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The loud shouts of joy that resounded without announced to the sarechsme that the soldiers were well pleased to return home. "I am, too!" said he to himself, smiling. "I am well pleased that we are not compelled to confront the Mamelukes! Perhaps we shall soon be fighting side by side!" In the meanwhile intelligence of the defeat of the Turkish army had reached Cairo.
The sarechsme assents with a gracious inclination of the head, and smiles benignantly on the finance minister. "We understand each other right well, my good defterdar. You are right; go in advance, and announce me to the viceroy." He waited a short time in the court-yard, conversing with the soldiers who gathered around him to complain of their wrongs.
Farewell, sarechsme, if I should riot see you again! Farewell! and let me keep my vow!" She gently pushes him back, and flies out of the tent to meet her father. Sheik Arnhyn recognizes and hails her with a shout of delight. "Butheita, have you succeeded, have you guarded the stranger well?" "I have taken good care of him; come, father, and see!"
How dared you lead me away, a prisoner, from my army? Really, you were very presumptuous. Such conduct is calculated to excite my just anger and indignation." The sheik made a profound obeisance. "I trust you will forgive me, sarechsme; what I did was done at the command of my master. There he comes; he is called Osman Bey Bardissi. He comes crowned with victory, and will treat with you.
No, she is mistaken. Yet she offers no resistance. And what resistance can she offer? Her hands and feet are bound, and now she is borne out, and lifted high, and then laid down. She does not see that she is on her own dromedary. She lies on the same cushion in the same palanquin in which she had once held the sarechsme Mohammed Ali a prisoner, and he it is who seats himself beside her.
I will leave you alone, sarechsme. I see well you are a proud man, and it does not seem proper to you to be alone with a Bedouin's daughter long. I can not prevent it; forgive me. I will attend to my household affairs, as you suggest. I rely on your promise, stranger, not to leave the inner apartment." "You can rely on my word," said he, earnestly. "I am your prisoner, your slave.
Before him, I for the first time in my life experienced fear. Beware of him; if possible, make a friend of him, for the sarechsme, Mohammed Ali, would prove a mighty ally!" "I know him well," said Osman Bey, smiling. "I met him when a boy, and even then we confronted each other as enemies.
They gave the sarechsme, after he had waited in vain for many months, ten purses of gold; they owe him more. Ask my soldiers what I did with this money. I shared it with my soldiers as a general should. I retained five purses, for this amount was due my creditors. The other five purses I gave to my soldiers not as their pay, the viceroy owes them that, but as a present from me.
Yes, there come two figures. That is my father, that is Sheik Arnhyn. Some one accompanies him. Rejoice, sarechsme; you will be relieved of your ennui!" He laid his band gently on her shoulder, and regarded her with a long, earnest look, that recalled the roses to her brown cheeks. "I do not rejoice, Butheita, Queen of the Desert.
"Yes, it is the duty of the sarechsme to be identified with his soldiers; and if, impelled by their want, they went too far, I beg for their forgiveness; but I also beg that justice be done them; and their demands are just. They are in great want, for I have forbidden them to rob and plunder. They have long waited patiently for their pay. But I beg you to give it them now, Bardissi."
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