thing
more."

"But," said Jack, "when you speak of the Circassian girl being sent as
a present to the pasha, do you mean the real pasha or the deputy? For
this Turk is the one that cheated the poor orphan out of his money."

"This is only the deputy; I mean the pasha himself," returned the Irish
Turk. "The deputy would like to appropriate the slaves himself."

"Do you think so?"

"I know it, and he does not mind what you would call murder now and
then."

"Perhaps that would account for what we saw in the bay, for the
horrible business with the sack."

"More than likely," said the Irish Turk, gravely. "But a slave, more or
less, even if it's a lovely girl, doesn't count for much in these
parts."

The boys gave a shudder.

They were not used to hearing murder discussed in such a cold-blooded
fashion.

"Tinker," said Jack, by way of changing the topic suddenly, "do you
think that you or Bogey could dance like that girl?"

"Go an' dance like dat," he said contemptuously. "Me an' dat nigger
dance a lot better, sar. Bogey!"

"Wall!"

"Over wid you."

And then, to the surprise and dismay of all the rest, the two darkeys
vaulted over the balustrade and dropped into the room beneath.

Had a bombshell fallen into the midst of the ladies of the harem, they
could not have been more surprised.

There was a half-stifled shriek from one, and they all flew into a
corner, where they stood huddled up together for protection.

But Tinker and his man were not at all put out by these strange
demonstrations upon the part of the ladies.

"Bogey."

"Yes, Massa Tinker."

"We'll jest take the floor togeder and show dem female gals what de
poetry of motion is like."

"Yah, yah!" grinned Bogey; "go it, my hunkey boy."

And they did go it.

There was not much of the poetry of motion about it, their dance being
of the breakdown genus.

And to tell the truth, the ladies appeared more frightened than pleased
with the darkeys' extraordinary evolutions.

The double shuffle excited wonderment.

When Bogey and Tinker brought down their respective hoofs with a bang,
great alarm was manifested.

By degrees, however, they appeared to grow more accustomed to the
eccentric evolutions of the young negroes, and presently one of them
laughed aloud at the quaint capers the boys were cutting.

This set them all laughing, and the mirth of the ladies was at its
height, when certain alarming sounds were heard without.

"By the