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Updated: June 5, 2025
Going through the orchards and vineyards that were round it, he was recognised by certain Jews; tanners and pannier-makers, who in the days of his harder rule had fled from Tetuan and his heavy taxings. "It's Israel ben Oliel," whispered one. "God of Jacob, save us!" whispered another. "He has followed us for the arrears of taxes." "We must fly." "Let us go home first." "No time for that."
And this was the way and the word of it: "She is back in the Kasbah!" "The daughter of Ben Oliel? Thank God! But why? Has she recanted?" "She has fallen sick." "And Ben Aboo has sent her to prison?" "He thinks that the physician who will cure her quickest." "Allah save us! The dog of dogs! But God be praised! At least she is saved from the Sultan." "For the present, only for the-present."
"Does the Basha love this Israel ben Oliel? Has he of late given many signs of such affection? Bethink you, brothers, and act wisely! Would not Ben Aboo be glad to have done with this servant who has been so long his master? Then why trouble him with your grievance? Act for yourselves, and the Kaid will thank you!
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?
And well may this Israel ben Oliel praise the Lord and worship Him, that He has not put it into the hearts of His people to play the game of breaker of tyrants by the spilling of blood, as the races around them, the Arabs and the Berbers, who are of a temper more warm by nature, must long ago have done, and that not unjustly either, or altogether to the displeasure of a Kaid who is good and humane and merciful, and has never loved that his poor people should be oppressed."
Even their camels were still sleeping, nose to nose, in the circles where they had last fed. Only their mules and asses, all hobbled and still saddled, were up and feeding. The Mahdi found Israel ben Oliel in the hut at Semsa. So poor a place he had not seen in all his wanderings through that abject land.
It consisted of one daughter by a first wife, long dead, and three sons by a second wife, still living. They were not altogether a happy household, and the chief apparent cause of discord was the child of the first wife in the home of the second. Oliel was a man of quick perception, and he saw the difficulty. That was how it came about that he was married to Sara.
Then, pointing with one shaking hand at the farther end of the patio, he said, "There is another thing that is true. It is true that on the other side of that wall there is a prison," and, lifting his voice to a shriek, he added, "you are on the edge of a gulf, Israel ben Oliel. One step more "
This was lawful, though unusual in Tangier. The new marriage, which was only another business transaction to Oliel, was a shock and a terror to Sara. Nevertheless, she supported its penalties through three weary years, sinking visibly under them day after day.
Israel the Jew!" cried the Moors. "God of Jacob, save us! Israel ben Oliel!" cried the people of the Mellah. "What is it? What has happened? What has befallen them?" they all asked together. "Balak!" cried the soldier in front, swinging his staff before him to force a passage through the thronging multitude. "Attention! By your leave! Away! Out of the way!"
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