And reconciliation, they answered him kindly, and the doors of the newspaper office reopened that afternoon, and matters returned to their former course, and the gossip on this matter ceased, and people's talk shifted to the reason for the departure of FitzGerald, one of the Englishmen who had managed the government's accounting and treasury affairs for a time. He changed its system and altered its old rules with the assistance of Blum Pasha, who was the Undersecretary of the Treasury during the reign of Khedive Ismail. This man and his dismissal from the agency is a long story full of riddles and enigmas, which we have set aside here. This FitzGerald departed on the twenty-ninth of Rajab of the year, that is, the year 1283 AH. It was only a few days until another named Wepstland came in his place, but his days were not long, and he returned. They said it was because he saw in the treasury accounts such disorder and confusion that he did not approve of. It was his opinion to reinstate the old accounting system that was in place during the time of the chief scribes of the treasury from the local people. His concern since his arrival in Cairo from British India was to search and investigate to know what the accounting system was like before the English took it over and after they took it over. He remained in this state for a long time until he intended to return its system to what it was, the English group prevented him from doing so. He had no choice but to relinquish his position, preferring to return to his job in India rather than remain bound by a task that did not please him. People praised him for this, and another named Blo came in his place. He followed FitzGerald's plan and expanded upon it, and he exaggerated in forcing its implementation until it encompassed all government departments and abolished old accounting rules that FitzGerald could not abolish until his departure from the country. FitzGerald's method has remained in practice to this day.

Among the strange aerial events that occurred on the night of the twenty-first of Safar of the year, that is, the year 1283 AH, was that after the first night prayer, a light exploded in the sky, filling the atmosphere. Then, after it, meteors appeared in the sky and began to fall in heaps as if they were arrows shot in the wake of the sun, so that the observer thought that war had broken out in the sky, its meteors exploding like cannon fire, even though no sound was heard. The common people were greatly frightened and lamented, wailing and crying out, "Oh, the hidden kindness of the Kind!" They climbed to the roofs of houses and began to pray and implore God Almighty. The women were weeping, and the children were screaming with fear. Their excuse for this was acceptable, as they had never heard, nor even seen, such a strange event before. The scene that night was extremely strange. No eye was left unextended towards it, and no gaze was left unattached to it. Venus that night was like a rotating lighthouse, its light contracting until it was barely distinguishable from other small stars, then it would expand and return to its former radiant state. It continued in this state for a long time, with the meteors interspersed, continuous and successive, like falling leaves scattered. Then it stopped, and the minds of the people calmed down, and they woke up trembling at the occurrence of important events and the advent of looming calamities.

And it was