The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 29, 1913, Image 6
The
Sable
Lorcha
Horace Haieltinc
{OamtUtm. SO* A. a MoClom * (Jo.)
It It oue thing to hsve yonr faith
In a friend shaken. That is serious
?ooufth In all conscience. But your
faith may tremble, and sway and rock,
and still there ia always U* poesibl}
tty of Its being resteedled and made
Arm again by explanation?by extenu?
ation even. It Is quite another thing
to hare yonr faith toppled headlong,
by tbe snatching away of the last vest?
ige of support, tbe last sliver of under?
pinning. That hi more than serious.
It Is calamitous; It is catastrophic; It
la tragic
Back in tbe library s^aln I sc* to
pacing tbe floor. I think Pvelyn re?
sumed her seat In tbe big leathern
chair. I am sure. For a time I was
not conscious that aba a as in the
room. Thst It was incon ilderate of
ate. I admit. It was, perhaps, unpar?
donable. And yet it was not wilful.
Frankly, I hsd forgotten her, absolute?
ly, la tbe stress of tbe emotional tem?
pest raised by thst revelation in tbe
darkened bedchamber.
Back and forth, I strode from book?
case to bookcase, over the soft neu?
tral-tinted Persian rugs; and aT the
while there echoed those repeated de?
nisia of Cameron's that be bad ever
been In China. "Never nearer than
Yokohama," be had said. "Once I ate
chop soey in a Chicago Chinese restau?
rant.'* "1 have always been Interested
la China and the Chinese, but I know
only what I hsve read.** And the
words of his quondam friend came
back to mo now, too, with redoubled
e/nrhaala: "He refused to admit what
I knew to be the truth."
Nevertheless I bad chosen to believe
that Cameron, should he ever return
to ua, would be able to clarify this
turbid stream of circumstance, and
prove the fallibility of appearances.
Tbe illusion to which I had clung,
howe-sr, was mow In shreds. Cam- j
ercn. retu.nlrg, with body enfeebled
and brain crn.(used, hsd spoken in his
unguarded delirium. The mask was
dropped, the acreen thrown down, and
barefaced end stark he stood revealed,
a woeful figure in the impartial glare
of truth. T" *?
At tha moment I could aoe no exten
aatton. Me waa a liar and be was a
coward; and all the sympathy, all the
friendship 1 ev >r felt for him died ut?
terly, ss I thought how, probably,
every untoward incident of the past
month, wl'.h its chain of vexatious
consequences, might hsve been avoid?
ed had he been brave to the point of
confession.
It waa now plain enough for the '
least sstute to see that at some time
he hsd committed an act which had
aroused certain of the Chinese to re?
taliation. It waa this which I hsd
fesred from the first. It waa thla
which be bad chosen to hide.
As I paced to and fro, his craven
words rang once more in my ears:
"No, no. tdf God a sake, not that! I
didn't kill tbem! I swear I didn't kill
them! It waa an accident!" And I
knew that be was lying. Tbe very
tone of hia disclaimer convinced me
of his guilt. He had killed, and he
cowered before tbe avengers.
Disgust, abhorrence, anger, all were
mine in turn. ,
At length I paused before a window,
and remained there, with my back to
the room, looking down on the with- ,
ared garden behind the house, yet see?
ing nothing but the red of my own pas?
sion.
A touch upon my shoulder aroused
me to a realization of my surround?
ings, and Informed me that I *vas not
alone. Startled as one awakened ab?
ruptly from a dream, I turned, and
turning, there came a revulsion. Every
surchsrglng emotion that had held
and bound me gave way Instant?
ly to a violent self-reproach, excited
by tbe pathos of K'velyn's sad. ques?
tioning eyes tsal sadde-, quivering
mouth.
