I led them in a detachment and was given to Ahmed Effendi Rashed, the owner of the house. It happened that Khalil Effendi arrived from Alexandria, one of the elders among them. He informed them that Pasha Sharaf had joined their group and promised them assistance. If they asked for unity in this manner, they said, as if they had sensed what was behind Ahmed Effendi Rashed. So they abandoned the meeting with him and replaced it with the house of Allah, one of the Kurds. At that time, Hassan Effendi Al-Kurdi and Ragab Effendi Nashed joined them and consulted. Their opinion was to meet on a Friday night, so that Ragab Effendi Nashed, Hassan Effendi Ali, and Abdullah Effendi Al-Kurdi, each a leader of fifty men, would each have fifty men. They would be of one spirit. If the group expanded and its funds accumulated, they would choose leaders from high-ranking officers like Mahmoud Bey Taher, Mohamed Bey Naguib, and Mohamed Bey Shawqi. And so, as its importance grew and it expanded, it was entrusted to the eldest among those Circassian men. They all agreed to rule. In the sense of their mistress Zainab, due to her compliance, wisdom, and hard-heartedness. They revealed secrets that had been kept from some of them by Ahmed Orabi and anyone who opposed them. They brought them to their mistress. When the matter was presented to Abdullah Al-Kurdi, he refused and said, "I feel a tightness in my chest and a disturbance in my body from this meeting, and I fear it will have dire consequences. So exempt me until the group can convene with me and enter into its affairs. If the matter is completed and it stands on its own defense, I will prove it with five hundred Bashi-bazouks with the assistance of Hussein Bey." So they reconsidered their decision and asked him to convey their message to some of the Circassian elders so that they would be their support when needed. He met with many of them and returned to inform the men of the group that they wanted to invite the Kurdish Circassians who were in decline. Then Abdullah Al-Kurdi separated from the men of the group for reasons mentioned. They would have failed and dispersed if Ragab Effendi Nashed and Hassan Effendi had not taken them in. So he went to them, where they gathered the members of the group who had held their meeting. They said that Ragab Effendi Nashed and Hassan Effendi had gathered the members of the group who had held their meeting. They said that Ragab Effendi Nashed and Hassan Effendi had gathered the members of the group who had held their meeting. They said that Ragab Effendi Nashed and Hassan Effendi had gathered the members of the group who had held their meeting. It was as if they had agreed to take everyone who joined the group to the shrine of Sayyida Zainab, to reveal the intended secret to them. They conspired to take them out to the desert of Ghazal so that their numbers would not be depleted before their provisions ran out. When the secret was revealed and some of the junior Circassian officers learned of it, one of them, named Ali Reda, went and informed some of Ahmed Orabi's men, and he feared their secret would be revealed. So Ahmed Orabi was concerned about the matter and their secret. They immediately listened to their news and followed them until no one remained outside the house except Ahmed. The narrator told me, "As soon as the news of the Circassian group spread and people talked about it, the pigs began to roam the streets and houses, and they gathered to arrest the builders, break into houses, and expel the junior Circassian officers from them.