Osman Effendi at once brought an action for damages against the Government,
on the ground that its servant had caused the death of his brother (whom,
as a matter of fact, he himself had largely supported). The case was heard
by a Court on which sat two Egyptian judges and one English, and the
decision went against Osman. This convinced him of the injustice of the
English.
The Assize Court of Appeal, which visited the district and heard Osman
Effendi's appeal against the first verdict, consisted of three Egyptian
judges. It is true that the English judge who should have gone on Assize
had fallen ill, and there was no other to take his place. But Osman Effendi
saw in this too the malevolent hand of the English, who nourished a grudge
against him. "How," he said, "can I obtain justice if there is no
Englishman on the Court?"
From that moment he has become an ultra-Nationalist, and has, I believe,
been seen in the streets of Cairo shouting with the best of them the latest
"English" catchword of "Long Live Egypt! Long Die MILNER!"
He is, you see, an educated man.
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