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They remained with him some time, and on their withdrawal, the Capudan Basha had an interview with His Highness, lasting fully two hours; then the French Consul came and also stopped a couple of hours, so that it became very late.
There were seven men up in the rocks, and a tower in the village was crowded. They constantly fired from both places. The camels soon came up, and we all dismounted and stood together with our animals, Basha, Zubda, and Mahsoud close by. This shooting and parleying went on for half an hour. We thought at first that they would only fire over our heads, but a bullet struck the ground very near us.
"What now?" quoth the Basha. Ali delivered his message breathlessly. "The galleon has weighed anchor. She is moving out of the bay." Asad clutched his beard, and scowled. "Now what may that portend? Can knowledge of our presence have reached them?" "Why else should she move from her anchorage thus in the dead of night?" said Biskaine.
He slid forward, salaamed to the floor-Dicky wondered how a body could open and shut so like the blade of a knife and, catching Dicky's hand, kissed it. "May thy days be watered with the dew of heaven, saadat el basha," said the Chief Eunuch. "Mine eyes have not seen since thy last withdrawal," answered Dicky blandly, in the high-flown Oriental way. "Thou hast sent for me. I am thy slave."
And the law I have recited thee applies even should the corsair raider be the Basha himself. These slaves of thine must forthwith be sent to the bagnio to join the others that tomorrow all may be sold in the sok. See it done, Sakr-el-Bahr."
The account of the battle is somewhat obscured by the fact that on the side of the Moslems the name of the Ottoman Commander-in-Chief was also "Ali"; in order to avoid confusion in this narration, we shall allude to the Basha of Algiers by the name given to him by the Christians, "Occhiali."
To be sure, the plaintiff had presented a fine sheep to the Basha, but the defendant was a French subject by protection, and the Vice-Consul of his adopted nation was there to see fair play.
This was the feast of the Moolood, and on one of the nights of it, probably the eighth night, the last night, Friday night, Ben Aboo the Basha was to give a "gathering of delight," to the Sultan, his Ministers, his Kaids, his Kadis, his Khaleefas, his Umana, and great rascals generally. Ali's stout heart stuck at nothing.
Naomi's answer was always the same: "He told me to stay here, and surely I must do so." Then one after another the poor folks went away in anger. "Tut!" they thought, "what should we want with the Jew child? Allah! Was there ever such a simpleton? The good creatures going to waste, too! And as for her father, he'll never come back never. Trust the Basha for that!"
His murderer was given up to justice that is, the basha of Tangier said some one must die, and together with the fine the tribe outside Tangier produced a man, who was duly executed, though whether he was the murderer. . . . . .
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