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The queen mother is extremely clerical, though one of the wisest and best women who ever ruled; the king and queen consort are as liberal as possible, and the king is notoriously a democrat, with a dash of Haroun al Rashid, he likes to take his governmental subordinates unawares, and a story is told of his dropping in at the post-office on a late visit to Seville, and asking for the chief.
'But I proposed a mere excursion, he interpolated. 'I fail to see why you should take this tone about it. 'Well, I have told you what I think, was my rejoinder. I then went out and told the story to Rashîd, who heartily applauded my decision, which he had already gathered. I did not see our simple friend again till after breakfast the next morning.
She went personally to the rooms in old Bond Street and arranged with Rashid to see Kazmah on the following day, Friday, for Kazmah only received visitors by appointment. As it chanced, Sir Lucien Pyne returned to England on Thursday night and called upon Rita at Prince's Gate.
The soldiers, finding no whip, were beginning to believe his word when Rashîd, who had remained aloof, observing that the cabman's wife stood very still beneath her veils, assailed her with a mighty push, which sent her staggering across the room. The whip was then discovered. It had been hidden underneath her petticoats. They had given the delinquent a good beating then and there.
She ceased not to go from house to house and street to street and quarter to quarter, till Allah Almighty led her to the house of the accursed Rashid al-Din the Nazarene where, hearing groans within, she knocked at the door, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Night,
Rita nodded but did not speak. "Actually," Seton explained, "he instructed Mareno to go across the leads to Kazmah's directly you had left the flat, and to give you a certain message as 'Kazmah. He also instructed Mareno to telephone certain orders to Rashid, the Egyptian attendant. In spite of the unforeseen meeting with Gray, all would have gone well, no doubt, if Mrs.
Accordingly, having surveyed the house and land as owner, I set off with Rashîd upon a ten days' journey beyond the reach of telegrams and letters. At the end of the ten days we rode into Beyrout, and put up at a little hostelry, which we frequented, built out on piers above the sea. There I found two letters waiting for me, one from the great Druze chief who sold to me my house and land.
We expected the whole commune to rise up against us; but after a short time of waiting all was still again. Rashîd, out in the shadows, whispered: 'He is nice and fat, as if he thought that we were going to eat the dog. 'And is he dead? I asked. 'Completely dead, was the reply. 'Then get a cord and hang him to the balcony, said my companion. 'His odour will perhaps attract the foxes.
Rashid was pleading for his dead Arab with supple eloquence, wrapped in a cloud of tobacco-smoke: "We cannot leave the Arab's corpse under a wagon, in the storm. ... This man died for France, at his post.... He had a right to all honours, and it was hard enough as it was that he could not have the obsequies he would surely have had in his own country."
Therewith he stretched his length upon the ground, with a luxurious sigh, and would, I think, have gone to sleep, had not Rashîd, conceiving himself blamed, thought necessary to relate in full the whole adventure. 'What else could man have done? he asked defiantly. 'Say in what respect, however trifling, did I act unwisely?
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