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 was, if possible, more wicked and more cunning than himself. He travelled to China to avenge his brother's death,



THE DEATH OF THE AFRICAN MAGICIAN

and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him. He entered her cell and clapped a dagger to her breast, telling her to rise and do his