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"I wish not to leave it," he said; "I desire only to speak to your commander. I have something of importance to say to him. Will you pray him to come to me?" One of the sentries at once went across to the commander's tent and shortly returned with him. "Master," the sheik said, "I have done wrong in journeying without a license, but I came from the desert and did not know the law.
But unlike his father, he holds war the servant of peace, and peace the condition essential to his other visions. "Second Vision.... He believes his people have the genius of the Moors, and he will cultivate it in rivalry of that marvellous race." "Of the Moors, O Sheik?" the Princess said, interrupting him. "Of the Moors?
You will make more by taking them to Swearah than anywhere else." "But they can give themselves up to the governor when they reach Swearah," urged one of the merchants, "and we may be ordered out of the town without receiving a single dollar for them. Such has been done before. The good sheik here knows of an Arab merchant who was treated so.
Hassan went down twice with the horse for water, fresh meat, fowls, and other provisions, and a supply of grain for the horse, which was stabled in the next tomb to that they occupied. The sheik gained strength, slowly indeed but steadily.
Of nights I would pray the gods, the good and the bad alike, to lend me their special terrors tempests, drought, heat, cold, and all the nameless poisons they let loose in air, all the thousand things of which men die on sea and on land. Oh, I could not sleep. The sheik stopped for want of breath, panting, wringing his hands.
A loose black gown covered his person; his step was feeble, and his whole movement slow and cautious, apparently dependent upon a long staff and the arm of a servant. "Peace to you, my friend," said Ilderim, respectfully. "Peace and welcome." The Egyptian raised his head and replied, "And to thee, good sheik to thee and thine, peace and the blessing of the One God God the true and loving."
The next day the Greek priest returned from his mission to Aboo Goosh, but the “father of lies,” it would seem, had been well plied with the gold of the enamoured Sheik, and contrived to put off the prayers of the Christians by cunning feints. Now, therefore, a second and more numerous deputation than the first waited upon me, and implored my intervention with the Governor.
The thrust, only a little less quick, passed him in the air, and before the Sheik could recover or shorten his weapon, the trained foeman was within its sweep. In a word, the Arab was at mercy. Riding with him side by side, hand on his shoulder, the Count shouted: "Yield thee!" "Dog of a Christian, never! Do thy worst."
To give you an idea, here is the complete name of Sheik Otham alone: Otham-ben-el-Hadj-el-Bekri-ben-el-Hadj-el-Faqqi-ben-Mohammad-Bouya- ben-si-Ahmed-es-Souki-ben-Mahmoud. "And there were five of them like that! "I maintained my good humor, however, because on the boulevards, everywhere, our success was colossal. At the Café de Paris, at six-thirty, it amounted to frenzy.
"They are going to attack the douar," shouted the Arab sheik; and his words were followed by a scene of the wildest terror. The Arabs rushed here and there, mingling their cries with those of the slaves; while women shrieked, children screamed, dogs barked, horses neighed, and even the quiet camels gave voice to their alarm.
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