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It, too, was a world which had outlived its civilization, a relic of the Middle Ages, as lonely as his own soul. Mechanically he bade the Nubian good-night; the half-piastre which he dropped into the pink palm of his black hand brought down blessings on his unbelieving head. He wandered aimlessly on.
"I'm quite sure you will be able to find some," I replied, placing a half-piastre in his hand. The Indian took off his straw hat, scratched his forehead, and then, placing two fingers in his mouth, whistled a prolonged note.
I assured the Effendi it would be wiser for him only to pay his respects to the Omdeh and not to pass through his village." Abdul darted into one of the houses, whose open front was flush with the rock-wall of the street, which was simply a tunnel in a vast rock; he returned with a palm-leaf fan; a half-piastre had purchased it.
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