| Show a 11 d r l Q C I cp o g i g J How the Sight of Another 3 You can deceive me no longer I see her lace in the magic crystal crystal- the face of the woman who has Womans Woman's Face the J in i stolen your love away from me Hearts Mirror e v S O Oi i J C Filled the Paris Beauty a Y q v 1 I With a Jealous AZ That ll Ended in Her Killen i ing the t W Y 4 w art d g s j tit rY rYd d- d dS dg S g h P Pt h 4 y r i il l 1 y Y r 4 I t g i Y ij pp ya ry 3 cy 1 l li 1 a r r rt lj at t t 13 o P 1 ii U Ui i L t tJ nce 4 J R tk Prince All f Kamel Fahmy Bey tian multi mil multimillionaire 1 w shot and killed by his wife in b ba a fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable able London hotel botel LONDON August Augi st 23 1 HEN the th police hurried to the the oJ WHEN v v millionaire suite on the th fourth floor of the Hotel Savoy and saw saw beautiful Fahmy-Bey Fahmy Fahmy standing with a smoking revolver er in her hand over her dying husbands husband's body they found the luxuriously furnIshed room littered with broken glass class the fragments of brae a and other things that had been smashed in the des des- desperate des desperate struggle preceding the thc shooting And now nov it is believed that in this debrIs sere aero the shattered pieces of the thc magIc crystal which fired the Jealous fury that drove the princess to kill her husband and send her to the th may Bay gallos gallows gal gal- lows s Friends of the prIncess well remember I the shimmering ball ban of crystal that stood on a curiously carved pedestal of OrIental design in her apartment When they asked her what she sh saw law when she gazed into its mysterious depths she sho would say Nothing as yet that yet that is nothing except ex- ex except ex except my own face and that of my be- be beloved beloved be beloved loved Ali Kamel But if he ho should ever everlove everlove love another woman then I would see in the th globe her face Itis the mIrror minor of his heart So he has told me and so soI soI aoI I believe And then she would add It It was his gift to me m on our wedding day to to prove pro that I would never have havo reason to doubt his hi love It is a great consolation to me Whenever he h is not by my side I gars garo long and earnestly into it and when I see sc there thero no ether ther womans woman's face I am reassured I know my husbands husband's heart is still all mine There Thero s n was as no crystal globe glob in m the th apartment when the tho th police arrested the pale trembling prIncess her costly eve eve- eve ing i L Ling mg ing gown gosh stained with her husbands husband's blood But a maid is said to have havo told th tl e police that it was there then late lato on the tho day of the th tragedy and that she saw the princess with her eyes eye fixed on it as If fascinated by what she saw The maid was frightened she ahe h says by bythe bythe the strange expression on her hr mIstress's face and she sho quietly closed the door she had half opened without giving the th mes- mes message mss mes message sage sago she had come to deliver A superstitious belief in the tho revealing powers of the th magic crystal feeding a womans woman's already overwhelming jealousy this this easily may have hav been tho the cause causa of tho the tragedy that claimed the th life of tho Prince All Kamel Fahmy Fahmy- Bey Dey and threatens threaten to put his widows widow's widow H neck In tho the hangman's hangman noose x A sudden udden wartime advance in the ill prIce of cotton had made Prince Princ Fahmy Fahmy- Fahmy 1 Beys Bey's father a multi-millionaire multi A few months later Inter the old man died dit-d leaving leaving leaving- most of his fortune fortun to hisson his son eon then only nIneteen year years lean old N ge ax i t a af f s L Q bye X Y i N The rhe lovely princess princes who i is is facing a f charge of wilful murder because of her foolish be- be belief belief be belief lief in the magic crystals crystal's power to reveal the state of her husbands husband's heart After a rather indecently short period of mourning the Prince went to Paris to see what pleasures pleasure could be purchased d with an nn income of a year Of course he found a bewildering va- va variety va but of the many he sampled there therewa was none that gave him keen keener r satis satis- satisfaction satis- satis satisfaction satisfaction faction none he ha thought better worth the prIce than the sparkling beauty varIously known as MarIe Mano Marguerite Allbert Alibert Maggie Mueller and by other names Nobody knew for certain just who she sho was or where here she came from but at the th time Prince Fahmy Fahmy-Bey reached the French capital with his