The gift of second thinking is a great gift.
Thou must find greater reason for seeking the Effendina." "That too shall be.

Gold thou hadst to pay the wages of the soldiers of the south.

Thou didst keep the gold and order the slave-hunt; and the soldiers of the Effendina have been paid in human flesh and blood--ten thousand slaves since Claridge Pasha left the Soudan, and three thousand dead upon the desert sands, abandoned by those who hunted them when water grew scarce and food failed.

To-day shall see thy fall." At his first words Nahoum had felt a shock, from which his spirit reeled; but an inspiration came to him on the moment; and he listened with a saturnine coolness to the passionate words of the indignant figure towering above him.

When Ebn Ezra had finished, he replied quietly: "It is even as thou sayest, effendi.