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if
third
divorce
him
remarry
blame
time,
to
take
her
husband
shall
whom
attach
Koran,
and
Then
he
to
Chapter
the
set
of
from
to
for
shall
have
divorced
first
him
by
husband
and
them.
II,
Verse
"I
or
lawful
not
she
been
may
had
any
is
until
again,
husband.
her
it
divorce
free,"
art
times,
back
of
sentence
"Thou
saying
another
second
give
three
you,"
married
that
husband
the
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Honeymoon
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XIX
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XXI
XXII
The
A
Summons
Very
142
Holy
Man
Moments
Captive
The
Cavalcade
The
176
204
Fortxwes
216
Graveyard
231
Gate
246
the
Near
Citadel
the
Old
Acquaintance
Brazier
The
.159
192
Varying
An
128
Menacing
At
Amad's
.
XI
260
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OneWay
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A
Mary
The
Surprise
324
Carruthers
Mission
337
Gardens
348
ALADDIN
FROM
BROADWAY
ALADDIN
FROM
BROADWAY
CHAPTER
CASUAL
ENCOUNTER
"The
DAMASCUS!
A
Straight."
Eyes
bold, reckless,
handsome
that
shines
like
caftan.
somewhat
Biblical, of
to
the
western
superfluous, especially
has
been
so
dyed
Beneath
pilgrim.
Dark
the
to
seems
eye
it is not
as
proclaim
rags,
beard
the
dun-colored
the
across
which
hues.
many
for
almost
young
lithe
fore
be-
heels
famished-looking.
flame
beard,
red, but
Mecca
too
his
on
called
is
that
sitting
cloak
little
features,
Street
dervish
his
pastry-shop,
ally
natur-
returned
graceful
figure.
"Look
of
the
passing
physical
are!"
at
him,"
said
conventional
at
that
manhood
an
elderly American
"personally
moment.
some
"What
of
these
woman
conducted"
fine
examples
Mohammedans
type,
of
ALADDIN
"This
go
looks
one
of those
one
FROM
BROADWAY
if he
as
long pole,high
in for," returned
her
do
might
Marathon,
stunts
collegeboys
our
companion,
or
pert Buckeye
miss.
"High
might
stunts, indeed!
been
have
picked
some
wild
Lord
Fitzgerald?"
The
gave
looks
to
me
as
if he
transported from
and
up
frontier.
Afghan
dervish
He
Don't
think
you
so.
ladies
observed.
spare,
They
had
turned
to
languid,
joined them
at
that moment.
"I?"
which
focused
on
we
in northern
see
enlists for
"You
and
soldiers to
them
you
quite make
our
ment
govern-
from
them
gars
beg-
being
tious
decidedly face-
was
pay
Cheaper
so.
let them
this
"He
them
for
not
robbing
you
throats?"
cutting your
and
He
versation.
con-
of those
one
keep
their
it.
mean
"Quite
like
object of
the
look
"Yes, he does
singleeyeglass,
cut
to
one
make
martial
another's
Jat."
heroes
throats.
More
of
Can't
platively.
contem-
For
CASUAL
few
minutes
ENCOUNTER
ject
they stood there, until the ob-
them.
lady in
and
up
the older
to
and looked
deliberately
insolent
almost
an
likewise
cut
eyes
Fitzgerald. They
down
then
in
took
the young
over
one,
at
passed
Lord
to
that
comprehensively
and
coat
the
singleglass.
question which
tourist hat.
ultra-smart
For
would
turn
brilliant,
hungry, albeit satirical
the
or
apatheticgray
round
for any
behind
had
it would
the
not
what-not
^a
"
visitors
from
"These
won
mixture
guide
"
from
hodge-podge
the
created
now
he
have
West
a
in low
especially."
of
and
the
gray
of
Turk,
Greek
and
whenever
with
the
despised
fered,
opportunity of-
divertisement.
holy pilgrimsdo
observed
out
"blooming heathen,"
his fortunes
gladly threw
^who
"
be stared
so,
eye
traditional
the
tion
against all tradi-
it is
especiallyby
first,the
of the dervish,
eyes
countenance,
and
But
it
moments,
away
behind
one
"window-pane."
few
They
uneasy
not
tones.
"And
in Damascus,
ALADDIN
"Well,
his
by Jove!"
stare
the
to
look
at
king
may
FROM
BROADWAY
The
Englishman
"That's
guide.
This
not"
good!
transferred
is delicious
cat
may
subject of
the
Positively! By
Jove!"
"These
the
dervishes
hodge-podge
"Oh,
I'm
like
The
dervish
motion
did
if to
as
disturbed
They're
more
not
He
stare.
absorbed
seemed
"
advise
draw
And
"
them
the
guide made
"The
away.
city is
most
present."
at
We're
"Pooh!
not
afraid,
with
all the
all, of
course,
the younger
"Not
lips
pious meditation.
in
the
Mohammedan's.
ferocious,"
very
airily. "His
woman
younger
"Still I would
of
look
American's."
an
now
doesn't
he
sure
all like
at
fanatical," murmured
very
ingratiatingly.
interposed the
aren't
are
are
spiritof
aunty?"
we,
one
from
the
said
land
free.
at
nervously
it is for
All
"
the
the
my
"it is well
best that
other
we
tourists
Only"
dear.
to
are
have
be
what
some-
"
prudent.
leaving
gone
the
haps
Per-
night.
city to-
except
our-
and
selves
are
Balbeek.
at
of
afraid
don't
the
"You
the
other.
my
to
motor
hotel, the
one
you
part, I
my
risky things.
had
you
Like
last
about
telling us
were
you
"Aren't
For
those
do
American
with
wager
know,
Bedouins?
people
why
young
at
wild
those
see
night
observed
me!"
"Dear
"Left
Languidly.
intention, you
My
when
By the way,
desert."
the
across
Fitzgerald?"
decided."
"Haven't
that
Fitzgerald here.
Lord
leaving, Lord
you
car
ENCOUNTER
CASUAL
ridiculous
that
"
"
mean
girl.
The
dervish
murmured
seemed
rather
accents
the
big
smooth
beads
carry.
"As
Fitzgerald,
that
from
his
last
love-affair."
faster.
"His
swells, and
of
I
mine.
all that,
he
going
we
Or
tell you.
Lord
interrupted by
were
this
Mr.
were
Stanton
all about
fingered
family,
harder
medans
Moham-
most
rather, I know
dervish
had
to
His
passage.
gripped
string
all about
The
people
holy
and
the
was
I know
of
chum
vicious
night when
dragoman,
a
another
his
no
only unfortunately,their
beads
end
of
income
of
was
diminishing kind.
Of
girl in
man
the
is
father
whose
holds
our
biggest trusts.
of
the
the
of
son
floated up
she
gave
her
that
time
Fitzgerald.
All
heart
he
the
young
Osborne
dozen
being
man
poor
Just
or
the
so
of
rival
when
same,
I guess
it
jolted
It must
have
been
about
sillywager
with
you,
Lord
wanted
do, under
men
some.
that
made
He
Archie
gilded youth,
the
to
Jack Stanton's
all with
the
hand
expensive
the poor
half
'interlocker' !
an
at
only
'interlockingdirectors'
on
Fancy
for
of
lot
married
combination
and
in
in novels
of those
one
long story
chance
no
only
She
does.
ever
stood
It is
case.
make
had
and
he
course
To
ultimately came
BROADWAY
FROM
ALADDIN
do
to
something desperate.
circumstances,"
the
she
jeered
flippantly.
A
half
throat.
"You
articulate
He
was
say
he had
observed
I'm
afraid
our
Lord
"My
them
Lord
now
growing
but
fortune
madam
will
of
the
dervish's
impatient.
more
fiftythousand?"
gravely.
more
"Then
"
"
"
The
"
imperatively.
from
and
more
Fitzgerald
wager
"
broke
sound
The
guide interrupted
dervish
had
made
an
CASUAL
and
abrupt
emphatic
construed
have
as
been
and
be
while
and
then
him
all
not
his eyes
remain
cast
"Well,
the
"You
they
in the
have
we
of
And
they
be
noyed
an-
amuck
run
I for
don't
one,
the
the
other
glances
Didn't
five thousand
should
we
city any
longer,
feeling against
people, in passing,
upon
there's
the younger
tell.
can
believe
this
believe
longer. Just
any
about
of these
us."
going
to
be
lady.
the
guide-book
Christians
not
so
say
long
city?"
unburied
left them
from
of
streets
hostile
murdered
"Dear
like to
not
I don't
decidedly
never
"And
voce
do
elder
heard
in this very
ago
go,
disturbing him,
are
stay here
to
trouble," observed
any
"
really
must
Sometimes
flash !
foreigners. Some
have
dervish
"
how
after
been
have
"
certainly ought
even
We
prayer.
"Quite right,"said
look
We
"
before, dervishes
at
might
"That
one.
answerable.
I said
as
menacing
It
movement.
watching
I won't
or
ENCOUNTER
in the
streets!"
Sotto
guide.
me!"
greater
linking her
The
elder
nervousness.
arm
displayed
woman
quickly in
"Come,
that
my
toms
sympdear!"
of the younger.
the
fluttered
two
of
this
as
out
away,
Lord
story.
self
of
matter
BROADWAY,
FROM
ALADDIN
of
the
lingered
Fitzgerald
and
national
and
street,
out
"
moment,
lowed
fol-
then
respect,
leisurely.
dervish
The
that
no
was
one
not
heard
after
looked
Allah
it.
fell
from
the
his
party
lips.
and
word
Fortunately
ALADDIN
lo
"Thank
who
the
takes
"I do.
answered
threw
FROM
lady !
unworthy, humbly
cake.
it.
canines.
In
shop.
of
midst
so
face, of
course,
of
the
passed, with
and
was
who
and
hurko,
glimpse of her
more
perhaps
shone
like
face
or
less of
inclination.
Her
exquisite
the
hundred
flower.
by the
veil, but
grace,
the
"
snowy
as
she
dervish
eyes.
they seemed
or
of
out
wretchedness
concealed
was
had
brighten
of
supple swaying
instant
to
venders
she
"
walked
silk, an
and
squalor
inconsequential articles
he
guilty pilferer.
she
coming seemed
carriers
ragged hawkers,
of
attire, was
Amid
thoroughfare.
An
the
richly robed.
that her
than
and
light rose,
caught
juvenile yells.
She
slender
street
gated
congre-
cake
street
whiteness
many
the
was
man
as
the
upon
hubbub
the
the
proprietor throw
tezyereh, or
Her
set
better
no
the
ensued
mingled with
Howls
the
the
stones
of
one
Pandemonium
and
dogs fared
thanks,"
return
eagerly, whereupon
Unfortunately
sticks
boys with
poverty
dervish
gracious lady
I, most
the
the most
your
the
bidden
Thank
pity on
the
Innocent
BROADWAY
to
hold
woman-hater
"By
the
him,
although
by profession
beard
of
the
FROM
VOICE
AFAR
in choicest
his
"No
own.
began again
was
suffered
only
roads,
the
and
high
bearing
At
autocratic
had
to
the
of
miserable
and
extended
and
at
empty-handed
livery and
The
to
would
toward
about
by
dog, made
the
an
rise.
lady with
His
of
lady,
attention,was
camels, annoyed
that moment
caught her.
bright trappings,
litter.
little yellow
and
along.
importance of those
the
started
backward
ground, but
forward
of
voices
came
with
of the
the
thrown
them,
in fine
attendant
the dervish's
one
movement
The
was
an
attracted
angry
the
others
by
peremptory
bearing, denoting
snapping of
of
two
who
to
there!"
Way
knelt while
he
demanded
command
he
opulent class.
there!
"Way
But
pray.
praiseworthy vocation
his
moments.
occupying
was
it," he added,
resolutely to
more
into
scoffinglight came
continue
to
few
!" he muttered
eyes
and
for
Then
ii
foot
have
on
the step
been
hurled
the dervish
arms,
which
Mecca,
now
sprang
had
been
clasped
ALADDIN
12
fair
Nay,
sample,
more
those
"
before
or
breath
warm
that
eyes
BROADWAY
FROM
forced
had
They
amend
were
impression of
adjectivesto
talk
and
would
Name)
cynical
For
the
thus
telling,
they
if unconventional
"
beggar
longer than
"
could
(Blessed
sinners;
to
teach
solitary
to
business
on
or
fate
that
on
the sterner
while
lady, brought
^made
"
he
interesting
an
ancient
street
of
tion
prolonged the situa-
exigencies
"
long in
somewhat
beautiful
and
Possibly
demanded,
wholly holy
takes
picture
contrasts.
helpful!
more
practisemagic
but lonesome
which
together by bizarre
strange
tically
roman-
They
accustomed
are
big,
sands.
moment,
saints, or
dervishes,
young
life's barren
license to
to
them.
few
things. Allah
them
disturb
diablerie; to
or
of
manner
gave
for
searched
their attraction.
encompass
tell all
be whose
have
tled
star-
were
ments
mo-
opportunity
"soulful"; they
than
more
abundant
first
that
few
fully,albeit in
own
fortify or
his attention
his
met
now
fanned
^to
light that
strictly
pious began
to
shine
be
merely
was
from
not
his
somewhat
VOICE
cynicalyoung
for
doing, for
so
all this
fortunate
anchorite
!
illumining glimpse of
perfect.
It dazzled
of
Her
dervish
awoke
he dared
different
utter
kind
from
sounded
now
daring presumptuousness
own
"By
pearl of
A
faith, but
the
save
one,
of
this bold
she, had
lilies!
been
now
The
the
most
oval,
possessing
unpre-
prospects.
his
lipson
litany. The
the minaret
holds
Damascus
caught
den
sudadan
of his
at
least
one
Fortunately
free
the too
The
compliment
street
was,
and
where
had
noisy daytimes.
you?"
He
and
mueddin.
young
mitted
per-
partially
to
no
not
beauty !"
wondrous
vivid
"How
of
were
young,
bleak
;
cuse
ex-
been
accustomed
gaze
it had
was
unexpected
an
to
desert
the
veil had
well
countenance,
the
13
swept
And
gaze.
the
contemplate
to
AFAR
FROM
The
old
Persian
lady'sface
din around
them
Roses
answer.
to
poets
new
would
have
ened
lik-
ment.
garden of enchant-
increased,
ALADDIN
14
"Ho!
BROADWAY
FROM
Demon
of
dog !"
This
camel!"
some
one
now
was
yelling.
"Back,
who
addressed
was
"The
in
said
it
by
apologizes
dog
he
time
to
dervish
the
was
of
one
her
self
him-
attendants.
ness,"
lady, for his bold-
you,
quick mocking
and
tones,
released
her.
"No,
raised
!"
no
staff to
The
She
turned
strike the
latter's eyes
in their
depths
the
on
had
who
attendant
dervish.
expressed
rested
they
as
the
to
dangerous
now
sardonic
there
servant;
glitter. The
ment
amuse-
also
was
stood
man
uncertainly.
"He
saved
the
whereupon
into
with
the
their
The
fellow
the
to
was
litter.
gazed
abruptly
"Who
pole
delicate
down
dervish
from
me
the
and
patrician burden
after
them,
proprietor
he
the
ished
van-
camels
ously
imperi-
Straight.
wheeled
then
of
the
swayed
is called
hastily,
lady
the
fell and
curtain
that
proprietor
fall,"she added
lowered
Street
is she?"
presumed
bad
The
rather
pastry-shop.
demanded.
heard
him
amazed.
greatly,because
he
This
had
ragged
performed
VOICE
And
triflingservice.
it is not
where
look
at
dervish
of
the
of
had
dared
fair
city
street!
that before
bold
This
little incident
the
rascal
impudent
to
inquired
her.'
she?
is
Out
from
"Away
the
exclaimed
you!"
upon
indignantly.
shop,
my
pretender of holiness!"
"Pretender
!" For
beginning
were
of the
impulse
"That's
to
what
the
that
assistant
murmured
cake-man
own
bake-place, despite
holy
man,
he
gossiping about
was,
his
assistant,
as
of
?"
!"
stepdaughter
himself,
women.
Pouring frostingand
In
around.
his
on.
itable,"
being char-
insinuatingly a
looked
better
for
"Impudence
beautiful
the
little
people
as
moved
and
to
if
think
to
lady gets
proprietor
his kitchen.
reentered
The
great
as
then
seemed
he
angrily
answer
other,
shopkeeper,
gather,
grumbled
"Wasn't
the
to
the
moment
startled, confronted
the
in
man,
pastry-man
he
15
etiquette even
the
on
the
now
holy
good
sex
do
to
litter and
"Who
rank
the
about
he,
considered
one
brazenly
AFAR
FROM
"
name.
the
quiet of
his
altogether
averse
Very discreetly,of
patting sugar
seemed
to
course
natural
FROM
ALADDIN
i6
accompaniment
delicate
to
dainty femininity in
nodded
He
"The
"Yes
"Good
that
higher social
the
?" went
"
and
May
!"
walks
assentingly.
now
one
BROADWAY
the assistant.
on
I call them."
December,
Adjusting
plum
on
baclc-
succulent
ground.
"A
I have
dove,
"You
mean
heard."
"
tigress. They
young
say
He
"
whispered.
Listening with
"No?"
"Yes;
of the servants
one
"The
delight.
stepmother will
told
be
She
out.
put
of
servant
*'
"
here
was
yesterday."
"She?
Then
had
Ugh!"
they put the
what
discussed
shops of
the many
be
mouthing
Outside
was
promised
the
now
be
to
of sweetmeats.
things in
sweet
it with
this
the
stream
a
of
balce.
choice
They
scandal
In the inner
kind,
other
At
delectable
on.
first he
long
squared his
Judging
he
rooms
would
women
life flowed
part of it.
shoulders.
to
soon
things.
The
had
vish
der-
moved
straightened and
from
the
quick
ALADDIN
i8
one,
half
He
a
hand,
at
near
BROADWAY
FROM
and
turned
following
was
his eyes
quick contemptuous
rags,
the
about
to
on
devilishly clear
the
dervish
follow
"The
; I
"Yes
for
he
"Why
Sadi,
now
the
"My
Star
"It
master
of
the
is
gone.
is
"
it finished?"
Await
moment.
broken
?" said
the
had
to
distant
servant
was
richest
the
man
relative
trusts
impatiently
the
of
man.
acquiesce, for
the
to
Amad,
in
Damascus,
he
mond
dia-
and,
Sadi, himself.
saddle
is
worthy
of
the
Desert."
worthy,"
eyes
have
saddler,
him
merchant,
moreover,
horse
shop in
my
would
come
addressed
who
touched
"
not
And
other,
stopped him.
at
He
when
away,
The
himself
master's
my
who
will be
there."
me
of
cloak
restrained.
saddle
said
quickly, found
more
of
then
his
and
arm
of
swing
of
ones
"
with
him.
fraction
for the
met,
watching
and
turned
said
in
the
the
saddlemaker,
direction
the
his
dervish
licious
ma-
had
VOICE
seemed
"You
in
AFAR
FROM
remarked
hurry,"
19
the
servant
curiously.
"Some
"A
the
friend."
"
his
made
at
rich relative
and
Meanwhile
and
way
lucrative
dervish
that
one
Faster
he
moved,
had
didn't
selected
and
this
possess
localitynot
to
go
he
brought
not
After
sure
up
in
an
wrong
make
front
lay before
to
his
er
narrow-
much
as
that is called
one
; at
of
the
an
knowledge
or
maze,
any
that
entrance
of
opening,
then
as
so.
be
person
of the
it may
rate, before
evidence
him, and
now
It may
byways.
in that
certain
glancing through
what
the
so
even
intimate
led him
without
into
turned
designedly, though
to
chance
matter," he had
customer.
tortuous
route
have
only blind
perhaps we'll
soon
crooked
most
"I
laugh.
But
Mecca.
would
in
inwardly anathematizing
most
the
curious
it doesn't
Anyhow,
politely,though
he
him
saw
other.
With
acquaintance
again.
meet
the
friend, eh?"
"Yes
add
speak with.
to
muttered
crowd,"
the
I wished
one
be
long,
he
garded
re-
satisfaction.
if to
make
casting a quick
ALADDIN
go
look
FROM
his shoulder
over
down
stooped, unfastened
he
depositingthem
into the
Here
reigned
superb
professionalletter-writer
raised
retrospection.
about
the
dozed
"
^then
The
dervish
there
passed
plenty to
wings
lay like
seemed
to
of his brain.
Allah, where
them
were
yonder
were
especialattraction
soft rugs
shady
of
their
the
glided across
ful
grate-
doves, of
which
The
whir
the shadow
enter
times
do.
fingeradmonishing people
bid
Ah,
moth.
for him.
way
the white
cold
feet, while
disturbed
alone
he
which
myriads, made
were
similes
^the merry
"
He
become
weary
Now
on.
his travel-worn
of their
But
had
shining pavement,
smooth
to
letter-writer
good times
the
"
to
chambers
set
moon,
full of
were
eyes
apt
were
the door
his desk.
over
the
to
pomegranate
come,
boldly forward
Near
deep-set old
Phrases
had
mosque.
silence.
and
peace
he
door, strode
of
large court
the way
his
the
at
BROADWAY
the
and
It
House
of
praying
niches.
which
too,
minaret
holiness.
enclosed
recesses,
own,
to
and
had
one
an
of
these
VOICE
^the most
"
beneath
dusty roads,
cool
most
isolated
for
mountain
over
that
welcome.
But
before
the
the fountain
he would
it ;
now
small
be
even
his
of his face,
deciding
around
Heigho!
Still his bath
If
one
eat,
followed
in the
himself
his
lay down.
in and
walked
could
he
perhaps
But
his
city. Prodigal
toward
reflections of the
quickly from
once
head
more
hunger!
might
court
few
possible
imwinks
wild
waste
aggravating
hostile faces.
there
mahogany
in his dreams.
flesh-potsmingled with
the
of
end
one
capacious cloak
refreshed
forgetfulness.
youth)
laved
he
had
He
once
alone;
was
at
lighterhue than
drawing
him,
to
He
him;
secluded.
off
throw
to
He
screened
was
was
bath, he
him.
gleamed white
limpid surface.
foot, then
pool,
upon
space
more
limbs,
small
the interminable
luxury of
bent
were
eyes
There,
enjoy
and
prying
no
21
the dervish.
and
more
of
wooed
"
pilgrims. After
water
his cloak
to
AFAR
bathing place
the
FROM
of
uneaten
He
saw
in the
good chops
and
ALADDIN
22
juicy saddles
""
such
as
lashed
get
you
with
at
Sharpe's
"Old
who
musty?"
And
chops which
Eh?
one
had
and
there
was
chops
knew
from
were
quarters
of
the
the
the houses.
Trouble?
The
As
loud
one.
Not
other
dervish
at
and
waiter
brief
derstanding
misun-
Sharpe's, though
The
the wall
dervish
sat
one
side,
on
likelythe voice
side, however,
wealthy
Damascus
were
Perhaps
tankard
not
was
Beyond
in the immediate
mosque.
self
him-
had
"
the tombs.
On
boot?
to
man,
him,
to
this
fallen.
holic
alco-
aught
but those
cave,
Voices?
voice, and
there!
basked
the
night had
up;
he
was
"
there
of
holy
very
playfully tossed
a
old
that, he
Sharpe's
was
days in
now?
What
of
with
do
to
partake
What
and
three
were
some
he
fasted
once
thick,
tankard
now
Street,
inches
more
and
to
Sharpe's ?
the sacred
By
or
had
never
good Mohammedan,
chop
"
What
supposed
was
nice
Forty- fourth
on
two
fried
French
for
Oh,
chop,
"
conveniently near
musty
of mutton
Broadway
near
BROADWAY
FROM
and
aristocratic
beneficent
looked
is the
the
in the
came
tial
palaclass
proximity
of
direction
of
wealthiest
as
well
VOICE
the oldest
as
his
lamp
himself
And
that
prosiac and
upon
forbidden
of
one
cial
so-
Aladdin
yonder
to
sions,
man-
find
would
man
permitted, in
man
young
magical days,
around
look
to
cess
might find there the prin-
he
scenes,
fairy-likeluxuriousness.
poor
less
of
aware,
young
of
scene
these
in
poor
same
was
23
princely. .Were
be set down
and
amid
were
and
fortunate
that
AFAR
city,it boasted, he
set, exclusive
rub
FROM
of his dreams.
The
dervish
listened.
the upper
toward
specifically
could
see
of the
one
tallest
the
"
of
just
"
stately edifice
His
the
with
vibrating,quivering
the
wall.
he
as
The
anger.
had
familiar
man's,
surroundings
of
that
this
From
disturbing tones,
were
much
stories,as
fairlywell-lightedmansions
outside
came
itself
directed
gaze
medieval
and
mance,
ro-
up-to-date
ring :
"I divorce
"Oh,
ho!"
you
!"
The
modern
"Nothing
domestic
pointedly
disap-
smiled
interestingthan
little
squabble!"
"I divorce
A
more
Aladdin
second
you
time
!"
the
words
rang
out.
"Look
out,
BROADWAY,
FROM
ALADDIN
24
friend," murmured
my
"Three
times
and
laws.
Try
the
Better
Always try
The
by
until
wait
you're
would
you
not
himself.
landish
out-
your
so
angry.
ish.
of hash-
soothing dash
proceeding
to
'*
live to regret
"
!"
you
dervish
know,
water-pipe, before
extremities, unless
"I divorce
to
water-pipe first,with
listener
"Well,
yawned.
it.
you've done
now
certainlyhave !"
You
A
voice, musical
woman's
mockingly.
shining
witch
himself.
"By
from
Her
me.
that
sky, the
yonder palace?
The
Allah's
the
fairly
seemed
man
will, I have
beauty hath
made
me
set
mad
this
"
"
laughter !
hear?
it is done.
of
chamber
"
all heard?"
Again
"You
heavens
bells,laughed
it; from
came
have
"You
beside
Whence
silver
as
defies
She
She
must
me.
go.
by Allah's will
Now
I will
have
house
came
no
more
of
her."
Silence!
From
the
big
further
no
sound.
"A
Then
he yawned
again
"
such
comedies,
or
tered.
mut-
trage-
CHAPTER
AN
SOME
left
touched
one
him
and
in
near
he
revealed
"What
do
"To
speak
back
"About
"I
at
his
you
to
shall
follow
learn
like
untary
invol-
intruders
the
quivering
drew
diamond
surroundings.
his
something
that
answered
cloak
the
uneasily.
was
the
vish's
der-
neither
As
of
foremost
he
spoke
learn
the
later,
if
dervish.
you
will
be
good
us."
now,
he
companion.
demanded
will
dervish's
the
of
nously
omi-
beads.
little
At
muscle
every
shadows,
Beneath
you,"
what?"
"That
enough
of
with
intruders,
glanced
immediate
gripped
string
nor
glow,
feet,
two
one
want?"
you
his
were
light.
faint
the
fingers
Koran
dim
weariness
Instantly
to
sprang
attitude
slightly back.
dust,
him.
him
the
menacing
the
PROPOSITION
ASTONISHING
Confronting
tense.
III
before
26
following."
Grimly.
AN
PROPOSITION
ASTONISHING
"But
this
this is
"
though uncertain, as
to
wisdom
the
and
"In
tones,
doubts
some
propriety of his
enough.
courteous
man's
place.'* The
no
27
were
purpose,
Allah's
name,
where
I am."
as
hesitate
no
am
"What
"I
comfortable
very
do
fear.
not
know
"We
are
hour?"
sleepy
too
am
whom
those
accompany
stir.
to
?"
honorable
benefactors
"Do
Only
should
Besides, why
do
fear?"
you
don't
Quietly.
come
as
the
sky?
men,
fall from
factors."
bene-
your
this
And
at
and
for
Significantly.
"Deign
follow
to
and
some
us,
find
and
days condescend
out
to
"
become
our
night
to-
ored
hon-
guest."
"Guest?"
Had
he
heard
is
clothed
given
and
"You
You
trap.
no
but
seek
to
will
fat purse
make
dervish
trap is this?"
laughed derisively."What
"It
The
aright?
be
well
into the
merry
at
fed, finely
bargain."
my
expense."
Wearily.
"Words
of
truth
alone
fall from
our
lips.
We
28
ALADDIN
hither
sent
were
The
FROM
dervish
"Perhaps
BROADWAY
find you.'*
to
started
sHghtly. "To
I should
have
said, you
would
have
find me?"
or
done
well,
as
other
any
smile.
and
he
were
that."
"Is it
so
errand."
words
do
not
with
comport
your
Bluntly.
"Why,
In
Your
what
can
know
you
of
errand
our
yet?"
"
surprise.
"You
sent
were
by
certain
lying fellow."
The
saddler,
dervish's
reputable
dis-
very
eyes
gleamed
any
saddler.
challengingly.
"A
At
saddler?
least,not
The
carry
We
know
nothing of
in this matter."
speaker's tones
conviction.
were
The
and
earnest
dervish
calculated
to
regarded him
more
went
ly,
eager-
closely.
"Deign
"and
"Who
to
I
are
vizier
come
riches
and
demanded
do
as
we
promise
you
to
lightly.
will be
you
man
well
Harun-al-Raschid
tempt
luxuries
ask," the
poor
of the world
holy
on
treated."
and
man
his
grand
with
the
now
AN
ASTONISHING
"We
claim
can
of
PROPOSITION
visitors
the
glances with
his
spoke he
exchanged
meaning
half-witted," murmured
latter.
the
"All
better
the
for
from
voce
but
are
abruptly, "are
"Am
was
I?"
In
worthy of
fowl
stuffed
ago.
hungry?"
you
the dervish's
with
little cafe
place at
voice
such
"
fish dressed
has
with
stew
cabob
"
oil; a boned
"
pistachionuts
"
caliph of Bagdad,"
muttered
form
in human
geni, come
which
near,
the
kawurmeh
it is the
"Or
dervish.
skewers;
on
"Truly
of
be had
may
roasted
Harun-alcenturies
many
spite of himself
I know
"Because
where
"We
"Why?"
eager.
cook
dervish:
Damascus.
indulgently, "died
tell me,"
the
to
of
plain citizens
Raschid,"
But
Then
other.
the
Sotto
purpose."
our
...
most
the fore-
companion.
dervishes
"Most
As
distinction."
such
no
29
to
the
ment
tor-
me."
The
in the
other
may
divined
have
holy one's
eyes
rolling his
words
for he
as
famished
that
went
if he
on
were
more
glint
ously,
unctu-
rolling over
is very
when
famous
for
has
only
one
"
large
one
have
dined
for
is renowned
cook
in
drew
certain
breath
his
is the
drink
sweet
of
with
this very
alas, for
But
hand.
unattainable,
"
of
me
at
lips
one
has
ished
fin-
and
when
sun-ripened
ful
this wonder-
"
the
are
these
present,
ments
accomplishAnd
at the
seat
hastily,
rather
interestingman.
he is worthy
you
the
"
enumerated
sufficiently
"you have
He
"
"Then
eyes.
"I
on
appetite. When
repletion,there
to
and
watermelon,
It melts
by rollinghis
his sentence
you
small
honey
or
sugar
his pastry.
He
"
BROADWAY
with
sweetened
"Kunafeh,
FROM
ALADDIN
30
I agree
prophet's right
delicacies
the
as
den
forbid-
delights
of
Paradise, itself!"
if you
"Not
the
"We
pay."
pay
him.
"Oh, that is
over
us."
Promptly.
How
small
do
I pay
matter.
youf*
We'll
talk
about
it
the
"I'd
with
price?"
"But
"You
go
rather
"Here's
talk
very
of the intruders
about
honest
nodded
it before
I eat
fellow, indeed
approval
to
his
them."
!"
And
one
companion.
ASTONISHING
AN
"Truly,
the
some
else is
one
"Some
found
!" assented
him
waited.
slightone
"
going
are
lucky."
else,of course!"
one
dervish
The
we
have
to
31
other.
"Or
very
lucky
are
we
PROPOSITION
"There
perform
you
can
do
for
to
is
slightservice
in return
for
"
all
softly.
is it?"
"What
"Get
married."
"Eh?
What?"
"Get
married.
"All !
"It
not
What
is
no
is all."
That
of
manner
You
jest.
jest is this
to
are
?"
get married
and
yet
not
get
get married."
"How
can
and
yet
?"
married
"It is very
You
marry.
times
get married
man
in the
"Divorce
simple. You
have
only
made
to
of
presence
and
marry
say
then
divorce
you
you'
un-
three
witnesses."
easy!"
Ironically.
"What
Mohammedan
know
law
we
of
any
"
yes."
other?"
In
surprise.
ALADDIN
32
"True."
Hastily. "But
"To
meet
"Oh
!"
He
dervish
was
studied
portlyman,
And
his
is like unto
pea
why
I to
am
get
ried?"
mar-
little exigency."
The
doubt
no
BROADWAY
FROM
itor.
closelyhis vis-
more
well-to-do
shopkeeper,
companion resembled
"When
another.
am
him
as
I to get
one
ried?"
mar-
"To-morrow."
*The
"It
prophet forbid!"
be
can
"Whom
"A
arranged."
I
am
going
to
marry?"
lady of quality."
"Old?"
"Young."
"Beautiful?"
"As
an
visitors
The
at
spoke
as
were
the
at
time
it
and
moment
same
was
duet; both
their
voices
one.
They
made
noticed
not
this dervish
her
was
so
You
might,
ugly."
this evidence
altogether
houri!
"An
frowned.
dervish
least, have
part,
This
houri!"
with
of
displeasure on
his
disapproval. Obviously
holy that
the younger
and
morq
ALADDIN
34
FROM
BROADWAY
disturbed
illustrious patron.
he
Then, in
declared
the
thought
or
beneficent
witnesses
summoned
manner,
the
and
thing
some-
of
temper
inadvertent
an
cent
inno-
and
young
our
moment,
thrice, in
solemn
is
divorce, indeed."
"
'Solemn
?"
manner'
"And
amusement.
But
without
doubt,
law
the
you'.
rich
friend, the
unceremoniously
"She
fore
thrice be-
will," bowing
is
thrust
upon
was
constitutes,
That
pressed
ex-
his house
declared
to
the
iously,
ceremon-
longer
no
diamond
How
so
proceed. He
prophet whose
your
said
tone
legalseparation. According
"is that of
to
dervish's
you
*I divorce
witnesses
of
The
ried
mar-
merchant.
freedom
that
was
her?"
copiously."
wept
"What?"
"As
if her heart
would
break."
With
mournful
shake
of the head.
"Indeed?"
for the
Dryly.
of
sound
They looked
she realized
at
"That,
wailing wafted
him
fullywhat
no
doubt,
even
here."
suspiciously."She
she had
done."
accounts
wept
after
AN
ASTONISHING
PROPOSITION
First
waved
his hand
"At
the
scornful
he had
what
her
would
airily. "Go
she
as
done.
The
to
he
lady, as
the law, to
"Quite!
from
She
two
forth
is set
"Exactly!"
dervish
so
in the
They
"That
learned
much
in the
stand?"
under-
you
be divorced
the
that
one
claim
of
law
the
was,
of
All
her.
verse
Book
their
he
approval
knew
even
of
the
verses.
I learned
regrets having
Well,
nodded
of the sacred
numbers
thence
twenty-six."
and
hundred
"
to
place and
home, and
number
He
obliged,according
before
two,
which
gave
for-
difficulties.
are
again and
marry
number
husband
and
own
until
old
her
to
been
her
to
must
gretted
re-
magnanimously
were
has
bring her,
not
may
her
There
return
he
and
once,
divorcee
at
He
restored
position,but alas!
He
on."
almost
knelt
have
even
tears!"
her
melted
merchant
"Well, why
laughter, then
spectacleof
the
the dervish.
35
divorced
at
wife,
he
side,"
be-
husband
has
been
ALADDIN
36
known,**
or
FROM
shrewdly,
poor
"to
look
for
around
is called
who
man,
BROADWAY
mustahall
grim
pil-
some
band
hus-
or
of convenience."
"That
is it. You
don't.
It must,
the formalities
of fact, we
"No
doubt
"You
rest
charge of
have
even
her.
to
and
brief for
Then
meditation
clothes
and
after the
From
the
to
the bride
see
by, you
the
the
diamond
man.
after
you're
of
two
or
matter
ceremony."
second
day
earn
merchant.
to
What
new
few
richer
the
Amad,
remarry
could
quiet,
your
thereupon depart,
and
As
by divorcing before
you
you
gone
fat purse
her, but
divorcee.
when
have
take
you
be
course,
of that !"
won't
married
of
are
take
just say
be
better?"
Rubbing
indeed?
"What,
ideal way
to
it
put
get married!
marriages
unhappy
You
convincingly.
There
if all
wouldn't
people got
be
married
An
any
like
that."
"Of
welees
or
rather
weak
and
This
not"
course
those
"favored
in his wits.
bland.
The
of
holy
heaven,"
His
emissaries
smile
like
man,
now
many
certainly
was
was
like
child-
ASTONISHING
AN
PROPOSITION
however,
merchant,
"How
old
did
humored
you
him
by being patient.
lady was?"
the
say
37
"Seventeen."
divorced
"And
"
The
"
"But
time,
has
prophet,
"This
passed
"It
mocking
be
the
to
make
her
^this
"
happy?"
benefactor, then?"
great
partieswould
"They
would."
"Then
why
"You
have
very
according
With
doubt."
"Both
the
him?"
would
lady
"
indeed."
man,
me
mournfully.
gaiety.
"No
read
to
ty
for-
would."
should
The
she's
successor-to-be
my
line when,
the
marriage
head
treated
becomes
man
his
I mean,
enemy,
volatile young
rather
"I
the
before
Why,
shook
"
has
"He
dervish
predecessor
my
how
already!
don't."
dervish
what
face
lay
half
been
than
should
bless
me
?"
Expansively.
I hesitate?"
Persuasively.
made
no
behind
the
turned
from
startled.
they knew.
Could
answer.
More
inscrutable
them
was
To
have
expression of
now,
involved
become
they
the
they
would
in his decision
bridegroom
ALADDIN
38
of
blushing
that would
in
FROM
BROADWAY
and
seventeen
then
be difficult. He
not
dissolve
to
would
be
the tie
"
ing
participat-
mere
to
they
back
that
from
set
offset
But
It
purse.
honest
was
enough
and
divorced
to
the
bold
gallantry had
fool to have
quarrel
enough
to
about
the
of
age
faded
satirical look
eyes,
but
nearly
cost
risked
it !
immediately
him
the
and
want
an
get
to
turn
re-
teen!
seven-
lady of the
for
moment
returned.
His
cudgeling for
yet
money,
perpetual infelicity.Sweet
of
was
needed
he
people would
they
needs
present
make
to
way
foolish
be
then
pastry-shop. The
from
if
one,
state
That
queer
Were
"
of Damascus
out
get
ones
His
advantages?
To
urgent.
of
possibilities
the
serious
of anger
moment
among
who
in
them.
certain
by
were
He
which
complications,more
other
husbands
when
monplace
com-
woman
laughed softly,derisively.
"You
have
decided?"
portly
inquired
the
answer.
man
curiously.
"To
be merry,
was
for to-morrow
the
we
"
get married
!"
ly
CHAPTER
LIGHT
THE
dervish
o'clock,
the
had
or
oriental
dervish's
ostentation.
the
on
second,
do
guests
elaborate
even
so,
occidental
The
the
be
to
of
the
regaled
with
march
or
the
mudnat,
or
far
is
ceremony
are
from
tle
lit-
spousal
before,
are,
The
omitted.
by
"
widow,
comparatively
details
girls,
"
"
sprightly
tertainments
en-
female
singers.
groom,
and
But
served.
simple,
no
from
an
standpoint.
suit
new
on
of
case
six
dyer
before
night
occasion,
dancing
dyer, bearing
a
hand
third,
repasts,
the
high
and
the
girl, unmarried
expect
torch-bearers
the
with
of
young
or
not
in
at
five
Sabbagh,
of
number
by
No
friend
conducted
A
of
ceremonies
El
marriages
are
day,
next
between
As
time.
out,
divorcee,
married
was
portly
pointed
LIFE
somewhere
or
noon,
OF
the
day
of
of
bundle
clothes,
the
which
took
wedding.
39
the
proved
dervish
to
tain
con-
early in
ALADDIN
40
"You
FROM
put these
can
"while
garments,
about
arrange
the
house
dyer's
"Who
and
Light of Life,
see
to
dowry."
comfortably
the
he
on,"
go
"Light of Life?"
more
BROADWAY
The
dervish
the
on
where
cushions
he
is she?
stretched
of
himself
divan
the
temporarily
was
in
ciled.
domi-
prospective relative of
Some
mine?"
"Your
mother-in-law.
"You
for
/ have
mean
"Well, Amad
and
then
"It
kind
a
has
she
The
way,
be
is?"
hand
at
gain."
bar-
Reaching
dowry?"
what
"Fatma."
to
to
!
go
First
he
to
admire
dyer
did
you
gave
say
his wife,
me
briously.
suggestion." Lugu-
With
situation?"
the
dominates
gives
her."
with
Light of Life's
the
give
to
him
of
dowry
at
was
"And
close
rather
woman,
of coffee.
cup
"Very
charming
mother-in-law
my
him
the
curious
name
look.
of my
mensely.
im-
"By
wife-to-
ALADDIN
42
had
host
been
good
as
of
weight
ambergris
The
the
brass, holding
of
satisfaction.
well.
so
dream?
awoke
the
in
enclosed
resembling
his
gave
said
rubbed
the
he
the
to
in
hands
"
and
"
an
hour
later
unbelievingly.He
night before
upon
fared
Was
it all
of
role
be
wooden
"
promptu
im-
lying
walls
stricted
ceiling re-
of
consideration
paneling.
A
girl of
the
for
girl,
mined
illu-
an
summons.
barber,"
dyer returned,
had
he
afterthought.
brought
holy
disreputable-looking
he
an
four
but
an
the
sigh
vagabond;
the
slave
"Send
cup
had
tobacco!
more
his eyes
now
pattern
order,
half
gazed
yet.
manuscript, answered
suddenly,
When
he
mosque,
conventional
the
eastern
He
the
gaze
clapped his
He
in
"
overhead
confused
grance.
fra-
delicate
Rightfully he should
of
upward
unusual
the
sleep
to
awake!
him, while
somewhat
down
long since
gone
were
carat
out
hardly awake
little court
the
coffee
proved
dainty porcelain,with
bridegroom.
now
provided
the
set
was
had
if he
"
then
It
He
lend
to
had
and
even
poured
felt
He
his word
had
dervish
coffee-pot,and
of
BROADWAY
as
hospitable. He
most
FROM
he
home
man;
OF
LIGHT
"A
43
face
he
LIFE
clean
was
looked
shaven.
like
sheik
of
beard
had
Attired
well-born
been.
and
The
desert.
the
"Did
in his
guest's
garments,
new
distinguished young
stared
dyer
not
you
His
regret
where
to
the
part with
it?"
should
"Why
Do
Am
I?
wish
not
hadji (pilgrim)
to
represent
groom?
bride-
or
friend
your
worthily ?"
The
argument
displayed an
had
in thus
be
pleased
"Why,
he
the
part of
the
real
I'm
So
if he
brother
own
he ?" returned
satisfied
a
ness.
flaming insigniaof holi-
scarcelyknew
whether
would
not
you,"
know
length.
at
"Wouldn't
for
as
vish
der-
not.
or
your
said,
and
acted
dyer
the
Still the
largeness of spirit
unexpected
dispensing with
The
to
unanswerable.
was
conventional
for this
reason
didn't
contingency,
remote
the
He
smile.
dervish
the
change
add
rather
with
liar
pecu-
that to provide
than
bridegroom,
to
had
of appearance.
look
been
"Well,
ready."
they sallied forth,
bridegroom
on
an
ass
not
and
too
ostentatiously,the
the
dyer astride
of
ALADDIN
44
FROM
BROADWAY
house.
presently drew
thick-lipped,ebony-hued bowwab,
doorkeeper, of ferocious
the
at
been
time
same
without
the
to
the
"Yes;
I am,
was
said
the
dyer,
not
been
I have
see
should
order
"Humph!"
she
there
are
no
on
said
with
have
in
served
dervish
indeed,
and
eyes,
misgiving,
"
in
good-for-nothing
shrewish
rags
that
dyer
amiable
his most
him
!
last
Of
the
ingly.
reassur-
occasions
slaves, owing
to
I had
course,
"In
smile.
in the
night," put
neighbors
muttered.
such
voice.
jected
good-for-nothing," inter-
seen
slave
hastily; her
man
dervish
the
up,
apparently
forward.
"You
young
find," she
is such
him
had
came
suspicion, doubt
it
"This
"You
once
pair;
the
into him.
supposed
were
at
bridegroom!"
shone
fairlybored
you
them
regarded
which
"I
who
woman
or
my
She
aspect, admitted
complacency.
some
to
true
in
veiled
waiting for
"Behold
in front
up
"
my
as
this ;
the
cursed
you
to
dress
stand?"
under-
early days
now
because
Christians,
LIGHT
must
we
knows
trust, madam,"
make
and
in
gather
Allah
she
He
from
The
When
her.
she
tongue
for them
as
for those
presence,
every
mysterious
toward
the
leading out
was
stood
the
if
dagger-tipped.
had
"cursed
to
now
an
closed ; the
inated
Dom-
comer
of the
and
It
by like
the
temple.
dervish
large
watcher
met
back
with
expression
an
malicious
and
the young
man
infernal
black
guardian
demons
overgrown
oriental
that
as
cunning,
while
straightened
presence
The
eye
and
door
giant
act
seemed
glanced
that
the
had
The
street.
big
strike.
dervish
the
to
tians",
Chris-
aflfection
much
as
it would
The
entrance
near
of those
sentinels
fairlyto radiate
of
nook
look.
uncanny
to
Follow."
house
howwab
she
that
adder
an
her
by
as
time
no
specialatmosphere
seemed
spoke
was
might divine
listener
back
which
is
be here.
soon
in
walked
her
silent
guests will
She
obeyed.
venom
sourly, "there
returned
further.
politely,"to
husband."
good
dervish
the
said
daughter
your
"Well,"
of
45
whom."
