Show arabi pasha old and friendless in a little house up a by street 0 the mohammedan quarter old friend less broken lives the man who might haye ruled egypt if you ask 20 people in cairo today where Is arabi 15 will tell you that he Is dead while the other five do not know in tact after the bombardment of alexandria he was sent to exile for life in ceylon but was allowed some four years ago to return to his native city it was only after a week s hard fer breting that I 1 discovered through a na alve journalist the whereabouts of the great man even now in hia seventieth year he is a big man in his prime he mu have been immense white hair an beard a broad thoughtful forehead surmounted by the turkish kindly eyes dulled a little by age but lighting up wonderfully when he talks about things which interest hm a straight powerful nose a large mouth which must once have been hard and cruel now softened by ad versley though the day Is warm he wears an overcoat and he heavily on a massive ebony stick pali mall gazette |