Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates Vol 2 - The Search For Mecca

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town—tlie vain, nnstable, interesting creature he had
ahvays been—and disappeared at last with his new
master. Hanna was made happy with cooking-pots
and pans to his heart's content, besides receiving
double pay for all the months he had been in our
service. He wept copiously for the last few days
preceding our departure, and in a perfect torrent
tears when the day itself came. Ferhaii was less
demonstrative, yet every bit as sincere.
of
He was the
only one of our servants who asked for nothing but
his wages, and who took all that was given him over
and above, as a gift from heaven. He did not count
his money, but affirmed that he would follow us to
the world's end, and I believe him.
]\lohammed, as agreed, recived no pay, but was
rewarded with the rifle and Avith sundry small
articles he had not the strength of mind to help
asking for. To the last he remained the same good
humoured intelligent fellow we had always found
him, and, now he has
become " the Begs brother,"
I believe he would follow our fortunes to the end
of the world. He has promised to go with us
next winter to the Jof, where we are to help him
in the choice of a new wife from his own people,
the Beni Laam, a girl of noble blood, and one worthy
to marry a descendant of the prophet Taleb. Abd
er Rahman, who though not our servant had served us
in divers ways during the last fortnight, received a
servant's reward. Money, he had learnt by long
experience, was a more substantial blessing than