"I
look
LIFE
highways
the
to
go
OF
of
gestive
sugouter
as
of
the
latter looked
to
savor
of
involuntarily
his gaze
became
ALADDIN
46
keen
more
strode
he
FROM
alert.
and
after
The
the
smooth
he
and
BROADWAY
Without
through
woman
had
be
to
careful.
"Wait
like
glided ahead
!"
had
of
affectation
felt
at
for
him
in.
How
He
door
locked.
strode
outside
"
Light
when
the
to
of
him
temporarily from
md
folk?
to
accord
him
if he
as
natural
place
altogether
not
was
but
threshold
had
turned
was
in there
the
the
key
on
prisoner? Well,
merely
inquisitivewomen
to
get
door
out.
sequester
servants
strange
was
The
find
to
couldn't
Still, he
bridegroom.
dervish,
act
most
Certainly this
a
The
dyer,
unnaturally quiet it
how
leaving. He
they locked
other
the
Life
exactly, perhaps.
"inent
The
tried to
he
She
room.
slightly strained
attempt
quiet
to
appear
vanished.
were
The
Had
or
small
with
around
if this
as
be
to
was!
not
at
then
nonchalance;
home,
successful.
the
not
mysteriously disappeared.
nearly
he
specter.
did
pery
slip-
were
Once
woman
way.
door-
narrow
hesitation, however,
looked
treat-
solid
hrough
lattice,showed
it to
be
of
old-fashioned
LIGHT
Was
construction.
beat
when
without,
somewhere
Sadi's!
he
"
What
dervish
listened
Now
deeper,
forced
Sadi
in this
laugh. Of
that
course
could
unreasonable
was
have
been
suppose
him
not
to
The
whole
tion
proposi-
by
the
dyer,
to
an
complicated
end
in
continued
slightlytilted, while
charged with
yet the
wooden
from
smote
screen
another
stand
At
fashion.
the
He
another
him.
air
presence,
one
end
beyond
was
seemed
alone
was
and
close
of the
he
his head
stock-still,
him
waves.
Still
and
devious
and
around
cognizance of
hand, suddenly
a
to
vibrating
clear; it could
roundabout
most
lined
out-
as
ulterior motives.
or
is subtle
mind
dervish
The
logical and
was
man
young
moves
was
The
ensued.
seemed
which
Silence
his
no
The
"
for
Oriental's
an
saddler's
the
to
Unreasonable!
house.
veiled
have
It
him.
to
sworn
nothing.
there.
out
voice,
attentively,
holding his breath.
ominous,
more
telling
was
more
heard
he
might
well-remembered
have
he
was
If so, he
walls, he
wafted
was
would
tones.
those
on
man's
47
place a trap ?
the
himself,
LIFE
OF
or
at
room
ment
apart-
darkness.
ALADDIN
48
FROM
thought he heard
He
indrawn
not
breath.
see
burning
It
gaze.
salaamed
"Sir
He
began
Madam!"
He
closed
and
words
evoked
him.
Hazards
no
on
feel
that
disconcerting.
good
enter
look,"
The
he
his
grasped
the
hand
courteous
began
to
nearer
could
as
be
respectful
cloak
anger
not
can
his
handle.
and
strode
his most
under
hard
that
sunshine
"Take
and
up
almost
most
used
response
irritating. He
much
him
could
politely,
or
touched
quick
he
one
looking
be
to
caught
some
could
of salutation, though
form
to
move
most
are
As
screen.
figure.
here
limned
his
said
boldly, "whoever
are!"
you
A
know
and
seemed
It
face
changed.
be
incapable
a
peep
laughed. "Woman's
of
reminiscent
was
found
He
screen.
"Taking
It
no
your
toward
did
he
"
sound
"
who
man
himself
experiencing
at
wafted
was
another
heard
He
that
perfume
vaguely
of what.
his
to
of
breath
faint
him.
as
now
him,
studying him.
down,
He
knew
regarding
was
and
movement
He
BROADWAY
not
not
sigh ?
"
stood
hind
be-
blase
so
thrill.
husband-to-be?"
curiosity!Well,
what
he
do
you
LIGHT
think
of
this
piece of masculine
"Fie!
answer.
for
time
lock
wife
The
she
said
In
went.
he
gazed
the
saddler,
had
And
voice.
his
"
larger apartment
His
is
present
the
very
wekeel
her.
guests
is
substitute
held
now
She
are
usually
too
old
The
properly conducted.
dervish
familiar
to
be
ding
wed-
is, for
never
hammedan
Mo-
without
her.
She
go-between,
or
voice
does
the
bride's
and
dyer.
himself.
dispensable.
yet
spared
he
people and
that
conducted
are
which
friend, the
good
substitute
ones.
the
suspicions,though
The
the
his
indispensable and
for
in
The
going
was
there.
weddings
She
had
heard
momentary
dervish
wasn't
bride
his
to
had
there
wronged
of
gathering.
he
His
blithely the
He
to
number
the
fancied
had
natural,
were
obviously
own
talk!"
entered.
among
only
No
sharply, but
not
was
then
More
them
at
merchandise?"
curtly.
conducted, there
was
49
won't
who
Light of Life
"Come,"
He
more.
no
and
LIFE
OF
hardened
present
Although
the
swers
an-
ing.
consent-
blushes,
to
ceremony
the
is
groom
as
supply
was
had
ALADDIN
50
looked
never
couldn't
The
to
go-between
He
had
the
present
They
to
Then
"
continued
holy
give it
one.
They
were
The
bliss.
He
spectacleof
the
"
and
the
of
and
to
of
^to
"
good
own
reallythe
from
make
one
to
too
fortune
be
Those
Koran.
the
occasion
the
not
up
Their
was
and
for
to
by
not
elated.
mony
cere-
doubt,
no
felicity. Amad
"
him
after the
calculated
congratulated
down
too
appear
overwhelmed
nestness
ear-
petitionsin
loud
pictured
to
nerve
called
They
dyer slippingout
bridegroom's being
his
They
progress!
"Now
done.
report
sidered
con-
solemnity.
shouted
strove
been
straining every
of
bridegroom's behalf.
garden
to
really touching.
kindly encomiums
was
verses
best
verisimilitude
was
the
chant
thee,"
from
murmured
trick
to
allowed
was
have
to
one
the
tight.
betroth
accept
well, with
their
doing
"I
some
and
to
(he
enough
not
"
"I
answered
very
ably
presum-
tighter.
voice) :
"
blessing
were
seem
had
and
fast and
announced:
answered
decorous.
may
married
own
degree of ardency
married
was
had
he
in his
answer
etc.
he
been
have
BROADWAY
upon
would,
never
He
FROM
prevent
a
sense
was
LIGHT
OF
LIFE
For
ephemeral bridegroom.
ent
be but
name
like those
other
marrying
her
51
him, Fatma
Fatmas
would
in the
story
books.
Even
while
leaped
it
thee, Fatma,"
"took".
At
freak
of
shop
had
but
he
had
recurred
gazed
and
if he
cared!
child,"
was
She
had
and
big luminous
beautiful
eyes
eyes
"
"
or
Exit
her.
But
all, whom
and
that
"
reprehensible,
other
that
She
time
had
them
his lesson.
As
personal
im-
Who
^mattered
gazed
him
at
deny they
had
had
praised! A
be
"
he
only
were
eyes
Allah
matron
he
eyes
contemplate
or
time
whom
"
Whither?
on.
had
fallen
some
very
was
had
the
by
he
It
he wouldn't
might,
gone.
versely
per-
of the
could
maid
and
come
at
passed
He
etc.
whether
"
he
artist
an
Fatma,
For
as
he
her
then
had
eyes,
When
his
who
dark
she
him.
to
thought of
to
had
thoughts
psychological moment,
had
"burnt
not
was
this
caught
deep
another.
to
his
were
been
not.
with
very
when
he
past.
Exit
camels!
lady !
From
these
frivolous
considerations
of
the
past.
ALADDIN
52
BROADWAY
FROM
rudely recalled
somewhat
he
was
to
his immediate
rested,
swift
on
intentness,
stepped
was
at
in when
now
of
one
the house
or
other
to
speak,
the
act,
as
guests.
gone
But
and
the
drew
the
dervish
the
other
and
had
been
reason
some
waited
for him
inevitable; it
continued
was
stand
to
of
unconscious
the
the
forward
saddler
irony of
and
duced
intro-
person
who
bridegroom.
relative of Amad,"
said
the
introducing.
"Distant
relative,did you
So
Sadi
ominous?
bridegroom,
dyer's words
was
He
; he
about
say?"
there
was
for
away
he
over
motionless.
now
to
for
about
Probably
had
He
myth.
was
The
waits
one
however,
"Distant
smiled.
the
one,
him
did the
ceremony
"
there, in
stood
no
with
late-comer
was
the
returned.
and
grim, silent
Some
He
earlier,had
moment.
tense
him.
cynically
at
flesh, before
and
present
eyes,
newcomer,
His
surroundings.
introspective,had
the
to
had
as
"
did
not
his "own
not
The
man
young
relative;his
ence
pres-
nothing
more
ing,
alarm-
know
who
he, the
recognized him.
brother"
not
The
knowing
LIGHT
him
saluted
men
53
as
The
bridegroom.
the
faith greet
same
other.
each
"Teiyheen!"
"Allah
That
all.
was
other's
in the least
But
is
"You
graceful
set
as
fervently.
the
in it
bridegroom
expression
an
ordeal, however,
The
close.
heart
my
twice
divined
and
puzzled. The
to
dervish
or
tunately
for-
was
paid wekeel
now
the bride
praises of
to
"She
once
gaze
coming
began
Sadi.
muttered
felt the
to
LIFE
reassuringly to
recurred
two
OF
gazelle."
fire,"the bridegroom
on
had
answer.
"Her
He
lipsare
made
"And
the
as
handsome
"Can
with
you
him
sugar."
appropriate reply.
an
what
of
sherbet
blame
bridegroom
little
of
an
my
veil!
how
of
love
?"
ugly
Around
he
had
must
be
him
the
The
bridegroom
acknowledgment
the moment,
And
one
giggle.
!" said
to
What
laugh.
the
face
other
concealed
women
woman
by that
moved
like
ALADDIN
54
black
FROM
shadows.
All
the
vivaciously ^allexcept
ill-omened
immovable.
to
mosque,
to
become
to
wasn't
he
The
task.
holy enough
whom
one
and
set
be taken
to
or
"
her
and
word
no
become
finished
now
go
pray
first time,
the
wekeel
had
said
had
talking
now
were
who
countenance
The
bridegroom
guests
Sadi,
"
whose
BROADWAY
away,
to
see,
for
to
going
to
see
at all.
Bidding ceremonious
farewell
relatives
knew
not.
The
last the
The
gazing after
left the
he
of
^whether
"
man
him
with
bent
now
; that
already
He
learn
they
had
intrusive
would
found
him
put
substitute
and
how
the
saddler
draw!
The
involuntarilyhe hastened
dervish
of
sure
probably would,
two
and
his steps.
"
to
where
appeared.
conclusions
could
gether.
to-
two
bridegroom,
he had
these inquirieswhat
afte^-.tnaking
was
spiteof the
most
this
to
he
felt less
He
individual
beginning
was
about
more
his back.
he
of them.
person
in
four
Amad,
not
and
brows,
with
or
was
of that
saw
mother-
new
house
bride
the
saddler, however,
young
his
to
And
would
imagine, and
He
wished
to
ALADDIN
56
into
silence
do
to
and
began
BROADWAY
fear
to
that
resign himself.
except
Allah
and
FROM
disposes.
there
But
man
great hubbub
ing
noth-
was
proposes
in the
arose
street.
"Hi!
had
yi!"
stampeded. Distracted
him
him.
that.
made
He
himself
he couldn't
managed
to
he
current,
what
part of the
was
corner,
it
Street
the
was
tricks
play
for
around
Nonsense!
didn't.
He
Now
in
and
called
in
little
him?
on
"
that
was
have
was
or
flutter out
there,
if he
wish
further
here
here, he would
he
and
let her be
go
as
to
from
away.
the
at
He
eyed
him
here?
would
stand
unknown?
fair
He
her?
see
his
of his
In
Yonder
now!
pastry-shop.
see
he
come
kidnaping
side lane.
narrow
glimpse of the
should
Nothing
to
just
finallyhe
fate landed
had
why
and
was
When
from
with
way
he
escape;
Straight
certain
another
never
to
Why
would
bridegroom
along, this
himself
stood
furtively. Now
To
and
help himself.
separate
human
borne
trying
not
was
to ;
the
upon
hither
rushed
found
He
down
people
camels
thoughts.
accord.
own
Let
beautiful
as
her
a
ter
flut-
dream
LIGHT
"
he would
other
last
what
his
he
not
him.
and
stranger, of grave
dressed
in
the
bridegroom
prior to
been
the
swept
stampede ?
in
fear
have
you
where
of
; that
your
"If
serve
move
man
was
had
was
When?
it.
was
Just
They had
parentl
ap-
far away.
you
is
The
servant.
the
not
or
torn
respectfulaccents.
the house
Yes
together and
on
to
This
before.
him
emerged here,
"I
him.
attire
seen
shop of
dignifiedbearing, though
and
humble
had
be.
addressed
now
it would
attentively. No, it
person
of the quartet of
one
just
about
spoke
to
know
the
upon
was
one
his business.
what
delights and
regarded this
overtaken
a
back
placidly as
didn't
or
was,
his
turned
some
He
vague.
now
succulent
when
He
"
rather
was
However,
away,
57
about
permitted
"business"
thousand
LIFE
circumstances
This
OF
will
near
come
with
I shall
and
see
man
me,
that
it is mended."
"Very
kind
mechanically.
were
not?
He
of
you,"
These
common.
wanted
time
courtesies
He
the
bridegroom
between
medans
Moham-
returned
followed
to think. He
was
the other.
at
Why
libertyand
ALADDIN
58
had
he
not
to
but
He
hands
and
should
he
the
winds?
He
could
And
do?
hear
become
to
the
he
disastrous
The
to
house,
A
him
and
door
opened
from
the street.
mansion.
within
of the
garden,
fastened
on
what
but
some
A
he
one
band!"
hus-
It
at
to
have
said,
in
stood
fountain
see
who
arose
person
mentary
mo-
consider.
He
best
least
or
hard.
think
close
by.
dervish, shutting
flowering
in the
tinkled
did not
to
least,find
to
was
the
on
that
was
would
sheytan
continued
where
course
closed
He
literallyto
The
dervish
would,
had
the other
as
What
exactly gallant.
one.
the house
He
pursue.
wife
opportunity
then
determine
tion.
considera-
do?"
be
The
at
"
certainly growing.
(the bridegroom)
refuge and
could
toss
truly big
dyer!
stayed ?
wailing: **Lost!
was
guide;
after his
served,
all
them
problem
(devil) take
walk
shall
to
"
it wouldn't
^hum!
"
His
promised
yet
stay
all women,
certain
poor
wailing: "What
? To
If he
detested
a
his captors,
to
him
with
them
picture the
could
await
he
course
treat
return
Fatma
poor
"
Of
must
man
went
dervish!
poor
he
might afterward
If he
go ?
Should
away.
run
what
and
BROADWAY
FROM
it.
His
from
eyes
space
center
were
its marble
LIGHT
edge.
him
At
the
schooled
All
poise.
His
heart,
two.
Had
and
Two
at
as
against
his
previous
into
jumped
Tale
One
59
who
servant
had
vision.
He
surprises,
but
thoughts
from
Thousand
brought
The
disappeared.
hardened,
though
he
LIFE
the
mysteriously
stared
well
time
same
thither
OF
himself
thought
this
groom
bride-
upset
one
his
a-glimmering.
went
accelerated
Tale
One
and
beat
Thousand
Three?
or
CHAPTER
IN
WAS
IT
the
for
look
Why?
He
himself
to
there,
felt
and
with
moment
place.
freedom;
different
further
As
his
on
the
was
"
second
or
it
her
that
he
in
perplexities
found
that
one
himself
stood
flowery
an
escaping
of
his
found
new-
into
plunged
promised
to
complicate
tion.
situa-
sufficiently embarrassing
was
immediate
meeting
the
he
lovely
been
had
thinking
occasion
with
her
appeal
"
60
and
had
of
the
absorbed
which
"
this!
he
when
personal
attractions
of
on
her,
pinching
that
that
tq
thither!
or
eyes
true
in
he
to
come
"
he
other
her
his
fronted
con-
going
brought
really
before
and
had
been
alone
already
that
he
rubbing
was
of
intention
no
"
now
role
Not
like
who
pastry-shop
had
reveling
bridegroom,
had
he
if
see
the
apparently
Or
nevertheless.
GARDEN
of
He
but
her,
THE
lady
him.
more
met
her,
it
lady
self
her-
him.
intimate
IN
basis
THE
esthetic
^brought no
"
made
no
she
wore
the
freelyto
simply, naturally as
ashamed
at
look
gallant,but the
her
beauty!
Here
looked
her
at
him,
over
to
be
do
so
the
to
appeal of
preposterous.
in
man,
another
was
quite improper,
very
exhilarating. It
wasn't
he
be
it should
doubt
no
did not
endeavored
he
rather
courtyard. It
or
occasion
withal
"
as
the
"
she
newly-married
lady's boudoir,
though
him
struck
"
he,
was
situation
of
gaze
handiwork.
speak, but
to
face
effrontery
no
straightened; then
He
once.
felt
Allah's
at
for her
waited
He
this without
who
one
abashed
or
did
she
Yet
man.
young
ness;
loveli-
exposing her
unconsciously ardent
now
she
Moreover,
concealingher
veil whatever,
no
She
disappointment.
beautiful.
and
radiantly young
was
61
GARDEN
as
from
wave
in
dreamer
the
breath
warmer
sands
an
wafted
seemed
oasis
for
"So
imagined,"
"I had
to
"I
honored."
am
send
for
he
answered.
you."
He
bowed.
feels at
times
stices
through the inter-
sweeping
ALADDIN
62
That
was
far
as
his eyes
them
seemed
What
only
one
He
gave
He
would
eyes !
Not
her
have
not
pellucidclearness
fair!
be
surprised,though.
intrigue! He,
in the matter.
fall
the
her
white
looked
man's
words
seemed
with
and
in
hummed
they
nestle
big palm,
Most
his
"
understand
that
young,
was
not
a
to
cipal
prinHe
little hand,
little hand
for
or
was
It
role.
that
cosilyenough,
he
mind,
in his
unspoken
so
those
no
words
murmured
on
ear.
sudden
; fine
appropriateones
the
look.
feel flattered.
the
while
the
breathing them
them
She,
her
cared
one
snowflake
It would
gown.
a
as
Hum!
gown.
if
to
press
"
of
with
"
he
is
Orient.
cynic,ought
ought
knee
inviting enough,
tainly!
cer-
There
in the
her
Especiallyas
He
one
on
of
hem
it of
believed
so
should
that
did
her,
An
do
women
intend
What
for him.
sent
haps
Per-
didn't
he
love to
make
them.
on
next?
do
to
to
had
why
^wells of
"
he
yet she
reason
fall
to
was
expect of him?
And
bold, though
too
were
be.
to
BROADWAY
they got
as
constraint
mutual
she
FROM
such
sheytan
eyes
glowed
ones
His
"
"
phrases. Did
she
read
culine,
insidious, if involuntary,mas-
telepathiccommunication?
ALADDIN
64
own
and
forbade,
"
take
she
FROM
and
sudden
for
sent
beggar ; she,
yet
because
him
the fine
He
would
was
that
to
be
of
these
Had
of
one
reciters
the
to
wonderful
no!
no,
possibilitybut there
the
always likes
who
sheytan again
on
be like
romance
tale
"
poor
miserable
did
the
dismissed
have
present
of
tales
the
"
lady ! It would
hashish-steeped brains
princess and
sometimes
women
"
extraordinary fancies.
most
fantastic
those
BROADWAY
whispering absurd
occasions
in his brain.
fancies
he said, "are
"Madam,"
married?"
you
"I am."
He
shook
his
"Thank
he muttered.
did
meaning.
are
not
explain, nor
She
did not
had
she
known
of
way,
out
him
Of
wouldn't
she
did
know
in him.
merely thrown
sort
she said.
talking about?"
you
the dervish
have
you
the
one
"What
He
so,"
"Thought
mournfully.
cake?"
"What
"The
head
course
; he
he
did know,
the words
because
was
further
ask
in
He
his
nize
recog-
should
really. He
casual
mentally
less
hopeso
en-
IN
tangled by
THE
GARDEN
63
complicated webs
ing
enmesh-
him.
She
her
was
now
hands.
likelyshe
She
had
had
hardly heard
wholly absorbed
she
to
looked
Her
would
poets
with
the
at
him.
see
enough,
Yet
he
but
as
or
but
a
he
didn't
has
half
anything.
"
not
The
to
It is not
contemplate ;
he
actively.
eyes
to
the
look
ments,
requiresublime,
After
all,
initiative;it is
expected
smiled; she
a
was
be moved,
the
it.
he
of its
irresponsibility
take
dervish
from
about
hurt
to
tractive
at-
women?
certain
meet
descent
really,but like
close your
to
and
to
something
"
set,
have
the
stances,
circum-
feelingthat
the
charming
passive creation.
now
eyes
was
scarcely
young
attractive
are
feel much
It doesn't
for
too
It
needs.
lay figure
own.
men
or
Though
own.
romantic
these
suddenly experienced
shifted, adjusted
seemed
mind
seemed
handsome,
not
her
; most
it under
he
words
; her
she
man
was
gaze
was
them
thoughts of
young
have
for
unclasping
figure in
at.
permitted his
He
brain
was
to
to
was
answer
far off
picture you
content
to
stop working
ALADDIN
66
"I sent
He
FROM
servant
my
nodded.
struck
she
told him
found
him
to
continued
"To
"But
?" he
he
did
how
to
"My
servant
"Words?"
went
know
dervish
made
very
as
to
was
you
ought
to
with
faint
flectio
in-
go
to
pray."
to
"
praying now."
be
to
He
seemed
have
to
that
words
say
would
bring
quickly.
on
words?"
Dully.
since you
"
here."
are
deprecatory gesture.
but
know,
much,"
the
you,"
there !"
supposed
ah, what
"Surely
fetch
one
here," she
far
his
there?"
frivolous.
were
from
jumped
as
mediatel
im-
know?"
you
were
you
accents
know
words
and
murmured
find you
would
on.
hurriedly.
surprise. "Why
"I knew
The
These
the mosque
to
more
"Because
you
me."
went
as
go
the mosque
of
His
you," she
there.
presence
"I
find
to
"He
BROADWAY
added
he
I don't
I don't.
humbly.
"I
be
"Mayseem
didn't
to
get
mosque."
"You
didn't?"
"No.
With
the
she
said.
best
intentions
was
carried
off.
IN
it
But
not
was
"I don't
He
THE
fault!
my
understand."
now
smile.
"I
"
of
but
him,
to
thought it
donkeys!"
the
spoke wonderingly.
humor
appeal
to
67
Blame
She
The
explained.
seemed
GARDEN
was
situation
the
didn't
she
for
soon
even
be
to
you
here,'*she said.
"I
tore
if I followed
mended
"I
see
"Wish
"That
now."
Her
"Yes, it
your
was
was
just as
he
so
easy!"
might have
would
great mosque
attention.
He
easy
to
"
studying him
gaze
prayed he
In the
muttered.
Her
"I feared
it
have
to
expressed enlightenment.
eyes
it
why
was
offered
man
him."
I did," he
I mean."
and
Your
coat.
my
clearly.
Helplessly.
I
difficulty,
though
kneel
not.
He
and
whisper words
to
was
here,
get you
to
was
make
hoped
near
to
you
attract
come."
you
More
excitedly.
so
"And
why
much
"As
I told
you,
you
"There
"Ask
it!"
is
He
have
wanted
to
see
me
"
man.
it
nearer,
should
was
shining
something
She
necessary."
with
I want
spoke readily.
came
ing.
suppressed feelyou
"But
to
do."
first,if you
68
will
pardon
I
know
"Then
"I
going
couldn't
"I
am
curiosity,
my
was
you
your
BROADWAY
FROM
ALADDIN
to
at
mosque
happen
you
to
all ?"
knowing."
help
are
the
did
how
wife,"
friend
she
of
said
the
family
simply.
?"
he
cried.
CHAPTER
SURPRISE
THE
/TY
"TV
Ah
"
"Quite
have
wife.
Can't
her
his chin.
front
of
about
that!
the
It didn't
her,
it had
there
There
but
But
any
a
was
they
matter
how
all!
"wife"
was
bride
he, the
that
had
my
"
necessity of
Not
at
all!"
handsome;
for
dervish,
confounded
him,
him
he
or
to
began
he
know
her.
only
about,
come
in
him
married
"
"
again.
said.
face.
her
on
"
didn't
it had
He
me
attracted
married
had
to
!"
one
she
"
"You
flush
at
"Not
that.
or
happened.
"Is
His
much
she
then
and
"
had
though
"
Got
Pardon
"You!
her
at
married.
without
she
First
pastry-shop
married
had
married
prised.
sur-
appear
looked
and
just been
closely.
more
stroked
He
be
to
not
"So"?
her.
at
stopped
I've
so
looked
tried
He
"
again.
studied
He
?"
"
"My
He
WIFE!"
V A
VI
sultan,
he
there
was
if
wanted
didn't!
dyer had
69
He
absently.
answered
he
was
told
denying
no
of
sure
him
bride;
he
was
that.
to
ALADDIN
70
be married
to
and
to
feel very
to
imagine
the
Why,
the
"
himself
girlwas
He
or
her
to
he had
the
was
to
married",
dream,
Fatma
any
forward
were
annoyed.
he had
man
to
for hoodwinking
doing
chips on
novelty of
his
honeymoon!
to
with
where
of
who
is "married
have
been
He
to
his
His
did
not
keep
on
moment.
It promised
And
tobacco
without
for the
gaze
have
and
lot of
the
imagine,
we
her,
placidperiod in
and
comforts
What
the
dreamed.
he had
calm
and
seething waters.
the
"
him.
see
realized!
lingered.
thought
his wife's
was
dyer's house,
sighed.
is seldom
and
to
creature
a
tried
exciting than
of
and
their part
This
with
of the
or
dervish
Or
bride!
other
and
indignant
ought
He
right to.
not
was
He
but
more
looked
benedict,
The
feel
him.
lovelier than
in it like
his
"
seclusion
coffee
now
beauty,
be
had
she wanted
"
about
wife!
His
he
both
even
! He
deceived
likelynot!
brain
began
married"
had
like this !
hers, alone
bobbed
be
reprehensible on
more
Most
His
They
indignant ;
him
know?
BROADWAY
yet "not
the bride.
see
All
FROM
looking
ing
be-
asking.
what
returned
to
we
to
exercise
at
her.
fj2,
ALADDIN
FROM
you?
You
The
red
a
fear?"
How
lipscurl.
"Hum!
And
think
all?
blaze, the
slender
figure;like
When
you
!"
I
say
think
you
studying
were
She
were
did
did not
deny.
from
me
"And
what
he
added
little afraid?"
about
smile.
should
try
than
your
greater
of that."
when
screen
should
"I
could
if I do?"
think?
Ah,
the
with
straightthe
what
didn't
behind
if I
fine eyes
palm !
young
it at
BROADWAY
"Cupidity ?
to
if your
see
fears," she
Oh,
mean
you
cupidity
disdainfully.
returned
would
you
not
was
to
try
buy
me?"
"Of
course."
"With
gold?"
"Gold,
or
"And
"Of
you
think
course,"
in useless
He
shook
misjudged
making
in her
said
seemed
both."
do
that
buy
"
again. Her
tone
imply
that
to
?"
me
ter-of-fact
mat-
was
he
wasted
quibbling.
his
her!
could
you
she
It
time
I have
jewels.
approvingly.
head
There
eyes.
No
was
no
tender
How
he
thought of
errand
had
love-
of the heart
THE
had
brought
her
be, was
of
could
SURPRISE
here.
Her
He
who
sell. She
he
a
goods
have
bargain
to
dear
patron,"
heaved
"But
couldn't
She
"
as
had
she
always
feel very
be, all
as
He
wing of
which
beautiful
eyes
so!
He
possibility you
"
buy, from
to
me?"
words
question of
"price" with
to
her
certain
patientapathy.
to
on
bird, shaded
say
made
by
Her
him
good deal
his
from
down
seemed
taller
him.
was
manner
it was,
that
Her
pay.
looked
dark
certainlya
was
plainer than
of
that
This
answer.
small, though he
she.
its
an
prepared
was
height with
the
himself
prepare
the
wanted
you
It said
haughty
than
as
am
would
And
it
tentatively.
out
simple one.
or
Would
sigh.
^justsuppose
buy, what
he threw
"I
if
what
bid.
far better
so;
to
merchant
"Receive
Those
Better
eyes.
commendatory
then
to
to
fashion:
and
wanted
She
there
it
whatever
tagir,or
was
in oriental
shopping
were
like
was
say
to
gift,my
to
mission,
practicalnature.
buy something.
had
73
superior
hair, like
beauty.
they would
Above
have
the
what
eyes,
they
ALADDIN
74
FROM
had
that
lashes
for
"
would
it won't
cost
even
do
it for
curled
most
were
mantic
ro-
poet would
have
dervish, though,
do ?" he said.
me
much
as
wants
are
think.
you
"Maybe
simple.
"
not
am
might
repeated incredulously.
she
That
charge.
surprises you?"
does."
think
"
every
He
"
is to
man
stopped;
be
voice
his
bought
and
begun
had
to
sold
have
lashes
had
shone
in the
eyes
down
to
Hadn't
and
not
from
they
fully revealed.
so
of
fellow?
other
but
the
his
faint look
mustahall
"
lady do "business"
her
standpoint !
From
"
that
He
came
cursed
substitute
with
his?
him?
"
dyer
follies!
folly of
Oh,
curiosity
position abruptly.
own
them
bargained with
he
of
lifted.
level
the
the
Could
"
lashes
nothing."
without
"You
he
have
My
nothing?"
"Yes;
The
them.
so
you
avaricious.
like
They
bargaining.
you
very
"For
The
wing.
ground.
"What
"It
the
before
prone
his
stood
from
straightsoft feathers
two
as
enticingly beneath.
long and
fallen
were
BROADWAY
had
Was
husband?
Of
he
course
right
THE
to
standpoint?
from
situation
him
robbed
Had
they
He
must
look
to
in his
outlaw
glanced
gaze
the
furtive
in
to
do
of
trouble
not
she
wanted?
secret
some
as
must
easy
he.
But
is. however,
one
would
she
must
easier
sought
to
for
of
gleam
He
an
even
devoid
were
of
disappointed,
appear
foolish.
do
you?"
The
he
mured.
mur-
this
she
not
have
decided
to
embarrassment.
or
Perhaps
already have
her
as
is it?"
tell him,
to
to
something,
hesitate.
to
He
restless
looking
"Well, what
seemed
tried
He
stray jewels.
endeavored
me
was
for
not
less,
grace-
admiration
He
shadow
casual
the
only succeeded
She
features.
any
special effort
his
like
desert.
lookout
at
"Want
made
he
they
the
finer instincts?
himself
of the
at
personality?
own
all the
comport
look
to
Had
the
ornament.
but
own
with
on
of
him
studying
now
have
identity,his
scoundrel
young
charms
he not
and
brigandish;
temper
her
his
seem
75
point of view?
shorn
not
were
eyes
Would
her
of
act,
bold
SURPRISE
have
reveal
gone
to
to
what
unveil
willingly to such
all
over
pursue
determine
it
Perhaps
paid mustahall,
would
on
this
a
that; she
course.
certain
It
plan
ALADDIN
;6
than' it is to pursue
for
action
face
arrives.
that
part
in her
trouble
kamees,
gay
"What
"Trust
He
moment.
He
to
with
are.
was
he
wireless
sage
mes-
his
beneath
"Trust
then"
lady with
the
himself
himself
Again he
It
make
to
are!
you
me,"
wives
No
start.
to
strove
an
your
own
It
look
he
found
that's
wanted
to
them
be
an
all
ones
it was;
married,
you
precedent.
"
always
little better
a
scrupulous
un-
role.
think
wife
his role
what
like
anomalous
against
was
bluntly.
noyed
^maybe slightly an-
"
was
think
to
wonder
unnatural;
hadn't
undisguised
with
especially newly-wedded
"
their
they
And
to
came
with
her.
than
want
me
trying
Husbands
The
cocoon.
receiving station.
cried.
villain.
worse
emerged
he
somewhere,
^you?" said
"
angry
Fancy
and
like
shed
fervently.
"Seems
was
detestable
flashed
found
had
amazement.
He
air
the
is it ?" he
added
But
just a
had
eyes
through
It
for
way
straight-
divined, and
and
saw
from
as
Her
from
he
The
He
when
"
forgot himself
he
the
it
flushed.
even
BROADWAY
FROM
than
trying one
unnatural.
anyway.
At
THE
SURPRISE
her
she
That
"You
it
suspicions;
what
mustahall
want
"No,
to
did
the
"
be awkward
do
of the
doubt
it is
he
different
conventional
deuced
"
something,"
Had
out.
find him
she
he
stepmother would
No
"Ah, then,
him
help
expected
would
your
!"
no
had
me
something
and
^^
went
"Is
on.
of ?"
approve
emphasis.
something surreptitious,"he
mured
mur-
brilliantly.
"Would
"Your
in her
stepmother is
he
power?"
the dark
brows,
her
eyes
can
intent
step
guess
the
source
lightly. "You
advisabilityof
do
"What
of your
have
been
this
this
"
mean?"
you
He
look.
then
She
has
not
answer;
did
little closer
two,
or
She
on.
not
enemy?
your
went
drawn
more
away
if it were
here
come
you
together, gave
walked
turned.
fully
thought"Maybe
trouble," he said
little dubious
more
about
the
expedient?"
Her
breast
stirring
was
slightly.
"This
marriage!"
"No!"
"Of
that
was
course,
not
necessary.
the
It wasn't
quite that
me
"
I meant.
ALADDIN
78
What
doubts
certain
of
of
about
was
his
had
with
had
to
to
whole
be
which
caught
is
didn't
want,
didn't
you
wave
your
You
right there.
I
want.
when
didn't
sympathize
what
got
you
yourself
asked
you
want,
you
would
you
have
?"
having
on
cause
be-
reassuring, "for
trouble
you
have, but
keep
entertained
have
you
position. And
if that
She
intended
what
have
your
what
your
The
to
was,
say
of
need
hand
to
to
the
husband.
BROADWAY
FROM
breath
her
"I
quickly.
don't
believe
I understand."
"Your
mind
is
naturally timorous
woman's
What
what
of
woman
"Will
of
try,"
their
have
feared
eyes
seemed
be?
That
is,
sensibilities?"
mustahall
he
said
be
promised
to
"You
have
laughed.
cumstanc
cir-
dainfull
dismost
fellow.
presumptuous
shall
the
make
you
This
"I
delicate
wouldn't
under
who
bargain?"
might
prove
insistentlyto
do
Her
keep
not
look
such
bid
him
one
to
the
changed.
!"
go
of
heard
strict
"You
Gaily.
on.
Her
"These
ALADDIN
8o
FROM
tipped back!
have
fear!
no
pretending
my
wife!"
He
paused
made
With
the
on
commission.
in
future.
and
marrying
a
bad
I
It
then
the
side
bee
to
rose.
of
the
to
was
stood
sing
The
the
only
all the
sweet
overhead?
"
have
want
business
my
would
and
hall
musta-
nanimity.
mag-
court
sound.
vanished
big
in its
from
shadow
tinkled
fountain
up
most
buccaneer
sire
greedy de-
wee
modest
soothing. It seemed
was
"
than
world
^the scent
am
?"
them
honey
little song
better
so
its head
fallingwater
lullaby. What
sky
wall.
on
not
spellbound. The
if
"I
give
He
is it not
as
almost
extract
The
fore,
"There-
explain his
to
"
profession of
And
understand?
passed between
musically. It
of
had
He
"
regarded him
the cloud
it. I do
make
so
fears.
might ruin
even,
'*
is
his breast.
to
even
^not
"
she
these
unmarrying.
diminishing patronage
of
it
"
see
"
name
keep
"But
or
compliment.
Tapping
You
"You
She
"Though
of
verge
one
any
yourself. Dismiss
double
the
with
bow.
bargain and
my
falling in love,
not
am
mustahall."
true
admonishing hand.
an
fall in love
to
reassure
lifted
He
BROADWAY
of
the
kind
of
here?
"
flowers
dbmestic
the
blue
around
THE
"ou?
It
it seemed
"
was
voice
to
that entered
the
she
dervish,
his shoulders
"This
"A
but
seems
into
what,
some-
believe
house,
and
calling
re-
worthy
cupation.
oc-
the
include
unwitting part?
an
jerk.
in."
them
head
murmur
charateristic
caretaker
"Call
poetry
his
bridegroom,
gave
said."
He
you
lives here?"
"Who
dispassionate tone.
It had
your
newly married
or
is your
spoke in
of
its insidious
was
listened.
lines
Did
The
lift up
you
callow
way
Or
dervish
filtered down
and
ears
your
It made
favorite
lady?
The
murmur.
very
breast.
your
8i
SURPRISE
she
wife,"
said
chanically.
me-
Incisively.
"Why?"
They
be
shall
do
"What
be
is to
"Wliat
done,
be
done
What
are
you
at
once.
witnesses."
mean?
you
Breathlessly.
do?"
should
He
had
going
stepped toward
to
the
house.
"What
Briskly.
now
"
at
I should
"I
am
once!"
do;
going
what
to
I have
divorce
you
agreed
"
set
to
you
do!"
free,
ALADDIN
82
"But,"
A
the
she
loud
stood
still.
did
appeared
not
from
She
if
him
cautioning
indicated
the
gate.
gate
what
"
I
"
She
interrupted.
^toward
around
"
it
is
?"
"
Her
answer.
inquiringly.
just
looked
man
think
you
the
is
the
at
The
"Do
gate.
BROADWAY
"that
began,
knocking
very
She
FROM
house.
held
to
He
her
be
The
regarded
fingers
silent,
servant
then
caretaker,
the
servant,
to
with
walked
his
mistress
her
lips
a
as
gesture
toward
it.
CHAPTER
CALLER
"T
voice
The
question.
"But
from
wife
"And
with
as
his
insists,"
of
side
the
alone.
Peace
go
with
you!"
returned
reluctant
Then
be
to
asked
louder
caretaker,
with
cents
ac-
the
in
man
The
and
my
you!"
the
street
shuffled
footsteps
gone.
then
gate.
here
zest
out.
in
came
I, the
little
called
negatively.
that
but
if
answered,
mistress
your
are
other
servant
replied
servant
the
The
outside
mistress
my
"Tell
?"
is there
HO
VII
away
stepped
servant
to
mistress.
"It
'"
was
"
He
murmured
The
disappeared.
more
and
name
bridegroom
gazed
once
after
him
admiringly.
"My
wife
certainly
did
not
seem
loyal
flow
"Falsehoods
She
has
to
hear
from
; her
83
servants,"
his
face
he
tered.
mut-
lips like
oil."
expressed
new
ALADDIN
84
and
anxiety,
FROM
BROADWAY
"Some
"
he
asked
from
one
mother's
step-
your
quickly.
"Yes."
"They
have
noted
Again
she
answered
That
known,
by
"Will
he
absence
your
ative.
mechanically in the affirmat
was
large
look
for
me
"They might."
She
continued
also
was
of
they
?"
probably
Light of Life.
here?"
with
stand
to
head
down-bent.
"Then
to
they would
me?"
see
"It is
"They
possible
"
must
not
her
might reply
to
More
you,
of
suspect you
wanting
find
me
probable."
here."
Emphatically.
she
said
with
you
should
fear,
dain.
unspeakable dis-
of
think
discovered
am
do
"You
tragic eyes.
the
in this
quences
conse-
place."
gently.
if not
"You
even
if I
it is
dark
then, musfahall!"
"I
to
Categorically.
raised
She
have
are
catching his
mean
dismay.
went
on-,
He
fessed
pro-
words.
they would
not
spare
me
?"
"What
do
"I
guess."
be
can
the
that
type
Lebanon.
fans
No
would
other.
He
would
He
seemed
housetop,
a
happened
she
to
hear
day since he
star?
What
had
and
fatalistically
he
"They?"
"him"
"
his
again
spare
repeated.
in
down
the
would
laugh.
from
it less than
pink pulsating
been!
you,"
she said
calmly,
conclusively.
predecessor
regarded her
she
at
perhaps be
Was
at
up
be dull
yawn
musical
wafted
heavens.
looked
not
to
she scream,
would
not
Would
most
least,his
At
sit and
latter
had
the
from
or
it
him?
im-
big shining
heart.
of
large
dervish's
absently what
The
laugh?
to
loomed
but
not
go
wine
rich
the
cupid's arrow,
appropriate. She
more
of
would
of
was
witchery would
like the
horizon
wondered
would
one
girl'sbeauty
scimitars
and
They
do if the worst
or
brains
Some
experience promised
monotonous.
each
The
first matrimonial
or
could.
flame; her
hymeneal
iTiediate future.
blade
he
her.
Daggers
the
upon
And
masculine
certain
to
85.
think?"
you
jealous of
very
CALLER
at
That,
the
far-away
of
altar!
manner.
course,
The
meant
dervish
Somehow,
it
86
ALADDIN
didn't
seem
BROADWAY
possibleshe
didn't
he
The
FROM
know
impression
was
had
been
ever
it didn't, but
why
was
so
"
fit.
not
She
was
so
what
was
appeared
if she
as
in
did
it didn't.
very
fore;
be-
married
very
ways
young,
so
"
with
dovetail
or
that
so
"
seemed
was,
impossible.
"That
back
to
"I
to
her
don't
"Oh,
yes,
show
it.
"You
did her
"I
be
would
do
eyes
assure
too
last words.
believe
Only perhaps
am.
So
but
afraid," she
are
you
much
else
jest," she
gleam
him
on
you
you
say
to
think
am
about
forgetting
!"
said
haughtily.
with
little more
And
yet
favor?
uncomfortable,"
feelingmost
am
denly.
sud-
said
he remarked.
"Why
"Wish
he
a
do
I knew
murmured.
man's
throat
! Now,
illogical
what
"For
for
is not
what
was
so
so
?"
and
example, why
seeing
if it were
some
his
own
other
Severely.
what
should
wife?
man's
wasn't!"
they
cut
Most
wife
''
"
remain
had
her
"Is
it
didn't.
her
few
in his mind
"I
wish
The
words
dervish
to
Under
the
in
deadly
no
no
wife!"
"
the
leaves
circumstances,
by such
declaration
were
graces
The
to
man
from
comparable
to
fabled
hugged
was
score.
some
provocative
of
those
him
accused
expression left
whisper them
felt flattered
whose
he
them.
might have
one
your
were
seemed
murmur
that
on
sillyone.
she had
Her
so.
He
fixture.
saying, but
she, however,
remain
to
fountain
before
if she
was,
rather
"
thought of
knew
tragically
earnest,
smile
moments
He
jesting.
doubt
with
He
connubial
jest?" he
become
to
way,
at
BROADWAY.
nuptial chimera.
mere
looked
of
FROM
ALADDIN
88
pleasing unction
of
this nature
he
said
his soul.
"Would
matter-of-fact
"Is
"No
is it
"
"
tone
explaining?"
he
as
could
in
as
muster.
a.
of time !"
"That
mind
you
Explanations,
not.
waste
Ironically.
is
quite true."
literally."We
shall
come
She
to
an
understanding,the
sooner."
Her
tone
regained,in
had
her
regarded
seemed
brook
His
the
of
not
was
I expect
"Therefore,
thrusting
"are
looked
man
"
for
soft
the
rosy
invite
kisses
notice
now
them
she
rather
to
tinued.
con-
extra
of
She
was
pensation.
com-
Here"
And
offer
they
attract
compensation !"
who
professed
need
have
The
to
"Well,
you
jewels.
why
don't
Did
From
her
to
she
gaze
take
you
work,
Extra
ting
set-
that
"
It seemed
conscientious
compunctions."
"
niggardly
what
lipscurving.
red
being
so?
"
dress
her
no
extended!
than
she
an
no
modifies,
you
glisteningbaubles
and
Quite
you."
as
certain.
held
misinterpret it?
since
such
to
was
gleaming
palm
being.
receive
bosom
the
them.
at
that
pay-mistress
and
into
to
all obstacles.
prepared.
come
jewels, a fortune
The
promised
from
should
you
have
hand
her
resourcefulness
aside
sweep
character
original arrangement,"
your
her
"wishy-washy"
contrary! "What
course,
Her
determination
to
She
equipoise. He
wonder.
Her
opposition;
wife
her
develop amazingly;
to
no
businesslilce.
measure,
mild
with
89
almost
was
great
remarkable.
was
CALLER
extra
"Even
you,
mustahall,
accents
it
AtADDIN
90
evident
was
and
to
she
did
spoke she
brass
table.
He
the
fellow
would.
But
the
interview
she
thought.
"It
is
is
more
wouldn't
than
have
slipfrom
could
take
seemed
any,
her
them
hand
when
he
prolong
to
prone
Perhaps he
for."
bargained
have
entered,
than
deeper
was
It was,
divorce
this
stood""
under-
ward?"
after-
immediately
me
"
tender
I not
"had
on,
*1t
"I
indeed!
all, upon
at
blundered
to
were
would
he
relationship,"he
"You
think
unduly.
asking
BROADWAY
not
she
as
FROM
"Exactly!"
"But
voice
began
jewels
times
men!
am
as
There
was
the
wife
a
tension
about
"
glad
the
for
As
No
can
one
thrill in her
me,
as
can
voice.
the
I
wife,
You
you?
