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If I sold it to other than thee for gold, I would sell it thee for silver: but, by Allah, O filthy one, I will never again company with thee! Then he returned to Kemaleddin and said to him, 'Yonder man is a lewd fellow and I will no longer consort with him nor suffer his company by the way. 'O my son, replied the muleteer, 'did I not forbid thee to go with him?
I will not enter Baghdad till the morning, that the townsfolk may see my merchandise and know me. 'Do as thou wilt, said the muleteer; 'I have given thee good counsel, and thou must judge for thyself. Then Alaeddin bade them unload the mules and pitch the tent; so they did his bidding and abode there till the middle of the night, when the youth went out to do an occasion and seeing something gleaming afar off, said to Kemaleddin, 'O captain, what is yonder glittering? The muleteer sat up and considering it straitly, knew it for the glint of spear-heads and Bedouin swords and harness.
Now this was a troop of Bedouins under a chief called Ajlan Abou Naib, Sheikh of the Arabs, and when the neared the camp and saw the baggage, they said, one to another, 'O night of booty! Quoth Kemaleddin, 'Avaunt, O meanest of Arabs! But Abou Naib smote him with his javelin in the breast, that the point came out gleaming from his back, and he fell down dead at the tent-door.
Then they departed Aleppo and fared on, till they came within a day's journey of Baghdad. Here Mehmoud repeated his invitation a third time and Kemaleddin once more forbade Alaeddin to accept it; but the latter said, 'I must needs go. So he rose and girding on a sword under his clothes, repaired to the tent of Mehmoud of Balkh, who came to meet him and saluted him.
'My master salutes thee, answered the slave, 'and craves thy company to a banquet in his house. Quoth the youth, 'I must consult my father Kemaleddin, the captain of the caravan. So he consulted the muleteer, who said, 'Do not go. Then they left Damascus and journeyed on till they came to Aleppo, where Mehmoud made a second entertainment and sent to bid Alaeddin; but the muleteer again forbade him.
But if we part company with him, I fear destruction for ourselves; so let us still make one caravan. But Alaeddin said, 'It may not be: I will never again travel with him. So he loaded his beasts and journeyed onward, he and his company, till they came to a valley, where Alaeddin would have halted, but the muleteer said to him, 'Do not halt here; rather let us fare forward and quicken our pace, so haply we may reach Baghdad before the gates are closed, for they open and shut them with the sun, for fear the schismatics should take the city and throw the books of learning into the Tigris. 'O my father, replied Alaeddin, 'I came not to Baghdad with this merchandise, for the sake of traffic, but to divert myself with the sight of foreign lands. And Kemaleddin rejoined, 'O my son, we fear for thee and for thy goods from the wild Arabs. But he answered, 'Harkye, sirrah, art thou master or servant?
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