Go now, Babu, and God be with you!" "He will surely succeed if you do not leave this place at once," rejoined the youth, in a tone of decision.

"Baderoon is furious at all times.

He is worse than ever just now, because you have thwarted his plans--so it is said--very often.

If he knew that _I_ am now thwarting them also, he would hunt me to death.

I will not leave you till you are safe beyond his reach." The hermit looked at the lad with kindly surprise.
"How comes it," he said, "that you are so much interested in me?
I remember seeing you two years ago, but have no recollection of having done you any service." "Do you not remember that my mother was ill when you spent a night in our hut, and my little sister was dying?
You nursed her, and tried your best to save her, and when you could not save her, and she died, you wept as if the child had been your own.