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Updated: June 12, 2025
"A woman of the Prince heard him give instructions for thy disposal, Effendina, when the Citadel should turns its guns upon Cairo and the Palace. She was once of thy harem. Thou didst give her in marriage, and she came to the harem of Prince Harrik at last. A woman from without who sang to her a singing girl, an al'mah she trusted with the paper to warn thee, Effendina, in her name.
"A hundred eyes failed to search him out. Ten thousand piastres did not find him; the kourbash did not reveal him." Kaid's frown grew heavier. "Thou shalt bring Nahoum to me by midnight to-morrow!" "But if he has escaped, Effendina?" Achmet asked desperately. He had a peasant's blood; fear of power was ingrained. "What was thy business but to prevent escape?
This truth was not Oriental on the face of it. "Effendina, he comes to place his life in thy hands. He would speak with thee." "How is it thou dost bring him?" "He sought me to plead for him with thee, and because I knew his peril, I kept him with me and brought him hither but now." "Nahoum went to thee?" Kaid's eyes peered abstractedly into the distance between the almost shut lids.
"Then is his place mine, Effendina," rejoined David, with a look which could give Achmet no comfort. "Thou will bring Nahoum thou?" asked Kaid, in amazement. "I have brought him," answered David. "Is it not my duty to know the will of the Effendina and to do it, when it is just and right?" "Where is he where does he wait?" questioned Kaid eagerly. "Within the Palace here," replied David.
Were it not for thee, Egypt should see Nahoum no more." David sighed, and his eyes closed for an instant. "Effendina, Nahoum has proved his faith is it not so?" He pointed to the documents in Kaid's hands. A grim smile passed over Kaid's face. Distrust of humanity, incredulity, cold cynicism, were in it. "Wheels within wheels, proofs within proofs," he said.
"The gardens of the First Heaven be thine, and the uttermost joy, Effendina," he said elaborately. "A thousand colours to the rainbow of thy happiness," answered Kaid mechanically, and seated himself cross-legged on a divan, taking a narghileh from the black slave who had glided ghostlike behind him. "What hour didst thou find him? Where hast thou placed him?" he added, after a moment.
As the door opened, and Nahoum disappeared leisurely and composedly, David caught a glimpse of a guard of armed Nubians in leopard-skins filed against the white wall of the other room. "What is thy intention towards Nahoum, Effendina?" David asked presently. Kaid's voice was impatient.
"What shall I say?" he asked anxiously. "Tell them they shall be clothed and fed, and to every man or his family three hundred piastres at the end." "Who will do this?" asked Kaid incredulously. "Thou, Effendina Egypt and thou and I." "So be it," answered Kaid.
Presently there entered behind him Sharif Bey, whose appearance was the signal for a fresh demonstration. Now, indeed, there could be no doubt as to Kaid's reaction. Yet if Sharif had seen Mizraim's face evilly gloating near by he would have been less confident. David was standing where Kaid must see him, but the Effendina gave no sign of recognition.
"I did not expect thee till to-morrow, Saadat," said Kaid moodily at last. "The business is urgent?" "Effendina," said David, with every nerve at tension, yet with outward self-control, "I have to report " He paused, agitated; then, in a firm voice, he told of the disaster which had befallen the cotton-mills and the steamer.
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