Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10


Logothetl asked.
:" Few words: these perhaps, You left me t.
die; but am not dead. | am here. Through
me you are rich, great man The rubIes are
my marriage portion. which YOU have taken.
Now you must be my husband. That is all
few words
1T is Your right Logotheti answered.
But he will not marry you
Then he shall die replied Baraka as
quietly as il She was saving that he would 60
for walk ,'-
" If you kill him, the laws of that country
may take your life. objected the Greek.
" That will be my portion, the girl an
swered. with profound indifference.
You only have one life Logothetl oD-
served 1t is YOURS to throw away But the
man YOU seek is not IN that country. Van
Torp teegraphed that he is much nearer:
Nevertheless If you mean to Kill HIM l shall
not take YOU to HIM. as intended to do.
Baraka face had changed. though she had
been determined not to betray surprise at any
thing he said. She turned to him. and fixed
her eyes on his. and he saw her lashes qulver
You will tell me where he is! she said
anxiously = If you will not take me, | shall
go alone with Spiro. have been in many
countries with no other help. | can go there
also: where he is, You will tell me- -.
80 Not if you to murder him, said
LOgOtheti. and she saw that he in earnest
" But if he will not be my husband, what can
do. if I do not kill him. She asked the
question in evident good faith
" If were YOU should make him share the
rubes and the money with me, and then
should leave him - himself.
Put you Do not understand Baraka pro-
tested. He is young: he is beautiful:
he is rich He will take some other woman for
his wife If leave him. You see, he must die;
there is no other way. If he will not marry
me- it is his portion Why do you talk Have
not come across the world from the Altal. By
oamarkand and Tihis as far as England. to
bat
have done. Tartar girl alone. with no friend
but bag of stones that any strong thief might
have taken from me- Is the danger nothing,
The travel nothing Is 1t nothing that have
gone about like shameless one with my face
uncovered dressed III man clothes: That /
have cut my HAIR. nv beautiful black hair. !,
that as nothing too That have been in
English prison That have been called
thief: | have suffered all these things to tlnd
him and If | come ~ him at last, and he will
not be nv husband. shall he live and take
other woman You are a great man. 1t Is true;
but you do not understand. You are only
Frank. after all That little maid you have
brought for me would understand better
though she has been taught for SIX years by
Christians. She Is a good girl She says that
IN all that time she has never once forgotten
to say the Fatheh three times day. and to
say e. hduriu tUdh to herself after she has
eaten. She would understand | know She
would. BUT you, never" The exquisite little
aquilirr features wore L look Of unuttersble
contempt.
e If were you, said Logotheti. smiling. "
should not tell her what you going to do.
" You see cried Raraka almost angrIly.
- You do not understand. \ servant Shall |
tell my heart To my handmade and my secret
thoughts to a hired man | tell you because
you are i friend though you have no under
standing Of liz. NY father feeds many tiocks.
and has many bondmen and bondwomen.
whom he beat, when It pleases him and
put 10 death if ne likes. He also knows the
mine Of rubies. his father did before him.
and when ne desires gold he takes one to fash
kent. or even to Samarkand. d long journey,
and sells It to the Russians. He Is i great
If he would bring camel bag full OF precious
stones to Europe. he could be one ot the great
est men III the world And you think that my
father daughter would open her heart S treas
ure to one Of her servants: l said we'll that YOU
10 not understand
7 OGOTHETI looked quietly at the slim
- Young thing IN 4 ready made blue serge
frock. who SAID such things a Lady Clara
We're de We're would scarcely dare to above
her breath these democratic days: and he
watched the noble little features. and the small
white hand, which had come down to her
through generations of ChiettainS. since the
DAYS when the prlmeral shepherds of the
world counted the stars IN the plains of kaf
He himself with his long Greek descent. was