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Vengeance That Foiowed Fzd~de k. Fantastic Expedences of an Ainican Gil with Whosi Statue a Raja Fei n Lovmwad the Swift Harem Vengeance That Foiowed - i I.- The RajafMa pur and His Da thetr ment of the sculptor the Prineo appeared at the latter's New York studio and asked nuptial toast to the in the name of love to be presented to the bride was called young woman who had been the Inspira- the Prinos was Atrst tion for his father's fountain. to lift the goblet to Ae The artist could only persist in his re- his lips-the first fusal. He Invited the Prince to be his to drink to the hap- guest at his country estate, which nestles piness all Manipur among the Berkshires. Here the host wished for the tried to assuage his guest4 disappoint- strange little belu ment-but to no avail. tante from =b At last, so persistently was he Impor- known America. to the father and tuned, the artist wrote _&- ROt*Ta e idsH bWt-oPoiet Dispes HisHm oe mnother of Miss San- Priceellbelp f aprthala. She ieMs Saaville, Issted the In- vile, explaining contorted. As the Nabs Her His 0.17 Wife, and Accord Her, the raloge Cus- fatuation of the Indian wine trickled down tessary with European and American Women. Priee and his ditermi- hig throat heb ree" nation. to find Miss Izeb thtba drnk lioO~tdeadly of been poured Into the Prince's golden gob. heart all the -vent eac potions". of Inda. let. A royal minister was strangled, too- Marta and put his. While death s" " wayto 4eart he hq confessed that had persuaded -et her feet. The situa- threw up b had ienipd histO Ume bal- forhim to pour the deadly potiod with -his tion again brought that eony above. -"She has done thi." he own bands Into the pro-nuptialPuya wine cup. j same merry twinkle to gasped. Miss Sauvills arms reached out It war many week.3 before Mir., 1ativiie to him and caught his body Just as It recovered from the sbock of her je9nee's Miss Marta's eyes. collapsed. While *he held him to her In death in her arms-and the haunting of Father Sauville and A& last embrace-he diedl those crtwl, glinting eyes of the discarded Mither Sanville never Horror stricken, the celebrants looked Puma. She was brought back to her home up to where the- Prince had pointed. They by her father and mother-with nothing have been able to (were just in time to see the cruel. impas- left of her love but her memory of a Miss Martan Sanvine, Daughter of ihe Wealthy John Sanville, of New port and Cuba, withstand the Innocent mIve tace of Puma, the Tamil girl who romance and Its tragic ending just like Y Who Becamne Engaged to the Son and Heir of the Raja of Ma nipur. whims of pretty Marts. had been the Prince's favorite. While those that are told In the Arabian Nights They shortly were re- they looked, spell bound, the face to their Newport home anyway. disappeared. SHEHEDREZADE, the beautiful bride of del Piatta. the sculptor-best known, per- turning When the ministers . Marta said. "what could be the harm?" taja's the Caliph, in the Arabian Nights, haps, for his portrait busts of famous men As rushed up-to. balconyC told her lord a wondrous tale of ro- and women of America--in Havana, at So, when their misgivings all were routed Purma was go.t~e They mance on her nuptial n~ht, hoping he work upon the bronze images of President by their prankish daughter, they notified found her after*aad. of the course, and strangled her would *ant to hear another one and thus Menocal, the great Cuban statesman the sculptor they would come to spend by order of this Ksaa She would refrain from cutting off her head in Gomes, and their dark-eyed wives -. week-end with him Immediatelf after. laughed as they drew the the morning, as wasn his dustom with all daughters. In Havana, too, there was 'heir arrival from Cuba. death cord tight about her of New York an' And the and romantic Miss Marta beautiful neck - laughed 4 liis brides. family of John Sanville, pretty and confessed that she had The nexnt night she told him another, and Newport. The Banville sugar plantations ioved the Prince almost at first sight-just mixed with her Own hands the next night another, each more -won- are the largest in Cuba and the Sanville as he had loved her at his first glimpse of the deadly cootion of drous than the last, and so on until a fortune is imposing. her bronze image perched at the edge of diamoad dust and the thousand and one nights had passed away When the sculptor met, at A ball In the his father's harem fountain! and the Caliph had become so attached to President's palace, the beautiful Miss Father Sanville'was shocked. Then he her that he decided to allow her to keep Marta Sanville, debutante daughter of the was angry Then he became arguments- her heed and retain her place on the wealthy plantation owner, who had gone tive. ,And when he began to argue Marts eushion at his feet where she was wont to to the Cuban capital with her mother for had him at her mercy. No one could intrigue his romantic fancies.