"
Kaid laughed softly at his own words.
With his eye meeting Kaid's again, after a low salaam, Nahoum made
answer:
"I would that the lance of my fame might sheathe itself in the breasts of
thy enemies, Effendina."
"Thy tongue does that office well," was the reply. Once more Kaid laid a
gentle hand upon Nahoum's beard. Then, with a gesture towards the consuls
and Europeans, he said to them in French: "If I might but beg your
presence for yet a little time!" Then he turned and walked away. He left
by a door leading to his own apartments.
When he had gone, Nahoum swung slowly round and faced the agitated
groups.
"He who sleeps with one eye open sees the sun rise first," he said, with
a sarcastic laugh. "He who goes blindfold never sees it set."
Then, with a complacent look upon them all, he slowly left the room by
the door out of which David and Kaid had first passed.
Outside the room his face did not change. His manner had not been
bravado. It was as natural to him as David's manner was to himself. Each
had trained himself in his own way to the mastery of his will, and the
will in each was stronger than any passion of emotion in them.
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