My Impulse was to take her In my
arms, and pacifying, to plead pardon
for what must hsve seemed to her an
Inexcusable churlishness Hut the con
dltlona which so recently aSe had set
upon me forbidding the coveted em?
brace. I compromised on a hand clasn
"My dear child," I began, earnestly,
"I'm sorry. Hut then you must know
how what we Just saw and heard dis?
tressed me. I think I have been mad
since we left that room. I hardly
know what I hav.- 1?^ n doing. To
him so unstrung, d*am*nted, raving.
To hear him?"
Hut she would not allow me to fin?
ish
"Philip'" ehe cried, passionately.
"Ol;. Philip! Hail you are? lsmt
you understand. It is a mistake, an
awful nightmare of n mistake. Thst
Creature over fh*?re is not my und?'.
1 am convinced that he ia not my
Uncle Robert/'
CHAPTER XX.
An Enigma and Its iohjllofli
To my iima/. n.SI I I found M il BvS>
lyn nn'nnt more "..u I : an. < ?I. My
Interpretation of hei words a m H at
Cameron waa not in hin right n it <:
that he wan not her ('ncl* Robert, as
she had known htm. Put In a very
brief moment she disabused me.
"It la not be, at all," she declared,
with emphasis. "There is a resemb?
lance, yes. Hut the man you found
in the street is not Robert Cameron;
I am sure of that."
The idea that I had brought there,
not my friend, but my friend's double,
seemed to me too preposterous for a
moment's entertslnment, I fear I sus?
pected. Just then, that Evelyn's reason
had been warped a trifle by the rack?
ing seen? of which we had been wit?
nesses.
1 would to God, my dear child," I
said, sympathetically, "that you wero
light But there can be no question
as to the identity of the sick man.
Every one who has seen him recog?
nised him at once?Checkabeedy, Lou
Is, Stephen, Dr. Massey. No, no, Evelyn,
you must not be misled by his rav?
ings." And at this point there oo
enrred to me a tentative explanation
one la which I did not in the leapt be?
lieve, but which, at all events, was
worth trying; one which, indeed, I
prayed would serve.
"Cameron, yon must remember, has
been with his Chinese captors for four
weeks. In that time he must have
picked up something of their language.
It Is only natural that he should. So,
you see, to hear him use a few words
of pidgin-English In his Insane gibber?
ish is not so remarkable, after all. And
as for that spirited denial Just before
he dropped off to sleep. It Is very evi?
dent that they accused him of some?
thing with which he had no connec?
tion, though quite cognisant of the
facta"
Bot the girl would have none of It.
Tolerantly she listened, and tolerantly
she smiled when I had f nlshed.
"No, no, Philip," she insisted, "I see
It all quite clearly. Whatever crime
was committed, the creature lying
there committed it. But he is not my
uncle. Others mistook the resemblance
for Identity, Just as you did, only the
situation was reversed. Those who
abducted Uncle Robert thought they
were abducting that villain we are
now housing."
It was an Ingenious notion, but of
course it was not possible. However,
I saw that It would be Idle to continue
to dispute with her.
"What would you suggest, then?
Shall we send our Invalid to a hos?
pital?" I asked, In pretended serious?
ness.
But very sagely she shook her bead.
"Oh, no," she returned. "We must
keep him. He is very valuable to us.
Perhaps we can do as contending 1
armies do?-arrange an exchange of
prisoners,"
Ip suite of my wretchedness, I sup?
pressed a smile. It was all very amus
lag] and yet the fear that she was suf- ,
ferlng aberration due to hysteria, tem?
pered pitifully the humor of it.
When, later in the afternoon, Dr. '
Massey called, I told him everything,
Including this hallucination of Eve- 1
lyn's.
4,You did perfectly right," he said, in I
tone of cordial approval. "The malady 1
with which Cameron is afflicted has a 1
tendency to distort certain lineaments. '
Especially at times of excitement his
face changes, so that Miss Grayson is
Justified In fancying that this Is not
the Robert Cameron she knew. I
have noticed the dissimilarity myself,
but It is due, of course, entirely to dls- j
torted expression. In a couple of days,
at most, he will be fully restored, and
then he hira3elf will be the best one to
rectify her error. Meanwhile, if I wer?
you, I would not dispute her. She b
gone through a great d< al, and gone
through It bravely; Indeed with a cour?
age that Is quite phenomenal, and she
is entitled to any little consolatory be?
liefs that she chooses to entertain."
