Deliver them over to the bagnio."
"It shall be done," said Sakr-el-Bahr, daring to insist no further and
dissembling his chagrin.
Very soon thereafter he departed upon that errand, giving orders,
however, that Rosamund and Lionel should be kept apart from the other
prisoners until the hour of the sale on the morrow when perforce they
must take their place with the rest.
Marzak lingered with his father after Oliver had taken his leave, and
presently they were joined there in the courtyard by Fenzileh--this
woman who had brought, said many, the Frankish ways of Shaitan into
Algiers.
CHAPTER VIII
MOTHER AND SON
Early on the morrow--so early that scarce had the Shehad been recited--
came Biskaine-el-Borak to the Basha. He had just landed from a galley
which had come upon a Spanish fishing boat, aboard of which there was a
young Morisco who was being conducted over seas to Algiers. The news of
which the fellow was the bearer was of such urgency that for twenty
hours without intermission the slaves had toiled at the oars of
Biskaine's vessel--the capitana of his fleet--to bring her swiftly home.
The Morisco had a cousin--a New-Christian like himself, and like
himself, it would appear, still a Muslim at heart--who was employed in
the Spanish treasury at Malaga. This man had knowledge that a galley
was fitting out for sea to convey to Naples the gold destined for the
pay of the Spanish troops in garrison there.
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