Be sure you've got Kaid solid, for, if you haven't, he'll be glad to know where you keep the money you got from the slave-dealers." Nahoum shrugged his shoulders.

"Who has seen the money?
Where is the proof?
Kaid would know my reasons.

It is not the first time virtue has been tested in Egypt, or the first time that it has fallen." In spite of himself Lacey laughed.

"Say, that's worthy of a great Christian intellect.

You are a bright particular star, pasha.