The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-12-14


Of him. 1t was not possible that such
. parsonage as she was should have
left Bayreuth without leaving clear in
structions for sending on any tele-
grams that might come after she left.
At this time Of year, as he knew. shs
was beset with offers of engagements
TO sing, and they had to be answered.
Prom eight o'clock in the morning to
midnight there were is hours, ample
time for q retransmitted message TO
reach her anywhere in Europe and to
be answered. Logotheb felt sensa
ton of deep relief when the man came
aboard at q Quarter-past midnight and
reported himself empty handed; but
he resolved to wait till the following
evening before definitely leaving
Naples for the ten days which must
elapse before Baraka could try on her
beautiful Feringhi clothes
He told her anything he liked, and
she believed him, or was Indifferent;
for the idea that she must be as well
dressed as any European woman
when she met the man she was seek
ing had appealed strongly to her, and
the sight of the pretty things at Nine
Annals had made her ashamed Of her
simple little ready-made serges and
blouses. Logotbeti assured her that
Kralinsky was within easy reach, and
showed no inclination to travel far
There was news of him in the tele-
grams received that day, the Greek
said. Spies were about him and were
watching him for her, and so far he
had shown no inclination to admire
any Feringhi beauty.
Baraka accepted all these inven-
tions without doubling their veracity.
In her eyes Logotheti was great
man, something like a king, and vast
ly more than a Tartar chieftain. He
could send men to the ends OF the
earth if he chose. Now that he was
sure of where Kralinsky was. he could
no doubt have him seized secretly and
brought to her, if she desired it earn
estIy OF him. But she did not wish
to see the man, free or a prisoner, till
she had her beautiful new clothes.
Then he should look upon her, and
Judge whether he had done well to
despise her love, and to leave her to
be done to death by her own people
and her body left to the vulture that
mad waited so long on a jutting point
of rock over her head three years ago.
It was a dreamy and sense-cOmpell-
ing life that she led on the yacht, sur
rounded with every luxury she had
ever heard of, and constantly waited
on by the only clever man she had
ever really talked with, excepting the
old Persian merchant in StambOul.
The vision of the golden-bearded giant
who had left her to her fate after
treating her with stony Indifference
was still before her, but the reality
was nearer in the shape of a visible
"greatman," who could do anything
he chose, who caused her to be
treated like queen, and who was IN
deniably handsome.
She wondered whether he had .
wife Judging marriage from her
point OF view. there probably had
been one put away in that beautiful
house in Paris He was an oriental.
she told herself, and he would not
parade his wife as the Feringhis did.
But she was one, too, and she ccES.d-
cred that it would be an insult to ask
him about such things. SpirO knew,
NO doubt, but she could not demean
herself to inquire of a servant Per-
haps Gula had found out already for
the girl had q way Of finding out
whatever she wanted to know, ap-
parently by explaining things to the
second mate Possibly Gula could be
made to tell what she had learned
without being directly questioned.
But after all, Baraka decided that it
did not matter, since she meant to
marry the fair-beard as soon as she
had her pretty clothes. Yet she be-
came conscious that if he had not ex-
listed, she would think it very salts
factory to marry the great man
who could do anything he liked.
though if he had wife already, as
he probably had. she would refuse to
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Koran allowed a man four, it was
said, but the idea was hateful to her.
and moreover the Persian merchants
wife had told her that It was old fash
toned to have more than one, mainly
because living had grown so expen-
sive
Logotheti sat beside her for hours
under the awnings, talking or not, as
she chose. and always reading when
she was silent, though he often looked
up to see if she wanted anything. He
told her when the aft Naples that
he would show her 'utiful islands
and other sights, "a. great fire
mountains Of the south Etna and
Stromboli. which she had heard of on
her voyage to Marseilles. but had not
seen because the steamer had passed
them at night The fire-mountain at
Naples had been quiet, only sending
out thin wreaths of smoke, which Ba-
raka insisted came from fires made by
shepherds