In a moment after he realized his situation, has act, however just,
had made him a fugitive, and he must fly at once from those scenes
of his boyish love and happiness.






CHAPTER VI.

A SINGULAR MEETING.





Turning from the mountain scenes we have described, let us back once
more to Constantinople, and direct our footsteps up the fragrant
valley where the Barbyses threads its meandering course. Here let us
look once more into the gilded cage that holds the Sultan's
favorites, where art had exhausted itself to form a fairy-like spot,
as beautiful as the imagination could conceive. We find here, once
more, amid the fragrant atmosphere and the playing fountains, the
form of Lalla, and by her side again that form, before which all the
tribes of the faithful kneel in humble submission. It was strange
what a potent charm the dumb but beautiful Circassian had thrown
about herself. It seemed as though some fairy circle enshrined her,
within which no harm might possibly reach the gentle slave.