Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-09
CHAPTER XIII.

ical and moral tortures, had sunk down,
not daring to look or listen any longer.
Look with all your eyes! Look"
Feofar-Khan had said, stretching out
his threatening hand toward Michael
Strogoff
Without doubt Ivan Ogareff, knowing
well the Tartar customs, had under
stood the bearing of that word, for his
lips parted for an instant in q cruel
smile. Then he went to take his place
near Feofar-Khan.
A call of trumpets was heard imme-
diately. 1t was the signal for the
amusements.
Now we have the ballet" said AL
eide Jolivet to Harry Blount; ''but, con-
trary to all custom, these barbarians
give it before the drama"
Michael Strogoff had been ordered to
look. He did look. A swarm of female
dancers came upon the space reserved
for them. Various Tartar instruments,
united with the cultural voices of the
singers, formed a strange harmony.
There were mandolin with long neck
made of the wood Of the mulberry tree,
with two strings Of twisted silk, kind
of violoncellO, open at the back, fur
nished with horsehair and made to
vibrate with bow, a long flute made
of a reed, trumpets, tambourines and
tomtoms. At once the dances began.
These dancers performed very grace
fully various dances, sometimes singly
and sometimes in groups. They had
their faces uncovered, but from time to
time they drew a light veil over their
figures, and one would have said that
a cloud of gauze was passing over their
sparkling eyes like a vapor over the
starry heaven.
When this first entertainment was
over, a grave voice was heard, which
said: Look with all your eyes! Lookv'
The man who repeated these words
of the emir, a Tartar of high stature,
was the chief eXecutioner of Feofar-
Khan. He had taken his position be-
hind Michael Strogoff, and he held in
his hand a sword with a broad and
curved blade, one Of those Damascus
blades which had been tempered by
the famous armorers of Karschi or of
Hissar.
Near him some guards had brought a
tripod on which was placed an iron
dish, where some redhot Goals were
burning without emitting any smoke.
The light crust which crowned them
was due only to the incineration of a
resinous and aromatic substance, a
mixture of frankincense and benZoin,
hnon thrown CIR
face.
| Meanwhile another group of dancers
had succeeded the first, but Of race
very different. which Michael Strogof
at once recognized.
And we must believe that the two
journalists also recognized them, for
Harry Blount said to his confrere:
''These are the Zingari Of Mimi Nov
gorod."
1.-THE very onesp' cried Alcide Jolivet.
81 imagine their eyes bring more mon
ey to these spies than their legsw
And in making them out to be agents
In the service Of the emir Alcide JOLT
vet. it is well known, did not deceive
himself.
In the first rank Of the gypsies fig
ured Sangarre, in her superb costume,
strange and picturesque as it was.
which set of still more her beauty.
To be continued.
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