Presently, they all came, five or six Arabs, or
half Arabs, and ascore or so of black soldiers.
Admit that I am Hassan or I will send you to where
you will learnthat I am no liar, I said quietly. Yet come to me again whenthe
evening star has risen, for I have more to say to you,Macumazahn. Whatever his
object,certainly the man could not be trusted. Yet he was one to whom I took a
dislike from themoment I set eyes upon him.
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he was one to whom I took a dislike from themoment I set eyes upon him. Could it be
the same, I wondered, as that of which the slave hadtold Brother
Ambrose?
The home of his tribe, if I understood him aright,
was a largehollow of land enclosed by cliffs.
Then he stared up into its branches,where he
discovered a monkey sitting. Yet come to me again whenthe evening star has risen,
for I have more to say to you,Macumazahn.
He swore that he was going topray to Allah, for he
is a Prophet-worshipper, Baas. Yes, then and in sleep he is sometimes happytill he
wakes to the sorrow of the day. I replied, puffing at my pipe to make it
burn.
Yet come to me again whenthe evening star has
risen, for I have more to say to you,Macumazahn.
These preliminaries finished, he remarked. She
stared at me, saying:You are not my master. Yet he was one to whom I took a dislike
from themoment I set eyes upon him.
Others stood silent,and a big fellow began to put a
cap upon his gun. For the rest she was cladin grey garments that glimmered like a
spiders web filled with dewat dawn. From it, for the sake of accuracy, I will quote
some passages. I made a bargainwith Hassan, I who am a wizard.
At the dawn one of his women crept into the tent to
visit him.
From it, for the sake of accuracy, I will quote
some passages. Most of them were killed, but two or three crawled before me
cryingthat I was certainly Hassan. Presently, they all came, five or six Arabs, or
half Arabs, and ascore or so of black soldiers. I said:Woman, if you try to scream,
I will kill you. The fact is I was determined that he should be thefirst to speak.
She stared at me, saying:You are not my master. Or when he talks with the heavens,
added Kaneke, which I thoughta strange remark.