I also had proof that the apparition had been before me only for a short time.

When Selim had vanished I noticed that my cigarette, which was alight, was not yet tipped with ash." "Was he dead when you saw him ?" asked Nanteuil.
"Not a bit of it," replied the doctor, "I heard a few days later that Selim, in his jail, wove little baskets, or played for hours at a time with a chaplet of glass balls, and that he would smilingly beg a piastre of European visitors, who were surprised by the caressing softness of his eyes.

Moslem justice is slow.

He was hanged six months later.

No one, not even he himself, was greatly concerned about it.