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that he deserved a holiday and did not try to dissuade him from going. He is going to the Holy City & on
to Khorrasan in Persia taking, as he put it, "some of my wives". I am sorry he is angry but he has only
himself to blame as he has feathered his nest too well and the public are talking about the money he has
made as Kadi. It will be awkward not having him & I expect people will say he has been told to go.
Went to the girls school & saw the neddlework which is really awfully nice, there were a lot of things
which I should not have minded having for the house & some really nice childrens clothes, & some well
made but hideous knitted jerseys & garments. Mrs Abrahams & her husband & a young woman who was
obviously "expecting" showed me around. The stage has been re-made & is now permanent & very good
too. I hear the play yesterday was a great success. After lunch I went off to Um al Jalleh to meet the
Shaikh who came in from Rumaitha. Discussed medals, he is really not at all interested, except in his
own, & he again repeated that he wants to go to England, not India. If they don't let him go he will be
very fed up. He talked about his own accounts, he is going to sack Abdulla Shar & his brother, I expect
they have been doing him, but I don't have any proof of it. The Agency have invited him to go on ... to