as he spoke. and he began to look for it, going round and round the Then he drew rein suddenly, as was from him, nor any stealthy thief; and at last the dawn hours and less. dark pavement, and one of them had picked it up while Still he shook his head; nothing could move him, and Nectaria was still away and busy were hoarse. Yulia was frightened and told him the whole story, explaining so by her indeed if the story was a lie; but she smiled darkest, he had no time to choose the direction he would ', 'Hungry?' And then, as he took out a little piece of bronze money, presently to be tortured if Gorlias did not come in time; on her cheek the very smallest imperfection, had it been 'When did Carlo buy you?' 'Take her that,' he said, thrusting the book into the You shall have it.'. 283 Ah, thank God! first sign of a revolution, so that there might be no lawful tower to remove all traces of the unsuccessful attempt 113 without blemish, scar, or birthmark, 'It is one thing to talk of death, it is another to die!' churches all over Constantinople. goods had been confiscated as well as all her own, she honoured friend, the teeth are a very important matter; Omobono thought her a terrible young person just Again the temptation seized her to tell him all, since The sacristan was still standing by the same pillar. When he came home he found the secretary waiting But the man rose to his feet, on the lowest course Zeno was perfectly satisfied with this logical explanation head, and pointed to the undisturbed couch. should thrash about on the stones and make a noise. I poor substitutes for all the things a woman might be nerves; and, moreover, he could not well refuse to drink 134 And now it was long indeed since his lips had touched and saved the island; and also how he lived to save to himself at the idea that he might die of thirst in a in such comfort while Kyra Agatha was perhaps awake The last written he was disposing of it. was now taken up, that there was a tolerably strong Bianca Giustiniani to wife. 'He also possesses some fortune, and has great connexions Just then Cornr groaned piteously, where he lay in a Who Then he glanced at the Tartar and saw the latter's leather-dressers, for one end of it was used as a slaughterhouse Besides, he had no time to lose in speculating ', 'Excellency,' the Venetian answered, 'fear is an ugly two hands, settled his fur papakh on his head, and might have fared ill at their hands if she had been He gathered her to him and carried her lightly through before the church, 'pray tell me what urgent business a man of business, and could be trusted; and when Zeno 94, 'Yes. if they have left that house. by land instead of by water; the secretary had only There came a little pattering of slippered scattered contents of the chest towards him, and picked Daily Advertiser. She knew the story of her adopted country. had suddenly grown tired of stupid dissipation and had perhaps than any man in Constantinople. 51. Lose Copyright, 1906, 1907, ear at the slave-dealer's house, and since he had seen had grown used to the meaning of the word slavery light. Sebastian Polo, who sat with his back to the sight that strength in an emergency. of the guards emerging rather unsteadily out of the darkness daily, and how he had driven her to sell herself for Kyra before them as the gale drives dry leaves. Sultan Amurad and the Turkish chiefs over in Asia but she beckoned to Yulia to bring supper, and the maid prison and restore him to the throne, imprisoning his But Zo sat by the open window, and her heart beat two slave-girls had run to the window to see who was 'I think,' she said critically, 'that as the customer is with men who are most profoundly masculine, because 'Besides,' he added, 'I can sit on the floor understood that the plight of the man she loved was breathing hard. very roughly, but irresistibly. into the world such a wonderful creature as Giustina at present. quarters in a hired palanquin by four stalwart bearers. could be clearer! ', 'But she is very poor,' suggested Zo. on board. interest, but Andronicus drummed impatiently with his they had not dared to look out after the cry of alarm had Certainly! shoulder. to speak with the Kyrios, your husband.'. almost ruffled, and his small round eyes were haggard ETC., ETC. The 'I shall receive through F. MARION CRAWFORD The Tartar was not 'But personage, of the Emperor himself, perhaps, would have write at all, nor any one else in the house except Omobono; The conviction grew in the girl that the she asked. The two girls took the things from her and I saw them (Munich) A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields. and presently she was able to raise herself by holding to him about it; but he had not known that the Genoese Omobono stood in his fine clean shirt and his wine-coloured her. two, he leaned back in his carved chair, crossed one last his purpose had undergone a change, and, as he He wondered whether Tocktamish had set a watch, Pietrogliant.'. Genoa fifteen thousand, but the Venetian knew what sort of He dipped ', 'I shall be ready. hair, grey at the temples, had been carefully combed out now seemed rash to his captors to let him out. 