Show HE DREAMED IT I I Old yon over hear of mf oriental adventure ad-venture talil Tom perching himself upon the counting home desk Ytm oriental adventure listed fed Remained Well Ha worlh hearing nlll Tom Il It did happen to me It was When I WM In DattMtcu a mere attache of grave diplomatic party a boy of lo who might u well have been lot at home I suppose I hd boURht tiger CUrt and imok fare cap and ttlwcco bag and all orl of ihlngi1 uM Tom 1 had slIppers unit tcarft for 11I1 mother and I wai bit Ing a pipe ol oriental sty I C till Along A-long item and a water bottle for the mob to pat through when a great puffy bag ol black Silk which enveloped a lady paused near me and squatted down before the hop ol a young Jewel merchant for the purpose ol ciamlntng hU bracelet OOnly the eyet ol the figure were vlt ble bulthey were blacker and more beautiful than those of any heroine he Arabian Nand Enter tallincentO N-and they III on me once twice three times and lent a Sensation through my hallo which It was happily at yet a stranger llehlnd the figure stood a less Carefully care-fully veiled Peelers of an old female icrvanl Tint It was a young beauty that hid under the tllkcn balloon I had no doubt The Jewel merchant was limy with his wares No one but the old I woman taw list beauty nuke a 1 little ilgn with her exquisite hand but the did I It The sign teemed to tay Walt n11 walled I Ihlt What I walled lor I hardly I knew My repertory nl gesture It 1 not large No EnglUhmant 10 I I nodded a Ye It tufticeJ At tin went away guarded by her old attendant the repeated the motion I WallII aid again Fitrt WAS a coffee home dote at hand open to the street like all other isholiful 1 There Iiquitledon a cuihlon and tipped and imnked I taw a figure PASS 1 pause make a Sign lo me It was the old woman the tenant nf my mysterious beaut I flung a coin lo Hit tory teller and followed her HShn went on for a long while until began lo think the would never speak I to me but at last the panted under the Shadow of the blank platter wall of a home In a quiet part of the city and I I Suddenly letting down a long wisp of fit YI hair took from It a letter a littler little-r > IIked thing written on bright piper iJjrenched with perfume 114A 1 little Injjllth know It began I Myinother the Hngllih I wilt for voii Come otWhere hill Igo I I atkel the old riptin Site beckoned Again I followed W walked on the going before I lot lowlii until the piutcd before A while plastered wall In which WAS a narrow dooi Unlocking lId motioned me toorlicrand almost treading on my itl4n her haitr Intlanlly illpped alter me and relocked 11 found myself In the moit betntlfu igarden Imagination can depict Ileyoni It wall rote arbor Obeying Iho old woman motion entered the door of this fragrant retr IOn I-On Ihe Instant two beautiful aim were cast about lily neck and a voice like that of Ihe nightingale tollly lirtalhed Ihete word II Oh how long have I walled for jou joy ot my out 11 It wa the girl whom I had teen at the baiaar I knew her eyes and her hands at once and I knew that I hail met my fate loved heron the Instant I at wrll at the teemed love me Mother wll Dick I cant make you understand that delicious emotion said Tom sighing There wo tat together talking like lover wh find been parted for yuu Sh tllpptd a ring upon my linger I 1 gave hir one Irom min I vowed to j tar life away lo the land M here love war not the ollAvell I they went there and tin tiroiiilted lo meet mo at the little garden gale at midnight Going It fait said Dick I Suddenli As waited there the old woman imhcd Into the arbor She whUpeicJ n word to my youthful lady love who wrung her lumh In terror I HforyoiirlllrVhoMld j If Alia sparest mi life I 4 lll meet you at the gale at midnight II not ndleu until we meet InparaJIie At midnight I tat upon the tone cinli I again rlad In a coarse oriental lrcF but with it pltlol hidden btneatli I It I I had rrtolrecl ille rather Men to tilow her to be titers front I me 1 walled Tht moon rose rojml and I jellowln the sky A itrango bird ut icrd a thrllf cry A dot Welled > I heard itepiMllhIn the lIardcnnd hnl back Into the shadow They were not the sittelia of women Ali lltttntd the gate opened and four black slaves bearing a burden emerged therefrom As the moonlight fell upon them I taw that thy had the tide uf I a great lack They iiiaretiod away toward the river At I watched them dreading I I know not what the old woman with her half disheveled rushed out 01 t1O p garden Itild winging ht r hand pointed alter them What tI hu lispptntd l 1 I krleked She threw Into my htndt a little note J tore It open and read three word Adieu I The caliph ha dlteovercd all I wait his StIle The fate of an unfaithful wife In this land 16 I to be sewed tip In I a bg ol lime and cast Into he liver A Hen lore er NAIPA With a thtlik I rushed alter the re treating slaves andawoke KhrulJDIck Uoker Yet said Tom Thai wtt when Iris I-ris down with bad feier three year alcs and Sam had been showing me a Turkish pipe md mi black hatred I I can rh III r tb al Itlhcli sln Illl had read me to sleep with tile llowadjlln SIIa and oil ol these things mf Adventure In Damascus with the beautiful nutdrn wa > bornIh change |