"
Lacey nodded. "True. And I've often wondered why, when I've seen the
things you didn't give and the things you took away."
Nahoum's eyes half closed. Lacey was getting to close quarters with
suspicion and allusion; but it was not his cue to resent them yet.
"I had come now to offer him help; to advance him enough to carry through
his expedition."
"Well, that sounds generous, but I guess he would get on without it,
pasha. He would not want to be under any more obligations to you."
"He is without money. He must be helped."
"Just so."
"He cannot go to the treasury, and Prince Kaid has refused. Why should he
decline help from his friend?" Suddenly Lacey changed his tactics. He had
caught a look in Nahoum's eyes which gave him a new thought. "Well, if
you've any proposition, pasha, I'll take it to him. I'll be seeing him
to-night."
"I can give him fifty thousand pounds."
"It isn't enough to save the situation, pasha."
"It will help him over the first zareba."
"Are there any conditions?"
"There are no conditions, effendi.
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