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Show LIFE OF CONSTANT DREAD. Architects ml Fngli.een Cusataalrj '""'I 1 irk 1,1, ,'i.a'a Abdul ll.imld. the Hultan of Turkey, Is so filled with the terror of amaial-nation amaial-nation that hia magnificent palsce of Ylldla la a monument to fear. It la or Is meant to be, assassin-proof bomb-priHi,. earthquake-proof, lira-proof, lira-proof, nilrrohe-proof. Architect and engineers are constantly rebuilding It, and aome new secret retreat Is alwayi under construction. The palace is surrounded sur-rounded by a wall thirty feet high, and the choicest troops of the empire stand guard about It. Says a writer In Everybody's Ev-erybody's MaKRtlne: One day the Bui-, Bui-, tan received Monsieur Vambery. ths Hungarian Orientalist. Informally at the palace. This waa not an unusual thing, for the professor had been Abdul' tutor, and waa almost his Intimate In-timate friend. Quite naturally, therefore, there-fore, the Sultan turned to the ont guard In the apartment, and ordered him to retire. The guard took a step backward and halted, as rigid aa before. be-fore. Abdul repeated the order, with the same result. Once more he commanded, com-manded, and thla time the man obeyed. Then the Sultan, smiling, explained. It often happened that he wished to show sn apparent faith In a guest. He would order the guard to retire, and the gur.rd, after that one step, would remain, the Sultan meanwhile going on with the ronveimition under the seeming Impression that the man had really gone. The man understood that only the third command waa to be taken literally. When the Sultan had finished thla confidence, he Invited the profcasor to alt opposite him at 'he little lit-tle table, and have aome tea. Now the Sultan does not take sugar, and so he forgot to offer any to his gueaL The bowl waa at the Sultan's elbow, and the profcasor was not used to asking monarch to wait upon him. Still, he hardly wished to drink the tea as It wo, and he leaned over the table to reach for the sugar. In a flash the Sultan Sul-tan was on his feet, his hand at hi pocket, hla face pallid. The gesture of the harmless old savant looked to him like assassination. Again, when th I'rlnce of Samoa waa retiring from an audience", he stumbled, In his backward steps, and fell. Instantly the Sultan pressed spring behind the throne. The wall opened, and he vanished within, safe from the suxpectcd attack. at-tack. Abrupt gestures In hia pretence often coat very dear. The hietorles ol aeveral victims of such mistakes art on record. One was a gardener In tin royal park, whom Abdul shot dead for rising too quickly to an attitude of respect re-spect At another time he found thi child of a palace servant playing with his mislaid revolver, aud had her tortured tor-tured In the hope of discovering a pled. |