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What could his good friend mean? Behold! was he not rich? Had he not troops of comrades and guests about him? The prisoners turned aside, baffled and done. At length one man it was no other than 'Larby the wastrel drew some of them apart and said, "You are all wrong. It's not his former state that he's thinking of. I know what it is who knows so well as I? Listen! you hear his laughter!
The other prisoners had risen in their amazement, and 'Larby, who was shedding hot tears over his cold ones, was capering down the floor, and singing, "El Arby was a black man." Then there was a rattling of keys, and suddenly a flood of light shot into the dark place. The Kaid el habs was bringing a courier, who carried an order for Israel's release.
No one had come with food for Israel, and seeing this 'Larby the negro swaggered up to him, singing a snatch and offering a round cake of bread Rusks are good and kiks are sweet And kesksoo is both meat and drink; It's this for now, and that for then, But khalia still for married men.
The effect on Israel himself was strange and even startling. While 'Larby was speaking, he was beating his forehead and mumbling: "Where? When? Naomi!" as if grappling for lost treasures in an ebbing sea. And when 'Larby finished, he fell on him with reproaches. "And you are weeping for that?" he cried. "You think it much that the sweet child is dead God rest him!
In the darkness the hooded figures stood a moment listening, and then a croaking, breaking, husky, merry voice began to sing El Arby was a black man, They called him "'Larby Kosk;" He loved the wives of the Kasbah, And stole slippers in the Mosque.
If he was makin' two million a month instead of one Sooley'd grieve himself to death because they don't make that five-dollar kind of wine fast enough. "Then there was Seth Larby. We're jest gettin' to the details of Seth's expense account after he found the Lucky Cuss.
This person was the Irishman of the company a happy, reckless, facetious dog, who had lost little save his liberty and cared nothing for his life, but laughed and cheated and joked and made doggerel songs on every disaster that befell them. He made one song on himself El Arby was a black man They called him "'Larby Kosk:" He loved the wives of the Kasbah, And stole slippers in the Mosque.
Well, he must weep, or he will be mad for ever. He must be made to weep. Yes, by Allah! and I must do it." That same night, when darkness fell over the dark place, and the prisoners tied up their cotton headkerchiefs and lay down to sleep, 'Larby sat beside Israel's place with sighs and moans and other symptoms of a dejected air.
'Oh, 'Larby, he cried I was holding him; then he he 'Larby, he cried faint, like a lamb that's lost in the mountains and then and then 'Oh, oh, 'Larby, he moaned Sidi, Sidi, I paid that bleeder there and then this way! That's why I'm here!" It was a lie, but 'Larby acted it so well that his voice broke in his throat, and great drops fell from his eyes on to Israel's hand.
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