As the command which I received, when he was
delivered to my custody, was absolute, that no foot should enter, I
doubted whether the token had not been obtained, by fraud, for some
other purpose; yet, as he required admittance only, I complied: but that
if any treachery had been contrived, I might detect it; and that no
artifice might be practised to favour an escape; I waited myself at the
door, and listening to their discourse I overheard the treason that I
suspected.' 'What then,' said ALMORAN, 'didst thou hear?' 'A part of
what was said,' replied Caled, 'escaped me: but I heard Osmyn, like a
perfidious and presumptuous slave, call ALMORAN a tyrant; I heard him
profess an inviolable friendship for HAMET, and assure him of
deliverance. What were the means, I know not; but he talked of speed,
and supposed that the effect was certain.'
ALMORAN, though he was still impatient to hear of HAMET; and discovered,
that if he was dead, his death was unknown to Caled; was yet
notwithstanding rejoiced at what he heard: and as he knew what Caled
told him to be true, as the conversation he related had passed between
himself and HAMET, he exulted in the pleasing confidence that he had yet
a friend; the glooms of suspicion, which had involved his mind, were
dissipated, and his countenance brightened with complacency and joy.
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