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Acting on the thought, she shouted "Wait a little, Agnes; I will hide: you shall find me." Innocent Agnes obediently waited, while Ziffa ran down the wrong side of the cactus hedge, and kept up with the seaman a little in rear of him. "Ho!
By that time Lippy had been provided with a bonnet similar to that of her friend Ziffa, and her mother had been induced to mount a flannel petticoat, which she wore tied round her neck or her waist, as her fancy or her forgetfulness inclined her. The party had accompanied Zeppa to observe the effect of this bundle on Rosco.
Ziffa, his naughty daughter, became a wife and a mother, in connexion with three other wives, who were also mothers, and belonged to the Turk whom we have more than once mentioned as the captain of the port. Colonel Langley returned to England with his wife and children, inexpressibly glad to exchange the atmosphere of the Crescent for that of the Cross.
By a strange coincidence, Agnes and her friend came bounding out into the shrubbery at that moment, having finished their brief luncheon, and Ziffa chanced to catch sight of the stout mariner as he hastened to meet his friend. With the intuitive sharpness of an Eastern mind she observed the fact, and with the native acuteness of a scheming little vixen, she guessed that something might turn up.
Omar laughed heartily at this, and Hadji Baba, much relieved, retired to have his case tried before the cadi, taking his daughter with him, for she had assured him that she had seen the old servant take it. The old servant pleaded not guilty with earnest solemnity. "Are you quite sure you saw him take the ring?" demanded the cadi of Ziffa. "Quite sure," replied the girl.
Thus on the shore. In the boat: "Now den, massa, you sees her an' ha! ha! dar's Betsy. I'd know her 'mong a t'ousind. You sees de bonnit tumblin' about like a jollyboat in a high sea; an' Ziffa too wid de leetil bonnit, all de same shape, kin you no' see her?"
"Nay, thou deservest it," cried Baba, grasping her arm. "Spare me!" repeated Ziffa, "and I will tell you a great secret, which will bring you money and credit." The curiosity of the story-teller was awakened. "What is it thou hast to tell?" "Promise me, father, that you won't punish me if I tell you the secret."
"Well, this is what I want," continued Ziffa; "I want you to listen to the talk of Rais Ali and the sailor who lives with you, when they don't know you are near, and tell me all that they say about a family named Rimini will you?" "Oh, I can't do that," said Agnes decidedly; "it would be wrong."
She had an engagement that very day to go out to the consul's garden to spend the day with Agnes, and a faithful old negro servant of her father was to conduct her thither. Ziffa was extremely fond of finery. Just as she was about to set out, her eye fell on a splendid diamond ring which lay on her father's dressing-table.
Her eyes are better than ours," suggested Marie. "Kumeer, Ziffa!" shouted Betsy. Zariffa came, and, at the first glance, exclaimed. "A sip!" The news spread in a moment for other and sharper eyes in the village had already observed the sail, and, ere long, the beach was crowded with natives.
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