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"I am your Excellencies' servant," said the old man quietly, "and I will do my best; but I would rather we stayed here for a while longer." "Hah!" exclaimed Frank excitedly; "then you have some clue!" "No, no; not yet, Ben Eddin," said the old man, who looked startled by the speaker's manner; "but I have hopes.

"Hah!" he said; "water is a blessing in a country like this; but oh, Ben Eddin, did you ever see such a place and such a people?" "No," said Frank shortly. "Horrible!" "Why, our Arabs, sir, with their bit of a tent are princes and kings to 'em. Ugh! the horrible filth and smells and sights, and then the slaves!" "Horrible!" said Frank again.

"We must ride out from the city another time, Ben Eddin," said the Sheikh gravely, after they had gone on through the crowded ways for fully a couple of hours, their guard following patiently in the rear, and their presence ensuring a way being made through some of the well-armed, truculent-looking groups.

For the Daghestan teachers of theology, called ulemas or murschids, are not without repute for both subtilty and erudition; and Dschelal Eddin was one of the most learned among them.

Then they will ride back, blowing trumpets and beating drums again, with each chief riding by his standard, looking proud, and behaving as if he had gained a great victory." "Then it will be a kind of sham fight?" said Frank. "No, Ben Eddin; it will be quite real, but they will not do each other much mischief, because there is nothing to gain.

He can wear our burnoose and haik; they will be enough. It is quite right that he should have brought a servant from his own country. What say you, Ben Eddin?"

The story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, 'O believers, do ye not know what I am going to say to you? The congregation answered, 'Dear Cogia Efendi, we do not know. Then said the Cogia, 'What shall I say to you until you do know? One day the Cogia ascending again into the pulpit, said, 'O Mussulmen, do ye not know what I am going to say to you? 'We do know, they replied.

"Whoso," say the Habistan, "does not acknowledge that it is indifferent whether he is a Mussulman or a Christian, has not raised himself to the truth, and knows not the essence of being." Such in brief was the system of religious doctrine which Schamyl learned sitting at the feet of Dschelal Eddin.

The Sultan sent a force of 3,500 horsemen, to whom he gave for chief, Ettaib Eddin, who rejoined them near the khalifah of the King at Taroundant. When the royal troops arrived, the fourth night, he started and led them to the taleb Mahomet of the Aggars, in the midst of the country of the Achtouks. The taleb said to him: "Return to Taroundant.

If, then, their Excellencies will trust their servant and give him time he will do all he can to search out tidings of their friend and brother. Shall it be so?" "Yes," said the doctor firmly. The old Sheikh bowed, and then turned to Frank. "Ben Eddin is black," he said, with a smile, "and the day or night may come when I shall say to him, `I have glad tidings for you.