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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Now I turn to you," said Mohammed, breathing more freely, and looking toward the sheik and the ulemas. "Will you murder us?" asked the sheik Alepp, as he looked with calm dignity at the young man. "No, if your blood must flow, so be it upon your own head," answered Mohammed, earnestly. "You alone shall decide your own life or death, and that of your three companions.
She will come for the daughter of Alepp knows that one who breaks a treble oath is doomed to inevitable destruction, and walks a welcome prey to the evil spirits, to the ghins. Surely, she will not dare to do this! She will come she must come. Something rustles in the garden. The pacha steps hastily to the window, throws it open, and looks out eagerly into the darkness.
They now stepped up to her and asked if her father still lived, and if there was any hope of preserving his life. "His life is in your hands," replied Masa. "I come to conjure you to save the life of my father, and of the noble old men, the ulemas." "How can we, daughter of Sheik Alepp?" cried the men. "How can we save their lives?" "You ask me?
They will suffer for it throughout eternity, for Allah is strong in his wrath, and just in his punishment. I have sworn that I will watch over the welfare of my community while I live, and Sheik Alepp will keep his word to the end of his life." "But, father, beloved father!" urged the maiden, "you have also sworn to be a parent and a guardian to me all the days of your life.
"I shall withdraw to the farther end of the adjoining room, where no word of your conversation can reach me," said the tachorbadji, respectfully. The pacha smiled condescendingly on the tschorbadji, who walked into the next room, and seated himself at its farthest end. "Now, daughter of Sheik Alepp, now we will consider this matter," said the pacha.
"You bade me come to decide an important question, and I find here only a young woman who is weeping. What does this mean?" "This young maiden is the daughter of Sheik Alepp, who is, as you know, imprisoned in the court-yard. She loves her father dearly, and has continually worked and pleaded for him since his imprisonment.
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