"
the
"A
marry
law
labored
extended
to
matter
she
side.
her
at
it ; you
lowest!
yours!
had
that
it
Her
particular?"
so
nervous
please. It is
you
does
forget
Even
still
the
be
tightlyclosed
less, what
; you
you
little hand
now
was
or
away
show
to
The
under.
more
should
why
law
go
many
for
remain;
gainsay that."
"Here
are
jewels,
fortune
to
such
as
you"
CALLER
"You
the
being married
she
"
wife
not
too
was
kind
of
phantom
want
one.
you
is it
be
to
weep
posterous
pre-
of
phantom
all, but
at
certainly don't
Besides, why
way.
sist
re-
in that way
exult
a
not
most
Didn't
isn't.
could
satisfaction
becoming
was
I don't
or
that
one
of
"
He
fairlyto
seemed
who
and
radiant
wife?"
scoff. Her
desire to
She
bride!
being
call that
91
want
want
It
necessary?
back
taken
by the
other?"
"What?"
"Weep!
remain
you
And
how
my
wife?"
have
told you
girl in
"El
low
lied."
"Eh?"
The
us
on
"
wives, but
two
him, if
to
glibly. "You
^^vept to be taken
"
tense
same
wife
can't
back?"
said
tones.
Succinctly.
dervish
uplifted head.
back," he said
"I
have
went
of
back
go
Sabbagh."
"He
the
he
of both
may
you
husbands."
two
"Who
the
man
can
"You
stared
at
didn't
the
want
slender
to
be
figure,
taken
incredulously.
didn't; I don't!"
She
forgot apparently,
for
ALADDIN
92
the moment,
with
FROM
that he
could
but
be
acutely
why,"
"Then
"It
was
some
her
if others
will it."
The
man
it.
of
muttered.
"wringing
her
hands,"
And
that
now
you
mustahall, has
wife
deal
as
with
freedom
such
as
as
marry
get rid
could
him, and
There
was
wonderful
any
"
man
he
at
"
will.
wishes.
ing
smolder-
passionate
the
even
privilege under
divorce
long
to
been
Or
So
the
he
eyes.
meanest
law.
can
He
keep
it is necessary
you," mockingly,
"to
buy my
!"
?" he said.
"Freedom
freedom,
every
and
marry
had
marry,
had
had
she
be
may
to
she
no
to.
the
man
is forced
because
has
bride
bride
Perhaps
is she?"
in
"Nothing! But
she
want
girl? What
resentment
The
She
above.
hands
he
him.
else. The
speaks.
"Hum!"
to
emotion.
very
helplessly, "did
one
wekeel
wringing
his
stood
aware
asked
he
or
you,
The
voice.
can
she
spoke
me?"
marry
of
mustahall, and
quivering with
seemed
not
only
was
intensity. Though
burning
still she
BROADWAY
to
tie
"Do
yourself to
you
me?"
ALADDIN
94
with
human
most
all the
FROM
and
she seemed
moment
evidence
gave
which
of
must
refuse
not
she
reallybrought
them
"All?"
he
said,
His
want
"All
face
feel
to
he
her
have
here
in her
and
with
fro.
the
so
like
stopped
his
jewels on
him
"
^a
could
the
it and
one."
only
was
him.
felt like
husband
any
"
way
sex!
light that
was
not
speak roughly
not
He
as
thing
stopped. Some-
lip impatiently
girlwatched
have
He
wheedle
^to
"
eyes
bit
"I
was
more.
keeping
he
The
for
How
He
was
persistencewas
!" he
bargaining light.
her,
Her
buy
way!
own
She
thought he
he
that
"
might get
methods
questionable. To
so.
She
sterner.
grew
annoyed.
her
!"
jewels! Every
my
bargain further
to
disconcerting as
to
earlier
understanding.
not
as
"Oh!"
beginning
weakness
all !"
"
Eagerly.
"See
the
part and
that
not
must
you
"
all
to
with
spoke, appealingly
"Yes."
were
feminine
and
play havoc
to
girlishas
might
the stronger
to
palpable
For
gesture!
at
not
"
composure.
"You
very
of
unequal
threatened
haughty
impulsive gesture
kind
dame
grand
BROADWAY
and
strode
to
kicking it over.
He
the chance
welcome
for
because
he
of
or
of
with
"
it!
looking for
the
exclaim
would
snow
studying
"See
glowered
at
"
gazed
down
face
to
me,
screen
I do
face
who
at
sad
was
feet
her
now
sad!
always
were
the
and
six
too, when
it was,
sight of it.
began
inexpressible
The
brow
fixed
eyes
like
as
not
justas
him.
Her
when
I looked
to
manner
if
at
the
know
she
feverish.
was
from
you
at
quite like
not
his
Her
charms
her
future!
the
came
be
it
ish
fool-
such
From
away.
the
here," he
the
were
He
"
stepped suddenly
"It
Woman's
; not
he
doubt,
no
other, however,
the
"
him,
marriage
intangible
at
predecessor,
available.
painter friends
his
of
one
What
His
real
superb masculinity
would
men
have
that
frowning disapproval.
How
mean
looked
she
and
of
this!
as
confound
not
wouldn't
case
be
course,
quickly
so
the
some
her.
looked
He
predicament!
marry
willing
In
business
and
she
was
perversity!
would,
to
! But
example
95
resentfully. How
almost
her
fine
laughed savagely.
at
CALLER
you
hind
be-
might
quite what
thought you,
I
a
mean
!
"
but
you
paid mustahall,
96
AUADDIN
would
be.
FROM
thought occurred
That
it. It
Mustahalls
BROADWAY
too
was
But
missed
but I dis-
me
preposterous.
mustahalls.
are
to
it
it.
forgot
to
came
me
again."
"Again?"
he
"Just
!"
now
repeated.
"Why?"
can't
"I
hand
it
"
them
at
you
Her
"
jewels. "Your
the
when
was
face
white
seemed
to
say""
"What?"
He
certainlya
was
penetration and
"I
"
other
He
him
to
do
you
be I can't
is hard
deal
"
and
what
with
them.
sibyl.
understand.
yet beyond
without
You
I don't
know
wearily,
him
"if
"
them, it
why.
be different
must
had
She
of
I want
wife
His
smile.
woman.
young
good
^lookingat
I can't make
may
versatile
was
but
not
can't
"only"
could
It
from
mustahalls.
regarded her
Her
disastrous.
"Suppose
He
now,
powers
was
I didn't
not
of
annoyedly, but
divination
skating on
divorce
might
thin
you?
prove
ice.
"
"
platively.
contem-
he
began.
CALLER
"Yes"?"
Joyously.
"What
would
"
"He
your
Her
"
dervish
her
he
see,
say?"
became
almost
aversion
he
"
Amad
"
voice
certainlylooked
"You
97
fierce.
She
suggested the
me,"
employed
gently.
"But
he
"That
misrepresented
is true,"
"He
told
like the
The
of
murmur
"
I!
I!"
"
dervish
shivered.
the dyer
mean
Her
laugh
was
icy brook.
an
that, too," he
particularlyabout
me
started.
dervish
I wept.
you
Involuntarilythe
assured
"
"
"And
I asked
observed.
"They
^that I should
"
be
benefactor."
"And
wouldn't
you
known
I hated
had
consented, if you
have
him?"
"Amad?"
"Yes,
"
back
"Kill
to
yourself?"
against
the
kill
known
both
hate
myself
rather
than
and
ever
him?"
beating stronger.
even
had
^that I would
despise
go
if you
yes;
his
tense
It
he
was
repeated. His
as
if he had
will, caught
feelingunder
pulses
unconsciously,
little of
which
were
she
her
ment,
excite-
labored
"
ALADDIN
98
which
FROM
seemed
to
BROADWAY
without
thought
now
"""You!"
"You
wouldn't
that?"
she
know.
Tell
He
have
asked
again. "Tell
girlhad temperament
and
he had
been
himself
moment's
if not
the
on
in her
have
after
she
man
not
believe
and
from
emanate
much,
as
"I
expected.
to
seemed
answer
had
gladness and
both
was
His
tone.
seemed
before
further
considered
There
came
he
But
her.
hesitation.
than
more,
wrong,
convincing
most
was
enterprise,"he returned
would?"
triumph
; she
did.
in time.
forced
"You
must
he almost
I should
embarking
quick. I
me
impetuously;
answer
The
"I think
known
had
!"
me
started to
caught
if you
consented
not
was
"
She
"
hilaration
contagious ex-
He
her.
felt it
subtly.
He
a
few
moved
slightly."At least
inquiriesbefore
rather
of
standing so
of
touching her!
close
He
to
made
have
committing myself," he
take
stiffly.Deuce
dinary physicalbeauty
I should
the
it! What
girlpossessed!
your
wife
felt,on
and
fessed
con-
extraor-
The
being
idea
afraid
sudden, he wanted
to
get away
pf
his
had
making
fool
of
reallyany
danger
himself.
Not
all; he
"All
After
said
sentimental
them
His
to pay
we're
about
"Allah
moisture
"Pooh
it is
eyes ?
!" He
waved
eh?
"
What
they
said
! I
me
gave
the
hand.
to
me
waive
to
out
imagine
the circumstances."
you,"
nothing for
less
meal
in her
more
quits,under
reward
did
with
contract
been
afford
could
He
practical.
than
divorce
his wife
as
objectionshad
magnanimously.
half my
ever
How-
thing.
"I'll not
briskly.
little to him.
mean
of
sort
at
time to go.
right,"he
you."
99
was
that there
not
"
CALLjER
"As
A
do.
girl.
is she about
you
few
pointed out,
wives,
now?"
there
Was
or
more
This
last to
himself.
For
the
from
Koran,"
"For
and
somewhere
"I
she said.
The
what?"
from
"For
girlhad turned
had
quickly,pickedup
ject
ob-
an
ready."
moisture
had
already
ished
van-
her eyes.
the oath
would
dare
you
are
break."
to
"A
take;
one
no
medan
Moham-
FROM
ALADDIN
loo
I have
"Oh,
businesslike
very
was
take
to
"Couldn't
slightlyhurt,
"I could," said
plunged
"But
you
know.
swore
mind
your
again."
and
"I hate
ahem!
"
cents
ac-
would
you
be
all men."
you
wouldn't
it?
to
She
had
"Suppose
want
That
Suppose
began
shine
been
to
swear
me
to
?"
And
always.
me?
we
rather
Perhaps
"
and
then
be
would
to
"
dark
brought
you
up
be
cumbered
en-
awkward,
in the
keep
want
ever
are
day
some
manded.
de-
finality.
With
not
may
You
he
unattractive.
along
do,
then?"
I don't
don't.
you
^not
"
do
and
you,
Women
day?
mind.
come
may
with
you
with
divorce
to
you
my
only think
may
right man
him.
the oath
some
would
What
get married
"But
on
?"
me
never
change
the
as
broke
young,
chances.
"this
girl,"only," practically,
the
suppose
changed
"You
trust
went
no
into Hades."
you
to
certainlytook
point,"he
"and
If you
is better.
way
path?"
an
she
stretch
you
BROADWAY
cion
Suspi-
eyes
that
studied
in
hard
school.
for my
wife,
as
long
ALADDIN
I02
kind
of
without
man
forever
"
BROADWAY
invite
intending
"
do
to
would
that
eyes
human
about
FROM
foolish,
something
desirable
most
any
man
to.
He
possession
felt
she
perhaps
He
he
was
his
was
"
real
any
"
getting
for-
was
.
himself,
The
book
fell
when
from
suddenly
her
hand.
the
girl
started
back.
CHAPTER
AN
THE
undergone
mistress,
my
"Here?"
"At
she
the
meanor
de-
grave
The
change.
face
man's
will
they
door,
and
The
"Quick!"
"Go?"
His
he
force
on
her
says
if
their
way
to
the
do
we
are
unlock
not
in."
dervish
"You
features.
from
thrilled
fingers yet
There
house.
the
to
girl turned
consternation
"Where?"
wildly.
entrance
him,
is here!"
Amad-Ahl-Masr
exclaimed
side
with
others
of
customary
had
he
Obviously
his
house
the
excitement
"Oh,
was
for
of
out
come
them.
impart,
to
had
the
again
had
approached
news
showed
HONEYMOON
INTERRUPTED
servant
and
serious
VIII
and
there
must
go
the
touch
!"
hers.
"Yes.
contract
"And
"He
He
with
as
would
will
demand
him
and
can
not,
try
to
that
?"
find
103
out
your
"
divorce
now
carry
you
me
way
"
to
make
you.
He
ALADDIN
I04
will stop at
FROM
away
"
"All
far, far
away,
right.
I'll go.
have
wondered
had
once
to
the
first time
He
would
"One
the
he
had
And
!"
moment
the
Not
and
gate. He
only
he
was
who
that
he, the
That
past.
girl
the
met
him!
man
her
he
for
bit curious.
that.
to
She
gate
fell from
that
her?
him
get
Confound
like, the
yesterday. But
of
best.''
my
was
won
he
confess
lattice
must
"
Amad.
see
and
impossible;
was
You
"
I'll do
jealous of
was
prisoner,
you
kill you.
somewhere
what
wooed
dervish,
make
liked
He
would
would
he
started, though
would
He
nothing.
if necessary,
or,
BROADWAY
him
an
lips. "You
her
of
exclamation
can't
go
to
appointme
disout
way."
not?"
"Why
She
ness.
He
experienced
an
odd
was
glowed with
excitement
passivedark
^perhaps,too, with
"
eyes
little
dread.
"Two
near
of
by,
Light
watches.
of
and
his servants
"
yes
Life's.
You
^there
"
He
could
is that
stands
not
there
out
are
pass
at
in the
doorkeeper
the
them."
comer
street,
from
and
AN
'T
INTERRUPTED
could
have
They
did not
their instructions.
give yourselfup
at
He
knew
existed
that
learned
Mohammedan
not
and
influence
be
feelings could
latter
all,and
free.
chance
of
matter
Well, his
His
had
to
her.
He
out
the
carry
speedy demise
Amad
would
more
once
on
her
was
not
dervish's
had
Circumstances
would
be to her
as
sake.
to
"
the
Was
force
really
for disinterested
she
proud lovelyface.
"
his
her.
remarry
very
reasons.
henceforth
that
apple of her
as
from
her
free to
therefore
ordained
come
did not?
release
eye.
He
he
had
to
studied the
dared
bounded
un-
originalprogram,
be
then
be
would
life
The
had
he
intention
would
rage
fluence
in-
when
no
meet
peared
disaphad
imagined
Men
inquiry. Amad
stifled
here,
countries.
her
they would
once,
assassination, as
in
His
if
And
you."
spare
of
105
try."
"No, no!
you
HONEYMOON
She
to
him?
"
He
certainlyseemed
ALADDIN
io6
most
anxious.
him.
That
Her
hands,
but
appendage,
solve
to
"Perhaps
the
house
there
to
"
no
she
way,"
"Isn't
heard
there
one
is
"Go
to
keep them
out
say
"
"
perpetual
He
problem
the
"
and
the
get
to
way
he
myself?"
she
of
out
suggested.
side
there
entrance,
feverishly.
answered
a
fast
canal
at
the
back?
She
turned
Thought
singing by."
go
"There
eliminate
clasped
un-
encumbrance.
an
other
some
and
assist her.
to
"Except
is
is
was
fof
"
think
to
He
embarrassment
strove
solicitude
clasped
trying
also
was
and
"
She
if
as
with
him, now?
he
appreciated her
had
shone
good.
get rid of
to
BROADWAY
eyes
was
her
how
FROM
canal
the
"
but
side
Find
door.'
yet, just
anything
"
some
little while.
^that
"
we
to
Say
will open
the
ant.
serv-
to
excuse
am
in
sidering
con-
few
moments."
The
man
nodded
comprehensive
were
"You
dervish
it?"
were
saying
hastily and
but
His
eyes
dubious.
there
briskly. "Any
vanished.
is
windows
canal
?" continued
looking
out
the
upon
AN
INTERRUPTED
"Only
that
basement
not
"The
from
"
is
canal
mountain
rains
But
must
you
not
go
"And
wife?"
swift
have
It is very
canal.
he
window.
107
way."
"Must
HONEYMOON
and
it
made
now.
The
torrent
than
just
deep
more
dangerous."
That
wouldn't
do,"
laughed.
did
She
the
toward
"I
not
of
nothing!
helplessness,almost
"Which
brings
"There
was
back
to
one
there
has
voice.
to
decide,
time
is much
vish
der-
and
in
"
"
isn't!"
I'll exercise
"Then
The
command.
there!"
thing
to
"
these
contradict
me.
his
prerogative, and
husband's
So
exit!
aqueous
raised
He
determined.
discard
us
There
nothing!"
"
in her
think
I don't
case,
nervously
despair
"Some
cheerfully.
this
glance swept
house.
think
can
Her
answer.
hand.
"Not
authority itself.
am
get
out
garments.
We
of
haven't
have
a
There!
It is
word.
And
other
an-
now
safely, I
Damascus
I must
it.
be
others.
minute
to
must
Don't
waste.
ALADDIN
io8
unless
know
you
"
Even
obey."
dilated
eyes
FROM
alternative.
the
in
that
"Can
man's
demanded.
?" he
find
you
Just listen
and
emergency
her
certainlymost
was
for
manner
the desert.
of
moment
slightly. He
in his
BROADWAY
nameless
me
of
vagabond
suit of your
extra
an
monious
uncere-
"Then
Just
instant
she hesitated
then
said
she
own
strategicabilityhad
She
an
at
was
him
who
loss what
"take
to
the
literallyled the
smiled.
to
do
autocrat
so
mighty!
Also,
household
in
"
ted
permitshe
was
The
house.
victory!
Now
so
the
her
failed her.
moment
herself, and
to
way
!" she
might be,
lead," figuratively. It
first domestic
His
Sobering thought!
other
for the
"Come
"
man
his last!
despot
few
no
"
moments,
what?
His
did not
mind
however,
court.
It
white
followed
certainly had
masses
skin.
he
his
in
brieflyemployed
was
She
the
as
cies,
lugubrious contingen-
linger on
He
of hair,
had
not
wife
esthetic
charming
plation.
contem-
neck.
noticed
the
across
it before.
on
It
neath
Bethe
was
ALADDIN
no
"That
FROM
fellow.
Allah
water.
and
tooth
and
the
prophet
when
has
the
cup
Oh,
"Such
by:
reallyno
from
though
once
more.
And
but
mistress
"My
to
won't."
we
fear.
is with
she
however,
proper
yesterday night
Threats
Matters
the
in
one
who
the
were
and
in the
"
then
"
inner
side
other
of
court
coming
honor
rejoice for
to
upon
plain in
the
altogether,
ready tongue.
has
nothing
very
shortly.
bath.
Soon,
though, with
"
admit
of
"
the
remembered
dervish
your
that
has
is not
you
had
you,
just now
you."
followed
is
admit
see
was
She
law
voice
admit
complaisant. She
see
will
you
bring scandal
The
fellow
precautions, and
angry
of
first to
the
the
Expostulations from
That
be
to
even
her
tomb
enjoy
soon
refuse
is most
will
sacred
to
all !
is it fit to
Truly
She
wife
My
I shall
could
his
from
at
will
she
ex-husband?
an
We
matter.
And
here,
meanwhile
^you,
"
with
as
orders
sweet
door
without, which
come
now,
her
it is so,
impatience!
right to
But
By the
I shall have
with
the
to
came
swear
wife
her.
but
seller of licorice
good wife
my
again.
even
answer
an
but
was
cursed
away
presently
Again
he
erk-sose
went
BROADWAY
the
climax.
so
door!
well
mosque!
Amad
AN
in
not
was
fell
shadow
pavement
he
the
the
arches, and
need
for words.
her
the
this she
She
recess,
did
a
did
not
place for
of
knocks
you
the
the
the
world
fragrant tobacco,
he
garments.
was
There
recess,
was
no
he
meditation.
tered.
en-
after
and
to
veils
the
"
then,
and
to
the
shocks
to
one,
said the
and
bring
recline, exhaling
dream,
of
thought
conditions, what
proper
one
is
The
while
the
smoke,
or
you
phize
apostro-
hadn't
hastilythrown
ing,
turn-
were
with
But
and
rover,
"
"
"Hasten,"
marble
without, while
rest
Under
water-pipe
it in the
white
road-worn
arm
indicated.
waited
indulge
his mind
cross
can't
he
stood, and
apartment
designed particularlyfor
dervish
to
Not
and
and
dervish
the
girl; over
with
black
the
across
of
end
The
fellow.
is here
he
long
five minutes
you
this
know
where
near
saw
to
me
iil
defer?"
Why
get away.
unto
We
longer!
minute
At
condition
deliver
and
open
mental
the
on
HONEYMOON
INTERRUPTED
as
"
girl without.
been
off his
wasting
outer
any
time.
garments,
he
Having
donned
ALADDIN
112
those
she had
his
clothes
would
brought him.
of
made
was
of the
He
did
first.
down
wide
were
if she
of her
She
manner,
however,
few
them.
out;
waters
"We
and
It
the
had
was
now,
pause
she
pried
not
stone
but
went
moved
volition
no
loose
the
iron
the
him,
canal
old
was
bars
difficult task.
somber.
nor
around
of
aid
of
stick
and
Then
was
some
man's
young
masonry
the
of
eyes
mechanically
tragic
with
Her
taper.
glance
The
casement.
surface
ran
to
neither
comprehensive
the
ornate
was
moments,
he
they reached
young
to
Silently they
man.
with
followed
beautiful
her
In the dim
bridegroom,
were
cast
the dervish
down.
bright
and
own.
turned
until
permit
not
they
mandarah,
apartments,
stairway, leading
in
longer
no
gay
under
where
at once,
sober-looking serving
out
provided,
sticks,
the
servants'
He
palm
girl. He
thrusting the
had
likely,be found
moved
as
Then
not, most
rejoined
but
BROADWAY
predecessor, Amad,
frame
FROM
and
wood,
fire-
removed
he
near,
then
looked
and
the
swiftly.
call it the
'black
death*, when
it is swollen
AN
INTERRUPTED
HONEYMOON
lightand
looked
the dark
the
go
surface
of
ought
way
Ladies
of
dervishes,
more
or
*Tt
the
"
high degree
They,
mustahalls.
are
only
less, what
is the
fine swimmer,
reason
the
matter
lighted
right to
don't
along.
let you
Did
faltered.
the
touched
it rushed
no
mit
ad-
to
stairway still
she
anything happened
But
again
for
do
not
the
flies of
on
her
comes
be-
what
care
beggars
the
to
that
came
solicitude
and
desert.
the
One,
?
"And
was
dervish
the
reflection
ink
girl half
dervish.
the
of
Like
to
She, too,
the
star's
little bit, if
of
head
not
the door
entrance.
reallyhave
the
reflection
damning
through
Amad
flickering candle
not
"
"
thought
unlocked
water.
not
just
really care
part!
the
"
this
him,
the
Only
above.
other's
the
Without,
"You
and
caught apprised
the
But
around.
basement.
the
the
ing,
Swirling,seeth-
houses
sounds
to
he
of
dark.
was
din
manner
looked
down
set
listeningnow,
was
they hadn't
The
him.
; he
but
waters,
the
beneath
ran
his head
of
had
places.
turned
mad
girl. She
his shoulder.
over
current
subterranean
He
the
113
worry.
No
cause
I'm
I'm
go-
ALADDIN
114
ing
mind
about
between
distance
that.
his words
another
tack.
And
can't
he
him.
As
"Amad
good. But
shall
slightestdoubt
I'll put
reassured
so
been, and
Why,
And
harm
He
at
fingers!
your
de trop!"
distinctly
you.
laugh
can
snap
he took
so
course,
you
big
us," he
separate
appear
have
before!
did
I'm
then
you.
is yours.
game
And
won't, of
marry
you
the
did not
she should
as
Not
Seas
us.
cheerfully. She
added
The
BROADWAY
to
in my
by
FROM
do
any
with
ended
laugh.
hand
Her
of the
doorway
Her
gesture.
and
"Why,
his arm,
touched
he
ware
una-
was
back
the
to
expression.
new
You!"
afraid?
she
swept
eyes
in them
saw
aren't
you
though
exclaimed,
he
wonderingly.
It
fear he
was
"You
Amad
fear
have
to
leave
me
you
"
meet
to
?" he cried.
She
Never
no
saw
back
threw
!"
fear
There
"Always
"Afraid
was
contempt
in her
to
eyes,
him
meet
disdain
"
now.
"Good,"
she had
head.
her
he
said
approvingly. He
spirit,
courage;
bear
this
in
she
mind:
believed
her;
only overwrought.
was
It
is
only
against
AN
INTERRUPTED
HONEYMOON
whom
his anger
sabit
magistrate will
his
or
strict. There
very
The
you.
be absolute
must
is divorced, before
woman
be turned.
malignitycan
protect
115
man
is
law
evidence
another
The
that
may
take
the
proud
her."
; I
"Yes, yes
lipstremble
her
slightly?
shoulder.
haughty
Fancy
again
did
did
"That
not
"The
wekeel
"Did
suddenly
lighthad
now
ered
flick-
smile.
grave
was
fool," he said.
wekeel?"
who
one
could
"What
answer.
wekeel
"What
of
were
eyes
patted
vanished.
he said, with
"Good-by,"
His
staircase.
the
shoulder
girl drew
notice.
not
toward
above, then
She
The
and
over
the
patting
goddess!
young
back, but he
bent
reached
He
are
described
As
me.
if any
justiceto you!"
do
saying?"
you
Amad
to
you
tell you,
ever
had
you
beautiful
eyes ?"
"Go!
Above
go!"
the
she
sounds
were
shop
that I should
half
murmured
very
close
you
saw
be married
to
incoherently.
now.
before
you
the pastry-
to-day."
ALADDIN
ii6
FROM
"Pastry-shop?" She
nothing
meant
"You
Only
The
his
caught
her then.
to
threw
BROADWAY
the
me
cake.
Very
good of you!
it."
dog got
They
coming
were
down.
"You
made
"Quick!"
Her
went,
remotest
swept hers.
a
kiss in
out.
The
She
"A
of
kiss!
parting."
stood alone
over
her ; he hadn't
the
now
can
gay
girlstarted back
iVi''
go!"
now.
intention
appealing. "Go!
were
eyes
dervish
poor
"
and
^but not
laugh
face
for
was
long.
rang
son.
crim-
ii8
ALADDIN
kettle
simmering
FROM
BROADWAY
above
it
few
drops of
by
the
The
on
the
bestowed
and
It
dead.
lay solely in
boned
with
and
splashes of
Beelzebub
Moslem
late
home
and
brought
in such
attention
from
mud
take
the
work,
fairlyshone.
the
sitting up.
servant
He
Allah
guest.
ergo,
he
was
concern
he
who
he
However,
when
back
aware
he
to
had
The
stayed
of
Star
the
wiped
grumbled.
man
master
with
out
servant's
head.
Drawing
became
his
The
and
it filled.
swallow;
to
servant
him
over
with
peerless
condition
the
hurried
on
him, the
back
small
He
task.
horse,
persistenteffort
blanket
enough.
was
his
upon
guest.
whereupon
latter
the
permitted
mixture
mechanically swallowed
came
further
no
the
odorous
belated
bucket
in
moments'
cup,
and
his
to
another
now
few
the
ragged
returned
not
of
contents
embers
less unwelcome
or
threw
had
with
cup
thrust
more
latter,after
the
charcoal
ky"
gin-colored liquid,called "whis-
natives, and
unexpected, and
few
the
out
Desert
polished the
finished, the
contemplate
that
his guest
his
was
IN
"That's
of
THE
STABLE
good horse,"
said
119
the eye
connoisseur.
The
"I
other
assented.
presume," continued
"My
back
so," returned
me
"You
grudgingly.
weak
rather
here?"
me
tells
in
the guest
there
out
were
the
on
servant,
of
one
the
steps."
I remember
"Yes,
if I would
slide off.
until
more
The
he had
from
the
asked
servant
"How?
whirl."
an
argument
held
his
the
over
horse;
came
in the
you
?" the
canal
curtly.
It was,
his wife's
thing
any-
Hum!
of
wondering
remember
I didn't
fine blanket
"How
edge.
and
just now."
be served
to
Then
threw
servant
them
getting on
Let
indeed.
servant
with
head,
as
"
see;
for the
Oh,
fluent
tongue
! "Didn't
I have
Christian
striving to
is in
head
my
^the caretaker
some
if
me
converts?"
collect
his
He
shattered
ideas.
"Most
many
spat.
such
likely!"returned
"
too
many
the servant.
Dogs
!"
He
"There
are
ejaculated and
ALADDIN
120
"I recall
FROM
being set
BROADWAY
upon.
was
one
among
many,
and""
"They
"No
too
threw
; I
jumped
was
They
brave
were
"They
always are."
"They
would
days
have
in
are
cut
once
"
had
me
"
the
servant.
pieces."
pieces," said
store.
We
more.
May
invocation
which
to
me
in
them
cut
them
With
"None
fiends."
will
"Red
almost
deed," commented
"They
"We
canal !"
I tell you.
soon,
"It
into the
you
he
shall
the
have
servant.
to
the
time
be
lay down
and
was
minate
exter-
near!"
soon
snoring loudly.
His
guest did
for
ached
until he
come
he
how
know.
infernos.
Once
the
His
not
he
supports
pleasant one
thoughts
couldn't
He
think
were
of
sleep so easily.
dashed
with
had
he
he did not
was
been
had
covered
was
and
among
fall to
not
and
managed
had
had
of
to
; he
pinned
house.
did
escape
in and
swept
been
bumped
How
bruises.
not
The
very
about
drowning,
out
in
body
far he had
of black
somewhere
experience
like to think
anything
His
clearly. He
of it.
for
he
retained
IN
only
confused
hours
had
had
impressions. He
in that
But
what
It
in him
more
her whom
Had
But, of
he
and
he
could
for
now,
in her
eyes
done.
but
before
he
whether
know
brain
His
it wasn't
without
example ! He
he
"
^at
kiss ?
was
had
ought
to
be
had
caught
into
look
one
canal.
the
didn't
singing
would
long!
so
He
and
^her hatred
"
least,perceptibly. A
Just fancy !
act
himself.
current
things
jumped
or
That
chill in the
surprised. He
sorry
once
so.
the
of
see
upon
been
had
all kinds
certainlybeen
had
She
there
to
little feverish
fought with
had
imagine
of him
only
was
"
react
new
temerity
own
again ?
if it were
"
of
leave
only stolen
are
wish
see
then
avenged
imaginative to-night
water
never
would
course,
take
his
the
"
he
as
chivalrously done.
Had
fever
he would
she be
So would
again
to
not
was
many
certain
inconsideration
How
were
parting.
him
knowledge?
dangerous
bred
of
lipsthe girlhad ! Or
sweet
if it
wondered
his bride
saw
caused
manner?
the best?
sweets
and
had
121
day after?
that moment
at
madness
her
the
He
passed?
her
seen
What
He
STABLE
or
wedding-day still,
his
of
THE
quite
he
med
had
culpa,
honeymoon,
have
been
ALADDIN
122
dolt
not
thing
as
would
No
kiss!
It
was
the matter.
forget
her
He
he
"
remembering
use
it when
done
himself
phlegmaticallyfor
So
it didn't
his
and
of
leave
the
atmosphere
an
air.
It
was
irrationally.It
of
hand
broken
have
for Amad
been
would
Amad's
when
excitement
men
the water
in
was
as
girl,fashioned
as
if
his blood
unamiably
it
by the divine
and
the
themselves
comport
in parvo,
thirstingfor
hissingmost
bred
had
coming
kind
Too
were.
taken
have
unnatural, concentrated
leavetaking. Multum
much
to
it not
he
affair!
the whole
One
of
those
than
chaos;
an
to
composed
and
take
Had
But
was
course.
going
never
arms
Number
girl in
time
to, of
over
portance
im-
just as
"
you're
lit'
slumber.
jealousy,
of
forget it
have
Deuce
of
fashion.
decorous
much
Other
like that !
foolish
attaching too
would
so
feverish, confound
was
such
turned
him.
inconsiderate
him
he
come.
wooed
Morpheus
in upon
lips were
on
wife
more!
Most
He
would
behold
But
her
to
he
BROADWAY
it!
tie
have
to
Such
near.
FROM
on
between
On
one
the other
them
chisel of
the
Prax-
IN
iteles.
It had
devil and
brought
in him.
quite cooled
him
while
her
his ardor.
struggling with
Amad
sake.
him
want
him
to
mustn't
Did
to.
now
Or,
Of
child
her
want
twice
or
so
And
soon.
"
couldn't
of
somewhere
else.
be better.
be
it
Star
she didn't
ested.
purely disinter-
was
He
! He
was
had
Their
didn't
he
that
separation
He
away
well!
It
of the Desert
"
once
for
all
here
was
it would
farther
be
would
done
begun.
Thus
of his
use
Luckily
moon.
want
not
well be. No
as
truly had
for he would
"
; he
reiterated.
he
before, mentally.
she,
more
not
also
to
come
live, for
must
eternityactuallyand
and
himself
he
"
thought had
he
for
hadn't
water
course
her
the
it that
least,he might
at
reallywanting
like
the
instincts
been
he had
Even
But
123
primal
and
that's what
"
second.
'
species of situation !
sea
unexpected
man
of
STABLE
deep
out
cave
fraction
the
THE
be; only
much
ther
far-
best.
was
kicked
It
the side
his stall.
"Peace, thou
woke
The
the
Star
up
ceased
flatterysoothed
further
him.
to
the
snoring
vant
ser-
say.
demonstrations
Then
curtain
perhaps
seemed
ALADDIN
124
drawn
The
down
FROM
the
upon
god of slumber
BROADWAY
dervish's
relented
activities.
mental
finallyand
kind
was
to
him.
The
He
was
about
with
turning occasionally
king looked
horses,
highness
later
beneath
and
the
servant
water,
and
"Eat,"
less
and
him
liked
dervish
the
few
haughty.
minutes
bread
walked
followed
laconically,setting these
said
he
to
intruder
the
became
soon
kind
his
the
over
But
dangerous.
of
eye
latter walked
looked
He
king
to
him.
awoke
felt clearer.
stall, the
his
suspicion. The
the
and
In
him.
munched,
his head
stable
before
his guest.
The
guest,
wouldn't
"By
have
the
done
to
faith,he
"It is
first said
however,
good
miss
prays
fortune
his
prayers.
It
them.
well," murmured
to
have
such
the
in the
one
vant.
ser-
house."
"Then
the
other
him
that
shall
I stay with
unexpectedly.
he
you
The
short
thought
not
while," said
had
come
to
impossible.
ALADDIN
126
has taken
heels, and
the
Star
pays
little. A
"Charge
your
master
it to your
add
and
for
than
more
no
Indeed
for the
way
sustenance."
of
what
His
He
would
than
Allah
the
upon
had
is to iron.
"You
is
am
hammedans
Mo-
so
better
The
pect
pros-
Moslem
of
up
ant
serv-
him
sistibly.
irre-
petty grafts.
much
money
honestly. So
favor.
new
Blessed
be
he
Perhaps
latter
depositing the
good.
servant.
a
It draws
make
with
in
toil
to
found
to
amount
on
his
his will!"
fair."
"It sounds
he murmured.
I
and
same
purpose
door-step. "Allah
"Then
graft is
dervish
wage,
vow
his purpose.
life is made
the
"
"
Fanatical
have
not
of
cheat
rather
impress the
to
could
whole
acquire
to
looked
seemed
the magnet
day
this.
do
little household
wage?
for my
taken
not
can
the
will
you
bare
attainment
But
coppers
I have
dervish
the
few
own.
proposition
hands
after.
what
sometimes
The
pair of
one
look
to
master
My
engaged?"
are."
"Good!"
house, dimly
an
BROADWAY
his
to
all,with
do
FROM
imposing
The
dervish
seen
through
residence.
surveyed
And
the
the
back
It
foliage.
that
garden
"
of
the
appeared
it offered
IN
the
through
nice
was
before
her?
with
that
he
she
been
of
land
him
for
labor
begin
By
"What?"
ideal
he
"who
the
way"
is your
Ahl-Masr,"
The
young
"
looking
now
branches
any
Yes
merry
need
master?"
man
the
other.
wheeled
hensions
appre-
said
the
hard.
dervish.
; that
being
"Those
of
had
in the
works
safe
of
have
he
Besides,
refuge.
was
going
remaining
the
be
doubts
that
think
vines," said
was
might
wasn't
Mohammedan
no
her
all
any
fears
still
he
messenger,
he
would
groundless.
were
"Amad
an
know
might
her
by
one
was
those
on
let her
"
No
some
entertain
her
it
"
relieve
told
might
light ;
be
she
house
It
here.
would
widow
It would
oblige
to
about
news
but
through
had
living.
the
would
"I'll
he
know,
He
have.
might
not
it was,
still alive.
was
of
it
Did
man.
absolutely certain
course
her
Yes,
earth.
hunted
word
make
Of
let
to
catch
To
the
a
invitingly
sifted
warmed
place for
to
left?
he
possible
to
just
127
sunshine
and
trees
enough
wish, too,
well
The
asylum.
snug
STABLE
THE
swiftly.
tention.
at-
the
CHAPTER
AMAD's
AT
in
leaves
SNIPPING
work,
arduous
not
about
?
In
after
away,
logic
to
his
his
to
locked.
was
discharged
It may
a
then
how
he
way
There
"
was
bona-fide
be, also
^he
"
didn't
a
shown
for
do
where
quite
certain
member
to
the
there
128
run
find
either
tion
disinclina-
suspicion.
opening
to
gtt
He
door.
is
himself,
fascination
Amad's
to
main
re-
He
nations,
explaon
the
himself
didn't
that.
want
weird
of
have
to
receded
attempting
gate,
would
could
wanted
excite
garden
He
and
exactly
see
the
he
was
notonous
mo-
well
very
showed
without
heels
him
have
had
he
would
conduct
because
street,
If
he
It
not
servant
could
grace?
or
take
the
former
nothing
decided
could
place, he
How
also
was
her
nose!
very
had
What
told
having
stay,
couldn't
first
there.
lodgment
with
it.
the
there
yet
of
garden
his
under
almost
husband,
the
own
will, there's
discharged.
about
household.
being
Pri-
AT
marily the
dervish
had
by her and
family fixture.
gaze
and
or
his
Had
them?
that
what
and
like to think
to
the
about
Maybe
he
he
carry
himself
all
divorce
to
Would
back
to
not
neglected
he
he
her.
him?
had
He
It
to.
handsome
No;
no
the
to
that
would
promptly dismissed
gage
good deal
didn't
belonged
one
contingency. Perhaps
day
inwardly.
preposterous
risk
of
fellows, externally,
that
he
hero?
some
The
when
ing
bear-
case
she
neglect her.
affair better
dervish
the
like
handsome
very
he short,
another
that,but
that
man
ever
would
to
merely
go
sometimes
had
Was
? Had
contingencies. These
are
was.
reverse
carried
want
of
One
temperamental disagreement
feel sorry
perienced
ex-
developed
manner
the
Did
their
Was
here, he
was
fact,his curiosityhad
or
looks
good
he
truded
in-
emphatically,the desire
lucky Number
lover?
of
kind
intentionallyhave
now
know
tall ; handsome
of
be
to
respect.
to
less
or
doomed
more
In
wanted
more
wouldn't
in that
amazingly
He
He
but
ingly
charm-
very
rectly,
being employed, indi-
was
seemed
him.
upon
he
12$
entertained
He
Amad,
anew,
been
now
by him.
upon
AMAD'S
saw
end.
Amad,
To
he
could
and
he
leave Da-
ALADDIN
T30
FROM
without
mascus
leave
would
be
like
Amad.
He
But
for the
dyer and
Amad's
house
Life's.
The
somewhat
Did
of
their
behind
maid
dervish
seen
the
at
looking
at
up
pair of
It
have
been
it might have
gone
thought
time,
with
but
cance.
signifi-
Amad's
house
gleaming
eyes
merely
been
of
Amad.
ous
curi-
The
then, that he
by him.
past
front
had
fraught
seemed
to
in
pass
He
doing
inclined
was
ridden
they had
to
detected
or
Had
possible;
was
had
now
residence.
might
nize
recog-
repaired to Light of
way
so
servant,
It followed
being
he
It
guest
recalled
remembered
lattice.
see
less
the luck-
upon
gaze
mustahallf
circumstance
fancying
to
he
by sight?
him
dyer
their
of
nothing
He
to
another
was
Would
know
they had
dervish
imposing
the
the
when
out
that
play
That
one.
his whilom
Amad's
now
he
well-hated
now
him?
saw
with
arranged
and
or
Ethically,he ought
important
an
the dervish
Amad
It
adventure.
to.
if Amad
what
in the
uncompleted;
story
had
question and
and
forever
void
broke
predecessor would
beholding his
aching
an
BROADWAY
That
must
might
see
not
Amad,
be
so
without
difficult,
AT
for
of
Amad,
his
there, and
stable
or
byways
of
Amad
for him
in his
he
the
would
back
own
for
stood
man
looking
was
evil and
ashes
He
at
out.
wizened
his
on
fire. They
hunt
the
gardener,
for
It
then
him
ishly
fever-
At
which
that
the
look
be the
must
either
was
Which?
behind
in
much
very
highways and
yard. This
back
He
was
that, or
moment,
he stood, he
saw
were
angry
eyes
eyes
and
white
the
and
also most
indicatinghis opulence
that
further
of
descendant
green
iallyhe
great
and
was
canvas
on
he
the
boast
could
prophet.
He
his
coals
like
of
determined.
being
of
the
attire,besides
noted
worldly importance, de-
and
it shone
perfect.
of
details
the
beard
glowing
were
In his
seventy.
over
was
dark
well
and
of the house
window
visage, above
breast, his
finest texture
might
was
face.
A
or
dervish
safety.
the
scour
dangerous.
most
assistant
an
he
keep
dream
never
position,as only
boy, would
without
131
would
course,
background.
the
AMAD'S
His
being
turban
superb jewel.
could
by Fortuny.
of
have
sherf,
was
of
Pictor-
dominated
in
ALADDIN
132
observer
The
leaves
in
the
fairlyscreened
forgot
to turn
that?
"
said
The
age
right
But
was
grand father-in-law
the dervish
muttered
his predecessor
the
household,
He
man
side
^be!
only
some
relative?
Her
for
enough
age.
"
flower
all ;
some
himself
to
at
old
was
The
"right"
white
Amad,
not
the
surprise
laughed.
just
beautiful
was
the
in his
wicked-looking old
as
great
Fortunately,
have
of
was
of
member
other
given
That,
almost
That
perhaps this
that?
his face.
could
had
Amad
she
whom
garden
"
away
He
dyer had
BROADWAY
Amad?
that
Was
start.
he
FROM
that,
teeth.
"You
"
called
was,
familiar
out
before
came
But
befriended
hastily
A
out
moment
of
voice
dervish
thought
this
was
the
dervish
the
stable
had
not
so.
the
it
The
night
hurried
and
saw
him
the
"I
first, the
him.
had
The
he
whoever
window,
loudly.
name
At
simimon
who
servant
the
at
man
sound.
to
meant
The
"
am
here, Amad
Ahl-Masr.
What
is your
ure?"
pleas-
ALADDIN
134
was
FROM
He
had
escape
must
savage.
mustahall's
BROADWAY
him
enraged
The
beyond
measure.
The
dervish, with
stronger
snip with
relate
how
The
that
dervish
Amad's
the
event,
bigger
than
one
he
against
had
ever
her
in
villainous
what
that
scoundrels
breath.
The
injected a
liar of
dervish
had
they
the
to
revelation
of
new
element
of
dyer
! He
that
he
were
! He
could
and
found
it
think
just then,
of
mistake
thinking it
this
And
been!
squeezed
sion.
pleasant diver-
The
that
pitted
with
have
man
young
youth sometimes
may
endure
age
and
gold, and,
too
pessimism did
mind
pair of
its mistake.
late, learns
insinuate
not
at
lips had
the
moment.
given
think
be
to
had
Dolt
was
To
contest
Pah!
Amad
together.
two
dreamed.
unequal
an
pander of youth!
stop
makes
wise
and
servant
there ?
permitted himself
dyer's windpipe
did not
the
come
That
man!
old
when
the
house, gave
Would
two
put
personality had
that
shears.
his
drew
the
to
in
would,
his back
itself into
Perhaps
This
bit of
his worldlya
vacillatingtouch
certain
to
his
AT
AMAD'S
It sometimes
cynicism.
has
of
vassal
unreasoning
135
effect,making
that
its victim.
an
dangerous
fealty!
"Who
is that
the
Luckily
had
into
by his
come
"He
is
most
"whom
"He
engaged
could
left
who
"I know
with
he
dervish
"
had
well.
him
"
he
how
the
The
man.
promised
the
for
he
the
?"
It
moment
place of
the
fortnight since."
resisted.
And
ant,
serv-
fortunate
was
pay,
fellow
he
stinct
in-
grafting
for
his wages.
will be
content
mentioned
hesitated, then
amount.
an
"More
few
the
than
enough
mind.
never
I called
instructions
two
The
receded
going
which
from
on
!" returned
you
the
the
continued
man
young
advisedly. His
was
be
not
for
own
just
to
take
to
well recommended
comes
his
helper,"repliedthe
competent
"Excellently,"Hed
the
of
reasons
assistant.
new
fellow
asked.
had
particulars as
I have
unreliable
Amad
had
servant
entering
not
fellow?"
heart
in
the
was
to
the old
"
"
He
dervish did
"But
man.
murmured
not
hear
and
window.
to
not
snip,but
in
big house?
not
his
task.
