"Effendina, he comes to place his life in thy hands.

He would speak with thee." "How is it thou dost bring him ?" "He sought me to plead for him with thee, and because I knew his peril, I kept him with me and brought him hither but now." "Nahoum went to thee ?" Kaid's eyes peered abstractedly into the distance between the almost shut lids.

That Nahoum should seek David, who had displaced him from his high office, was scarcely Oriental, when his every cue was to have revenge on his rival.

This was a natural sequence to his downfall.

It was understandable.