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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Remember, if you let me go now you drop the only friend you've got in the world!" "May I be thy ransom!" replied Fakrash. "There shall not be harmed a hair of thy head!" Even then Horace had his misgivings; but as there was no other way of getting off that cornice, he decided to take the risk.
And, as it proved, he acted judiciously, for the Jinnee flew to Vincent Square with honourable precision, and dropped him neatly into the armchair in which he had little hoped ever to find himself again. "I have brought thee hither," said Fakrash, "and yet I am persuaded that thou art even now devising treachery against me, and wilt betray me if thou canst."
Not that there was anything objectionable in the performance itself; but still, it was not the kind of entertainment for such an occasion. Horace wished now he had mentioned to Fakrash who the guests were whom he expected, and then perhaps even the Jinnee would have exercised more tact in his arrangements. "And does this girl come from Earl's Court?" inquired Mrs.
"Not that anything could make me forget you!" Fakrash swept his right hand round in a half circle. "It is accomplished," he said. "All recollection of myself and yonder bottle is now erased from the memories of every one but thyself." "But how about my client?" said Horace. "I can't afford to lose him, you know." "He shall return unto thee," said the Jinnee, trembling with impatience.
"I have laid a spell on all below that they should not raise their eyes. Be seated, therefore, and hear my words." Horace lowered himself carefully to a sitting position, so that his legs dangled in space, and Fakrash took a seat by his side. "O, most indiscreet of mankind!" he began, in an aggrieved tone; "thou hast been near the committal of a great blunder, and doing ill to thyself and to me!"
"If I were but sealed up in my bottle once more," said the Jinnee, "would not even the Lord Mayor have respect unto the seal of Suleyman, and forbear to disturb me?" "Why, of course he would!" cried Horace, hardly daring to believe his ears. "That's really a brilliant idea of yours, my dear Mr. Fakrash." "And in the bottle I should not be compelled to work," continued the Jinnee.
"I'm beginning to find," he replied, ruefully enough, "that he's not so easily managed as I thought. And for the present, I'm afraid, if we are to get the Professor out of this, that there's nothing for it but to humour old Fakrash." "Then you actually advise me to to break it off?" she cried; "I never thought you would do that!" "For your own sake," said Horace; "for your father's sake.
Can't you enter at all into the feelings of a man a man of wide learning and reputation suddenly plunged into such a humiliating condition?" "Upon his own head be it," said Fakrash, coldly. "For he hath brought this fate upon himself." "Well, how do you suppose that you have helped me by this performance? Will it make him any the more disposed to consent to my marrying his daughter?
If you'll excuse me, I'll go and put on some things I can feel more at home in; and perhaps by the time I return you'll have cooled down." He slipped on some clothes hurriedly and re-entered the sitting-room. "Now, Mr. Fakrash," he said, "we'll have this out. You talk of having loaded me with benefits. You seem to consider I ought to be grateful to you. In Heaven's name, for what?
"I care not," said Fakrash, "though the search be long, for in travel there are five advantages " "I know," interrupted Horace, "so don't stop to describe them now.
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