Where can I find another such investment.' With groans he wrote out the receipt, which in due time I carried to the chief, who thanked me and assured me that the house was mine and should be made so formally.
I then rode over to the house again, and with Rashid planned out the changes we desired to make, the Sheykh Huseyn following us about gloomily, and his cheerful son bestowing on us his advice in broken French.

They knew their tenancy was at an end.

The Sheykh, resigned at length to the inevitable, sought to establish good relations with me; and he also gave us counsel, which Rashid, who viewed him as our deadly foe, at once rejected.

Under these rebuffs the old man became quite obsequious.
His son exclaimed excitedly: 'Mon bere est heureux, tu vois.

If feut bas quitter.