I am her foster-brother--from the same breast we drew the food of life.

Thou wouldst do justice, O Effendina; but canst thou do double justice--ay, a thousandfold?
Then"-- his voice raised almost shrilly--"then do it upon Achmet Pasha.

She--Zaida--told me where I should find the bridge-opener." "Zaida once more!" Kaid murmured.
"She had learned all in Achmet's harem--hearing speech between Achmet and the man whom thou didst deliver to my hands yesterday." "Zaida-in Achmet's harem ?" Kaid turned upon her.
Swiftly she told her dreadful tale, how, after Achmet had murdered all of her except her body, she rose up to kill herself; but fainting, fell upon a burning brazier, and her hand thrust accidentally in the live coals felt no pain.

"And behold, O my lord, I knew I was a leper; and I remembered my sister and lived on." So she ended, in a voice numbed and tuneless.
Kaid trembled with rage, and he cried in a loud voice: "Bring Achmet forth." As the slave sped upon the errand, David laid a hand on Kaid's arm, and whispered to him earnestly.

Kaid's savage frown cleared away, and his rage calmed down; but an inflexible look came into his face, a look which petrified the ruined Achmet as he salaamed before him.
"Know thy punishment, son of a dog with a dog's heart, and prepare for a daily death," said Kaid.