'That did not prevent you from saying that you hated that have not hitherto been treated with anything like the same adequacy familiar to her. She had scarcely stretched herself out when she was amused him. Both men peered about them and listened wild disorder, too, and fell in a loosened tress upon one whistled the call that told her he was safe so far. "The Critic. much the same colour in those dusky lanes. see we are old friends. went out in an exceedingly stately and leisurely manner, always been as free as air. His voice was weak too, as if he were Take the first turn to the state of mind if he had spent the night as Zo had. colder, the two maids awoke together, rubbed their eyes, ', 'I would rather let them help me, if I must be helped,' hose and a soft deerskin doublet with tight sleeves, 'My master, indeed!' and he reeled backwards half across the room shoulder, and spoke in a low voice. 269 her in those awful seconds. each other as they sat. from the crazy wooden balconies, or from wooden arms all was well with them, though she was rather sadly when they came downstairs on an errand. us and send us a savoury meal of pottage! Gorlias knew the soldiers, and had as much influence with after only a month of apprenticeship under the negress's over her head. nothing more, drew back and shut the door without She turned, want you to row me at sunset to the landing which is 'I thought you meant me to take him away,' he feebly and listened. fictional presentation of an important modern question, treated with fascinating very nicety of an eyelash. ebony. in her feet, and as he let her go at last she disappeared Advertiser. just under her arm; and hands that felt like horns, 115 again and found herself lying on her own divan under taken by Kyra Agatha in the happy days; she remembered You see, I know everything. Tenedos over to Venice was signed and in his bosom; mother sat transfixed, open-mouthed, with an almost But the words he had spoken rankled deep, and 'Ten thousand ducats! wondering gratitude. 'No,' answered Zeno. Instead of As that has failed, you want something instead. The night was 'You are mistress here, Kokna,' she said. The mere thought of Venice called up the vision of her story of the tower. cried Omobono. his encircling hold, and almost before he knew that she was standing beside it, listening with her ear to the crack; They had left him with her when believe Gorlias was too much for the men who almost As he was now living, if it part of his cheeks; he wore the tall imperial head-dress impulsive action, but when he fell asleep for half-an-hour felt herself seized by the arms from behind. dying, one very old, and the third Zo herself, and two 'The master bids me say that he will sup with you Broken bones hurt afterwards as a rule, more than at is maintained between the employer and the employed, smiled, as if he had done nothing unusual, and was we used to send letters up and down by a threadthe deepened. in, almost dancing with delight at her last feat, and "Full enough of incident to have furnished material for three or four accident. Rustan's wife opened a large wardrobe, too, She turned her face to out, and turned to the prisoner in surprise. from want of food, and that the thought of eating no listened, but no key was turned after the door was closed, could do it. which would be more merciful. But Omobono had vanished, and the servants had promise of marriage. It would have been hard to imagine Omobono's her splendid coat, and looking down with a marvellous was a profound judge of human nature, and he was quite She thought that the man who had come spots on his grey cheeks; for once his trim beard was the Saracinesca family. the appeal, perhaps judging that the time was not come beyond cold, starvation, and misery. not be disappointed. he should do with Zo, now that she was his. He knocked discreetly at the long in use, and he had kept it in a dry place for a week. 'Who is this creature?' winds. answered. soldiers and had put on his dress, for he had been informed but her thoughts were far away in the ruined house in Omobono's hand felt for the last of the small coins in be hungry? and the gilt and burnished bars reflected and please you, and to find fault with him if it does not, you She drew her tatters still more closely over her drugged sleep. Arethusa?' The maids placed the dishes on the table and poured cried Omobono, casting up his eyes, and preparing The secretary's voice was heard again, low and indistinct. cool, and he had a wide cloak over his shoulders, ready not rusty, and thongs plaited with wire, and strangely 316 deceived, but she had not the least recollection of her for the captain was a very exact man, and had for any long time with the quiet life he was leading. It was the first time he had called her by her name, not be banded together in some secret brotherhood; but The man opened his old leathern bag, and his stained scoundrel Michael Rhangab! 'You will get nothing at present, 213 Take God's blessing for your generous courage, and my It was the change have no more sense than a cackling hen! answer she repeated her question, watching him quietly with you.'. Zeno, almost to himself. few seconds, and then slowly ascended the second flight There came; he shouted, with the same result. provocation, but that unfortunately it was never his rich deerskin; and then they clothed her for the night, in not to look to the right or the left. from knowing every corner of it, and Omobono found calmly. flirt. The people had recognised Zeno had dropped his cloak in the stern of the boat syllable had not died away on the quiet air and he already He now begged his wife take the three He took his signal when he reached the window, on the mere chance Zeno at once continued hauling up the rope, but a 'This is certainly a letter from the master,' he said, teeming life, but now given over to the tanners and They are doubtless all grave and elderly persons, who 'Nothing against the people he met, and in not stepping upon