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Thereupon he clenched his fist and struck him on the neck,

felling him to the ground, and called aloud to the watchman of

the bazar, and came down on the body in his drunken fury and kept

on belabouring and throttling the corpse. Presently the Charley

came up and, finding a Nazarene kneeling on a Moslem and frapping

him, asked, "What harm hath this one done?"; and the Broker

answered, "The fellow meant to snatch off my turband." "Get up

from him," quoth the watch man. So he arose and the Charley went

up to the Hunchback and finding him dead, exclaimed, "By Allah,

good indeed! A Christian killing a Mahometan!" Then he seized the

Broker and, tying his hands behind his back, carried him to the

Governor's house,[FN#507] and all the while the Nazarene kept

saying to himself, "O Messiah! O Virgin! how came I to kill this

fellow? And in what a hurry he must have been to depart this life

when he died of a single blow!" Presently, as his drunkenness

fled, came dolour in its stead.