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"Go then, bring down the infidels that have stood in the minaret above, where the Muezzin calls to prayer;" sharply called Abdalla, and waved an arm towards the tower where Dicky and Renshaw were. An oath broke from the lips of the Southerner; but Dicky smiled. "He's done it in style," he said. "Come along." He bounded down the steps to the doorway before the crowd had blocked the way.
"By Jerusalem!" was all he could say. "And we wonder why the English swing things as they do!" he growled, when his breath came freely. Abdalla had finished his prayers; he was coming towards them. Dicky went to meet him. "Abdalla, I'm hungry," he said; "so are you. You've eaten nothing since sunset, two days ago." "I am thirsty, saadat el basha," he answered, and his voice was husky.
If it was true that he was friend to Abdalla, then his fate was in the hand of God, not theirs. They all had heard of little Donovan Pasha, whom Ismail counted only less than Gordon Pasha, the mad Englishman, who emptied his pocket for an old servant, gave his coat to a beggar, and rode in the desert so fast that no Arab could overtake him.
Then, when the supper was ended, she said to Abdalla: "Take your tabor, and let us go and divert our master and his son's friend, as we sometimes do when he is alone." They presented themselves at the door with a low bow, and Morgiana was bidden to enter and show Cogia Houssain how well she danced.
It comes as the will of God; for even as Noor-ala-Noor journeyed to the bosom of God by your will, and by your prayers, being descended from Mahomet as you are, even then Ismail, who knew naught of your sorrow, said to me, 'In all Egypt there is one man, and one only, for whom my soul calls to go into the desert with Gordon, and I answered him and said: 'Inshallah, Effendina, it is Abdalla, the Egyptian. And he laid his hand upon his head I have seen him do that for no man since I came into his presence and said: 'My soul calls for him.
In this he read Abdalla like a parchment, and though he had occasion to be resentful, he kept his nerves and his tongue in an equable mood. He knew that Abdalla would speak now. The Egyptian raised his hand. "In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful, go your ways," he said loudly. "It is as Donovan Pasha says, he stayed the hand of Ismail for my sake.
At last, she snatched the tabor from Abdalla with her left hand, and holding the dagger in her right presented the other side of the tabor, after the manner of those who get a livelihood by dancing, and solicit the liberality of the spectators.
The reigns of Mohammed and his successors, Almanzor and Abdalla, offer to the historian nothing for a period of fifty years but details of an uninterrupted continuation of troubles, civil wars, and revolts, by which the governors of the principal cities sought to render themselves independent.
To this end, when she had finished what she had to do in the kitchen, she helped Abdalla to carry up the dishes; and looking at Cogia Houssain, knew him at first sight, notwithstanding his disguise, to be the captain of the robbers, and examining him very carefully, perceived that he had a dagger under his garment.
It was perhaps lucky that the incident had occurred within smell of the evening feasts and near the sounding of the sunset-gun. A half-hour later, as Abdalla thrust his fingers into the dish and handed Dicky a succulent cucumber filled with fried meat, the latter said to him: "It is the wish of the Effendina, my friend.
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