Part 13 (1/2)
”Holy Prophet! what a Turk!” exclai up his hands
”Here is your et to be here to-morrow”
”Never fear me, vizier; your slave lives but to obey you, we Turks say”
”We Turks!” ure of the renegade ”Well of all the scoundrels--”
”Well,” , ”of all the scoundrels--”
Who to in their separate soliloquies ination; for caution prevented either of the parties frohts
VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER SIX
”Mashallah! Hoonderful is God! Did the caliph Haroun ever hear such stories?” observed the pacha, taking the pipe fro in coe histories of strange countries--What will his mouth open to next?”
”The Shaitan bacheh, for a son of the devil he still is, although he wears the turban and bows to Allah, will prove a treasury of ahness,” replied Mustapha: ”but what are the words of the sage?--'If thou hast gold in thy hazneh, keep it locked, and add thereto; thus shalt thou become rich'”
”They are the words of wisdohness to walk out this evening in search of more, and not exhaust that which is in your possession?”
”Wallah thaib! It is well said!” answered the pacha, rising from his musnud or carpet of state: ”the moon is up--when all is ready ill proceed”
In a quarter of an hour the pacha, attended by Mustapha and the arain set out upon their perah the city of Cairo
They had not walkedat the door of a fruit-shop, at high words with each other The pacha held up his finger to Mustapha, as a sign to stop, that he ht overhear their discourse
”I tell you, Ali, that it is i one's te stories!” whispered the pacha to Mustapha with delight: ”the very thing!--Shukur Allah! Thanks be to God!”
”And I tell you in reply, Hussan, that yours are ten times worse You never have spoken for tenan inclination to salute your mouth with the heel of my slipper I wish there was any one ould hear us both, and decide the point”
”That I will,” said the pacha, going up to them: ”to-morroill hear both your stories, and decide upon the merits of each”
”And who are you?” observed one of the hness the pacha,” replied Mustapha, co forward Both the men prostrated themselves, while the pacha directed Mustapha that they should be brought before hiiven thee to the slaves who had followed at a distance, returned hohted at the rich harvest which he expected to reap fro stories
When the divan of the following day had closed, the two men were summoned into the presence of the pacha
”I shall now decide upon the merits of your stories,” observed he ”Sit down there both of you, and agree between yourselves which of you will begin”
”May it please your highness, you will never be able to listen to this man Ali,” observed Hussan: ”you had better send hihness from all evil,” replied Ali, ”butof Hussan, which is as oppressive as the hot wind of the desert”
”I have not sent for you to hear you dispute in in”