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doors, at the far end of the room opened uoiselessly and Tashim Bey eame in. The two euauchs roso to their feet. Tashim crossed -to'a place directly behind the Sultan aid bent to his knees. The Sultan did not turn to look at him, but raised his hand as a sign of his permission that the secretary speak. "'A commission from the Assembly begs audience with the King of Kings. 'It asks that it be granted imme- iately, as its tidings are of importance to the Caliphate.', "Now the little group of concubines could not re- strain itself any longer. Piercing screants rent the air as Each of the slaves threw herself .at the Sultan's feet, prone upon the ground, and beat the floor in paroxysms of grief and fear, "Slowly the Sultan crossed the great room, through the open doors and into the audience chamber beyond. There he faced Hekmet Pasha, Fssad Pasha and Carasso Efeadi, the deputies who had been named by the Assem- bly to bear its message to the monarch. The Sultan's favorite son, Prince Burhan Eddin, hardly more than a child, eare running down a corridor and entered the room just behind his father. The Sultan turned to him and motioned that .he go behind a screen near the door which he had entered. The Prince obeyed. A prisonmer of the Sultan bound band and :bGerouse. '6 three deputies of the comnittee observed every rule of etiquette due their Sultan and Caliph. They bent inootoe ho ju wntbeoo tedoawn.. rm aota their knees to the floor and went through the motion of whish he had often from the ground the hem of a robe and kissing andigmt beautiful slaves. The cecuponts of these vooms picking stood and firm. It as fat as the tired of arlsen from hi. it. Then they rose and very straight alfagIWere being changed, Sultan was Rsd Pasha who spoke: or saw others his harem which he Into this always disordered world of fenininity the couch before dewn. fa~iigrfaces among know "' ilet seni hal etdi'-jThe nation has deposed wageilose to him for a time. But the number never news that the nation was a ut to dethrone the King of He did not thee? Kings fell like a bombshell. 'Te Pariamet proclaimed now but that he "'And the lives of myself and my familyt' the Sul- did not know the of the word the fetva on Friday morning. A member of the house- never again would &u1Hamnid meaning the lives thin. shall be spared to re ao in an application to himself. He denied him- hold of Enver Bey brought the news of the Parliament's see these -mon- "'hlife and of ments of his glory Ih'id Esd Pasha. .e tidng, and no one-not even the highest member intention to the proud Roxana the night before. Her Aulbowed his head, turned and walked back into ever thwart his whim. He screams brought her attendant. upon her, and these soon as the Caliph of all ofZoiirt-dared to merest Islam welcome the the rooma from whenee he had come and when the group ui ~ dto no routine-considering himself above such spread the terrible tidings. of terrified eoncubines was awaiting him. Thus was the radiant day. dethroned-as aENEit. He worked when the spirit moved him, and In all that city of more than a thousand women, who "A little slave twenty-fourth Sultan and Caliph of Islam whenever he felt in the humor. He would existed only with the one common ambition, to attain his the result of troubles that began to bear down upon hi. (Taied favor in the eyes of their common master, there was girl, one of new- house with the entrance Into it of the sinister Hope air his'Grand Visier at 2 o'clock in the morning and ast, broke into sobs. " ~ (~that to discuss with him and de- only a handful that gave a thought in that dark hour to the of Damod. sleepy dignitary him. The others thought only of themselves-for tra- Slowly King That was the story of that dread day in the Sultan's g.u the most important affairs of state. And at 2 ditions in countries yield but little of comfort Kings turned to Hanoum. the afternoon he would summon his favorite p)rlental He palase, just as It was told to ma by Selila Iik- in for the oepants of the harem of a fallen lord.' look at her. The next day the dethronement was made complete. eg the haremlik, or a bevy of dancing girls, or a fa- handful of faithful ones was composed of a group gazed long, as if he wife who could read him to sleep. T'he at the Abdul was summoned earl In the morning, told, that of the young slaves in the Sultan's wing. They were still unseeing, to be sent to his magneient palace at Salonica, where ..Thenl one of his slave girls was ordered by his personal at his side when a pasha cloel attached to the court freah young face, May in Tarkish fas and was uma1, a, big, glowering black from Abyssinla, to move down whloh the Yohe he weald be quartered with such of his household as he aur- sent in word early in the moramng that the Parliament un- 'untIfm of the Sulten, eared to take with him-up to a certain number. egielengings into the Sultan's private wing, she had clung to its decision to' form