But he fought back the passion that was mastering him, and at the next instant the laughter had ceased, and Ben Aboo was saying-- "Guards, take both of them.

Set the man on an ass, and let the girl walk barefoot before him; and let a crier cry beside them, 'So shall it be done to every man who is an enemy of the Kaid, and to every woman who is a play-actor and a cheat!' Thus let them pass through the streets and through the people until they are come to a gate of the town, and then cast them forth from it like lepers and like dogs!".