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Hearing the noise of the entrance, he looked up, and asked who it was, but with no change of countenance, or apparent recognition of anyone there. But as soon as the Hakim had uttered the words 'It is I, a gleam of delight stole over the pale face, and the man, rising from his chair, stretched out his arms to the Hakim, entreating him to approach.
He made it clear without troubling to use words that any other man would have had to fight, and the hakim might think himself lucky. "Take my seat," said King, struggling to get up. "Nay, nay sit still, thou. I can kick room for myself. So! So! So!" There was an answering snarl of hate that seemed like a song to him, amid which he sat down.
"I am inclined to agree with Josephus, that yonder mountain is the Mount Ophir of Solomon, when I look at this river. It is equal to our Hudson, and could easily carry ships twice the size of any he or Huram ever floated." The Tuan Hakim nodded, and kept his eyes fastened on the nearest shore. The course of the great river seemed to stretch out before us in an endless line of majestic circles.
"It was through a fall from a camel. A fierce old bull rushed at the young one he rode, and fell upon him and crushed him." "Ah, I see," said the doctor. "That is in my way." "Then the learned Hakim will see the boy?" "Yes, at once. Where is he?" "No, no, not at once," said the Sheikh. "Poor Hassan has waited three years; he can wait another hour till the Hakim has eaten and rested.
But when I give the order, what he wishes to take must be placed upon the camels directly. You will stay here." "No," said Harry coldly; "the Hakim has not done with me yet." "Well," said the guard, with a grim laugh, "it will be better for you than staying here. Your white skin may be an invitation to the sword if the Khalifa does not win the day."
"Of course they would. I doctored scores myself when I was out there," said the professor. "Now, look here; I mean to go out there, of course, and I shall take you with me, Bob." "What!" "No whatting. You've got to go; that's settled. You're the great Frankish Hakim, and I'm your interpreter. You can't speak a word of Arabic. There's no imposture in that, is there?"
It was three hours after midnight ere El Hakim withdrew from the royal tent, to one which had been pitched for himself and his retinue. In his way thither he visited the tent of Sir Kenneth of the Leopard, in order to see the condition of his first patient in the Christian camp, old Strauchan, as the knight's esquire was named.
Frank bowed his head gravely at once, and the Sheikh smiled his satisfaction, before springing up quickly, and forgetting his grave manner he clapped his hands together, applauding, and then bowing low to the grave and reverend Hakim who entered the tent slowly in flowing white garments and voluminous turban, in front of which was fastened a large, dark green scarab, a genuine treasure found by the professor in the tomb of a man who was supposed to have been physician to one of the Egyptian kings.
So I delivered Grim's message, saying that he was a most God-fearing and hard-fighting sheikh from Palestine, who had had the honor to escort his mightiness' wife to Petra, and now, learning of the illness of the famous Lion of Petra, who might Allah bless for ever, rather than postpone his devotions had sent me, his hakim, schooled in medicine at Lahore University, and a darwaish to boot, to offer such relief as my modest skill might compass.
The eunuch carelessly seated himself on a richly-carved tomb, and crossing his legs with an air of pleasant superiority, adjusted a fine emerald that sparkled on his finger, and bade the Hakim address him without hesitation. "I am a physician," said the Armenian. The eunuch nodded.
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