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It was Achmet Zek, and he cursed because he had discovered beneath the blankets of his lieutenant only a pile of discarded clothing arranged in the form and semblance of a sleeping man Albert Werper had fled. Out into the village ran the chief, calling in angry tones to the sleepy Arabs, who tumbled from their tents in answer to his voice.
When we came to the inner courts, beyond which were the apartments of the king, our bodyguard halted, and Mahomet Achmet and I entered the king's presence unattended.
Achmet, there is no stranger around?" "We are alone," said the black man, quietly. Both of them seemed astonished and concerned. Reassured, I drew forth the heavy buckskin bag and placed it in Nicholas Jelnik's hands. "From Hynds House and me and oh, Nicholas, from Beautiful Dog, too!" I said, and laughed and cried. For the moment he didn't understand.
A trumpet was blown by a noble and splendidly apparelled youth who seemed to be leader. Instantly a crowd of men poured out from the hold. They came thronging the deck, and rushed after their leader into the Turkish vessel. "Ranadar!" shouted Achmet. "Ha, Achmet!" and Ranadar rushed upon the Turk. Their scimetars crossed and flashed fire.
At the first sound of tumult, Achmet who was seated at the time on his accustomed throne of judgment, ready to transact the ordinary business of the morning sprang up and roused his pet lion to a sudden and towering pitch of fury by thrusting the point of his dagger into it.
At the same moment, the head overseer of the works, a man called Achmet, rushed up to us, shouting out 'Back! Back! The wall has burst. The sand runs! "He seized me by the arm and dragged me away beside of and behind the grave, George turning to follow. Next instant I saw a kind of wave of sand, on the crest of which appeared the stones of the wall, curl over and break.
Have you not miraculously learned the language of the country to which destiny called you? Were you not brought when found, to all appearance dead, to the fakir, Abdul Achmet, the one man of all others I would have directed you to? And the blind fools of Europe would call this chance, as they do everything which they cannot attribute to their own forethought or cunning."
But, as he stood telling his beads, abstractedly listening to the scandal talked by Achmet and Higli, he was not thinking of his brother, but of the two who had just left the chamber. He was speculating as to which room they were likely to enter. They had not gone by the door convenient to passage to Kaid's own apartments.
About the same time the Pasha detached Cogia Achmet with thirteen hundred cavalry and three pieces of artillery to the upper country of Sennaar between the Bahar el Abiud and the Nile to secure its submission. And on the 26th of the moon the Divan Effendi was sent with three hundred men across the Nile, to secure that part of the kingdom of Sennaar which lies on the east side of the Nile.
I knew, and the lessee, Achmet Sheik Agad, well knew, that his so-called trade was simply brigandage.
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