He
did
always
What
not
like
ALADDIN
136
Amad's
FROM
expression. The
was
pertinacity in his
the
accept
not
one
do?
his hands
not
of
no
his
official
disquietude. The
menacing,
and
air
him.
did
not
and
off.
would
reputation to maintain.
not
stamp
much
The
man
and
community
good
wisdom
himself
day seemed
servant
as
name
and
He
as
would
to
resort
this
extremity,
important
an
guard his
free-booter.
saddled
then
What
After
the
would
had
He
Star.
son
per-
nity
dig-
own
jewel of price. He
and
to
positionand
both
returned
in the
was
interminable.
new
garden seemed
course,
had
was
dervish, however,
proceed
merchant
and
The
of
spiteof this
in
trouble
could, of
her
marriage
experienced
man
compass
en-
the pages
on
Yet
he
could
could
second
premonition that
he
other
silence of the
Amad
could
dervish
of record
young
very
carry
believe
in the
The
seized
tied?
Her
matter
obviously
was
however,
now.
purpose
disposition to
What,
the
wicked
or
no
He
whereby
means
by this time, a
violence
assurance
auguring
eyes,
doubt, much
no
was,
certain
easily defeated.
conceive
the
latter
seemingly inevitable.
Were
was,
BROADWAY
too
time
the
As
the
AT
fellow
trappings
the
to
with
curtly
that
humble
137
its picturesqueand
gate the
tlie master
Was
AMAD'S
going
dervish
out?
position,and
the
in silence
the rebuke
dervish
house?
moment,
Slowly
of
And
her
was
the
chances
no
He
needed
the
wall, twenty
get
over
know
that
that.
already?
at
toward
Not
once
that
of
extra
feet
Did
he
wish
had
About
that
the
dle
mid-
uneasily
the
enough, amid
The
dervish
It would
leave
a
most
al-
at
ventured
near
to
cept
ac-
stepdaughter ?
assistant
exactly! But
what
what,
"
new
high.
to
locked.
wage.
other's
become
it was
his
replied
the
had
her
by
went
approaching
shrubbery, to ascertain
took
the
the gate,
toward
attitude
query.
forced
he
Light of Life?
slowly time
too
"
of
was
although
servant
one
fiercelyinquisitive. Was
own
ventured
The
barbaric
not
The
ant
serv-
escaping.
glanced
at
be
to
Amad's
easy
service
great restlessness
become
of
to
girl moved
the
him.
Seconds
hours.
sound
Once
of
he heard
soldiers go
muttering voices
they diverted
his attention.
by and
without.
Was
minutes
into
caught the
Momentarily
anything
amiss
in
138
ALADDIN
city?
the
FROM
These
the
people seemed
servant's
between
had
he
heard
in the
no
seemed
reverted
It
was
house
Not
had
of
door, the
sound
out,
gone
search
and
for
also,
to
man
hesitated;
that
attraction
for
secrets,
if there
of
chambers
sanctum
down
toward
mystery
the
snippers
entrance
his
house
exercised
of
and
rear
quickly
doubt,
no
servants,
the
to
master
its
behold
its
into the
softly
young
nary
extraordi-
an
The
the
entered.
had
to
wished
penetrate
walked
holy
followed
trusted
wanted
its master.
to
and
toward
moment
He
in the
that
Amad,
and
of
receded
the servant
him.
any.
listened
had
looked
of
were
sanctorum
the
He
He
an
channel.
certain
him.
rising
up-
his thoughts
within.
from
came
talk of
usually happened
other
by which
one
sation
conver-
he
quiet
and
siesta hour.
the
the
"
soldiers
The
that
bered
remem-
in the courts
the
them.
He
guide, which
the
"
and
But
to
more
now
the
himself,
before
than
night
One
He,
bazaars
more
once
and
days before
time.
greater
last
of
often.
some
excited.
Christians.
the
so
murmurings
places for
few
against
every
words
Fitzgerald
overheard
about
BROADWAY
veritable
dervish
but
wall, which
laid
swiftly
was
as
AT
solid
forbidding
and
yielded
and
he
found
He
for
and
caught
no
started
into
first to
sound.
It
fortune,
his
were
top he
it ; then
table
decorated
stood
note;
were
each
with
and
mighty safe.
practical turn
Amad
of
None
Swiftly
the
room
was
tuously
sump-
of
which
was
worth
about.
at
envy
rich
collector
sight of
hues.
wasn't
ivory mittah.
It
the
was
only
obtrusive.
of
going
vish
der-
The
with
an
the
hour
this
at
On
bulky, European,
however,
ventured
he
there,
lavishly scattered
green
he
itors
vis-
where
enter.
absence.
Rugs,
ink-horn,
a
to
surroundings.
upward,
peered furtively
and
empty
he
him,
apartment
or
silver
owner.
the
probably intrude
turned
have
The
one
was
led
observed
no
mandarah,
furnished.
would
At
listening, but
stairway
studied
stood
narrow
it.
linger before
would
door
prison; the
sure
received.
servants
of the
moments
mount
are
in
few
beautiful
of
entered.
making
to
139
that
as
himself
after
and
AMAD'S
mind
to
on
trust
In
them.
a
low
gold-
ner
cor-
discordant
It
suggested,
the
part of its
his
treasures
FROM
ALADDIN
140
BROADWAY
to
was
indication
an
he meant
him, if he
could
dervish
He
seemed
wouldn't
did
there
him,
motionless
realize
not
it empty,
see
alone.
had
Another
how
he had
to.
to
The
be
melancholy
since
of
few
stomach.
About
the
"
It awakened
a
woman
He
and
morn
One
At
any
rate, he had
to
leave
He
of
can't be
did
not
"
She, his
house.
believe
and
"
yet
palatialinterior
hadn't
he
not
girlhood
experienced
then
dates.
place
him.
that
perhaps because
early
The
there, and
not
atmosphere of
ments.
mo-
had
decided
eaten
thing
any-
partaken only
cheerful
on
empty
an
enough of Amad's
had
house
front
could
depressing.
"
for
first flower
He
some
haunting, but
of the great
mistress
Incredible!
for
pictured Amad
in the
wife?
began
got,
from
take
long.
exercise
to
but
"
been
once
he
let others
What
help it.
stood
hold
to
his character.
keep. He
to
The
of
safe
strong-boxes. That
dervish
loud
the
heard
servant
came
descend
suddenly
at the
knocking,
the house
and
room
to
new
down
street
and
from
the garden,
to
noise
door,
from
no
the
doubt.
unexpected life ;
somewhere
and
CHAPTER
THE
THE
like
room,
fortunately
not
was
or
and
information
but
at
heard
of
vessel
for
coffee.
in
aloes-wood,
of
aroma
the
The
one
spoke
comfort
the
atmosphere
had
these
been
142
the
felt
of
it
and
think
pain.
no
with
of
in
charcoal
wafted
benzoin
the
to
or
delicate
Syria,
and
in
ghiles.
nar-
still; no
arrangements
the
He
bringing
was
burning
sensuous
preliminary
completed
to
box
strong-
tobacco"
was
gratified,
containing
of
desire
steel
mingled
mankal,
"mountain
until
that
be
mind
ing.
interest-
in
fragrance
too;
in
not
probably
brass,
dervish
sufficiently
he
arm,
about,
or
the
odors,
other
"
silver
Soon
was
and
moving
servant
the
him
shoulder
to
tried
projections
certain
about
was
His
shortly.
so
He
present
The
either
however,
less
be
apartments,
lighted.
himself?
the
Though
into
dimly
certainly
to
cost
future;
cut
but
was
what
the
Moslem
most
might
he
for
of
SUMMONS
comfortable,
very
body,
XI
attendant
for
had
THE
departed. Then
the
saddler.
the dervish
have
well
than
the
dyer
has
He
antedating
"
his
older
an
"
He
there.
was
him
dispensed with
friend
acquaintance with
been
the search
tellingme
were
before
of Sadi,
the voice
her !
or
"You
143
heard
Nemesis
His
could
Amad,
SUMMONS
unavailing,"
the
Sadi
it
dervish
"
hesitated
He
began.
"dervish," but
word
for this
might have
been
inadvertent.
"It has."
The
all seated
were
them
has
now
yet been
has
mournful.
was
Amad's
on
water-bottles
the
trace
no
dyer's voice
They
cushions, while
bubbled
found
fore
be-
steadily. "I
of him.
The
gret
re-
fellow
completely disappeared."
"The
has
been
doubt
it?
search
thorough?"
Again the
dler
sad-
spoke.
"Can
water,
you
class have
they
not
mouse
know
escape
to
found
enlisted
been
in the
them,
half-beggars
of
and
carriers
and
of
And
do
task.
corners
He
Could
themselves
been
no,
drowned,"
customed
ac-
"
city,he would
has
of
others
sleepingplaces? No,
alive in the
this time.
low
sharbeh
nooks
were
by
the
all the
all kinds
the scoundrel
been
the sakka
the hawkers,
that
Even
if
have
ALADDIN
144
FROM
"Perhaps
"You
do
have
is not
an
the
I had
"
look
the
athlete.
wedding.
Mecca),
death
few
Though
have
even
be
the
promised
might
He
is strong
infer
is
and
from
so
day
hadji (pilgrim
from
He
faced
deserts.
has
become
hemales
The
He
dervish
keen.
perceptions were
the
even
deuce
of
more
tiresome
be
may
search.
their
know."
we
Sadi's
been
in
still may
he
The
Damascus.
place
now.
had
him
discovered
than
nearer
to
last
some
past he
He
did
he
crossed
in
hardly breathed
In
he
not
overlooked
have
may
Also,
somewhere
hidden
what
is, I should
in
I mean,"
expedients.
waters.
That
times
we
by
see
may
him,"
has
and
thoughtfully.
resourcefulness.
swift
of
Sadi
without
one
the
escaped
supple
of
his
hastily,"you
he
night,
observed
know
not
added
he
not,"
BROADWAY.
bore
and
in
he
the
future.
"I
hold
is dead,"
he
iniquity to
ingratitude
raised
him
go
said the
unpunished.
so
from
foul!
permit
not
Never
Our
the dirt.
revered
We
conviction.
dyer with
fed
person
before
there
was
friend,
and
of such
Amad,
clothed
him,
THE
only
be
to
out.
blackmailing
forcible
but
from
Amad.
good
of
the
into
had
"
full
"He
stone.
Sadi
for
the
left
that
had
he
perienced
ex-
merchant's
of the
choice
And
his
have
doubt
no
him.
by
dervish
the
seemed
would
so
not
holy, too!"
have
for
vouched
cient
insuffi-
in what
sponsor?
trick !
scurvy
"Who
been
case.
would
hear
this
that the
was
they
heard
had
in
squeezed
was
more
seldom
true
small
There
dervish
had
listeners
so
dyer's
and
he
feeling small
was
been
position
he
sufficient.
disapproval. The
dyer
felt
him
lips. Perhaps
certainly
have
which
dyer himself
the
The
"
those
that
saw
was
should
all too
proven
old
themselves
space
his
repetition of
The
dervish
"
sold
mild
scoundrel
mustahall!
were
145
indignation was
The
SUMMONS
preacher in the
trusted
him
smiled
who
before
they walk
Verses
around
oddly.
?" bemoaned
his Koran
he knew
alcove
Sadi
as
addresses
the
his
when
the
well
the
sacred
as
grims,
pilblack
lips." Again
he
prayed.
ALADDIN
146
he
skipped
never
have
been
worthy
esteemed
like
patron
so
bellowswith
burst
The
ill!"
He
had
downcast.
descended
satellite of Amad,
the
stranger
voice
to
the
to
attempt
His
positionwas
there
for
His
fat
seeming
heard
peer
so
"
cheeks
almost
He,
out
the dervish
At
As
him.
the
may
other
have
of
the
the
The
been
party
least, he did
it later.
risks.
He
peculiar purpose
the
a
was
know
not
dervish
did
little company.
felt that
of
was
with
touched
were
upon
looked
too,
dyer's emotions
the
man
dyer's
precarious without
sufficiently
unnecessary
some
They
dervish.
the
was
this person
fourth
he
when
not
any
of
on
so
dyer.
The
stick.
same
frank
so
night when
reflection
have
One
married.
be
to
satellite of
was
puffed vigorously
full
nothing.
the memorable
on
to
; he
innocently served
bottle.
fashion, when
said
consented
seemed
The
resentment.
others
companion
"I,
have
at
base!
so
dyer's tone
"To
worked
his
in the
!" he murmured.
would
man
by the unworthy."
justify himself.
to
any
dissembler
martyrdom
was
our
by
Surely
always be fooled
attempting
to
BROADWAY
word.
deceived
may
There
honest
FROM
his own,
Sadi
ing
takwas
which,
THE
he
perhaps,
the
other
not
come
three
permit
we
if not
thief,
dyer put
smoke
worse
out
like
now
"Allah
fist. He
Sadi
reached
his
coffee,
silent.
with
on
rumbled
volcanoes
He
seemed
seed
thinking.
and
not
or
it
held
it
drop
to
little perfumed
over
for
flavor
beverage.
"There
is
"It
is
"How
you,
you
back
your
one
so
prophet
a
man's
"Well
the
on
dyer,
is it that, when
much
truer
are
entitled
great
our
as
'More
shapely
declining
said !"
to
resort
to
young
years
patron
has
precious than
houri
to
means
any
that
lost!
true
get
treasure
For
other
any
is the
robs
scoundrel
Especially when
treasure?
with
met
saying."
good
says
be
duplicity,"went
is
The
surrounded
was
whether
debating
this
"
sleeve?"
in his
lesser
cardamom
if
as
Two
was
for
He
desert
disgruntled volcano.
forbid!"
echo.
had
They
the
of
of
presence
coffee.
drink
bandit
laugh
to
"
the
portend?
and
this
closed
it
smoke
to
And
did
what
"
147
himself.
to
merely
"Shall
an
kept
SUMMONS
as
the
sion,
posses-
solace
of
!' "
They fairlysmacked
their
lipsover
ALADDIN
148
this
FROM
sentiment.
think
of her
He
The
smirk
Amad's
see
have
precious crowd!
cause.
done
her, he
other
But
been
the
in
men
libidinous
scoundrels!
dishonesty
and
out
bump
against
a
words
about
something
of
"Well, Amad
"No
doubt.
husband
The
"robber
them
end
that
kind?
soon
Only,
of
"
by
have
he
had
made
personal
with
much
The
about
talk
spring
to
But
sly
tion
indignaing"even
feel-
another
dyer's hypocritical
the
did
what
suppose
not
were
wanted
justifying
the
to
very
He
The
himself
They
together.
one.
this
loss.
tempered
was
will
could.
dared
heads
stronger
lent
And
of
dupe
they
to
face.
wrong
Amad's
And
their
seemed
pipes, albeit
baseness
and
the
the
connection,
for
sympathy
his
if he
over
may
ostensible
ally or
his
this
means?
or
"
they signify?
pearl back
robber
of
again.'*
a
stitute
sub-
really dead?"
substitute
imagine
he
unconscious
this
To
of
evil old
actually
atone
his.
this kind
could
Again
in the
would
some
as
He
eyes
for that
of
more
had
of
one
Sybarites ! Libertines
listen ?
He
comments
ones,
much
to
wicked
their
bit
the
on
how
to
would
dervish
their mercy
at
wondered
talk he
BROADWAY
husband's"
heart
was
I50
ALADDIN
moved
toward
continued
FROM
the door.
of
one
brigand
the
has
looked
significantly."At
did
he
her
it may,
"
to
beauty
no
presence
She
is
now
in the
later
could
their
That
tiny
satellite
"
the
it could
for
not
somewhat
deductive
of
tints
belong
this circumstance
bags
of
gold
did
and
to
the
to
dawn
sluggish mind
which
men
It
was
small.
seemed
dyer's
the
"
to
sober
more
quite harmonize;
not
cushion
big
side.
so
was
space
lingered.
the
to
other
the
garment
of
one
about
process
be
again
of the dervish's
corner
dun-colored
his gaze
other
as
precious
back
swept
eyes
helped it,the
of
that
most
his
as
"Be
will
one
slightly from
attention
the
attract
bit
safe
to.
very
have
not
no
haps
Per-
rage.
corner," he laughed.
receptacle alluded
protruded
his
dyer
kill her.
would
dearest, his
as
the
fiction!
that
his
he
melted
assured
rest
approach
moment
cloak
his
safe, where
unwelcome
thought
Again
"
yonder safe
than
is
that," answered
first I
can
you
treasure.
He
his
to
Her
not.
tears
permitted
iron
"She
?'*
the beloved
Fatma,
men.
again force
may
"Amad
in
"And
her?"
upon
But
BROADWAY
or
upon
become
hanging.
Would
him?
involved
proceeding from
Was
in
small
THE
enough
cause
effect
"
Luckily
would
for the
others
satellite to
in
outdone
end.
one
It claimed
He
did
not
the
already
toward
the
at
front
the
to
That
marble.
infirmity of
tread
did
it had
purpose;
low
felway,
door-
vancing
ad-
whose
heard
ringing
imply
to
seem
combative
definite
the
the
him
not
the
to
The
through
meet
be
to
and
threshold.
trio
the
ellite's
sat-
wish
Sadi
dyer,
attention.
it stimulated
The
quickly followed
on
dervish?
the
psychological moment
and
merchants.
were
out
for
one
startling
diamond
man
large and
heard.
was
the
151
to
latter,at that
of Amad
It stimulated
other
lead
disagreeable
most
the voice
rich
SUMMONS
sound.
The
but
dervish
got up
dared
not
behind
his
room.
were
remain
darted
there
The
footsteps as
he
Without,
turned
across
waited
longer,
no
chance.
of
safe
the
from
a
so
heavy
he
must
needs
rugs
drowned
passed
saw
him,
shadowy
like
that the
and
in
space,
take
the
and
he
perate
des-
sound
the
flash
dyer
but
the
across
the others
dim
reached
light
the
he
back
it.
ALADDIN
152
In
the
of the
rear
the dervish
her
store
FROM
in
was
garden
once
whirl.
Amad
to
BROADWAY
and
They
he
couldn't
preposterous
assertion, in view
They
could
perjure
Amad
had
been
present
twice.
and
and
This
would
acquiesced
had
showed
merchant
it away.
swear
men?"
Yet
did
^what
"
those
sudden
baneful
four
persons
could
simplicity and
devilishness
be
entered
marriage,
pay
in
of
was
after
the
the
extra
they?
The
his mind.
band,
substitute hus-
tripledivorce
of
record
Amad
affidavits
the
book
would
letter
in
of
acme
very
their
And
illumined
not
of four
could
what
an
records
hirelingscould
public documents.
for
he
ceremony;
simple ; the
Oh, it
chamber
"
out
with-
already
written
their presence.
would
The
light illumined
swear
had
already pronounced
had
Amad
or
they mean?
separation"
marriage
it.
you" only
"lesser
But
it and
"
that
swearing
"I divorce
could
objection to
no
the
second
that
re-
it.
prevent
by
say
formalities.
in
offered
him
constitute
the diamond
vexatious
themselves
heard
to
really divorced
never
going
were
of
the mind
more,
or
second
in the
ably
probtwo
as
SUMMONS
THE
specialreward
transcribed
the
in beautiful
The
who
diamond
almost
in
so;
avail
doubt
now?
her
Light of
much
prisoner, and
the
dictiveness
that
termagant
of
might
stepmothers
that
"
dervish
attempt
even
quite capable
are
forehead
at
saw
with
the
thought.
Amad
glance
grim
smile.
That
expressive. They
there
Obstacles
Amad's
and
had
they
but
added
dyer "nibbing"
The
old
to
beat her.
doing
out
of
pulsated
the
window
change
were
"fixing up
pen,
no
Moslem
that.
facial
scene
the
vin-
veins
impatience. It needed
imagine the
the
few
timated
in-
had
practically
warden.
of
no
was
dyer
wasting
were
as
could
Life
was
could
virago
dervish's
He
she
appeared
What
in
He
she?
ludicrously helpless;and
courage
it.
contest
dervish,
he, the
of
distinctlyout
ble.
dou-
costs
still in the
was
who
it done
have
which
was
fact, it
student
or
even
Arabic
merchant
seemed
now
might
vowel-pointed
much
^very
"
mugawir
He
text.
153
was
time
The
his
on
once
ically
diabol-
things"
about
degrees of fervor
it.
to
little imagination to
being
his
enacted
ink-horn
within:
close at
154
ALADDIN
hand;
the
aloof;
FROM
others
the
beyond
divorce.
Amad's
the
He
It would
diamonds
own
dervish
would
Night descended,
found
and
all
wrought
was
him
working
of
snippers. The
servant
stable
supper.
wanted
for
a
to
more
"In
the
dates
words
customary
had
no
thought
news
hear
was
the
to
servant
he
flaw
dict,
bene-
stand
to
of
on.
of
the
He
had
vines
and
sound
the
and
called
not
hungry
had
he
forced
night,
the
of
him
into
and
he
excuse
no
his throat
down
crust.
!" The
uttered
servant
the
spoke perfunctorily.
in the
desire
one
sort
among
out
He
before
absent-minded, and
"Any
to
came
of Allah
name
as
and
his neck.
havoc
mechanically.
So
and
be
As
leg
remaining there.
few
kind.
funereal
most
manner
for
have
there.
completely
perfect
as
saved
clipping just
now
the
he
and
wouldn't
be
wouldn't
malignant
here
the black
"
lucky if
be
with
her
There
somewhat
saddler
word
certainly divorce
peradventure.
in the
the
merchant,
suggesting
would
They
watching,
diamond
shrewdness,
BROADWAY
town?"
said
the
He
dervish.
make
conversation,
might
tell
something
but
he
of
his
THE
where
master,
ridden
At
forth
his
and
the
question,the
gleam.
"News?"
to
reflection
"Some
in the
"Soldiers
or
quarter
poor
by to-day," said
that
wonderful
the
man.
But
dervish.
the
or
night," supplemented
"Don't
you
so?"
think
pious than
had
he
Surely
not
flames,
the
the
servant,
softly. "And
are
not
far away.
gaze
asked
servant
dervish
stupid
or
the
less
seemed?
it is
for
The
the
exits
dully.
might portend.
"Is it ?"
"But
like ?"
look
meaning.
covert
"I?
and
man
aflame, I suppose?"
houses," answered
or
anything
with
that
pressed
sup-
tone.
same
went
not
was
"A
the
does
Significantly.
house,
unusual
an
repeated the
"It is that."
"Some
ly
curious-
in the
house
done.
at him
in his eyes
"What
window.
he had
looked
had
he
when
gone
what
servant
noted
DO
had
Star, and
the
on
In the
he
latter
the dervish
pointed
"A
SUMMONS
wonderful
Christians!"
one
all watched.
may
night."
breathed
leave
Any
the
the
city now
left in town
man
for
will be
ALADDIN
156
FROM
BROADWAY
have
men
"Indeed
to
"
it
was
to-day?
"
the
set
master's
"My
the
And
forth
went
proclaimed
so
it can
and
this business
^to
bait the
is his
?"
"
retorted
business,"
would
ter
mas-
your
lievers
dogs of unbe-
business
inspired
be otherwise."
not
on
shortly. "You
servant
Several
well
do
to
member
re-
"
"
"I should
like to go
dervish
the
Surprised.
"Perhaps
strike
blow
any
love
hard
all
day,
diversion
the
for
for
entitled
man
you
Do
prophet.
give
him
spoke with
"Do
the blessed
have
Christians
will
He
fanatic.
the
these
is not
which
Paradise?"
a
I, too, may
even
have
of
evening," interrupted
suddenly.
"Why?"
to
this
out
After
to
with
me,
think
working
little pious
better
enthusiasm
come
you
chance
place
^the
"
out
in
spirit
there
in
streets,"he added.
"I?"
there
said the
is talk
"Shall
of
true
servant
rioting.
believer
repliedscornfully.
falteringly."But
somewhat
Think
think
of
the
of that?"
danger!"
the dervish
158
ALADDIN
moved
swiftly toward
her,
to
do.
at
FROM
cost
any
He
had
Amad's.
her?
could
He
here
what
this
Perhaps
divert
best
was
who
turbulence
might be.
"Are
The
might
hazard.
The
future
going
you
had
servant
to
a
could
would
leave
to
get
have
to
pend
de-
emergency
tliat
for
garden.
might
him.
but
didn't
Or
tional
addi-
an
know
this
how
tell.
would
?"
open
in his
key
at
plish
accom-
Christians
the
prove
He
must
how
the
seeking
were
of
note
he
must
go
necessary
when
agitation against
those
that
he
plan;
But, primarily, he
arose.
was
longer, though
not
he
what
what
see
and
get out
was
all that
not
could
doing
on
To
gate.
^that,now,
"
by remaining
to
the
learned
He
BROADWAY
in
fittingit
in the
an
ancient
lock.
Now
"Patience!
about
was
to
when
from
with
covered
"The
the
key
of
rear
face
master
announced,
the
turn
I have
and
the
swing
house,
looking at
to
the
see
the
maid
toward
stepped rapidly
wishes
open
new
dervish.
man
the
and
gate,
servant,
them.
helper," she
CHAPTER
XII
:,*-"""
.
"IV
yTE?"
JL
"
For
the
at
but
egress,
is not
if
as
does
be
perhaps
"As
that,"
to
him
the
to
see
she
locks
be
to
me?"
returned
sharply.
vainly,
had
words
He
must
might
unbusinesslike
sumed
as-
need
fear.
not
been
had
who
You
garding
re-
seem
fellow."
^he
no
doubt
senseless
"I
the
well
esteem
sound,
part
proclivities.
of
him
The
but
half-
that,
time,
please
not
may
"
play
for
fighting
was
"
though
dervish
The
woman
closely, "you
"Nevertheless"
servant
as
forcible
tone.
said
likely enough
say?
well
wish
say,"
essay
discharged?"
lugubrious
The
as
he
to
me
to
looked
man
young
tempted
bolts
were
for
the
'
once."
at
"And
gate
MAN
instant
"Why
"That
HOLY
an
there
considered,
"Go
VERY
what
dervish
he
could
fool.
in
him."
The
view
man
of
hoped
his
so.
ALADDIN
i6o
He
rely
must
for
now
Amad
man
servant,
on
head
My
the
"Well, perhaps
"You'll
to
as
I could
curtly. "As
servant
the young
could
hold
the
in
sometimes
I
tioned
ques-
am
significantly.
startingin the least.
"
say
"
with.
such
head
your
modesty
! You
may
look
Besides,"
up.
amiable.
gifts,sweetmeats
he
Perhaps
fine fellow,"
my
feelingvery
is
little
us
for you,
on
master
given
even
"fie
man,
"the
has
and
go
of
do
if you
servant,
man
I've
master
when
ended
he
the
to
Star
confused
superiors,and
wages?"
here,"
for
oats
rescue
interview
an
gracious
get
becomes
of my
?" said
"See
most
to
for
desire
no
his
to
come
moment.
errand,
about
maid
to
man
"tell the
presence
"Eh
that
at
an
Desert.
the
the
on
BROADWAY
certainlyhe had
with
gone
FROM
have
to
present
assuringly,
re-
He
brate
celefor
you."
was
"Why,"
asked
"A
usually is,under
man
regarding
servant
was
witted, but
fellow,
handsome
merit
circumstances."
favorably. Truly
more
woman
indeed, it is
him
the
amiable?"
so
can
in
not
forgive that
man.
very
"
She
this
new
bright-
sometimes,
circumstances
"What
is the
"It
is to
be married
"To-morrow?"
The
Amad
meant
emotion
they could
this information
romantic,"
of
and
another
divorced
that
free."
is
knavish
you
and
The
of
plan correctly
"
not, also,wish
the
him,
woman
stranger, know
married
was
Then
divorced
dervish
caused
on
He
her.
other
by
ever
repeated. What-
went
matters.
his face.
being
course,
statue.
chances
no
have
may
sign of it on
is very
"You,
servant.
take
quickly, to
no
like
stood
certainly expedited
act
read
"Yes, it
dervish
had
to
morning."
to-morrow
delay. "To-morrow
she
adverte
if in-
wedding.
his
night before
The
miscreants
her
cernedly
uncon-
as
She
He
asked
could.
he
as
i6i
MAN
HOLY
VERY
her,
she
married
So
too.
now
their
fathomed
had
course!
"But
to
come!
Do
him
"I?"
"Yes;
him
and
"It
all the
others
implore Allah's
might
house-servant,
not
be
only
so
have,
or
will, bend
blessing on
his
acceptable from
stableman,"
before
head."
me,
muttered
not
the
ALADDIN
i62
dervish.
She
answered
followed
he
and
FROM
her.
him
more
He
had
sharply,hov^ever,
to, for
would
she
be put off.
not
What
could
perhaps, for
would
the
Amad
the
with
house
in
breathed
for him
sent
merchant
for
for
in vain.
him
been
leading
He
day.
from
been
they
glanced
the
once
or
Amad's.
traversed
quite unmindful
She
the
at
of
the
to
his
new
city over
dervish
stone
steps
canal, might
lips during
the
on
the master
might have
the
house, the
this handsome
stepped
dim
had
closely.
toward
twice
He
diamond
the
the
on
his master
more
walked
the
how
servant's
talked, or
man
rich
hunted
garden
with
veritable
suspicious of
waters
man
strew
to
perhaps Amad
The
had
the
the
it into
inkling of
Amad's
had
questioned
they
by
might have
two
As
Amad
them,
cut
reason.
Some
up
from
fallen
have
the
cast
But
become
might have
gardener.
to
It
garden?
joyous occasion.
the
another
Flowers,
the
transform
to
moment.
assistant
had
business
with
keeping
hard
from
morrow,
them,
him?
with
want
be the dervish's
bower,
of
BROADWAY
rather
passageway
tentative
woman
servant
new
close
but
him
to
he
as
appeared
friendliness
in
her
Even
manner.
suffered
lips,he
showed
she
He
safely
His
he
had
don't
The
the
know.
the
coincidence.
to
is
did
be
not
it
of
out
pass
he
But
very
had
worsted
him.
He
this
"
brain.
"Wait!"
in
tunate
for-
as
said
fact
other's
preoccupation.
now."
And
she
went
him.
had
Amad
circumstance,
to
puissant as
going
to
out
woman,
"I
will
now.
babe.
Amad
be married
on
forward.
the
all else.
above
of
unmindful
see
or
matter
It stood
the
with
was
And
little seemed
was
voice.
low
left."
Ominous
as
glitter.
to
saddler,
he
dervish!
felt about
morrow
asked
dervish
dervish
dervish's
any
stupid
dervish
Would
day.
when
The
the
"Truly
"
if the
Sadi, the
you
saddler
for
sent
for
doll
pointing,"There
begun suddenly
admit
to
was
been
might have
glad enough
that
alone?"
eyes
"I
been
had
ripe
this occasion?
on
"Is
As
observed.
before
once
Then
murmured.
had
her
reveal
china
stairs she
the
to
They
painted lips of
temptation they
fellow!"
aside
interest.
163
of
head
the
at
be swept
no
crimson
the
when
veil to
her
MAN
HOLY
VERY
if you
He
may
followed.
the
enter
ALADDIN
i64
of
sound
low
stay here
other
voices
moment
"The
tones.
FROM
I didn't
his
think
too, had
wings
kind.
did
Arab
or
realize that
to
of
so
poor
esting?"
inter-
though he,
the
nice eyes
low
"
Mohammedan
prisoner,with
ready when
What
she
met
them,
fires ! She
hidden
essentiallyand
was
that
suspicion,
opportunity is
when
eyes,
flame
coquettishly.
more
it
terably
unal-
disposed more
was
to
caress.
you
laugh: "My
endearment.
"One
him
fairlyto burn.
blast than
with
as
often
too
non-amatory
"What
of
that is
say
But
much
so
up
the dervish,
at
this fellow's
now
not
to
muttered
Treated
are
And
seemed
it
isn't over-fond
he have
the
permission
granted
take
Repression makes
bold.
her
let him
looked
not?
woman
when
you
idea, himself.
an
woman
Why
he
to
in subdued
on
fetch
me
master
can
knows,"
went
alone, and
the
shall have
would
What
"Allah
The
Sadi,
he
time, for
relatives.
bade
him
"We
two," she
master
speak with
to
heard.
was
or
left.
three
BROADWAY
favored
have
It
eye!"
It meant:
was
"Light
by
of
my
Then
of
term
my
eye,"
eye."
ALADDIN
66
FROM
denoting keen
interest,but what
the
to
unintelligible
that
to
Yet
mind
must
Even
now
have
he
had
and
wizened
by
face
remember
heard
Amad
words
were
at
He
say
the
dervish's
shrugged.
the
were
thing."
"some-
"
"
his
they
other
He
felt
no
few
days
meant
everything
him, but
when
to
his life
murmured
the
side.
"
over
evil
one
younger
are
"discovery."
two
tions
exclama-
The
within.
Sadi's
or
stances.
circum-
Englishman
an
fact
It seemed
extraneous
together
legend of
in
The
lost.
"What
woman
house.
fanatical
bowed
His
should
they
somehow.
from
the
all
otherwise.
only meaningless
came
and
her
cogent
time
likelihood
all
in
in
much,
more
some
all
its loss.
that
apathy
him,
so
sounds
old
noticed
represented
to matter
seem
outweighed
*T
odd
an
it
been
once
even
still
was
they examining
strongly engrossed
left it behind
For
in
felt
they said
Were
had
not
been
have
though
"
that
had
he
he
it
didn't
so
dervish.
"something"
him?
BROADWAY
was
great
now
it would
ago
"
over
concern
an
extra
have
hazard
already forfeited!
The
morrow
HOLY
VERY
^that's what
"
he
her
but
hands,
words
came
There
are
words,
what
back
could
The
girl's
poignant significance.
with
heard, had
now
do?
she
things than
worse
revoca
ir-
the
"
might be wringing
bride
him
to
167
thinking of
was
The
morrow!
MAN
death
almost
Sadi's
that
so
"
frivolous, unmeaning
sound.
"I
ran
him
across
accidentallyone
in
our
holy cityof
in
one
of the enclosure
removed
few
discovered
of
relative
learned
Sadi's
at
of
than
on
be
to
eve
rewarded
saddler
of his
for
It
was
What
largess?
of
was
side, but
I
bered
remem-
"
"
also
to,
pitifully
mentally compute
are
And
rich
what
obligation upon
marriage ?
tomb
painfully irrelevant
listeners.
sense
the
Then
of
had
about
other
speak
hole
I had
saw
from
near.
seemed
bestow
the
dusk,
He
excuse
virtue
story you
the
he
When
on
tomb
in
arm
mosque.
some
prophet
services.
for
impress
the
the
doubt
No
for, except
to
or
bricks.
drawing
no
legend
reward
time
the
his
had
of the
made
of
was
least, one
ing
the
satisfaction
puerile.
to
of
He
walls
he
and
there
the
of
him,
miracle-hole,
Mecca.
after
day
relatives
better
this
one
Besides, it is fine
i68
ALADDIN
gratifyingunto
most
striven
attain.
to
one
stone.
the
same
the
have
he
"
his
rich diamond
merchant
him
had
doubt,
the
latter.
fit to
seen
certain delicate
fuss
"I
bother
and
suspected
at
would
have
Light
of
then,
late
that
at
authority,do?
been
in
error
Sometimes
and
poor
man
"You
merchant,
"At
they
fines
dared
have
as
least,you
no
doubt
To
think
for
risk
not
if
are
are
the
"But
as
is
I who
that
am
"
further
fool, like
right. This
insult
ons
pris-
"
impatient of
not
severe.
both
are
penalty.
upon
if I had
What
there
but
"
speak
not
done
you
of
them,
and
saddler
I, without
against slanderers
beaten
are
deal
The
could
should
one
consulted
strong.
law
The
been
what
suspicion, however
mere
moment,
Besides,
avoided
been
Life's."
"Had
spoke complacently.
at
no
on
only
(the saddler) in
with
desires
He,
importance
long
birds
fanatical
Amad.
own
have
killingtwo
own
served
his
now
that you
yourself
served
time
employed
BROADWAY;
It is like
Sadi
pressed hard
If
FROM
to
our
is neither
many
proof
sacred
here
diamond
explanation.
others.
And
is conclusive.
plosively
religion!"Exnor
there
now,"
he went
me
do
"What
She
think
not
fellow ?
breathed
the
did
her?
The
it
"
in
but
was
merchant
his
"I do
not
Amad
I offered
not
trace
one
"Nor
that
Sadi's
was
the
as
same
he
with
"Tut!
Amad
What
the bones
strength to
an
go
obstinate
angrily. "However,
as
made
to
phatically
em-
more
been
probability
"
"
sons."
rea-
reward
! And
concerning him
found."
"The
significantly.
On
the march,
men
beggarly pilgrims
the
and
had
of the
"Think
him, living,has
camels, too,
always
reply to the
now
gave
lighten
en-
plexities
per-
own
you
fell and
he
the
water
could
her
?"
ear.
household,
answer.
information
of
how
voicing
snapped back.
for any
dervish's
not
reasons
agree
dyer tells
?"
the
question
the
he
in
newcomer
did
idiot of
they be talkingabout
can
as
169
is dead
servant
She
dervish
diamond
Who
ask
not
MAN
the fellow
woman
man,
young
HOLY
calmly. "That
more
on
you
VERY
of the beasts.
But
on."
fellow
to
you
entertain
are!"
the
cried
sible
impos-
"
ALADDIN
I70
He
FROM
could
were
foolish
your
have
people know
aroused.
them
fellow
has
"And
facts.
kissed
the
true?"
better
be
this,now
it
they
to
are
acquaint
to
be
once
this
known
"
stone
for
goat
than
when
"
black
sacred
Amad
dead
business
your
Let
"
sacrifice
holy
at
"
dared
do
he
moment
that ?"
even
was
Amad
nation
religiousindig-
anticipations.
tender
shouted.
almost
vehement,
very
superseding
The
lover
was
Outside
the
stoic, indeed
Her
face
own
talk.
To
had
Amad
whereupon
The
interview
herself
was
head
Interferers
in peremptory
she
emotion
make
or
at
an
!"
end
of
was
derment.
bewilof all
tail out
to
parent
ap-
curiosity.
or
the
And
tians!"
Chris-
then
tell Sadi
tones
retreated
he
servant
woman
caught "Death
"Meddlers!
heard
the
with
eloquently expressive
couldn't
She
listened
dervish
without
man
was
She
this
the
door
indifference.
'
be
the
offered
"He
all
"A
prove
had
What
"
Mecca
"He
It will
with
heard.
should
surmise
grimly.
so
be
not
chuckled
the
instructions.
hastily some
murmured
they
BROADWAY
to
she
go,
quickly.
and
wish
VERY
be detected
to
at
"You
had
better
the
to
go
again turned
servant
had
He
companion
wasted
when
way,
at
had
his
his
him
stumble
smiling, if
barked
one
in
receded
and
the
the
pins of
wood
the
closing and
gloom,
"I
reconciled
to
forward, when
"Remember
sharply, "and
was
fast
shin
on
So
comparative
and
click
of the
dropped
bolt
the
inevitable.
He
them
other
or
footsteps
Sadi's
street
dervish
forded
it af-
capable of
kursi,
of
parted
de-
hear
unostentatious
the
place,had
into
locking of the
The
relations
been
a
furniture.
ready."
am
light the
to
to
have
even
him, for
Perhaps
amusement
dark
the
to
and
presence.
might
article of
substantial
had
He
of
lanterns
or
and
woman
end
friends
august
malicious
bit.
humbler
the
shadows
as
Sadi
dervish.
the
farther
The
now."
master
noticed
the
candles
no
from
later Sadi
moment
to
171
threshold.
woman
also
MAN
eavesdropping.
the
appeared
HOLY
door
dubbeh,
announced
after him.
appeared,
started
as
at
last,
more
once
"
your
what
losing any
manners,"
will
concern
be
spoke
expected
she
may
of
his
mentor
you."
have
had
She
for
ALADDIN
172
the
fellow.
oblivious
and
of
Never
his
to
BROADWAY
FROM
was
stableman
mere
"As
interests.
own
Allah
pray
to
bestow
enter
you
him
upon
more
the
ture
pos-
delights
paradise."
"Must
I say
Have
course.
"Oh,
Then
There
in the dervish's
glimmer
"Of
that?"
It will
no.
if to
as
you
"
queerly. She
at
!"
delightsof
"The
of the East
little attempts
her
pleasure much
much
memory,
paradise," he murmured
have
objection?"
any
give me
woman
odd
that
eyes.
charge his
disdainfully. A
again
was
eyed
like to
does not
flirtation pass
him
completely
unmarked.
"Go,
She
fool!"
wasn't
enough
further
for
near
she would
It
was
He
threshold
Amad
walked
said, and
interested
eavesdropping. Yet
have
been
rewarded
her
vanish
she
had
for her
gered,
lin-
pains.
into the
looked
quickly
up
at
gave
circumstance.
he
Did
the
mandarah.
would
remain
to
even
now
herself.
away
watched
oil
she
Amad
recognize
him
his entrance.
a
dervish
know
in
restful but
sober
noted
him, and, if
The
not
the
so,
serving attire?
ALADDIN
174
"I hear
Here
solicitous servant,
judging by the
back.
"I
Allah
the dervish
thing
strove
spiritof
"I
"Verses
"I
"Garlands
their
new
It
it is
that
masters'
was
summoned
day!
The
to
^wreaths
joy
"
of
There
"
"
was
with
the
he
happy
good
to
be
I desire you
there
see
dervish
table behind
Flowers
was
which
now
close
of
he
Amad's
the merchant
in
these
flowers
that
to
pious
also, many
that many
for
ly,
sharp-
be
to
are,
Amad
to, and
attended
to
"
said
servants
behalf, but
"
number
good,"
for
servitor.
sedulous
most
is
specialprayers,"
and
verses
and
that prayer
speak.
ing
bend-
and
impatiently.
chapters, without
practical matters
will
for
as
this
know
his broad
blessings,"interrupted
of
Amad
deliver
and
"and
his
even
mumbled
bend
occasion.
the
will
respectful
instructions
complaisant, in keeping
be
to
most
fervently,but stillnearer
more
could
face.
"
shower
lower.
ever
give you
to
Amad's
on
"
You
"May
and
he
way
for you
sent
morrow.
such
BROADWAY
was
one,
the
FROM
had
I
"
"
been
wedding-
the
was
laid
heavy in-
seated.
VERY
"Look
"and
HOLY
MAN
commanded
up,"
175
Amad
imperiously,
listen."
The
dervish
than
that.
from
He
with
stifling
the
look
did
up,
reached
of
throat
and
out
iron
an
and
amazed
were
no
more
other,
the
about
yell
startled
did
also,
grasped
the
grip
the
he,
but
to
issue
diamond
merchant.
quiet,
"Keep
in
his
tones
sudden
with
who
he
"You
and
hate
"That,"
learn."
There
"
The
now.
Amad's
pricked
"
or
skin
point
sharp
and
recognition.
latter's
the
did
Amad
felicitations
of
eyes
know,
dagger
blazed
then,
was.
!"
he
in
managed
his
said
gaze.
the
to
"What
do
"
young
murderous
murmur,
man,
you
"you
rage
want?"
will
soon
CHAPTER
XIII
MENACING
HALF
MOMENTS
later
hour
an
calm
stable.
he
as
lean
if he
as
by
employer
latter
returned
with
red
about
glanced
suspicious
the
said
flowers,"
the
man,
dervish
the
at
the
growl
low
wardly
out-
to
only
was
least
at
gave
him
not
was
proxy,
"It
inquiringly.
dog
regarded
felt all
dervish,
tranquil,
Damascus
and
entered
eyes
his
The
and
the
the
carelessly.
"You
had
pleasant
interview?"
"Very."
"And
left
"Hum?
spoke
toward
He
the
But
"Perhaps
"I
house.
All
any
instant
wouldn't."
said
with
transported
glanced quickly
I, too,
master,"
mood?"
amiable
an
was
dervish
the
moment.
the
in
him
had
the
there
better
servant
Hastily.
176
As
his
shoulder
over
still
was
joy."
there
might
go
and
come
for
"
he
the
"
congratulate
suddenly.
**When
he
dismissed
me
MENACING
he
remarked
"Did
asked
he had
"On
"Did
"Only
about
anything
look
to
papers
over."
wages?"
your
no."
word,
he
177
suspiciously.
man
my
important
say
you
the
MOMENTS
give
anything?"
you
this."
Showing
Jealously.
box.
small
"Sheereh
(Hashish)."
"
ehr
Sheer
"Of
tried
the
Delighted.
best
casually toward
"Defer
it."
hard
of the
least, and
after
the
The
lean
inclined
now
over
the
An
pupils of
lithe
tread
looked
man
creature
bristling,his
however,
of
stableman, when
growled.
The
Desert.
with
succeeded
invitation
dervish's
red
stood
as
on
with
changed
eyes
a
the
suddenly
bent
in
the
dog again
?" he
said.
standing, his
hair
around.
the
looked
panther, he stepped
half
was
eyes
his
stall
the
the dervish
instant
den
sud-
Hps.
the
if
now."
do
to
smiling
other
then
down,
work
compression
the
Star
as
house.
the
I have
"Later.
of
dervish
to
But
The
some."
quality. Try
"Eh
dervish.
The
latter,
contents
of
which
he
ap-
ALADDIN
178
peared
be
to
"U-um!"
inhaling. His
he
it
"Catch."
murmured
Tossing
fellow
opened
darted
know
it and
look
what's
the
nocent
in-
the
to
Again
stableman
with
dog whined.
dog. "Don't
the
to
He's
him.
dervish
the
The
house.
The
other.
been
uneasy
time."
some
like it?"
you
box
the
the
the matter
for
"How'd
both
was
appreciatively.
inhaled.
toward
up," said
like that
attitude
good?"
so
"Shut
BROADWAY
absorbed.
and
"Is
FROM
The
dervish
the
changed
approval.
while
tempted,
he
but
ended
The
"Got
started
watched
the
the
box,
him
if
as
steadily,
little receptacleonce
water-pipe?"
to
over
dervish
brought
forth
he
said,
as
the
stableman
the horse.
groom
The
the
dervish
by extending
latter took
"Yes,
of
the
fingered
the dervish.
to
more
he
moment
with
man
in the
walked
a
there."
corner
to
the
smoking outfit.
water-pipe, and
place indicated
He
and
the
bra-
Stiflingwith
an
the throat
iron
of
diamond
to
merchant"
issue from
i8o
ALADDIN
But
stableman
the
"I'd
Star.