- the Winter gayeties, he remembered his argue with the dimpled and charming Miss The stories Sheheresade told have come commission from the Raja of Manipur. Marta. down through the centuries, translated Here, he believed, was the typical Ameri- Before she gave her consent, however, into all languages, as the most fascinating. can girl-lithe and gr~ceful, eyes and Miss Sanville asked 'pointed questions most stirring, most thrilling love tales ever cheeks eloquent of health giving tennis told. and golf and horseback, shapely hands and about the hundred other wives In the But, if fiction cannot rival these age old slender feet a tribute to her ancestry. harem of the Prince back at Manipur-and stories of the gifted Sheheresade, there is Miss Banville's eyes twinkled merrily about all those Oriental traditions and cus- one story out real life that can. It is the when she heard from the .sculptor's lips of toms which make of the wife a chattel, a love story and its tragic climan of a beau- the desire of the Indiae ruler to ornament mnere plaything1 of her husband, one of tiful American girl, just ntft of her teens, his harem with a marble statue represen- many ornaments in a domestic treasure who was loved by an Oriental Prince, and tattive of the femininity of America. She bor., who Jolt him just as many a fair maiden pleaded with her amused mother and her The Prince swore that he would send lost her gallant Prince in the narratives of austere father until they gave their per- ahead of hinm orders for the dispersal of Sheherasade. Even the wooing of her; mision. hi. harem. He would take a Christian love with her and model- vow as well as an oath to Mahomad, his how the prince fell in when, After many weeks of posing ever t , she was only the cold, marble fig- ing, a masterpiece took form under the prophet, that none but she should Sthat adorned a fountain in his father's deft ipsgers of the sculptor. With great have even the littlest corner of his heart em; how be sotught her around the care the completed figure, daintily poised or the smallest mite of his affection. in until he found her, more lovely even on the rim of the fountain basin, was de- There was one inmate of the Prince's the sculptor's dream of her; and how livered to the Raja's palace. harem, however, who did not submit with it aside his hundred wives and vowed The fame of the statue spread through- meekness t~o her dismissal. This was 'he would never have queen out Manipur. British officers and their Purna, a Tamil girl, who had been pre- another, his father ashe-it was all just as If this Amern- wives were admitted to the harem to gase sented to the Prince by upon irn had lifted out of the Arabian upon it. One and all they declared it to the birthday which marked his son's ar- i a whole chapter that she might 1,e a true delineation of the typical- Ameri. rival at the "age of sagacity." Parna, who l' in her own life. can girl. came from Malabar, long had ruled the ii-ing the last years of the war one of When Prince Masthan, the Raja's son harem of the Prince as his favorite. She vealthiest and most powerful bf the and heir to the throne of Manipur, re- had built up for herself a great power in M of lndia, His Royal Highness, .Tu- turned from his service in France with the state affairs of Manipur, wielding het 0. Raja of Manipur, chanced to meet, the troops ment by his father to aid the influence over both the son and the Raja Paris,. a famous sculptor of feminine Allies, he asked at once to be shown the himself, through servile ministers and 'rty, who had spent much of his time in beautiful statue, the fame of which had court attaches. 'v York for many years.
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