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Maud Allan was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her Dance of the Seven Veils. In World War I, she faced accusations of being a lesbian spy, for which she sued unsuccessfully for libel.
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Bob Van Buren's rescue of an upper-class Turkish girl and her duenna in Constantinople when they are waylaid by robbers paves the way for a romance between them. The romance progresses rapidly despite the hullabaloo raised by Demetra's father and by the Turk fiancé he is trying to force upon her; but the very thought of a girl, so highly educated, so gifted with needle and loom, so famously graceful as a dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectable home, drives Bob Van Buren to desperation.
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