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Malluch retired, and was succeeded by a lad of gentle manners and delicate appearance, who knelt upon one knee, and said, winningly, "Iras, the daughter of Balthasar, well known to good Sheik Ilderim, hath intrusted me with a message to the sheik, who, she saith, will do her great favor so he receive her congratulations on account of the victory of his four."
'There is nothing I cannot do: be it so. Shall any man in this my hour of such mighty privilege be more generous than I? Serve me as a witness now, Sheik Ilderim. Hear thou my words as I shall speak them hear and remember. And thou, Esther, good angel of this good man! hear thou also." He stretched his hand with the roll to Simonides.
It would help me to feel that, whatever I have lived, I die a Briton that if I could not live without Ilderim Dost Mahommed I can die without him. But this must seem lunatic wanderings to you. "I apologize for writing to you and I hesitated long.
"Has Ilderim heard nothing more of the three men?" asked Ben-Hur. "What became of them?" "Ah, yes, that was the cause of his coming to Simonides the day of which I was speaking. Only the night before that day the Egyptian reappeared to him." "Where?" "Here at the door of the tent to which we are coming." "How knew he the man?" "As you knew the horses to-day by face and manner." "By nothing else?"
Basin or pot. "'For that blow will I have a great revenge, O Jan Rah-bin-Ras el-Isan Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan, descendant of Mirs and of mlecca dogs, this year or next year, or ten years hence, or when thou art old, or upon thy first-born.
Ilderim listened, combing his beard the while. At the end he said, with a laugh, "I think better of thee, son of Israel. We have a saying in the Desert, 'If you will cook the meal with words, I will promise an ocean of butter. thou shalt have the horses in the morning." At that moment there was a stir at the rear entrance to the tent.
Mahommed then descended to the ditch, and remained there mounted, the sword of Solomon in his hand, the mace of Ilderim at his saddle bow; and though hearing him was impossible, the Faithful took fire from his fire enough that they were under his eye. The feat attempted by the hordes was then repeated, except now there was order in disorder.
"I was about to say," he continued, "I have no choice, but take the part you assign me; and as remaining here is to meet an ignoble death, I will to the work at once." "Shall we have writings?" asked Simonides, moved by his habit of business. "I rest upon your word," said Ben-Hur. "And I," Ilderim answered. Thus simply was effected the treaty which was to alter Ben-Hur's life.
At the very moment that the sun touched the lower half of the western heavens, the Sheik Ilderim, where he sat in his saddle, with all his tribe stretching behind him, full-armed, to sweep down like falcons on the spoilers, if the hour passed with the pledge unredeemed, saw the form of the Chasseur reappear between his sight and the glare of the skies; nor did he ride alone.
Indeed, wert thou to ask me where he is now, I should say, with the most positive assurance, he is to be found at the old Orchard of Palms." "A h!" exclaimed Ilderim, in such a tone one might hardly say he was more surprised than angry; at the same time, he clutched his beard. "'At the old Orchard of Palms," Ben-Hur repeated, "'under the tent of the traitor Shiek Ilderim." "Traitor!
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