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The commissioner was escorted back through another part of the camp which was filled with bristling guns. The British consul having given his consent to the operators returning to the city, messengers were sent to El Caney to learn if the men would go.
There was no need to strike twice; he fell limply backward, throwing his arms out wide and there was an end of El Dorado and of all his dreams of avarice. The murderer, as if suddenly afraid of his own handiwork, without turning his head, hurried on across the portage through the forest, and was quickly lost to sight.
The Caïd had no information to give concerning Ben Halim's family. He pressed them to stay, and see all the beauties of the oasis. He would introduce them to the marabout at El Hamel, and in the evening they should see a special dance of the Ouled Naïls. But they made excuses that they must get on, and bade the Caïd good-bye after an hour's talk.
She tied El Rey to himself, far from the rest, for she knew his imperious temper and that trouble would ensue if he was near strange horses. Then she went into Baston's with her meal-sack on her arm.
Yeeoo!" she cried, a high, exciting note that keened in the singing wind. And El Rey, ever keen to run for no reason, finding himself called upon, stretched out his great body, dropped low to earth and began to run. The wind cut by Tharon's face like a knife in the first few leaps. It shut her eyes in a dozen. She rode and laughed with a half sob in her throat.
Instances are related of people firing even into the mosque upon their enemies, while engaged in prayer. Within the last twenty years a man named Hassan had been appointed Aga of the castle, which gave him the surname of Hassan el Kalay. Born among the dregs of the people, his great skill and cunning, and determined hardihood, had raised him to this office.
To obtain anything like the Arabic sound it is necessary to give the letters precisely the same value as in English, with the exception of pronouncing "x" as "sh." Thus the word "alhaja," in everyday use though unrecognizable as heard from the lips of the modern Castilian, "aláha," is nothing but the Arabic "el hájah," with practically the same meaning in the plural, "things" or "goods."
Suppose William follows with the car after his return from El Toro. You can then ride back with him, and I'll bring the horses home. I realize fourteen miles is too great a distance for inexperienced riders." "Isn't that going to considerable trouble?" Parker suggested suavely. "Suppose we ride down the valley. I prefer flat land to rolling country when I ride."
I should be interested to know how you managed to get some of my clothes here, together with my toilet requisites." "That was not the work of the devil, señorita," the hooded figure answered, with a muffled laugh, "El Diablo Cojuelo thinks of everything, and had made his preparations in advance. Did I not tell you all the servants of El Castillo de Ruiz were in my pay?
He had no desire that Rad el Moussa should forget his submissiveness and stab him suddenly from behind, neither did he especially wish to be noosed or knifed from round any of the dusky sudden corners.
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