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It was the Sultan who broke the silence. "Before you arrived," said he, "we had resolved, by the advice of the Kiaja Beg, to go back to the town with the banner of the Prophet and the princes. "That also is not bad counsel," said Abdi; "thy glorious presence will and must quell the uproar.
They all regarded the Kapudan Pasha with fear and wonder. How had he got here? Not one of them dared to draw a sword against him, yet not one of them submitted, and everyone of them felt that Patrona was badly wanted here. The banner of the insurgents was waving in the midst of the piazza. Abdi Pasha rode straight towards it.
"Give me that banner!" bellowed Abdi for the third time, with a voice of thunder, at the same time drawing his sword. But now Musli twisted the pole round so that the mud-stained end which had been sticking in the earth rose high in the air, and he said: "I honour you, Abdi Pasha, and I will not hurt you if you go away.
"They want to eat and drink." "It is blood they would drink then," murmured the Chief Mufti in his beard. "And what do they complain about?" "They complain that the sword does not wage war of its own accord, and that the earth does not produce bread without being tilled, and that wine and coffee do not trickle from the gutters of the houses." "You speak very lightly of the matter, Abdi.
It was not very deep or very subtle, but it served the purpose. It kept up the hearts of his handful of warriors, who, in common with their chief, had something child-like and simple in their honest, sporting souls. Shortly after tiffin Ben Abdi came to the Major's tent, speaking hurriedly in his own tongue. One of the men had seen the sunlight gleam on white steel far down in the valley.
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
Abdi Dereh, my rifle-bearer, was in the act of shoving the gun muzzle against the lion's ribs for a shot through the heart, when a shot from without the bush we never learned by whom fired, probably by one of the pony men broke his arm and knocked him flat.
It would be a pity, perhaps, to destroy all who have excited the people in Stambul to revolt, but they ought to be led forth regiment by regiment and every tenth man of them shot through the head. That will help to smooth matters." All the viziers were horrified. "Who would dare to do such a thing?" they asked. "That is what I would do," said Abdi bluntly. After that he held his peace.
Jem Sahib and himself were undoubtedly the chiefs of this expeditionary force, and to whom else than himself, Ben Abdi, should the Major turn for counsel and assistance? The little Goorkha preferred, however, that it should be thus; that Agar Sahib should say nothing, merely allowing him to stand silent three paces behind.
"Askar says," spoke Abdi, interpreting Askar's imperfect English, "that up in the mountain there is a big door and a great cave. He went up with a Frenchman, and the guides refused to go. Then the Frenchman threatened to kill them if they would not go. They were frightened, because all the natives die who go to the big door and see the boiling fountain through the door.
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