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 the point, was his cry: and I could bring truth to a point as sharp as a needle. I divested a subject of all extraneous matter, and there it was—you might turn and twist it as you would, but you must always come back to that.

"The Druzes like me, and all the Emir Beshýr's hatred of me arose from my friendship for the Shaykh Beshýr. I After you left me, I went to stay with him at Makhtara, where he assigned me a wing of the  palace to live in. He was a clever man, and afterwards, in his troubles, came to me for advice and succour: he offered me a third of his treasures, but I refused them. When he fled, the Emir Beshýr got about a third of them; an equal portion they say is buried: and