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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Mohammed Abd-el-Bali, standing trembling before him, replied: "'Miska is already sold, lord, but " "'Her price? repeated the Chinaman, in the same hard metallic voice and without the slightest change of intonation. "The harem agent who had bought me now said, his voice shaking so that the words were barely audible: "'I give her up, Mohammed I give her up.
But the price asked by Mohammed Abd-el-Bali was beyond the purses of all except one of the agents. He had indeed settled the bargain, when the singing and dancing and shouting every sound it seemed ceased about me ... and into the little room in which I crouched amongst perfumed cushions at the feet of the two men, walked Fo-Hi."
"I knew you would doubt what I had to tell you," declared Miska plaintively; "but I solemnly swear what I tell you is the truth. Yes, I was in the house of a slave-dealer, and on the very next day, because I was proficient in languages, in music and in dancing, and also because according to their Eastern ideas I was pretty, the dealer, Mohammed Abd-el-Bali ... offered me for sale."
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