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Show UAOBD UCAUTIC8 CiiMHnl For K4l tn Hi l'aitr-liy Is Algrrlan tsrli. Mr. Wlllbm Shark deserlbes la tendon ten-don Literature a vlelU while In Algeria, Alge-ria, lo a street of coned women. II sienu It Is forbidden lo Hnropsam after af-ter dark, but he wandered la, partly through Incident, partly thrfflisli earl-eslty. earl-eslty. He writes- "Some women were In barrrtl rooms awl some In esg es, f-fared f-fared for sale The woman In Ue flrt rage t passed was rather pretty, and, though her hair was dark, she had pale blue eyes Her toag loos Messes were everywhere clasped with little bios broodhe. and I noticed that her lips, the end of htr ear and her finger tips were stained a dull red. She aonoeted me In MoorM-Preneh, and asked me If t would not like to take her away from tbeee Jackals of Moors and Arabs. I said I was a stranger, a wayfsrsr, and If bare today might be far tomorrow She told me ah was not an Arab (' l-lab l-lab be praised!')' and not a Moor, either, eith-er, but a Koulourtl-Uiai Is, the child of a Moorish woman by a Turkish father fa-ther One girl's face and manner lm-presetd lm-presetd me greatly. Bbe was not lu-tlful, lu-tlful, hardly pretty, but she had a singularly sing-ularly winsome face, with large, line, gaielle-lllie eye. She was a Hurnnean. n Spaniard, from one of the lVslearlc Isle. Strangely, she was very fair, with blonde jialr full of a dusky gold aneen Hho has been taken to tiran, at the extreme western end nt Algeria, by a Spanish naval officer, and there In a few weeks had been deserted. For some months alie was a dsrsllct In that old lllsnano-Mauresqiie town. After her child was born she had gone Inland to hllt-set Ttemren, the old Moorish town that stands within slcht of the frnntlt r of Morocco. There a rich Moor had taken her (o his harem On hi death a few months later she had been purchased by a Jew from Algiers, ant slralghtwny sold to a young Turk at Dona. Tho Turk, when tired ot her, disposed of his property to an Arab sheik, who had grown tlrrd ot her In turn and placed her In the street cage, an article for sale. For some minute 1 stood talking tn a poor Imprisoned creature, when a passing guard took notice of tho Incident and whispered to mo In French to move away at once and return to the foreign quarter. He had penned on before I could see his fare The nsxt moment 1 descried the evil countenance of n Jewish-looking Moor, behind tho cage of the Ornn woman He waa her owner and he had been listening to our conversation. When he discovered that lie had not n purchaser to deal with he came forward brusquely. 'Do you want her or not!' lie demanded, tneerlngly. In gutteral Algerian French. 'NoT Then bo off with you. Infidel dog, and by the way you same If you value your skin," " |
