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Updated: May 19, 2025
Then, discussing what we should do next, I offered that we should return to Elche and make our case known rather than trust entirely to Ali Oukadi's promise of writing; for I did suspect some treacherous design on the part of Mohand ou Mohand, by which Mrs.
Dawson stammered a few broken words of passionate protest, and then breaking down as he perceived the folly of resisting, he dropped his head and suffered me to lead him out. As I saluted the Moors in going, I caught, as I fancied, a gleam of triumphant gladness in the dark eyes of Mohand ou Mohand.
I tell you this, not as a threat, for I bear you no ill will, but as a warning to save you from consequences which I may be powerless to avert." This did seem to me a hint at some sinister design of Mohand ou Mohand a wild suspicion, maybe, on my part, and yet, as I think, justified by evils yet to come. Of our bargaining with a Moorish seaman; and of an English slave.
"You may be sure that Mohand will suffer no one to interfere with your getting aboard, to the achievement of his design. When is it to be?"
Then, all being aboard, we cut our cable, up with our sail, and by the time Mohand comes, in the morning, to seek his game on the sand-bank, we shall be half way to Elche, and farther, if Providence do keep pace with this happy beginning. What say you, friend?" adds he, noting my reflective mood. Then I frankly confessed that I would have some assurance of his honesty.
Mohand makes a gesture of regret, and turning to his men tells them to take us, but to use no weapons, since we had none. Then, he himself leading, with his eyes fixed hungrily upon Moll, the rest came on, and we fell back towards the cabin.
Think, if she were yours and you had lost her believing her a while dead " Mohand ou Mohand muttered a few words that seemed to fix the old Moor's wavering resolution. "I cannot agree to that," says he. "Your daughter is becoming reconciled to her position. To see you would open her wounds afresh to the danger of her life, maybe.
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