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"Daireh, the money-lender, against whom I have had so many complaints, but who always manages to have the law on his side?" "The very same." The Sheikh Burrachee clapped his hands; an attendant came. "Bring hither Daireh, the Egyptian usurer," said the sheikh; "and keep him guarded in the outer court." The Arab inclined his head and departed without a word.
Then there was some signing, and the new will was consigned to the tin box bearing the name of Richard Burke, Esquire, upon it. "Better destroy the old one," said he. "Certainly," replied Mr Burrows. "Throw it behind the fire, Daireh." Then Daireh did a curious thing.
Dog!" he added, indignantly, as Daireh, flinging himself on the ground, wallowed, gasping and crying for mercy, "tempt me not, if you are wise, to treat you according to your deserts, but know that you are treated with extreme leniency." And so saying he rose and withdrew to the inner garden court, whither his nephew gladly followed him, and here they refreshed themselves with pipes and coffee.
Stephen Philipson heard of his step-father's death, and soon appeared at the office to know if the old man had really been as good, or bad, as his word, and cut him off with a mere allowance. He asked to see Daireh, with whom he had had a good many transactions. "That was a real will, was it?" he asked. "Real enough. I witnessed it." "But it cannot be found, I hear."
He went to the stall of a man who sold filigree work, and at his invitation squatted down and had a pipe and a cup of coffee, while he asked the price of several things. That was very well, but when he began to inquire about the object of his search, the shopkeeper lost all interest in the conversation. He tried a money-changer with better success; he knew Daireh, but had not seen him for months.
Suffice it then to say that Harry voyaged up the Nile to Korosko, and there joined a caravan across the desert to Abu Hamed, from which place he got passage again on board a diabeheeh, which carried him to Berber. With what excitement he beheld the white houses, the minarets, the palm- trees, grow nearer and nearer! Within those walls, as he hoped, Daireh was living.
"I have no message; neither, though a merchant, have I come to trade," said Harry, when after a few observations on fleets, armies, and Mr Gladstone in which the Bey evidently tried to pump him he thought he saw an opening. "My business is a private one. A man named Daireh, a native of Alexandria, went to England as a boy, and was brought up to be a lawyer.
It was not without very careful consideration that Harry Forsyth had determined to sacrifice his immediate salary, if not his prospects of success in the commercial line for ever, in order to track Daireh, and obtain the abstracted will.
"Send Abdullah here," he said to the attendant who appeared. Abdullah came in; an old man, with an ink horn and other writing materials, worn in a case stuck into his girdle instead of weapons, who prostrated himself, and was questioned. He remembered the name of Daireh, and knew there was something wrong about him. But he must consult his books and examine certain sbirri, or policemen.
"And if the country is in insurrection, and barred against Egyptians and European travellers, your relative's pass may enable you to get at Master Cream Butter what's his name?" "Daireh." "Ah, yes; I knew it had something to do with a dairy to get at him, after all." "By Jove, what an enterprising chap you are, Forsyth!" cried Strachan. "You deserve to succeed, I am sure."
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