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Updated: May 8, 2025
The old slave rushed in and shrieked loudly, while Neangir, upset by this strange adventure, left the house. He passed the rest of the night on the steps of a mosque, and with the first streaks of dawn he took his picture out of the folds of his turban. Then, remembering Zelida's words, he inquired the way to the bazaar, and went straight to the shop she had described.
The stranger bowed and passed through the curtain held back by Neangir, whose surprise was great at seeing his father spring forward and clasp the soldier in his arms. 'What! is it you, my dear Siroco? cried he. 'I believed you had been slain in that awful battle when the followers of the Prophet were put to flight. But why do your eyes kindle with the flames they shot forth on that fearful day?
At one end of a large, brilliantly-lighted room a lady of about thirty-five years old reclined on a couch, still beautiful in spite of the sad expression of her face. 'Incomparable Zambac, said the Bassa, going up to her, 'give me your thanks, for here is the lost son for whom you have shed so many tears, but before his mother could clasp him in her arms Neangir had flung himself at her feet.
Yesterday Izouf sold the silver watch to this young man, and in the evening placed the gold watch on the steps by order of Sumi, just before his customer entered the house; from which both watches came back early this morning. 'If I had only known! cried Neangir.
But write to us and tell us how you pass your life, and we, on our side, will promise never to forget you. So saying, Mohammed gave Neangir four piastres to start him in the great city, and obtained leave for him to join a caravan which was about to set off for Constantinople.
'It is impossible to let you have it to-day, answered Izouf, 'for it is already sold. 'If that is so, said the Cadi, 'you must return the three gold pieces which the young man paid. The Jew, delighted to get off so easily, put his hand in his pocket, when Neangir stopped him. 'No, no, he exclaimed, 'it is not money I want, but the adorable Argentine; without her everything is valueless.
The journey took some days, as caravans go very slowly, but at last the walls and towers of the capital appeared in the distance. When the caravan halted the travellers went their different ways, and Neangir was left, feeling very strange and rather lonely.
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