ze
night, but what care he! She would be
out of Ben Ais way, and was he not ze
slave of his Joyce?
so ze boat put off, Joyce lying down,
her great moon eyes peeping over re stern
edge at re ship and signal house. Soon
she lift her head and look hard. Then
she sit up and say hot words. Alphonse
stop pull, and ask what's ze mattair. She
make to him to pull hard, and say, Ben
Ali, Ben Air Then she tell Alphonse
that she make mistake of re night. She
sometimes have to see Ben Ali for keep
peace. This was re night she should see
him, and run away on re next night.
Never mind, if re Mussulman not see
them. But Joyce said quick words. Ben
Ali had turned from re shore and was
making speed after re ships boat. He
come out of re canal from Ismailia, and
was going to Ze signalman's landing
place, when he see re uncommon sight of
boat going cross re lake at night. He
miss re ships boat, and what you call
jealousy sometimes make men wise. He
give chase. His boat was one old small
thing. made of cane and camel skin, and
he sent it through the water like steamer.
Joyce begin to feel 'fraid, talk to her
self and turn about. Ben Ali must catch
them, and Alphonse say he go back and
fight him. No, say Joyce. Then she creep
to her lover, take his knife, kiss him to
say nothing, and tell him to stop pulling
two minutes after she leave him, then go
round back toward &c ship. He know
how well she can swim like fish, and he
say no word. In one minute Joyce slip
into &c water, like re night come down,
and swim straight for Ben Ali's boat.
AlphoDse 20 on; by and by him turn, go
on again, then sit still
"Soon Ben Ali come on, like wild man.
Him see the other boat turn. Wonder
what ze mattair and stop to use his pad
uit- nat luluUtt uiS ptdG utNe lIS Ilt
took Joyce stab it st re bow, under wa
ter, as it run over her. Then she swim
fast to her lover and Ben Ali begin to
sink He shout for help, but Alphonse
stop as Joyce tell him. Soon he see her
head i'll re moonlight. pull to her and take
her in. Now, Ben Ais boat gone, and
he nowhere. Ze lovers say it not right
for him to die They go to look and find
him sinking last time. He no senses.
They put him in their boat, see that he
soon all right and talk what best to do.
In two minutes they do what Joyce say
lie him face down, tie his hands and feet
and make all haste to re few houses on ze
other side of lake.
Presently him speak and try to look
Mt them, then she point Alphonse finish
ze plan and wind Ben Ali's turban
round him eyes and mouth. Soon they
come to ze shore. There they leave ze
Mussulman and go back. Next morning
Joyce and re carpentair tell her master
and re captain what they do, and re two
men send ze lovers to Port Said by ze
FIRST steamer into ze canal that morning"
"And what became of them?" l asked.
'Bissmillah"' said he. ''They at Port
Said ever since, keeping one fine French
estaminet"
''And Ben Alp" | added, looking at
him as he mutely puffed at his pipe.
''Oh, re people find him all right when
&c day come. In two days he walk round
TO re signal house. but re ship gone, and
no one believe his tale. One year and
half after then he find Joyce and Al
phonse at Port Said, but him could prove
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