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He paused at a gesture from Kaid, for a slave had entered and stood waiting. "What dost thou here? Wert thou not commanded?" asked Kaid. "Effendina, Claridge Pasha is waiting," was the reply. Kaid frowned, hesitated; then, with a sudden resolve, made a gesture of dismissal to Sharif Bey, and nodded David's admittance to the slave.
"It is all I have got in thy service, Highness," he answered boldly. "All else I have given to the poor; also to spies and to the army." "To spies and to the army?" asked Kaid slowly, incredulously. "Wilt thou come with me to the window, Effendina?" Kaid, wondering, went to the great windows which looked on to the Palace square.
"Thou hast misinterpreted thy dream, Kaid Ibrahim," answered the Effendina. "The drooping leaf was token of the danger in which thy life should be, and my name upon thy leaf was token that I should save thee from death. Behold, I save thee. Inshallah, go in peace! There is no God but God, and the Cross is the sign of a false prophet. Thou art mad. God give thee a new mind. Go."
Egypt will shake to its foundations to the joy of its enemies." "Then he shall die secretly." "The Prince Pasha of Egypt will be called a murderer." Kaid shrugged his shoulders. "The Sultan Europe is it well?" "I will tell the truth," Kaid rejoined angrily. "If the Effendina will trust me, Prince Harrik shall confess his crime and pay the penalty also." "What is thy purpose?"
"By the prophet Abraham, but the news is great news," said Mahommed with a grin. "But the Effendina?" "Well, I'll try and square the Effendina," answered Lacey. "Perhaps the days of backsheesh aren't done in Egypt, after all." "And Nahoum Pasha?" asked Mahommed, with a sinister look. "Well, we'll try and square him, too, but in another way."
Twice she essayed to speak, and could not; but from his sweetmeats and the shadows Mahommed crept forward, kissed the ground before Kaid, and said: "Effendina, thou knowest me as the servant of thy high servant, Claridge Pasha." "I know thee proceed." "Behold, she whom God has smitten, man smote first. I am her foster- brother from the same breast we drew the food of life.
Thou wouldst do justice, O Effendina; but canst thou do double justice ay, a thousandfold? Then" his voice raised almost shrilly "then do it upon Achmet Pasha. She Zaida told me where I should find the bridge-opener." "Zaida once more!" Kaid murmured. "She had learned all in Achmet's harem hearing speech between Achmet and the man whom thou didst deliver to my hands yesterday."
With his eye meeting Kaid's again, after a low salaam, Nahoum made answer: "I would that the lance of my fame might sheathe itself in the breasts of thy enemies, Effendina." "Thy tongue does that office well," was the reply. Once more Kaid laid a gentle hand upon Nahoum's beard.
"I never imagined, Bisharin, that thou would carry me away from a friend in danger," he growled, "but this is God's doing, and thou art a rogue at all times. I shall either ride thee to death or kill thee for a feast," He would not bid Royson farewell. Dick heard him tugging the camel forward. "Forget not my words to the Effendina," he said quietly.
"It is all I have got in thy service, Highness," he answered boldly. "All else I have given to the poor; also to spies and to the army." "To spies and to the army?" asked Kaid slowly, incredulously. "Wilt thou come with me to the window, Effendina?" Kaid, wondering, went to the great windows which looked on to the Palace square.
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