El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-09
The Elopenent
A short story.

TITS name was Kemaledin and he
| was rich and noble like a grand
vizier. Every morning he went
! 10 the bazaar where he sold costly rugs
and curtains. But on his way he
stopped to worship at the mosque.
! Since the death OF his wife. Neffsse.
] who was sleeping peacefully under a
! cypress tree, at Scutari. he was a wild
/ over, but he still possessed a costly
/ treasure at his house. a pearl among
I pearls. his daughter. Nadje. Those
who had caught a glimpse of her. said
/ that there was not a girl like her III
EyOub and StambuI.
| Kamaledin adored his daughter and
/ fulfilled all her wishes but il goes
| without saying that he guarded her
I most carefully In his manificient
house near the AdrianoDle Gate he
passed his happiest hours together with
/ her. Nadje's laugh was like the chi-D-
ing OF swallows.
One morning old KamaIedin took
Nadje abroad, and. as they turned the
| corner of the street. they caught sight
Of the blue eEDanse of the NarrD0rs
sea far below them.
DO you see the islands b" Kamaledin
asked You may remove your veil,
Made dropped her yasmak and
looked at the sea with her face un-
covered The sea breezes played with
heT halr and put color into her cheeks
and her eyes beamed- She stood three
steps from him. and Kemaledin thought
he had never seen her look so beauti-
full He thought her fit to be the wife
OF a Murad or a SOliman. and then sud-
denly, while they were enjoying the
lovely view in silence. somebody
passed close to Made and looked at
her with sensuOus light in his dark
HE stared at YOU" said the father
anErily. who was hep
oh, please do not be angry, sirF7
cried Nadje.
She pretended she had never seen
him before, but she remembered very
well having seen this dark face sew
eral times before when she had visited
the bazaar
Where has he seen voE2 He smiled
at You. Who is he? Answer mer'
exclaimed her father.
She swore she aid not know The
mans name But lying was difficult
TO her She knew very well that his
name was Diemal and that he was a
merchant dealing in silks and perfumes
from Bagdad and Syria Indeed she
mad seen him manv times before and
was 20 see him again. for on that very
evening he came TO her where she
walked alone in her garden and made
violent love 20 her Hc wanted to
carry he off and marry her and dress
q
OF Persia and he said he would buy
her palace at Candili on the Bos-
phorCus and that they would sail to-
Gether on the beautiful sea every night
in swift csiQue. And his voice was
50 tender and the evening so beautiful
that she consented
ASK my father tomorrow she said
Then she ran away.
The next dav at the twelfth hour
DienaI went TO the rich Kemaledin's
place inside the the grand bazaar. He
pushed aside the yellow silk curtains
and entered with the expression OF
softah who enters the temple Of the
When Kemaledin saw him he sud
rcHly recognized him and his face grew
red with fury In laundering voice /
he rOared;
."A-e Won not the sco6rdrel who
stared at rs the other day2''
Yes. sir. and because have laid
eyes on your daughter ] now ask her
in marriage
He said this with his face turned
toward Mecca as If calling Allah TO !
witness. BIT Kelamedih's fury in /
creased and his eyes shot fire
Ny Nsdiee. the wife OF n son OF a |
He roared so loud that people came !
running from al parts OF the bazaar {
10 learn about the impudence OF young
j. email They had no love for him
Chefket Chaine Muftar and Hussein.
who we're outside had fought with him
and been beaten. They raised their
voices in horror at his audacitt.
Then Diemal spat on the ground in
front OF Kemaledin and with his fists 1
cut path for himself through the
crowd Out OF the bazaar he ran al (
the way TO Edirne-KaOpU where KEN
aledin's house was He told the SER !
wants that he was the friend OF the
rich kemaledin and had come to see
MS daughter Nadje came out.
Your father IS willing" he vrbfs-
pered- But he did not take her to the
bazaar and when she wanted to turn
IN that direction he caught hold OF her
hand ard tGlke1 to her so tenderIv g.
ana so swiftly that she grew all con-
I used Al she rem rendered was thar (
they went down to the sea al Stambul Z
and that there was crowd.
He hid her. They passed the dav ,
drlnS King coffee in 9 house in a corner
OF the little street Oufun-T oharchi
until one dark night they went on
board a boat and sailed down the !
siIvery stream She was trembling
with fear He sang to her until she
fell asleep.
Years passed. DENIAL had become
the richest merchant in Asia Minor /
Made had beautiful pearls. a hundred /
Gowns and many Albanians to wait on
1er Then fate turned against them
Made was taken down with a strange
ever. The Turkish doctors did not
Know what was ailing her. She seemed
10 waste away while Djemal had made
fortune only to lose everything His
sales dwindled down to almost nOthing
ana people said he would soon be sell
NJ still less.
Allah has perhaps written IN his
BOOKS that some dav Djemal will have
% sit and beg a. the entrance Of the
mosque to support his wife.