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"I must stay at Armant some days. I have to look after my sugar interests there." "Oh sugar!" she exclaimed. "My husband may think you do nothing but look after your affairs, but you mustn't suppose a woman " "A woman what?" "I knew from the first you loved pleasure." She took up the fan again. "From the first? When was that?" "On the Hohenzollern, of course." "And I I knew I knew "
A sharpness had crept into her lazy voice. "There are French at Armant, and where the French come the little women come." She remembered the pretty little rooms on the Loulia. He possessed a floating house a floating freedom. At that moment she hated the dahabeeyah. She wished it would strike on a rock in the Nile and go to pieces.
But we only saw him about twice, except on the ship coming out. He dined here one night, and the next day we went over the Loulia with him, and we've never set eyes on him since. He went up river, and we went down, to the Fayyūm." "But but you went off alone to the Fayyūm, didn't you? At first, I mean?" "Oh, yes. The morning after Baroudi had sailed for Armant." "And Mrs.
I go away to-night." "To Armant?" "To Armant for some days. Then I go farther up the river. I have interests near Kom Ombos. I shall be away some time, and then drop down to Assiout. I have nothing more to do here." "Interests in Assiout, too?" "Oh, yes; at Assiout I have a great many. And just beyond here I have some a little way up the river on the western bank." "Lands?"
When the disciple had departed, the holy man began to talk to one of the mummies who had been a native of the town of Erment, or Armant, and whose father and mother had been called Agricolaos and Eustathia. He had been a worshipper of Poseidon, and had never heard that Christ had come into the world. "And," said he "woe, woe is me because I was born into the world.
"We will see later on," she said, as if she had a will in this matter. She looked at her watch. "It's time to start." "The felucca him ready," remarked Ibrahim. "This night the Loulia sailin'; this night the Loulia he go to Armant."
When they were outside Baroudi bade them good-bye, and invited them to tea on the Loulia so his dahabeeyah was called on the following day. "In the evening I may start for Armant," he said. "Will it bore you to come, madame?" He spoke politely, but rather perfunctorily, and she answered with much the same tone. "Thanks, I shall be delighted. Good-night. The music was delicious."
"You are blossoming here in Egypt, but you hardly let one know it when you put things on your face." She gazed again into the glass in silence. "Any letters for me?" she said, at last. "I haven't looked yet. I walked with Baroudi on the bank. He's joined his dahabeeyah, and is going up to Armant to see to his affairs in the sugar business up there." "Oh!"
Mrs. Armine frowned. Armant Esneh Kom Ombos and then Asw
Far up the river the Loulia was moored, between Baroudi's orange-gardens and Armant, and each day he dropped down the Nile in his white boat to meet the European woman, bringing only one attendant with him, a huge Nubian called Aïyoub. The tourists who come to Luxor seldom go far from certain fixed points.
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