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"Hey, I got that box of cigars for you." Hirsch paused. "Oh! All right," he said, then he added: "Say, how about that Higgins-Pasha affair? You remember that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the other day." The other was interested. "He did, hey?" he said. "The market hasn't felt it, though.
They tell me there may be trouble between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can see the market if that's so." "Nothing in it," retorted Kelly. "But I'll find out to make sure, by jingo."
The floor was talking of it three hours before the news slips were sent 'round, or a single wire was in. Suppose we had waited for the Associated people or the Commercial people then?" "It's that Higgins-Pasha incident, I'll bet," observed Rusbridge, his eyes snapping. "I heard something about that this morning," returned Landry. "But only that it was " "There!
My friend said Constantinople put him in mind of a lot of opera bouffe scenery that had got spilled out in the mud. Say, Court, he said the streets were dirtier than the Chicago streets." "Oh, come now," said Hirsch. "Fact! And the dogs! He told us he knows now where all the yellow dogs go to when they die." "But say," remarked Hirsch, "what is that about the Higgins-Pasha business?
He was all over the shop, this friend of mine; spent most of his time in Constantinople; had some kind of newspaper business there. It seems that it's a pretty crazy proposition, Turkey and the Sultan and all that. He said that there was nearly a row over the 'Higgins-Pasha' incident, and that the British agent put it pretty straight to the Sultan's secretary.
All in a moment the entire Floor seemed to be talking of nothing else, and on the outskirts of every group one could overhear the words: "Seizure of custom house," "ultimatum," "Eastern question," "Higgins-Pasha incident."
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