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It was a wild and desolate country, filled with strange legends, and believed to be haunted by demons. The fortress was just on the boundary of the lands of Hareth and of Antipas. At that time it was in the possession of Hareth. The latter having been warned, had prepared everything for the flight of his daughter, who was conducted from tribe to tribe to Petra.
XLII. Pompey, being cut off from Dyrrachium, as he was unable to effect his purpose, took a new resolution, and entrenched himself strongly on a rising ground, which is called Petra, where ships of a small size can come in, and be sheltered from some winds.
Understand me, though; this pistol has a way of going off quite suddenly when the trigger is pressed. Answer: What village were you intending to raid?" "None." "No use lying. Ali Higg's spy brought word to him that the British are engaged elsewhere. Raid follows promptly, of course. Now, out with it! I don't need you at Petra; Ayisha will serve my purpose there.
I hope I shall not be called on to use my battle-ax again until I am fighting in the ranks of the Rebu." When they neared Petra a horn was heard to blow, and people were seen running about among the houses. "They take us for a party of Arabs," one of the horsemen said.
"'All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been here a week, and the only living creature who seemed to recollect me was the Pharaon. Bar the Sirons, of course, and the perennial Bodmer." "Is there no survivor?" I inquired. "Of our geological epoch? not one," he replied. "This is the city of Petra in Edom." "And what sort of Bedouins encamp among the ruins?" I asked.
It came about, then, that on the day following the row in the dining-room of the lodging-house, Petra, very early in the morning, woke Manuel and told him to dress.
With hardly a pause, I continued: "But if Nikolai were going to deal with tourists, he'd have to get a horse, wouldn't he?" "Well, I suppose we could have managed it," Petra replied. "It's four hundred kroner." "Yes," she said, "and the carriage a hundred and fifty." "But this land won't feed a horse!" "What do other people feed horses on?" she asked. "They buy sacks of oats on the headland."
After inspecting the state of the ossuary in the stew-pot, Petra made the soup, and then set about extracting all the scrap meat from the bones and covering them hypocritically with a tomato sauce. This was the piece de resistance in Dona Casiana's establishment.
Aeroplanes would have been sent to bomb you out of Petra. Can you fight aeroplanes?" "The British do not pretend to rule on this side of the Jordan," the Lion retorted. "No. Do you want them to pretend to?" "Allah forbid!" "Then take a friend's advice, O Ali Higg, and keep the peace here rather than make war." "That is good advice; but will the British make a treaty with me?"
The serious conversation just recorded was the last in which I took part with him. Mr. Buckle remained in Cairo until the beginning of March, when he set out with the two boys, and Mr. J.S. Stuart Glennie, across the Desert, for Sinai and Petra. He fell ill on the 27th of April, but recovered his health, as it seemed, to such an extent that Mr. Glennie parted from him on the 21st of May.