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We met at the house of Munshi Khyraz, and there I learned of the disaster to my friends here, and the terrible doom that was contemplated for them. Imagine my dismay, too, when I discovered that their house was to be burned. My beautiful harp! It would be destroyed! So we hurried back, sparing neither ourselves nor our beasts.
You are in search of some one. "'Truly I am, I replied, 'and it is a matter of life or death to find the man I am seeking. "Thereupon, without further preamble, I related the story of Baji Lal and the missing Sheikh. "At the end of my narrative Munshi Khyraz such was my host's name sat silent for a spell. I knew my friend, and allowed him his own time to make any comment.
"'Not merely their home, said I. 'Their lives are also in jeopardy. "'We must save them! we shall save them! cried the Sheikh, with upraised hand and in a tone of determination that brought great comfort to my anxious heart. "The time soon passed, and, our horses having been brought round from the rest house, we took leave of our good host, Munshi Khyraz.
"'A munshi named Khyraz was the name of my new benefactor. He was most wishful that I should hunt down my faithless servant, who, I need not say, after leaving me for dead, had disappeared with my horse and the package which was supposed to contain the precious harp.
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