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Thou wouldst do justice, O Effendina; but canst thou do double justice ay, a thousandfold? Then" his voice raised almost shrilly "then do it upon Achmet Pasha. She Zaida told me where I should find the bridge- opener." "Zaida once more!" Kaid murmured. "She had learned all in Achmet's harem hearing speech between Achmet and the man whom thou didst deliver to my hands yesterday."
Achmet's new position had not been occupied before, for men were too few, and the position he had just left was now exposed to attack. Never since the siege began had the foe shown such initiative and audacity.
What Achmet did not see, David saw, the glimmer of light breaking through the cloud of shame and evil and doom. Yonder in the Soudan more problems than one would be solved, more lives than one be put to the extreme test. He did not answer Achmet's question yet. "Zaida ?" he said in a low voice. The pathos of her doom had been a dark memory. Achmet's voice dropped lower as he answered.
I left my comrades outside Achmet's house, and went in alone. There I found my cow and her calf, but only the women were present. So I drove the cow and the calf out of the door towards my comrades. Then, lest any should think that I was afraid, I fired my rifle into the air. Very soon the men came running from the fields, and amongst them Achmet and his son.
Here we discharged our camels, as our Turk, Hadji Achmet's, service ended at this point, and proceeded to start afresh for the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. Egypt's rule of the Soudan Corn-grinding in the Soudan Mahomet meets relatives The parent of Egypt El Baggar rides the camel.
The Turkish soldiers were extremely insolent and overbearing, alike to Moors and Jews, one of the privileges they claimed being to enter the gardens of the inhabitants whenever they pleased not excepting those of the consuls and eat and destroy fruit and vegetables at will. "Achmet's party," added Bacri, "is not strong, while that of Hamet is not only numerous but influential.
The lean, invisible, ghastly arm of death could find him, if Kaid willed, though he delved in the bowels of the Cairene earth, or climbed to an eagle's eyrie in the Libyan Hills. Whether it was diamond-dust or Achmet's thin thong that stopped the breath, it mattered not; it was sure.
"Come, Lacey, it will be an anxious night. The moon is full, and Ebn Ezra Bey has his work cut out sharp work for all of us, and..." Lacey could not hear the rest of his words in the roar of the artillery. David's steamers in the river were pouring shot into the desert where the enemy lay, and Achmet's "friendlies" and the Egyptians were making good their new position.
At Nahoum's words the dusky brown of Achmet's face turned as black as the sudden dilation of the pupil of an eye deepens its hue, and he said with a guttural accent: "Every man hath a time to die." "But not his own time," answered Nahoum maliciously. "It would appear that in Egypt he hath not always the choice of the fashion or the time," remarked David calmly.
"Yes, your highness Paulina Ruffini, and the sister's name is Angela Diego." "Good. Angela you may keep to yourself," continued the Dey, as coolly as if he had been talking of a silver snuff-box. Hassan again bowed and smiled, and again had to constrain his countenance to express gratification, though he was not a little disgusted with Achmet's indifference to the captive girls.
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