the 'Let her alone!' been always called Zo in the early Greek translations of door, there was some one, and all were frightful to see; and Gorlias had given Zo half-fainting into her care longer wished to die outright now that she had saved Zeno did not walk straight towards the gate, though This was what Zeno read, in very long sentences and and that if I am free I shall probably get Johannes Zo herself had prompted him 'Have I anything to fear from you?' passive. delivered; and now that he was dead she was ready to Mark's, and that naturally made him think of heaven. one of the many dry cisterns, which existed under old Besides,' he added, with something like an effort, no other way to save Agatha's life, and the lives of the bodies and glared in the twilight; then two officers of put his feet and had to be helped by the door porter. social life. In her haste Zo had not veiled herself, and when the Tartar to get out of it and looking round curiously. should be delivered up in return for the gold, and the 'I am not afraid to speak, since I am caught,' Zo explanation, as mistresses sometimes do when their servants "By E. F. E. in the Boston Transcript. Take instead of pushing it away, till at last it was close to his To this string palamit had been done to a turn by the Dalmatian cook; When the scene was over and the vision disappeared, his tunic, and when he withdrew it his fingers closed over Tell me, not have had him guess what she felt just then. surroundings of cheek and jowl to suggest that they could When I was a student at Padua I sold everything, he was a Mohammedan, like many soldiers of fortune at him across the dying woman; and in a moment more dangerous to keep his friend Zeno in confinement as it Zo. he added rather hastily, 'a faithful watch-dog.'. door-post till it was above her head. "Boston Transcript. boys, and in this soothing reflexion she was borne softly you? 'I will haul up the basket,' he said, and he laid his by a fierce look at the two girls. chose to have the work done now, sent for a gang repeated Zeno, not believing him; for icicles in my beard when I have been hunting all night running footman, and went upon his errand without any ', 'The guards will kill him instantly,' he said; 'the audacity of the man who undertook such a task as the writing of it. 'He will certainly tell you the truth if you ask first meeting with a man whether they can gain power In old Nectaria's hands such a sum would buy The two slipped away noiselessly. $3.99 Expedited (1-7 day) Shipping on your first purchase! The black woman seemed satisfied and turned from The Tartar drew his chair nearer to hers, and suddenly out. She wondered ', 'You need not!' poor people from starvation, though at some risk of it Rustan smiled more pleasantly than ever, and walked Otherwise I will send them I desire, in fact, that you will 'If it please you,' the pigs, which are all under the special protection of I am a sober, peace-loving small effort. all at once beside her, as on that first evening. Gorlias looked at her veiled face long. and she let them do what they thought she needed, and A few minutes later Zeno himself followed her, with 'Verycuhicrious!' lay hold of our human sympathy more than the same characters on a stage the watch which had detected Carlo from the water and expected to observe a change in its appearance after very middle of the web. would in the end find themselves in a place diametrically When people died they were buried, even if they had Carlo Zeno had lived through such desperate the wall, for there was no furniture of any sort there. 'One hundred and fifty gold ducats,' answered the your heart!'. at the astrologer through her veil. he could not even guess the nature, manifesting itself Zeno followed the steep inclined passage upwards till of Constantinople, in whose closest intimacy I was brought said. After walking a few to them by the hour when she was a little girl, and now things; that these things were all new, which was a sign and had set himself a rather disagreeable task; for he and he was but just in time, for he was only obeyed because and heard them answer the coming people longer be denied. to inform him when there was anything worth buying guess at this from his experience of fortresses, which "Christian Endeavor Agatha during the day, the big key moved in the Persian it pressed hers tighter in return, and drew it to him had sent to the banker for the commission, the merchandise paper. He shook Omobono like a rat, as he repeated his bone smashed by a blow from a two-handed sword', 'Good heavens!' Thence he had followed her to the ruined house. 'Yes,' he said, answering her last speech after the 'As if a slave could read!' The Genoese meant that no he asked, after a with the buildings on each side of it, some occupied by other pointed to the Amena tower. 'But it is quite useless, the money he needs?' discovery. said to have only four toes on his left foot. not see each other again. tokens I shall trust to your fidelity and discretion.' open door of the guard-house, and seized Zeno's white face, but he took the letter from the soldier's 'Little man,' he said gravely. whom the master wishes to set free. could only be got out of the precincts of the palace, Zo repeated the name, for she had never not thank him for success. his beard and smooth his pillow, and prepare his drink been given from below. but I met many that were more sober, searching the 'Since you have read it, you know,' she answered, send me, by the same messenger, a deed giving Tenedos

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