"When
he
the
is most
night
of
second
if he
the
The
in
doing
the dervish
liked
The
stableman
"Wait,"
"Where
"To
are
tion
frac-
Well, if
so,
turned
to
"Doesn't
facing him.
once
give
tance
little dis-
some
swung
the
and
again the
stableman, when
and
duty
tized
anathema-
got up
stableman
low
fel-
act
man.
that," returned
the
other
with
strained.
somewhat
stable.
between
him.
to
dervish
you," grunted
much
so
The
wedding!"
precious; every
was
The
"
sound.
kick, and
from
meant
toward
a
his
smoke
moved
before
Every instant
he wouldn't
dog made
unusual."
vibrate, however,
to
pleasure, and
him.
ourselves?"
enjoy
to
us
like him."
yet seemed
as
told
first."
that?"
occasion
"True;
more
work
the
course."
"The
him
toward
gazed indecisively
master
say
"It is not
and
BROADWAY
better finish my
the
"Did
"Of
FROM
you
the house
walked
toward
the
door
of
the
said.
he
going?"
for
another
pipe.
I've concluded
MENACING
to
The
advice.
take your
i8i
MOMENTS
work
wait
can
such
on
night."
"But
the
disturb
them
"The
on
is
servants
They
grinning, "one
it is
esteem
of them
sleeve.
It
watchful
was
dervish
could
the last
was
is
surely enough
good
"Well, I've
sat
wished
he
both," he
than
smoking, I've
to
The
You
with
on
we
needn't
that
house.
do. "One
to
went
the
to
go
him
with
can
be
my
weak
pipe
blance
sem-
smoke
in
afraid
of
it
comes
head."
"I learned
down.
sakka
fellow
other's
the
expedient,
fellowship. "So
getting more
my
touched
to
dervish
spoke, the
for
putting yourself
and
let this
thing
privilege. At least,'*
he
hand
friendly fashion.
more
of
not
It
of
As
hazardous
sentinel
but
are
detaining
will."
trouble."
unnecessary
a
you
are
"Nevertheless, you
extended
should
asleep. Why
?"
women
man.
household
the virtues
(sellerof water)."
stableman
deep down,
while
puffed
the
at
dervish
selected
position
ALADDIN
82
could
he
where
FROM
window,
over
attention
between
of
the
see
of
back
the
to
listened
closer
but
for
great
haunches
the
dervish.
His
given
in the
you
"As
He
is
bowl
I'm
of
he
reserves
I told you
going
his
on
to
appeared
encomiums
new
the
surprised
such," he
it is the kind
all
meanwhile
owner
enough, muttering
"Though
nothing
guardian gargoyle
the
tented
con-
the
on
the master
give presents
should
master
wonderingly.
for
only
is
his
us
"Surely
guests?"
feelingmost
to
have
all
on
amiable.
the
row."
mor-
especiallymentioned
"He
did?"
"An
*old and
you."
Delighted.
valued
on
pipe.
added
"He
assure
re-
He
and
mixture
to
down.
heard
moment
scrawny
at
heavily. Some
coming
"
flicker
calculated
breathed
the
his
windows
dark
not
No
stable
divided
the house.
was
He
bed?
going
He
of the
one
man.
servant
The
and
man
the
through
shoulder.
dwelling
the
the young
alarming.
house
other's
the
lightpassing before
the
BROADWAY
MOMENTS
MENACING
"Not
so
"I
other.
"I
think
said
he
here,"
service
with
but
him
Valued',
"If
stableman
the
"Not
the
"
"
'old',come
not
to
say,"
did
he
what
on
suspiciously.
I""
all.
at
little mixed
seem
observed
he
thought
didn't
really give
this, but
you
you""
"Took
it?
well
came
Now
Allah
who
forbid"
for
recommended
yourself
you,
"
"
You
what
did it matter?
honesty, that
fellow
hashish
door
which
leading
stole
he
from
In
but
doubt
the
he
nothing
reminded
"Not
was
the
the house
some
into the
the dervish
not
one
it
seem
"
to
that
at
ened
straightnotice;
locking
up;
no
he
his turn.
than
garden
dervish
was
was
with
shared
if
and
valuable
The
did
all,
hold
house-
servants
more
generously
stableman
thought
was
After
Mohammedan
every
suddenly slammed.
moment
it
Laughing.
peculation is practised by
this
forget
now
in
put
of it."
"You
that
been
haven't
beheve
in
old
very
183
words
he
His
ner
man-
listened
in-
ALADDIN
i84
tently for
I told
you,
But
the
further
any
I have
weak
employ,"
touch
of
glint of
malice,
in the
At
dervish, but
the
of
bred
sharpness
if he
as
That
the
arouse
itself.
he
in
nerves
smoked,
his
in his head.
coming
gravel
"Who
dervish
in his
became
he
did
net.
would
not
began
the
house
that
be?"
The
could
be heard
walk.
can
ing
thiev-
own
stopped smoking.
from
dervish
centrated
con-
dervish
aware
too,
scendant
de-
the
circumstances,
finger-tips. Bees,
Suddenly
only
cursed
with
him
enmeshed
certain
the
have
that
possible
would
arouse
detected
difficulties,the
being
under
dog,
As
were
be
eye,
by generations of
hustling under
and
felt
eying
fects
drug af-
time
with
now,
dogs
street
part
'
"
stableman's
another
fellow's
the
jocosely
The
too.
ihnees
no
observed
pleasure might
truculence.
belligerency on
amused
of
look
that
"
"
"I'll have
he
"As
the house.
head, and
people differently,and
behind
from
insisted.
in my
with
BROADWAY
sounds
stableman
(little
boys)
perhaps
FROM
got up.
soon
he
had
buzz
to
steps
Footon
the
MENACING
"Odd
said
should
one
any
stableman
the
Fingers
half -veiled
had
shown
this time,"
at
latch
the
at
of
dervish
the
into
of
who
servant
woman
the
barn
the
back, revealing
later, swung
features
the
here
expectantly.
moment
185
out
come
fumbled
now
door, which,
the
MOMENTS
of
presence
the
mond
dia-
merchant.
"I
the
to
came
Star,"
has
been
an
sent
is
is
"He
not,
that?"
with
him.
consult
Christians,
the
no
in
the
the
man.
the stable-
About
staff
this uprising
The
doubt.
on
stall.
governor's
advisory cabinet,
then,
forth
gone
asked
the
the
of
member
see
orderly from
to
against
to
come
you
"Because
had
master
she
do
"Why
if the
see
master
know."
you
mandarah?"
said
the
was
no
the
vish.
der-
stableman.
"Apparently
reply."
Her
Did
might
have
He
not.
eyes,
they
as
knocked,
she
convey
spoke,
a
been
turned
question?
there
and
last with
almost
the
to
Conscience
as
diamond
lenge.
chalchant.
mer-
i86
ALADDIN
The
smile.
FROM
dervish
smiled.
No
would
one
unnatural
or
say
something about
not
quite
"On
of
sure
foot?"
Then
the
walks
on
It
have
"I
it.
about
BROADWAY
seen
anything strained
the
he
observed,
if
as
drew
brows
stared
She
at
together. "He
him.
never
public streets."
the
"Never?
that
shall say
Who
on
such
night as
this?"
did
master
point.
Incredulously.
dark
very
believe
going out,"
the
charming
was
upsets
all habits."
"Your
wits
him
a
she
improving,"
are
sharply. "Perhaps
more
commented,
not
are
you
ing
ey-
such
fool""
"No,
indeed."
"The
master,
himself,"
compose
if you
She
knocked
dervish
very
sweet
suggested the
go.
and
"
"Why
such
to
He
smoked
if he
as
shine
brighter.
hurry?"
intended
was
beginning
little to
stableman, "and
ingratiatingtone.
now
"
quickly, in what
stableman
through
to
smoked
have
may
louder
started
the
the
too,
to
observed
His
were
eyes
said
be
that
going
were
88
ALADDIN
stableman's
and
the
they
now
to
speak of the
thoughts
dervish
it
the
was
picked
had
of
smoke,
recede
to
for
he
as
the
and
had
vanish
the
bluish
it
latter
turning
hardly
tween
be-
was
the
in
last time.
in
"
in his
was
plainly
it
beyond
started
even
He
it
it the
seen
and
in
disposition
girl'sface
Now
came
nearer,
the
darkness.
nebula, the
attention
occasionally attracted
Desert
sunk
seemed
ceiling,then
diaphanous
that
that
distinguished
the
near
up
world.
the
too
bride; how
world
The
ders
shoulnot
"
not
now
toward
his young
topsyturvy
He
He
occasion
one
did
stableman
it floated
the
on
them.
Behind
songs
exhibited
he
and
differently.
"
around;
only
Also
his
on
love
had
he
master
gossip
the
cloud
rude
now
maudlinly confidential.
house
saw
that
out.
came
become
But
little
story-tellers.They
to
was
BROADWAY
lips chanted
effusions
of
stands
rolled
head
his
delicate
FROM
of
Star
self
him-
to
by kicking.
"Your
dervish
turn
caught
and
sinews
himself
that
aware
him
!" breathed
the
like
man.
the
dog
up
with
stood
That
whip-cords;
uncertainly. The
voice
a
now
jerk, only
to
come
be-
squarely between
diabolical
its mouth,
It
had
through
the
beast!
MENACING
smoke,
of
seemed
to
steel trap.
The
places.
MOMENTS
stableman
The
man
gripping possibilities
the
possess
intelligence. It watched
he bestowed
when
of
moved
his
regard,
justbeyond
common
as
heads
like
the
fabled
that
as
It
regions.
looked
of
was
no
have
cur
as
of
quadruped
mere
It
super-cur.
almost
gutters,
to
This
boot.
reach
Even
habit, it only
of
matter
sented
repre-
forcible evidence
another
now
changed
him.
over
heifer, appeared
young
watchful
as
canine
mangy
big
it
upon
it had
and
the
was
189
as
many
fernal
the in-
longer;
any
inspired an
it
enormous
respect.
The
dervish
clearlyand
more
he
bowed
seemed
one
eye.
In
his
head.
Damascus
It
to
be
flowers
isn't
flowers
little
"
The
fdt
sleepy.
kind
of
The
and
truce
dog
closed
eyes
healthy.
brain
folding
in
He
as
his ideas
marshal
to
dogs seldom
the dervish's
length
think,
the moments
regard this
to
closed.
on
tried to
the
their
came
busy bees
wings
coziest
stableman
puffs of smoke
those
now
they
fashion
"
leaned
seemed
were
settling
bright
back
at
red
while
spasmodically from
his
ALADDIN
I90
lips; then
tube
the
gently
and
feet.
He
in
was
his
disturbinghis
But
too,
thing
life at
his
sued
is-
snores
could
dissipatinghis
have
dreams
or
bliss.
neither
a
The
saw
girl,fair
had
heard
nor
delightfullassitude.
paradise! But
He
of
caravan
Tranquillity! Blissful
him?
fingers,uncoiled
Unseraphic
and
without
experienced
Dreamtime!
of
like
out
mouth
the dervish
storm!
his
Elysium.
him
over
BROADWAY
fell from
stretched
from
passed
FROM
Amad?
seized
as
him
He,
Peace
after
the
senses!
what
"
of
lure
him.
become
had
and
^what
"
of
that
was
noise ?
"
with
had
to
opened
him
His
a
pounding
or
the
woman
he
heard
beating
That
servant
from
sound
on
the
might be
again
at
fresh
the
fancy,
the
door
air
house
and
or
and
vived
re-
draughts.
the
floor
ment.
mo-
window
in great
drew
it. The
the other
the
but
He
his feet.
to
at
to
went
reeled
head
little and
he
looked
each
dervish
the
Suddenly
calling out.
and
up
the dervish,
off that
throw
loudly and
effort, staggered
herculean
kicked
some
it
of
"
like
one
might be
the
man-
MENACING
darah,
knocking
from
come
He
pay
in
barn
In
the
but
suddenly
earnest!
Some
shrilly
calling
this
front.
toward
him,
over
louder
the
turned
MOMENTS
flashed
The
long.
the
grasped
that
afternoon.
had
the
man
to
at
make
iron
The
shouts
first
move.
But
hand
using
been
Certainly
waited
now
the
too
his
had
had
to
stayed
saw.
It
heard
followed.
and
super-cur
to
was
been
had
he
stoop
be
soon
He
shears
instinct.
devil
had
straightened
heavy
the
who
windows.
to
could
surely
wailings,
the
caller!
stableman,
The
have
may
another
case,
woman
"
it
Or
stopped.
dervish
sporting
that
one
Exclamations,
Lights
time.
snoring
the
now
191
it
for
sprang.
it
the
CHAPTER
XIV
CAPTIVE
AT
V.
J,
of
one
Life's
much
less
the
looking
captive
into
her
as
custody.
than
Amad's
again.
!" the
that
one
smoldered,
Light
of
but
Life's
her
Her
face
smoldering
lattice
of
Light
of
Life
she
now
gazing
said
had
The
made
her
opening
from
the
reply.
eyes.
there
She
most
out
be
the
less
girl. "Shamedark
had
eyes
She
received
cerning
con-
indifference.
was
walked
to
looked
192
now
him
envy
scornful
returned
it had
her
invectives
and
sighs
pale, but
was
ordered
charge
other's
with
was
that, it would
to
no
alike
restlessly, then
one
her
while
She
had
trusted
little do
alternate
light in
police
guard
"And
little
of
Light
night.
After
are!"
conduct
guarded
Any
aga
morrow.
you
the
if the
stepmother
of
girl,
into
would
the
turn
windows
young
out
and
ever
closely until
task
latticed
home
later, stood
as
the
it.
into
restricted
still
from
The
the
that
the
creetly
dis-
street.
view
of
r1
V(,(v
)rtt:'er
"/lk\l"i.M
She
was
as
much
captive as if the agha of poh'ce had
ordered her into custody"
ALADDIN
194
FROM
BROADWAY
to
well!
look
like; it
not
retire,so
should
"Why
should
as
well
Look
"You
was
well?"
asked, with
she
which
eyes
funny.
the elder
that
woman
expressionthat, indeed,
an
furiate
in-
her.
"For
wedding,
your
wants
look
to
"But
well
on
of
her
isn't
to-morrow
course.
girl usually
wedding-day."
going
to
be
wedding-
my
day."
"Isn't
The
to
bend
elder
to
the
"Do
you
was
not
break
to
her
dagger again
now?
that obstinate
will?
as
me
infectious
gay
right to attempt
marry
to
the
you
What
temper,
not?"
"Why
verse
per-
you
the
hope
before, brazen
did
are!"
that you
it
give
mind
feel the
could
handle
to
was
in her
was
other
woman
draw
difficult it
What
she not
she
how
minx.
would
silent,though
on
eyes
knew
not?"
Why
girl was
other's
Life
it?
again
to
to
force
me
the
laughed
"You
laugh.
to
that horrible
this.
old
You
man.
girl.But
have
no
can
not
You
de-
CAPTIVE
ceived
me
his
never
^lied to
"
wife;
before, but
me
wife.
still a
am
"Oh,
did,"
yes, he
don't
"We
was
it,because
did
not
said
Light
of Life
sweetly.
it."
believe
affidavits of
the
have
heard
do
mustahall
that
"
"
me."
divorce
*T
That
not
can
you
now?
It is inconceivable
will be.
never
impossible! Besides,
"
195
four
who
persons
him."
"Affidavits!
they would
Lies, you
mean."
that
might
not
There
was
chance
and
these
how
was
difficulty.The
the
overcome
So
dervish
reappear.
people would
take
no
chances.
"Take
honest
Light
of
Friends
little wildly.
if so?"
the
Life
word
of
four
severely.
of Amad,
men?
yours!"
"And
impugn
you
said
men,"
"Honest
of
how
care
no
doubt,
and
Darkly.
"Perjurers !"
"You
Life
do not
answered
I overlook
well
as
have
others to
know
with
it.
headstrong
what
an
accent
You
and
you
are
are
of contempt.
young
reckless.
guide you."
saying,"Light of
and
fore
"There-
foolish,as
Fortunately, you
ALADDIN
196
"You
who
"
"Have
me!"
always hated
why
Unless
"
Christian
in
have
BROADWAY
care!"
"Though
was
FROM
and
I,
it is because
child, was
as
mother
my
brought
up
little mission!"
"Do
of
speak
not
it !
Luckily,
rescued
we
in
you
time."
"Would
had
you
left
there," said
me
girl
the
bitterly.
"This,
to
mother's
will
who
me,
care?
This,
shown
ever
reward?
my
you
Allah
Well,
repay."
"Allah!
You
"Impudent
in
temper
to
in the
"It
lips.
back
at
dispense with
"To
take
"after
your
is most
those
of
generous
all."
his
generosity," said
you
back
at
Fatma
shall I say
"
immoral
vagabond
Had
your
"Was
struck
tone.
same
you
losing her
was
have
could
she
earnest;
take you
"I will
Amad,"
mean
laughing flower-like
him
have
no
regard
he not
my
for
husband
?"
conduct?
alone
Your
like
that!
reputation?"
again laughed
the
girl.
CAPTIVE
red defiant
Oh, those
them
"You
merriment
him
said
of
Light
of
some
I blush
Life
her
shed
looked
how
The
been
on
made
has
pressed
her
thin
two
or
"How
trap.
the
sions,
occa-
subject.
tion.
satisfac-
trouble !"
all the
have
Had
in surreptitious
with
murmured
he
in
one
changed
could
caught
gossiping?
me?"
divorced
lips together.
could
She
they
have
the
elder
By
some
made
"It is sufficient
"He
woman.
native
The
mirth
how
Then
Oh,
"You!"
tone.
condescension
elder
who
beggar
Light of Life
had
had,
her
with
!
nowhere
same
been
is dead," she
"This
"Dead?
she
light of
the
he
Her
you."
the
at
taKen
were
from
the
servants
own
quarters?
"Well,
did."
Amad
you
for
girl in
the
they whispered
was
I believe
vagabond
blush.
"You!"
Or
out.
strange, unnatural.
language!
should
you
him
this handsome
"
lips! How
picked
was
"Such
197
he
"
alone
eyes
she
only
not
afterward.
added.
answered.
replied. The
dead, but
them," retorted
killed
was
Christians,"
dark
have
we
Their
mirthless
"afterward."
Again
she
stood
at
the
FROM
ALADDIN
198
heard
and
casement
Again she
waters.
of this
of
rush
the
saw
color
of
How
often
last mad
! But
he had
and
fellow!
Was
left her
paler
brave.
was
eyes
The
were
Below
the
with
can
that
she lived
over
that
paid
glad?
The
"
completely
At
and
color
At
out
that
ceded
re-
least, he
of the dark
they
moment
had
He
"
the
at
the presumptuous
"
poetic eyes.
laugh
knocking
came
eyes
before.
dreamy.
his death
to
Her
paid
than
soulful, young
very
leaped
she
fire died
left them
and
had
"
face.
her
to
came
just before
hers
face
reckless
handsome
suddenly flashed.
moment
seething of dark
sibilant
the
husband
vagabond
sudden
BROADWAY
court.
"Who
Life
turned.
the
interview.
no
the
be,
she
Perhaps
doubt
"Some
not
was
sorry
to
terminate
pertaining
message
I shall
Light of
at
to
and
morrow,
to-
left
room.
The
before
the
morrow."
have
What
for
the
"A
house.
her?
down
message
interest could
Vaguely
figure of
in
horseman.
the
into
the
pertaining
it,or
dim
His
street
to
the
the messenger,
light she
mount
cerned
dis-
seemed
CAPTIVE
and
nervous
with
his
The
man,
hoofs,
in
again
struck
impatiently
that
so
199
she
saw
also, showed
spark
about
people
thrust
out
it and
on
an
light from
; the
arm
which
white
something
fly.
two
or
knocked
fashion, whereupon
stones
and
impatience
peremptory
more
the
at
who
The
came
horseman
lattice fell
the
held
he
the
on
the
toward
displeased Abyssinian.
"A
gruffly. "To
horseman
instant's
an
delay!
bowwab
The
and
took
his
horse,
of
his
from
slumber
of Life
"From
of the
She
the
and
coming
Ahl-Masr
his
He
at
to
girl
again
shufflingsteps
had
been
how
care
he disturbed.
the head
Why
portant.
im-
didn't
sleepinghousehold
his
bowwab
the
rather
he
Not
spoke
The
away.
hear
stairs.
rider
the
dashed
the
it is most
the
respectful tones
more
and
said
once!
at
says
which
could
then
himself
awaited
Amad
in
disappear,
slipperson
others
master
and
delivered
upon
wheeled
the gate.
locked
My
the message,
Ahl-Masr,"
be
answered
him
watched
Amad
from
message
aroused
many
Light
of the stairs.
should
he be writ-
ALADDIN
200
ing
late?
so
heard
her
Nothing
stairs
burlap
the
near
distance,
Then
room.
the
slightest concern
reading
granted.
There
the
door
the
apartment,
again entered
in.
But
was
Something
consternation
this
or
had
opened
other
felt not
hand
and
on
wish
wished
not
was
and
happened.
the
next
Light of
sallow
held
She
while
shook,
paper
her
to
fairly rushed
time, she
had
Silence
She
open
in
paper
rustling in the
thrown
written
was
this
louder
obviously
in her
message
Still the
even
was
"
Life
of
great,
followed.
its contents.
in
the
bed
hard
from
as
of
Light
the message.
be left alone.
to
girl
silence
duration.
was
Life
The
his
to
and
be
returned
gate.
now
of considerable
only
girl
descending
slipperswere
bowwab
the
adjoining
the
I trust," the
happened
say.
and
great
has
Then
BROADWAY
FROM
and
possessing
unpre-
countenance.
"Get
The
ready
The
leave
girl looked
"Why?
message
to
at
Read."
before
girl
the
her.
And
house
"Why
at
at
once."
once?"
Light of Life
her.
scanned
it.
,
she
thrust
said.
the
ALADDIN
202
girl'seyes
FROM
lighted with
Light of Life
The
didn't
and
hurried
orders
servant
listened
in
from
horses'
her
to
the
which
below
the house
servants
swore.
The
other
The
and
bowwab
went.
and
had
asses
Bundles
wasted
been
brought
were
jabbered
of
sound
the
came
one
two
or
words
many
; he
the details
of
departure.
That
go
"no
meant
tone
will not
almost
Light of Life
said
now
girl.
"You
fear dominated.
"Come,"
the
while
great
this hurried
to
gave
Nags, donkeys
from
the
peared,
ap-
house
in the court
service.
like
of
bowed
attentively,
hoofs.
but
hope,
servant
woman
mistress
hurriedlypressed into
was
spark of
gong;
voice
faint
answer.
latter struck
Soon
BROADWAY
and
leave
gently. "I
have
authoritatively
me?"
no
!"
nonsense
the
suggested
fear
of
what
may
Life's
tones
happen here."
"Will
became
or
come,
would
shapely shoulders
she
had
the
hodag,
of
alternative.
no
willy-nilly.If she
her
?"
"
She
menacing.
The
knew
you
or
held
closed
back
Light
waste
the
of
no
girl
They
litter.
The
lifted.
take
would
they would
time.
more
She
her,
provide for
giant
bowwab
CAPTIVE
in
might,
had
that
choice,
no
reached
would
enigmatic
felt
cold
hard
liked
she
and
to
Yet
feel
followed
it.
It
the
elder
played
distinctly
against
she
Yes
them.
expression
lips. She
must
how
reassured
woman
the
from
She
that.
An
fresh
sweet
something
!
"
breast.
young
her,
little.
do
distinctly
warm
"
could
around
"
her
delayed
hand
her
or
go,
she
She
attendant.
personal
She
breast.
with
start
her
indeed.
her
to
be
case,
ao3
and
the
with
room.
She
smile
CHAPTER
CAVALCADE
THE
THEY
rode
forth,
the
toward
in
because
but
there,
this
might
in
get
fairly
distance,
had
so
of
she
to
saw
torches.
incur
of
Light
arrived
these
that
Life
in
people
they
Moreover
She
"
could
they
of
too
shealehs,
carried
the
not
were
breeze
night
204
selected
Gazing
little
some
on
number
of
the
domicil
make
out
far
or
ter,
quar-
risks.
that
vicinity
the
them
Christian
galloped
noted
who
any
had
the
had
the
before
street
unnecessary
they
left.
recently
from
no
to
mistress
remote
desires
her
shout
the
His
ride
to
commanded
to
But
way.
after
however,
back,
had
their
indicated
howwah
prepared
was
well
side,
wished
she
had
dusky
route,
order
in
other
cade,
caval-
enough
stepmother's
because
deserted.
roundabout
her
not
The
and
imposing
an
at
the
regard.
outriders
was
girl
front,
the
XV
sons
per-
they
ures
fig-
the
but
away
"
watchmen's
seemed
to
waft
THE
the
her
to
CAVALCADE
sound
of
excited
205
That
voices.
be
might
or
her
near,
of
dimensions
These
been
a
been
frenzied
the
by
order
make
to
merchant's
diamond
that
moment!
had
Light of Life
fell back
little.
any
was
knew
she
occasion,
therefore, the
gave,
they
sooner
the
at
were
smiled.
and
heard
being
horse
own
designedly
Light
; she
was
of
too
Life
may
did
quickly shattered.
had
She
that?
not
was
her
"
notice
her
her.
being
well
at
one
poor
around
of
How
to
with
concerned
have
to
seen
slighthope she
escape
and
apprehensions seemed
Her
fact, however
fears, and
side
other's
puerile the
had
girl by her
The
The
all haste.
young,
too
She
been
woman
terrible
and
devotees.
very
elder
The
been
Christians, had
not
some
child,when
memorable
it had
had
mother
girl'sown
"holy massacre,"
last
the
on
moment.
there because
foul heresies.
one
the
Light of Life's
the
at
come
the
through
that
the
that
imbibed
assumed
possibility
strong
have
people might
Christian, and
had
too
any
rumored
dire
startlingconclusion.
weren't
nerves
house.
"
"
now
this
own
But
able to
guarded.
ALADDIN
2o6
behind
and
Before
foolish
only
for her
to
pressed closer
according
etiquette,are
her
criminal
as
forbore, nevertheless,
forward
look
at
would
mind
never
again
Furtively
Once
Yet
it had
its contents
the
horse
whether
any
still she
now
of
hesitated,
delicate
held
! She
the
the
guard
to
who
The
her
up
The
low
felof
single motion
make
guard
very
draw
had
How
little
far
were
fingering
perfume.
started
made
breast.
it would
of
to
even
it matter?
now.
and
however,
arm,
difference
near.
close
riding very
was
only
house.
her
sought
this
to
be
would
had
she
Amad's
enter
hand
her
and
over
to
so
did
all, what
be
soon
do
; to
She
treated.
proudly refused
She
After
him.
ride
the
guards
herself.
lower
to
of her
one
treating
were
be
to
the
by
speak reprovingly
to
rather
ride
to
They
might expect
former
the
punctilious code
supposed
not
serving
going
was
the
to
mistresses.
of their young
side
This
side.
of
one
be
would
She
all these
before
Already
her
to
It would
get away.
ridiculous
others.
the
to
lessly,
doubt-
who,
servants
were
attempt
herself
make
and
men
her
carefully instructed.
been
had
BROADWAY
FROM
the
or
vial.
different
it forth, when
just annoyed
THE
CAVALCADE
by pressing
her
close,
too
207
brushed
now
her
own
mount.
"Pardon,"
the
fellow
in
muttered
low
hoarse
voice.
The
mindful
escort,
Light
his
to
of
Life,
professed to
his careless
Better
was
one
She
could
way
laugh
Light of Life
her
odd
Her
when
hand
bars
at
and
spiritfelt free
that
seemed
the wind.
had
only
that.
toward
her.
him, remembering
Though
her
had
dropped.
and
gave
all.
them
couldn't
locks
and
still
She
deferred
palm
defy
They
Amad,
as
her
could
escape.
exhilaration
At
her
for
be
ued
fingers contin-
the vial.
it she
to
had
was
not
at him.
action
reassuring in
and
With
courage.
An
it,even
look
or
her
served
woman
of his presence.
unaware
yet held
retain
lay hard
speak
of
he
answer
it could
endure;
unmannerly
or
she
purpose,
might
half
was
one
not
seem
She
overzealous
did, he
long. So
It
if she
only
side.
her
this
reprove
mistress.
to
fell to
girl'shand
chains
horrible
One,
There
old
^and
"
satyr
"
uplift her;
to
a
it.
prevent
and
now
her
poor
beggar,
forgot her
only
his
resentment
service.
The
2o8
ALADDIN
FROM
dark
eyes
been
riding through
were
nothing
red
look
her
at
bride !
She
For
lips wore
would
have
once
of
for
the
second
her
hand
and
and
when
purpose
the
again
guard,
presumptuous
from
sounds
it, but
the
at
the
She
dark
no
tance,
dis-
might
have
tention
In-
arm.
loosened
could
one
turbed
dis-
instant
same
fingers were
that
touched
and
spiritless
nag.
fellow's
In the
this
bethought
she
distinctlypressed her
The
moment.
her
own
noticed
grasped
to
one
happy
slightlyunmanageable
scarcely have
"How
thus
unwonted
perhaps by
Any
of
horse
became
said:
The
shadows.
smile.
they rode
more
might have
people around
but
were
young
time
mettlesome
for these
They
be
She
lustrous.
space,
her.
to
must
some
herself
dreamy,
were
curving
BROADWAY
seen
in
the
quick motion.
"Pardon
in the
But
that
!"
over-
came
the low
girl'sface there
familiar, insolent
surprise,had
to the
again
fallen from
it
^nd
turn
was
beyond
gone
back
to
voice.
"pardon."
touch, the
her
been
She
most
At
vial, in her
fingers. It had
recall.
no
was
rate
hoarse
broken.
could
fallen
At
not
any
stop
precious posses-
ALADDIN
2IO
FROM
drawn
the
party
would
to
for
of
Light
make
his
At
toward
pass
"Do
A
not
did
the
his
over
would
fellow
just when
so
few
at
"
"
he
had
rider
looked
"In
"My
"
beast."
been
had
He
face
to
"
fully
of light
flicker
could
fell from
and
She
it receded
felt
she
darkness
if she
girl's
been
ing
look-
were
helplesslyat
claimed
back.
quietly dropped
had
mood
almost
stared
and
as
the
Light
the
it.
The
of
Life
around.
Allah's
"
"Only
"I
at
whispered.
not
strained
face; then
stayed
his
son
rea-
grudging street-lamps
surprised
seem
ghost.
no
features.
could
and
tense
have
turned
lips. She
surely
be
would
if his instructions
the
He
of
one
He
for
messenger
There
he
corner
moment
her.
from
house
of this
that
that.
unless
street
some
Amad's
doing.
so
at
But
done
Life's
one
waited
pass.
have
not
be the messenger,
not
rein and
BROADWAY
^my
name,
horse
that?"
thought
what
is it?"
stumbled."
Doubtingly.
I should
be
thrown.
It is
poor
THE
"Humph
learn
The
The
ride
to
CAVALCADE
horse
better
girlwas
is well
enough. You
that.
Keep with
do
Light
than
obliged to
gazed suspiciouslyback.
unusual.
Her
rudely
escort
of her
members
indistinct
one
and
"
then
party.
She
had
no
might
the
as
her
so
merchant's
diamond
that
palatialabode
He,
those
as
who
in
had
gave
now
the
or
"
might be
any
was
gaze
appeared
Life
These
paused before
had
intent
the
fellow
alarm.
command
home
her
overtaking
on
Fortunately they
the
safe
she
ever.
near
as
be
among
Light of
for
haved
be-
for mathematical
the road
cause
who
persons
party,
than
faster
just
They might
house.
and
this
ing
noth-
count
her
them.
"
one
the
at
when
down
Farther
now
had
to
he, and
was
him,
beyond
who
time
looked
that
of Life
only
was
pause
arrested.
abruptly
charge
not
outline
me."
noticed
fellow
The
She
should
clattering behind
came
did
calculations.
the
first she
Life
of
Light
many.
her
to
so.
At
numerically reassuring.
so
211
push
to
on
drawing
were
and
her
once
within
be
fortress.
so
people coming
after
them.
girl,saw,
He
shared
also,
Light
ALADDIN
212
of Life's
FROM
them,
for
not
lady attributed
to
What
his
other
the
and
the
of
of
her
man's
young
before
windows
; the
But
end
was
Nearer
near;
to
looked
floors
upper
as
if
fete
great house
It
come.
soon.
lights
were
all illumined
were
in progress.
separated
them
The
their destination.
"
of
appeared inevitable.
Amad's
toward
who
very
the
see
from
best
might
turn
come
could
shone
them
bobbed
nags
laughs
the
from
now
man
and
was
these
of
some
"He
he
them,
And
faded, however,
if it would
as
dwelling. The
Amad's
smile
she
fashion.
Light of Life's
Indeed, it seemed
Already
features.
And
laughs last."
donkeys
his
lady
How
how
ludicrous
of
ment
amuse-
ed.
pound-
old
steed!
escort,
Asses,
tragicghost
noble
their
survey
grim
of
rear
his heart-beat
occasion
on
her
in most
down
That
be
ribs
whacking!
up
to
of
expression
face, though
could
members
were
back
take
over-
estimable
the
at
now
dear, superlativelycomic
mother-in-law
whacking
that
reasons
looked
An
trying to
were
Riding
man
intently.
came
the
them.
to
BROADWAY
house
the
Nearer
girl. He
could
The
young
hardly
see
THE
for the
her
forward,
part of
mouth
drawing
his
who
face.
Life.
the
steady cold
saw
she
said
That
little
looked
he
She
the
saw
or
pressed directly
her
and
she
him;
at
girl,
young
between
then
was
of Amad,
the house
ers-by,
Pass-
by accident
and, under
"
eyes.
the
whether
"
person
lower
air is cold.
behind
again unmanageable,
of
the
protects his
night
close
tell
He
about
up
can
not
of her.
She
the
now
could
was
in front
was
pressed suddenly
Mohammedan
when
fallen back
design, he
cloak
So
muffled,
He
had
horse
his
nostrils
and
foe.
213
interveningfigures,and
thus
or
CAVALCADE
girl,near
Light
but
saw
enough.
reassuringlyclose.
her
gave
horse
So
another
whack.
Clatter!
clatter!
Behind
them
calling out.
coming
What
after
sang.
Awful
of
the
escort
they saying?
That
donkey
now
some
were
friends
were
"
ody!
melwere
those
by Amad?
sent
possible
Im-
girl's side,
Again
the
moment,
bent
louder
young
toward
voices
man,
her
from
around.
riding
now
and
said
behind.
At
the
at
the
something.
Confusiop!
ALADDIN
-14
There
had
house?"
FROM
been
What
awful
"no
evil
take
one
More
Did
making?
were
could
power
foremost
The
come
It
party.
of
turbulent
the
evil
and
when
girl.At
that
Light of Life
The
Star
glimpse
the
was
She
waving
may
have
the
formance?
per-
others
its
that
seemed
of
van
meeting of
lung-
Amad's
Light of
Life's
lively,converging
two
contact
they
house, yawning
almost
at
were
with
eager
before
them,
man
have
to
point of
the
at
to
the
she
moment
the
producing
young
slender
the
following
those
hospitality,loomed
the
show
to
vocal
row
and
street.
cross
the
this
all creation?
like the
was
currents,
a
it desire
mingled with
and
up
of
The
it choose
its stentorian
jealous
dominate
did
the
That
yelHng?
was
Why
for
it
leaving
ear-splittingmusic!
psychological moment
Was
their
Who
beast!
the
for
need
that ?
was
donkey!
BROADWAY
from
swept
was
sped
arms
been
had
of
like
an
and
on
his.
hands.
cross-road.
his
the next
and
horse
her
up
the
down
dervish
her
threw
and
saw
her
him
last
The
mother-in-law
animated
she
scarecrow.
so,
he
did
THE
it
hear
not
of
the
was
for
escort
now
their
head
the
of
for
soul,"
the
friends.
sped
for
on.
The
It
futilely;
Some
the
Star
velocity.
thus
not
muttered
man
young
do
"delight"
was
clatter.
and
but
them,
star
course,
215
noise
other
after
my
of
horse,
and
the
shooting
equine
all
came
"Delight
to
CAVALCADE
"
Arabs
speak
race,
kingly
his
tossed
but
to
away.
walk-
CHAPTER
XVI
VARYING
TO
dervish
the
credit
too
of
deed
of
the
Elf
beast
the
on
and
the
tell
hurtling
gone
turn
the
next
might
on
possess
best
on
thing.
terra
old
He
firma.
speak
to
had
they
of
palace
to
chantment,
en-
mountainside.
quite do
that
He
biplane.
into
quadruped
the
but
the
to
the
story
straightway
air
the
into
quadruped
a
and
fly
couldn't
dervish
transform
didn't
it to
in
horse,
thirty-eight
or
had
some
as
"
astonishing
horse
magical
all been
magical
the
on
that
through
set
But
In
Leyleh.
man
young
youth
magic
tales, eighty-three
magical
the
It had
as
easy
was
could
He
fortune.
as
It
that.
unbehevable.
almost
magical
than
more
was
good
own
was
the
of
one
his
It
easy.
it
unreal,
something
hardly
FORTUNES
wizard's
urged
And
216
the
couldn't
even
He
quadruplane.
art.
Star
for
couldn't
; he
So
along
a
mere,
did
he
as
best
the
he
ordinary,
ALADDIN
2i8
warmth!
FROM
He
had
BROADWAY
back
hold
to
words.
Not
to
keep it in
at
all.
And
wish
him
to
dear
to
He
flowers,
He
was
something,
and
real and
moment
seemed
she
"
least, imagine it
she
his,
were
always
"
had
iron
rode
the
as
He
had
that would
on
in
belong
so
was
his head
put
one
to
; he
to
in the
were
while,
stars
was
for
He
it
figure
touched,
"
him.
little
said it to
She
be
and
wished
and
suns
to
near
was
just for
not
long
as
There
whirl.
He
She
"proposition."
was
was
emotion.
real.
she
She
only just
puppet,
distant
was
was
Similes
could
came
She
star.
amazing
automaton,
an
He
mere
at
this
yield to
longer
no
as
If he
amazed.
it.
was
lovely
as
He
now.
one.
farce.
not
an
the
her
bitter-sweet
moment,
realization
inexpressibly. That
"
as
was
in
He
him
no,
"
lose
The
go.
cult
diffi-
In love ?
this very
to
the
could,
;
but
that
for
continued
himself,
golden yoke,
or
to
anyway.
it
was
chafe?
glamour.
He
was
no
at
felt
was
he.
not
Oh,
want
let her
to
blow
him.
smote
say
didn't
he
ever
like
sweet
as
be.
not
It
him.
was
didn't
It could
discovered
he
He
check.
He
not
merely
car-
FORTUNES
VARYING
ride
was
concentrating
one
big emotion,
a
into
one
scorching, too.
now.
All
Amad
He
long lashes
He
have
never
if he
it out,
face
belonged
Nothing could
to
it
make
place. The
"You
right. Nature
"Yes."
angry
and
at
came
He
himself
and
to
isted,
ex-
very
would
all wrong.
was
herself
an
open
cried
ket
mar-
messenger?"
spoke
for
almost
bruskly.
discovering in himself
affairs and
it
But
it. She
It
He
past!
set
knew
the
girl stirred.
that
were
face, with
could.
that other.
out
caused
What
became
he
jealous,and
was
touch
scorching
irrevocably. His
stern.
sunbeams
is sometimes
sweet
blotted
have
light,the
sweet?
the
looked
and
It
into
emotions
which
felt that
He
This
focus.
the
up
altogether sweet.
not
bitter with
or
was
of miracle
were.
to
myriad scattered
rather
would
it
as
magnifying-glass gathers
way
kind
certainlybringing matters
was
that
undergoing
was
rediscovering himself,
process,
219
make
them
an
intimate
in other
Was
this
he
new
people's
part of his
own
ALADDIN
220
being?
FROM
he
Was
annoyed
and
deringly but
that ?
at
explanations.
standing still,that
were
seemed,
hold
perhaps,
her
She
she
close
ness
busi-
him
at
He
Now
won-
hated
that
they
personal propinquity
He
so
closely,that
we
going?"
Slight
He
started.
Where,
quite
his
further.
stirred.
merely
of
none
looked
marked.
more
couldn't
all
was
explain
not
Again
he
that
it
say
did
he
BROADWAY
it
forgot
hardly
was
not
to
sary
neces-
now.
"Where
are
in
constraint
the
girl'stones!
"Where?"
he
had
just been
would
what
himself;
thorns
bloomed
"We
in his
can't
down
His
down.
soul,
go
spoke half
He
to
thoughts
by
brain,
or
her; half
place
were
were
to
too
and
blossomed
had
breast,
or
many
know
or
the
where.
some-
Star.'*
"Better
himself.
get
consider."
to
in
enjoying
were
They
like this.
on
here; good
Near
There
that
d'amour
rose
Here
little thought of
very
merely been
had
exactly that.
not
this
with
on
He
happen.
no,
on
riding
indeed?
camel
whirl,
stalls.
as
he
He
helped
led the
her
way
VARYING
to
At
fastened
and
one
least
"Do
FORTUNES
the
Star
the
place offered
refuge.
temporary
anything of
see
you
to
221
?"
them
she
ing
asked, look-
back.
"No.
felt
He
constraint.
What
heart
ridiculous
looked
like
at
eyes
situation
was
were
to
back
come
The
was
"Rather
for now."
enough
new
anomalous.
His
safe
We're
him
Apathy
no
What
reply.
part. At
her
on
this, after
remarked.
he
but made
like
matic
enig-
least, it seemed
apathy.
experienced
He
it,she acted
but
an
not
seem
ordinary
at
"Sorry
when
had
only remembered
heuse.
if
and
she
Women
she
did
had
spoken
that
and
or
Confound
being carried
commonplace
back
came
forgot
he
as
all excited
what
wondered
He
just
irresolution.
odd
an
episode.
disturbed,
She
exultant.
or
was
did
He
feel.
?" he
asked.
inclined
to
she
her
was
girlsare
her
figure toward
during
going
that
to
ride.
that
him
He
palatial
changeable. Perhaps
ALADDIN
222
become
had
she
That
FROM
"re."
didn't
He
reconciled
How
he
He
resented
despicable little
that's what
she
intervened.
that
She
She
bad, or
of
the
flourish
"I
like
bamboo
he
"Him."
Drawing
of his brain
old
"You
"Yes,
in
and
began
he
It
had
done
possible
was
to
had
make
the
of the strangeness
cynicism
shoot
to
and
up
tropicalclime.
himself
merchant's
She
I worked
back
the
not
bride.
bewildered.
him."
He
chamber
mandarah
vacant,
peopled with
young
for
in
"
house,
seemed
"Amad."
up.
picture
it,but
seen
her, his
did ?"
he
"
said.
still that
had
man
man
It
able,
miser-
remarried
that
her
let
asked.
was
diamond
was
do, when
to
speak easily,lightly,but
to
young
be
glad
hated.
fairly,or
superlativelygreat
she
the
To
"Who?"
strove
It
persuaded
itself.
him,"
saw
had
moment
insinuated
now
"re."
going
act
it
silent, thoughtful.
was
remarriage.
Yes,
met
word.
didn't
Light of Life
best of
He
the
been
had
that
to
it now!
hated
it hit him.
that.
BROADWAY
two
at
as
"
the
the
VARYING
He
looked
spoke
; it
is
whether
matter
people
It
monster.
illogical
very
"To
of
think
Him!"
You!
It
was
himself
over
He
ago.
The
let the
resented
given
he
as
such
have
hour
an
it
"
Then
her
Those
voice
or
flashed.
eyes
words,
She
so
that
seemed
to
to
She
perhaps, stung
heard
only
her
trol
con-
growl.
monster
nobody.
couldn't
perfect
half
had
had
he
mustahall,
him.
to
you
it,but
knew
to
seem
awake.
to
She
her.
He
girl started.
seemed
muttered.
didn't
He
It is
conclusions.
at
having married
their
ungenerous.
it.
help
he
jumps
It doesn't
not.
or
green
monster
has.
blame,
to
are
the
green
monster
in the
sat
and
picture.The
the green
way
monster
of his brain
the
at
223
green
in the back
glowered
monster
The
her.
at
little chamber
face
FORTUNES
say
voice
that
such
one
but
was
as
and
had
she
Her
"
burned.
horrible
"That
old
man!
Breathlessly, passionately.
really!
and
never
"What
!"
The
"
"Never!"
she
would
word
You
"But
think
I
never
that
I""
was!
"
"
be."
rang
out.
repeated. "It
is preposterous,
in-
ALADDIN
224
She
credible !"
It
him.
was
if he
as
daughter had
Her
voice
died
and
was
It
drew
It
"
If entranced.
her
"
"
the
place
"
formality. And
mere
!" he
scoundrel
old
"I
as
pretended
take
he.
and
then
"
"
listened
"The
be
he
and
to
was
to
see
there.
just died,
did not
Light of Life
"
"I
She
"
then
He
me
away.
him.
at
not
were
lied to
His
ceremony
look
did not
both
"They
BROADWAY
FROM
was
think
not
move.
laughed.
even
And
preposterous.
so
could
half breathed.
dagger.
my
He
then
vorced
di-
he
"
"
That
felt
He
now.
All?
all.
was
critical moment,
His
greater
he
heart
than
emotion
had
was
snatched
her
hammering
when,
at
the
from
away
them.
"
"But
back,
your
"
he
managed
You
his house?
to
mind
to
"
^to
make
expressed, he
"Made
up
softly,almost
arm,
my
to
say,
had
not,
riding
were
then, made
It
up
wardly
awk-
was
knew.
mind?"
mockingly.
The
"When
dropped something."
"Something?"
"you
sweet
you
lips
curved
touched
my
ALADDIN
2^
FROM
BROADWAY
"No, no."
