312 AGAIN DECEIVED. 



and at the moment, forgetting his duplicity on the 

 former occasion, I added my testimony to the fact 

 of their illness and death, and the old man turned 

 away in tears. After he was gone, and I was 

 again alone, Zaido, in this triumph of the deceitful 

 policy of his master, now came, and expecting me 

 to express my approbation of the cleverness dis- 

 played, told me that the girls were quite well, and 

 perhaps sold at Mocha by that time. I now saw 

 the little trick that Ohmed Mahomed had again 

 practised upon me, and feeling exceedingly annoyed 

 at having been so impudently made the tool of an 

 unprincipled slave-dealer, I was almost inclined to 

 go after Ohmed Mahomed, and, in despite of all 

 consequences, tell him to his face he was a dis- 

 honest man ; but, on second thoughts, considered it 

 would be a more prudent course, as I could not 

 remedy the injury done, to let things remain as 

 they were ; especially, as the old man would probably 

 be more contented with the idea of their death, 

 than if he were made aware of the real truth of 

 the matter. 



