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Presently, Ali rose and going on tiptoe to the purse, took it and went to the house of the wedding and stood there, looking on at the fun. Now meanwhile, Zurayk dreamt that he saw a bird fly away with the purse and awaking in affright, said to his wife, "Rise; look for the purse." So she looked and finding it gone, buffeted her face and said, "Alas the blackness of thy fortune, O Umm Abdallah!
She told her how she had taken and stripped the Shahbandar's boy, and Zaynab said, "Thou wilt never be able to walk abroad again in the town." Meanwhile, the maid went in to her mistress and said to her, "O my lady, Umm al-Khayr saluteth thee and rejoiceth with thee and on assembly-day she will come, she and her daughters, and give the customary presents."
The adjacent scatter of Arab wells in the bed is known as the Ma el-Badi'ah. According to the guides, there are no remains of the "old ones" nearer than Umm Amil On the left bank, above this narrow, lies a group of Arab graves, which may have been built upon older foundations.
By far the poorest thing we had yet seen, this "town" had been grandiosely described to the first Expedition at Ziba. On the coast-town I procured some specimens of heavy red copper which had been dug out of a ruined furnace; the metal is admirable, and it retrieves to a certain extent the lost reputation of Umm Amil.
There were loud regrets that a cuisse de chevreuil had not been marinee; in fact, an infect odour of the Quartier Latin everywhere followed us; and when a guide told us the pattern lie, that we should not reach Umm 'Amir before the fourth day, the poor "Frogs" croaked, and croaked audibly as dismally.
From the Col, reached at 9.45 a.m., a descent, vile for camels not for mules, presently landed us in the Wady Umm Amil. Crossing the torrent-gully we left on its right bank the ruins of large works, especially the upper parallelogram. After a thirteen miles' ride we halted at 10.40 a.m. under a rock on the left side, opposite three couthless heaps of water-rolled stones surrounded by fine quartz.
"A doctor took it for his fee when Billings died of space-stomach. Damn you, I couldn't help him!" Ben looked at the others. "Med Lobby fee, eh? All the market will take. Umm. It could be, maybe." He shrugged. "Okay, reasonable doubt. We won't kill you, bo. Not quite, we won't." The shuttle landed and Ben handed out the little helmets and aspirators that made life possible in Mars' thin air.
The fish came up, and went down; and with the sweetbread he took his second glass of champagne. Always the best, that second glass the stomach well warmed, and the palate not yet dulled. Umm! So that fellow thought he had him beaten, did he? And he said suddenly: "The fur coat in the wardrobe, I've no use for it. You can take it away to-night."
The ruins, known as Umm el-Harab, "Mother of Desolation," are the usual basement-lines: they lie in the utterly waterless basin, our camping-ground, stretching west of Mara Rubayyigh, the big white reef. At Umm el-Harab we saw for the first time an open mine, scientifically worked by the men of old.
"Nope," said Hardy, "I've only been in the Territory a little over a year, this trip, and I'm learning, myself. Funny how much you can pick up from some of these Indians and Mexicans that can't write their own names, isn't it?" "Umm, may be so," assented Creede doubtfully, "but I'd rather go to a white man myself.
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