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When the coffee was brought, the door had been shut, and Dicky had drawn the curtain across, Selamlik Pasha said: "What great affair brings us together here, saadat el basha?" "The matter of the Englishman you hold a prisoner, Excellency." "It is painful, but he is dead," said the Pasha, with a grimace of cruelty.
He is worth another Alma to her prestige. She can't afford to see him slaughtered here, where he's fighting the fight of civilisation. You see right through this thing, I know, and I don't need to palaver any more about it. It doesn't matter about me. I've had a lot for my money, and I'm no use or I wouldn't be, if anything happened to the Saadat.
"Where wilt thou sleep, Saadat?" he asked. "The pasha will sleep yonder," David replied, pointing to another room. "I will sleep here." He laid a hand upon the couch where he sat. Nahoum rose and, salaaming, followed Mahommed to the other room. In a few moments the house was still, and remained so for hours.
The officer thanked the lady and salaamed again, then turned towards Kingsley. "You wished to speak with me, perhaps, Pasha," said Kingsley. "If a moment of your time may have so little honour, saadat el bey." Kingsley moved down the veranda shoulder to shoulder with the Pasha, and the latter's men, responding to a glance, moved down also. Kingsley saw, but gave no heed.
Must the dog, because he is a dog, die in the slime? Shall he not be driven from the village to die in the clean sand? Saadat, who will see in me Achmet Pasha, who did with Egypt what he willed, and was swept away by the besom in thy hand? Is there in me aught of that Achmet that any should know?" "None would know thee for that Achmet," answered David.
"Behold, Saadat from Ebn Ezra Bey," Mahommed said. The man drooped beside him. David caught a tin cup from a shelf, poured some liquor into it, and held it to the lips of the fainting man. "Drink," he said. The Arab drank greedily, and, when he had finished, gave a long sigh of satisfaction. "Let him sit," David added.
The officer thanked the lady and salaamed again, then turned towards Kingsley. "You wished to speak with me, perhaps, Pasha," said Kingsley. "If a moment of your time may have so little honour, saadat el bey." Kingsley moved down the veranda shoulder to shoulder with the Pasha, and the latter's men, responding to a glance, moved down also. Kingsley saw, but gave no heed.
"Twenty men will lose their heads to-morrow morning, a riot will occur, the bank where much gold is will be broken into, some one will be made poor, and " "Come, never mind twaddle about my money we'll see about that. Those twenty men my men?" "Your men, saadat el bey." "They're seized?" "They are in prison." "Where?" "At Abdin Palace." Kingsley Bey had had a blow, but he was not dumfounded.
"Saadat el basha, thou art known as the truth-teller and the incorruptible this is the word of the Egyptian and of the infidel concerning thee. I kiss thy feet. For it is true he hath deserved death, but woe be to him by whom his death cometh! And am I not his servant to be with him while he hath life, and hath need of me? If thou sayest he is alive, then is he alive, and my heart rejoices."
From that minute there was trouble. I figure it out this way: Halim was sent by Nahoum Pasha to bring letters that said one thing to the Saadat, and, when quite convenient, to say other things to Mustafa, the boss-sheikh of this settlement. Halim Bey has gone again, but he has left his tale behind him.
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