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Towards the south, where Arba lay on a low hill of earth, without grass or trees, beyond a mound covered thickly with tamarisk bushes, which was a feeding-place for immense herds of camels, the blue was clear and the light of the sun intense.
"Well, there's at least one cur eliminated from the politics of this State," blurted Harlan, gratefully. "Eliminated!" sneered his grandfather. "The first man you'll meet in the legislative lobby next winter, sugar on his speech and alum on his finger, so that he can get a good firm grip of your buttonhole, will be Arba Spinney, drawing his salary as the paid agent of half-a-dozen schemers.
"Does he understand French?" "A little." "And he committed murder?" "At Tunis. He was a butcher there. He cut a man's throat." "Why?" "I don't know, monsieur. Perhaps he was jealous. It is hot in Tunis in the summer. That was five years ago, and ever since he has been in prison." "And why are you taking him to El Arba?" "He came from there.
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families. And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
And yet day by day, word by word, hint by hint his eye on the future loyalty of the Everett faction at the polls he made the candidate understand that Arba Spinney was a man to be reckoned with that the convention was not an open-and-shut certainty for the machine. Without realizing how it had come about, Everett found himself discussing "political exigencies."
When Allah sends the sands we should cover the face and play the ladies' game within the cafe, we should not travel on the road towards the south." Ali said nothing, but drew up his haik over his mouth and nose, and looked into the night, folding his thin hands in his burnous. "Achmed will sleep in the Bordj of Arba," continued Batouch in a low, murmuring voice, as if speaking to himself.
In the silence that ensued they could hear Arba Spinney continuing his harangue. "Gentlemen, you've got to do something in this party to stop the mouths of him and men like him," declared the General, solemnly. "You may make up your minds that you've either got to pay in money, or else you'll pay in votes that mean the bankruptcy of the party."
Presson, and certain members of the State Committee. David Everett will be there, too. Inform them I send my urgent request that they meet, at once, the Hon. Arba Spinney and a delegation in my room here. I think that combination will suggest to guilty consciences that they'd better hurry. If they show any signs of hesitating, you may intimate as much to them."
Batouch, smothered in his burnous, his large head sunk upon his chest, slumbered like a potentate relieved from cares of State. Till Arba was reached his duty was accomplished. Ali, perched behind him on the camel, stared into the dimness with eyes steady and remote as those of a vulture of the desert.
The early kings are continually represented on the monuments as sovereigns over the Kiprat-arbat, or, Four Races. These "Four Races" are called sometimes the Arba Lisun, or "Four Tongues," whence we may conclude that they were distinguished from one another, among other differences, by a variety in their forms of speech.
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