And is her name a secret?

　　"I thought so. But how did it happen that such a greatprincess became a slave?"

　　"How was it that Dionysius the Tyrant became a schoolmaster?The fortune of war, my dear viscount, -- the caprice offortune; that is the way in which these things are to beaccounted for."

　　"And is her name a secret?"

　　"As regards the generality of mankind it is; but not foryou, my dear viscount, who are one of my most intimatefriends, and on whose silence I feel I may rely, if Iconsider it necessary to enjoin it -- may I not do so?"

　　"Certainly; on my word of honor."

　　"You know the history of the pasha of Yanina, do you not?"

　　"Of Ali Tepelini?* Oh, yes; it was in his service that myfather made his fortune."

　　"True, I had forgotten that."

　　* Ali Pasha, "The Lion," was born at Tepelini, an Albanianvillage at the foot of the Klissoura Mountains, in 1741. Bydiplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme rulerof Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory. Having arousedthe enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to deathby treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty. -- Ed.

　　"Well, what is Haidee to Ali Tepelini?"

　　"Merely his daughter."

　　"What? the daughter of Ali Pasha?"

　　"Of Ali Pasha and the beautiful Vasiliki."

　　"And your slave?"

　　"Ma foi, yes."

　　"But how did she become so?"

　　"Why, simply from the circumstance of my having bought herone day, as I was passing through the market atConstantinople."