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Oriental Encounters

CHAPTER VIII
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Rashid and all the servants came from kitchen purlieus.

Four soldiers entered with triumphant exclamations, dragging and pushing forward--Suleyman! The prisoner's demeanour had its usual calm.
'I have regained the belt,' he called to me.

'These men were watching near the house, and found it on me.

They would not hear reason.

The man who stole the belt--a Greek--has left the city.


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