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General Jacot took one look at Meriem, then he turned toward Lord Greystoke.
"How long have you known it?" he asked, a trifle accusingly.
"Since you showed me that photograph a moment ago," replied the Englishman.
"It is she," said Jacot, shaking with suppressed emotion; "but she does not recognize me-of course she could not." Then he turned to Meriem. "My child," he said, "I am your-"
But she interrupted him with a quick, glad cry, as she ran toward him with outstretched arms.
"I know you! I know you!" she cried. "Oh, now I remember," and the old man folded her in his arms.
Jack Clayton and his mother were summoned, and when the story had been told them they were only glad that little Meriem had found a father and a mother.
"And really you didn't marry an Arab waif after all," said Meriem. "Isn't it fine!"
"You are fine," replied The Killer. "I married my little Meriem, and I don't care, for my part, whether she is an Arab, or just a little Tarmangani."
"She is neither, my son," said General Armand Jacot. "She is a princess in her own right."
