CH. XVI.] IVe fall under SiLSpicion. 5 



mind ; and I suspect that tlie good man had taken 

 counsel of his fellow-governor about the course to 

 be pursued with us ; for on the evening following 

 that of the Valy's arrival, we received a polite mes- 

 sage from the latter, begging that we would do him 

 the favour of calling at the Serai. 



Now, if this Valy had happened to be a man of 

 the old school like Akif Pasha and others whom 

 one could name, I think it might have fared ill 

 with us at this conjuncture, for suspicion of us, as 

 1 have said, was not unreasonable, and the two 

 Orientals together, taking counsel of each other's 

 fears, might in the end have plucked up courage to 

 put a forcible term to our adventures by sending us 

 back under escort to Aleppo. We could hardly 

 have complained had they done so. But, fortu- 

 nately for us, the Valy was a man of a very difte- 

 rent type from any we had hitherto met in Turkey, 

 — indeed it would be doing him an injustice to 

 talk of him as in any way an Oriental ; — and he at 

 once understood the situation and recognised us for 

 what we were, mere tourists and sight-seers. His 

 discrimination saved us. 



Kadderly Pasha is a Turk, and a Europeanised 

 Turk ; yet he impressed me very favourably. He 

 speaks excellent French ; and we not only had no 

 difficulty in explaining our position to him and 

 satisfying any curiosity he may have had as to our 

 movements, but we also were able to have a very 

 interesting conversation with him about the general 



