"Poor boy!" he said, compassionately, "I should have foreseen this. But calm these transports, my brother! nothing is denied to the sultan's power, and nothing will he deny thee."
"He knows all, then?"
"All—and by his command am I come. I had feared, that my brother had sold his vowed obedience for the smile of a dark-eyed girl—what shall I say?—I feared for his safety!"
"O my brother! there is no cause!"
"I know it—enough!—I have seen and heard!"
Faizi covered his face with his hands.
"If the sultan——"
"Have no doubts," said Abul Fazil: "nothing is denied to the sultan's power, nothing will be denied to thee."
"And the Brahman Adhar?"