ful change in Kalulu. Then Selim gave orders to the factor to
purchase the best clothes he could get for Kalulu, blue cloth jacket,
embroidered cap, and embroidered shirt, linen drawers, crimson fez with
long blue tassel, and slippers, besides a Muscat shash and Arab dagger,
over and above what he had intended to purchase for him, to which the
factor promised to pay implicit attention.

Selim turned to Kalulu and said:

"In two or three days, Kalulu, thou wilt be as well-dressed as any son
of an Arab in Zanzibar; but now I must show thee my mother and my home.
When we are outside the city thou canst tell us thy story."

In half an hour they were in the country; and Kalulu, when requested to
begin, said:

"I went out to look for game, and coming to the forest I saw smoke, and
men wearing Arab clothes. I went to their camp when I found they were
Arabs, not thinking they could act as they did. They spoke me fair at
first; but while I was seated alongside of the chief his men sprang on
me, and they chained me. I struggled hard at first, but they hurt me
and abused me as if they meant to kill me. We travelled that night
through the forest, and every night until we came to Unyanyembe, where
we were kept in a house in a dark room. After a few days we began
another journey, which ended at this sea. On coming to the island the
chief put me to work in the field; but they could not get me to work.
They beat and beat me every day; but I would not work, and the chief,
finding he could do nothing with me, sent me with many more to be sold.
That is the story."

"Dost thou know that thou art my slave now, Kalulu? But when I was a
slave of thine thou didst set me free and protect me by making me thy
brother. I do the same to thee now. Thou art free, and I shall be a
brother to thee, and my mother shall be thy mother," said Selim.

"And mine too, Kalulu," said Abdullah; "Selim shall not keep thee all to
himself. My mother wants to see thee. And here we are at my mother's
house, to which I ask thee to come now."

In a few moments they were at the door, and Abdullah invited Selim and
Kalulu to walk in. They were led up a flight of stairs, and presently
stood in an ante-chamber. Leaving their slippers outside, Abdullah
ushered his two friends into a spacious saloon, close to the walls of
which ran a luxurious divan, covered with soft silken carpeting, the
like of which Kalulu had never dreamed of before; the floor was a