Nejm went about weeping and wringing his hands, and my feelings became deeply enlisted in his behalf.

Three weeks afterwards, after a series of petitions and visits to the Pasha of Beirut, the girl Resha was removed from the convent and taken by Nejm's enemies to a house near Nahr Beirut, about two miles distant, and just over the border line of the Mountain Pashalic.

I then addressed another letter to Daud Pasha, and he promptly ordered her to be restored to her father.

The manner in which Nejm, the father, finally secured the child was not a little amusing.

He had been searching for his child for several weeks, waiting and watching, until his patience was about exhausted, when he heard that Resha was again in the hands of the priests in Baabda.