And then, as If such advice were not
wholly superfluous, he added: "Bo
kiad to hcr, Clyde! be good to her.
She Is a wonderful young woman."
W1 er?at I grained his band, and
promised him, lifting him a notch In
my estimation because of his porspi- '
caclty. And all the while a lump kept
rising in my throat and threatening 1
my t<ar ducts. \
On the following day I heard noth- 1
lng from Miss Clement, which some?
what surprised me, though she had
told me that her prospective inform- (
ants were likely to take their own
time. Earty, on the second morning,
however, I had a note from her, the
enigmatic character of which impelled
me to speculation.
"Dear Mr. Clyde," she wrote, "I hope ,
you can make It convenient to visit me j
this evening, at the Mission. I want j
to talk with Ling Fo, an exceptionally |
well-educated young Chinaman, who |
tells me that his people are much mys?
tified over a recent event; and, if
what he says be true?and I never
knew him to He?a new complexion is
placed upon this whole matter. Come
about nine thirty, after our service is
over."
As Dr. Massey*! orders forbidding
my one save Mr. Bryan to enter Cam- \
eron's room, leaned Immediately after
our hideous experience, bad not yet
t*en rescinded, our knowledge of his
condition was,perforce,gleaned entire.
Ty thro rgh jbysieiau and nurse. Both
now assured me that he was progress*
lng sa*Isfaetorily, and that there had
Ix^-n no return of the dementia.
Ev? lyn .still persisted in h?-r DOtl< b
that the patient was not her uncle, but
hia double, and following the doctor*!
difSJCtlOBI I refrained from frying to
OOBTtBCS h*r of the truth; even going
so far iih to pretend thai I hi lleved
as she did. and planning to bt gin ne>
got la t torn through Miss Clement *od
her Chinese confidant! for an ex?
change of captives as soon as our hott?
age WM able to h<. mOYOd,
"I am to isx Ml - Heim nt, tonight,*1 i
f told her. late thlt afternoon, "also an
Oriental seQoalntanec of ion, whoop
p<nr* lo b< Informed on the subject ,
arbl< i lnt< r. its at, it is possible that
he will prove t\e very person who can
arrange it nl!.*
"Let me go with you," sho urged,
laying a beaeeching hand on my arm.
"Do 1ft me go with you, Philip. I am
fo anxious. It will soem years if I
have to wait here for you to bring mo
the news; and there are sure to bo
some things you will forget to ask
about, if I'm not. there to prompt you."
In spite of the unflattery of her
speech I smiled, indulgent Her great
blue eyes, pathetically pleading as her
words, were able advocates. It was
hard to deny her under any circum?
stances, and now, as I thought it over,
I saw no reason why in this instance
she should not have her desire.
"Yes," I agreed, "you shall go. But
remember, you must be very careful,
for the present at least, not to let slip
the slightest inkling that we suspect
our Cameron is not the real Cameron.
We are seeking Information, you know,
Evelyn, not squandering it"
Pell street wore its night gaudery
when the Cameron electric brougham
with Evelyn and myself as occupants
glided to a halt before the door of the
Mission over which Miss Clement ably
and successfully presided. The pale,
vari-tinted light of lanterns from the
balcony of a restaurant across the
way, mingling with the flickering yel?
low beam of the city's gas lamps,
threw into sharp relief the curious
pendent black signs with their red
cloth borders and glided Chinese let?
tering, hanging before shop doors. It
revealed, too, oddly contrasting figures
of loungers and pedestrians, residents
and visitors. And it bared, back of all
tbar was bizarre, the commonplace
brick fronts of the typically American
buildings, with their marring gridiron
ing of fire-escapes. To Evelyn, rarely
observant, the combination was inter?
esting, but disappointing.
