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A voice that I could never forget, strive how I would, a voice that haunted my dreams by night, and for which by day I was ever listening, cried out from some adjoining room: "Ta'ala hina!" it called. "Ta'ala hina, Peko!" It was Kâramanèh! The effect upon the marmoset was instantaneous.
Soames seated himself at the little table upon which the tray rested, and endeavored to eat. His usual appetite had departed with his identity; Mr. Lucas was a poor, twitching being of raw nerves and internal qualms. He emptied the coffee-pot, however, and smoked a cigarette which he found in his case. Said reappeared. "Ta'ala!" he directed.
"Said," said Ho-Pin very deliberately, turning to face the new arrival, "ahu hina Lucas Effendi Mr. Lucas. Waddi el shenta ila beta oda. Fehimt?" Said bowed his head. "Fahim, effendi," he muttered rapidly. "Ma fihsh."... Again Said bowed his head, then, glancing at Soames: "Ta'ala wayyaya!" he said.
Soames whirled around in a sudden panic, his heart leaping madly. The immobile brown face peered in at the door. "Ta'ala wayyaya!" repeated Said, his face expressionless as a mask. He pointed along the corridor. "Ho-Pin Effendi!" he explained. Soames, raising his hands to his collarless neck, made a swallowing noise, and would have spoken; but: "Ta'ala wayyaya!" reiterated the Oriental.
In short, he was another man a man whom he detested at first sight! This was the price, or perhaps only part of the price, of his indiscretion. Mr. Soames was become Mr. Lucas. Clutching the top of the chest-of-drawers with both hands, he glared at his own reflection, dazedly. In that pose, he was interrupted. Said, silently opening the door behind him, muttered: "Ta'ala wayyaya!"
A voice that I could never forget, strive how I would, a voice that haunted my dreams by night, and for which by day I was ever listening, cried out from some adjoining room. "Ta'ala hina!" it called. "Ta'ala hina, Peko!" It was Karamaneh! The effect upon the marmoset was instantaneous.
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