The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-16
AUDACITY, AS 1T WORKS
IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Stories of Nerve" and What it Sometimes Ac.
compIishes Told by the Eat Traveller.

From the st, Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is an audacity that shapes
the ends of some people and with its
bravado aid nothing is too great for
them to undertake" said the stout
man, as he settled comfortably back in
his chair and looked for a brace of
seconds at the army officer on the 9TH
er side of the fireplace.
THE yarn of the correspondent has
more of the picturesque and daring in
what he unceremoniously undertook
and succeeded in and it ought to be
told first. The scene of the story is
laid in the capital city of one of those
countries nomnally under the sway of
the Sultan of Turkey, but which, in
point of actual fact, are really to all
intents and purposes practically indie
pendent. The correspondent found him
self in this community one morning
while on a tour of the bizarre coun-
tries which border the Mediterranean
on several sides, with a very pro-
nounced and intense desire to hold
private converse with the potentate in
charge of its temporal and also spirit
Ual affairs, but with no avenue openly
apparent by which it could be attain
ed. He had been diplomatic, he had
been oily, he had been a bride giver,
but all to no purpose. The end was
just as far away, to his mental vision,
as it had been when his negotiations
were in their earlier stages. Nay, it
was even farther away, for at that
time hope burned bright, whereas now
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a candle on the verge of expiring from
lack of grease to consume Officials
shivered, after they had accepted his
gifts, when the mere suggestion of en-
tering the palace of the princely po-
tentate whose frown meant death and
whose smile was life was mad.
"Disconsolate the correspondent sat
in the apology for a hotel that served
him as lodging place and stared across
the caloric square at the WhlteWashed
walls of the building that housed the
man with whom he would have a word
or two for no other reason than just
to satisfy inordinate curiosity. Before
a black hole in the long white wall
shambIing sentry ambled back and
forth, and as the disappointed purVey-
or of news watched the sentry and
idea suddenly flashed across his mind.
Rising like a man who had been awak-
ened from a dream he called to his
dragoman and disappeared into MS
room. In the small amount of lug
gage he had managed to keep in touch
with himself was dress suit, an opera
hat and one or two other articles of
attire for which a traveller would APP
narently have more use in Paris than
in the Orient. Carefully shaving him
self the man with the audaclty then
donned his evening suit, a SHIRT not
quite as immaculate as it should nave
been, but which would sutnce, ana
a cross the bosom of this he stretched
a broad red sash. The dragoman,
trife dazed at all these proceedings
assisted as best he could, ana Wnen the
preparation had ended he sallled 1orIn
at his masters behest to secure
borse and a donkey. 1t does not take
long to find these things in any prop
erv constituted Oriental community
and soon the sentry before the palace
was rubbing his eyes with amazemelit
at the sight of curiously clad frdnk
crossing the square on horsepack' Iol-
lowed by a bewildered looking drago-
man astrde donkey. Ia
pulling up in front of the gate Win
a flourish the Frank dismounted' ana
with the manner of prince demand
ing rightful audience, hand
ed MS DuSlllNSo
dragoman with the lhslruc-
tions to present it to the sentry with
the order that it be transmitted az
once to the Sultan. For a full halt
minute the dragoman stared at ms
master in establishment, almost con-
WINGED that he had lost his mind put
constrained to obey because OF the
fat salary he was drawing each week
as guide, philosopher and friend OF
the -benighted infidel he served, he
obeved. The sentry fingered the card
in doubt but he had been duly i'm
by the arrival, and at another
command from the owner of the card,
though couched in a language he could
not understand, he disappeared in the
portals.
"a minute, two, three, four passed,
and then to the gate came surprised
looking individual, whose garb evil
denced him an attendant on the Sui
tan. Meanwhile. a few remarks from
his master had placed the dragoman
firmly on the path of duty as his
master saw II, and though he was
still In a state that almost bordered
on prostration, he interpreted the
words OF his employer faithfully. He
was great man in distant America,
who had come to pay his respects to
the Sultan, whose fame extended even
to the remote quarters wherein he
1welt. That was the substance Of il,
and after gazing again on the pre-
.entious-looking figure before him. |
lad in evening clothes. decorated with |