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So, I am a dog? Hence I must come / To do thy bidding faster? / Must tell thee--Nay, a dog stays dumb! / A dog obeys one master!
NOT many yards from where the restless elephants stood lined under big brick arches--in an age-old courtyard, three sides of which were stone-carved splendor and the fourth a typically Eastern mess of stables, servants' quarters, litter, stink, and noisy confusion--a stone door, slab-hewn, gave back the aching glitter of the sun. Its only opening--a narrow slit quite near the top--was barred. A man--his face close-pressed against them--peered through the interwoven iron rods from within.