itself Into a fetva and bidden tears were eie'd even the little bit of freedom she cguld enjoy Thrl Every customary respect was outwardly paid the luxurious of the haremlik that the Sheik-ul-Islam had been sent for to hear the coursing. fallen of Kings. He the placing of n.t~lees quarter. proper. "question." startled, was htened at his gaze. She dropped toehar King sapperintended the liur of day and night she had to be ready, with- knee. in mute to' be forgiven for her his eoncubines in the railway carriages, and when vgf 's to before her master. To Selila, my friend in later years, one of these slave appeal disturbing train was to the officer Incharge knelt be- ya istant warning, appear girls, Baffa Kalfa, a Georgian girl, described the scene: lord's reveries. ready depart knew her favor in his eyes would be fleeting if of raised one fore him and asked: summons with weariness on her face, "The Pasha who took word to the Sultan was Tashin "Tefl King Kings hevy pugbs g~e~ed at his Bey, his personal secretary, an aged man, who was freely and motioned her to his feet. The .oneubine, trembling, "Rave we your permission, sire, prced"' r * stume not compatible to his fancy of the mo. The ex-Sultan raised his hand, and his exile was this isolated harem within the admitted at all times to the outer chamber of the Sultan's slowly moved over to him. The pudgy hand reachedl into d-t: Therefore harem suite. All the sat down until it fell on the shoulder of the gl who sat on begun. No more chaptersof tragedy were written Itsef in wvtehlng every changing mood of the through night before Abdul had silent, the history of Europe by Abdul Hamid. dreaming, in his great chair facing long, deep windows, the cushion nearest him. This shouldqr he brushed aside, lHe brought through which he could overlook the courtyard of the much as it would have brushed out di Its wya doeile Enver Boy's triumph was complete. the Sultan dropped into the eua~ions of his divan, tevacant from the prison into whieh Abdul had confined him Ras- of the great lounging room. with Its. tiny fountain harem. and, beyond, catch the glinting of the moon and dog. The concubine who had sobbed took to the throne. While l stars on the At-his feet and a little circle lace on the cushion and, entwining her arms about the chid Pasha, Abdul's brother and heir 3B center, watchful eunuchs scurried back along the Bosphorus. on p was on way to Salonica, with nothing left of rooms and warned their mistresses of ottomans ranged around him a dosen or so af his neas of the King of Kings rested her head lightly on his Abdul his gors of .the slave This wah the only Inident that interrupted the si- his caliphate but his twelve concubines, Raschid was f they were sent for the Sultan would want them to "pets," the most faithful of his slave girls, reclined, sad lap. being proclaimed twenty-fifth Sultan and the new King of r In soft, clinging, lounging costumes. If he ap- tired, but watchful for even the slightest movement o lence of the long vigil, the throne lord. At a distance behind his two favorite eunuchs "Then came Tashin Bey with the anoneement. Kings. It is this Basehid wjuo still occupies gad in uniform and took one of the easy chairs their of the Ottomanls to-day-a trone that mever has been were strewn about a wide balcony, each slave sat, cross legged, on dloor cushions, too awed by the '0lus,' the Sultan grunted-' So be It.' That was all. to of the to even at "At noon there been no change. Still the Sultan stable since that day Abdul Hamid ordered his. jeweler rt hastily donned an elaborately fashioned frock from presage morrowr nod their heads napping. had prchase In Paris the great Blue Diamond for the fair or London, ready to promenade before him with all "The 'King of Kings,' his doom Impending, had not sat there, with the same group of faithful slaves, waiting, age moved even a hand or the of his for watching. Suddenly a hundred cannon. biased out- at byda. e.anner of a European woman dropping in upon hima changed slope body Next week I shall return to my own story for a time, informal tea. They took turns at leeping, these hours. When dawn came and the lights along the Boo- the arsenal near Seraglio Point. Startled faces looked how or3n to flicker 'and he turned his Into the Sultan's. He returned th~r game, stolidly, and take up my piursuit of Captain Strong .and of ijates of the private apartmuents, for the Sultan was as phorus began dim, go out, up I him to marry me. ca summon a compny of them to amuse him at mid- eyes to the right over the city of Pera and watched the heavily, without speaking. All knew the Assembly had eventually sompellad gil! as at noon, and it was quite his usual custom to first gleams of the sun tun the minaret towerm to gold. acted and that the fetva had been proelaimed. ma e. e or more of them tn sing or dancor i at It was a sight that al=ays Infatnated Abdun, anA one tor "It sarealy was ten mninute. later> whoa the =peat (We Qs Cenfused Nest suntonj