The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-04-14

IduBnt Tor SIX years by Christians.
She Is good girl She says that in
all that time she has never once for
gotten to say the Fatiheh three times
a day, and to say eel hamdu illah' to
herself after she has eaten She
would understand. | know she would
But you, never!"
The exquisite little aquiline fea-
lures wore look of unutterable con
tempt
IF were you" said Logotheti,
smiling, 81 would not tell her what
you are going to do"
You see!" cried Baraka, almost an
grily You do not understand A
servant! Shall l tell my heart to my
handmade, and my secret thoughts to
a hired man? | tell you, because you
are friend. though you have no un.
derstanding of us. My father feeds
many fiocks, and has many bondmen
and bondwomen, whom he beats when
it pleases him. and can put to death
II he likes. He also knows the mine
of rubies, as his father did before
him. and when he desires gold he
takes one to Tashkent, or even to
Samarkand, long journey, and sells
1t to the Russians. He is a great
man. If he would bring a camel bag
full of precious stones to Europe he
could be one of the greatest men in
the world And you think that my
fathers daughter would open her
heart to one of her servants? ! said
well that you do not understand"
Logotheti looked quietly at the slim
young thing in a ready-made blue
serge frock who said such things as a
Lady Clara We're de We're would
scarcely dare to say above her breath
in these democratic days: and he
watched the noble little features. and
the small white hands, that had come
down to her through generations of
chieftains, since the days when the
primeval shepherds CT the world
counted the stars in the plains of
KAT
He himself, with his long Greek de
scent, was an aristocrat to the mar
row. and smiled at the claims of men
who traced their families back to the
Crusaders. With the help of a legend
or two and half myth, he could al
most make himself far descendant of
the Tyndaridae. But what was that
compared with the pedigree of the lit
tie thing in blue serge frock? Her
race went back to a time before
Hesiod, before Homer, to a date that
might be found in the annals of Egypt,
but nowhere else in all the dim tradi-
tons of human history,
mo" he said, after a long pause.
Il begin to understand. You had not
told me that your father was great
had Joined hand to hand, from the
hand of Adam himself"
> This polite speech, delivered in his
best Tartar, though with sundry Turk
: ish examinations and accents, some
what Modified Baraka, and she pushed
her little head backwards and up
: wards against the top of the deck
, up with pride. Also, not being used
to European skirts, she stuck out one
tiny foot little further across the
other, as she stretched herself, and
she indiscreetly showed a paleyellow
silk ankle, round which she could
l have easily made her thumb meet her
: second finger. Logotheti glanced at it.
i You will never understand she
,. said, but her tone had relented, and
t she made a concession. If you will
d take me to him, and if he will not be
= my husband, | will let Spiro kill him.
u That might be better Logotheti
d answered with extreme gravity, for he
was quite sure that Spiro would never
h kill anybody, IF you will take an
4 oath which | shall dictate, and swear
e to let Spiro do it, | will take you to
n the man you seek
What must be, must be-" Baraka
e said in a tone of resignation. When
e he is dead, Spiro can also kill me and
e take the rubies and the money"
r That would be pity" observed
e the Greek, thouehtfully.
why pity? 1t will be my por
ton will not kill myself because
e then / should go to hell-fire, but Spiro
can do it very we'll Why should
/, still live, them
" because you are young and beau
II tltul ana rlCl enough TO De very nap
Ply. Do you never look at your face in
II the mirror? The eyes of Baraka are
h like the pools of paradise, when the
o moon rose upon them the first time
her waist is as slender as a young
a willow sapling that bends to the
IS breath of a spring breeze, her mouth
e is dark rose from Gulistan-'
/ But Baraka interrupted him with q
e. faint smile.
1t you speak emptiness" she said
10 quietly. What is the oath, that
IS may swear Il? Shall take Allah, and
k the prophet, and the Angel Israft tC
o witness that will keep my word
h. Shall [ prick my hand and let the
ri drops fall into your two hands thai
Of YOU may drink them? What shall
IF do and say? / am ready
lie You must swear an oath that my
Z? fathers swore before there were Chris
Mt tians or Mussulmen in the world
,e when the old gods were still great"
S.? Speak. ! will repeat any words