Kaid remained motionless looking after her.
David broke in on his abstraction. "The army at sunrise--thou wilt speak
to it, Effendina?"
Kaid roused himself. "What shall I say?" he asked anxiously.
"Tell them they shall be clothed and fed, and to every man or his family
three hundred piastres at the end."
"Who will do this?" asked Kaid incredulously. "Thou, Effendina--Egypt and
thou and I."
"So be it," answered Kaid.
As they left the court-yard, he said suddenly to an officer behind him:
"The caravan to the Place of Lepers--add to the stores fifty camel-loads
this year, and each year hereafter. Have heed to it. Ere it starts, come
to me. I would see all with mine own eyes."
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