"Has" is, in fact, part of the word "Hasn-us-Sabah," and the mere circumstance that some of it has been obliterated, while the figure of the mystic animal remains intact, shows that it was executed by one of a nation less skilled in the art of graving in precious stones than the Persians,by a rude, mediaeval Englishman, in short,the modern revival of the art owing its origin, of course, to the Medici of a later age.

Perhaps, to prove this, I need hardly remind you who Hasn-us-Sabah was.

'We may say then that Ul-Jabal had not prepared any substitute; and it may be added that it was a thing altogether beyond the limits of the probable that he could by chance have possessed two old gems exactly similar in every detail down to the very half-obliterated letters of the word "Hasn-us-Sabah."

No, the old man must die: only thusthus surely, and thus secretlycan the outraged dignity of Hasn-us-Sabah be appeased.