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The larger of these swallowed the small fry, swelled and mounted, took the shape of practically the whole caravan. "Zeyn al-Din, if you do not harken to us it will be the worse for you! Drive away the Christian dog!" "Abu al-Salam, are you the chief, or I? Now, companions, listen! These are the reasons in nature for our troubles " But no! It was the noon halt. The desert swam in light and silence.
"Better we slay him here and now! So Allah will know our side!" Zeyn al-Din stepped forth. "This is the friend of my friend and I am pledged. Slay, and you will have two to slay! O Allah! what a thing it is to stare at the west when the riders are in the east!" "Zeyn al-Din, we have chosen for head man Abu al-Salam." "Allah with you! I should say you had chosen well.
Three of these stood by him; the others cowered into the great caravan, into the shadow of Abu al-Salam. Zeyn threw a withering look. "Oh, precious is the skin!" The big infidel came to him. "Zeyn al-Din, I do not want all this peril for me. I have ridden away alone before to-day. Now I shall go in that direction, and I shall find a garden." "Perhaps we shall find it," said Zeyn.
And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Six Hundred and Tenth Night, She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Judar asked the Maghribi, saying, "Prithee tell me first of the drowned men," the Maghribi answered, "Know, O Judar, that these drowned men were my two brothers, by name Abd al-Salam and Abd al- Ahad.
"It seems that we part. But, O Allah! around 'We part' is drawn 'We are together!" Zeyn al-Din made a gesture of assent. "O I shall meet in bazaars Abu al-Salam! 'Ha! Zeyn al-Din! 'Ha! Abu al-Salam!" The sun sank lower. The vastly larger caravan drew away, drew away, over the desert rim. Between the two was now a sea of desert waves.
All the merchant lading was taken from the camels. The bales of wealth strewed the sand. "Wealth is a comfortable garment," said Zeyn, "but life is a richer yet! That which gathers wealth is wealth. Now we shall go thrice as fast as Abu al-Salam!" "Far over there," said Ali the Wanderer, and nodded his head toward the quarter, "is the small oasis called the Garland."
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