Dick Merriwell’s Pranks

, taken by himself and Dick, at the hotel. There was a b

said Dick; "but it seems to me you are permittin

s feet wide apart and

wrought up, partner," he said. "I

nd we'll look after Nadia. Hafsa Pasha

t wasn't that I

wasn

N

l, t

t the cat out

t under

the story. I've been talking with him since we arrived

u mean by saying

as been running in my head ever since I trapp

to the lov

oman's

lies a

ps on l

and placed a hand on

you to talk so queerly. What did Budthorn

k of it to any one else. You know

el

as a chump to

don't

chap, although I'm not half as wi

n. I've been able to see under the surf

wear by you. That's why I'm ready to back you up in an

ern style of speech. For the time being his ma

me what it was th

In short, she carried on a mild flirtation with Hafsa Pasha, who rather dazzled her. Of course, I have no claim on her, and I'm too young to

cy she actually seriously c

prime of life. Such a man might dazzle the eyes of a young girl. There would be something romantic in a flirtation with him. She would b

foolish, then

er felt this way before. I have an awful feeling d

Hafsa Pasha d

e captain of the ship that Hafs

gave a g

true?" he

ne confe

rne's a

her flirtation with the Turk until he obtained that information from the captain

ou mustn't be too hard on her. Even if she did flirt w

, frivolous modern girl. She knew how much I thought of her, and she pretended to care for me. But, like all of her sex, out of sight, out of mind. I was far away. Hafsa Pasha, the handsome Turk, was near. He quoted poetry to her. She listened and was encha

ad! It doesn't become you at all. You're natur

t much! If she hadn't learned that her old Turk was married, I'd be in the soup now. He's married, and so I'm good en

ondition," said Merriwell. "What you need is a to

Budthorne will find that I'm no chump to play second fiddle. Don

t he found an opportunity w

far more serious tha

y himself and avoided Nadia, much to her perplexity. Finally her pride wa

ried to jolly the Texan and cheer him up. A profound cloud

ary, and so they willing

d attend the one theatre of the city, which was located on

ormance is given the

atic stunts, and so forth. It's rather dull as a pe

e place for your

t the atmosphere into chunks with a knife. The theatre is a rickety o

eave me alone in this city. I'm afraid t

will omit the theatre. Evidently it is a low re

n was rigid in his decision, which finally settled

out to look the city over. When they were ready to le

d set out by himself, leaving word

d looked greatl

sked. "I think he's just as mean as

to him, not a little to his dismay. He cou

is own actions," he said, seeki

so peculiar-I know you

on't

t tell me. I

l be all right in time, but

turn to it at the first opportunity and seek, with all the intensity of her feminine curio

ret, even though she knows the knowledge will make her most miserable. The on

s square proved to be a large, open place, where at that hour throngs of people of all nationalities and

ant merchants, the most of them with their goods spread out on the ground befo

f canvas or straw. They did not sit on chairs, but flat on the ground, with their legs

wing up contracts or making out legal papers, while one, with a veiled woman sitting near him, w

els, saddle horses, carriages, an

. This, Budthorne explained, was a common sight, it being an e

ting round, smoking hookahs, sipping coffee, and playing checkers, chess, dominoes,

camels. "See how oddly their owners decorate the beast

onkeys," declared Budthorne. "Those strings of beads

pen door of a little shop, and it made them shiver,

e dying in there

man was sitting cross-legged on th

s sin

unds he was emitting, this

nging a l

es at the beginning of the bazaars of the city. The sounds they had heard came from the coppersmith's street, where hundreds of skillful laborers were at work

ch these laborers, and their s

ar after bazaar, their intere

a of every description. There were pipes mounted with gol

bazaar, and, most fascinating of all, the Street of the Greeks. In the latter place were to be seen all sorts of Orie

nified silence and declined to solicit trade. Some of the dealers were offensive in their insistence. They pulled Nadia and

Gunn grew angry. Dick was compelled to

ace with Brad Buckhart, who was wa

ve a lit

e's B

ared amid a mass of people who wer

d!" call

do that?" exclaimed

ll was

"He can't get away

ht a glimpse of him leaving the bazaars

khart paused and glanced back, then he

s friend to behave in s

s out of him if I ever get my hand

ng to the bazaars and finding the professor an

in a most sudden and startling manner. It was necessary to hu

slept serenely beneath the feet of pedestrians, who were careful t

dogs were the street clean

ce and failing to again catch a glimpse of Buc

we could have mi

turned onto a

o other

d

t was like a choked alley. Nadia believed they cou

d turned from this into yet another, she confessed that she

, the girl relying wholly on his judgment. They seemed entang

e one in advance was heavily loaded, his pack being so broad that it

ned to run. She fled up some steps a

or he saw she had entered a Moslem temple, and h

so, he heard sudden shouts of alarm a

d, looking rather st

lmost ran right onto a lot o

were swin

from here in a hur

f the temple. They saw Nadia. One of them pointed at her and shouted to his c

muttered Dick, fee

em touch me!"

e men, swarthy and villainous in appearance, halted in answer to this call. The words of

d Merriwel

ying the weapon. "Stop where you are! Bac

used the foremost among the

s, as it were. The angry priests were behind th

must lose not a moment

rried down the steps and atte

oking men to place themselves before Dick and the girl. Althou

e could hold off the fanatical Moslems. He wa

fearlessly faced the howling crowd, which now began to c

infidels!" how

irl. Those behind tried to urge on thos

ss of his position. He was pale, but h

learly. "I'll fill so

shing other men to the right and left. As he advanced he dr

inction, judging by his dress, meant to attack the boy, and they utt

tol on the man with the

ad!" he exclaim