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`` Fearing to use force against the -- the woman who thou sayest is loved by the man thou lovest -- and may the prophet bear witness that thy tale is as full of turnings and twistings as the paths in the bazaar in which thou spinn ` st thy web -- thou would ` st tear her from him by craft . Explain thy seemingly futile words , and hasten thy lying tongue , for behold the hour of dawn approacheth . '' And the wrath in the voice was such as to hurl the woman pell-mell over the cliff of discretion down into the depths of her own undoing . `` She , the white woman , walks in the bazaar , yea , even at noon and at sunset . Perchance one evening , lured by the tale of the riches of the house of Zulannah , might not her feet stray within the portals at the setting of the sun . And behold , the key of the great door is within these hands , and -- and ------ '' The man 's hands lay quietly on his knees as he leant forward , and the shadow thrown by the flowering plants hid the twin pools of murder in the depths of his eyes . `` And ------ ? ''