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Updated: June 14, 2025
The party having arrived at the iron gate of the enclosure, Horam, with ten of the guards, went in on foot, and marched with the fakeer to the tomb where he heard the voices, and whence the young man had issued forth. As they approached the tomb they beheld the body of the young man on the ground, and his head at a distance.
The Vizier went forth, and brought the fakeer bound in chains before the Sultan. The fakeer advanced to the presence of the Sultan, full of shame and fear; and falling at his footstool, cried out, "I call Mahomet to witness, I slew not the man in my wrath, but in mine own defence."
This one, so old, so long ago gone down into oblivion, reads with the same freshness and charm that attach to the news in the morning paper; one's spirits go up, then down, then up again, following the chances which the fakeer is running; now you hope, now you despair, now you hope again; and at last everything comes out right, and you feel a great wave of personal satisfaction go weltering through you, and without thinking, you put out your hand to pat Mithoo on the back, when puff! the whole thing has vanished away, there is nothing there; Mithoo and all the crowd have been dust and ashes and forgotten, oh, so many, many, many lagging years!
The Sultan, in the meantime, having ordered the fakeer to be released and sent out of the city, entered the divan with his Vizier, and, having dispatched the complainants, retired to rest. In the evening of the same day, the Princess, being recovered from her fatigue, sent the chief of the eunuchs to the Sultan, and desired leave to throw herself at his feet in gratitude for her escape.
When near it, the fakeer came again. All four were strangled, including the fakeer. Surprised to find among the fakeer's effects 30 pounds of coral, 350 strings of small pearls, 15 strings of large pearls, and a gilt necklace." It it curious, the little effect that time has upon a really interesting circumstance.
In a retired spot, resting himself under a tree, was a holy person a naked black fakeer, thin and skinny, and whitey-gray all over with ashes. By and by to the elephant stables, and I took a ride; but it was by request I did not ask for it, and didn't want it; but I took it, because otherwise they would have thought I was afraid, which I was.
Then he stopped, turned solemnly to his companion, and, with a movement of his hand, drew aside as it were a heavy curtain, and revealed what? No one knows what was there shown to the king, nor did he ever tell anyone; but, when the fakeer at length dropped the curtain, and the king turned to leave the place, he had had his glimpse of Paradise!
"The devil fly away with the Fakeer!" cried the priest. "I really do not see the good of going on with this pilgrimage." "Cheer up!" cried the virtuous person. "Great is the right, and shall prevail!" "If you are quite sure it will prevail," says the priest. "I pledge my word for that," said the virtuous person. So the other began to go on again with a better heart.
And though the year was so old it seemed to be quite young. No tired look of autumn, no warning of winter; only the freshness and vigour of spring. "I am going to see my child, and I shall be happy yet," thought Israel. The dust of life seemed to hang on him no longer. He came to a little village called Dar el Fakeer "the house of the poor one."
However, the king was not to be turned from his purpose, and he promised the fakeer always to provided him with food, if he, in return, would pray for him. To this the fakeer agreed, and so they parted.
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