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"Pray don't mention it," said Horace; "only too pleased if I've been of any use to you." "In the sky it is written upon the pages of the air: 'He who doth kind actions shall experience the like. Am I not an Efreet of the Jinn? Demand, therefore, and thou shalt receive." "Poor old chap!" thought Horace, "he's very cracked indeed.
If a trained hypnotist, by sheer concentration, can persuade his subject that the latter sits upon the brink of a river fishing when actually he sits upon a platform in a lecture-room, what result should you expect from a concentration of thousands of native minds upon the idea that an Efreet is visiting Egypt?" Sime stared in a dull way peculiar to him. "Rather a poser," he said.
Indeed, I will confess that I could only compare him with the Efreet in the Arabian tale, 'whose nostrils were like trumpets, his eyes like lamps, and who had dishevelled, dust colored hair'" "But, to proceed; what were the strange words?"
Instantly as any magician summoning an efreet I was answered. Out from the trees strode a tall figure, a figure I could not mistake. It was that of Hassan of Aleppo! "I hear, effendim, and obey," he said. "I am ready. Open the door!" "We are prepared to discuss terms. You may come and go safely" still my voice sounded unfamiliar in my ears. "I know, effendim; it is so written. Open the door."
Do you know, Cairn, the Sudanese formed the extraordinary opinion that I was an efreet, and this strange reputation has followed me right down the Nile. Your father, my dear friend, has studied these odd matters, and he would tell you that there is no power, in Nature, higher than the human will.
I may find myself encumbered with a Jinneeyeh bride several centuries my senior before I know where I am. No, I forget; there's the jealous Jarjarees to be polished off first. I seem to remember something about a quick-change combat with an Efreet in the "Arabian Nights." I may as well look it up, and see what may be in store for me."
Sime stared in his dull fashion. "You surely saw him?" persisted Cairn irritably; "the man in the mask of Set he was coming in just behind me." Sime strode forward, pulled the curtains aside, and peered out into the deserted garden. "Not a soul, old man," he declared. "You must have seen the Efreet!" This sudden and appalling change of weather had sadly affected the mood of the gathering.
The Proteus of Odyssean story or the King's daughter and the Efreet in the "Second Royal Mendicant's Adventure," could not more easily transform themselves than the French peasant. Husbandman to-day, mechanic on the morrow, at one season he plies the pruning-hook, at another he turns the lathe.
"I have a glimmer of a notion what you mean." "Don't you think " "If you mean don't I think the result would be the creation of an Efreet, no, I don't!" "I hardly mean that, either," replied Cairn, "but this wave of superstition cannot be entirely unproductive; all that thought energy directed to one point " Sime stood up. "We shall get out of our depth," he replied conclusively.
He therefore asked respecting that, and the efreet answered him: "Verily my story is wonderful; and it is this: "There belonged to one of the sons of Iblees an idol of red carnelian, of which I was made guardian; and there used to worship it one of the Kings of the Sea, of great glory, leading, among his troops of the genies, a million warriors who smote with swords before him, and who answered his prayer in cases of difficulty.
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