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"Two hundred krans," repeated Abdul Karim, in astonishment. "Surely you have made a mistake. Do you mean krans like these?" taking one out of his pocket. "Certainly I do," replied the shopkeeper, "and let me tell you it is very cheap at that price." Abdul Karim pictured the disappointment of his wife. "Poor Zeeba," he sighed. "Poor who?" said the silk merchant. "My wife," said Abdul Karim.
Now Abdul Karim was only a laborer on the land, receiving no wages, merely being paid in grain and cloth sufficient for the wants of himself and family. Of money he knew nothing except by name. One day his master was so pleased with his work that he actually gave him ten "krans," equivalent to about a dollar of our money.
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"What have I to do with your wife?" asked the merchant, getting angry because he saw that all his trouble was in vain. "I will tell you about it," said Abdul Karim. "Because I did my work well, my master gave me ten krans, the first time I ever have had any money.
And he was anxious to pick up what news he could from the few Europeans in the town. Moreover, he needed to see Ganz about the replenishing of his money-bag; for not the lightest item of the traveler's pack in Persia is his load of silver krans. At the telegraph office Matthews ran into Ganz himself.
One of our guns we were unable to remove; but before we withdrew it was thrown down the krans of the mountain, and broken to pieces. I knew at the time the number the English had lost, but now it had slipped my memory. I obtained the information from a man named Bland, who acted as our telegraphist.
But when she heard his story, and above all that he had given eight krans to a beggar, she got very angry, and marched off and told the master. But the master was still more angry, and said: "What! the blockhead gave his eight krans to a beggar? Send him to me." And when Abdul Karim came before him, he said scornfully: "You must fancy yourself a big man, Abdul.
Then he took off his slipper, and with many blows drove poor Abdul Karim out into the street. Then Abdul Karim went to the horse market, only to find that the lowest-priced horse would cost two hundred and fifty krans. The horse dealer mocked him when they found he had only eight krans, and suggested that he buy the sixteenth part of a donkey for his little son.
Conversation turns from politics and literature to the ball to which my hostess, her husband, and we as their guests have been invited at a friend's house. She intends to go earlier; he and we are to follow later in the evening, for that evening his 'Krans' is to meet at his house, and it will keep us till eleven o'clock.
As for a sword, he found that it would cost at least thirty krans; while a pair of golden slippers would run into many hundreds of krans; and for an Indian handkerchief, the price was twelve krans. As poor Abdul Karim bent his weary way home, he met a beggar crying: "Dear friend, give me something, for to-morrow is Friday" the Mahommedan Sunday.
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