No, I wouldn't go poking in mud-huts to find him." "Thou dost not think that Higli Pasha--" Nahoum seemed startled out of equanimity by the thought.

Lacey eyed him meditatively, and said reflectively: "Say, you're an artist, pasha.

You are a guesser of the first rank.

But I'd guess again.

Higli Pasha would have done it, if it had ever occurred to him; and he'd had the pluck.