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"There was the work to do, and there were not the many to do it. My hand was ready; the call came; I answered. I plunged into the river of work alone." "Thou didst not know the strength of the currents, the eddies and the whirlpools, the hidden rocks and the shore is far off, Saadat." "It is not so far but that, if I could get breath to gather strength, I should reach the land in time.
From this absorption he was roused by Lacey, who came galloping towards him. "They've come, Saadat, they've come at last! We're saved oh, my God, you bet we're all right now! See! See, Saadat!" David saw. Five steamers carrying the Egyptian flag were bearing around the point where the river curved below the town, and converging upon David's small fleet.
Does he fold his hands like a man of peace that he is, and say, 'Thy will be done'? Not the Saadat. He gets two soldier- engineers, one an Italian who murdered his wife in Italy twenty years ago, and one a British officer that cheated at cards and had to go, and we've got defences that'll take some negotiating.
I'd like to see Nahoum with that cup of trembling in his hand, and I've got an idea, too, that it will be there yet. I don't know how it is, but I never can believe the worst will happen to the Saadat. Reading those verses put hope into me.
"Come, Mahommed, the Saadat first, and the sooner the better." "And His mercy is on them that fear Him throughout all generations." On the clear, still evening air the words rang out over the desert, sonorous, imposing, peaceful.
"God is merciful, Saadat. He is in the bosom of God." "How many men come by the river?" "But fifty, Saadat," was the answer, "but they have sworn by the stone in the Kaabah not to surrender." "And those who come with the effendi, with Ebn Ezra Bey, are they as those who will not surrender?" "Half of them are so.
"Saadat el basha, thou art known as the truth-teller and the incorruptible this is the word of the Egyptian and of the infidel concerning thee. I kiss thy feet. For it is true he hath deserved death, but woe be to him by whom his death cometh! And am I not his servant to be with him while he hath life, and hath need of me? If thou sayest he is alive, then is he alive, and my heart rejoices."
"A sort of last powwow Rome before the fall. Everything wrong, eh? Kaid turned fanatic, Nahoum on the tiles watching for the Saadat to fall, things trembling for want of hard cash. That's it, isn't it, Mahommed?" Mahommed nodded, but his look was now alert, and less sombre. He had caught at something vital and confident in Lacey's tone. He drew nearer, and listened closely.
But Nahoumhe laid the blame on others, and the Saadat took his word for it, and, instead of a war, there came this expedition of his own. Ten days later. Things have happened. First, there's been awful sickness among the natives, and the Saadat has had his chance. His medicine-chest was loaded, he had a special camel for it and he has fired it off.
Perhaps there's a revolution, perhaps there's been a massacre of Europeans, perhaps Turkey is kicking up a dust, perhaps Europe is interfering all of it, all at once. Later still. I've found out it's a little of all, and the Saadat is ready to go. I guess he can go now pretty soon, for the worst of the fever is over. But something has happened that's upset him knocked him stony for a minute.
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