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We soon lost sight of them again in a ravine, and it was not till we were close upon them, climbing up the other bank, that I remarked that most of them were shackled and in charge of a small guard of Turkish soldiers. 'Criminals upon their way to the hard labour prison, said Rashîd. 'What have they done? I asked, as we dismounted.
At noon that day, when wishing to buy food, we had been met with such amazing insults that Rashîd, my henchman, had not yet recovered from his indignation, and still brooded on revenge. On seeing that the ruined tower had occupants, he said: 'If these refuse us, we will force an entrance mercilessly; for see, they dwell alone, with none to help them.
Rashîd came up behind me as we rode along, and poured into my ear a wondrous tale of how the Sheykh Huseyn was our ill-wisher and would do his best to make things lively for us if we took the place. He had conversed with people of the village while we viewed the house. 'But the majority are in our favour, he assured me, with grave satisfaction.
'But something must be done, Rashîd remonstrated. 'A crime has been committed. We must find the culprit. 'True, said the host, 'and I will help with all my strength. The consul would not help at all. He would but frighten the police, with the result that they would torture perhaps hang a man or two, but not the man who stole your belt of money. Our police, when not alarmed, are clever.
Monet nodded approvingly, and Renaud, his mouth half open, was seeking some formula. It came, and this was it: "Very well, Monsieur Rashid, take him into the church; that is God's house for every one." Rashid bowed with perfect deference, and went back to his dead. Oh, he arranged everything very well! He had made this funeral a personal matter.
As soon as I was up and dressed, I wrote to Hamdi Bey, the chief of our intended visitors, informing him of the mishap which would prevent our giving him and his comrades a dinner at all worthy of their merit. By the time that I had finished dressing, Rashîd had found a messenger to whom the note was given with an order to make haste.
Both Burton and his wife henceforward openly protected the Shazlis, and in fact made themselves, to use the words of a member of the English Government, "Emperor and Empress of Damascus." That Rashid Pasha and his crawling myrmidons were rascals of the first water and that the Shazlis were infamously treated is very evident. It is also clear that Burton was more just than diplomatic.
The fighting had continued for about six hours when Rashid Pasha was taken prisoner; the news of his capture spread along the Turkish lines and threw them into disorder, and the Egyptians remained masters of the field, with twenty pieces of mounted cannon and some baggage: the Turks had lost only five hundred men, while the Egyptian losses were but two hundred.
It was after we had sought those tigers vainly that I put away my gun. The sheykh's son asked me for the loan of it, and I consented in the absence of Rashîd; who, when he heard what I had done, defiled his face with dust and wailed aloud. Suleymân, who happened to be with us at the moment, also blamed me, looking as black as if I had committed some unheard-of sin.
So they brought her what she sought, as of wont; and she took the pen and made the dots which formed the figure and considered it awhile, then raising her head to Rashid al-Din, she said, "O dog, how darest thou lie to Kings?
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