"It does not look at all as I expect?
ed it would," she jaid to me. "It hasn't
the air. It is neither one thing nor the
other. It is like a. stage scene, care?
lessly mounted."
As we alighted at the Mission dcor,
the last notes of a familiar hymn,
mangled in words and melody almost
beyond recognition, flowed out to join
the babel of street sound ? and before
we could mount the high steps there
had begun to pour forth a motley,
malodorous freshet of felt-shod soles,
that gave us pause; blocking, for a
few minutes, not merely the ascent
but the sidewalk as well.
When, at length, the way was clear,
and by direction of a youth at the en?
trance, we had pafsed through the
close, ill-smelling hall, where the lights
had already been lowered, we came
upon Miss Clement, alone in a little
well-ventilated and brightly-lighted of?
fice or parlor, jutting off at the rear. I
If she was surprised at seeing Eve?
lyn, she gave no sign. She welcomed
us both with the smiling cordiality of
a life-long friend. But abruptly her
smile died.
"I tried to get you on the telephone
an hour ago," she explained, "but
there was some trouble wiih the wire.
I hoped to save you this journey for
nothing."
"Your protege couldn't come?" I
queried.
"Unfortunately, no," she returned,
with a little quaver in her voice. "My
protege will never come again. He
was shot, to death. Poor, poor Ling
Fo!"
"Shot to death!" I cried, while Eve?
lyn, with .'hecks suddenly pale and
eyes wide, h< Id her underllp fast be?
tween her teeth, and gripped hard on
the arms of the rocking chair in whjch
Miss Clement had placed her.
"Yes." And this Strong, sweet
faced, gray-haired woman in gray, her
momentarily-lost composure quite re?
covered, laid a quitting hand softly
over Evelyn's tensed clutch. "Yes.
That sort of thing is not unusual down
here, you know. There is always more
or less bad blood between the tongs.
Hut it was most unforunate, just at
this time, because I feel sure he could
have told you something worth learn?
ing. I'm glad he was a good bo>\ Jle
was on<' of the few converts that are
really sincere."
"Perhaps he knew too much," 1
suggested.
But Miss Clement made no com?
ment. I fancy it was out of considera?
tion for Evelyn that she refrained
from endorsing my conclusion; while
I reproached myself for being less
thoughtful. 1 was all the more con?
vinced that I had voiced the motive
for the shooting.
As Evelyn did not ask for particu- (
lars, I profited by the lesson thus
taught and curbed my curiosity. But
I was In no mood to drop the subject.
From Miss Clement's note it was cler.r
that Ling Fo had already communi
cnted to her some of the more impor?
tant facts in this connection, and of
these I hoped to possess myself.
"And so. Miss Clement,** I ventured,
Eharpening my wedge, Chinatown is
mystified, I understand."
She was seated, now, hv her little
desk, and for a moment h cl born turn?
ing up, searchlngly, one k>aper aft< r
another, from an open drawer. At
my observation, she paused and raia< d
her glance, a folded sheet of note size
in her hand; for a heart-beat her eyes
held nitn<*
"Yes," the said at length. "China?
town is all si sea, so to ?peak."
"t r?ar what ?" I pressed.
Slowly she unfolded the scrap of
writing she held, and before replying
sli?- read it through, slowly and delib?
erately.
"If yotl don't mind." Bbc proposed,
"I would prefer not to talk about it.
I am in a pei ullar position here, Mr.
Clyde, as you can well understand,
ami I can't nfford to play falsa to
those who trust p e. At tha same
time I do not always know whom
among iheee people t?> trust. Borne
one who knew thou very well wro?c,
once upon a tlm<, something like this:
Tou ran take a Chtnk away from hfs
fun.
Away from his lotteries, Addles and
You can tflve hhs queue to the bartx-r,
boss;
But y?>u can't t&-* down to the nx^ta that
start
From the yeliow base of his y<lW>w
heart.
