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Updated: May 16, 2025
He had read the malice behind their words, and there had flashed into his own mind tales told him, with every circumstance of accuracy, of deaths within and without the Palace. Also he was now aware that Nahoum had mocked him. He was concerned to make it clear that he was not wholly beguiled.
Swiftly Nahoum told him the whole truth even to the picture of the brougham, and the rigid, upright figure passing through the night to Foorgat's palace, the gaunt Mizraim piloting the equipage of death. "I have held my peace for my own reasons, effendi. Wilt thou then force me to speak? If thou dost still cherish Claridge Pasha, wilt thou see him ruined?
He opened the door slightly and looked out, then closed it quickly. "It is Nahoum Pasha," he said. "Please, the other room," he added, and pointed to a curtain. "There is a window leading on a garden. The garden-gate opens on a street leading to the Ezbekiah Square and your hotel." "But, no, I shall stay here," she said.
"Let's put it in this way, Mahommed: I'll invest in an expedition out of which I expect to get something worth while concessions for mines and railways, et cetera." He winked a round, blue eye. "Business is business, and the way to get at the Saadat is to talk business; but you can make up your mind that, "'To-morrow, we are pulling stakes for Shendy! Are you coming to my party, O Nahoum?"
She felt it was to be a struggle between them, and she must be alert and persuasive, and match him word for word, move for move. "I am happy to welcome you here, madame," he said in English. "It is years since we met; yet time has passed you by." She flushed ever so slightly compliment from Nahoum Pasha! Yet she must not resent anything to-day; she must get what she came for, if it was possible.
"We are ready at last," he said, looking from one to the other. "Well, well," he added, almost boyishly, "has thee nothing to say, Nahoum?" Nahoum turned his head away as though overcome. David's face grew instantly grave. He turned to Lacey. Never before had he seen Lacey's face with a look like this. He grasped Lacey's arm. "What is it?" he asked quietly. "What does thee want to say to me?"
Do I not know in what peril I serve Egypt?" "Yet thou wouldst keep alive Nahoum! He will dig thy grave deep, and wait long." "He will work with me for Egypt, Effendina." Kaid's face darkened. "What is thy meaning?" "I ask Nahoum's life that he may serve under me, to do those things thou and I planned yesterday the land, taxation, the army, agriculture, the Soudan.
In office Nahoum had done after his kind, after the custom of the place and the people; and yet, as it would seem, the man had had stirrings within him towards a higher path. He, at any rate, had not amassed riches out of his position, and so much could not be said of any other servant of the Prince Pasha.
There was a cut where the hair met the temple. He opened the waistcoat and thrust his hand inside the shirt. Then he felt the pulse of the limp wrist. For a moment he looked at the face steadily, almost contemplatively it might have seemed, and then drew both arms close to the body. Foorgat Bey, the brother of Nahoum Pasha, was dead. Rising, David turned, as if in a dream, to the girl.
Together we will make Egypt better and greater and richer the poor richer, even though the rich be poorer." "And Kaid poorer?" "When Egypt is richer, the Prince is richer, too. Is not the Prince Egypt? Highness, yesterday yesterday thee gave me my commission. If thee will not take Nahoum again into service to aid me, I must not remain. I cannot work alone."
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