fat bankroll she T wa was one ono of its reigning l d l beauties aa It took only a few nIghts of gay companion companion- companionship companionship companionship ship with her along the tho boulevards to convince Athe the Prince that he just couldn't be bo happy unless he had her her wonderful v t blot iolet eyes to look into all the rest of hia his life Either Marie Alibert was not r really ally eager for marriage or she did not want the young Prince to think her too easy oa ya a prize A As soon S as is he h began making serious love lov she sho fled to DenuvIlle Deauville The Tho infatuated Prince followed and after n a furious wooing he won her His family cabled their consent to th match on condition that the th would embrace her husbands husband's religion To this she at last agreed and they were mar mar- mar mar- married married married ried with the strange ceremOnIes of the th Mohammedan faith fluth s i j js s rt Wp J 1 a a P d 1 Y Fb it a iL 4 rya v 9 t iH iHry ry t sf th t tt t a h fe ir 3 i I peg q r 4 The Crystal 21 r va r Gazer as ti posed f fn n s f fe e by Lois Loin WIld thee the v e A Brooklyn N Y girl j of of prodigy beauty beg and talent e They went sent to Egypt for their honey honey- honeymoon honeymoon honeymoon moon The Prince imported a luxurious houseboat and they astonished the un- un unprogressive Unprogressive un progressive Egyptians by motoring up the Nile On the way they entertained with with a laVIshness that would have made sumo of the tho old Pharaohs envious When they reached Luxor they had among theIr guests the late Inte lat Lord Carnarvon who was just then beginning his memorable ex- ex excavations excavations ex excavations in the th Valley of the Kings The Princess soon tired of Egypt and the Prince wa was not at all sorry to take her back back- to Paris for the brief tast taste he lie had had of Parisian life had only whetted his appetite for more They Thy had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been there thero long before their quarrels began and these grew more and more bitter until the final tragedy The Tha Prince and Princess were both in- in insanely insanely in insanely sanely jealous she sh even more mor so then than he The fact that she slie was many years older than her husband w worried her greatly She was always fearing that some younger beauty would win him away from her P Perhaps the Prince full of the th mys- mys mysticIsm mysticism mys mysticism of Egypt really believed in the magIc pOwers powers of th the crystal globo globe he ho bei I r i 1 I I I I I II I t IE gave his wife Perhaps he only pretend pretend- pretended pretended ed fo o believe in order to allay her jealousy jeal- jeal jealousy jeal jealousy As her friends are now saying she sh seemed to have the most implicit faith in inthe inthe the globes globe's ability to mirror burror- her her er lus banda LUS- LUS husband's bands band's heart Never a day passed without with with- without with without out her gazing for hours into the crystal crys- crys crystal crys crystal tal But although she said this was a great consolation it only made mad her jeal jeal- Jeal- Jeal Jealousy jealousy jealousy the more mor insane When they came to London the th crys crys- crystal crystal tal clime came cam with firth Ith them and was placed In Inthe inthe inthe the dra drawing room of the Savoys Savoy's most expensive suite The Th quarrels of the th wealthy young Prince and his beautiful wIfe wit soon were the talk of the town Their servants and the hotel employees told how they slept wIth loaded revolvers by their sides and would often leap from their b beds ds in the tho night to threaten and sometimes actual actual- actually actually actually ly attack each other On several oc- oc occasions occasions oc occasions the hotel a detectives called 3 1 to theIr apart apart- apartment ment meat found them p at each others other's throats clawing ar and striking WIth t n murderous fury bs and tearing the tapestrIes a and n d bed bed clothing to toI shreds i Prin- Prin Princess Princess Did the th cess see aee or dId k d her overwrought df brain make her t imagine she saw in the th crystal the th evidence of her r husbands husband's u s b a n da un- un unfaithfulness un-f un faithfulness fa a i t h f u 1 ness Many who know of the th faith she put in the magic S s globe believe this was exactly et drove her to lire fire lirey the fatal bullet y You Y u can de- de dec deF deceive de-ce de F c ve ve me no long long- longer longer er she he may l have cried I Iseo see her face fac in inthe inthe the magic cry crystal still the th face fac of the woman who has hils ya F stolen your love lovo from me l