Gordon Pasha.
"When Gordon Pasha was lately takf.n hrißnnflr hj^hA^u^ n j nBD completely cEeckmated King Jpxn". The K&g received^hj^risoner string on his tlirone, or Jf'Bate^Br piece ogfurnitgs?r?^.?lu $y fortKaf exalted, seat, a tihAftlfa&g pllcetf fo^tW^aßSßfcisidembly lower thfiirthe seat on which the King safo.T&taJkfi&t thing the Pasha did yf^J»hseize ihelphair, place italpngside^tha,^^ /% bl f J^es-tyV and : dov;D,.on it ; ; th^jiojct,- to iiifpnu him.;th|»tihejfii6it him as an equal, and would only treat- him as such. This, : fgoniewhatt < disco'n£«ntcd. : ■■ hw sablei^Majestyivbiittonr/Tecover&ig himself he said. «Do y«u know Gordon Easlia; that-I;coT7ki kilTlynri 6H the spoi if I liked V t OiZam purf eotl^ aware of it your Majesty," said-fche Pasha. «• Do it afc once if it is your royal-pleaßUi^X I am ready .'^Msfdisconberted the Kin? still more; <a'hdflie.exclaitnta "What! ready,! to >rbe~ Killed ?" « Certainly" replied; the i Pasha^ "I am alwa'ys ready to die, and so fer^rom-fearin» ?m o l»t|H» j pie; A to iid^^ UTJoa wUI confer a favor on me by So ;thatwhwhlan| jß r§cjgdcd by my religious scruples imm. .doing for myself j ~y°a>KQaldp^relire^e,-.;metj:frflmi^ill the •trou-.les aud .iQisfo¥turie^,r w hich the future may have in- store for me" ;T:his doailfl^ely. ! staggered) KingJJohu, ■wLo gasped bntdino despair. " Then my power has no-tevrors for you?'* "•spfce wiia^ver,? was itle -Pasha^s ilaconic reply;,: His Majtet^r, itm needless to add instantlf~ool]apsed*. — '' The jStQQruJo^. CMiUt^se Bordtfn^/b^As^KX ;W"ake. .ioL-.o gflliio??
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 112, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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223Gordon Pasha. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 112, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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