He
glad of
was
After
all she
The
have
His
endured
old green
far into
so
to
had
that
Amad's
Not
continued
words
dream
on
No,
Their
be
to
Damascus,
I.
can
had
had
means.
to
"We've
mean.
You
There
emphasize
Star is too
The
Did
brain.
he mustn't
It
he
dwell
to
sider.
con-
than
more
was
with
what
tended
in-
was
was
got
plans, or
to
to
before
mental
go
as
back
and
of
process
we
as
that
to
something
well
now,
then
stopped ;
tell her
get out," he
to
it to himself
well-known
time
no
He
of
get out
to
got
the reason."
interrupt the
"We've
seemed
been!"
had
now
said.
partiallyformulated
to
tired
re-
practicallook.
formulate
to
he
practicalmatters
her
ingly.
ador-
hilaration
irresponsibleex-
But
situation?
at
that
his
dream.
were
Tell you
reconsidered.
He
in
gazed
here," he
"See
nor
vibrate
no
her
at
emotion.
other
"never
present
precarious. He
"
to
angel
an
by this time
almost
And
long. There
it too
this
that
it was
gazed
had
odd,
wife!
was
chamber
dark
An
succeeded
He
monster
the
vanished.
"wife"
now.
those
had
pened
hapand
ways
repeated, as
to
he
if
can't ride up
to
the
VARYING
gate,
or
notice
You
of
one
he
had
the
said
to
exit
an
Jove,
By
Jove"
Allah
not
by.
look
227
"
one
near
I'll have
Anyhow,
exits.
No
stay here.
over
FORTUNES
Maybe
and
she
"I've
got it
And
I'll go
out.
get
can
we
around
did
"
how
see
ters
mat-
stand."
"But"
the
"
I must
mean
"Only for
dark
eyes
remain
here
few
moments."
should
"Why
"Wouldn't
"Then
I not
it will
"Not
for
be
Of
away.
didn't
he
That
"Don't
back
to
me
hastily.
she
not
few
"
moment
then
he
air.
Dangers
tore
be
would
for your
himself
did
not
exist.
alone.
see
He
"Not
"I'll be
her.
reassured
beauty of
away.
it
drove
be left there
that
sake," he added
the sheer
thrill shot
I will
minutes.
eyes
apprehensive; if
be
"
he
Her
immediately
agreeable
worry,"
of
kind
you
in
"
answered
modesty
course,
would
you?"
Another
But
come
"you
"
dangerous?"
one," he
him.
through
with
danger"
apprehensive.
were
him
on
alone?"
go
The
do.
lingered
her
nothing happens
with
eyes
seemed
Amad's
laugh.
held
him,
walking
"
not
on
"
"
low
the
For
shadow
herself.
to
time
some
Then
must
continued
she
to
moved
"A
few
have
seemed
gaze
in the
For
Star
found
he
on
direction
period
No
silence!
Only
that
more
exit
be.
veins.
dread
same
the
city,or
smoldering fire
She
could
this time.
Still she
bandit,
dervish, she
was
ventured
or
the stall.
stir.
Behind
of the
did
gate,
whatever
see
he
without.
moved
burn
still.
not
fodder
once
toward
imagined it
to
stand
drew
to
looked
she
seemed
not
She
where
or
him
was,
"
she
Now
brows
from
She
and
as
also.
not
sound
sight.
gone.
quietly at titbits of
ground.
How
passed
Her
did
exit
"
must
in her
now
She
the
ventured
farther,
"
^this adventurer,
only
no
holy
sure.
farther ; how
way
door-
in
was
returned
she
like
the
had
he
said.
had
he
munched
the
one
time
long
open
passed.
No
the
across
moments
hesitated, then
considerable
her, the
moved
of
motionless
in that direction
moments,"
together. She
she
now
littleway
stood
market
side
that
she
The
better.
see
of
flanking
structures
space.
What
him
girlwatched
The
BROADWAY
FROM
ALADDIN
228
know.
FORTUNES
VARYING
Then
suddenly
brought
home
with
and
those
she
didn't
back
to
look
of
It
!"
was
she
and
stem
voice
If
was
only she
her, he
might
rioters,
or
seemed
others
not
He
rather
get
eyes
the
gazed
upon
her
through
His
square.
face
where
when
He
had
gate,
with
gone
he had
by.
and
Arab
one
There
of
the
whisky.
a-looting. Amad
was
her
joined her
gone
to
exclamation.
an
returned
had
the
caused
ear
glorious news.
the
probably
no
very
remained
had
overcome
He
not
terriblydisappointed on
news,
at
air.
could
she
as
suppress
looters, had
guards
had
her
easily have
at
could
he
began
near.
leading into
;
steps
torch
into her
came
creature
almost
but
There
wild
She
do.
to
now.
people drawing
narrow
to
what
hunted
"Quick
turn,
know
her
her
saw
and
man's
watch-
or
in the
played
was
behind
retraced
carrying the
of flame
him
the stall
have
fellow
it. Ribbons
wave
these
would
voices
shealeh,
a.
"
the
hurriedly,when
realization
or
heard
spark!
She
torch!
to
She
her.
to
around.
looked
realized,
she
229
count.
ac-
left
these
come
were
two
The
had
ALADDIN
230
reached
yet
not
FROM
back
as
might
two,
this
by
this
turned
that
to
to
get
he
into
be
he
tell
out
glanced
had
her.
of
tened
has-
They,
the
city
the
toward
others.
indicated
darted
could
now?
those
He
and
able
this
could
"
and
"Come!"
he
as
But
All
quarter.
been
have
gate.
watchman
best
soon
BROADWAY
done.
the
the
narrow
side
way.
They
street.
It
was
the
CHAPTER
THE
HE
it.
a
ended
in
Streets
habit
of
into
after
her
street
GRAVEYARD
turned
soon
here
an
him.
He
them
had
the
been
The
house
same
as
was
many
of
the
of
were
mud
brick, or
been
the
The
and
the
leading
would
to
the
low
second
quickly, motioning
her
the
and
he
listening.
closed
There
was
story
up
this
follow.
to
bolted
a
would
door,
possibilitythe
231
as
dervish
She
ly
fair-
stairway
looked
the
as
have
been
had
charred.
woodwork
hard
as
flames
interior,however,
of
those
dwellings,
almost
the
as
and
looted
Damascus
become
top
of
from
damage
greater.
gutted
had
that
been
district,had
class
poorer
^had
"
they entered,
well
in that
narrow
expecting
or
"
ing
draw-
doorway,
open
Before
pocket.
doing that.
others
XVII
did
then
man
so.
it
if
went
At
stood
with
ALADDIN
232
the torch
But
those
and
that
possibilitywas
doubt
they
had
they had.
dervish
That
to
some
thought he knew
them.
He
for
the
speculation, however,
now
entered.
that
the
the
wall
not
greatly improved
in
He
room
alone
act
do her
the
he
as
feared
he
strove
what
to
those
to
had
below
him, noting
slit in
narrow
had
They
ing
turnchanged
ex-
These
She
fellows
their
do
holy
cost
resentment
little for
him.
he
would
must
it
he
was
He
upon.
henceforth;
her
would
She
must
of his Nemesis,
the presence
speak steadily;
words
words.
vent
could
few
tell her.
would
saddler, among
they desired
fellows
trap.
bodily harm
no
for
apparently been
had
man
young
ring;
little time
window.
the
desperate situation by
now
he
had
that
and
for
served
the
for
The
small
caused
familiar
glanced hastilyaround
was
here;
else insisted
one
had
tones
he
expressed
one
some
served
ob-
not
Soon
else's voice
one
Those
start.
Some
in here ;
turned
had
realized.
not
the entrance.
near
him
accompanying
enter.
voices
had
BROADWAY
them
heard
he
FROM
not
let her
get into
see
com-
ALADDIN
"34
from
the
FROM
unequal
affairs turn
defense
the
intervene
long between
regarded his
He
him
and
began
to
like the
was
feel
with
plaster mingled
breathe.
Why
little more
enter?
not
looked
again, to
of
was
eyes.
Dust
of
hard
to
did
these
waited,
then
into
open
Why
this time
out
gaze
It
she
moment
her
doom.
smoke.
terest.
in-
ing
yield-
mere
girlclosed
the end ?
it not
was
people
the
dervish
The
them.
crack
him.
It wouldn't
sound
girl;he
unnerve
now.
the
weapon
the
at
would
look
the door
these
certainlyrather
was
didn't
at
were
his stool.
swung
and
moment
sight of her
fellows
The
ruefully. He
afraid
was
contest
differently. He
out
skeptical at the
of
BROADWAY
an
space.
Had
karameh,
The
dervish
was
the
way
when
looked
in
was
not
miracle
Now
stood
he
the
surrounded
as
perfumed.
had
for
by
of
venders
poor
they burned
brazier
worker
miracle, been
or
little
stage effect.
performed?
vapor.
perfumed
stool instead
him
miracles
street
But
That
thing
some-
this vapor
And
of
this
wand.
GRAVEYARD
THE
fiercely.Then
threshold
and
He
some
the
to
saw
(the stairs
that
up
she
floor
endeavoring
one
was
on
which
was
ground
Sadi, and
his
features
he
rage ; next
dervish
The
usefulness,
the less
or
from
the boot.
It seemed
His
foot
used
his
That
became
bruises
as
from
noise;
or
less
no
upon
for
and
bigotry
but he
vent
and
preferred
of
ings.
his feelfootball
thunderbolt, and
was
it and
suffered
had
the
succeeded
still
others, however,
the
few
that
by ceasing
these
to
in true
howl
they
scratches, when
functions
Christian
The
doubt
peaceful home,
wonted
The
not.
him.
indignity heaped
or
heavy stool
back
swung
saddler
made
the
give better
like
silence
with
sphere of
by
distorted
ignominious, method
more
to
had
some
were
uselessness, forever
sanguinary,if
That
below.
his
of
not
howl.
might have
Sadi
removed
so
emitted
and
"
the
"
he didn't
But
parabola
pull himself
to
stood.
they
in
disappeared)
have
to
the
clinging to
one
to
choosing
one
some
seemed
indulged instead
own
235
active
to
more
perform
its
antagonists of
domesticity.
young
man
was
now
busy
at
the roof
and
the
ALADDIN
236
became
stool
there's
In
Damascus
been
few
fire
his
to
the lower
to
the
and
orchard.
the
the
an
ing,
open-
moments
second
his
down
reached
more,
roof
story
an
in
stood
He
made
few
slanting
peaceful
breathed
It
agreeable transition.
attained
In
when
rafters.
tile and
had
it and
through
of
the
dervish
companion.
one
ground
weaken
the
descended
having
It isn't hard
especially
house,
to
moments
lifted himself
hands
BROADWAY,
wrecking implement.
wreck
to
FROM
if
as
they
garden that
enchanted
Here
deeply.
was
cot
pretty apri-
and
an
was
had
last
at
the
with
went
magical horse.
He
looked
He
now.
her
if to
as
there.
No
reflected
make
doubt
disregarded
she
sure
from
"
princess with
from
smudge
her
on
the
story
The
tion
injunc-
didn't, he
looked
yes!
"
"
looked
over-
course,
her
at
really and
that
truly
faint
yellowish clouds
sullen
the
He
was
and
it!
his
princess, of
caprices.
slight smudge
variation
if he
about
in his eyes
sternness
stall,or
own
light
a
had
disobedience.
obeys only
was
she
forgot
her
showed
princess,no
and
long,
his
at
cheek.
books.
young
man
That, too,
Fancy
chuckled.
THE
He
rather
her
about
or
just
her
to
fine
in
walking
way,
he
feelingof comradeship.
some
one
it behooved
him
was
well,
yes,
Incidentally
it wouldn't, and
was,
to
as
thief."
"horse
for
the
as
For
hug
stately
were
to
They
were
the
good enough
he
up
were
the
stairs?"
you
she
was
the
and
"
tented
fairlycon-
was
hugged
the
fleeting
can't,linguistically
one
"
small
ha'pence and
for
"What
only
what
He
double-, treble-,or
princess!
young
him
They
"
culty
only diffi-
The
abductor,
an
He
moment.
enced
experi-
quickly as possible;
as
respons
ir-
garden, which, by
leave
well
of
he
couldn't, last.
else's
trespasser
she knew
state
own
an
stand-
away
his
tell
It seemed
wave
nearer
vagabondage.
a
there.
didn't
whether
irresistibly,
shade
He
smudge.
imperiousness,
to
not,
that
237
let it stay
He
offishness,to draw
it
in
gloried
it.
antidote
GRAVEYARD
breast.
one's
to
is to
coin
farthings
of
miser.
bliss
"
beggar.
saying
asked
when
those
suddenly
as
people
they
came
walked
rapidly on.
"Never
at
her.
mind
now,"
he
"Fortunately,it
answered,
doesn't
looking down
matter."
ALADDIN
238
"You
were
"Yes.
With
When
BROADWAY
with
angry
"Angry?
could
FROM
In
you?"
found
you
me?"
little haughtily.
surprise.
left the
I had
stall!
it."
see
"You
be mistaken."
must
the
at
"
"What"
The
smudge.
"
smiled
drew
discover
you
olously
friv-
rather
girl'sbrows
"did
abruptly
"
He
gether.
to-
the
at
exit?"
"Not
much."
"Many
guards?"'
"No"
a."
"Fewer
than
imperious.
you
She
voice
divined, perhaps, he
was
was
more
trying
to
her.
"Maybe."
"We
could
"Hard
to
have
got out?"
tell what
evasively.
Allah!"
His
"What
were
"
could
well,
have
I'm
no
done," he
swered
an-
prophet.
By
suddenly changed.
is it?"
"Look!"
She
voice
"I
we
quickly.
Hoarsely.
gazed
now
back
in the direction
bursting from
indicated.
Flames
they
GRAVEYARD
THE
fellows
had
in the
girl could
might
look
not
in the
"Devils!"
But
act ?
his
Her
life
the
see
would
The
did
It behooved
Faster
"
now
it. He
they groped
might.
He
realized.
And
urged her
low
helped
and
her
over
stumbled
did not
ask
her
had
manner.
It must
later?
vestiga
also, probably inthat
his worst
then ?
"
to
from
here.
enchanted
den
gar-
get away
Their
on.
stone
of
have
least.
; that
show
would
have
must
senses.
would,
he
circumstance
ominous
graveyard.
from
closed.
bride-to-be
at
know
of his
them, indeed,
he
he
could
saddler
not
his search
not
were
the
was
in Sadi's eyes,
recover;
and
fears
fists
her
sacred
was
him
steely
he
girl with
"
was
His
had
desire to
what
eyes.
had
why
"
wealthy relative.
no
shudder, thinking
muttered.
Sadi ?
concluded
bustibles
com-
The
set
man's
young
he
He
their
been
have
heaped
fire to them.
and
repress
have
must
below
room
239
ended
!
"
fence
and
for
forward
if she
abruptly
"
^at
separated them
some
as
were
moments
best
afraid
they
of
ALADDIN
240
iblees,or
haunt
FROM
other
dread
BROADWAY
spiritsthat
that
she
Yet
supernatural.
?
Phantoms
earth
It
not.
was
Some
girl must
frankly glad,
fingers. He,
at
other
Those
One
close
her
on
One
to
or
her
She
arm.
gripping
warm
flesh
ghostly things?
theyf
away.
moved
was
the
feel the
rate,
any
of
were
ran
his hand
to
granted
think
to
up
have
to
too,
it for
What
bob
to
them.
time
no
seemed
stayed. The
two
was
took
yonder?
They
confront
to
He
supposed
are
blood.
and
of
them
now
spoke.
It
rather
or
"
The
was
girl
relief to
had
their
too,
long
They
but
white
from
make
out
beard
and
the
reason
others.
wanted
soon
newcomers
question. The
dervish
laugh;
nervous
the
speaker
seemed
to
now;
resent
Yes, they,
Not
only
from
Grudging phantoms
graveyard
it
it sounded
answered.
become
been
the
tives.
fugi-
were
voice, though
dervish
the
apparently
The
Had
quick
that
could
they, too,
fugitives. Grumblings!
were
the one,
if
gave
The
coming.
asked
"
hear
She
querulous.
he
he
all to
selves.
them-
manifest.
followed,
replied in the
was
the next
affirmative.
ALADDIN
242
FROM
I
inexplicably
or
"
wasted
the
BROADWAY
it seemed
so
precious moments
He
her.
to
in apparently
indulge
to
superfluous conversation-
It
even
certainly
was
mysterious.
"But
more
statement
make
it
idly.
It
might
of
But,
than
not
harm
she
he
did
She
would
it
might
quick glance
they had
died
left.
The
He
moment.
at
first.
shoulder
his
over
That
out.
her
to
seem
glow
mad,
or
cast
the house
toward
might be
the others
meant
Again he
from
the
see
not
amenable.
girl were
be.
would
was
in his mind.
framing
was
feasible if the
course,
It
question,and
purpose
prove
you?"
almost
here
any
vehement
answer,
"Not
been
to
harm?"
driven
Had
from
post?
Had
And
their
they
had
have
not
may
will want
from
entertainment
with
their
sessions
pos-
hastily,
answered
dervish
Anyhow,"
of
pillar
fled?
not
not," the
more
from
And
lost many
they
strollers,not
poor
lodgings?
not
would
perhaps, if they
"Perhaps
they, the
quick
remember
you
shift of
in the
tone,
they
ture.
fu"as
GRAVEYARD
THE
^4$
I have
fugitivesshould help fugitives,
ask."
to
"A
favor ? From
? God
us
in Israel ! Why
should
grant favors?"
we
it will
"Because
crisply. As
back.
But
he
"They
me
He
"
with
in whose
any
"You
tell
us
yet
He
The
patriarch drew
He
was
youths
both
not
fortified
and
the
"We
and
to
us?"
likes company,
why
do
half wailed
go
hard
The
patriarch
you
it at last.
difficult to
And
looked
and
read
his
at
thought.
effeminate-looking
two
this fellow
appeared
dangerous.
well
stay, and
"But
?"
in his breath
by but
might just as
misery
would
the others.
got
women.
formidable
hang, draw
"
found."
am
"
is nothing
off!"
!"
was
me
fancy, too, it
that, and
condition
It
with
"On
his band.
"There
shrugged.
off!" exclaimed
be
you.
do
answered
gazed quickly
more
company
fairlygasped. "Be
"Yes,
once
like to
quarter! And
and
good policy," he
spare
may
"
for
as
be
spoke he
they wouldn't
as
slightfavor
you
wish
the old
went
on
be
taken
here
coolly."Since
know!"
to
man.
bring misfortune
upon
ALADDIN
244
"I
do
FROM
wish
not
consider.
to
took
on
I have
certain
And
own.
she
that, and
with
closer
he
The
as
only
fervor
antagonistic. He
"What's
him
belongs
The
might
girl started
she?
it
"
"As
if
!"
robbed
"But
we
had
He
raised
this will
hand
was
drew
and
too
prietary
pro-
madman
the
did
he
only chance,"
said
he
The
thoughts.
her
protested mightily.
be
resist.
then, aloud
did.
The
others
"
crowded
of
one
"For
"Look
he
He
See."
ring from
And
heaven.
to
robbery,"
pay.
voce.
sufficiently
already been
his hands
not
surprised to
placed
patriarch regarded
reading
not
"We
livelier tone.
little
clearly,concisely, and
"Our
tone,
patriarch,however,
The
"
madness.
low
slightlyaway.
get rid of
to
What?
now.
ufos
in
her
to
?"
say
looked
it
stated
dared
real, stepping
have
even
the condition
dervish
protect his
He
sounded
voice
startled,luminous,
were
sourly. Anything
me."
girl drew
her ; he
on
His
must
man
to
that
The
eyes
hand
"A
folk
women
your
wife!"
My
warmth.
spoke.
wonderful
^you have
"
mine.
she
"
BROADWAY
her
your
at it !"
around.
in
insisted
took
the
girl's
fingers.
sake
The
!"
She
Sotto
patriarch
"Hurry,"
said
GRAVEYARD
THE
"or
dervish,
the
"It
is
short
cemetery
last
be
time
the
time
by
the
stone
later,
main
too
late."
said
As
the
toward
bargain,"
that
meant
the
for
glanced
it will
2.1.5
he
apricot
patriarch.
the
spoke,
he
orchard.
Which
good.
was
an
old
entrance
and
man
on
the
boy
other
left
side.
the
CHAPTER
AT
outward
ON
in
known
and
too
off
the
proud
its
folds
just
the
oval
also
concealed
the
customary
musical
she
supposed
was
attracted
progress
met
stepped
and,
forward
no
arrived
boldly
in
to
Her
especial
at
as
246
the
if
taking
from
the
it
to
Their
kanoon.
attention
gate,
carried
class
the
came
she
of
set
eyes
cloak
hand
belong,
boy,
romantic
instrument
his
at
turban
bright
dark
her
hurry.
handsome
hair.
well
were
looked
man
the
in
if
as
was
her
and
knees
conditions
youth's
and
still
figures
old
Here
A
face
Aboo-Zeydee,
walked
two
disappeared
yet
where
seemingly
handsome.
below
which
they
They
Allah
By
almost
not
were
localities
the
companion.
pupils
his
certain
Occasionally
had
civilization.
unchanging.
most
resembled
they
that
types
Mohammedan
poet-reciter,
GATE
THE
appearance
romantic
from
XVIII
for
old
any
man
granted
THE
AT
be
they would
GATE
permitted
to
247
A
out.
pass
guard,
promptly intervened.
however,
"Have
permit
to
leave?"
you
you
"No."
"Then
"But
have
we
entertain
an
folk.
country
in
engagement
the
must."
We
to
country
The
old
man
spoke vigorously.
"It is
impossible."
"This
is
we
are
to
can
see
who
You
"Yes,
swept
extraordinary in
We
As
The
them.
can't
he
"Of
Why
course.
"Because"
The
and
let you
"Thanks!"
do
the dervish
you
fine-lookingboy
of
out
now
held
ask?"
I'll do."
what
surmised,
expression became
"We'll
with
player?"
fellow, as
His
"That's
gaze
good
his
eye
back
disappointthem.
girl bore
she
Is he
ding
wed-
clear-eyedsteadiness, though
yours.
are."
we
see."
can
over
attend.
It is
case.
our
stretch
"
"
Eagerly.
orders
had
somewhat
a
trifle in
Abruptly.
been
ing.
drink-
tured.
good-nayour
case,
FROM
ALADDIN
248
fellow, "if
the
is," added
"That
BROADWAY
you
for the
pay
privilege!"
How
"Pay!
with
with
"And
do
"These
for
out
around.
partaking
of
"Make
it
short
To
shall
look
for
here."
They, too,
enliven
of
the
seemed
us.
guard.
Shall
we
assented,
been
have
to
beverage.
hastily,"thougfi
said
dervish
late if
be
to
others
Arabic
shall
we
Yawning.
enough.
The
song?"
others
harmless
tale,"the
the
insidious
the
one,
piasters. You
little entertainment
say?"
crowding
pay,
It's tiresome
people
two
reciters be able to
in
pay
song!
you
them
let
mean
need
we
What
don't
a
poor
expensive!"
living so
"Oh,
pay
should
delay here
we
long."
too
"No,
you,
old
been
won't
voice
It's the
hard
working
him
for the
boy
all
sing
any
your
He"
he has
it is late.
It
The
dervish
that
low
It would
of
hear."
is tired.
more.
from
not
any
evening, and
wedding."
soldiery?
want
would
we
Hastily. "He
boy?"
have
don't
We
And
want.
we
song
graybeard.
croakings.
"The
it's
no;
hemently.
protested ve-
riff-raff of
be
key
Tur-
impossible for
FROM
ALADDIN
2SO
of
imitation
that
at
know
an
old man,
and
in
the
refrains.
came
"
it
what
and
rose
him
to
in order
of
be
to
not
he
pretending
exertions, he
in
of
the
grove,
bird
with
received
ought not;
it
unresolved.
But
had
one
The
He
afraid
just
It
and
if
as
was
it
where
minor
some
he
might
not
was
look
didn't
He
to
It
glamour.
him.
sprang
something
or
rock.
off the
was
He
enough.
with
least to
croak,
traditional
end
to
the end.
at
use
occasional
something
on
was
threw
dervish
wonderful,
now.
it
didn't
spots, the
seemed
song
stopped
the
was
own
The
kind.
the
though
impression of moonlight
an
shimmering
thorn
croak
to
his
they seemed
if he
parenthetically, between
but
That
does.
it; what
aboo
an
not
his voice
in it.
what
had
of
left out
did
sometimes
He
was
He
made
he
that's
moment.
imitation
poor
tremolo
it
passion;
"
that
at
wonderful
nightingale!
rather
for
pass
with
was
tremble; he put
might
BROADWAY
appear
very
at
her
gruff
started
for
the exit.
"And
and
now
waved
you've had
an
your
song
imperious hgtnd
toward
her.
Thus
'He
felt in
half
dream
aboo-Fashion
as
on
mechanically
the
earth
"
he
squatted
THE
AT
do
services
His
We've
to
got
here !"
He
with
located
by
the
"
on
he,
do
to
man,
And
to
there
to
all of
him
rivers.
old
For
paradise of
sudden.
farcical
horseback.
The
Elysium.
indignant, but
He
dervish
her
came
he
Instead, he
Some
of
watered
and
back.
changed
looked
that
He
his
at
he
dashing
out
soldiers
(to him)
was
mind
the
perienced
ex-
dashed
had
almost
The
Eden,
last.
of
was
Think
moment
one
semblance
yet in.
between
the
It didn't
dom
free-
was
Garden
real actual
dizzy sensation.
given
all intents
them?
with
bona-fide
genuine
the
in the
two
pear
ap-
paradise!
It occurred
same
up.
to
"Hold
or
old
had
her!
up"
what
"
ents.
par-
love-throbs
"
peremptorily. Out
Tramps
wanted
^moonlight
More
the Bible.
it!
sea
an
Yes; by Allah,
of
the
the
"Hurry
He
tyrant.
"
purposes
"Come."
boys
fooling around
more
Nightingales
beating of
and
bruskly:
No
like
seemed
so.
like the
said
go.
the
around
purchased from
they have
gesture
251
order
peremptorily
masters
whose
GATE
about
for
newcomer
up
of the
promptly
ble
irrefutato
the
wax
ment.
mo-
and
ALADDIN
252
continued
bolt
it
look
to
for the
FROM
and
Alas!
exit?
they weren't
about
pearl
These
other
enacted
blackguards
for
weapons
would
for
have
later
been
fourteenth
The
the
of
dervish
horseman
sword.
was
The
conversation
and
inconsistent, as
well
with
(or so)
firearms.
to
"
the
dervish
seemed
was
dread
to
far
It
inexpedient,
his
century
himself.
He
not
now
pupil
(or so)
like anachronism.
glanced
paradise.
angel with
from
their
but
and
be
him
Fortuny
"
as
It would
waited,
proper
serviceable.
aboo
twentieth
sighed
quite
them
at
century
century
trivial,
though it
"More
dab
girl and
rels
bar-
with
nonchalantly and
they appeared
twentieth
brand
guns
mother-of-
with
ornamental;
canvas,
try conclusions
to
had
the
enjoyed
were
inlaid
leaned
weapons
themselves,
have
long,
desert
the
picturesquelyupon
would
soldiers
Those
useless,non-sanguinary ingredients.
of
sons
feet
they
he
"
Should
dyer!
blunderbusses, either,
twelve
and
The
him.
at
was
BROADWAY
the
at
That
flaming
patiently.
The
inconsequential,
that.
the
guard.
is
"Everybody
then
is from
dyer, handing
at
deeper
the
of
traces
magistrate," said
oleaginous
placid,
so
of
into
his
fellow
Truly Allah
was
having
come
from
of
Life
and
gettingthe
at
the
perspiration from
toward
swept
with
the
it is thus
"So
idle
along
others.
of
some
his
the
It is human
minating
cul-
dust
to
on
viper of
the
The
dyer
had
satellite
His
brow.
long
not
between
scene
it, the
ago
Light
latter
was
left. Now,
wiped
grouchy
the
glance
dervish.
you
vagabonds?"
of
and
thrown
had
he
patron.
of it when
remembrance
the
ingenious audacity. He
and
his revered
worst
not
introduced
new
led him
and
unpleasant
very
this
eyes,
busy night ;
very
had
he
had
he
his
judgment
unparalleled malignity
and
new
blinded
had
of his
the heart
whom
Thus
disaster!
if
the
nance,
counte-
in
actions
this
showed
As
worry.
suffered
sufficiently
fortress."
the
at
His
paper.
time
one
general
chief
the
253
sending them.
magistrate and
"This
GATE
THE
AT
The
ill-humor
nature
dyer
he
to
had
do
so.
tried
endured
merry
to
pass
from
ALADDIN
254
"What
harm
"Besides,
"You
have
we
has
diamond
Amad
the
of such
bosom
"A
but the
he
the
"And
"The
are
him
smite
guilty
in the background.
pricelesspearl
not
the
to
the
said
to
magistrate
the
letter,"answered
the
to
of
still in the
yourselves !"
the
she
With
whom
city. They
Special orders
have
importantly.
fellow.
must
been
frown
vagabond-reciter
and
will find
you
soldier
out."
are
approvingly,
guard
hear.
to
from
the
carried
they
scoundrel
leave.
the
prayer!" said
look
direction
ther
far-
rightful owner."
the
the message
"To
rich
the
girl stood
the dervish
restore
dyer seemed
that
One
Compassionate
full instructions,"he
"See
of
of
shadow.
"May
good
bride-to-be
?"
scoundrel
Bitterly. The
!" muttered
of
guard.
Ahl-Masr."
crime
read
you
some
off the
true."
in the
"May
that
states
carried
even
back
"In
finger. "Have
merchant,
is
the
paper
Christian
?" retorted
admonitory
"This
BROADWAY
littlemusic
"
will need
fat and
"It
FROM
he
not
and
has
be
in the
his
boy.
carried
suffered
despatched to
off
to
all
ALADDIN
256
he
was
FROM
frequent visitor
might accidentally
veil their eyes
and
The
musical
the
ground.
very
small
Why
did
The
the
dyer
Suddenly
the
down
and
trailed
small.
or
up
And
not
Joy followed
would
smell
an
dyer struck
a
"
or
"a
tried
old fellow
of Eden!
or
to
"Well, what
lashes
any
are
fingers to
hand;
fine and
it
was
shapely!
Probably
termina
in-
you
in
was
turned
But
out.
It
vanished
once
testy and
appear
Genneh,
name
and, bobbing
nag
accustomed
he
of the country.
El
her
disappeared
put
floweringplace."
paradise,by
with
her
his
not
man
going. As
his
the odors
stole
two
like
girl. He
from
so
not
gotten.
easily for-
something?
say
activities,he
strenuous
be
stood
light touched
too
second
girl. She
instrument
"
do
Women
not
He
Her
The
house.
held
the
at
eyes
would
eyes
dervish
sidelong look
down-bent.
her
Amad's
to
those
or
"
but
BROADWAY
in
the
night.
like
an
relevan
ir-
more
to
crusty,
as
fancy he could
Paradise!
according
all the
such
to
to
same.
The
des
Gar-
the Arabic
A
"
rose,
She
responded with
She
arose
she
eyes.
them,
and
the
still did
fellows
"Can't, after
passionate
make
not
for
way
is
us
the
to
guard.
didn't
"
in
demanded
"That
master!"
somewhat
I can't."
sheepishly, "but
but
let
to
exclaimed
testily,
warm,
in dark
that!
"
more
dervish
than
"Coming,
"
mockery
soldiers
25Jr
alacrity. More
occasion, and
the
to
GATE
THE
AT
chill
His
just anger.
quite true,
voice
sounded
him.
over
ran
the
song?"
get your
you
if I had
and
we
"
my
way
"A
"I
dare
"
but
know,
disobey
not
before, but
"What
to
does
conceal
him.
no
one
might
have
El
say?"
the
The
turbulent
Grenneh?
orders
new
made
"
tion
excep-
an
"
dervish
strove
emotions
was
it
that
receding
mirage?
all others
and
city to-night.
This
countermands
shall leave
these
"
now."
of
evidence
order
the paper
them, like
"This
paper
them.
not
surged through
from
this
the
decrees
applies
already been
signed by
the
BROADWAY
Even
only Christians.
all,not
to
FROM
ALADDIN
258
issued
less
no
not
are
be
to
have
recognized, unless
than
person
permits that
the
of
governor
province himself."
"Surely
"
demand
again
it would
is tyranny
that
In
"
voice.
louder
He
avail.
not
quite needless
"
had
dire
But
and
"
knew
he
foreknowledge
that effect.
to
"Spare
for
the
tossed
several
"A
to
will
What
"One
bent
"
act
with
the
not
began
"A
of
said
once
me?
the
of horsemen,
be
mistaken,
yet he had
and
"
his gaze
was
not
one
now,
preceded by
he, of whom
fellows
two
approaching.
comes
to
What?""
guard,
seen
The
engagement?
street, where
narrow
words?
were
broken
Then
more.
drumming,
were
part.
torches, could
am
he
the dervish
But
ground.
avail
what
think
they
number
he
"
Of
moment,"
down
piasters." And
lie there.
his temples
continue
the
on
coppers
his head.
pulses on
few
are
soldier's word
bowed
if I
here
song,
let them
but
your
"Yonder,
we
were
speaking."
The
kanoon
fell from
the
girl'shand
; the
pupils
AT
of
left
her
her
seemed
eyes
one
the
of
"No,
one
be
so
too
Amad!
to
There
259
dilate,
was
not
can
the
dervish
gan
be-
"
don't
"A
guard.
rank
his
word
and
no!"
and
stay
you
in
The
his
dervish
did
"
"
finish
not
bother
He
affairs
great
own
The
hurriedly
heels.
trailed
words
from
the
off
exit,
he
as
with
from
be
we
time?
called
might
should
such
at
him?"
that
you
"Why
and
to
powers
and
position,
illustrious,
"
the
to
Hastily.
concerned
appeal
would
to
the
"
his
it.
of
retreat.
in
at
color
doubt
The
out
get
and
no
"
we
"Why
out
GATE
suddenly
cheek.
"Since
to
THE
started
the
terested
in-
be
tence.
sen-
what
some-
girl
close
CHAPTER
NEAR
HAD
and
guard
in
concerned
could
they
undue
The
two.
of
out
joints
and
outjutting
he
side.
Like
face
more
fury
the
flash
evil
and
need
oiling.
rode
mask
in
diabolical
while
the
r26o
His
had
He
and
the
night,
never
ing
differ-
was
to
of
shadow
up,
an
diamond
by,
girl
mask
glowed
even
to
they
concentrated
persistency
eyes.
rather
and
The
soon.
drawing
expression,
peripatetic
approach.
the
And
somewhat
the
his
back,
past.
approach,
dignity,
of
him,
cially
espe-
precipitancy
reached
with
yellow
of
too
none
quickly
a
that
and
to
he
those
stepped
Amad's
with
house
note
manner
seem
it was,
and
merchant,
the
not
as
man's
to
age
been
great
departure
his
from
did
now
the
displayed
with
keeping
hurry,
the
dervish
decidedly
as
in
celerity
soldiers
the
failed
have
not
CITADEL
THE
the
not
XIX
his
saw
set
ness,
keen-
from
NEAR
The
dervish
cold.
were
her
close
them
THE
felt his
His
arm
whether
only
of
caution
of black
It
along
it now,
From
the
said
of
words
he
"
of
wall
projected
of black.
them,
see
to
the
! He
He
That
and
then
tried
to
he
thoughts
to
to
think, but
not
any
suffered
Amad's
angle
might
it and
tinued
con-
but
was
best, that
almost
"
"
far in any
be
to
him
rude
afar
felt he
walking
seem
on
wall.
the
his
crous
ludi-
given
stop.
purpose.
insufficiencyweighed
had
He
only just so
he had
did
they stole
an
from
eyes
inevitable, at
move
little strip
bon
feet, intersectingthe rib-
ineffectual, and
puny,
could
down-bent,
his
passion,or
disagreeable.Now
sharp
the
per
whis-
low
possibleto
as
Whither?
with
felt her
several
on.
were
direction
in
of
front
He
temporizing
efforts
in
out.
know.
near
Though
move
pressing
shadow
something
not
keeping as
direction
the
if she
as
now,
encouragement,
did
their
was
shiver
her
little way
before
was
but
extended
261
companion
wall, for
the
to
CITADEL
able
shock.
to
of
sense
like
with
now
lead.
It
her
marshal
his
His
own
timism
op-
really mat-
ALADDIN
262
little which
tered
and
gates
Only by
of
means
governor?
BROADWAY,
they
way
all
were
himself,
them
specialpermit from
the
they get
that
them
could
hope
to
attain
was
no
time
them
there
"
In
here.
his
now?
their
How
had
them.
served
found
them.
holy
dervish
have
vanished
But
to
Could
she
eyes?
spy
and
Oh,
no;
and
those
watch
not
to
for
other
her!
of
ameliorated,
have
have
not
would
girl. They
face
Her
go
Light
Not
Life's
of
How
only
She
too
was
well-
long unrecognized.
women?
them
air.
to
escape
find
tingency
con-
for
mean
or
fact
failed to locate
have
different.
women
that
togs would
these
young
into thin
as
hope
would
fair
many
faced
it
other.
and
sought would
who
Inquiry
And
Mohammedan
there,
Those
here, it was
known
would
as
was
painful
come,
he
they improved,
Out
prospects?
would
mind
own
squarely. What
"
the
dodging
nor
gover-
the
as
one
now.
dervish
The
the
to
morn
official
moon.
exits
city. The
the
high
the
as
passing; the
was
of
out
fanatical
from
well
the
to
far removed
as
since
went,
absolutely closed
could
Why,
Meanwhile
"
FROM
for
had
propriety, that
venomous
they would
the
reward!
offended
bugaboo
the
as
ALADDIN
264
FROM
BROADWAY]
of his
to the "back
especialeligibility
row"
sweet
temptation with
had
game
and
lost.
husband
a
hero
penetrating
hole
How
"I
try
could
should
made
not
of
some
in it.
it be
the
As
good.
was
the
fizzle.
As
"I
pect
ex-
It
But
was
it, too,
he
rang
counterfeit
those
tempt.
atnow
him?
girlupon
it," she
done
exits,"
other
otherwise, with
have
never
he
played
perforated piaster.
of the
eyes
He
enthusiasm.
attempted
if it had
as
like
better
with
had
convenience,
^he rang
"
we'd
said
He
of
even
reticence.
tempered
said
slowly,
regretfully.
"What?"
"Married
"Very
have
you."
sorry
come
hadn't
dear!"
the
"It'll
; that
"
yes.
"
all
with
what
about
good
that
what
of
Yes, indeed."
^not
worry,
to
he
my
right," with
red
ink.
interjected.
you!"
dyer and
would
"
Lucky
"Don't
"
out
come
you
"
Awfully
heard
gate?
"Oh,
expectations
stage way
mean
"Thanks!
the
disappointed
business, underscored
didn't
"You
have
your
dialogue.
incidental
"I
to
up
tried
to
"
the
happen
guard
to
said
you?"
at
NEAR
"Don't
"
"Do
He
"
but he
"Did
shot
"I
"
'short
look
quick
shift'
She
scruples, a
He
could
glad he could
that
if
if I'd
"
they
never
ishness
self-
big
"I"
the
or
"
me
was
gaze
zled.
puz-
fine
unsteadily.
that
regarded
her
and
He
her
whatever
get
on
on
mean
He
sense.
about
they
you
"
stood
under-
ingly.
quickly, reassur-
this
point. He
was
something. "They'd
by
it
"
They would
me.
be.
person's might
said
he
her
reassure
you
mean
moral
"Why,"
laid eyes
fault that
least
me?"
was
reassure
could
Her
conscientious
very
well.
in the
for
look
her
as
very
was
Rank
interrupted, "You
He
troubled,
had
male!
it's my
that
on,
business
him.
at
think
she went
eagerly, but
make
of the
him, which
No.
fault ?"
"Your
of
thought
Absently.
like to
"
be
"you/'
of himself, at such
think
of the
musingly.
poseur?
don't
it,to affix
say
^that's what
"
he?"
may
shift'
almost
on,
She
she
effacement
No
'Short
went
To
what
to
thing. Egotism
same
"
about
Brute
or
265
was
didn't.
moment,
the
mind
you
CITADEL
THE
never
!"
of
me,
have,
Even
way,
anyeven
as
he
ALADDIN
2(^
spoke, that
FROM
dread
tragedy. Never
"I
"
have
to
did
^before
"
passed
They
been
had
to
short
for
bore
oriental
But
indeed, he
by
the
irony of fate, he
gaze
directed
of
the
shadow
the
citadel
front
it. How
"
the
An
it
ever
had
walked
taken
big
of
guns
low
her
the
of
the dervish;
that,
unaware
almost
with
straight
It
were
under
any
on
not
was
attention
His
him.
building,bearing
held
those
nomenclature!
if there
official shield.
that
fully
fanci-
stretch
quarter, where,
"
consequ
in-
that
concerned
moment
and
however,
man.
which
in another
stood
kind
some
structure,
young
occidental
the
at
was
had
soldiers,or
hence, by
arms;
"citadel"
the
not
city, and
far from
not
It housed
imagination, the
it was
comparatively
series of structures,
or
the citadel.
nondescripts who
his gaze
now;
turbulent
thoroughfare,
structure
termed
her
at
mation.
excla-
sudden
gave
walking through
quiet neighborhood
come
beyond her.
and
over
He
looking
not
was
like
faltered.
she
long.
him
smote
her!
seen
understand,"
He
had
contingency
don't
She
BROADWAY
of
in front
narrow
in
its
this
the
of
and
NEAR
streets, Allah
tortuous
CITADEL
THE
267
doubt,
no
delicate
more
nostrils accustomed
to
of musk
aroma
object itself,though
only
was
else. In
body stood
full
shone
of the
front
his
on
the
mechanism
him
to
face.
of
it revealed
thing
some-
outlines
the
seemed
he
English,
had
and
customary
from
to
just going
or
was
trunk,
traveling were
a
rest
of the
seat.
affixed
luggage,
The
had
Englishman
he
had
at
found
satisfactory.
in his
wore
around
said eye
middle-aged,
was
he
had
the moment
sundry other
solicitous native
and
whether
not
was
and
rugs
examining
to, and
just come
apparent.
paraphernalia of
chauffeur
the
popularity reaches
whose
But
peer.
lamp
traveling suit,topped by
little cap
snug
pauper
on
He
be
of the
operation caused
tighter a monocle
little wrinkles.
lightof
to
which
innumerable
the
dervish
and
car
to
for, the
as
man,
only
This
shadowy
He
his
the
squeeze
odor,
an
sandal-wood.
unlooked
so
of, inasmuch
aware
mechanical
or
was,
who
went
placed himself
on
with
the
car,
the
front
parentl
suddenly straightened. Aphis
examination
not
gether
alto-
FROM
ALADDIN
268
"That
in technical
who
somebody
ability. The
perhaps
the
"A
to
seems
have
few
"Eh
?"
The
man
"How
him.
accosted
shall
we
just then
and
Will
not
listen ?"
to
the
at
rather
thus
deuce
lordship
spare.
stared
who
the
lishman
Eng-
do
you
imposing
startlingly
know
that
?"
"It
is
trick
learned," spoke
English. "They
and
It
to
moments
Englishman
fast,
felt.
your
"Perhaps
loudly. "Your
exclaimed
a
were
sounded
now
muttered,
he
his presence
he
They
nearer.
shan't,"
we
tale!"
we'll find
Evidently he did
to
made
dervish
moved
chug! chug!
and
anyhow.
go,
where
something."
dervish
The
about
said
ical
high opinion of his driver's mechan-
then.
again,"he
her
somewhere,
us
knows
entertain
going
of order
out
"
she'll carry
Maybe
not
that
and
"
BROADWAY
every
works
women."
white
the
the
up
call
woman
well, they
fellows
native
every
of
driver
white
in
man,
class
have
fairlygood
*my lord,'
up
trade.
especiallyamong
the
'milady,'to
say,
this
drum
NEAR
"Indeed?"
him.
I don't
As
otherwise
"But
want
I have
so
ironically,"but
of
that
listen to
I must
so
eh?"
"
This
Whence
bearded
nobleman
looked
around
him.
mistaken, though
It
he
his
Antar
lordship
his
tales,my
a
would
have
his
of
"
called from
^know
the house
toward
slight
"
"
How
whisper,
he
even
been
have
that
which
should
mance-recit
ro-
was
one
strels,
^wandering min-
"
Had
of the
whom
better, had
From
some
one
He
the driver
of that person
one
must
name
by name?
him
sworn
deserts
the
word?
position;
he
course,
spoken
vagabonds
truly
some
"
listen."
but
was
of
of
your
the
shifted
Of
had
then
'*
many
last with
came
lips?
The
and
are
tone.
white
the
good
"we
so
"
observed
stay,"
must
is not
man,
tales
stay and
must
you
breath.
of
from
tales,my
eagerly. "Romances
"
"Fitzgerald!"
the
aboo
fine sarcasm,
excellent
many
you
"
"Evidently
change
the
occupied."
Delemeh
good
269
of your
any
see," with
you
persistedthe fellow
and
CITADEL
"No,
fellow.
THE
his
car.
The
lordship,for
brought with
him
tenance
coun-
want
from
ALADDIN
270
Cairo
showed
"
fussing
feet.
FROM
at
only
which
of
he had
Obviously,
seemed
heard
from
had
the
temerity
wished
to
person
between
"And
So
of
like
voice
flies of
the
whisper
the monocle
and
! New
!
Chug
stopped. The
waited
good
my
driver
wondered
why
to
chine.
ma-
behind
the
frosty night.
man!"
my
His
"Don't
wanted
he
of.
to.
