The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-31


the Bulgars in Macedonia against the
Turks. Not often do We find so per-
sistenty evcntful and exciting "A tale.
Here are bold adventures. hairbreadth
Escapes, clever foliings and humiliations
of the oppressor, DISCUSSES. buried gold.
conflicts that stir the blood. The first
chapter has plenty OF stimulating sug-
gestlon and promise. The secret meet
ing OF the revolutionists in the studio
of Dobry, the young icon painter, was
charged with potential strong results.
Probably 1t was intended that we should
suspect the young monk who was in
Cluded in the company. His complexion
was too softly beautiful to belong to
anybody but a woman.
Brother Boyan, the hermit, saying his
mathis in the cave high up In the Pirtn
Mountains, was not distracted by the
Balkan thunder storm that was raging
with peculiar violence, but when he
heard the beat of the horses hoofs out
side his cell. when he ,urned and saw
the fallen rider lying PROSTATE and
carelessly disposed" at the foot OF a pine
tree when as ne gathered the slight and
graceful form in his arms its cap fell
off. permitting "A shower of dark hair OF
extraordinary length to fall about him
jn riotous confusion, the hermit $
thoughts descended violently TO earth,
very much as the unfortunate rider had
done> Eoyan was a young hermit. His
perplexity may he imagined when IL Is
said that his unbidden visitors name
was Adalena, that she was the mas
querading monk Of the hrst chapter'
that she had been shot through the leg
In a successful attack upon Murad
pashas treasure wagon and that hu-
manity demanded that she should be
dumicied and nursed in the young her-
mit's isolated cell for some time to come.
Murad Pasha's treasure wagon con-
tanned 200, 900 plasters. This was money
raised nv oppressive taxes. The revolu-
tionaries seized 1t because they needed
II To buy guns and gunpowder. one OF
The very interesting chapters of the
Story tells how Ivan, the huntsman
carried A great leathern bag or the
pasha's direpted gold to the third sleeve
Of the river below Turks Head ana
hurled II there in the forest at a PONY
IN he determined by looking along IN.
from "A young oak to giant pine anu
8, along TO a dwarfed BET oh. 1t was no'
at all necessary for Uncle Tosho 10 re-
move this buried treasure and 10 hlu'
II In a well, but doubtless the lnclueh'
adds to the readers already ample won
dor as to how everything is gong u
come out. -.
when Dobry. the icon painter, wen
tn dispose of old S,aVry, the uSu'e
whose keen wits threatened the wei
being of the financial part OF the reN'
lutionary cause, he was wen PiePai ~
for the accomplishment of his purpose
He yns armed with a dagger with "aN
ing edges, with a revolver ana WIN
hnn,h His mistake was in not slaylns
Stavry when the bad old man '",i'
down to the front door to let MIN M ''
DELAYING, however. he added 10 inc III
terest of the narrative. his uasSo
failed. his pistol Accomplished hoI"l"s
but his bomb did more than was re
oulred Revolutions must nave 'H.t
victims, but the reader Will u" SUI.
that this gifted and artistic young ma
should have needed TO bio" h''i'''' ~
in order to blow up StaVry' 49,.
II is too bad that the Pashas thir'
,,,ta should have been doomed to un
bapriress She was beautiful, In ne
beart there was great kindness. the sin
rnritv of her passion for the youH'
tor,,i, 10 not to be doubted. OF cours
,ho reader must be reconciled to IN
hsr,,it,s GOODNESS to this beautiful an
veuv provocative Mihirmah; ne hau
rencI her In order to be faithful l
Adarena The story does not tell VIVA
h.cane NJ Mihirmah. We like to tanc
that she found at last somebody WIN
was deserving and unattached and tina
she married happily.
Tho pasha's son, Selim, was proper
thwarted and made ridiculous lie wa
an amorous dandy. He did not scrup'
Ia make love to his fathers third WIZ
! who knew well how to snub NM "
do not know why the story AIo"
Rowan at first the hermit and mysu
afterward the revolutionary patriot
lao captured so often by the TURK
The impression gathered by the reau'
is not only that Boyan was faliii'
rather slgnally to forward the re'oi'
lion but that he lacked those superb
Qualities, those gifts OF W.T. sueis
IA reslstless enterprise when we nav
hoor accustomed To expect in the hero'
Of tales. Adalena, to be sure, saw
Rowan the inspired leader and deilVere
|. and the proclamatons in the story See
70 summon her view, but we have M
dl4covered that he brought great az
vantage to the cause. 1t Is paintul
rald how Vaslo the brigand, who
hA lawess excursions always cdil'
hope, crept in upon Boyan while u
he{o slept. tied him hand ana 1901 al
hall him suspended in sacklike al
hukniliating attitude before he woke u
when Boyan was immured in u
Palha's dungeon it was only the VIII
thc Pashas third wife that enabled nj
ITO escape, and his escape did him MI
good. for he was caught again whi
suffering man might be saying Ja'
Robinson.
When he was tied for the third
fourth time and was sitting disconsoia
in the custody OF the Pasha's soldiers
the roadside inn his de.iverance W
effected by Adalena and Ivan, the NUM-
man. This scene was shocking. for
revolutionary innkeeper covertly pill
shavings in the bar, saturated the stai
with kerosene and burned up the wh'
hesotted Turkish company The M
disposal of Selim too was dreadful III
Young man fatuously thought that t
recumbcnt figure, clad in priests g
and cassock, in Stanko's barber sh'
,l,> .a,olutiouurV head. Splim "