Show CON constantinople STANTIN TREASURES in the memoirs of the french auth mery a conversation which he be h bat with an english diplomat about col co over sixty years BO ago to ie i corded and it i is not without inter at this time aa snowing thattie that the cc lection about the turkish capital m mi not always have been without an el ea ment of greed greedy considering consider in 15 the I 1 li mense manse treasures supposed t be liter lite ly jy burled buried in the ancient city by t th mery mary expressed surprise that aag be land should be so BO hungry bunery for so poor G tone bone aa a turkey whereat the euall Eug litte diplomat smiled and said aid it is IB course neither the wealth waith nor t poverty of the country that in ia a ai OLD oun to england but to inc you have brought this question 10 oj do not forget the immense mum treasures la in the turkish aa baj tal every E very time a so alt gieb his remains are or at rest real among all his bia treasured trea aurec rep io in a death chamber think of the immense wealon which a man like mohammed 11 II who conquered coo con in 1453 must nave in bit travel gravel think limber of the whole tortes of butane the fabulously wealthy bellm 1 I who died in 1519 it if I 1 an aej 1 the might sollman III there Is ia a whole of those these krave chambers all closed up ulo with masonry and undisturbed bt b bause according to the me religion every grave is ia considered ored this fact Is ie well known but there may still be room bior or doubt as aa to whether these resting of the boad ead have not in course ot of time been divested of their trea treasures aures 8 me of the sultans auleana have been bard up and not bud and they mas maj have considered necessity a than the koran so eo it is possible that thai a conqueror of constantinople might be disappointed appointed die in his hie expectations tu lu find gold and procious ious stones |