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"In sh' Allah, it may prove so," replied his mother; "but I doubt it greatly. Thou wast ever one to follow distant dreams, neglecting the good that lay within hand's reach. Were Elias or Yuhanna in thy place, no doubt at all but they would make some money. There is a chance when making purchases or hiring horses for his Honour.
He had stood for a long while glued to the pavement of a certain entry, outside the jostling crowd, gazing entranced at the shop of a coppersmith across the way where, in the darkness of a kind of cave, the burnished wares gave forth a bluish gleam like negro faces when some one smote his chest. There was Yuhanna the dragoman, his old enemy, grinning down at him, for once quite friendly.
The musician struck into another tune, but soon desisted, finding his art forgotten in a general clamour of conversation, every one addressing the Frank, who, after looking from one to another at a loss, gave ear to Yuhanna Mahbûb, who sat next him. Yuhanna, like Elias, had partaken of the rum and gin.
It is some lying fable of that mad Elias!" "That, Allah knows, is possible," put in a bystander. "Elias is the very prince of fable-mongers." Yuhanna still kept grinning in Iskender's face. "Wilt thou swear by the Blessed Sacrament that thou knowest nothing of the whereabouts of any treasure?" "Art mad? How should I know of any treasure?" "Swear by the Blessed Sacrament!
"He is good enough to treat me as a brother, and has sworn, of his benevolence, to make my fortune," Iskender modestly admitted. "Pshaw! Promises I know them!" sneered Yuhanna. "Coined money is the only thing I put my faith in." "We crave a boon of thee," pursued Elias coaxingly. "Bring the khawâjah to the house of Karlsberger to-morrow afternoon. We will make a feast in his honour and thine.
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