“It is my destiny,” replied Mustapha, rolling on the floor in agony.  “There is but one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet.”  And Mustapha expired.

“The old fool has saved me some trouble,” observed the renegade.  “Take away these carcases, and proclaim Ali as the new pacha.”

Thus perished the two barbers, and thus did Huckaback, under the name of Ali, reign in their stead.  But his reign, and how long it lasted, is one of the many tales not handed down to posterity.