THE CALIPH’S CARPET

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 4

THE CALIPH’S CARPET

I*A IST I.OITCKI) IN N!•:\V YORK, SAX Kl 5 ANT I SCO. .September -A. A i>;irt cl the sicrcl carpel. unci' m>!U'il by Haroim ;il Rasehid, Caliph <>l Arabia, I UK) years ago ami lioni ol "’li.e Tales ol a Thousand and One Nights." now repo.-c- in a vault in New York City, glimmering sadly in the dark, while it.-, owner. Alexander Mvssayi'h. gleams quite as darklv at his new home in Brooklyn and plans how he may turn the knives oi assassins. Alessayeh. who once was a •merchant ol’ Bagdad, and who lied thence with his life ill peril and the rug in his hands, plans to put American citizenship a.s a bulwark he tween himself and I lie Mohammedan desperadoes, who he ) i- quite certain, are plotting anil planning off somewhere to get the carpet balk. He has sent for his wife and all his worldly goods and will stay in A moi'iia. But Mes.-ayeh encountered new world diliiculties when Roy i’. .Monahan, lawyer. had his client, the former Baitdad merchant, arrested because the laller had paid only UiO dollars of a 7o()l! ihdlar tee. The arrest was ordered by Supreme Court Justice Donahue, and Me-saveli w;n released in lot)' dollars hail. According to his affidavit. .Monahan was employed l,y Messaych to institute l love -nits again-t hi- brother. Sudd tile Monahan was inlormed. he -aid, that he had been supplanted by another I.m \er and that the brothers j had -ct tied their difficulties-. j I'V i twenty years, Messaych ex-I I»!.-)itt s. he -ought. before he. with great luel; l.,,ugh t the cat | u-t a bit of the Cleat rag. embroidcri'il with gold and pro, ion- -tone- and -aid by ill who ought to knew, to have been tin acre and a half in extent. It ua- in the land- of the family of S-y yd-, which had de-i ended from, the Caliph him-011. and. since tie rug was a religious symbol, this family would die, individually and together. Is loro th.e rug should come into the hands of a Christian infidel, which is precisely wlmt Messaych admits he is. i