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See, I am Mahommed Hassan, thy servant! At midnight they surround Kaid's palace Achmet and Higli and kill the Prince Pasha. Return, Saadat. Harrik will kill thee." David made no sign, but with a swift word to the faithful Mahommed Hassan, passed on, and was presently admitted to the palace.
Canst thou not act after the will of Allah, the all-powerful, the all-just, the all-merciful?" There was an instant's pause, and then suddenly Harrik placed the paper in his palm and wrote swiftly and at some length to Kaid. Laying it down, he took another and wrote but a few words to Achmet and Diaz. This message said in brief, "Do not strike. It is the will of Allah.
Thus it was that Kaid looked out on a vast multitude of Muslims, in which not one European face showed, and from lip to lip there passed the word, "Harrik Harrik remember Harrik! Kaid turns from the infidel!" They crowded near the great pavilion as near as the mounted Nubians would permit to see Kaid's face; while he, with eyes wandering over the vast assemblage, was lost in dark reflections.
"I am sick of thy yellow, sinful face." Achmet made no reply, but, as he passed beyond the door with Higli, he said in a whisper: "Come to Harrik and the army! He shall be deposed. The hour is at hand." High answered him faintly, however. He had not the courage of the true conspirator, traitor though he was.
Harrik asked, with an effort at unconcern, for David's boldness had in it something chilling to his fierce passion and pride. "The word of the Effendina is to do right by Egypt, to give thyself to justice and to peace." "Have done with parables. To do right by Egypt wherein, wherefore?" The eyes glinted at David like bits of fiery steel. "I will interpret to thee, Eminence." "Interpret."
He has spoken, and thy evil is discovered." He paused. Still Harrik did not reply, but looked at him with dilated, fascinated eyes. Death had hypnotised him, and against death and destiny who could struggle? Had not a past Prince Pasha of Egypt safeguarded himself from assassination all his life, and, in the end, had he not been smothered in his sleep by slaves?
A man's life" he watched her closely with his wide, benevolent eyes "is neither here nor there, nor a few thousands, in the destiny of a nation. A man who ventures into a lion's den must not be surprised if he goes as Harrik went ah, perhaps you do not know how Harrik went! A man who tears at the foundations of a house must not be surprised if the timbers fall on him and on his workmen.
In his palace by the Nile, Harrik, the half-brother of the Prince Pasha, heard it, and breaking off from conversation with two urgent visitors, passed to an alcove near, dropping a curtain behind him.
As the curtains parted for his exit, he faced Harrik again. "Peace be to thee," he said. But, seated in his cushions, the haggard, fanatical face of Harrik was turned from him, the black, flaring eyes fixed on vacancy. The curtain dropped behind David, and through the dim rooms and corridors he passed, the slaves gliding beside him, before him, and behind him, until they reached the great doors.
"I would give a traitor to death for the country's sake. There is no other way." "To-night he shall die." "But with due trial, Effendina?" "Trial is not the proof sufficient?" "But if he confess, and give evidence himself, and so offer himself to die?" "Is Harrik a fool?" answered Kaid, with scorn. If there be a trial and sentence is given, the truth concerning the army must appear. Is that well?
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