"I gave it my major-domo for safe keeping." 'He called that servant, and commanded him to give the basket of bastirma to the Jew there waiting.

The major-domo bowed his head, folded his hands upon his breast, and said: "I ask forgiveness, O my lord.

The basket still remains, but the bastirma was so excellent that, having tasted but a piece of it, I wanted more, so that, in fact, I ate it all upon the journey.

I wish to pay the price of it to this young Jew." 'The Cadi thought his servant's offer fair enough, but the young Jew went mad.

Flying at the throat of the major-domo, he flung him to the ground, and tried to tear the soul out of his body with his teeth and nails.