He is my prisoner."
CHAPTER VII
RESTITUTION.
"Our Mamelukes have been treacherously slaughtered, murdered! They
have been lured out upon the water near Aboukir in their boats, and
then fired upon by murderous huntsmen as though they were a flock of
pigeons. If you are an honest and brave man, general, proved by
mercifully espousing the cause of those who were lured to
destruction in your name--yes, in your name, General Hutchinson--
yes, it devolves upon you, and your honor requires that you compel
them, to yield up the wounded and the dead."
Thus lamented Sitta Nefysseh as she knelt before General Hutchinson,
her arms extended in wild entreaty. She had come over to Alexandria
from Aboukir, and she it was who first brought the intelligence of
the fearful event that had occurred, who first announced to the
English general that the beys had fallen victims to infamous
treachery.
The general, incensed at this shameful abuse of confidence,
immediately dispatched two of his adjutants to the capitan pacha, to
demand an explanation and call him to account for the outrage.
The pacha was, however, not to be found. "They did not know where he
had gone;" was the reply; "but Lord Hutchinson's message should be
conveyed to him as soon as possible, and he would certainly send
some one to the general who would give satisfactory explanations of
the affair.
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