And it's very true. There are tliose
here who pretend to adore me, who
would think nothing of treating me
as they treated poor Ling Fo, if they
suspected I knew anything and gave
information."
"I don't want you to think I'm a
coward, Miss Crayson," she went on,
turning to Evelyn. "I think I've proved
to you that I want to help you and
mean to, but I'm rather upset tonight,
and I'm so afraid we shall have to let
matters rest a little longer. T.lere is
one thing, though, that you can do
for me, if you will."
The last sentence was addressed to
me, and I made haste to assure her
that she had only to command me.
As she had spoken she had been
folding and refolding the paper in her
hand, until it was now a tiny, one
Inch square.
"Take this," she said, handing It
to me, her voice a low murmur, "and
after you have read It, destroy it. I
shouldn't want it found in my pos?
session."
"I understand, Miss Clement," I re?
turned and the folded square went
Into my waistcoat pocket.
"It may mean more to you," she
added, In a whisper, "than anything
I could say."
When once more in the brougham,
I speeding northward, Evelyn, who had
! been unusually taciturn throughout
the interview, asked me a question.
"Did you mean what you said,
Philip?"
"What did I say?" I queried.
"That you understood."
"I understood that it might not be
weil for her to have this letter of
Ling Fo's about"
"But the rest? Her refusal to talk?
Her uneasiness? Her fear of possible
traitors?" she persisted.
Once more she had gone straight to
the heart of the situation. I had been
as puzzled as she by the missionary's
attitude of constraint which I could
not attribute wholly to the tragedy she
had told us of; and I admitted as
much to Evelyn.
"If she suspected eavesdroppers,"
the girl argued, "she said too much.
If she didn't fear being overheard, why
couldn't she tell us all she knew?"
For want of a better answer I said:
"Perhaps the letter will solve the
enigma," and plucking it from my
pocket with thumb and forefinger I 1
began carefully to unfold it.
The interior of the vehicle was bril?
liantly alight, aad though we were
already far beyond the Chinatown
zone and the chance observation of
any lurking spies, I nevertheless chose
discreetly to draw the shades prior
to outspreading the written page.
Before the sheet with its network of
creases was quite flattened, Evelyn,
who was bending attentively near, ex?
claimed In surprise, "It is her own
handwriting! See, it is written by
Miss Clement herself!"
, Already absorbed, I made no re- j
sponse. Avidly my eyes were racing !
over the lines; greedily, my brain was \
digesting them,
j "Tidings of the cruel murder of
Ling Fo have just reached me. When
you come, as I know you will, I shall
not dare to speak what I have written,
and which is all that the poor boy
j ever told me. Already there are spies
about me, and your visit is a risk to
us both. I would have prevented it, if
I I could.
"Three weeks ago, ncv*ording to Ling
Fo, a white man was abducted by or?
der of the Six Companies, and shipped
to China for punishment, aboard a
tramp steamer. Ling Fo would not I
give me the white man's name or any j
of the particulars, save that sixteen j
years ago he had committed a crime,
known to every Chinaman in America
as 'The Crime of the Sable Lorcha/
or Tdack funeral ship,' by which near?
ly one hundred Chinese coolies lost |
their lives.
1 "It seems now that this man, who
they thought was on the ocean, sud?
denly reappeared in New York, a few
nights ago. He was recognized and
set upon by two Chinamen, but he
escaped, and the Six Companies and
all the tongs are in a ferment over the
mystery."
Evelyn's hand was on my arm s I
read, her face close to mine, reading
with me. Having finished, I held the
sheet for a moment, waiting for her
to signify that she, too, had reached
the end. And that moment the
brougham came to a sudden halt.
Before either of us could voice a
word the door on my side was
wrenched violently open, and the blue
steel muzzle of a revolver covered me.
CHAPTER XXI.
When the Doors Parted.
