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my turban, (fays he to Fidele) do you call me a liar?" Tid.
- ' I did not call you a liar, only that Chriflian lied." J/}?u " I
fay, that every word he fpoke is truth, or I am no true be- liever. Was not your fword drawn, and your fcabbar^ ly- ing on the floor, when I entered the room ? Was there any one prefent but him and you? Whom did you draw your fword upon ?" " Pure merriment for a little amufement, fays Fidele, turning to the Moullah, I was diverting myfelf with the Chrillian, who came to give me medicines." " The diverfion, I fancy, was over on your part, fays Soliman, my fervant, when you threw away your fword, after drawing it, and called upon all your fervants for affillance. Were not your women at the door upon my entering it?" Fid. " Would you have had me fhot in my own houfe by an infidel ? Did he not prefent a piftol at me ?" J/}?2. "Lord ! Lord ! he was only diverting himfelf, too? Did not you fee that? You fhould have gone on with your merriment : — What llopt you ?" " Look you, Shekh, faid I, your inward thoughts arc feen by me. Did not you fend two meflengers to Shekh Ibrahim in Atbara that very night, within thefe twelve hours, defiring him to take me by force, while afleep, to heal his wounded men ? Was this amufement, too ? Beware in time, for every thought in your heart is known to me as foon as it is formed."
The flierrifTe muttered to himfelf, " Hakim y'Eref he
is a learned man ; he knows thefe things." " Shekh Ibra- him is returned to Sennaar, fays the Moullah, that is the reafon why he fhould make hafte, and all this that has paired is very improper. If a man diverts himfelf with drawn fwords, is he not likely, when angry, to kill ? this ought not to be ; fend the man away ; you can get camels
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