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Updated: May 4, 2025
"An' you won't cry?" "I'll try not to." "Come 'long, den, wid me, an' see you' poor fadder." On the afternoon of the day in which Peter the Great paid his visit to Hester Sommers in the little boudoir, Ben-Ahmed sent for George Foster and bade him make a portrait of a favourite dog.
For Ben-Ahmed feared and so did Osman that if the Dey saw Hester he might want to introduce her into his own household. The caution which they had therefore to observe in prosecuting the search was all in favour of the runaway.
"Dey do say dat de fadder is at work on de for'fications on de sout' side ob de Kasba." "Well, you are a greater fool than I took you for," said Osman, in whom contempt was quickly taking the place of anger. "I s'pose I is, massa. An' I s'pose it am part ob my foolishness to be lookin' arter dis yar gal but den, you see, I lubs Ben-Ahmed, so " "Well, well, Peter, I believe you mean well "
It seems that one of the slaves belonging to Ben-Ahmed of Mustapha has made her escape, and it is rumoured that she has taken refuge with some one in this very street, or in one not far from it. Now, as you are well acquainted with almost every one in the neighbourhood, I thought it best to come in the first place to you to ask your advice about the matter."
"Ay, fifty necks would I risk for her sake if I had them," returned our middy with enthusiasm, for he was in that stage of love which glories in the acknowledgment of thraldom. Ben-Ahmed looked at him with interest, sighed, and sought solace in the pipe. After a few meditative puffs, he continued "After all, you run little risk, as you shall see.
I shouldn't wonder, now, if Ben-Ahmed will hab to account to do Dey for de tottle disappearance of Hugh Sommers to say not'ing ob Eddard La La what's-'is-name an' p'r'aps he'd like to be able to say he'd no notion o' what de man he sent to fetch de slabe was goin' to do. Now he couldn't hab say dat, you know, if he let you tell him all about it like a goose as you was.
"Oh! das a bery diff'rent t'ing, massa, an' I s'pose your mudder was right. Anyway it was lub what obercame Ben-Ahmed. You see, I put it to 'im bery tender like. `Massa, says I, `here I's bin wid you night an' day for six year, an' you's nebber say to me yet, "Peter de Great, go out for de day an' enjoy you'self."
The middy bowed with feelings of indignation, but on reaching the door paused, and again essayed to speak. "I give you fair warning, Ben-Ahmed, that I will not " "Silence!" again roared the Moor, seizing an ornamental box and hurling it violently at his slave, who, dipping his head, allowed it to go crashing against the wall, while he went out and shut the door.
"Peter," he cried encountering that worthy as he ran "we'll manage it! Go to Ben-Ahmed! He wants you quick! I'm off to fetch his horse." Foster was much too anxious to have the thing done quickly to give the order to the head groom.
"Well, I always knew Ben-Ahmed had a kind heart, but little thought it was so kind and self-sacrificing as to buy Sommers for the very purpose of setting him free. I regret, deeply, that I did not know this sooner, and that I cannot now have the chance of thanking him with all my heart and soul, and bidding the good man farewell.
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