What Immediately followed must
have occupied a second or two at
most. Yt t it seemed to me that for
many minutes I sat mute and motion?
less, starting at the leveled weapon
I and at the rude black mask behind it;
! for my brain was superactive and my
thoughts were racing.
Instantly I comprehended all that
; had happened, and the situation, cli?
maxing In our peril, was as (dear to
i mo as though 1 had witnessed the
, whole chain of events from Inception
to final execution. The assassination
1 of Ling Fo was to be succeeded by the
abduction, perhaps the murder, of Eve?
lyn and myself, already while we
1 were conversing aith Miss Clement
our driver had been spirited from the
Ii >\ and one of 'he enemy mounted In
his place, In the rush of my review
? recalled that In hurrying Evelyn Into
II brougham anxious to iw> started
. nd away, I had not cast even BO much
as a glance towards the man !n front.
At first, ir our absorption, and later
behind I'*vrerod silken shades, we had
made no effort to trace our course.
Hence our present location was mad?
deningly unguessable. We might be
far on the East side or far on the
West, or we might merely have circled
back to within a block or loss of the
Mission from which we started.
All this, I say, flashed fhrough my
brain with inconceivable swiftness as
I sat rigid, with eyea on the revolver
barrel and the masked face of the
shadowy, sinister creature that held it.
Ah this, and more. For in that brief
space I considered one possible course
of action after another, groping des?
perately for a plan of rescue and es?
cape.
In that passing second or two there
had been no sound?no word from him
at the door; no whisper even from her
at my side, who, like myself, sat dumb
and inert, stricken* to stone by the sud?
denness jf the attack. But for a sec?
ond or two only this silence and in?
ertia lasted.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
There is more Ctarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseaaei
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to he incurable.
For a great many years doctor.-? pro?
nounced it a local disease and pre?
scribed local remedies, and by con?
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a
Constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohls, is
the only constitutional cure on fhe
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doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful.
It acts directly on the blood and mu?
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Address: P. J. Cheney & Co., To?
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Take Hall's Family Pills for consti?
pation.
REDS ARE DEFEATED.
Greens Stop Onward March of Load
ers?Standing of Teams.
The Qreens Thursdsv night put a
stop to the onward n arch of the Reds
in the V. M. C. A. bowling tourney,
\\ hen they defeated them by some
fifty-two pins in the match of three
Kanus, four men bowling. Hitherto
the Reds have been far in the lead
for the bowling trophy and their de
feat wai welcomed l?y the opposing
teams, who are working hard to win
the trophy.
Th?> tirst game went to the Greens
by nineteen pins, the second to the
Reds by two pins an i the third to
the Greens by thirty-five pins mak?
ing a majority of fifty-two pins for
the Greens.
This leaves the standin? of the
t? ami as follows:
Team Games \v L P. C.
Reds.9 I 667
Blues.S 4 4 500
Greens.*.? 4 5 4 44
Whites.8 I ? 375
Escaped After Fifteen Years.
?W. P. Broyles made a successful
escape after fifteen years of suffering
from kidney and bladder troubles.
Poley Kidney Pills released him and
will do just the same for others. He
says: "They cured a most severe
backache with painful Madder irreg?
ularities, and they do all you claim
for them." Refuse substitutes.
Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt.
Tablet For Battle Ground.
The tablet tor the site ot' the Din?
gle's Mill battle ground has reached
Sumter and will be taken out to the
newly constructed concrete bridge
across the stream and will he erected
there during tin- next week. The
bridge is slowly hardening and it is
thought that it will be opened to traf
flce in a short while now.
A Girl's Midnight Hide
To warn people (.f a fearful forest
Are in the Catskirla a young girl rode
horse back at midnight and saved
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but Uvea are often saved by Dr.
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lor all throat and hin? troubles. Price
50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by Slbert's Drug Store.?
idvt
Marriage License Record.
Licenses to marry wer.- lasued Sat?
urday to Hettie Brown and Prank
Thompson of Providence and Paul
Wood a ??! Mayesville and Annie Mc
Bride of Brogdon.
