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Help !" So the people came round about him and he went on

yelling, "My master is being murdered in the Kazi's house!" Then

he ran clamouring to my place with the folk after him, and told

my people and servants and slaves; and, before I knew what was

doing, up they came tearing their clothes and letting loose their

hair[FN#629] and shouting, "Alas, our master!"; and this Barber

leading the rout with his clothes rent and in sorriest plight;

and he also shouting like a madman and saying, "Alas for our

murdered master!" And they all made an assault upon the house in

which I was.