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Later, in the still night, however still, though air vibrated everywhere, as though the desert breathed an ether which was to fill men's veins with that which quieted the fret and fever of life's disillusions and forgeries and failures David's speech with Ebn Ezra Bey was of a different sort.
After visiting Jasper Kimber at Heddington, as I came back over the hill by the path we all took that day after the Meeting Ebn Ezra Bey, my father, Elder Fairley, and thee and me I drew near the chairmaker's but where thee lived alone all those sad months. It was late evening; the sun had set.
"You do not tell me the truth," said the jeweller, "and your dissimulation only serves to prove to me that this trifle is a more important affair than at first I thought it to be." Ebn Thaher, perceiving that his friend pressed him so much, said to him, "It is true, that it is an affair of the greatest consequence.
Ebn Thaher had not time to say more, because Schemselnihar came, and, sitting down upon her throne, saluted them both with an inclination of the head; but she fixed her eyes on the prince of Persia, and they spoke to one another in a silent language, intermixed with sighs; by which, in a few moments, they spoke more than could have been done by words in a great deal of time.
Is it possible they can be insensible of the danger of their correspondence? How deplorable is their blindness! I anticipate all its consequences as well as yourself; but you are wise and prudent, and I approve your resolution; as it is the only way to deliver yourself from the fatal events which you have reason to fear." After this conversation the jeweller rose, and took his leave of Ebn Thaher.
I will hang On thy neck the long chain of wrought gold, When the gates of Bagdad are before us Doos ya lellee! Doos ya lellee!" He did not cease singing it until the camel had staggered in beneath the dom-trees where Ebn Mazar waited. Macnamara threw himself on the ground beside the prostrate camel which had carried him so well, and gasped, "Water!"
"Come, Lacey, it will be an anxious night. The moon is full, and Ebn Ezra Bey has his work cut out sharp work for all of us, and..." Lacey could not hear the rest of his words in the roar of the artillery. David's steamers in the river were pouring shot into the desert where the enemy lay, and Achmet's "friendlies" and the Egyptians were making good their new position.
You command me to preserve myself; I will obey you, since I have renounced my own will to follow only yours. Adieu." After the jeweller had read this letter, he returned it to the confidant, who said, as she was going away, "I will desire my mistress to put the same confidence in you that she did in Ebn Thaher. You shall hear of me to-morrow."
It is but a moment since I esteemed myself the most fortunate lover in the world, and at this instant I feel my heart so struck, that it is like to kill me. I cannot resist it, my dear Ebn Thaher; my patience is at an end; my distemper overwhelms me, and my courage fails. While speaking, he saw something pass in the garden, which obliged him to keep silence, and to turn all his attention that way.
Twice he essayed to speak, but paused. David's eyes followed his look. "What is it? Who is he yonder?" The other rose to his feet. "Come and see, Saadat," he replied. "Seeing, thou wilt know what to do." "Zaida is it of Zaida?" David asked. "The man will answer for himself, Saadat." Coming within a few feet of the figure crouched upon the rock, Ebn Ezra paused and stretched out a hand.
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