HeM Cough Medicine for Children.
? 1 am very glad 'o a few Word*
In praise nt Chamberlain's Cough
Itemedy," writes Mrn [?Ida Dewoy,
Milwaukee, Wis. "I have us. d it for
years both for my children and m>
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Take Chatte and Intimate intention
to Continue W*r.
Constantinople, Jan. 23.?Xazim
Pasha, tin- former war minister an?l
commander of the Turkish army, was
shot dead during demonstrations here
tonight.
Bnver Bey and Talaat Bey had
given explicit orders that no blood
should be ihed. But Xaalm Pasha i
aide de camp lired from a window
of the porte at Bnver Bey and his
companion and the\ returned the fire.
Their hullets killed Xazim Pasha,
in spite of this tragedy, there was
no disturbance elsewhere.
Constantinople, Jan. 23.?A crises in
Turkey's affairs came today with dra
matlc suddenness. The grand \ .sier,
Kiamil Pasha, and the Ottoman cabi?
net resigned and Mahmound Shefket
Pasha, formerly minister of war and
commander of the constitutional army
which enthroned Ifehmed V. as sultan,
was appointed grand vizier.
Yesterday the ^rand council, rep?
resenting the intellect and wealth of
the nation, pronounced in favor ot
peace. Today a vast crowd drawn
fr< m all classes declared for war
rather than peace without Adrianople.
And because the crowd was backed
by public opinion, the government
surrendered and relinquished office,
making way for fhe same men whom
the popular movement brought to the
top after the revolutions of 190S and
1909.
The resignation of the Turkish
cabinet in which Kiamil Pasha was
jirand vizier was announced in the
following official statement:
"The decision of Kiamil Pasha's
cabinet, taken in response to the note
handed to the Turkish government
by the European powers to abandon
the fortress of Adrianople and part of
the islands in the Aegean sea, for
the convention of an extraordinary as?
sembly of the grand council of the
Ottoman Empire to which the cabi?
net's decision was submitted?a course
contrary to the prescriptions of the
constitutional charter and violating
the sacred rights of the people?
aroused the indignation of the Turkish
nation, with the result that the peo?
ple made a demonstration before the
sublime porte and brought about the
resignation of the government."
The council of ministers met short?
ly before noon to give final shape to
the note accepting proposals of the
powers. About J o'clock people from
all quarters begin to gather in front
of the gate to the grand visterate.
Bnver Bey, a leader of the Young
Turks who was identified with the
campaign In Tripoli, and Xadje Bey,
prominent Unionist. arrived about
this time and were deputed to in?
form them that they must retire.
Bnver Bey soon issued from the
visierete and announced that he held
the resignation <>f Kamil Pasha. This
was greeted with tremendous cheers,
which were frantically renewed an
hour and a half later when he re?
turned with an trade appointing Mah
moud Shefket Pasha grand vizier.
After a living visit to the porte. on
his return from the palace, the Young
Turk leader procee ?od to the resi?
dence of Manmoud shefket to com?
municate the imperial message.
In the meantime Talaat Hey assum?
ed provisionally the porfolio of the
ministry of the Interior and Izzel
Pasha that of war. in an Interview
Talaat Bey said the movement had
not been planned, but was the out?
come of popular feeling. if Adrian?
ople were abandoned, he said, dis?
turbances would break out ail over
the empire. With regard to money,
the whole nation would make a sacri?
fice.
"We do not want a continuation of
the war, but wo are determined to
ke. n the fortress of Adrianople at .11
rests. This is an indispensable con?
dition to peace," he said.
a proclamation nominating Mali
moud Shefket Pasha as grind Vlzter
was read at the porte at 7 o'clock this
evening. On his arrival he will be
enthusiastically greeted by a great as?
semblage outside. The portfolio ot
foreign affairs have been offered to
Hasseln Hilm! Pasha, the present sm
baaador at Vienna and a former
grand visier.
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