I love so well is a Christian, and I
can hold no communication with him, much less even hope to be his
wife."

"Do you love him so well that you would leave home, father,
everything, for him?" asked the Jew.

"Alas! it would be hard to leave my father but still am I so wholly
his, I would do even so."

"Then may you be happy yet," said he, who spoke to her, as he tossed
back the hood of his gaberdine, and removed the false hair that he
wore, presenting the features of young Selim, whom she loved!

"How is this possible?" she said, between her sobs and smiles of
joy; "my father told me that the Armenian recommended you for your
skill in the healing art."

"He is my friend, the man who taught me my religion, my everything,
and the only confidant I have in all Constantinople. To him I told
the grief of my heart at our separation; by chance your father
called on him for counsel; he knew the Bey, and his mind suggested
that I was the true physician whom you needed, and fabricating the
story of my profession, he sent me hither."

The fair young girl gazed at him she loved, and wept with joy, and
with her hands held tremblingly in his own, Selim told her of a plan
he had formed for their escape from the city to some distant land
where they might live together unmolested and happy in each other's
society. He explained to her that he should tell her father that it
was necessary for him to administer certain medicines to her beneath
the rays of the moon, and that while she was strolling with him thus
the water's edge, he would have a boat ready and at a favorable
moment jumping into this, they would speed away.

The moments flew with fearful speed, and pressing her tenderly to
his heart, the pretended Jew had only time to resume his disguise
when the Bey entered. He saw in the face of his child a color and
spirit that had not been there for months before, and delighted, he
turned to the Jew to know if he had administered any of his cunning
medicines, and being told that a small portion of the necessary
article had been given, was overjoyed at the effect.

Being of a naturally superstitious race, the Turk heard the Jew's
proposition as it regarded the administering of his next dose of
medicine beneath the calm rays of the moon in the open air, with
satisfaction; for had he not already worked a miracle upon his
child? He was told that by administering the medicine once or twice
at the proper moment beneath the midnight