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You know your profession; of course the money is not expected, but whatever he may offer you for affording him a respite put down to the friendship and good will of the beeldars of the palace, and remember us when you feast in your own dwelling." Yussuf, highly delighted, put the order into his cap, made a low salaam, and departed on his message.
"May the grave of the rascal's mother be defiled! to offer to cudgel the vice-regent of the Prophet." "The caliph was in disguise, and Yussuf knew him not," replied Mustapha. "Those who threaten me in disguise, will find that no excuse, we swear by our beard," replied the pacha. "Proceed Menouni."
"Say them quickly, then, for you enter not my doors again, you wretched fellows, who have ruined all the water-carriers and all the bath-people in Bagdad." "What is that you mean?" replied the caliph; "we are lost in mystery." "What!" replied Yussuf: "have you not heard the decree of this morning?"
The general cautioned him to silence while Yussuf knelt and untied the strip that bound his feet, then, his arms still bound, he was ordered to march on before them. This, he said to himself, as he silently obeyed that order, this really was the time to pinch himself and wake up! Of all the dark, eerie nightmares!
Yûssuf ibn Ayûb Joseph the son of Job was by descent a Kurd. The caliphate was then divided into the Fatimite line, which reigned at Cairo, and the Abbaside, which reigned at Baghdad. Both branches had by this time fallen into a mere semblance of authority.
"One clean kick might solve this international affair!" "Steady!" Grim answered. "We need him until after leaving Haifa. The French agent wired, and they'll have a gang at Haifa ready for us; but Yussuf Dakmar will warn them off if we keep him hoping."
Yussuf swallowed this also with a rapidity which was astonishing to behold, nor did he cease eating till the whole table cleared. The confectioner was amazed. "This fellow," thought he, "breakfasted upon ten dishes, each containing three fowls. How fortunate for me! What would he have done had he come here fainting? Nothing less than an ox stuffed with pistachio-nuts would have satisfied him.
First they closed the Hummaum Alraschid, next that of Ziet Zobiede, then the bath of Giaffar Bermuki, at which Yussuf had found employment the day before. When it was closed, the master and attendants looked at the door, and they reproached the assistants, who had befriended Yussuf, saying, he was a water-carrier, and the business was stopped by a decree.
"And at that speech Yussuf Dakmar laughed with great delight. 'Better late than never! said he. 'Better to think of a wise precaution now than not at all! But oh, ye are an empty-headed crew! he told them. 'I pity the conspiracy that had no better planning than ye would make for it without my fore thought! I thought of this long ago!
Another man let go of Yussuf Dakmar, who was growing weak and too short of wind to yell, and in a moment there were five of us struggling on the floor between the seats, one man under me with my forearm across his throat and another alongside me, stabbing savagely at a leather valise under the impression that he was carving up my ribs.
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