Thadhellala mounted the
horse and said:
"You see that ridge? I will rejoin you there."
The scholars perceived the man. "Have you not seen a woman?" they asked
him. "She has stolen 700 francs from us."
"Haven't you others seen her? She has stolen my horse?"
They went to complain to the Sultan, who gave the command to arrest
Thadhellala. A man promised to seize her. He secured a comrade, and they
both pursued Thadhellala, who had taken flight. Nearly overtaken by the
man, she met a negro who pulled teeth, and said to him:
"You see my son coming down there; pull out his teeth." When the other
passed the negro pulled out his teeth. The poor toothless one seized the
negro and led him before the Sultan to have him punished. The negro said to
the Sultan: "It was his mother that told me to pull them out for him."
"Sidi," said the accuser, "I was pursuing Thadhellala."
The Sultan then sent soldiers in pursuit of the woman, who seized her and
hung her up at the gates of the city. Seeing herself arrested, she sent a
messenger to her relatives.
Then there came by a man who led a mule.
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