Whether the Prince den denied i e d the th charge or frankly admitted It whether ho heard her in sullen s silence lence or tried to laugh away her fears ho he found himself facing an uplifted re- re re revolver solver volver and eyes that flamed lamed with mur- mur murderous murderous mur murderous derous bate wreck The The wreck of the contents of the th room showed how the th Prince Princ must have hav flung himself upon his wife and desperately trIed to disarm her But her fury seemed to gIve her a superhuman strength against which even his sturdy young oung muscles were ere of little avail Once twice they struggled madly around the room and then the tho th Princ 9 n fell dying with sF a bullet close to his heart 1 The Th u R dinner BS K- K Kny of ny the Prince a WS and a Princess B i in the main dining room of the hotel that evening had ended in a violent quarrel q Later thIs thi seems teems to have been patched up for they went ent to the th thea thea- theater theater ter together But waiters walters who ho B served 1 them with Ith supper in their apartment lit at mIdnight say they were then quarrelIng bItterly 2 The Th tragedy came cam K about the fol- fol following fol follow s I lowing low 10 i ing g morning when the th most violent thunder London had knows in storm known fifty r 1 years was raging In a momentary lull I of th the deafening thunderclaps servants II 1 in the corridor outside the th Fahmy-Bey Fahmy Fahmy 7 sUIte heard the th report of a revolver re j An instant later the switchboard op- op operator op operator I downstairs heard the tho Princess over the telephone screaming Come quickly 1 I Ive I've shot All Alt I dont don't know how I did iU it At almost the moment when the wound wound- wounded wounded ed cd Prince died in Channg Charing Cross HospItal the Princess was being held by a coroner's coro coro- coroner's coroner's ners ner's jury on a charge of wilful murder In spite of her deep mourning and the pathos of her sobs she still managed to look very much the exquisite as she sat in m the prisoners prisoner's dock and heard her fate translated by an inter inter- Inter pleter Her lIer olive comple complexion completion ion was pow pow- powdered pow powdered dered to a creamy whiteness her eyes deeply purple penciled her lips painted a brilliant vermilion Her black go gown n accentuated the th bril- bril brillIance brilliance bril brilliance liance of her gems She Sh wore her wed wed- weddIng wedding wed wedding ding ring with its blazing white seven even carat diamond and a wonderful double string of perfectly matched pearls What defense the th princess will make has not yet been revealed but almost everybody thinks that her only chance of escaping the gallows lies Hes in a n plea pica of insanity It seems quite quit possible that that lawyers will wll find in the fears with which her ber superstitious belief in the magic crystal filled her mind the most satisfactory basis for su such such h a n plea Belief in m the th PO power er of certain crystal globes to prove themselves mirrors mirror of of the heart is a well vell known part of the mysticism of the East If the th dead J Prince himself did not beh ve in it his hie ancestors did and undoubtedly many Egyptians of the tho present day do The murder of Prince Bey Fahmy-Bey cut short a career that gave promise of being as extravagantly spectacular as those of the Maharajah of and other spenders One On of the first things he h did after he came into his immense fortune fortun was to import from France Franc a IS fleet of expensive liv sive motor racing cars carl He Ho rook ook ok particular delight in driving one of these ther machines up and down the narrow winding streets of Cairo at breakneck speed After the th Prince Princ had narro narrowly ly missed killing himself and his and several pedestrians the pedestrians the police put a stop to his using the streets for a race lace course It was a high compliment to the th Las fas fa fascinating charms ch ch of Marie Marl AlIbert when he chose chos to Jail tell in love lov with hex her he She Sh was only one of scores of ambitious of beau beau- beautIes beauties beauties ties who were attracted by his youth and wealth and the glamour lr of the tho th East that I hung about him and who gladly would have sh shared rel his palace on th tj the Nile Nil Ino In SPIte of the th bitterness with which he and his hla wIfe wit quarreled hia his friends say ay that he remained devoted t to her to the very end Her collection of jewels Jewels is estimated d to pe be b worth 0 and most of f them were were wr gifta if gift from her hor husband t 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