'My nickname is Rashid the Fair, forget not.

I shall tell our captain thou art coming with the money.' I said that I might think about it possibly.
'Come,' he entreated.

'Thou wouldst never shame a man who puts his trust in thee.

I say that I shall tell our captain thou art coming.
Ah, shame me not before the Commandant and all my comrades! Thou thinkest me a thief, a lawbreaker, because I took that fellow's knife ?' he asked, with an indulgent smile.

'Let me tell thee, O my lord, that I was in my right and duty as a soldier of the Sultan in this province.