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Out of this assurance had he conceived his present plan, deeming that if he offered to heal the breach, Asad might pretend to consent so as to weather his present danger, making doubly sure of his vengeance by waiting until they should be home again. Asad's gleaming eyes considered him in silence for a moment. "How remove that cause?" he asked.
She had heard him bawling for Abdul Mohktar, the leader of his janissaries, and she had seen the hasty mustering of a score of these soldiers in the courtyard, where the ruddy light of torches mingled with the white light of the full moon. She had seen them go hurrying away with Asad himself at their head, and she had not known whether to weep or to laugh, whether to fear or to rejoice.
At last he had drawn her, pumped her dry, as he imagined. Indeed, indeed, he thought, he had been right to say she was not subtle. He had been a fool to have permitted himself to be intrigued by so shallow, so obvious a purpose. He shrugged and turned away from her. "Depart in peace, O Fenzileh," he said. "I yield her to none be his name Asad or Shaitan."
I have no mind to go back with thee to be hanged or sent to toil at an oar again." "And if I swear to thee that naught of this shall come to pass?" "Thou'lt be forsworn. I would not trust thee now, Asad. For thou art proven a fool, and in all my life I never found good in a fool and never trusted one save once, and he betrayed me.
"Price?" quoth Asad. "Have I not bid thee purchase her? Bring her to me, though her price be a thousand philips." "A thousand philips!" echoed Tsamanni amazed. "Allah is great!" But already Asad had left his side and passed out under the arched gateay, where the grovelling anew at the sight of him. It was a fine thing for Asad to bid him remain for the sale.
My own galeasse, no more; she will be full equal to such an enterprise, and I shall be the better able, then, to lurk and take cover a thing which might well prove impossible with a fleet." "Ay thou art wise in thy daring," Asad approved him. "May Allah prosper thee upon the voyage." "Have I thy leave to go?" "A moment yet. There is my son Marzak.
But none came. He stood there breathing heavily, swaying a little, and turning from red to pale in the battle that was being fought within him between rage and vexation on the one hand and his profound piety on the other. And as he yet hesitated perhaps Sakr-el-Bahr assisted his piety to gain the day. "Now you will understand why I would not yield her, O mighty Asad," he said.
She shrank back at that, for there on the poop sat Asad under his awning with Marzak, Biskaine, and his other officers in attendance. "Come," he repeated, "there is naught to fear so that you keep a bold countenance. For the moment it is Sheik Mat check to the king." "Naught to fear?" she echoed, staring. "For the moment, naught," he answered firmly.
"Asad?" he cried, startled now. "Asad-ed-Din," she answered, and upon that resumed her pleading. "Come, then! It were surely better to make a good bargain with me than a bad one with the Basha." He shook his head and planted his feet squarely. "I intend to make no bargain with either of you. This slave is not for sale." "Shalt thou dare resist Asad?
Thy hands were opened to grasp more than they could hold. See now the consequence. It comes yonder in that slowly but surely approaching galleon." Every word of it sank into the brain of Asad thus tardily to enlighten him. He wrung his hands in his blended fury and despair. The crew stood in appalled silence, daring to make no movement that might precipitate their end.
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