A THEODOEE TILTON IN TURKEY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2168, 15 December 1875, Page 4

A THEODOEE TILTON IN TURKEY.

A certain Pasha in high position had a wife, only; one, to whom he had always "been an indulgent and loving husband. They had no child ; but still he kept faithful to his promise to never take another wife. • One day, while he was out one of his servants came and told him to go home and enter the house by a private way, open only to the servants. !! c did so, and went to his chamber to find it locked. With one blow it was open, and his dishonor was only foo apparent. He was armed, but made no use of his pistol or sabre. He simply addressed the maD, who was one of his intimate friends, and told him he could not leave the room until he was paid. The man stared in hopeless astonishment and fear when the Pasha demanded five francs. The man paid it and gladly left. The Pasha addressed no word of reproach to his wife, but left the room, and commanded a banquet to be served that ' night, but only for himself and wife.: He , remained alone till then. His wife had always eaten with him and been his companion instead of plaything. He had always honored her above all women in the world, and she was treated by him in every'respect not only as an equal, but a superior being. The banquet was spread. He went and gave his arm to his wife and conducted her to the table, placed her as iisxial and, took his seat opposite. He smiled on her and talked as usual; but before he had eaten anything he had taken the five-franc piece and laid it on the table before her and between them. For six months he ate every meal with her and slept by her side, but always with that five-franc piece between them. Where he had bought her one elegant dress before he now gave her three. Where he had been kind before he was tenfold, kinder in manner, and he allowed her perfect liberty of action. Yet, every day and every night, like an accusing angel was that piece of money laid between them. She could not cat, though pressed most affectionately, with that silent accuser there; she could not sleep, though the best physicians tried their skill, with that spectre beside her ; . and so when six months were passed one day the wasted skeleton body of the woman was found dead on the divan.