35/72 'Look at it!' 'Get hence! Remove!' said the hakim. 'Is it the habit of the place to pester honoured guests? They are meat for our mistress. When her young Shaitan's colics are cured perhaps we poor people may be suffered to--' 'The mistress fed thy wife when thou wast in jail for breaking the money-lender's head. Who speaks against her ?' The old servitor curled his white moustaches savagely in the young moonlight. |