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XXIII
"WHAT YOU WANT"
NIGHT had fallen on that great and beautiful city known
as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the
enchanted glamor that belongs not to Arabia alone. In
different masquerade the streets, bazaars and walled houses
of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same
kind of folk that so much interested our interesting old
friend, the late Mr. H. A. Rashid. They wore clothes
eleven hundred years nearer to the latest styles than H. A.
saw in the old Bagdad; but they were about the same peo-
ple underneath. With the eve of faith, you could have
seen the Little Hunchback, Sinbad the Sailor, Fitbad the
Tailor, the Beautiful Persian, the one-eyed Calenders,
Ali Baba and Forty Robbers on every block, and the
Barber and his Six Brothers, and all the old Arabian gang
easily.
But let us revenue to our lamb chops.
Old Tom Crowley was a caliph. He had $42,000,000
in preferred stocks and bonds with solid gold edges. In
these times, to be called a caliph you must have money.
The old-style caliph business as conducted by Mr. Rashid
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