I jerked back the conversation by asking Carlotta why she called Hamdi Effendi a shocking bad man.

Her reply was startling.
"My mother told me.

She used to cry all day long.

She was sorry she married Hamdi." "Poor thing!" said I."Did he ill-treat her ?" "Oh, ye-es.

She had small-pox, too, and she was no longer pretty, so Hamdi took other wives and she did not like them.