Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-06-23

sides, tho defenders were not
sufficient IN numbers to guard
the many approaches. Yet the daily
lighting was desperate, for the Mos
lens were inspired by the certainty Of
success, while the Christians were
nerved with tho energy of despair. To
end the siege Makomet designated
time for combined assault from sea.
and land.
As the fatal day dawned numberless
hordes moved toward the walls. The
great bitches We're soon filed with the
dead bodies Of thousands of the least
serviceable soldiers, who had been
driven from behind by the lances of
the trained bands that they might
thus worry the patience and exhaust
the resources Of the brave defenders
troops. The carcasses Of the slain
made highway for the living. over
which they poured against the gate Of
st. Romanus. The four grim towers
toppled beneath the pounding Of great
stone balls hurled from the cannon Of
Urban. The defenders were driven of
the adjacent walls by the storms of
bullets and arrows that swept them.
At the critical moment the janixaries,
unwearied Ms yet by watching or fight
ing. 1000 strong. us compact a mass
beneath the eye Of the sultan us the
weapon he held in his hand, moved to
where the breach was widest.
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who first entersv cried the sultan.
waving his iron battle mace. Hassan,
the giant, first mounted the rampant
and fell pierced with arrows and
crushed with stones But through the
gap his dying valor had made In the
ranks Of the foe first rushed the COM
pany Of Ballaban.
In vain did the people crowd beneath
the dome Of St. Sophia, grasping with
hopeless hope an ancient prophecy that
at the extreme moment an angel would
descend to rescue the city. Alas, only
the angel Of death came that day. and
to none brought he more welcome news
answered. for thou hast fallen where
the dead lie thickestw Near the gate-
way Of st. Romanus, where he had
mot tho arst M the invaders under
tho n,Ios NJ IN. dead ooshed nv soher
strokes ond cr,shoJ honooth the Foot
Of the victors, lay the body Of Constan-
Coosors 80 .ha "a s,or,, or,,,,ra
The Turhs placed bis CHASTITY head
he,woen Inc foot of the bronze bor.e a
part OF inc equestrian statue or Jus
tniah. where II was reverently saluted
even by the Mosiems, who paused In
the rage OF the sack to think upon the
virtue and courage Of the unfortunate
monarch.
captain Baiiaban had pressed rapid
~ through the city to the doors OF st
SOPHIA. The oaken gates new back
under the axes OF tho Mosiems. Monks
ana mntrons, children ana nuns, lords
ana pegsars' were crowded together,
not knowing whether the grand dome
would melt away ana legion OF an
gels descend FOR their relief'or the vast
inciosure would become pen OF indis'
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helpless misery excited the pity OF the
captors. Bailabnn's voice rang through
the arches prociaiming safeiy 10 those
VINO shouid submit. mat ne might the
better command the scene he made MS
way to the chance' In front OF the
grand altar. 1t was filled with the
nuns repeating their prnyer Among
them was the lair Albanian. der race
was nut parity toward MIN. YET ne
could never mistake that queeniy head.
ing oloft the bright shaft Of n stiletto.
she cried:
hLet us give ourselves TO heaven. but
never 10 the baremv'
Ballaban pnused an instant. But
TINT instant seemed to him many min.
utes. As under the lIghtning's aash
the whole moving panornma of the
wide lnndscape seems to stand still and
paints WILDLY its prominent objects,
however scattered. upon the startled
eve of the beholder, so his mind, mar.
yelously auickened by the excitement.
tool, In az o,co tho long troci, No hi,