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Thus was the undesirable throne of Algiers again emptied, and immediately afterwards Sidi Omar ascended it, the third Dey within forty-eight hours! Let us turn now, good reader, to a scene more congenial namely, the garden in front of the British consul's country residence. One evening, two weeks after the event just narrated, Ted Flaggan and Rais Ali chanced to meet at the gate.
"Come, Flaggan, let us have it without jesting," said the consul gravely. Thereupon Ted related in as serious a tone as it was possible for him to assume all that had been told by the Padre Giovanni. "Our position will indeed be critical if this be true," muttered the consul, with a look of anxiety. "Omar is a man who fears nothing, and has unbounded faith in his men and fortifications.
Without any definite intention as to what he meant to do, Flaggan sped along the road leading to his cave at Point Pescade, his chief feeling being a strong desire to get out of the sight of natives, that he might meditate alone on his future movements, which he felt must be prompt and decisive. Before quite reaching his destination fortune favoured him.
"Dear man!" exclaimed Angela. "Which, Bacri or me?" asked Flaggan. "Bacri, o' course," returned Angela, with a little laugh. Flaggan nodded significantly. "Yes, he is a dear man w'en you go to his shop; but he's as chape as the most lib'ral Christian w'en he's wanted to go an' do a good turn to any one."
Dancing close up to him, Ted Flaggan suddenly slipped, and, staggering as if about to fall, flung his arm over the consul's shoulder. "Take care!" said the latter, catching him. "Och!" gasped Ted, sinking down and almost dragging the other after him, "spake to me av ye love me."
"Bekaise," answered Flaggan, "it ain't every day that a British ship calls in at this piratical nest, and I'd raither go off in a man-o'-war if I could manage it. There's a merchantman came into port yesterday, I'm towld, an' the cownsl advised me to go away with it; but it seems the Turks have made some difficulty about her, so I'll wait. I'm in no hurry.
"Not a whisper," said Flaggan; "but, be the way, it'll be as well, before comin' to that state of prudent silence, that you tell me if the noo hole they've gone to is near the owld wan. You see it's my turn to go up wi' provisions to-morrow night, and I hain't had it rightly explained, d'ye see?"
Unquestionably there were then, as there always were and will be, some who were imbued with the peace-loving spirit of Christianity, including among them such men as Augustine, Tertullian, and Cyprian whom, I dare say, Signor Flaggan, you never before heard of, but it cannot be doubted that a vast majority possessed nothing of our religion but the name, for they constantly resorted to the most bitter warfare and violence to maintain their views.
Between them they succeeded in securing Mariano, and, with a handkerchief tied his hands behind him. "Now then, young feller," said Flaggan, taking the youth by the arm, "you'll have to go before the British couns'l an' give an account of yerself. So come along."
Her own little one woke up at this point and crowed, being too young, we presume, to laugh. "Oh, Signor Flaggan," said Angela earnestly, while her sister entered into converse with the interpreter, "have you heers yit 'bout de Signors Rimini?" Angela had already acquired a very slight amount of broken English, which tumbled neatly from her pretty lips.
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