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Pass the word to the rest." When the prisoners had been herded into a compact company in the center of the mounted troop, the leader chirruped to his horse. "It grows late," he said. "Y'Allah!" And at the point of the lance the captives were driven forward.
Four hundred and twenty philips, then, O dalal, and Allah pardon me my prodigality." Yet scarcely was his little speech concluded than Tsamanni with laconic eloquence rapped out: "Five hundred." "Y'Allah!" cried the Turk, raising his hands to heaven, and "Y'Allah!" echoed the crowd. "Five hundred and fifty," shrilled Ayoub's voice above the general din.
A crescent of emeralds flashed from his snowy turban; above it rose the peak of a steel cap, and his body was cased in chain mail. He swung a great scimitar, before which Spaniards went down like wheat to the reaper's sickle. He fought like ten men, and to support him poured a never-ending stream of Muslimeen to the cry of "Din! Din! Allah, Y'Allah!"
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