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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Still further: I swear to thee, Sheik Ilderim I swear by the covenant the Lord made with my fathers so thou but give me the revenge I seek, the money and the glory of the race shall be thine." Ilderim's brows relaxed; his head arose; his face began to beam; and it was almost possible to see the satisfaction taking possession of him. "Enough!" he said.
"And now," said Ilderim, "these hopes are sunk that solitary light is quenched for ever?" "For ever," answered Sir Kenneth, in the tone of an echo from the bosom of a ruined sepulchre.
O Ilderim, thy waking thoughts are yet as vain and wild as those which are wheeling their giddy dance through thy sleeping brain; but the trumpet shall be heard, and the dream shall be dissolved."
The lad arose, and, with silent salute, departed. At midnight Ilderim took the road, having arranged to leave a horse and a guide for Ben-Hur, who was to follow him. Going next day to fill his appointment with Iras, Ben-Hur turned from the Omphalus, which was in the heart of the city, into the Colonnade of Herod, and came shortly to the palace of Idernee.
But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter!
Particularly he sought opportunities of hearing reference to the whereabouts and doings of one Ilderim the Weeper.
They took the road which led to the right across the meadow spoken of in the description of the coming to the fountain. Ben-Hur was first to break the silence. "Do you know Sheik Ilderim the Generous?" "Yes." "Where is his Orchard of Palms? or, rather, Malluch, how far is it beyond the village of Daphne?"
"And you love her no longer?" said the Saracen. "Alas," answered Sir Kenneth, "I am no longer worthy to love her. I pray thee cease this discourse thy words are poniards to me." "Pardon me but a moment," continued Ilderim. "When thou, a poor and obscure soldier, didst so boldly and so highly fix thine affection, tell me, hadst thou good hope of its issue?"
"I come, then," said El Hakim, "as your ancient foe, but a fair and a generous one." He entered as he spoke; and when he stood before the bedside of Sir Kenneth, the voice continued to be that of Adonbec, the Arabian physician, but the form, dress, and features were those of Ilderim of Kurdistan, called Sheerkohf.
Hardly were they gone in, when he spoke to one of his pages: "Here, take thou this, and give me my cimeter." And then, receiving the ruby-hilted sword of Solomon in exchange for the mace of Ilderim, without more ado he spurred his horse up the few broad stone steps, and into the vestibule.
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