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The rebellion in his own blood against the fine instinct of his Quaker faith and upbringing made him grasp the personality before him. Had he himself been born in these surroundings, under these influences! The thought flashed through his mind like lightning, even as he bowed before Harrik, who salaamed and said: "Peace be unto thee!" and motioned him to a seat on a divan near and facing him.
In the red-curtained room Harrik sat alone, listening until he heard the far clatter of hoofs, and knew that the Nubians were gone. Then the other distant sound which had captured his ear came to him again. In his fancy it grew louder and louder.
Then there was a sudden darkness, and a moment later David was ushered into a room blazing with light. Every inch of the walls was hung with red curtains. No door was visible. He was conscious of this as the panel clicked behind him, and the folds of the red velvet caught his shoulder in falling. Now he saw sitting on a divan on the opposite side of the room Prince Harrik.
Harrik rose also. "Thou wouldst go, having accomplished thy will?" Harrik asked, a thought flashing to his mind again, in keeping with his earlier purpose. Why should this man be left to trouble Egypt? David touched his breast. "I must bear thy words to the Palace and the Citadel." "Are there not slaves for messengers?" Involuntarily Harrik turned his eyes to the velvet curtains.
One look of surprise had been exchanged when Harrik Pasha left them suddenly time was short for what they meant to do; but they were Muslims, and they resigned themselves. "The Inglesi must be the first to go; shall a Christian dog rule over us?" It was Achmet the Ropemaker who spoke, his yellow face wrinkling with malice, though his voice but murmured hoarsely. "Nahoum will kill him."
"I will go to his palace and speak with him." "Seize him?" "I have no power to seize him, Effendina." "I will give it. My Nubians shall go also." "Effendina, I will go alone. It is the only way. There is great danger to the throne. Who can tell what a night will bring forth?" "If Harrik should escape " "If I were an Egyptian and permitted Harrik to escape, my life would pay for my failure.
The eyes of the two men met. In the minds of both was the same thing. "Kaid! The Nubians!" Harrik said, at last. David made no response. The slave returned, and his voice murmured softly, as though the matter were of no concern: "The Nubians from the Palace." In an instant he was gone again. "Kaid had not faith in thee," Harrik said grimly.
"Is thy grief, then, for thy prince who gave himself to the lions?" he asked. "Inshallah! Harrik is in the bosom of Allah. He is with Fatima in the fields of heaven was I as Fatima to him? Nay, the dead have done with hurting." "Since that night thou hast been lost, even since Harrik went. I searched for thee, but thou wert hid.
"I will not pour water on the sands to make an ocean," he answered. "Will a ship sail on the Sahara? Bismillah, it is all a dream! Harrik was right. But dost thou think to do with me as thou didst with Harrik?" he sneered. "Is it in thy mind?" David's patience broke down under the long provocation.
There has been sedition conspiracy; but until I could get the full proofs I waited; I could but bribe and wait. Were it not for the money I had spent, there might have been another Prince of Egypt." Kald's face darkened. He was startled, too. He had been taken unawares. "My brother Harrik !" "And I should have lost my place, lost all for which I cared. I had no love for money; it was but a means.
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