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Yet there be mirages, and one day soon David Pasha will come hither, and our pains shall be eased." "Aiwa, aiwa yes, yes," cried the lad who had sung to them. "Aiwa, aiwa," rang softly over the pond, where naked children stooped to drink. The smell of the cooking-pots floated out from the mud-houses near by. "Malaish," said one after another, "I am hungry. He will come again- perhaps to-morrow."
"Thou hast yet to learn the Eastern heart. When thou seest white in the East, call it black, for in an instant it will be black. Malaish, it is the East! Have I not trusted did I not mean well by all? Did I not deal justly? Yet my justice was but darkness of purpose, the hidden terror to them all.
"Malaish no matter. It was sealed, and bore a number for the signature. If you can get that letter for me, Jimgrim but what is the use! You are a servant of the British." "Tell me who stabbed you and I'll get you the letter." "No, for you are clever. You would learn too much. Better tell the doctor of this place to hurry up and heal me; then I will attend to my own affairs."
An instinct told him who it was before he could clearly distinguish the figure, and his face lighted with a gentle and expectant smile. Then his look changed. "He is in trouble," he murmured. "As it was with his uncle in Damascus, so will it be with him. Malaish, we are in the will of God!"
Ismail would not have declined ten thousand centimes. "Malaish!" he said, and called for coffee, while they planned what should be said to his Ambassadress from Assiout. She came trembling, yet determined, and she left with her eyes full of joyful tears.
But as again and again the kavasses came and opened midnight doors and snatched away the young men, her influence had grown so fast that her presence brought comfort, and she helped to assuage the grief of the wailing women. She even urged upon them that philosophy of their own, which said "Malaish" to all things the "It is no matter," of the fated Hamlet.
"Pasha, Pasha!" the Duchess called after him, as he turned to leave; "tell me, is there any news from England from the Government?" "From Lord Eglington? No," Nahoum answered meaningly. "I wrote to him. Did the English Government desire to send a message to Claridge Pasha, if the relief was accomplished? That is what I asked. But there is no word. Malaish, Egypt will welcome him!"
Yet there be mirages, and one day soon David Pasha will come hither, and our pains shall be eased." "Aiwa, aiwa yes, yes," cried the lad who had sung to them. "Aiwa, aiwa," rang softly over the pond, where naked children stooped to drink. The smell of the cooking-pots floated out from the mud-houses near by. "Malaish," said one after another, "I am hungry. He will come again-perhaps to-morrow."
He had heard all, and he knew the sardonic meaning behind Nahoum's words. Fat High Pasha, the Chief Chamberlain, the corrupt and corruptible, intervened. "It is not so hard to be careless when care would be useless," he said, with a chuckle. "When the khamsin blows the dust-storms upon the caravan, the camel-driver hath no care for his camels. 'Malaish! he says, and buries his face in his yelek."
It will be but an attempt at Kaid's life, no more; but the cry will go forth that a Christian did the thing; and the Muslim flame will leap high." "And the tent-maker?" asked Nahoum musingly, though he was turning over the tale in his mind, seeing behind it and its far consequences. "Malaish, what does it matter!
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