"It is very simple, excellency, but alas! it is also very true," was
the reply.

"What name do you bear?"

"Aphiz Adegah, excellency!"

"And what was her name of whom you have spoken?"

"Her name was Komel."

At the same moment that he answered thus, Lalla turned by chance
from her engravings, towards them, when her eyes resting upon those
of Aphiz, she rose, staggered a few steps towards him, and uttered a
scream so shrill and piercing that even the imperturbable Turk
sprang to his feet in amazement, while Aphiz cried:

"It is she, it is my lost Komel!"






CHAPTER VII.

THE SULTAN'S PRISONER.