Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-21

| lifting their wells while walking where
| they would be liable to meet men. But
coming to grassy spot, where their
faces would be to the water, they sat
themselves down and, throwing their
wells back. permitted the cool air to
| fan their faces.
The Bosporus was covered with all
sorts of craft, from the skiff to the
ocean steamer lying at anchor. while
on the opposite shore lowered profu-
sion of buildings, minarets and trees.
The boats did not come very near the
slope on which the girls were sitting,
so there was no necessity for them to
let down their wells. They sat looking
at the various craft out on the water,
now a little steamer plying between
different points on the strait, now
motorboat and now a small sailer
with leg-of-mutton sails. 1t was all so
charming, so soothing, the breeze was
so refreshing that the mafdens reclin-
ed on the slope, Rabieh laying her
head in Selma's lap.
1t was not long before Rabieh was
doing and Selma was blinking. There
was a sharp point on one side of them
which cut off the shore in that direc-
ton. A rowboat came round the point
and passed within a few yards of
them. Selma, who was nodding. sud-
denly started at seeing young man
with a pair of oars in his hands look
ing straight at her.
At sixteen a girl may be captured by
q look. The young man, who was but
a few years Selma's senior, was wrapt
in admiration and expressed it in ev-
cry feature of his face. To Selma he
seemed so beautiful that for moment
she forgot to drop her veil. Then. re-
Numbering to do so, she shut off what
was to the young man vision of love
illness.
"Rabieh," exclaimed Selma, shaking
her friend, wake up and let down
your veil! That boat you see pulling
away came very near US. The young
man in it is, oh, so beautiful, He has
a face that must have been copied
from that of Allah"
Rabieh yawned, arose, and the girls
walked on.
1t was not long after this that Selma
and her mother were crossing the Bos-
porus in one of the little steamers
used for ferriage. They were seated
in the harem, as all women's apart
ments in Turkey are called. and were
unveiled. A fiutter of wind blew aside
window curtain, and there on the
deck without sat the young man who
had looked upon Selma while she was
sitting on the shore For the second
time the two pairs OF eyes met, and
for the second time through them two
hearts leaped toward each other.
After that Selma saw the young man
several times, though he did not see
her. for she was always yelled. Once
they passed each other on the Galata
bridge. once in STEAMBOAT and again in
Scutari Every time she met him she
studied his face and either saw or fam
cied she saw the wrapt expression OF
lover.
At the meeting in STEAMBOAT. Selma
was walking with her Aunt Leila.
THAT is Orkhan, the son OF a very
dear friend of mine" said the aunt.
rs he a fine young MANI asked
Selma. with tremor in her voice that
she could scarcely conceal.
a very fine young man indeed"
There was silence for some time be-
tween them, during which Leila had
forgotten having met Orkhan. Pres.
emily Selma said:
aunt Leila, when viii mamma ar
range a parriage for me?"
II don't know, child. Do you wish
TO be married?"
certainly. Doesn't every girl wish !