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Rad el Moussa nodded again, and made careful inspection of the coins, turning them one by one with his long brown fingers, and biting those he fancied most as a test of their quality. Finally, he selected a gold twenty-franc piece and two sovereigns, balanced and chinked them carefully in his hand, and then slipped them into some private receptacle in his wearing apparel.
But the boarding behind reared up and hit him a violent blow on the hands and head, and he fell into a pit below. For an instant he saw through the gloom the face of Rad el Moussa turned suddenly virulent, spitting at him in hate, and then the swing-floor slammed up into place again, and all view of anything but inky blackness was completely shut away.
Why wouldn't somebody give him a handsome income for looking handsome and standing around beautifully like these aide-de-camp Johnnies and "staff" people. "May I borrow the Sahib's knife?" asked Moussa Isa, "I have broken my pencil and cannot draw." Mr.
As a business man he realized a bad investment of capital. The food in which they had wallowed should have gone to the fattening of Moussa Isa. Also a fear struck him. "He'll jump overboard in the night the ungrateful dog. Tie him up," and he reached for a coil of cord. "He will not be tied up," observed the fair youth in a quiet, obstinate voice.
By this time we were in the Kourbab country, in that part under Sheikh Hassan Bafori, who governs a branch of the tribe. We liked the mamour's messenger, Sheikh Moussa Manahm, who came on with us, very much. Four hours of very desert journeying was our portion the following day. We were a good distance from water, but some was obtained by digging, thick with sand and earth.
Pat Dearman having realized that the stuffy, hot cabin was positively uninhabitable until the port-hole could be opened, after coaling operations were completed. Moussa Isa reseated himself, grabbed the rope again, and with clear conscience, duty done, calmly awaited that which might follow. Nothing followed.
There he slept, Sahib, peacefully, like a little child! having left Mir Jan to die the death 'whereof men should speak with awe, as he had threatened. "We sat beside him and watched. Saying nothing, we sat and watched. An hour passed and an hour again. For another hour without moving or speaking we sat and Moussa Isa joined us and watched.
The Inspector regarded it as an infamous piece of injustice and folly that for fifteen years the whole of this sum should go to a lazy fool because he happened to set sail from England on a certain date, and not a fortnight later. So he loathed and detested India where he had had bad luck, bad health and what he considered bad treatment, and sympathized with the desire of Moussa Isa.
At length succumb again, and as the moon just shows above the mountains untie his bonds and do thus and thus and he whispered instructions while a light shone in the eyes of Moussa Isa, the Somali, and a smile played about his mouth. One hundred thousand. "And Mir Jan told the matter that night to all and gave instructions.
Quite early the Rajah Moussa arrived in a baju of rich, gold-colored silk, which suited his swarthy complexion. He sat in the room pretending to look over the Graphic, but in reality watching me, as I wrote to you, just as I should watch an ouf. At last he asked how many Japanese I had killed!!!! The succession is here hereditary in the male line, and this Rajah Moussa is the Sultan's eldest son.
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