"You blackguard"--a true statement--"do you
know who I am?"

"Yes, perfectly; you are Yuleima, the daughter
of the Bagdad merchant."

The fourth act takes place on the outskirts of Stamboul,
in a small house surrounded by a high wall
which connects with the garden of a mosque. The exposure
by the eunuch had resulted in an investigation
by the palace clique, which extended to the Bagdad
merchant and his family, who, in explanation, not
only denounced her as an ungrateful child, cursing
her for her opposition to her sovereign's will, but
denied all knowledge of her whereabouts. They supposed,
they pleaded, that she had thrown herself
into the Bosphorus at the loss of her lover. Then
followed the bundling up of Yuleima in the still
watches of the night; her bestowal at the bottom of
a caique, her transfer to Stamboul, and her incarceration
in charge of an attendant in a deserted house
belonging to the mosque. The rumor was then set
on foot that it was unlawful to look steadily into the
waters of the Bosphorus or to attempt the salvage
of any derelict body floating by.

The prince made another assault on his hair and
tightened his fingers, this time with a movement as
if he was twisting them round somebody's throat,