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When the day appeared, we heard the noise of the jinns, and saw that many personal attendants of Maliki Sadik were arrived, and had brought two rich khil'ats for us, and a covered litter with a network of pearls accompanied them. Mubarak rubbed the ointment over my beloved's body; and having caused her to be richly dressed, he conveyed her to Maliki Sadik.

My own name is Abd al-Samad, and the Jew also is our brother; his name is Abd al-Rahim and he is no Jew but a true believer of the Maliki school.

And instantly afterwards, from another direction, there came a fourth voice, a peevish, tremulous voice, the voice of an old woman. Naomi knew it it was the voice of Rebecca Bensabott, ninety-and-odd years of age, and still deaf as a stone. "Tut! What is all this talking about?" she snapped and grunted. "Reuben Maliki, save your wind for your widows you don't give them too much of it.

A little group of old Jews, all held in honour among their people Abraham Ohana, nicknamed Pigman, son of a former rabbi; Judah ben Lolo, an elder of his synagogue; and Reuben Maliki, keeper of the poor-box were seized and cast into the Kasbah for gross and base usury. At this the Jewish quarter was thrown into wild hubbub. The hand that was on their people was a daring and terrible one.

While the anger of the people surged and broke in the air, a third voice came through the tumult, and Naomi knew it, for it was the harsh voice of Reuben Maliki, the silversmith and keeper of the poor-box. "And does God," said Reuben, "any more than Ben Aboo blessings on his life! love that His people should be oppressed? How has He dealt with this Israel ben Oliel?

Seizing this opportunity, Reuben Maliki stepped up to Israel and said, so that all might hear, "Look at the crowds that have come out to speed you, O saviour of your people! Look! look! We shall all remember this day!" "So you shall!" cried Israel. "Until your days of death you shall all remember it!"

He replied, "The following is the story of those figures of monkeys which you see: Your father from his youth formed a friendship and kept up an intercourse with Maliki Sadik, who is the king of the jinns. "All this toil then has been of no avail, nor has the advantage of it been displayed.

In the meantime, Mubarak's slumbers were broken, and seeing us both in tears, he was greatly affected, and said, "Be comforted; I have an ointment which I will rub over the body of this fair one; from the smell of it the heart of Maliki Sadik will be disgusted, and he will perhaps abandon her to you."

The one was a company of soldiers returning to the Kasbah after sacking and wrecking Israel's house; the other was a company of old Jews, among whom were Reuben Maliki, Abraham Pigman, and Judah ben Lolo. At the advent of the three usurers a new impulse seized the people. They pretended to take the procession for a triumphal progress the departure of a Kaid, a Shereef, a Sultan.