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Updated: July 10, 2025
The wild men in the hall gathered round, their eyes sparkling and their teeth gleaming with enjoyment and laughter. It was good fun to them to see any one flogged, but a money-lender and extortioner, that the punishment should fall upon such an one, was indeed a treat! And Daireh too was particularly disliked. Then the currish way in which he took his licking added to the sport.
If the police have not tracked me here; and I think I have given them the slip," said Stebbings, counting the notes before putting them away. "Now the sooner you are off the better." "It is a chilly night," said Daireh, producing his flask, "and I am going to have a sup of whisky. Will you have a drop?" "Don't mind if I do," replied Stebbings.
One of the English officers, however, chanced to see him one day in company which aroused his suspicions, and he had him watched, and shortly afterwards a couple of spies were taken, from the papers found on whom, as well as from the confessions they were induced to make not, I fear, by arguments which would be approved of in more civilised lands it became evident that Daireh was in communication with the enemy, and had kept him posted as to the number of the troops, their organisation, and their probable movements.
Under the circumstances, and considering the object of his present visit to Egypt, Harry had no hesitation in selling the amethysts given to him by his uncle Ralph, or the Sheikh Burrachee. For he fully intended to seek him, if he could not find Daireh, a matter which he felt to be extremely problematical. Without the sale of these jewels he could not attempt the rescue of the will at all.
And Daireh walked quickly away in the direction of the road which led to the station. When he was well hidden from the quarry he poured away the rest of what was in the flask. "If he had but swallowed it," he muttered fiercely between his teeth, "I should have been two hundred pounds richer, and safe!"
"I have come all the way from Cairo," he said, in reply to a bit of characteristic curiosity, "and my business is with one Daireh, who should reside here; for the last time our house transacted business with him he was here." "He was here but six moons back. And he came from the land of the English to his cousin, who lived here.
And the Egyptian filled the metal cup and handed it to him. "Here's better luck," he said, taking a mouthful. Then suddenly he spat it out again. "No, hang me, if I will trust you!" he cried. "And there is a queer taste about it, too!" "What nonsense!" said Daireh, forcing a laugh. "It is good whisky, very good; I had a glass just before I left. Well, good-night, for all your bad suspicions."
As for the other partner, Fagan, he confined himself entirely, as he always had done, to the criminal and political part of the business. Daireh was a bachelor, living in lodgings, and might have saved money to a reasonable extent in a modest way.
He was happier now than he had been for a long time, for he was too much occupied with his new duties to worry about Daireh and the missing will. And if a shadow of melancholy came over him, it was when he thought of the cottage at Sheen, and the anxiety his mother and sister would be in on his behalf.
Daireh was an Egyptian protege of Mr Forsyth, who had employed him as a boy-clerk, brought him to England with him, and placed him in a lawyer's office. He was clever, sharp, and a most useful servant; and, entering the employ of Messrs Burrows and Fagan, had ingratiated himself with both of them, so that he was trusted to an extraordinary degree.
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