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.”
CHAPTER XV. SOOLSBY’S HAND UPON THE CURTAIN
Faith raised her eyes from the paper before her and poised her head meditatively.
“How long is it, friend, since—”