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Aboo Din lashed them mercilessly and drove them into the jungle, where he followed on his hands and knees. Then I plunged into the jungle path that my kebuns had cut with their keen parangs, or jungle-knives. Ten feet within the confines of the forest the metallic glare of the sun and the pitiless reflections of the China Sea were lost in a dim, green twilight.
While Israel said this, Ben Aboo in his fury came down upon him from the opposite side of the patio with a look of a beast of prey. His swarthy cheeks were drawn hard, his little bleared eyes flashed, his heavy nose and thick lips and massive jaw quivered visibly, and from under his turban two locks of iron-grey fell like a shaggy mane over his ears. But Israel did not flinch.
He was clad in a piece of untanned camel-skin, which reached to his knees and was belted about his waist. His head, which was bare to the sun and drooped by nature like a flower, was held proudly up, and his wild eyes were flashing. He was not supplicating for the deliverance of the people, but demanding it, and taxing Ben Aboo as a tyrant to his throat.
At that answer, though neither by look nor gesture had Israel pointed it, the face of Ben Aboo became suddenly discoloured and stern. "Allah! What do you mean?" he cried. "Who are you that you dare wag your insolent tongue at me?" "I am your scapegoat, Basha," said Israel, with an awful calm "your scapegoat, who bears your iniquities before the eyes of your people.
But of a morning, as we lay lazily chatting in our long chairs behind the bamboo chicks, the cries of "Harimau! Harimau!" and "Baboo" came up to us from the servants' quarters. Aboo Din sprang over the railing of the veranda, and without stopping even to touch the back of his hand to his forehead, cried, "Tuan Consul, tiger have eat chow dog and got Baboo!" Come!"
How else explain his impossible strides, overlapping the beast's marks! Aboo Din turned his face toward Mecca, and his lips moved in prayer. "May Allah be kind to this tiger!" he mumbled. "He is in the hands of a witch. We shall find him as harmless as an old cat. Baboo will break out his teeth with a club of billion wood and bite off his claws with his own teeth. Allah is merciful!"
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 caliph and his companions looked up and perceived the tanned skin of a young ox, which appeared to have been used for carrying water. "It is that by which I gain my daily bread. I am Yussuf, son of Aboo Ayoub, who dying some five years ago, left me nothing but a few dirhems and this strong carcass of mine, by which to gain a livelihood.
'Th' man that's throwin' that at ye, says me uncle Mike, 'stole a saw fr'm me in th' year sivinty-five. Felix paid no attintion to me uncle Mike, but wint on, 'We point proudly to th' motto, "Dooley aboo Dooley f'river." 'Th' saw aboo, says me uncle Mike.
Short as the time was some three months and odd days since the prison at Shawan had been emptied by order of the warrant which Israel had sealed without authority in the name of Ben Aboo, it was now occupied by other prisoners.
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