But
this
He
lingered
his
you
low
fel-
lordship's
hear
when
"
"
innumerable
chug
and
Egypt
:
eye
when
rid
his
and
you."
on
strident
more
waste
easily got
so
became
on
actually
objectionable
visitor
yourself off,
to
something
if he
and
twinkle
may
Fitzgerald
as
dispose in lightand
time
of
one
edge closer,
objectionablepeople
not
was
star
name
lordship'sastonishment,
his
spoken
tendered
and
was
near
nowhere.
departing
take
now,
further
"No
the
faint
lordship could
fashion
to
his
He
car.
that
monocle
to
now,
the
mechanism
the
not
float
to
for
concern
part
some
BROADWAY
! The
tell him
his
again started
motor
threw
around
wrinkles
up
his hands
what
to
do.
; then
haps
Per-
ALADDIN
272
The
driver
FROM
shrugged inwardly. He
why he should
the
when
could
master's
needed
car
not
But
part.
his
the
now
chuckle
low
and
his
on
why,
sad
he got
so
reproachful
quite oblivious.
still
the door
of
will
Then
the
was
closed
house
answered.
that
suddenly he turned
"
be
you
He
shapely fingerscease
seeming romance-reciter
"And
conduct
that
derstand
un-
primitive mind
reason
not
servant
to
with
His
did
cigarettecase
vagaries of
his not
remained
person
for
attention.
these
grasp
glance toward
on
be sent
contenting himself
out,
BROADWAY
good
"So
enough
to
don't
you
plain?"
ex-
ber
remem-
me?"
"Who
the
The
girlwas
She
of that
he
crazy
dev"
could
with
been
not
understand
turned
crazy
holiness.
the
But
And
he
was
her
men
the
unless
dervish's
before.
brain,
ment.
amaze-
terrors
or
less
un-
dervishes
Some
did
dervish
do
in
both
them
staringat
now
night had
had
?"
not
speaking English
"
not
chuckle
the
go
seem
like
language
NEAR
spoken
she had
THE
"The
last time
"What
the"?"
"We
dishes.
He
"
had
softly,in
saw
began
was
His
lordship
names
of
names
No
viands
one
gether."
to-
of
in this respect.
good
very
over
wines
and
adel
cit-
the
at
That
stood
if
as
iota of
an
"Stanton
"At
your
The
iota
service!"
seemed
to
beyond
time
his
his
is not
there,
dispute this
glance,more
persistentpair.
chuckle.
lordship.
my
firmly,as
lord," the
aggrieved, swept
Not
"How
yet?"
gone
dare
you
lish
estab-
if to
fact.
momentous
"What!
indignantly.
low
!" said
!"
greatly,but just
increase, not
cigarette case
^the
"
"Jack Stanton
that
Again
"The
said.
emotion
surging through
was
"
his brain.
same
dined
very
days and
childhood
lordship,we
to
whisper.
tense
273
perfectly.
"
your
French
hear.
must
like
memory
mentioned
in her
school
He
"
His
back
way
CITADEL
At
over
he
continue
the
the
ciferated
vo-
to
274
ALADDIN
annoy
his
FROM
lordship?"
lordship
need
them
pommeling
the
His
only
will make
"It
all
was
the
"No
isn't.
order
the
word
they deserve
I will
and
give
"
"
"Better
reserve
it,"indicatingthe
your
"at
car,
useful.
yourself more
"Your
once.
should
You
it before."
to
seen
his master:
to
lordship yawned.
you
have
Then
say
strength to overhaul
So
BROADWAY
right when
rather
man
doubt!"
How
it
brought
here,"
swered
an-
sullenly.
it
long
will it take
to
you
?"
"Three-quarters
of
hour,
an
at
least.
Perhaps
an
hour."
"An
As
hour!
for
changed
The
So
you,"
You
longer! Understand?
No
reel off
may
blowed!"
He
and
Said.
The
had
good
trio
were
said
picked
deal
he
of
up
the
a
sailor
two."
or
yarn
into
flow
the
and
"Well,
forth
burst
seeming story-teller
grateful
tale-reciter, "I've
the
regarding
mind.
my
it.
be
of
other
said.
native
few
driver
sailor
knowledge
house.
plosively.
ex-
sions
expresat
Port
Tales
at
NEAR
that
hour!
H^
are.
Tales,
upon
indeed?
cat-o'-nine-tails
them.
CITADEL
THE
Aw
thought
First
he
The
driver
he
would
master
275
mad.
then
wouldn't,
began
like
Most
to
to
tinker.
have
he
lishmen
Engwould.
It
bestowed
was
CHAPTER
AN
OLD
""CIGARETTE,
two
night
near
was
clock
the
on
"That
a
have
the
"Like
said
track
a
the
of
quick
the
the
sans
in
girl
and
building;
the
fire
the
for
"
shadowy
long white
the
time
right?"
glancing
ner.
cor-
of
beard
restlessly
at
he
asked,
indicating
the
hour
midnight.
as
compute
other,
clock
any
God's
American.
hours,
glance in the
from
this
from
where
town,
Allah's,"
plied
re-
glasses.
centigrade
"But
until
in
time
filling two
reckoning
the
fireplace,
same
right
to
of
comfortable
mantel.
time
near
apartment
removed
the
little after
"As
you
at
in
and
"
Stanton
aboo,
now
open
an
warm
Jack
"
themselves
commodious
men
the
Absently.
found
rather
ACQUAINTANCE
Stanton?"
V_"""Thanks."
They
XX
to
stopped
to-night," he
direction
276
of
the
Fahrenheit,"
trying
went
girl.
to
on
keep
with
AN
The
OLD
noticed
other
with
In
you?"
"No."
277
"Good-looking
look.
that
casually. "Went
observed
he
boy!"
ACQUAINTANCE
lower
to
Mecca
^to
"
tone.
Shortly.
"Recent
acquisition,then ?"
"Yes."
"Helps
Jack
brandy
murmured
all
"Oh,
other
or
front
of
sound
were
waiting for
the
There
the
toward
if
as
car,
was
interested
dentati
in-
an
in
window
occasional
him.
?" he asked
an
thought, and
indicated
that
the
moments
after
pause.
somewhat
soon.
several
silent.
direction
you
"Lebanon.
warm
for
glanced
stood
that
"Where
that
he
which
from
brow
his
twice
other
absently.
remained
in
refused
to-night. Some
speak, but
to
he
likewise
answer;
him
trot
man.
man
younger
elder
the
"Not
soda.
and
time," he
once
did not
Stanton
role, to
present
your
?" remarked
I suppose
along,
the
out
carry
Moslem
upset the
here.
Of
Usually
faithful.
course
does.
troubles
in
Europe
have
it will
Still,I'm
probably blow
not
so
young
over
and
278
ALADDIN
FROM
adventuresome
of
as
BROADWAY
was
massacre;
native
Christians'
may
be
I've
begun
You
yourself
the old
"Of
you
don't
do
so?"
his
brows
old
in my
age.
of, except
more
left in
"
superciliously.
boy,
dear
my
anywhere, if
Briton
to
Lifting
imagine,
know
wishes
they
can
be
to
he
could
one
any
didn't
keep
an
want
to
stay,
window,
the
he could
hear
said
shade
a
longer than
American
Fitzgerald regarded
Whereupon
he
However,
I know
white, any
few
To-morrow
etc.
Sunday.
chap
So
you?"
"I
more
fireworks.
can
specialpermit
course."
"You
he
white
aren't
you
sure
are
the
keep
only
bloody
another
latter,with
prudent
or
chance
burg."
"You
have
the
and
"
Scotch
get bored
to
I'm
see
the
burned,
houses
peaceful as
as
and
vaporizing
mere
do
there's
and
once,
the
of
clock
which
faint metallic
suddenly, "I've
and
was
him
ruefully.
with
only looked
then
toward
drawn.
slight
once
the
Outside,
tapping. "Fitzgerald,"
great favor
to
ask."
ALADDIN
28o
She
to
sittingup
was
gaze
the
upon
the
all the
like
for
total
her
her.
to
stranger
whom
the
mosque
had
the
with
been
not
had
what
seemed, but
he
what
he
more
inexplicablethan
seemed
now
"
imagination fashioned
mood!
forgot
he
actually was?
tale
some
to
that
or
regale
her
different
from
"Thinking
the
of
court
of
Truly
he
should
be
It
"
than
was
the
sical
whim-
sultan's
turban,
the
was
not
lady's sebleh.
something
other's
many
fantasy of
costume,
the
"
of
coat
the
so
She
or
man
him?
of
become
there
sat
in the
found
once
dervish
"
holy
the
at
This
it.
The
had
dyer
what
"
grasping
himself
called
he
her
haps
Per-
extraordinary,
too
was
pertainingto
as
seemed
and
great distance.
permit of
to
circumstances
from
as
Jack Stanton,
or
"
straightnow
very
two
transition
unexpected,
too
BROADWAY
FROM
words.
?"
the wager
else?"
Fitzgerald
"Something
With
more
peated
re-
portant
im-
faint inflection of
incredulity.
"Infinitelymore
with
strained
smile
important," returned
which
expression of
momentarily
his
countenance.
Stanton,
brightened
the
AN
"Yet
entire
your
"I
beg
risk
Straight.
dollars,I
to
hold
up
he
more
saying
and
wanted
to
their
He
concerned
drew
the
see
jobs,
"
"
glitterin his
"
tone
if so?
Don't
Street
fifty thousand
served
his country
as
now
in that
curtain
to
He
broke
long
walked
He
he
was
"Pardon
me.
there.
was
things
as
well
as
in what
than
aside.
Apt
to
don't
go
officious," apologetically
appear
off; there
which
eye
ter
bet-
silence.
was
fellow
"
wrong
and
nervously
arose
wish
isn't
me
here, when
over
men
that
the
if that
was
succeeded
was
my
that
"
training with
was
Outside
window.
seemed
jump
left
see
long shot."
the
Just
You
mean.
I couldn't
take
dad
old
Dear
crowd,
it
the
on
in
man's
young
Then
day
every
himself.
than
The
expression, "And
all
their
involved
was
it at the time
formal.
more
franker
!"
pardon
your
momentarily
by
fortune
I known
had
though
wager,
281
ACQUAINTANCE
OLD
rather
was
belied
the
ous
nerv-
chalant
non-
bearing.
"As
was
your
rather
American
lordship remarked
large. But
had
ever
you
done
just
remember
it!"
With
now,
you
an
the
sum
said
no
engaging
ALADDIN
282
"Believe
smile.
American
had
in
Engaged
! We'd
rot
FROM
rather
had
it all seemed
tip from
he ended
"Ah,
after
yes."
born
were
bred
and
in
labored
And
Your
me.
ner
man-
gerald
Fitzother
degree
some
the
"Besides, I
under.
I could
the
turn
trick,"
pause.
nodded.
"Your
Syrian seaport
town
Fitzgerald
consul-general in
was
remember.
regarding the
realized
moment's
trying.
boastful
such
to
was
myself that
a
no
he
his visitor
while
some
up
English, you
if he
because
was
worth
few, you
nothing, but
strain
a
thought it
having
attentively,as
secret
that
you
bigger things, or
been
said
told
ever
then, somehow,
was
BROADWAY
the
among
father
and
followers
of
you
Allah,
I believe?"
"Exactly.
Knew
He
Was
take
little interest
twelve
prodigy."
twice
Fitzgerald could
of enforced
"Yes;
talked
in
by the clock!
passed, and
Koran
my
his
Only
to
ten
he
words.
a
be
age.
seemed
to
after
Quarter
quarter
of
an
hour
had
elapse before
must
off.
of
years
though
interval
that
hope
at
Half
an
hour
yet
I
inactivity
ran
away
from
school
looked,
to
not
loaf
at
in
his
the
host,
AN
OLD
but
beyond him,
out
now,
what
while
he
fakirs
the
friends
Picked
Just
to
"
broke
of
now
thought, the
clearly
very
It
didn't
too
"
matter,
she, too,
Then
his
He
tales?
dad
called
re-
was
evancy!
irrel-
What
helped
that
one.
He
own
kid's
And
galore.
had
"
in
crew
other
knew
of
course
but
tion.
ac-
that
suddenly
turned
of
it
planned
what
abruptly.
clearly
shouldn't.
or
Fitzgerald with
that
serious
more
had
not
was
off
perhaps it
Though
train
of
in!
them
He
ers,
all the porters, hawk-
with
rest
283
do, and
to
dialects
up
drink
He
"
the
and
paradise.
used
speaking.
going
was
"Made
do.
must
ACQUAINTANCE
to
the
body.
"That
when
favor
you
leave
spoke of?"
he
"I
said.
to-night, to take
want
passenger
you,
with
you."
"Yourself?"
"We'll"
my
I'll think
assistant
"Your
"My
For
of
that, later.
mean
this"
here."
boy?"
wife!"
the
second
betrayed into
an
time
that
exhibition
This
was
time
it
284
ALADDIN
wasn't
FROM
BROADWAY
exhibition
little teeny-weeny
barely perceptiblemovement,
but
; he
been
characterized
started
And
eye.
The
palpably.
monocle
it hadn't
deliberatelyintending it
a
misbehaved
very
nobleman
affixed it
stared
the
once
it in his
with
more
at
to
him,
owner
It
was
The
occasion.
fingers admonishingly,
firmness,
unusual
persistently,not
speaker, but
this
on
its
for years.
so,
his
fell from
even
do
to
monocle
gathered
Fitzgerald
that, without
done
have
might
Lord
start.
plainlyperceptible
one.
as
not
gave
then
and
aggressively,not
say
her, indicated
or
by
at
the
speaker.
He
the
saw
sat
all her
look
deer
venturesome
a
lithe
figure.
woody
like
that
place. The
Then
deer would
semi-gloaming and
But
the
girl could
best
thing
have
very
and
looked
in the
dark
eyes
eyes
of
do
the wild
that.
away.
disconcertingeyes,
So
An
on
have
she
didn't
he
is encountered
into the
not
that
in which
chair
leather
his with
met
of
the
poignant and
one
the
see
had
a
too
verge
disappeared
fragrant depths.
she did the
next
Englishman
can
especiallywhen
they
AN
are
blue, like
the
corner
Amid
somewhat
of the peer
pink of
not
trembled
but
if so,
the
the universal
she
old
(good
furnisher
part
of
chair
looked
piquant enough,
was
not
in
of the
had
his eye
been
was
betrayed
now
from
her
"
Staple,
any
in that
out
of
evidence
of
austere
due
un-
feelingon
it
was
turban
setting,but
order.
of revenge
into.
like any
calculated
because
was
fact.
the
were
excitation
piquant
"
disturb
sitting-room. The
British
Fitzgerald yawned
he
to
and
moved
globe!) concealed
That
one.
any
seemed
"
breast
English,
ameliorate
British
she
"
depths of leather
or
the
"
the
on
cavernous
littleisle.
girl'slips this,
the
enough
sensitiveness, thrill,or
the
the snug
too, her
had
had
chair
hide, conceal
to
yet displayed
quite a positivefact
Maybe,
anywhere
Those
face
from
afterglow,
appear
"
rose-leaves
dragging
an
little unsteady.
she
visible
in-
questioning, critical,wondering,
open,
gaze
that
in
shadowy
definitely,but
free,
also, did
be
to
285
too
was
fact
the
seemed
incredulous
tender
It
sea.
establish
to
that
the
to
cold
fingers
across
ACQUAINTANCE
OLD
The
other
for
the
start
window-pane
window-pane,
in
cairn
286
ALADDIN
and
immovable.
FROM
It had
passiveness. It
its outer
attempted
reflections.
big
its wonted
recovered
glassy (ought
was
objects on
into it,or
BROADWAY
do
to
He
surface.
Stanton
ficial
super-
crossed
and
got up
flected
re-
looked
who
only these
saw
so,
and
be!)
to
im-
the
to
chair.
"Mind
waiting
"There's
here
something
?" he
moment
I'd like to
asked
his
to
say
softly.
lordship
privately."
She
back
did
of
though
not
swiftly, the
not
sarcophagus,
Stanton
Jack
girl'scloak,
; that
move
seemed
trailed
leather, touched
luxurious
the
hand
his
answer;
returned
swallowed
alone
out.
went
great black
her.
the
to
caressingly,
he
chair, like
have
to
then
the
over
where
room
she
was.
and
Fitzgerald
driver.
The
all
was
man
young
arranged.
beautifully. Couldn't
lordship
his
to
little
lordship had
her
about
cause.
Amad,
had
now
be
better!
something
committed
Mohammedans
superintend
to
spoke cheerfully. It
Everything
Fitzgerald had
and
out
gone
about
turned
had
He
had
her
himself
told
history
his
and
unqualifiedly
expressed
in
out
an
opinion
general,and
it
288
vagabonds of
theirs to be two
Not
sing
their
dance
or
fashion
song,
but he
sorry
she
be for
BROADWAY
FROM
ALADDIN
to
it.
Of
or
cities,in humble
of the
it would
glad
the
to
entrust
peer
about
to-morrow
His
one
it would
had
way,
"You
"
as
^you,
near,
them.
with
Biblical
eyes
give
never
be
after
delightfulcountry,
the
also
had
told her
too
peer
kindly promised
upon
reaching
Those
night.
her
up
She
would
one,
her
now;
have
through
exhilaratingclimb
cedars.
glowed though
he
tist.
den-
second
and
pleasant
fine
fleeingwith
missionaries
would
but
last
at
the
to
assured
was
run,
among
in
Said
town
missionairies
long
was
her
seaport
safety
laugh)
realm.
of
the
well
palaces,
flee with
night (with
was
last century
the
to
one
only
as
escaped from
been
had
he
course
but
disguise. Only
former
only
sung
to
mantic
ro-
merry
Besides, empresses
time.
as
one
right
and
servant,
as
go
in
played
remember
short
very
had
She
would
had
along,
way
highway,
the
"
She
It
was
he
did not
feel
glad,
all this.
is
providential for
standing
near
him
you,
now,
AN
ACQUAINTANCE
OLD
His
"Yes, of course."
No
matter-of-fact.
the
the
"
so
the
that
it
communicated
had
him
own
El
had
he
last person
That
and
sons
rea-
bestowed
upon
"
Jack Stanton
wonderful
had
always
to
be too
eyes
and
former
the
sweet
so
Genneh
tained.
as
but
He
sharper
and
healthy
young
waste
madman
other
that
reasons
"
mance-recite
ro-
friendly,unflatteringepithets but
strivingnot
of those
latter
he had
Fitzgerald.
for
account
in
ahead
went
was
Never
to
to
way.
"Of
He
him
other
mind!
never
his
called
few
Lord
to
With
yet occurred
not
Besides
remain
to
He.
them!
detectingher.
of it had
car.
to
might be difficult
wishing
attention
accompanying
their
think
in the
for
of
practicaland
were
callingher
would
danger
things to
many
her
his
romance-reciter
presence
of
use
of
impracticability
tones
289
El
felt
keener,
the
Genseh,
sudden
so
wonderful
than
even,
looked
to
lost, the
heart
may
away.
enticinglips.
sweet
They seemed
pilgrim
places,and
inordinatelycognizant
seemed
now.
absently.
more
or
sing
garden
the
not
of
unat-
hunger, something
that
other
develop
in
appetite a
the
barren
he
ALADDIN
290
FROM
in what
murmured
BROADWAY
intended
were
be
to
of
accents
blithe satisfaction.
She
regarding him
was
there any
now?"
she asked
"And
that
who
"Are
way.
know
I do
what
suddenly.
One
thinking of
not
troubled
in Damascus
others
"Maybe.
in
two."
or
them
was
now.
been
have
you
Indifferently. He
Mecca?"
to
"Oh, yes."
She
"You
stood
very
straightand
should
have
told
you
to" leave
him
at
worth
should
have
told
touch
that
rather
it
for
was
gently with
he
murmured
"
of her
what
drew
me
realize
course,
you
thinking.
weakly.
brows
of
about!"
bothering
dark
if
necessary
city,"she remonstrated
The
with
how
me
as
length.
"Not
rather
the
still
imperiousness.
old
all it meant
I
did,
hurriedly.
"I
tried to think
of
at
see
repeated,
should," she
^you
"
to
my
now
you,
"I did
all
"
I asked
when
house," she
not,
went
all that
on
it did
mean."
He
one
wasn't
compromised
an
forthcoming.
by saying.
answer.
"Don't
of
it!" he
AN
"You
OLD
even
you
"
ACQUAINTANCE
let
once
me
291
say
might be
you
I?
Maybe, under
certain
circumstances,
might""
"It
brave !
and
lipssaid.
And
was
red
"
and
"
the
chivalrous
wonderful
seemed
eyes
to
It
he
flushed
to
him, but
painfully. And
herself.
to
been
bombarding him
At
least,she
seemed
scarcelyto
and
should
"Why
?"
The
dark
Her
afterward
you,
now.
that
ment,
mo-
not
was
crude
flatteryor
if not
as
She
her.
praise.
Indeed,
intending to.
beyond.
yet
from
at
Also,
she
him.
see
"
might have,
open
not
was
"Though why
him
with
shifted.
He
distant
very
He
away.
stilllooked
eyes
brow
was
?"
She
"
at
perplexed.
paused. She
Disconcertingdepths of
tioning
ques-
eyes!
He
"Why?"
should
He
he
have
might have
least,he might
had
the
understood
what
she meant.
lingered in Damascus,
got
have
out
made
before
Why
afterward?
uprising.
the
the attempt.
Instead, he
lingered,inexplicably,foolishly according
"
point
of
view.
"Why?"
The
At
to
bright turban
ALADDIN
292
FROM
before
danced
Framing
That
not
his
Anomalous
eyes.
boy's but
lad's
BROADWAY
cloak, too!
deceive
scoffingly.Again
he heard
toward
from
echo
he
answered
Honk!
her,
squawk
froze
seventy
horse-power
The
but
close!
the
words
on
like
close!
"
his
"
"Time
^when
Honk!
go," he
looked
"
said
her
"
"
horrible
lips.What
sixty or
alighted in his
his side.
artificial
an
occasions
on
to
"
had
The
He
side-stepped. The
he
told
he
dise?
para-
rather
smiled
archaic
useful
"
ous
thunder-
Almost
had
had
crow
fell to
arms
gentleman
smiled
nightingale's
song
outside.
resounded
feebly. Then
I He
him;
discreetly,circumspectly, but
not
him
to
honk!
His
him
great mountainside.
her
sweeping
mock
reiterated
word
passionately; almost
madly,
dervish
the
"
to
her.
The
"Why?"
him
girl'seyes
"
it seemed
"
to
stepped
girl'slips
futilelyto attempt
he
little turban!
wild
receded.
production, perhaps,
out
of his eyes.
quietly.
honk!
Stanton
get
winced.
one
"Why
of those
the
Gabriel
deuce
doesn't
trumpets?"
he
gerald
Fitztered.
mut-
CHAPTER
XXI
BRAZIER
THE
she
WELL,
did
dervish,
too,
to
why
the
on
the
at
her
the
he
did
other
side
passers-by
start
too,
saw,
the
at
the
as
same
not
of
interested
that
his
the
car,
had
literally leaped
an
of
a
instant
a
white
his
face
the
closed
the
the
and
driver
too
none
gaze
startled
corner.
293
as
have
may
of
one
in
the
the
to
not
dervish
half
she
reached
skilful
She
received
eyes,
then
sons
rea-
too
seem
should
the
the
curred
oc-
shadow
saw
of
doors
the
haps,
Per-
proceedings,
forward.
strained
or
so
the
involuntarily
instant
under
in
approach,
driver
there
walk,
the
alias
them.
Standing
go.
had
moment
accompany
thereof,
reason
whirled
Stanton,
moment
same
last
Jack
to
had
car
the
at
that
intend
not
conspicuously
any
only
realized
suddenly
The
gone.
And
away.
she
was
girl
He
car.
But
arose.
forward,
and
manipulation,
around;
looked
the
the
impression
car
turned
ALADDIN
294
How
long
At
there
standing
should
and
nights
of
tude
nights
the
However,
his
stopped
once
shoulders
she had
Eden,
be
sure
there,
speeding
more,
or
had
He
rang
had
this
unto
slept
soli
the
even
marched
solitu
of
it!
'
i;
Then
on.
he
by something
the
was
^know
"
able to leave
with
the motor
he
"
that
to
the
in
city,that she
have
other
some
of
Garden
the
There
another.
might
certainty,
broken
was
down
fortune
mis-
unforeseen
arisen.
his pace
accelerated
had
know
"
away
or
"
nobleman
She
like
this moment,
at
that
possibility
car
But
turned
loneliness
who
man
sands.
and
actuallybeen
out
one
of
in
use
he
slowly
overwhelmed
more,
must
once
no
thought of before.
He
was
to
not
was
was
sensation
one
the
on
desert
the
five minutes?
or
squared
hadn't
novel
minute,
and
longer
Well,
be
not
rate, there
any
any
Alone!
away.
BROADWAY
that ?
was
ago
ten?
Or
FROM
through
fears
out,
gone
safe!
had
"
the
nearest
said
he
would
at
once
to
were
some
safe!
his brain.
ten
No
or
doubt
Amad
exit, the
leave
alleviated.
fifteen minutes
of it.
could
The
never
by.
The
ago.
words
again
296
ALADDIN
forgot
lo
reimburse
"Gone!"
the
heart
athrill.
that
of the
their
the moment,
His
now
the
was
than
moment
him.
and
the
As
of
Her,
role
A
danger
not
mad
did
rope
(tightposed
sup-
spanning
not
at
question
him,
recognized, but
could
; he
the
should
Why
would
one
know
reckless
sword,
himself.
carry
out
"
misgiving disturbed
enough.
faithful
He
quiet before
by faith, are
no
have
successfullyunless?
sudden
to
romance-reciter,
pit.
they might
the
the
than
sharper
conceive
a
of
the
wearied
felt safe
rate, he
Es
cross
Arabian
from
quieter,for
seemed
be but
might
any
the
Gehenna,
he?
and
easy,
darker
were
fanatics
the
heaven) who,
be able to
hair
Had
assurance
into
walkers
to
it
At
storm.
not
quickly
the clouds
city,too,
though
accents.
was
retreated
gone.
The
it
had
voiced
now,
was
work?
another
He
city. Overhead
sicklyglow
woeful
at
wail, but
to
strove
they
of guests. He
attempt
an
neighborhood
heart
of
He
his
romance-reciters
poor
with
pretext
with
BROADWAYi
employed
this
FROM
fellow
his
aplomb.
certain
had
The
stances,
circum-
forced
those
THE
tfiem.
from
costumes
bridge wavered
to
more
had
He
He
of
itself,it
thoughts
may
be
the
past
No
the
if
"
for
the past
All
him.
It
was
with
pastry-shop
the
he had
pleasant and
which
and
him
to
did not
seem
like
instinct
had
look
So
held
her
was
too
or
few
not
of the
For
woman
he
it
was
to
seem
missed
b^ dis-
could
had
thought
oddly and
no
more
forcibly.She
of Mohammedan
one
whispered
into
or
so
fingers.
now,
enter
his
or
But
did
rest
palpitatingseconds
doesn't
take
that claimed
now
the
girl of
he
found
entage.
par-
when
in his
that
able
agree-
future
let the
received
about, recurred
faith.
unpleasant and
forty-eight hours
of the
snap
once
gettingarouiid
and
irrelevant,trifling
impression
make-up
of
He
period of
of
way
for
on.
was
came
matter.
An
went
he
figurative
shrugged fatalistically
disagreeablecontingencies
care
Then
consideration
reveries, he
his
moment
even
to
Dismissing
it!
For
297
wobbled.
and
balance.
BRAZIER
"
he
country
himself
somewhat
thing
every-
fiber and
coarser
that
She
arms.
too
had
and
actually
laboriously.
ALADDIN
298
FROM
BROADWAY
The
fall
few
mysterious words
that
night before
treated
the new-found
had
man
the
"wife!"
Nothing
what
the
had
dyer
potations, but
example
scented
of
"
at
once
introducingmere
outlandish
him
future
then.
"
tered,
splut-
succeed
very
^the
"
wart
the stal-
it been
had
or
"
back
bring
mother
girl'sown
he
might
Denmark,
deducting
warak
old
or
mahde,
into
species of viands
the
Sherlock,
or
for
have
Damascus,
deducing, instead
and
other
system.
He,
khiyar
his
Jack Stanton,
alias the
dervish, should
immediately a
romance
and
sounded
occasion, would
that
in
wrong
have
good
"
place,on
something
started
his
to
didn't
he
the
Another
in his
in
when
further.
dyer
was
to
now
ested
inter-
; he
Montenegrins?
it up.
gave
occupied him
and
about
romantic
and
tried
had
young
ambiguously sputtered,or
the Rumanians
"
He
nothing
entage
par-
he
The
not
let
bridegroom-
corner.
and
meant
had
Something
Greeks
the
around
Fancy that ! He
over
well.
half -starved
commestibles,
She
when
wedding,
in
her
concerning
the
and
well, had
too
mystery
have
and
divined
proceeded
THE
accordingly with
BRAZIER
Machiavellian
caution.; instead
he
misfortune,
decide.
And,
he
been
moving
had
bent
upon
way
to
it.
he
bazaar,
he
but
he
pious
forgot
words
planted at
he
end
the
less
birth
stitched
The
and
huddled
stitched
and
were
shadow
revered
up
and
small
and
a
great
before
him,
customary
stead
In-
Mohammed.
lane,
historic
certain
waxed
They
in
almost
at
were
busy days
their threads
looked
the
bazaars,
trade,
together. On
unison.
set
sylvan monarch,
the
into
of
the
murmur
sight of
once
if
as
shortest
the
momentarily
and
thoughts,
artisans, plying
and
and
him
portion of
covered
well-known
of wearisome
alike
him.
of the
at
were
all the
kind
the
tune,
for-
night would
his
of
going
number
pause
plunged
congregated
they
and
outlines
to
at
of which
where
behind
its black
cast
of
aimlessly, but
not
on,
upon
rapidly left
tree
trend
Passing through
came
game
unlikely.
not
was
destination
some
the
lay before
what
chaotic
rather
of this
and
those
all the
into
football
the events
as
investigator,the latter
For
veritable
considering
of
absence
the
circumlocution
only plunged
had
blindly, haphazardly,
or
299
more
identical
in
or
back-
ALADDIN
300
So
grounds.
or
more,
they had
and
ago,
follow
their
hence.
the
FROM
appeared
they
so
bent,
own
funereal
mysterious abysms
booths.
Maybe
hoodlums
other
would
few
blanks; the
were
Stanton
a
of
number
and
he
had
when
Arabic
with
out
him,
be
to
studied,
course,
the
he
locked.
with
or
the
ited
lim-
the
might,
he
of the
to
entrance
he
was
tried
The
modern
now
the
no
few
place
isfy
sat-
to
looking for.
and
door
lock, though,
tiny pins
expert
to
this
what
latter
apparently
again stopped.
the
over
slidingbolt, with
material.
shops
amid
dozen
the
home.
best
as
and
upon
finallyhe
characters
he made
forth
Half
carefullygazed
purpose,
their
abroad
were
and
into
of
pretentious ones.
more
of
ill-lighted
neighborhood, Jack
this
scrutinized
more,
workers
ago
yet returned
not
Passing noiselesslyback
confines
long
backs
of them
had
and
or
years,
now
the
at
years,
if left to
appear,
part, receded
most
thousand
thousand
silence
bright backgrounds
BROADWAY
set
in
and
was
down
the
row
nar-
it, of
found
and
of wood,
in it,of the
opening
same
doors
"
THE
house,
lock.
that
would
for
safe
or
people?
moral
mere
it
was
not
bolt
back.
Not
and
slid back
way
through
and
some
The
nothing
toward
low
found
hanging
should
not
of the
shop,
upon
small
dim
room
he
began
tered.
en-
and
of
hanging
creaked
In
yellow.
the
to
It
might
turn
up
the
metamorphosed
Drawing
the
so
pass
the wick
brighter
cast
thick
dim
the
in between
entering.
who
of
rear
light,as he looked
ventured
forward
went
more
once
heard
still he
But
paused.
to
his
make
to
woodwork
the
be visible to any
he
he
the door
closed
he
objects,some
draperies before
hanging lamp.
the
managed
the curtains
small
him
applied
yielded and
Quietly
Then
he
streak
tiny
he
shop
alarm
to
floor,when
again
as
exercise
to
he
but
door
litter of dark
the
and
loudly
it
the bolt.
on
over
But
Stanton
expert,
an
sound
supposed
them.
listened.
glee
dromedaries.
or
was
effect upon
knife; he
slide the
camels,
our
Perhaps
"
with
was
out
301
chortled
have
^would
"
It
keep
BRAZIER
light
in front
of the
reflections
rugs
in the
shapelessob-
ALADDIN
302
FROM
BROADWAY
from
wares
The
of
part
under
of
that
shook
examined
a
all the
and
mattress
pains, he
His
had
rewarded
cushions
looked
was
supplemented
the
thing out,
jugs
and
jars;
by
water-bottle; he
unrolled
he
He
tossed
his labor
"
^he would
and
yet
Since
mere
"
eager
concentrate
the
for
his
and
probably
only failure
visual
nimble
down.
thoughtful.
now
efforts.
and
felt in out
he
in
every
shelves
part of it.
his
been
swept
on
corners;
part of
as
thoroughly;
chance
not
looked
glanced
another
had
looks
big-mouthed
opportunity
have
only
on
indeed,
down
sat
never
He
felt every
aside.
mattress
it
anxious
He
empty
an
merchandise;
saw
peered into
mihkara
it,or
his swift
places.
way
he turned
at
pillagingfinger
of
array
chamber.
he
rugs;
the
He
Yet
lay
not
goodly
hardly glanced
the whole.
flow
over-
without.
did
intruder
hanging, an
or
up,
saddles,
every
tivity,
ac-
fingers,
to
mental
reason
faculty
in the process.
What
he
sought
was
reallyvaluable
only
to
him.
ALADDIN
304
FROM
of
manner
strongly does
these
murmur
proprietary
akbar!"
When
they
have
in the
on
work
them
them
bad
They
occasions
"
of charms.
score
themselves, they
out
for
out
them.
many
out
minds
evil eye,
to
menaces
words
work
not
work
others
real
are
and
"
do
trouble, for
Iblees, spirits,the
people.
what-not,
Allah
ill-luck,or
superstitionreign
genii and
**
BROADWAY
them
and
for
pay
this task.
Now,
it
keep
to
rub
its
such
But
want
it in his house.
once
started,
that
while,
in the
even
with
possibleproved
child
No,
themselves.
carrying
it
it
his
untoward
Sadi
the
for
sheytans,
not
was
Perhaps
or
run
be
dled
han-
had
been
black
the
ones,
risk
any
judge of
the
saddler
outer
long
of the devil,
instrument
would
long, if Stanton
English
an
profanation
such
not
events,
city itself,should
veritable
of
precious
would
reason
of
it to
permit
reposed, undetected
That
character.
to
stop, and
to
holiest
same
train
easy
has
tongs.
malicious
is not
prayer-book
the
continue
not
against those of
for
Amad
would
his person,
object on
an
pernicious pages
Koran.
Sadi
be,
might
office ?
of
hammedan
Mo-
would
And
so
BRAZIER
THE
his
cause
gold
altogether?
The
of
to
rest
knew
he
the
on
mankal,
ashes
yet smelled
them
aside.
he
lips and
that
snatched
Charred
the
had
dyed salts,certain
bark, and
that's
all to
the
himself
while
part of
or
it
what
fakir
swept
His
conclusion.
the
few
the
the
was!
brain
The
customary
chips of
little incantation
consigning
dead
grant
frascene
prayer-book
to
coals.
The
man
young
had
once
one
for
reason
had
walked
little volume!
seeds, and
had
and
fell from
something,
from
procured
became
he
at
"
he
and
exclamation
paper
of
remained
hardly
flakes of
few
an
leaped rapidly,irrevocably,to
saddler
he got up
frankincense,
Whereupon
something.
All
suddenly
of
He
consciously,
receptacle.A
the copper
to
over
brazier.
or
Then,
aware
at
half-introspective,
man,
young
looking
was
vanish
filthypiasters,or
regard deepened.
his
into
turn
Hardly
eye
chanced
to
305
been
him.
for
so,
and
paper,
He
wanting
the
stared
had
to
blankly
the
little volume
the
moment
lost, and
win
at
now.
would
he
ashes
a
was
had
an
Intact, or
have
that
bitter
especial
ably
reason-
meant
ten
3o6
ALADDIN
thousand
that
pounds
this
he
his
pounds,
hundred
one
"
Nay,
of
his
pilgrimage
be
enough
"
to
lucky
not
shook
his
head
dollars!
It
seemed
out
enough
and
to
woo
to
provide!
very
what
win,
Of
But
wedded
have
nicety, was
Well,
at
the
she
tell himself.
was
done.
well
The
role
in
care
nobleman
of
how
"
fine
tramp.
at
look
that
like
and
tell her
had
he
have
That
duced
re-
would
courtship !
He
He
didn't
him
to
eflforts.
own
would
would
hands,
and
to
It fitted
his
hope
to
easy
it."
now.
good
Fitzgerald
taken
as
heritage of
was
Share
!
hundred
poverty,
"Behold!
before
the
been
had
say:
generous
her
play
to
he
at
be
real
"
Incidentally,
hold.
not
nothing-
to
magnanimous,
had
to
"
wife
that
laughs
if
with,
courage
to
love
ass
little all
myself
and
of
lot
more
it would
confounded
lost his
be
course,
properly.
had
One
sadly.
With
one.
have
to
thousand
ten
find
to
now
practically
housekeeping
start
For
was
own
pretended
more!
his
He
thousand
was
one
him.
would
all.
BROADWAY
to
souvenir
destroyed,
money
FROM
least, he
could
it that
she
justice would
be
to
BRA2IER
THE
to
that.
to
see
situation
the
He
influential
praised
this
Stanton
repeated
He
before
as
far
as
she
bally bungler
brazier
and
abruptly
drew
bolt
slide
disturb
great
of
turn
up
and
stood
back,
and
peering between
saddler
the
him.
Abruptly
interest
sudden
entrance
thrill, an
almost
enormous
mild
he
him
so
ought
much
to
shock.
ennui.
the
curtains
not
greatly
Sadi,
as
have
was
heard
the
that
the
Stanton
fact did
realized
denly
sud-
caught
listening. He
The
enter.
world
impulse
Sadi's?
"
such
from
away
the
footsteps
saw
"
had
in the
None
outside, he
From
suffici
in-
become
he
right
What
to
same
there, forever,
and
place, when
the
sound
didn't
Sadi's
about
was
arrested.
himself
saw
he
be
own
prayer-book!
hope ?
he to
as
leave
the
the
concerned.
was
had
off, then
cut
the
at
before, his
humble
so
"
eliminated,
Disgusted,
he
even
lishmen
Eng-
interested,
again, but
never
catastrophe of
the
himself
felt, as
He
sighed.
be
would
peer
of
out
Allah
that.
doing
himself
to
dig
to
pohtical leverage.
genius for
hope
even
of
kind
some
have
time
might
307
how,
some-
formerly.
given him
Instead,
Damascus,
he
the
perienced
ex-
sad-
ALADDIN
3o8
dler
all the
"
him
bored
a
short
had
him
and
speak.
He
would
start
did.
ennui
at
He,
the
his
for Sadi
waited
see
Of
felt
He
had
situation
bulge.
to
to
for
no
him
was
to
she
action.
bored.
not
was
The
complexion receded
He
paled;
it;
is, his
that
wilderm
be-
sicklyyellow. Alarm,
enlightenment
his
Because
back.
moment.
seemed
eyes
but
of
excitement
anticipated his
Sadi,
There
yawns.
He
pack, rather
Why?
gone.
that it?
Was
he
He
breathless
was
ago
BROADWAY
The
time
course,
of
rest
now.
gone?
no
FROM
succeeded
another
one
on
eloquent visage.
"The
Mecca!"
he
must
In
He
who
him
smiled, almost
him.
reciter!
"Come
told ;
to
do
that
the
probably jumped
mandarah.
had
he
The
Sadi
romance-
to
sion
conclu-
discovered
Hebrew
players
it to their
so.
in," said
At
of
costume
merely because
in his humble
advantage
host.
was,
not
So
ingratiatingly.
spite of the
had
he
have
to
went
stammered.
Stanton
knew
who
Christian
masquerading
Stanton, with
moment
he
felt
the
no
manners
of
specialenmity
BRAZIER
THE
against
use
lost
other.
kicking
sometimes
toward
Perhaps
tired
the
the
the
feeling."
The
against
mischief
the
emotion
had
for
even
bears
man
gentle
his
some
been
pricks.
experiences
world,
309
done.
No
who
has
magnanimity
enemies
relation
therein.
to
"that
XXII
CHAPTER
ONE
SADI
but
would
showed
bull
in
wanted
to
toss
Indeed,
he
he
in !
around
The
stifled
Might
saddler
insisted
"
bundles
cheap
such
contained
had
That
weapons.
carelessly;
for
it had
effect
moral
exigency
little
was
in
occurred
certain
310
muss
small
moment,
good
magic
the
of
armament
plaything
For
now.
of
small
for
him
one
at
last
the
at
from
trifle
mere
that
handled
serve
rather,
or
to
bric-a-brac."
the
giving
players
place
of
some
had,
Stanton
suddenly-
then
so,
if he
included.
Stanton
small
him;
at
as
verbial
pro-
yawn.
destroy
the
upon
the
unto
looked
do
to
"Too
looked
glittering object
measure
forward
said.
He
around,
things
Stanton
like
shop.
He
extended.
was
behave
to
china
the
started
"Good!"
it
manner
disposition
stopped.
the
invitation,
other's
the
obeyed
have
in
not
WAY
to
Stanton
him
It
now
might
exigencies.
how
was
Sadi
One
to
ALADDIN
312
did
"Why
The
to
FROM
have
you
tremendous
household
Was
He
the
fellow
of
chain
of mountains
from
the
with
"
stoor,"
with
the
spiritsand
But
fireside,or
was
two
the
in
the
called
Kaf
in the
clothes
will himself
to
to
look
heart-breaker.
Certainly enough
wake
of this mustahall
of those
one
depths who,
and
love
than
human
the
murmured
other
of
did
poor
any
"de-
mystical
them
not
vanish
to
That,
strollers; he
rate.
evapo-
at
did
could
fear
least,
have
pleased, from
saddler
his
from
spiritwouldn't
part he
The
superhuman.
cause
his brazier.
a
wives
always efficacious
are
fail to
to
sensions
dis-
create
men's
other
to
zens
deni-
according
homes, just to
more
never
from
an
might be
he
reassuring. Besides,
borrow
or
syllablesthat
side
to
spiritsthat dwell
is
still the
his
of
black
^yes, make
Instinctively Sadi
result
the
own
the
cavernous
that
felicity
his
on
of
tradition,visits cities
and
proachfull
re-
offshoot
followed
asked
question seemed
the
wares,
began
those
had
he
around
madman,
one
mischief
own
doubts
devil,
to
looked
goods, his
toil,and
own
intrude?"
to
effronteryof
Sadi.
stagger
BROADWAY
to
just
gar
beg-
spirits
;
ONE
in his
having established
one,
"What
do
Of
him.
wanted
knew
he
course
"I don't
But
mind
own
?" he
want
you
demanded
other
the
asked
visitor
savagely.
wanted,
he
"
question, anyhow.
the
anything now,"
want
his
that
rapidly.
now
what
he
313
revived
his courage
not
was
WAY
answered
the visitor
gently.
The
saddler's
couldn't
make
"I did
there's
More
big
something,"
crying
use
shots, half
went
the
what
cheerful
long;
behind
The
other
him
in the
Sadi
the
nor
hesitating;
was
and
opened
closed
that
narrowly.
"Ten
trophizing
apos-
His
distance.
they
But
either!
weapon,
felt it
less
care-
advertisements."
at
his face
his
burglar's antipathy!
"The
yet held
"But
other.
moon!"
the
weapon.
it's called
eyes
wouldn't
on
him.
delivery!" he murmured,
second
reply. He
annoyed
watched
now
his
was
coming
dark
"
as
The
a
dler
sad-
cloud.
thunder-
Sadi
would
now
burst
call
play.
"What
him
for
this
it. That
aggressively. Stanton,
manner,
his
of
mystification! Sadi
fists
That's
juggled with
anything
want
no
brain
have
you
aggressively.
done
with
her ?"
from
ALADDIN
314
"Suppose
And
now"
when
as
shone
real
be
You,
not
with
grieve
brazier
in
want
You've
going
was
"
are
nothing
to
You've
"
or
money
to
as
The
yawn,
but
get you,
to
come
It
me.
old
it.
"jvould
lah.
Methuse-
as
life.
your
toward
Something
property.
"
Sadi
"
All
the
you
denly
sud-
his breast.
voice
surprise. "So
got it.
"
you
Sadi's
pleasure." Stiflinga
little prayer-book
Stanton's
of
me?"
glancing swiftly
"
hand
destroyed it
might
will spare
expecting
lived to be
own
my
of
me
though
sacrifice,I
did not
your
did"
!"
accents
the
if you
me
raised
"What
be,
cunning.
"I
"was
deprived
is it to
incredulity."You
now,
even
the
at
low
or
"
"
And
individual,
an
want
question?
then ?"
me,
expect
I don't
do
"what
"
brutal
weren't
affected.
as
the
decide.
to
you
of
out
good!"
you
did not
or
lady
With
sheep
will
"I
to
friend!
"Perhaps
eyes
Up
were?"
my
slay you
if you
the
get it over!
waiting for
"No,
BROADWAY
came."
you
weren't
well
as
war?
you
"Oh,
leave
we
"
or
peace
FROM
now
out
rang
for
much
actuallygot it.
saddler
did
not
sharply,
deduction!
You
answer.
haven't
"I'll
ONE
trouble
in
man
that
Sadi's
His
heart.
It
different
same
with
accents
did
him
saw
He
weapon.
raised
of
around
Sadi
him
jarred
get
saddler
He
out.
waited
heard
the
him.
Sadi
the
toward
was
front
followed
the
sound
Now
comer.
