The more wicked the one and the more outrageous the other, the better for his person.
It was the Governor of Tetuan.

His name was El Arby, but he was known as Ben Aboo, the son of his father.

That father had been none other than the late Sultan.

Therefore Ben Aboo was a brother of Abd er-Rahman, though by another mother, a negro slave.

To be a Sultan's brother in Morocco is not to be a Sultan's favourite, but a possible aspirant to his throne.