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Updated: June 17, 2025
I always said she was a djinn; and this convinces me of the fact." "She must have a hard head and strong bones, at all events," observed Khan Cochut. "For my part, I don't believe either in good or evil spirits; and the simplest way of stopping her roaring will be to put a bullet through her head."
But let one little cog slip and the whole plan falls to bits, and we are alone in the old untamed Moghreb, as remote from Europe as any mediaeval adventurer. If one lose one's way in Morocco, civilization vanishes as though it were a magic carpet rolled up by a Djinn.
She felt him slide a heavy ring upon her engagement finger. "Show her that, and tell her that it isn't glass." Eve couldn't keep from just one covert glance at her ring. The sight of it almost took her breath away. Dinner was announced. "I am frightened," she said; "have I given myself to a djinn?" "My Eve doesn't know whom she's given herself to," he whispered. "I don't believe I do," she said.
The Nipe had become a legend. He had replaced Satan, the Bogeyman, Frankenstein's monster, and Mumbo Jumbo, Lord of the Congo, in the public mind. He had taken on, in popular thought, the attributes of the djinn, the vampire, the ghoul, the werewolf, and every other horror and hobgoblin that the mind of Man had conjured up in the previous half-million years.
"What wonderful things we have!" the girl exclaimed. "I don't see how we manage to carry them all. It is like a story of the 'Arabian Nights, where one has but to rub a lamp, and a powerful djinn brings everything one wants."
Three times he uttered a phrase: "A djinn in a blue-serge coat!" And each time he would follow it with a chuckle the chuckle of a soul in damnation. Neither the American Express nor Cook's had received mail for Howard Taber; he was not on either list. This was irregular. A man might be without relatives, but certainly he would not be without friends, that is to say, without letters.
It was not a very clear definition, but the Hindu understood him. "Yees, sahib," he said; "smif that way." He pointed to a hut at a little distance. "That's all right. Fetch the smith along, and I'll get you to tell him what I want." "I know, sahib, I tell them. I do big trade in this place. They silly jossers, sahib; think you a djinn." "Well, put that right, and hurry up, will you?"
If ever any Turk was fully convinced that a Djinn had him, it must have been the sentry that Ken jumped on. He landed absolutely straight on the man's shoulders, and down he went flat on his face, with Ken on top of him. His forehead struck the opposite wall of the trench, and though Ken wasted no time at all in getting hold of his throat, this was quite unnecessary.
But, on the other 'and, Dirk, Stiletto, Goblin, Ghoul, Djinn, and A-frite Red Fleet dee-stroyers, with 'oom we hope to consort later on terms o' perfect equality are Thorneycrofts, an' carry that Grecian bend which we are now adjustin' to our arriere-pensee as the French would put it by means of painted canvas an' iron rods bent as requisite.
After mischievously bungling with the magic which imprisoned the Djinn, we may wish we had not done it; but once he is out there is nothing for it but to be surprised and sorry. The lid is off; and it is useless for the clever reconstructionists to press in upon us with their little screw-drivers, chattering eagerly about locks and hinges.
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