But Ben Aboo continued: "Listen! The people about me are in the pay of the Sultan, and after all you are the best servant I have ever had.

Say the Kelmah, and I'll make you my Khaleefa.
Do you hear ?--my Khaleefa, with power equal to my own.

Man, why don't you speak?
Are you grown stupid of late as well as weak and womanish ?".