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Sometimes he comes over, secretly, by night, to see his mother, and lies hidden in her house till the sok is full of market people in the middle of the day, when he can go out into the crowd without running great risk, though in the sok a quarrel sometimes arises; in a flash, guns are up at men's shoulders bang bang and bullets ping into the soft walls, if not into some one or other.
Here Lionel and Rosamund looked at each other in the dim light, their faces gleaming ghostly each to each, whilst the Nubians stood like twin statues by the door that opened from the stair-head. The man groaned, and clasped his hands before him. The doublet which had been torn from him in the sok had since been restored and temporarily repaired by a strand of palmetto cord.
And then Pulowech, stepping in before them, said, "And yet I am alive. And do thou, woman, bak sok bok sooc!" Then she scowled horribly at him, but said naught; and he, sitting down, looked at them. This woman was of the Porcupines, who are never long without raising their quills, and they are fond of heat. Now there was in the cave much hemlock bark, and this she began to heap on the fire.
"Then let us ask of the Lord," she whispered hotly, "and surely He will hear our prayer." "It is the voice of the Lord Himself!" cried Israel; "and this day it shall be done!" At the time of evening prayers Israel and Ruth went up hand in hand together to the synagogue, in a narrow lane off the Sok el Foki.
In the course of the afternoon Mohammed, Ali, mules, and baggage put in an appearance, and we found them waiting in the feddan, anxious to put our tents up in the middle of the noisy, crowded sok, where the wind, which had dropped but little, was whirling dust round in clouds, and where we should have been the centre of a staring throng at the same time, an ideal place in the servants' eyes, suggesting cafés and conversation the whole night through.
Down was his head thrust, and still down, until his fat body gave way and he lay supine and writhing in the dust of the sok. "Shall I strangle thee, thou father of filth, or shall I fling thy soft flesh to the hooks to teach thee what is a man's due from thee?" And as he spoke he rubbed the too daring fellow's face roughly on the ground. "Mercy!" squealed the wazeer.
Some showed great unwillingness; for a dormant title will not always bear examination But William producing divers charters, clearly proved his right to every manorial privilege, such as market, toll, tem, sack, sok, insangenthief, weyfs, gallows, court-leet, and pillory, with a right to fix the standard for bread and beer; all which were allowed.
Finally, he waded out, and stood, like a drowned rat, on the bank, pack and all streaming; then he collected himself after a pause, and doddered off towards the sok. The boy shook himself and his soaked clothes, clutched his stick, and ran after his donkeys. A well-to-do Moor, possibly a sheikh, was the next to go for the ford.
Once a week, one of the little donkeys, which passed along our "lane" in droves, carrying charcoal into the sok, was waylaid, brought into the garden, and its three pannierfuls commandeered for us and stored in the mules' stable, where Tahara did the washing in a great tub bought from Mr. Bewicke. Milk was left every morning by a Moor, who took it in for sale to the sok.
"I am Don Paulo de Guzman," the man answered, drawing himself erect, and speaking with conscious pride in himself and manifest contempt of his interlocutor. "So! A gentleman of family! And well-nourished and sturdy, I should judge. In the sok at Algiers you might fetch two hundred philips. You shall ransom yourself for five hundred."
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