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He rose from the divan by the garden where he had been sitting with Harry, and, beckoning to the latter to follow him, proceeded to the outer and larger hall, where he took his seat, with his nephew at his side. And hardly had he done so when Daireh was brought in. He salaamed with a confident air, which expressed, "Who will find me tripping? It would take a clever fellow to do that.
His son came into his place, but he was a mild and not very intelligent young man, not long out of his articles, and very dependent upon Daireh, who knew all the details of his father's clients' business, and was so deferential and obsequious, that he made him think very often that he had originated the course of conduct which the wily Egyptian had suggested.
"I have lived, earning an honest livelihood as a poor merchant, at Khartoum and Berber, Alexandria and Cairo. But what is Dublin? I know it not." "Is that your photograph?" asked Harry Forsyth, suddenly, in English. "No!" replied Daireh, startled into answering in the same language; and the moment he did so he could have bitten his tongue out for vexation.
"Why, what good would it do you to pull me in with you?" asked Daireh. "You know precious well. If all the facts came out I should get about two years, and you fourteen at least. You actually took the bonds; you forged the cheque. I was only your tool, employed to cash the things." "And am I to have you sucking me like a leech all my life?" cried Daireh in a shrill voice, stamping his foot.
And now, because he wanted to get to El Obeid on the chance of catching Daireh, and because English officers of position and experience commanded an Egyptian army, and the General of it had a "presence" which inspired him with confidence and respect, he was ready to take up arms in defence of a cause which had nothing, so far as he knew, to recommend it, except that a certain amount of civilisation, the wearing of trousers and petticoats, banking, railways, and steam navigation were on one side, and a very primitive mode of life with nudity, or getting on to it, on the other.
"I learned that language at Alexandria," replied Daireh, more firmly now he had collected his wits; "and I had a brother very like me who went beyond the seas, and may have lived in the place you speak of, for I never heard of him again." "You speak the words of Sheytan, the father of lies," said the sheikh sternly; "where are the stolen documents?"
As Daireh approached the place he clapped his hands three times, and a man came out of the shadow into the moonlight. "Stebbings, is that you?" said Daireh. "Yes, it is," replied the other, sulkily. "No thanks to you for having to skulk like a fox. As I told you in my letter, the police are after me, and if I cannot get out of the country I'm done." "What made you come to Ireland, then?
Are my people there well?" "I was there less than a year ago, and all was well with them. You are journeying there now?" said Reouf. "I am," replied Daireh. "I returned from the land of exile to visit my home, hoping to share my hard-earned gains with my own people, when what did I find? Ruins in the place of my home, my family dispersed, my father slain by the English." "Not so," said Hassib.
"It is very few words that I have been able to pick up. But what are you going to do now?" "That is just what I was wondering when that row took place, and sent all my ideas and reflections spinning. I must sleep on it." "Look here," said Howard, presently. "The chances are that that fellow Daireh has gone to the Mahdi's head-quarters, which are at El Obeid.
Philipson, whose nervous system was considerably shattered, was so affected by this consideration, that Daireh thought it better to revive him with a dram of hope. "If I can see you privately, without fear of interruption, I may be able to give you a useful hint," he said. "The funeral takes place on Saturday, and if nothing is heard of a will then I will meet you next day. Where are you staying?"
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