bad followed his guide into a lonely street, he submitted to his eyes being bandaged. After a long walk tbey entered a house and ascended a Maircase. Tbe bandage was removed from bis eyvs in a brilliantly-lighted room, richly lurnished in the Eastern stylo, A lady, neither young nor beautiful, but admirably dressed, reclined on a divan, playing with a chaplet of coral and diamonds: a slave fanned her with