"But the Effendina?"
"Well, I'll try and square the Effendina," answered Lacey. "Perhaps the
days of backsheesh aren't done in Egypt, after all."
"And Nahoum Pasha?" asked Mahommed, with a sinister look.
"Well, we'll try and square him, too, but in another way."
"The money, it is in Egypt?" queried Mahommed, whose idea was that money
to be real must be seen. "Something that's as handy and as marketable,"
answered Lacey. "I can raise half a million to-morrow; and that will do a
lot of what we want. How long will it take to ride to the monastery?"
Mahommed told him.
Lacey was about to leave the room, when he heard a voice outside.
"Nahoum!" he said, and sat down again on the divan. "He has come to see
the Saadat, I suppose; but it'll do him good to see me, perhaps. Open the
sluices, Mahommed."
Yes, Nahoum would be glad to see the effendi, since Claridge Pasha was
not in Cairo. When would Claridge Pasha return? If, then, the effendi
expected to see the Saadat before his return to Cairo, perhaps he would
convey a message.
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