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Her face was buried in the sheepskin, yet she saw plainly in the wall of darkness before her eyeballs the figure of the Bishâreen standing out against the pink light of the morning sky. So it was Melun that Doolga loved! And to Melun all her own passionate impulsive heart had been given through her eyes.
He dipped his nose in the camel-stew, for some one poked a head in at the door every sense in him was alert, every instinct alive. "To-night," said Mahommed Ibrahim, in the hoarse gutturals of the Bishareen, "it is ordered that Fielding Bey shall die and by my hand, mine own, by the mercy of God! And after Fielding Bey the clean-faced ape that cast the evil eye upon me yesterday, and bade me die.
The game is to listen and watch. Presently the other fellow always tells his plans or else betrays them." And he is no such fool as to be caught in the act of listening, or to forewarn his enemy by seeming to wish to listen. He gave the order to march at once. Some of the men doubled up uncomfortably on the riding-camels, because of the three that had been killed, and the Bishareen fell to me.
The men have remarkably fine features, but the women are not generally pretty. The Bishareen is the largest Arab tribe of Nubia.
There was only one good camel with her outfit a small, blooded looking Bishareen, a shade or two lighter in color than the rest, ridden by a wiry, mean rascal with a very black face. He seemed anxious not to assert himself, for he kept his mount well away in the shadows, and moved off when any one approached him. It was growing pitch-dark. Grim counted noses and gave the order to be off.
It may be that we shall all die together, but what of that?" Ayisha, on the other hand, was getting nervous. Grim avoided her. She was reduced to questioning others, edging the little Bishareen alongside each in turn.
But even Ali Baba grew tired of acting historian at last, and once more silence settled down, broken only by the bells and the camels' gurgling, until about midnight we overhauled the three men who had been sent in chase of the fellow on the Bishareen. They had lost him, and were angry; for what should a man do except be angry in such a circumstance, unless he is willing to accept blame?
And his face was an enigma; but half the puzzle was already solved because there was no suggestion of weakness there. It was the best piece of sheer bluffing on a weak hand that I had ever seen. "Will Your Honor not visit my town and break bread with me?" asked Mahommed Abbas. "If I visit that dung-hill it will be to burn it," Grim answered. "Send me out that black-faced liar and the Bishareen.
There are silences as sweet!" "Ready for anything! If I weaken, tie me on the camel!" There are camels and camels more kinds than there are of horses. The Bishareen of the Sudan is not a bad beast, but compared to the Bikaniri there are no other desert mounts worth a moment's consideration.
Narayan Singh, rifle in hand, sprang on to Ayisha's little Bishareen, and she jumped into the shibriyah, like a pair doing stunts at the circus. So far good. But the rest was amateurish. We milled badly. Grim away in front had halted to let the line close, and we swarmed around him like a herd of steers that smell wolves, and nobody seemed to know which way to look, or what to do next.
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