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| Jaydˉa’s threats” she advised me ― and
now I saw that in her hands she held the veil I had swum with on my wris. “You did nothing to me that you were not obliged to doexcept apologize.” The recollecion ?lled her eyes with tearswhich she sanched with that second veil. “When you can talk” she went on presentlywhen she could“tell me truthfully why you came here with this. Did you really escape from poor Umaror did he send you?” “Both” I said at onceand as soon as I was ableI told her the full sory: Umar’s version of “Tub Night” and of her father’s ?fth voyage wherein Sindbad himself had been the monsrous Old Man of the Sea; Umar?Sahˉ?m’s ongoing love and bafement and rage; his mutilation and transformation; his eavesdropping at that rug merchant’s shop with Jaydˉa’s connivance; his collusion with Abˉu Hosayn and Hosayn’s with Prince Jabˉal’s vizier; his revenge upon that pair ― and the frus- trate desperation that had led him back virtually to the doorsep of his tormentor and vicim and had dispatched me across that doorsep on his business as well as my own. “I’m supposed to report to him how badly your reputation has been damaged” I said“and whether you’ve told your father tha men discount shoes |
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