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He was bluffing, of course, for he knew perfectly well that, even if any extradition treaty could be put in force, the arrest of a Jinnee would be no easy matter. "Thou art of opinion, then, that I should be no safer in mine own country?" inquired Fakrash.
His sheet anchor, in which he had trusted implicitly, had suddenly dragged and he was drifting fast to destruction. "Are there any other questions which thou wouldst ask?" inquired the Jinnee, with grim indulgence; "or wilt thou encounter thy doom without further procrastination?"
"Next to the Black Stone, itself, it is possibly the most precious thing in Islam. And now, now with this Great Pearl Star in our hands, what is impossible?" Silence fell between the two men. They still huddled there in the partial protection of the wady, while all the evil jinnee of the sand-storm shrieked blackly overhead. With no further words they continued to study the wondrous thing.
Don't trouble to wrap it up. I'm in rather a hurry." It was almost dark when he got back to his rooms, where he found the Jinnee shaking with mingled rage and apprehension. "No welcome to thee!" he cried. "Dilatory dog that thou art! Hadst thou delayed another minute, I would have called down some calamity upon thee." "Well, you need not trouble yourself to do that now," returned Ventimore.
And it was that egregious old ass of a Jinnee, as Horace thought, with suppressed rage, who had let him in for all this, and who was now far beyond all remonstrance or reproach!
To escape out of a bottle is pleasant. And to thee I owe my deliverance." It was all true, then: he had really let an imprisoned Genius or Jinnee, or whatever it was, out of that bottle! He knew he could not be dreaming now he only wished he were.
"How excellent is the saying," replied the Jinnee: "'The time which is spent in doing kindnesses, call it not wasted." "Yes, that's very good," said Horace, feeling driven to silence this maxim, if possible, with one of his own invention. "But we have a saying too how does it go? Ah, I remember. 'It is possible for a kindness to be more inconvenient than an injury."
"I will answer one other question, and no more," said the Jinnee, in an inflexible tone; and Ventimore realised that his fate would depend upon what he said next. "Thy second question, O pertinacious one?" said the Jinnee, impatiently.
Achmet waited until I reached the bottom, then he, too, backed in, and I heard the flagstone fall to over my head. There was a moment of utter and awful blackness and stillness. I was upon the point of shrieking, when something cold and friendly touched my hand: Boris was nosing me. The Jinnee, at the bottom of the steps, showed the light.
He's a sort of informal partner." "Hast thou not found him an architect of divine gifts?" inquired the Jinnee, beaming with pride. "Is not the palace that he hath raised for thee by his transcendent accomplishments a marvel of beauty and stateliness, and one that Sultans might envy?" "No, sir!" shouted the infuriated Mr. Wackerbath; "since you ask my opinion, it's nothing of the sort!
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