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It is for friendship, not for food, we come! There was a postscript: 'Why not go and see the judge? Suleymân was in the room. He was an old acquaintance, a man of decent birth, but poor, by trade a dragoman, who had acquired a reputation for unusual wisdom. When he had nothing else to do, he came to me unfailingly, wherever I might chance to be established or encamped.
We had been on our way an hour before Rashîd discovered that he had left a pair of saddle-bags behind him at the khan; and as those saddle-bags contained belongings of Suleymân, the latter went back with him to retrieve them. I rode on slowly, looking for a patch of shade.
And everything depended on the cook's behaviour. 'I tell you he is mad, said Suleymân, advancing towards the fire. 'It were a sin for you to slay a fellow-creature thus afflicted. Come hither, O Mansûr, he cried as to a dog. The cook rose up and came towards us with a foolish air. 'Lie down before my horse. I would ride over thee. The cook fell prostrate, then turned over on his back.
"Seba of El-Yemen the country of Bilkees, the Queen beloved of Suleyman," said the Jinnee. "It is an excellent suggestion, and I will follow it without delay." "But you won't forget to look in on Professor Futvoye to-morrow, will you?" "Assuredly I will not. And now, ere I depart, tell me if there be any other service I may render thee." Horace hesitated.
Suleymân dismounted likewise, and invited me to do the same. 'But it is stealing, I objected. 'Allah! Allah! moaned Suleymân, as one past patience. He hung his head a moment, limp all over, as if the spirit had been taken out of him; then called out to Rashîd, who was devouring grapes: 'Return, O malefactor, O most wicked robber! Thou art guilty of a fearful crime. Thy master says so.
I threatened them with vengeance, but they showed no fear. Is it your Honour's will that I should beat a few of them? Seeing their numbers, I considered it the wiser plan for us to let them be till their excitement had cooled down, and till Suleymân arrived to help us with advice.
But a certain Jarjarees, the son of Rejmoos, the son of Iblees may he be for ever accursed! looked with favour upon the maiden, and, going secretly unto Suleyman, persuaded him that I was preparing a crafty snare for the King's undoing." "And, of course, you never thought of such a thing?" said Ventimore.
But Sinān was no Suleymān; moreover, he was in a furious rage with the whole Order. He put the garrison all save a few in chains, and carried them off to grace his triumph at Stambol. Thus did Tripoli fall once more into the hands of the Moslems, forty-one years after its conquest by the Count Don Pedro Navarro. The misfortunes of the Christians did not end here.
The American was satisfied, and wrote him out a handsome testimonial. It must have been a hardship for Suleymân a man by nature sensitive and independent to take his orders from some kinds of tourists and endure their rudeness.
The Frank looked round in our direction, with an angry face; but Suleymân bestowed no further thought on him. He rode up to the nearest group of fellâhîn, crying aloud: 'O true believers! O asserters of the Unity! Bless the Prophet, and inform me straightway what has happened! Having captured their attention by this solemn adjuration, he inquired: 'Who is the chief among you?
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