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The eastern branch of this stream of emigration passed through the valley of the Buret Hei, where we constantly outstrode groups of them with their cattle and herds. We traveled quickly along the winding trail of the Buret Hei and in two days began to make the elevations of the mountain pass between the valleys of the Buret Hei and Kharga.
"So many! I would not have put the estimate half so high. Not bad for a dark race fighting for they know not what!" "They know that all right; they are fighting for you, Saadat." David seemed not to hear. "Five hundred so many, and the enemy so near, the temptation so great." "The deserters are all gone to Ali Wad Hei, Saadat. For a month there have been only the deserted."
Suddenly a shot was fired, then a hoarse shout came over the desert, then there was silence again. "They are in, Saadat," said Mahommed Hassan. Day broke over a hazy plain. On both sides of the Nile the river mist spread wide, and the army of Ali Wad Hei and the defending forces were alike veiled from each other and from the desert world beyond.
He cried to her to unbar the door, which, at length, she did, using many injurious words the while, and he, in his anger, replied that he would shortly have to stab her to teach her better manners. At this she flew into a perfect fury of rage, 'Hei! Stab then! Stab! she cried, and, as she shouted the words, she made a gesture which is the grossest insult that a Malay woman can put upon a man.
"Kaw! thou, a fellow-villager; thou, a fellow-creature; thou, an old man; thou, who art grown up; thou, who art young; thou, a boy; thou, a child; thou, an infant; thou; who art little; thou, who art great. Hei! because there is a contest. Hei! for to cause to sit together. Hei! for to cause to deliberate. Hei! for to give intelligence together. Hei! about to assemble in durbar.
Their appearance was greeted by desperate discharges of artillery from the forces under Ali Wad Hei, who had received word of their coming two hours before, and had accordingly redisposed his attacking forces. But for Achmet's sharp initiative, the boldness of the attempt to cut off the way north and south would have succeeded, and the circle of fire and sword would have been complete.
There was one way in from the desert to the walled town, and it was through that space which Achmet and his men had occupied, and on which Ali Wad Hei might now, at any moment, throw his troops. David's heart sank as he saw the danger.
See, I swell with power and health! I cannot waste myself away. "Bravo! Wild, bravo!" cried the duke. "Hei! that thundered and rolled, and struck fire! It does me good to hear such vigorous words from an able rare genius in the midst of this miserable, starched elegance. The powerful Germans are healthy fellows. Something of the Promethean fire blazes forth in them.
Like ghostly vessels they passed on, until at last they could hear the stir and murmur of life along the banks of the stream. Boom! boom! boom! Through the mist the guns of the city were pouring shot and shell out into Ali Wad Hei's camp, and Ali Wad Hei laughed contemptuously.
Here are you burning out your life for the sake of a worthless schoolgirl, and your nights are full of desolate dreams. And a hot wind stands still about your head, a close, foul wind of last year's breath. Yet the sky is quivering with the most wonderful blue, and the hills are calling. Come, Asop, Hei... A week passed. I hired the blacksmith's boat and fished for my meals.
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