The double shuffle excited wonderment.
When Bogey and Tinker brought down their respective hoofs with a bang, great alarm was manifested.
By degrees, however, they appeared to grow more accustomed to the eccentric evolutions of the young negroes, and presently one of them laughed aloud at the quaint capers the boys were cutting.
This set them all laughing, and the mirth of the ladies was at its height, when certain alarming sounds were heard without.
"By the holy fly," ejaculated the Irishman. "there's a row in the house, and our frisky black boys'll lose their lives if they don't watch it."
"What's the matter?" demanded young Jack.
"The deputy-pasha is back," whispered the Irishman, in evident anxiety. "He has discovered the presence of strangers in the house. He's coming along here with his guards, and there'll be the very devil to pay."
"What, about Tinker and Bogey?"
"They're dead as door-nails. There is an unwritten law which sentences any man to death who violates the sanctity of a Turkish harem."
"Why don't they run out?" inquired Harry, anxiously.