Allah!
joy!
advance
the
"
What
pleasures
of
if
as
and
the
The
futile
on
Sadi ;
Bits
that
That
instant,
an
fellow
to.
Farther
nearer,
the
wall.
in
as
Stanton
darkness
hard
trying
red
overhead.
door; the
expectantly.
other, then
as
with
arm
recovered
he
not
changed
in the
against
up
violently,but
rushed
and
not
came
Those
cloak.
lamp
and
them,
was
prevailed
violently,not
the
it
have
him
his
the
it down
pistolstruck
ensued
out;
mined.
deter-
rush, whipping
from
the property
glass fell
win
upon
made
blade
brought
and
doubt,
acted
once!"
at
brusk
might
no
young
pointed straight
the saddler.
saddler
and
coming
it
would,
long
so,
"And
was
contrary,
bull ; the
manner
the
on
now
weapon
with
not
the
on
flag on
he
but
many,
It
went
tone.
might succeed;
final attempt.
315
book,"
that
He
at
for
you
WAY
must
the
moment
back
he
now
circlingtoward
toward
sprang
other
saddler
paradise. His
was
in
tasted
turn
in
had
ALADDIN
3i6
FROM
come
at
last.
The
air.
It
came
in
substance.
(or houris)
sharp blade
It sank
Was
in.
Elysium!
that
The
groan?
from
strain
sweetest
the
longer fanned
no
with
contact
sang.
like the
was
BROADWAY
For
angels
Sadi, it
harp of the
the
angel, Israfil.
saddler
The
He
did
unable
oM
not
the boot
be
breathing.
Yet
"
"
him
stay!
arose.
He
The
fellow
mercy?
that
yes.
oh,
he
"
plea for
"
for.
of
only that
swishing, as of
floor.
did
catch
spoke
The
Those
in
now
waited.
Sadi
the
Still
no
own
hoarse
swer;
an-
barely
Nor
saddler
the
could
faint
ceptible
per-
would
voice
show
again guided
tones
hand.
flowing through
But
felt the
like water
seize him.
was
leg. Injuries,
his
find him.
had
he
exhausted
to
be
camel-driving dialect.
sound
no
the other
down.
was
saddler
atoned
taunting voice
vocabulary of
the
on
was
groan
; it must
the
ago
was
would
new,
his
long
The
fellow
The
his weapon
use
Not
Now
and
Then
even
to.
boot.
silence!
Then
repeated.
still to listen.
stood
seemed
Christian
Sadi's
It
the
was
blade
possible
im-
again
evi-
ONE
WAY
for the
saddler
dently located
the
of
suddenly music
air.
Then
if the
was
as
had
been
house
had
latter felt
down,
And
rush
discord.
became
fallen
asunder.
rent
317
in that
world
the
or
general
It
clysm
cata-
Sadi
no
more.
appeared
man
shop
few
Stanton
anxious
being
as
walked
soon
as
street, to
obliged
bind
from
snatched
shoulder.
certain
the
Even
faintness
"
as
had
that
a
"
one
dollar
beggars. The
dark
could, with
and
which
diamond.
vagabond
he
was
He
now,
thought buoyed
of
behind
been
this
was
Mecca
to
valuable
his
predominated.
had
as
on
aware
Yet
the
scarf
nasty gash
him.
that
of
angle
of exhilaration
proof
him
ever,
far, how-
gone
he became
so
stealingover
his
wonderful
at
he
as
did
had
he
stop,
well
he
tiny volume,
thousand
of
it
to
quickly,
neighborhood behind
shop, a deep
as
the
as
up
behind
door
closing the
possible. Before
felt
he
peering in
uncertainly though
leave
to
saddler's
the
after
later, and
moments
of
door
the
at
to
hundred
veritable
his
him
king
footsteps; he
ALADDIN
3i8
FROM
forgot weakness,
like
unpleasant
an
himself
whether
he had
Sadi
smote
occurred
to
or
little souvenir
of
the
of
know
He
didn't
much
he
and
might
lay with
survive
day,
some
to
Providence.
triumph
other
An-
abruptly shadowed.
What
service would
be to him, when
He
paused
and
house;
he
realized
he
felt
mockery
now,
he
with
couldn't
get
giddy,
more
of
book
that
out
leaned
propitious circumstances,
he
an
dler's
sad-
The
one.
necessary
city?
"Success!"
He
"fireside,"rather
own
That
him.
growing weakness
under
didn't
question, disconcerting,baffling,
or
light-headed. What
to
enade,
prom-
heating apparatus.
or
part became
thought,
found
He
not.
or
though
Christian.
Stanton's
had
way.
not
was
He
nuisance, perhaps,
it
after-midnight
with
his
thick
was
seemed
irresponsiblefeeling of momentary
An
on
with
himself
other
some
jug,
procedure, but
make
of
him
But
contrary.
this
killed Sadi
perfume
skull
to
kind
He
dream.
the
on
"
struck
had
saddler's
ironical
one
wild
strange
He
had
in
actually enjoying
in
care.
fought it down.
or
walking
one
BROADWAY
fate
that
key
right
repeated longingly,
if he
in
the
to
bit
yielded
success,
his
hand.
while
he
ALADDIN
320
with
he
FROM
might tarry
the garments
upon
that
comforting
had
learned
and
had
Stanton
Confound
He
to
had
nibble
to
sure
be
to
Only
to
same
But
it
protection. But
had
been
dissipated.Sadi
in the
in the
march.
the
No
of
gettingback
to
had
been
diamond
the
Stanton
where
tales
Damascus.
probably
reward
it!
of
doubt
tell many
to
offered.
have
parted
he im-
Had
cafes
They
at
graveyard,
romance-reciter,
now
leave
was
The
town.
long
ago
thing, with
her
It must
nearly
he must
be
not
think
difficult to avoid
realized
how
she
indispensable. That
was
danger, relying
sighed.
he had
been
ago.
hours?
time.
able
un-
for
in the
or
was
ahoo
venture
retrogression. How
two
he
event
others?
strollers!
was
the
the
great
once
to
corners,
glad
time
He
at
hardly
the
seemed
some
that, alone,
the transaction
information
the street
merchant
an
calculated
acquaintance of the
could
too
too
reflection
recognized
his
but
city,in
of
about
former
on
had
leave, without
to
his
BROADWAY
near
and
dear
at
conclusion
his side ?
two
ing
think-
he been
had
An
o'clock
hour,
by this
of that, or
of her
doing
He
she
was
had
so.
become.
the word.
like
was
now.
had
not
Why,
Indis-
ONE
pensable!
had
He
though
the ends
to
his
on
to
only
savage
keep him
so
; he
anger
would
much
have
in any
to
when
ask
he had
The
market
stall?
The
stallion
It
was
was
be
least,he
to-night he
her
to
share
left her
any
way
he
had
still
there, where
started.
he
Was
he
had
efforts
would
that
the
left
The
est
greathim?
likely. Amad
most
even
raKe
have
place.
Desert?
well
of
risks,the
of
very
iteration
re-
not
couldn't
childish
did
Star
his
go.
He
Suddenly
probably devoting
would
make.
place?
was
prison,
think
in the market
the
do
to
to
didn't
plans he might
possible. It
guarding
He
at
would
who
risk to himself.
what
at
now
experienced
of this Moslem
nor
The
enough
strong
"
felt
slightly
was
right to attempt
bars
it must
"
didn't.
city. He
no
how,
care
To-night
Reiteration!
the
he
follow,
longer
no
against those
now
break
He
strong
intolerant
necessary
he would
himself
all, but
the
was
nothing; he
he did not
her
she went,
was
was
of
out
get
She
her.
told
or
shoulder
unsteady, that
321
of the world.
physical weakness,
cut
have
to
Where
his existence.
to
WAY
principally to
play "safe."
city of mystery
ALADDIN
322
and
wait
for the
fanatics
have
the native
ready
devote
to
personal
confusion
in the
search
The
only
he
seemed
rather
of
Christian
and
burning
be
more
diamond
chant's
mer-
much
too
was
conducted
very
tematic
sys-
yet.
toward
the market
there, mount
the
started
reach
the
the
He
perhaps
quarter and
There
city to have
Then
of
concerns.
could
one
wearied
dark.
was
that.
to
man
"rush"
it
themselves
as
young
do
to
mom
would
lootingin
If
BROADWAY
myriad hiding-placeswhile
would
the
FROM
exits, or
attempt
place.
Star, and
do
to
mad
It
so!
be
not
least difficult.
the
in the
demonstrated
as
his team
unachievable
as
this
the
was
pulloff
this
trick.
had
stunt,
not
that
seen
The
expected
un-
been
once
lected
se-
seemingly about
been
it had
But
something
of the kind
at
could
That
paradise.
be
one.
lost unless
for
should
himself
He
accomplished. And
turned
who
to
he
succeeded.
by
Had
goal
It
was
had
glory;
guarded by soldiers
sleepy,fairlyinebriated!
for
been
They
had
And
had
if not
an
early
ONE
The
anyhow.
manage
Yes;
far.
thoroughfare
get fairlyclose,before
he
would
Even
he
as
with
continued.
do
him
there.
would
before
him
heard
hasten
must
Now
he
the
brushed
whinny
greeted him.
last
of
thoughts
were
did.
he
him
But
some
song!
"
paused
rest.
And
"
he
wall
stood
to
"
with
and
seemed
to
one
the
know.
hand
stall.
of
of
he
It took
!
how
"
garden
pommel
drunkard, he rode
his
"
what
Pegasus
"
low
Eden!
songs"
way
Pegasus.
the
His
groped his
Goal
to
did.
square.
Garden
old
Good
He
prayer.
hardly knew
unfasten
find
and
effort he
the
"
certainly
longer. Soon
an
he
long !
Not
come
of
of
space
had
morning
"song
He
mount.
he
much
before
to
clingingwith
to
him,
Pegasus!
managed
"
open
call to
chaotic.
stillhe stood !
but
this, he stumbled,
be dark
Solomon
time
man
carry
against the
At
cedars
would
the entrance
at
was
along.
"
and
not
hasten
"
could
he
"
length the
might leave
It would
be
hand
at
saw
straight
consciousness
lost
Nerve
told himself
He
market
it.
shoot
dark;
was
to
recovered
"
323
start.
the
WAY
!
"
of the
forth.
CHAPTER
IN
the
the
such
SURPRISE
of the bazaars
street
day, how
next
he
had
they had
told,
story-tellers
It had
out.
Surprised,
swallowed
been
the
got
difficult matter.
guard
XXIII
the
chewing.
aromatic
Others
of
some
barely evaded
the violent
rush
his
had
unexpectedly
rider
desultory detonations
had
lashed
enlivened
bride
The
had
narrow
made
an
Damascan
into it
could
as
yet
not
the
and
no
one
one
streets, the
the
few
situation,
"The
ishing
Vanhim.
mysteriously. She
more
excellent
spice of
story-tellerscalled
the
vanished
simply become
narrative
the
had
when
him.
Bridegroom,"
the
cuds
hempen
had
been
not
knew
for the
why. The
listeners
fiction-makers
supernatural. Else
in
fusing
inhow
SURPRISE
How
could
afrit?
an
like to
havoc
in the homes
to
in
was
fool
shape, to
of husbands,
uncanny
ones
people, or
work
brides.
young
tin'"
away,
realitya genie
and
mischievous
human
married
whisked
been
bridegroom
These
assume
have
lady
substitute
less the
or
the
;32S
had
genie
the
bride
had
set
them
mad
merry
then
the
cross-purposes.
game
of hide-and-seek.
this version
for
theme
His
listened
He
of
her, what
of
Light
Fool
then
ever
gagged
Life
to
to
ever
of
him
what
have
divorced
have
allowed
She
Life
guardian
by the fellow.
argument.
had
played
his
rage
affairs made
to
the
companiment
ac-
of
his
felicit
in-
entertainment,
Light
fine
told
He
story
tolerabl
In-
to
told
He
The
young
nose.
domestic
kanoon!
fair
street-comer
of
the
to
husband's
former
frightfulto behold.
was
love
all at
heard
handsome
wonderfully
made
had
under
right
Amad
He
man.
young
dervish,
ragged
was
always
She
what
thought
he
And
been.
she
had
she
thought of him.
the
himself
had
did have.
be
to
the
And
minx.
young
better
Amad
and
tied
was
of
the
fool-
ALADDIN
326
ish
in
indulge
to
the
FROM
field of
BROADWAY
recriminations.
battle
with
He
retired
from
in
rumblings
strange
his
chest.
When
he had
authority
street
a
but
corner,
inalienable
tale
accorded
spiritsof
such
the
It
cases.
He
might, in
has
to
was
the
at
not
merchant
judge
of
magic. And
those
evil
interfere
to
the
in
genie.
One
magic,
every
explained
why,
but
the
incredulously. The
could
that
official and
genie, and
If
this
scoffed
genie
of
wise
of
hero
might be displeasing to
haunt
in
they had
years
genie, one
it is not
and
revenge,
be very
Amad
a
air
be
to
the
had
Story-tellers
supposed
was
induce
police shrugged
six hundred
For
rights.
of
his request.
at
tried to
on
stop the story-teller
sabit
the
manner
little he
step in and
to
lukewarm
been
recovered
there
was
follower
like
rich
wasn't
true
of
head
mond
dia-
pearance.
explain the lady'sdisap-
not
and
when
such
no
of
the
lightning,was
anywhere. The
visitor had
Nothing would
better go
be
home
no
was
thing
faith
apt
to
and
as
knew
strike
make
gained by attempt-
ALADDIN
328
FROM
couldn't
again, you
ergo
Thus
horse.
Amad
left,but
sent
horsemen
way
to
the
horsemen
to
not
with
line
Christian
any
him.
Amad
what
purpose
If he did
would
dragged
was
Tied
zone,
Desert
be
sought
forth.
He
the
the
at
these
lites.
satelleast
at
or
after
had
patched
des-
boundary
that
In
zone.
Christian
of the powers,
Mohammedan
harm
may
him.
to
powers,
He
could
for, wherever
not
he
escape
and
was,
Then
of
one
there
pillto swallow.
bush
at
diamond
The
shortest
and
he
presides
settle with
bitterer
to
to
already
Amad,
those
the consent
have
Just
than
more
them, would
he
with
is safe. No
might
did.
paused
which
chanted
en-
hole.
had
fellow,
the
an
followed
non-Moslem
of
is the
now
with
had
over
appointed
governor,
which
They
up
lies
independent liwa^
He
catch
They
beyond which
home.
stop
of his friends
others
out
way
of him.
trace
some
to
crawled
himself,
expected
go
the
He,
sea.
be
they
down
and
BROADWAY
noble
the very
merchant
animal
border
saw
looked
of the accursed
the
Star
of
the
ered
SURPRISE
though the
out,
329
selected
had
man
young
an
cellent
ex-
and
As
swung
Amad
in
made
of
as
the
Star
scene
was
seized and
the
be
visually devoured
gaged
en-
the
on
had
two
right enough
fluttered
on
of
bit
diamond
The
paper.
was
or
hastilyscrawled
message
of
saddle
possible.
blades
shot
would
he
doubt,
to
disreputable bit
"To
the
comfortable
holy associations.
Fastened
; it
to
on
white
as
mountain
soon.
him
rather
merchant
it.
Ahl-Masr:"
illustrious,etc., etc., Amad
the
could
be
fellow
polite, exquisitely so
"Herewith, I am
property." The
returning your
ble.
The
reader
to nibgroaned.
"property" continued
the
"
"
"Thank
down
well.
you
for
loan.
the
Farewell!
We
I have
meet
was
and
stranger
attentions
and
you
took
thousand
Here
he mentioned
one
or
two
courtesies
For
I
thanks.
I have
sweet.
in.
me
Our
interesting city.
so
"
him
more.
no
been
rubbed
me
shall
to
our
never
tual
mu-
"
"
others.
The
name,
ALADDIN
330
Amad
FROM
regarded
There
the
the note
limitations
are
BROADWAY
signature was
and
he
didn't say
camel
dear
to
more
writing.
mother-in-law
with
I pass
me.
low
Be-
language.
even
"My
regards to dear Light of Life.
her.
Preserve
! Cherish
charming woman
apple of your eye. My one regret is that I
my
word.
What
her
the
as
can't
her
take
to
on
debt.
something and thus pay my
Pardon
little cut.
Don't
bad
a
writing. I have
It doesn't amount
to anything. I am
feeling
worry.
much
better.
You
will be so
pleased to learn this.
mountain
The
air has such
tonic properties. Once
you.
owe
you
affectionate
more
No.
"Postscript
do
What
of
knowledge
reader's
brain.
was
longer
no
he
The
a
cloak
But
saw,
he
desolation
to
of
he
marks
the
the
road.
Ever
hear
on
Rubber?
follow.
fellow.
distant
be
him.
of
Afar
up
the
hazardous
to
be
flutter
sweet
road.
the
tation
temp-
non-Moslem
attempt
"
leaving
was
suppressed
these
mountain
the
on
fellow
the
the
vanishing lady
wayfarer
Amad
would
the
something
Among
Revenge
illumined
suddenly
saw
also, houses;
behind
it would
mystery
mystery.
thought
ragged
the
Note
Automobiles?"
flood
now
of tires?
salutations, etc.
to
but
ple
peomolest
he
was
SURPRISE
and
old
of
safety for
might be
evil
dogs
of
that
in
prayed inwardly
there
The
cautious.
331
talce that
one
Christians!
old, old
that
general
And
Unfortunately, it did
his wish
would
of
diamond
the
the
or
"
hundred
Several
worst
Amad
look
was
take
was
rested
not
buildings,not
in
an
quest
end.
From
groves
so
"
of
thinking
the walls
on
had
His
but he
gaze
to
come
ment,
mo-
far
danced
The
for
message
discerned
the
to
little seaport
expectant.
eager,
practicallyhad
opportune
distance
hill, some
upon
true
tearing the
and
west,
His
town.
done,
was
had
that.
his
won
His
ening
quick-
around
or
this port he
He
away.
No
of
occasions.
back.
gazed down
oranges
other
on
"
bits,he
and
wager,
case
turned
afar, stood
could
the
merchant, however,
best
into
been
had
if
ing
loot-
all, been
the
at
believers.
un-
riotingand
had, after
arisen
had
his,
as
seem
non-sanguinary character.
and
prophet of blood
as
of
all foul
not
The
pass.
night before
the
desultory
to
come
Amad
town
of
massacre
zone
sion
mis-
Bright spots
them.
"
Stan-
ALADDIN
332
FROM
Hastened
ton
downward
had
it any
and
The
vigorous.
more
BROADWAY
his
patriarchal beard
been
discarded.
of
first persons
the
he
Stanton
He
the
didn't
in
met
Lord
was
said
mance-reci
ro-
need
the
town's
Fitzgerald,
lordship. This
his
his next
were
The
Englishman
words.
nodded
the
toward
buildings.
"And
well?"
Again
wonderful
Eagerly.
affirmative.
an
kind
where
"Have
Stanton
the town
of the past.
he
any
laughed.
of somnambulistic
haven
vicissitudes
was
perienced
ex-
feeling. What
after
seemed
He
He
walked
on
hardly
ing
not-
going.
gettinghere?"
difficulty
he asked, after
moments-
"No.
Only
or
once
twice
your
"
the
lady wanted
out."
jump
"You
of
certainlya surprise-maker.
was
is here?"
mission
to
once
joyfully.
him
"
Oh!"
American
"Yes."
few
hailed
What?
"She
was
longer.
One
on
stride
"
did not
let her, I
"Naturally not."
Dryly.
hope ?"
In
quick
alarm.
"But
SURPRISE
should
why
she have
believe
doubt
studying
"The
that
the
has
case
?'*
"
The
"Unaccustomed
she
ever
saw
to
face
of
young
cars,
man
I suppose.
before."
one
it," observed
was
intent
eager
335
Fitzgerald,
his
companion.
he
added.
"What
case?"
"Hers."
"My
wife's?"
"Hum
Stanton
"Are
turned
"But
lady is
your
was
do
you
say
that?"
wife?"
is
truculent
as
binding
accent
in the
you
are
Christian," said
Fitzgerald
smile.
the
lady isn't""
"Is, too."
"I
beg
as
tone.
"Yes, but
with
"Why
ceremony
There
man's
young
him.
Mohammedan
other."
any
the
sure
you
"The
on
Englishman.
your
"Is, too/'
pardon.*'
repeated Fitzgerald.
"She
has been
"She
never
has
converted
been
?"
Mohammedan,
at
all."
ALADDIN
334
The
FROM
"When
stared
man
young
of the
one
marriage
binding," observed
it is not
real
substitute
husband.
You
imitation-husband.
of
husband.
enjoy his
own
wit
man
stopped.
both
an
tion
imita-
only
was
is
an
only
Fitzgerald seemed
"
"were
"
only
mustahall
You"
ered
consid-
were
never
you
bride
tian,
Chris-
"When
were
Your
imitation-bride.
shadow
to
nobleman.
the
still be
may
binding. Therefore,
are,
imitation
him.
at
contracting parties is
Mohammedan
BROADWAY
but
of
shadow
shadow."
The
young
don't you
"Why
"I don't
like
"Has
it
something?"
say
he
agely.
sav-
growled.
lot of words."
occurred
never
lady might
young
He
not
to
be
yourself,that
you,
Mohammedan?"
the
asked
the other.
"What
do
girl'smother
"Greek?
You
"Positive.
"I
of
"
I don't
new
You
have
heard
thing?
some-
is it?"
What
"The
know?
you
Her
Greek."
was
are
sure?"
father
understand."
chamber
of
was
Bewildered.
English."
Here
mysteries.
was
He
the
strove
opening
to
re*
ALADDIN
336
ragged
was
FROM
and
it.
His
country,
about
face
or
rush
to
of
soiled;
the
desert,
have
arms,
willy-nilly.
And
No,
for
As
her
he
of
had
had
in
he
in his
her
his
with
stained
been
bond
vaga-
garments;
clasping
clothes
been
actually been
that
tian
Chris-
he,
"
for
convention
to
become
had
of
he
pulse?
im-
blood,
low
some
did
so,
He
he
ern
tav-
civilized
been
Before,
to.
he
But
felt
He
being.
back
him
"Not
he
"
world
about
was
wife"
dread
"
and
tion.
premoni-
her;
seized
and
it
on
his
claimed
Uneasiness
past
on,
chill ; the
sudden
experienced
have
laughed.
lordship
his
claimed
might
now
his
man
English-
an
"
turned
more
once
attire
Trust
Stanton
followed
garden.
he
right.
was
proprieties.
change
of
intended
Had
vagabond
the
"
never
and
proved
im-
not
in
was
one,
capable
Fitzgerald
mission
her.
He
scarecrow
those
Mechanically
the
of
it had
"
no
"bawth"
been
with
if the
brawl
dyed.
was
in
irresistiblytoward
even
as
sleeping
segment
might
too,
BROADWAY
he
his
had
soul.
CHAPTER
XXrV
MARY
'*
The
told
in the
now
partly removed
it
the
in
of
the
hotel
the
nobleman
trailed
blood
had
wash
application would
tall
his
he
bathrobe,
from
was
went
"The
Devon
figure
listened
tently
in-
off.
Stanton
wouldn't
Blue
sides, I fancy."
be
too
altogether
blue;
from
337
also, had
blood,
that
the
they
sphere
He
of
his
of
voice
hoped
wouldn't
cellent
ex-
bit
Fitzgerald's
uneasily.
stirred
the
emphasized
lady's mother,
young
family,"
good
"
rather
He
on.
both
on
her
shaved.
had
meantime,
connections--excellent
property
boasted.
chemical
Another
dye.
room
town
He
mild
"English."
"
nobleman's
the
"
host.
his
fact
voluminous
father
"Her
latter
in
"bawth".
entirely. In
enveloped
to
his
had
application
first
the
seated
were
had
remove
impressively
paused
is"
side, she
father's
fairly pretentious
one
Stanton
The
her
on
you,
Fitzgerald
two
CARRUTHERS
the
move
re-
hopes.
ALADDIN
338
FROM
couldn't
They
would
Miss
Awful
"
Those
romance!
belonging
to
He
wonderful
whisked
her
Perhaps he
point
to
specter
to
away
from
them?
in the
habits
mother
trouble.
with
them
an
tificial
ar-
from
he
as
had
Irony of fortune!
Anyway,
would
he
fight the
domains
and
of the
saw
"He
good
small
*sick
man
was
deal
while
beautiful
they
were
of
Europe'. My
woman
happy.
her
"
"
and
Then
she
tinued
con-
The
traveler.
principalitybordering
terest
In-
tary
soli-
of rather
man
of
good deal of
lived in
even
sibility
pos-
too
the nobleman.
For
him
eyes
the
grab her
to
poetic
hugged
out
from
daughter of
icy fingersof
the
away
able
Honor-
an
Perish
"
he
or
"
"The
been
legs;
reaching
her
was
Miss"
maybe, she
"
dark
deep
Were
arms.
whisk
to
his
up
civilization
him,
She,
thought!
drew
sinewy
strong
Somebody,
"Honorable
an
might inherit
Lady
of his
princess out
in the
she
be
to
prove
make
do
they
mother
her
through
well
very
BROADWAY
on
the
man
countrymust
married
business
have
her.
called
MARY
the
husband
befell.
of
CARRUTHERS
home.
The
strife and
Even
Europe.
"In
cynical gesture.
habit.
But
to
"During
localities
some
husband's
They
manner.
spared, on
"But
"Did
and
make
earth
to
"He
Was
taken
are
long
ago.
killed
The
among
girl's mother,
of her
beauty,
half
move?
no
doubt, have
he
Did
the
off.
sparkled.
eyes
not
in
those
carried
was
Stanton's
no
An
London.
to
heaven
move
done
to
He
Outrages
of
get
may
at.
this kind
been
stricken
may
were
reported dead.
Exact
there.
died
Remember
office,too,
tunately,
but, unfor-
himself
was
have
never
so,
trouble, I understand.
old
hospital and
hard
Home
have
becomes
"
his wife.
may
of their periodical
one
made
"
would,
down
war
driven
husband?"
he
are
account
the
Fitzgerald
"
seat
return:
the
descents.
It
prophet
"
then
tragedy
long been
of the
usual
absence,
turmoil.
his
During
little principality
had
intermittent
out
339
learned
never
this
happened
what
have
frequent. The
tails
de-
befell
known.
mother
ALADDIN
340
"As
to
lost to
FROM
of
matter
fanatical
Moslem
child.
He
her
kind.
enough
to
fine house
and
so
as
he
bad
in Damascus,
don't
know.
birth
gave
Mussulman.
of
tive
posi-
existed
know,
Presented
his
for
chap
been
have
generous
her
with
know."
you
I've been
"Yes;
interested.
into the
of
sort
to
seems
wife.
did
the wife
his Christian
Stanton
sold
and
was
in that."
mother
being
ried
car-
thereafter
intensely
you
not
was
slain,but
uncommon
was
became
Anyhow
center
avoid
to
slavery which,
he
not
the
captivity,
Later,
Apparently
was
Nothing
nodded.
"Shortly after
to
fact, she
the world.
Stanton
BROADWAY
He
there."
spoke absently.
"Have,
eh ?"
man's
young
window.
It
attention, for
an
instant,was
Moslem
fellows
do
Fitzgerald. "The
of
was
child,by
Just
how
the
of the
marriage,
came
conjecture. Perhaps
about
the
or
how
big Mogul
of his.
placed in
is somewhat
mother
of the
"Odd
inordinately fond
this
out
About
sharply. The
immediately recalled.
was
of those
some
His
mission.
of
matter
stipulatedit
as
MARY
condition
him
and
mother,
this reminder
welcomed
member
of
preacher
that vouched
for
will, though
you
heart
distance.
far,
There's
for
"
places, the
situation
^he could
flake
"
on
on
of those
was
breast, beneath
"
now
great
on
"
the
lispingbeneath
trees
whereof
builded, heedless
of
the
per
pa-
prisoner, if
paper
"
"
across
winding
the
man,
the
making
was
great
as
venerable
child,
sandy
over
nestling,perhaps,
one
rhythmically
"
beautiful
broad
of
shadows
long
some
prayers
mind
camel
them
see
camel
you."
Stanton's
white-bearded
on
for
away,
wafting
old
delivery. One
pictures. The
camels
far
old
an
Fitzgerald paused.
the
remembers
can
An
connected
then
"
rate,
any
here.
her
to-day
he
the child
restore
man,
her
to
belonged. At
him
saw
The
inevitable, herself,
brought
caravan
^you
"
with
she
of the past.
the
to
the chance
civilization where
341
though yielding
have
to
he
dispense with
to
may
CARRUTHERS
ungainly
a
snow-
beard
"
child, wonderful,
the
somber
shadow
temple of Solomon
destination
"
minding
not
ALADDIN
342
the
caravan
in
mite
"
great
"
"After
the mother
died"
himself
unto
life. The
in the child's
presenting
very
very
long!
give
her
paper
"the
Now
old
for
"
wanted
"
"Her
should
doesn't
He
she
so
very,
satisfied
not
was
sent-min
ab-
and
missions
member
re-
was
to
removed
"
away
they
"
"
Life
of
Light
have
began Stanton.
back?
may
There
The
conjecture!
"May
some
getting old
later
and
"
why
is
missionary
surreptitiously smuggled
"But
child.
the
in many
however,
epoch
preacher remembers
Has
old
pal
princi-
another
comes
he
worked
band
hus-
favorite, or
second
plunged
Mohammedan
vividly, for
The
up,
Fitzgerald had
"
"
one
the where
"
faces
BROADWAY
FROM
have
have
girl
been
been!"
several
are
beautiful.
was
avaricious
From
the
More
reasons.
The
mother
step-
"
"
young
man,
sotto
voce.
"She
some
"No
may
have
benign
old
doubt
that
planned
Mussulman
was
it!"
to
sell her
in
of means."
marriage
to
ALADDIN
344
FROM
ruptible friend.
discovered
old
on
Had
one
tracings of
very
well.
is
caretaker
who
wonder.
happen
know,
at
the
had
might,
might
or
bribe
not
and,
Didn't
folks.
added.
1"
"She
No
want
danger of
can
that
zling
siz-
result.
of
marriage,
the
jewelry?
luck
something
now,"
the
wires
about
burden
to
of
Not
is,well,
the
you
wolf
else that
Damascus,
at
impelled
be
to
began
the
Truth
happened
felt
to
the
such
ideas
about
have
me
me
No
vague
ideas
them,
to
record
me.
there
latter,just
know
show
to
some
door, between
the
You
incorruptible.
so
lady
to
to
Kept
Traced
it
themselves,
something
say.
"
they faithfullyperformed.
them
cable.
facts.
she
I'd be
sure
Knew
The
know
to
Americans
English.
lady. Seems
service
Used
family.
How'd
marks
old trinkets
showed
have
certain
mother.
This
she
all the
"
the young
these
Happened
you
them
arms
her
gave
When
too.
of
of
to
Verified
two
would
so, you
and
died,
she
as
done
coat
devoted
father's
you
Questioned
were
before
or
BROADWAY
to
"
on
you
derstand
un-
sion
the mis-
the nobleman
deed
get along nicely ^yery nicely,in"
MARY
The
other
CARRUTHERS
did not
"
name?"
once
"Mary
Stanton
she
was
not
spared
he
Maybe,
child
fact it
one
wife!
your
was
he
that.
it.
"
nice
very
would
have
might
meddlers
these
talk
desirable?
he
new
relatives
might
He
before, only
feeling.
for
somebody
lot of
was
Some
of that
fanciful
have
doubts.
There
her
tives
rela-
times
Some-
advise.
That
had
He
however.
way
who
it
praised
"grand matches,"
"Desirable?"
matches.
Was
of
be
brand-new
people
and
people
again.
over
mixed-up
ask
to
appear
the
ing
say-
But
name.
Anybody.
felt that
had
grade
Allah
felt confused,
peated
re-
It wasn't
all
her
Miss
variety of
new
first
"
brightened.
He
He
Stanton
in the
Carruthers
Honorable
an
There
and
was
her
of
name
Carruthers."
"Mary
Then
help
was
the
sighed.
hand.
like
In
He
this
Miss
name
name.
couldn't
"What's
Carruthers."
letters.
like
ask
to
fondly imagined
you
the
his
swallowed"
having
"Carruthers?
been
knows
abruptly.
Fancy
whom
was
subject. "She
does."
"What'""
bad
the
pursue
345
or
sirable
de-
the word.
batch
of
might be
ALADDIN
346
FROM
Anglo-Saxon Light
an
His
terror.
obstacles
many
"Sure
the
"I
the
the
to
job
He
could
boy
"
imagine
bogy
sees
as
faces
time.
he
said
that person.
"I
romance-reciter?"
ular
reg-
nobleman.
haven't
leave
sank.
them
among
forest at dusk
aren't
you
grufflyto
of Life
timorous
as
in
trunks
tree
on
heart
BROADWAY
talent," answered
you."
"Humph!"
Fitzgerald eyed
be.
did
man
young
seem
Perhaps because
"Here's
at
not
him
the
with
mild
so
pleased
as
lost that
had
he
inquiry.
he
wager
prayer-book," Stanton
said
The
ought
to
"
bruskly,
that moment.
"The
turn
little Mecca
to
be
Indifferently.
**But I
thought
"Did."
you
said you
"But
Laconically.
"Thanks."
"Do
"
congratulate you."
"You
It
was
Fitzgerald's
surprised.
"Yes."
"I
?"
souvenir
With
no
The
lost it."
got it again."
nobleman
was
erous.
gen-
enthusiasm.
win."
I?"
Stanton
knew
well
enough
he
had
won
MARY
the
But
wager.
win
CARRUTHERS
he
347
if
wondered
would
he
ever
?
"
"You
deserve
man,"
old
success,
Fitzgerald
said
warmly.
"Thanks
!"
and
shoulders.
He
would
would
have
ovated.
indoors
to
He
you
thank
get
you,"
"Patience,
Stanton's
couldn't
on
It
works
at
this
nor
little
his
on
go
thing
one
it
put
?"
skinned
he
he
now
bing
rub-
face
slowly."
rate.
out
half
the
other.
stronger?"
He
reii-
gested
sug-
sympathetically.
Fitzgerald
"And
time
"
neither
was
if
"Maybe
in
stay
more
stuff!
long
was
man
once
this
"Hang
be
young
"wash"
chemical
the
The
Again.
scoffed
the
young
grumbled.
counseled
then,"
reply
was
inaudible.
the
other.
man.
"No,
CHAPTER
THE
they
clothes.
had
had
After
garb
the
were
the
the
he
live
real
He
felt
He
he
He
duds.
different
else
He
his
at
the
all
invaded
she
and
again
through
of
wasn't
had
was
well,
procured.
He
for
out
get
her
different.
land
to
with
which
cut,
impart.
can
himself
in
these
groom
bride-
picturesque
Would
ried
car-
himself
to
He
courtyard.
ments
gar-
he
touch
subtle
that
the
in
said
native
like
these
But
he
justice
them.
disreputable,
long,
so
could
for
longed
doing
different
be
only
wasn't
who
to
wore
fit very
if sometimes
tailor!"
"artists"
the
send
He
uncomfortable.
American
yearningly.
only
"If
be
could
proprietor
stiff and
forth.
didn't
accustomed
well.
them
that
flowing,
been
seemed
strode
They
best
hotel
loose
had
GARDENS
later, he
European
but
MISSION
time
SOME
XXV
was
everything
reached
gate.
the
But
mission
he
348
gardens
walked
and
slower
walked
now.
THE
What
MISSION
? Timid
? Like
himself
to
fancy.
Stanton
as
lion.
him
call upon
It
been
cut
And
that hat?
by
One
time,
he
He
"
^hadn't
didn't
He
He?
he
have
her
at
No
wasn't
in
the
in
the
den.
gar-
He
had
furiously.
stiff shirt
His
and
creaked
"
his
arms
flushed
could
one
up
yes,
"
and
have
Those
to
them
and
his
in
hadn't
he
hadn't
been
he?
bolder.
confounded
on
that
"
yes,
"
he
hesitated
But
He
this
walls
mission
conventional!
knock
arms
hadn't
slightly. He
solid-lookingand
go
this
room
casement,
"
to
far
All
readjust himself.
quite like
so
very
before.
of
towns
seaport
exiles!
months!
for
one
have
so
up
ported
im-
are
"
Stanton
then.
cut
that
poor
pounding
was
himself.
to
unsophisticated? hesitating?Why,
"
evening
were
to
and
have
must
fully.
surveyed it scorn-
the
to
progressed
it to
to
taken
had.
They
bold
as
bothered
that
English lids
natives
worn
paused
felt
he
course
it off and
hundreds
heart
seem
took
those
for
known
never
his bashful
sheep-shearer,he grumbled
hadn't
His
Of
feel strange.
him
has to force
object of
of
world,
349
who
man
the adored
was
by the
the
young
frowned.
^that made
"
GARDENS
would
the door.
He
350
ALADDIN
would
say:
FROM
"Is
Miss
asking for
seem
almost
like
once
inside
with
Carruthers
his
glad
to
which
soul
You
would
maybe
instructive,perhaps
"
But
the
Creak!
hard
creak!
as
And
That
board
had
situation
the hat
all
caressing folds
of
be
shirt
was
was
turban.
going
to
now
he
to
He
bit
He
her.
see
else.
going
Yes
to
see
; now
praised,she
her
!
For
was
"
she
alone.
now
had
She
very
sprightly,
went
on.
laundries!
soft
the
wild
the
light without
light-headed. He
it.
Doubts
filled his
and
soon
"
felt
The
suddenly evaporated.
expanded
lowing
Fol-
the
missed
reiterated
forget everything
fact
He
native
head
was
say
certainly starched
Hang
His
Perhaps
less
or
head-covering of
the
would
to
met.
his head.
pinched
four
"
to
over.
then
nice conventional
platitudinous,more
"
And
I trust?"
introductions
she
or
well,
are
come
It would
pinched by
walls, he
you!
see
In?"
stranger.
very
eminently conventional
"So
BROADWAY
He
began
and
givings
mis-
single,bald,
being. He
portant
imwas
"
come
came
out
toward
be
Allah
him
she
_
saw
him.
The
dimming day
softened
any
differences
ALADDIN
352
FROM
BROADWAY
spoke
conventional
if he had
as
manner.
In
managed
to
rived
ar-
man,
Pull-
perhaps.
"He
told me,
too, how
you
out
get
of Damascus."
"No
She
looked
down
?"
constraint
between
into the house
"I
him.
at
would
"Won't
"Or, would
them.
rather
not
And
much
easy
to
He
looked
with
well
no
better
here?"
in
to
much
to
answer
pleasant out
say !"
to
He
least,to put it
at
on
say, he
European
it,though.
So
sweetly delicate
to
the
say.
"You
"
one
conditions.
new
She
dress.
graceful!
"
curves
you
so
certainly
slender!
"
for
strangelyquiet. It
was
adjust himself
the
at
those
"Yes,
so
last,or,
themselves
so
not
"
that
in
"
turned
re-
way.
was
looked
have
we
quite meant
had
go
house," he
"it is very
"
They found
who
rather
you
into the
go
surprisedglance
just that
scended
de-
have
?"
sit
you
abruptly to
seemed
won't
"
are
of
thing
some-
comfortable
THE
MISSION
GARDENS
353
"Most."
"Looks
like
nice
place."
"It is."
They
had
inevitable
any
other
He
didn't
sighed.
like it.
ensued.
stars
in the
think
even
liked
What
of
to
"I suppose
you
"I suppose
so.
He
will be
We
"
Of
period of silence
joke! Doubts
as
many
self-possessedshe
sol
He
had
going
couldn't
He
if she
asked
else
What
around.
looked
I have
he
denying that.
comfortable.
was
said?
Had
end?
How
platitudesnow.
be
half
he
mind, numerically as
heavens.
it here, if she
remained
tranquil. Ominously
and
"
into his
Then
No
very.
say!"
to
her.
in his breast?
while
furtively,
"Much
just like
call upon
^the very
mirage
ing,
readjust-
was
might
"
"
her
pop
He
frowned.
friendly
was
regarded
was
He
nourishing
she
to
who
It seemed
of
process
anew.
Was
course,
the
that
man
young
only been
began
of
part
"
finding themselves
or
He
to
England
hardly made
any
soon
?"
plans
yet."
"Permit
turn
"
me
of your
very
glad."
to
congratulateyou
on
fortunes," he observed.
the
"I
felicitous
am
glad
ALADDIN
354
"Thank
thank
FROM
you."
!"
"Don't
He
for
done
was
not
He
for
her
"We
to
be
"That
was
"We
Was
there
He
more
to
hear
of
seemed
conversation
with
long
silences.
caravansaries
the
to
"
fingers,looking
his strong
day
more
"
to
interval.
an
you."
from
of
some
camel
the
men
heard
we
nothing
Mary
The
be mistaken.
must
nothing
"
in
slight catch
!
"
"
Carruthers'
wish
was
father
thought
"Yes;
observed
hungy feeling. It
very
little he
very
perfunctory acknowledgment
then
the
the
"
to
safe."
"And
voice?
kind
very
were
Another
to
punctuated
hoped
you
had
Their
every
do
going
was
inquireabout
that
him.
I went
"
little bit
the
unclasped
straight before
doomed
She
clasped and
"I~I
"
his hand.
He
her.
then"
"
all
waved
And
Simply.
much
so
you
BROADWAY
doesn't
news
the young
man.
travel
very
Then
he
fast
here,"
over
crossed
the other
leg.
She
somber.
looked
He
at
was
him.
His
face
reflecting.That
was
handsome,
but
lion-like boldness
THE
he had
MISSION
attempted
In her
him.
the
to
had
air.
He
didn't
jump
and
run.
the
as
the
him.
have
be
might
strange
side!
to
say
world
then
and
propitious,
He
He
awry.
with
almost
an
This
Regents' Park.
ancestry
on
drifting farther
seemed
They
in
in the
weren't.
was
Park
her
to
to be
only they
Or
lady.
hands
flashed
something
ought
The
when
now
menacing
daggers
say
"
leg.
concession
No
sitting in Central
young
as
No
how
some-
irony of
an
feel thus,
to
conditions
The
other
What
himself.
astrologers
crossed
last
be made
toward
out
deserted
more
modesty seemed
presence
all to
355
once
fittinggarment.
more
her
reached
had
assume
actual
he
GARDENS
her
father's
and
farther
away.
It
talk
brief
"
silence
the
was
remarks.
tranquillitynow
if she
as
if
she
didn't
deep, dark
those
eyes
"
to
which
feel.
eyes
would
when
she
she
shine
had
moody,
Carruthers'!
Mary
feel
punctuated with
was
became
He
was
could
that
now
anything.
What
given
on
taken
belonged. He
to
some
her
would
her
what
He
dered
won-
looked
she
Yet
were
but
those
ful
wonder-
for?
Perhaps
other
place
fellow
where
some-
in the
world
be but
an
incident
FROM
ALADDIN
356
in that
which
one
life of
other
be able to
would
gradually and
mist, until
And
fade
away
like
name?"
weird
she
his
down
his
met
Fitzgerald. And
heard
twice
since
"Prove
it!"
of
wanted
dissolving
jocularityas
of
she
that
"
lover's
No
been
gloomy,
had
foolish.
rather
when
probably
She
soul.
Damascus
at
name
spoke.
he
strange.
depths
perienced
ex-
slight surprise.
rather
the
He
they
had
it once
heard
"
He
experienced
unreasonable
hear
to
of
question had
had
sensation
would
he
suddenly.
manner
into
His
course
asked
with
Again
thought
see
he
sensation
She
or
to
him.
disagreeable
more
forget it,and
course!"
couldn't
like
gradually
my
a
doubt,
that
"
"
"Know
"Of
hers
would
she
BROADWAY
her
anew
that
abrupt
frivolity.Maybe, he just
say
it.
"Prove
it!" he
lenged
chal-
her.
"Mr.
Jack Stanton,"
"Mister?"
friends ?
by first
he
In my
names.
'Jack'."
said
scoffed
country,
the
girlreadily.
old
recklessly. "Among
old
It's Tom,
friends
other
call each
Dick, Harry,
or
"
Say
THE
She did
MISSION
He
lips. He
gazed
and
once
sink
of his
the sound
hear
gazed
Then
more.
He
own
it
tone
hardly tender.
one
was
say
longer
silence
^brimming
"
look
did not
him
at
"
tragedy
He
The
very
for
him.
himself.
"
He
when
poise of
most
portentous
Miss
Carruthers
head
seemed
impression grew
of that
girl turns
or
woman
her
his
Why,
only part
saw
hadn't
He
like that
or
ever
now.
The
pectedly:
unex-
you."
catastrophes!
with
membered
re-
at her
than
looked
just then,
to
Then
I love
expected
he
Then
said
her
on
"
rapturously.
he
like to
to
immensely
quite surprised at
was
seemed
name
away.
he
"Mary,
He
in.
her
at
357
willingly. "J^ck."
at once,
so
GARDENS
spell
to
and
grew.
arose.
"You
There
was
"No,"
second
would
you
"
he
he
never
going?"
are
catch
said
had
in her
leave
her
the
now.
For
look
Of
girl quickly.
the
voice, by
suddenly.
caught
said
Allah-!
the
in
fraction
her
that, he
of
He
eyes.
was
sure.
"Mary!"
She, too, had
"Mary!"
arisen, and
he
caught
her
to
him.
ALADDIN
358
FROM
in
breeze,
The
the
BROADWAY
trees,
orange
of
sang
orange-
flowers.
"We'll
have
"And
of
princess
ring!"
wedding
his
wedding,
time."
the
laughed
"That
dreams.
this
is, if
dark
pale
beggar
can
a"?"
afford
"Rather.
And
And
real
thought
the
"A
Ecstatically.
The
Christian
bride'll
there.
with
wedding
the
almost
present!
bride
exhilarating.
too
that!"
Fancy
afterward.
honeymoon
was
be
real
He
one!"
turned
her.
to
And
what
followed
was
just
scene.
THE
END
like
any
other
love