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They ran toward him as he entered, but the hope in their faces quickly faded at the sight of him. "It's no good," Gregorio growled; "Amos refuses to advance a piastre and says I must pay all I owe in three days." "It is impossible to sleep when one is hungry," said Gregorio that night to his wife, who lay awake, weeping, beside him.
I directed Mohammed to reward his services with a piastre, a small silver coin of the value of 2-1/2d.; and never, perhaps, did so trifling a sum of money produce so great an effect. In one moment, the cries were hushed, the tears dried, and in the contemplation of his newly-acquired riches, he lost the recollection of all his troubles.
"Let this serve thee as a lesson, thou perverter of Allah's truth," spake Hahmed, in a voice as caressing as that of a woman, "and teach thee to acquire property which does honour to thy house. Camels, a male and female, shall be sent in payment for that for which thou hast not paid one piastre.
Then he went on thus: "Without compelling you to entreat me, without making you blush for it, and without giving you so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or one piastre from the new, without offering you anything whatever in gold, silver, or copper, notes or drafts, I will make you richer, more powerful, and of more consequence than a constitutional king."
"Por Dios," he cried, "whoever hear of one man and fifty militia subduing the northern tribes without a piastre?" After a while the Colonel called me in, and sent me speeding across the little river with a note to a certain Mr. Brady, whose house was not far away. Like many another citizen of Cahokia, Mr. Brady was terror-ridden.
"Unsuccessful in love!" she broke out, gleefully; "and the last piastre! To-morrow we shall win a hundred, two hundred, Federigo!" It was clearly the conviction of her heart; and she seized a mandolin and began to dance to her own accompaniment, her eyes resting as she did so upon Salvé with a peculiar expression.
Continue, then, the narration of your adventures. When I understand the past, we shall talk of the future." Negoro and Harris sat down again at the foot of the banyan. The Portuguese continued, in these terms: "For eighteen months I vegetated in Auckland. When the steamer arrived there I was able to leave it without being seen; but not a piastre, not a dollar in my pocket!
"Was he dead when you saw him?" asked Nanteuil. "Not a bit of it," replied the doctor, "I heard a few days later that Selim, in his jail, wove little baskets, or played for hours at a time with a chaplet of glass balls, and that he would smilingly beg a piastre of European visitors, who were surprised by the caressing softness of his eyes. Moslem justice is slow. He was hanged six months later.
She could not comprehend such an act of self-sacrifice, although she seemed to vaguely feel that there was something noble about it. After a moment's consideration she held out her hand and said "Señor, give me the piastre you have in your hand, and I will give you another in return for it." He did so, and she took it and kissed it repeatedly.
We got away from the noisy wretches, finally, dropping them in squads and couples as we filed over the hills the aged first, the infants next, the young girls further on; the strong men ran beside us a mile, and only left when they had secured the last possible piastre in the way of bucksheesh. In an hour, we reached Nain, where Christ raised the widow's son to life.
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