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Meanwhile Ajlan said to his men, 'O Arabs, was this caravan bound from Egypt for Baghdad or from Baghdad for Egypt? 'It was bound from Egypt for Baghdad, answered they. Quoth they, 'Thou dost but feign thyself dead, but we will make an end of thee. So one of the Bedouins drew his javelin and should have plunged it into his breast.
The Cameleer sat up and, considering it straitly, knew it for the glint of spear heads and the steel of Badawi weapons and swords. And lo and behold! this was a troop of wild Arabs under a chief called Ajlan Abu Naib, Shaykh of the Arabs, and when they neared the camp and saw the bales and baggage, they said one to another, "O night of loot!"
Now this was a troop of Bedouins under a chief called Ajlan Abou Naib, Sheikh of the Arabs, and when the neared the camp and saw the baggage, they said, one to another, 'O night of booty! Quoth Kemaleddin, 'Avaunt, O meanest of Arabs! But Abou Naib smote him with his javelin in the breast, that the point came out gleaming from his back, and he fell down dead at the tent-door.
Thus it fared with him; but as regards the Shaykh of the wild Arabs, Ajlan, he said to his banditti, "O Arabs, was this caravan bound from Egypt for Baghdad or from Baghdad for Egypt?" And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Two Hundred and Fifty-fifth Night,
'Because of a Bedouin highwayman, hight Ajlan, answered his father, 'who harbours there. Quoth Alaeddin, 'Fortune is with God; if any part in it be mine, no harm will befall me. Then they rode to the cattle market, where a muleteer alighted from his mule and kissing the Provost's hand, said to him, 'O my lord, by Allah, it is long since thou hast employed me to carry merchandise for thee! 'Every time hath its fortune and its men, answered Shemseddin; 'and may God have mercy on him who said: An old man went walking the ways of the world, So bowed and so bent that his beard swept his knee.
Then he showed him among the rest, forty bales ready bound, with the price, a thousand dinars, written on each, and said, "O my son take these forty loads, together with the ten which thy mother gave thee, and set out under the safeguard of Almighty Allah. He said, "How so, O my father?"; and he replied, "Because of a Badawi bandit named Ajlan."
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