The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog mz-2
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As the cart approached, they saw that the king was indeed scantily dressed. He was in fact quite naked below the waist. And, attached to his hips by a sort of harness, was a gigantic dildo, grotesquely painted and about two feet long, which waggled and danced in time to the jolting of the cart, to the great delight and applause of all the spectators.
Well, not all.
“I’m a broad-minded chap,” said John Postlethwaite, “but-” He got to his feet. “Come on, Jane. I’ve had enough. It’s time we went.”
With a wry glance at Owen, Jane Postlethwaite followed him.
“Boy, do you pick them!” said Paul as he set off in pursuit.
The Postlethwaites returned to England on the following day. John Postlethwaite asserted his influence and managed to secure two cancelled bookings.
“I’ll be back,” said Jane Postlethwaite.
Fortunately, the end of John Postlethwaite’s visit did not entirely efface the otherwise good impressions he had formed during his time in Egypt, and in future he was able to defend the Administration’s cause with all the authority of first-hand experience.
The Khedive by then was already in Monte Carlo, obligingly furnished with the resources he needed, and content to leave the management of the realm in the capable hands of his new Prime Minister, who happened to be a Copt.
There was a great deal of pleasure at the new appointment — among the Copts, that was-and Owen was greatly surprised to find that the allocation to the Curbash Compensation Fund rose by a third the following financial year. He was even able to anticipate part of the increase and meet some of his expenses in the current financial year by special arrangement with one of the senior officials in the Ministry of Finance, Ramses.
Sesostris and Andrus both disappeared from the Cairo scene, Andrus for an austere regimen in a Coptic monastery in the desert, where he devoted his time to prayer and fasting, Sesostris for an even more spartan regimen in a less religious but more solid building near Alexandria.
Yussuf remarried Fatima and, much to his surprise after so many barren years, eight months later Fatima gave birth to a baby boy, who, Fatima and Yussuf’s sister both swore blind, was the spitting image of Yussuf.
And Owen was able to put to rest Zeinab’s fears about the growth of Nonconformist influence in Egypt.
For a time.
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