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


While the Lancashire Lass was "a
cling down to the Straits of Messina
the Erinna was heading for the same
point from the opposite direction, no
longer dawdling along at hAlf-speed.
bat going her full Is knOts, after coal
ing at Naples. and any navigator who
knew the positions and respective
speeds Of the two yachts could have
calculated with approximate precision
the point at which they would prob
ably sight each other.
Logotheti had given up the idea of
taking Baraka to Paris, if he had ever
really entertained it at all. He as
sured her that Naples was a great
city, too, and that there was a first
class French dress-making establish
ment there, and that the Vile de
Lyon would turn her out almost as
smartly as the Rue de la Paix itself.
He took Baraka ashore and placed
her for half day in the hands of
Nine. Anna, who undertook to do all
that money could do in about a fort
night He had the effrontery to say
that Baraka was niece of his from
Constantinople, whose mother was on
board the yacht, but had unfortunate
ly sprained her ankle in falling down
the companion during gale, and
could therefore not accompany her
daughter on shore The young lady.
he said. spoke only Turkish. Nine.
Anna. grave and magnifcently calm
under all circumstances, had a vague
recollection of having seen the hand
some oriental gentleman already with
another niece, who spoke only
French; but that was none of her
business. When would the young lady
try on the things? On any day Nine
Anna chose to name; but in the mean
time her uncle would take her down
to Sicily, as the weather was so won
derfully fine and it was still so hot.
Nine Anna therefore named a day,
and promised, moreover, to see the
best linen-drapers and seamstresses
herself, and to provide the young lady
with as complete an outfit as il she
were going to be married. She should
have all things visible and invisible
in the shortest possible time. Logo
theft, who considered himself stran-
ger, insisted on putting down a thou
sand franc note merely as guarantee
of good faith. The dressmaker pro
tested almost furiously and took the
GO that
settled, and Baraka was to be out
wardly changed into a beautiful Fer
ingbi lady without delay. To tell the
truth, the establishment is really a
smart one, and she was favorably i'm
pressed by the many pretty frOcks
and gowns that were tried on several
pretty young woman in order that she
might make her choice.
Baraka would have liked a blue
satin skirt with a yellow train and a
bright green silk body, but in her
travels she had noticed that the
taste of Feringhi ladies was for
very sober or gentle colors, compared
with the fashionable standards OF
Samsrkand, Tifis, and ConstantinOple,
and she meekly acQuiesced to every
thing that Logotheti and Nine. Anna
proposed, after putting their heads to
gether Logotheti seemed to know =
great deal about it.
1t was nearly dark when the naph-
tina launch took them out to the yacht,
! which lay under the mole where the
big English and German passenger
steamers and the men-of-war are
moored.
Logotheti had at last received Mar
garet's telegram asking him to meet
her at once 1t had failed to reach
/ him in Gibraltar, and had been teIe-
graphed on thence to Naples, and
when he read it he was considerably
/ disturbed He wrote a long message
/ of explanations and excuses, and sent
it to the prima donna at Bayreuth
/ TRIPPING the number of words she had
prepaid for his answer. But no reply
came. for Margaret was herself at
sea and nothing could reach her. He
sent one of his own men from the
yacht to spend the day at the tele
graph Office, with instructions for