"But I am giving guarantees
of good faith now," he said softly. "Will you--not?"
She understood. It was clear that he meant peace, for the moment at
least.
"If I had influence I would advise him to reconcile you to Prince Kaid,"
she said quietly, then turned to David with an appeal in her eyes.
David stood up. "I will do what I can," he said. "If thee means as well
by Egypt as I mean by thee, all may be well for all."
"Saadat! Saadat!" said Nahoum, with show of assumed feeling, and made
salutation. Then to Hylda, making lower salutation still, he said: "Thou
hast lifted from my neck the yoke. Thou hast saved me from the shadow and
the dust. I am thy slave." His eyes were like a child's, wide and
confiding.
He turned towards the door, and was about to open it, when there came a
knocking, and he stepped back. Hylda drew down her veil. David opened the
door cautiously and admitted Mizraim the Chief Eunuch. Mizraim's eyes
searched the room, and found Nahoum.
"Pasha," he said to Nahoum, "may thy bones never return to dust, nor the
light of thine eyes darken! There is danger.
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