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Show i BURDEN OF BEING A HERO Raouf Hussein Bey, captain of the glorious "Hamidle," is advertising for some one who will take off his shoulders shoul-ders the burden of being a hero. A year's experience has proved that being be-ing a hero is tiresome. Raouf can tolerate his popularity, the display of his photographs, the flicker of his moving picture face and his prospects of becoming admiral and marine minister. min-ister. But against this stands the fact that when you become a hero in Turkey Tur-key influential people Insist on marrying marry-ing you to a princess. Raouf resents this. Though a Turk, he is more European Eu-ropean than Europe itself, and he much prefers the European system under which pretty girls who want to marry heroes send along their photographs. photo-graphs. In Turkey they do not get' their photographs taken. The sultan merely commands the hero to marry a princess of the ancient, mighty and terrible House of Othman, without even knowing what she's like. b. iff . tif at"' a I ) Captain Raouf Hussein is a dark-eyed, thick-nosed, handsome, well-set-up Turk forty years old. He served in the British navy, speaks perfect English, has tasted whisky and soda, and in every other respect is a civilized man. It was Raouf who went to Germany to buy the battleships Weissenburg and Kurfurst Friedrich fWilhelm, which, renamed Messudie and Barbarossa Hairedden, did Turkey such signal service in the war. |