I need you to help me find out where the alchemist lives.First, they tried to find him on their own.
An alchemist would probably live in a manner that was different from that of the rest of the people at the oasis,
and it was likely that in his tent an oven was continuously burning.
They searched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than they could have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.
“We’ve wasted almost the entire day,” said the Englishman, sitting down with the boy near one of the wells.
“Maybe we’d better ask someone,” the boy suggested. The Englishman didn’t want to tell others about his reasons for being at the oasis,
and couldn’t make up his mind. But, finally, he agreed that the boy, who spoke better Arabic than he, should do so.
The boy approached a woman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.
Good afternoon, ma’am. I’m trying to find out where the alchemist lives here at the oasis.”
The woman said she had never heard of such a person, and hurried away.
But before she fled, she advised the boy that he had better not try to converse with women who were dressed in black,
because they were married women. He should respect tradition.
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