"But the Effendina ?" "Well, I'll try and square the Effendina," answered Lacey.

"Perhaps the days of backsheesh aren't done in Egypt, after all." "And Nahoum Pasha ?" asked Mahommed, with a sinister look.
"Well, we'll try and square him, too, but in another way." "The money, it is in Egypt ?" queried Mahommed, whose idea was that money to be real must be seen.

"Something that's as handy and as marketable," answered Lacey.

"I can raise half a million to-morrow; and that will do a lot of what we want.

How long will it take to ride to the monastery ?" Mahommed told him.
Lacey was about to leave the room, when he heard a voice outside.
"Nahoum!" he said, and sat down again on the divan.