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To add to my misfortune, Bennaskar appeared at one end of the room; and when I cried out and pointed to him, the Cadi, who saw him not, thinking that I meant to mock him, ordered me another hundred lashes with the chabouc.
I shuddered at the sight, and was falling backward, when Bennaskar struck me with a chabouc, which he drew from his bosom, and said, "Villain, if thou fail me, I shall use thee as my slave." Although enraged at the blow, yet I remembered my promise, and returned to the trap-door. "Slave," said Bennaskar, "dig that female out of the ground: the spade and the mattock are hidden under the floor."
But he and his guards laughed at my tale, and commanded me to deliver up my friend and the Princess of Cassimir. In vain did I call Allah to witness the truth of my story; the Cadi was enraged at my persisting in the tale, and ordered his guards to give me a hundred strokes with the chabouc.
Here," continued he, "slave Mahoud, inflict fifty lashes on that obdurate female." I took the chabouc from Bennaskar, and began, with trembling, my cruel office, lamenting my own blind compliance in promising to obey a monster whom I had mistaken for a friend.
Whereupon he ordered the black slave to give me fifty lashes with the chabouc. But it is needless, O Prince, to repeat the various designs of that wretch.
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